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by vecter 10y ago
I don't necessarily disagree, but it's still bad advice because: (1) The point you just made isn't clear at all and (2) It's not actionable whatsoever and gives the wrong impression that you don't actually need to d
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by vecter 10y ago
"Be yourself" is absolutely the worst dating advice a man can ever receive. Seriously, don't take dating advice from women. They give you bad advice not because they don't care for you (they genuinely do want to help and
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by vecter 10y ago
> To clarify, I know more great programmers that went to college. That makes much more sense, even from a purely prior probability point of view. Thanks for clarifying that. I also agree with your point that personal interest and initiat
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by vecter 10y ago
> Many of the best programmers I know never even went to college...they are just interested in the subject and taught themselves. You must not know that many great programmers. I work in Silicon Valley and most of the great programmers I
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by vecter 10y ago
Strongly agree with you. Her post was all feels an no reals. In other words, it feels good but neglects the motivating forces in reality that drive people's actions. VC isn't broken. It is what it is. It's that way because it
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by vecter 10y ago
Absolutely not. Apple was fine long before these companies came into existence, and Apple will long outlast these companies. New companies would come in to fill the spaces these companies will have left in days.
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by vecter 10y ago
Right, like Uber, Snapchat, Facebook, Clash of Clans, Pinterest, Whatsapp, Instagram, Twitter, Waze, Shazam, Tinder, Match, YouTube, and basically every other app out there pulling out of the App Store would not be suicide. "At most&
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by vecter 10y ago
I meant Course 6, which can be 6-1 (EE) or 6-2 (EECS). Given that there are many 6-2 majors out there who say they've majored in computer science, it might come as a surprise to others who don't understand the MIT curriculum that
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by vecter 10y ago
No idea. He's definitely getting up there in years, so if he is still teaching now, I don't know how much longer it will be for. Strang doesn't teach 18.06 every semester anyway.
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by vecter 10y ago
All you need for introductory machine learning is multivariable calculus (for some simple optimization stuff), linear algebra, and probability. If you don't know probability, here's a good course: https://ocw.mit.edu&#x
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by vecter 10y ago
This class is 6.042 and is not required for CS majors. 6.001 morphed into 6.01, which is something to do with python. 18.06 is linear algebra. 18.03 is differential equations, which you don't really need for machine learning.
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by vecter 10y ago
Perception and uncertainty. Humans are irrational emotional beings. Somethings feels hot because it popped on its first day trading from $18 to $24. Humans don't know the counterfactual, which is that the stock could have been initiall
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by vecter 10y ago
That depends entirely on the stage of the company. If you're one of the first few employees, that would make complete sense. If the last priced round made that 1% worth $20M on paper, then that's unreasonable.
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by vecter 10y ago
Given they were giving out 0.02-0.07% in 2014, it seems you're off by at least an order of magnitude if not more: https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/139607 .
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by vecter 10y ago
That or because it's more profitable to do so, especially on a risk-adjusted basis? What's with the negativity around funding apps if they create tangible value? What makes them "dumb"? If you believe there's some a
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by vecter 10y ago
The vast vast vast majority of snaps are not nudes or drunken debauchery. Most of them are just mundane moments of life: I saw a building while walking down the street, or, here's my lunch. Snapchat is useful and popular because it is
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by vecter 10y ago
And his claim is ridiculous. Do you actually have a point to make?
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by vecter 10y ago
What business incentive would they have to be a black car app, if they can make more money by expanding into UberX? Not to mention, if they had remained a black car app, they might have gone out of business. Uber is a business, not a charit
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by vecter 10y ago
Is that true? Or did the market force Uber to lower prices?
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by vecter 10y ago
Terrible strawman. Travis didn't mug anyone.
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by vecter 10y ago
At some point, of course, yes. The rubber must meet the road. The problem is that most marketers/advertisers can't meaningfully quantify the value of their brand spend. There's a joke in the advertising space: half of my mark
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by vecter 10y ago
If you checked my comment history and decided I wasn't a spam bot, perhaps you should've been more generous in your interpretation of my post.
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by vecter 10y ago
Did you actually read the content of my post? Look at my comment history and let me know if you still think I'm a spam bot.
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by vecter 10y ago
I can see that. I have no affiliation with the guy at all. I just read his book and it improved my dating life. His online book is free anyway, that's what I read first before I bought the paperback.
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by vecter 10y ago
Ummm ... it's not? I wrote it myself.
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by vecter 10y ago
In terms of success with women, I can empathize a lot with that. I used to be extremely unsuccessful with women and I hated it. Eventually I had enough and made a conscious decision to improve my dating life. It took over 5 years to get the
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by vecter 10y ago
That's an incredibly wild claim that they would sunset it after they just spent $425 million to buy it. Why would you think that? Also, the might include it or leave it separate. They might even include it and still keep it a great pro
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by vecter 10y ago
Can you put in concrete terms why you see this as a problem?
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by vecter 10y ago
I'm so confused how you came even remotely close to your completely wrong conclusion. IG has won in almost every way imaginable. Now that Snapchat is the new threat, IG has been aggressively copying their features and it's working
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by vecter 10y ago
The ubiquitous lack of secure longer term jobs like Einstein's civil service job at the patent office -- he was not a post-doc -- make deeper conceptual analysis of the outstanding problems in physics today difficult, probably i

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