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by vonnik 9y ago
wow, 3 downvotes on a compliment. the negativity around here...
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by vonnik 9y ago
This is an inane column, but I think one point on semantics needs to be made. Silverman assumes that failure and pivot are totally synonymous, and that pivot is just a cynical euphemism for failure. I think that they're are differences
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best quote ever.
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The US Army Lab has solicited sci-fi stories and awarded grants to build the tech they describe.
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Rent-seeking regulatory capture shouldn't be called entrepreneurship at all. America's mania for privatizing government work does indeed encourage that form of rent-seeking, as does any other system in which a government awards co
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by vonnik 9y ago
Any newspaper article whose headline is a question invariably fails to answer that question. So at the end of this Op-Ed, we have a nice quote about no-handed clocks, but no new information about the tech bubble, if it is indeed a bubble. P
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by vonnik 9y ago
Texas is not the largest or the most populous or the most climatically challenged state. For a place that loves superlatives, it doesn't have those justifications for its energy use. They're sucking all the oxygen out of the room
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Show HN: Jumpy: Numpy Arrays for the JVM(deeplearning4j.org)
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by vonnik 9y ago
My two bits: Contribute to some open-source projects. Great way to get noticed.
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Anyone interested in an extension of this thought by Catherine should read Kafka's "In the Penal Colony": https://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/kafka/inthepenalcolony.htm
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by vonnik 9y ago
Can we put (2015) in the title? Maybe replace the publication name, which is visible twice. This was big when it was published, now slightly outdated.
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Unlike the stock market, experienced VCs should be applying quantitative techniques to private data they've collected. That's one way to keep their edge. You don't seem to appreciate the distinction. Of course most public-mar
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Actually, it's worked out quite well for some hedge funds. Renaissance Technologies is a quant-driven HF, and it's one of the largest and most successful in the world. The only quantitative VCs worth anything will be the ones who
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by vonnik 9y ago
I've heard many VCs say this. It's one of the few examples of Marc demonstrating complacence, wrongheadedness and herdlike thinking in this interview. But it does point to an underlying truth: the VC market has not found a good fi
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People tell me the irony is that the NHS data was crap anyway. Too messy to work with.
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for the 400th time.
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This article is a bit outdated. Caldbeck has since published a second statement and stepped down from the firm: https://www.recode.net/2017/6/23/15865422/justin-caldbeck-le...
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by vonnik 9y ago
You've gained "medium level experience" in a few skill sets that are quite rare. When you combine them, you probably have something exceptional and unique. Think about the intersections of your rare skills, and how one shapes
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by vonnik 9y ago
We wrote an eigen* intro here that some may appreciate: https://deeplearning4j.org/eigenvector
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The way the job market works is the larger problem. It usually forces both employers and employees to make a big commitment based on deeply imperfect information. It's like asking someone to marry after the second date, usually when th
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Inc: Need Tech Talent? 6 New Places to Look(inc.com)
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Grenade: Deep Learning in Haskell(github.com)
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This is a good starting point, but I think founder-led PR needs to go a bit deeper. You need to connect with reporters, and there are several ways to do that. * Give before you ask, and give a lot. Start with generosity. That could be infor
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by vonnik 9y ago
It's a little outdated, but anyone interested in "extinct human species", or proto-humans, should read Jared Diamond's book "The Third Chimpanzee", which is about the small genetic and vast cultural differences
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by vonnik 9y ago
The subtext may not be in Jessica's piece, but YC's strategy implies that only a few of their investments need to go big for them to win. While certain aspects of YC do standardize startup growth, a lot of parts of the process can
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by vonnik 9y ago
In a sense, and there's no shame in that. Index funds recognize that retail investors are bad at choosing where to place their money. I think it's equally plausible that venture investors are just as bad, and that spreading your b
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Maybe so, but not in the same amount of time. Sequoia and Kleiner have been around since 1972. 45 years. YC has been around since 2005. The larger a startup gets, the more likely we are to hear of its failure, and the firms you mention are
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by vonnik 9y ago
It's useful to think about Jessica's comment under the original message, that YC is "mass production of startups." What it really means, I think, is that YC is comfortable with more failure than other investors. They are
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by vonnik 9y ago
One of the most famous fake Twain quotes is: "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." Or in other words: "The most famous sentence Mark Twain ever put to paper was written by anonymous."
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I think this article misunderstands one of the roles of the CEO, which is to be the face of the company, the individual to whom the media can attach its narrative. Group stories don't have the same appeal. Harder to tell. Even if they&

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