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by vonnik 4y ago
Fwiw, Andrew Chen led Uber's Rider Growth when the company was in hypergrowth. His book, The Cold Start Problem, is great, and anyone building a two-sided marketplace should read it. This guy knows referral programs. Highly credible ad
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As good writers expand their audience, they slowly narrow the things they consider self-explanatory, because the wider your audience, the fewer shared understandings they all have. The art of explanation, and communication, is finding enlig
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One way to think about the strange arc of civilization is to consider the slow increase in supernormal stimuli relative to the real world (say the raw, analog world of nature), from cave paintings and f2f conversation through religion and r
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This essay would have been 10x better if the author had included at least one concrete example of every category they were attempting to use in their framework; eg > Art that is good and to your taste > Art that is bad and to your tas
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You need to give an introductory class in yourself to others, over and over again, at the risk of boring yourself to tears, in order not to be judged by low-context people for your high-context comments. Which is a lot less fun than being c
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One of the great thing about the physical sites of used-book stores, which I've never seen replicated in an online store, is their ability to surface books you'd never know to look for. It's not just curation, but the accumul
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feelings are just metrics that are harder to measure.
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I just want to put a word in for Marc Schmidt. He's a great engineer, with great product sense. This project will move fast, and if you think it's missing something essential, it's probably on the roadmap and will be realized
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Here's Michael Nielsen of YC Research on memory, spaced repetition and Anki: http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html
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Clipboard Health | All roles | Global and REMOTE forever | Full-time We're solving the healthcare short-staffing crisis one shift at a time(we help match nurses with short-staffed healthcare facilities), and we're growing so fast
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@dang The title of the piece is "Kids are far, far behind in school".
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Thank you. It was Bob Sproull.
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DM'd you on Twitter.
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A couple years ago Llamasoft/Coupa released a beer game optimized with reinforcement learning. https://beergame.opexanalytics.com/#/ I don't know where they took it, but my startup at the time saw huge gains
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Deep Springer here. Was going to add DS as well. @dredmorbius's summary is good. Couple additions/nuances: L.L. Nunn founded Deep Springs to train public servants/leaders. He hoped they would play a larger role in society. (S
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Clipboard Health | All roles | Global and REMOTE forever | Full-time We're solving the healthcare short-staffing crisis (we help match nurses with short-staffed healthcare facilities), and we're growing so fast that we're hir
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I work at a startup* trying to tackle nurse burnout, and two of my family members are nurses. Here are a few things I've learned: - Nurses were getting burned out before the pandemic, and the US has a nursing shortage that's been
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I work at a startup* trying to tackle nurse burnout, and two of my family members are nurses. Here are a few things I've learned: - Nurses were getting burned out before the pandemic, and the US has a nursing shortage that's been
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Homeland Insecurity (2002)(theatlantic.com)
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Clipboard Health (YC W17) raises $80M to match nurses to facilities(techcrunch.com)
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Clipboard Health | clipboardhealth.com | all roles (esp. Engineering Manager) | Full Time | Remote | Short-staffed facilities hurt patients, hospitals, and caregivers. Clipboard Health matches healthcare professionals to open shifts so that
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Clipboard Health | Multiple roles, see below | Globally distributed, REMOTE | Full-time We're solving the healthcare short-staffing crisis (we help nurses fill shifts in healthcare facilities), and we're growing so fast that we&#x
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The Flight of Lawnchair Larry(en.wikipedia.org)
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I've had access to You.com and I can attest that the initial experience is good. The search results are on point, the layout of those results is flexible and fresh. In contrast, when I use an engine like Google, the ads often cover the
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Update for 2021: But is it multi-cloud?
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AI tends to accentuate many of the types that Foster describes, and the trends in Merton's rubric above. AI millenarians (Musk, EA, MIRI) combine certainty that superintelligence will come about with concern that it will be bad. They a
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I think the point is that people focus too much on the tech solution and not enough on the system into which the tech solution will be introduced. There's this idea of "problem holder" that Walt Beleyer at Sandia National Lab
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There are a couple ways to think about this. Yes, automation has occurred, often at the level of a single machine. There is a difference between automation and optimization. And there are multiple levels to which both can be applied. One ar
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It's true that a lot of companies are at different stages of what we would call "the journey of digital transformation." Some of them do not know what's happening inside their plants. The problem before the problem -- th
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TechCrunch article author here. Our team at Pathmind has applied deep RL to multiple use cases in industrial control and supply chain management, notably various forms of scheduling, and MEIO, respectively. You can see some demo simulations

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