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by wgyn 8y ago
> Collaborative Fund suggested that we account for these various paths within the structure of the Series A funding. We added downside protection for the Series A investors, in the form of a right to claim a return of 9 percent annual in
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by wgyn 8y ago
I've been happily using LibraryThing for over a decade: https://www.librarything.com . I've tried at various points to switch to Goodreads but always find myself back there. It looks and feels like a relic of Web 1.0, b
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by wgyn 8y ago
There's another section of the Nobel site that provides background on the work, both a popular version and an advanced version. The advanced version amounts to a fairly substantive literature review. In general, you can find both docum
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by wgyn 8y ago
One thing to note: Visa Europe and Visa are distinct systems[0] and were distinct entities until Visa Europe was re-acquired[1] by Visa in 2015. [0] Source: I used to work in payments [1] https://www.visaeurope.com/newsroom&
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by wgyn 8y ago
Carnegie Mellon was the first university to offer a PhD in Machine Learning (via the Machine Learning Department which, again, I think is relatively unique in its existence). Regardless of how you feel about the hype, they made an early bet
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California Today: A Tech Company Wades into Housing Politics(nytimes.com)
6 points by wgyn 8y ago|1 comments
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Stripe Home(stripe.com)
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by wgyn 9y ago
This reminded me of a really fun article from an AMS publication a few years back about harmonic functions and animation in Ratatouille: http://www.ams.org/publicoutreach/feature-column/fcarc-harmo... . Turns out i
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Stock trade app Robinhood raising at $5B+, up 4X in a year(techcrunch.com)
289 points by wgyn 9y ago|196 comments
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Guideposts for Tech Founders Going to Market When No Market Exists(forbes.com)
2 points by wgyn 9y ago|0 comments
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by wgyn 9y ago
If you really want to do linear regression by hand, check out Chapter 1 of Stephen Stigler's History of Statistics: https://www.amazon.com/History-Statistics-Measurement-Uncert... . You can do least squares on astronomi
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Capitalisn't with Luigi Zingales and Kate Waldock(capitalisnt.com)
1 points by wgyn 9y ago|0 comments
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by wgyn 9y ago
Parse.ly recently wrote a fairly insightful piece about their reasons for taking less funding than was on the table: https://blog.parse.ly/post/6282/why-we-said-no-vc-money/
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by wgyn 9y ago
Mission Bit is an organization doing this on a local scale in SF: https://www.missionbit.com/ . It looks like the main difference is that Mission Bit works directly with SF public schools. Personally, it feels like there is
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Worldpay, valued at $10B, confirms JPMorgan and Vantiv are trying to buy it(techcrunch.com)
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by wgyn 9y ago
Actually such a calculation is possible (of consumer surplus), though perhaps some would argue against one or another part of the methodology. See: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/uber-economists-dream/ or http:
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Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research(bair.berkeley.edu)
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Introducing the BAIR Blog(bair.berkeley.edu)
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Converting Trained Models to Core ML(developer.apple.com)
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by wgyn 9y ago
> “There is one and only one social responsibility of business,” the economist Milton Friedman famously wrote in 1962. And that is “to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits.” It's strange to me
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by wgyn 9y ago
You're overlooking the counterfactual here. The fact that ARPANET was a Department of Defense project doesn't mean that defense spending itself caused it to come to fruition, and similarly it doesn't mean that without war (an
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Silicon Valley is 'officially a retirement community for D.C. political vets(latimes.com)
1 points by wgyn 9y ago|0 comments
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by wgyn 9y ago
Cool stuff. But it's kind of surprising that you can't link to a tagged chart, only download a raw base-64 encoded SVG.
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by wgyn 9y ago
> but at least it's 100% your own infrastructure This is probably a good thing for security. But for the use case of development against third party services, it seems like an unnecessary constraint.
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Trump’s Tech Opposition(jacobinmag.com)
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How Technology Workers Are Organizing to Resist Trump(aclu.org)
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Looker catches the fancy of CapitalG, Goldman and Geodesic with $81.5M Series D(techcrunch.com)
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AWS launches Amazon Connect, productizes Amazon’s in-house contact center softwa(techcrunch.com)
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by wgyn 10y ago
Here's an existence proof that congresspeople pay attention to calls from their constituents: https://twitter.com/RepJudyChu/status/845044275427659776 . What's perhaps striking is the low number of total
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Payments Giant Verifone Investigating Breach(krebsonsecurity.com)
3 points by wgyn 10y ago|0 comments

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