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by wyc 10y ago
Wow, uncanny resemblance to Giffen goods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giffen_good
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Completely agreed. There's something called a Certificate of Need necessary in many states[1] that effectively allows hospitals to veto any new facilities that they don't "need." I don't think it would surprise anyo
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Enterprise Salespeople Are a Lot Like Computer Security Researchers(wycd.net)
5 points by wyc 10y ago|0 comments
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I think the author describes my point of view and defuses many of his own points at the very bottom of the page: also, you are likely making one circuit, not planning on mass-producing 1,000,000,000 of whatever it is; who care
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by wyc 10y ago
Another touchy issue is non-competes after employment, meaning that "you can't work for anyone else or hire our employees." States such as CA are very much against anything that restricts someone's ability to engage in f
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Trying to remove technology from our lives seems to be a current trend. Don't hate technology just because it's technology. Instead, we should think about what new undesirable behaviors it introduces and how to address those deepe
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Wow, this lecturer is great! I think this is the most intuitive explanation of Kalman filters I've seen yet. I've seen other lecturers try to quickly jump into state space and lose students with big matrices. I would have paid goo
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Author here. Sorry to hear that. If you want to let me know where I lost you via email or here, I'd be happy to revise it to be clearer. I think it takes a certain skill to overcome the curse of already knowing something and then expla
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FizzBuzz in J, Explained(wycd.net)
103 points by wyc 10y ago|51 comments
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> I'm glad I'm unemployed so I have time to configure it! - my mate Steve > You should go outside one of these days. - Mother These quotes are great.
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LobLib: The Lobster LaTeX Library(github.com)
3 points by wyc 10y ago|0 comments
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by wyc 10y ago
Yes! This would go wonderfully with LobLib, the Lobster library: https://github.com/bae43/LobLib/
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This was a great read! There are some really cool ideas such as how information products are high fixed-cost low marginal-cost items and what that means for the market. It also has salient coverage of topics like lock-in, price discriminati
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Just when you thought you've finally grasped LaTeX...
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Interesting how John McCarthy, the father of lisp, seems to be at the root of it all.
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I bought this video + plans set and built my first workbench: https://lostartpress.com/products/the-naked-woodworker It starts with Mike haggling with some used tool collectors for good deals, and then he teaches how t
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How Many Rocks Are There?(itunes.apple.com)
4 points by wyc 10y ago|1 comments
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In the Innovator's Dilemma framework, entrant firms typically attack the bottom of the market first and will not steal business from the likes of Marriot or Hilton until later in the game, where their services improve to the point of &
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by wyc 10y ago
Kudos! I get really excited when I learn about people working hard at creative and useful things like this. I also think it's important to note that, while this is surely no small feat, it sounds like this is the fruition of the author
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by wyc 10y ago
This is important because there exists a trade-off in statistical learning models: in general, the more flexible your models are, the less understandable they become[0]. Modern machine learning techniques are typically very flexible. To gai
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Google Fiber has arrived in Atlanta(fiber.google.com)
2 points by wyc 10y ago|0 comments
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Another supporting argument for this is from The Innovator's Dilemma: disruptive technology (startups tend to leverage this) tends to be constructed from pre-existing and commercially available components. Think Snapchat, Instagram, ta
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How unfair that you're expected to sign an NDA on the spot. I'm sure that Amazon and other software companies have spent tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars to protect their IP, yet you don't even get the most basic le
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by wyc 10y ago
Maybe it makes more sense from an ROI perspective. Is it really beneficial to try to establish that warm intro with a 50-80% response rate vs. in the same amount of time, sending 20 cold emails with a 10-20% response rate? The respondents t
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Just looking at the delivery/cooking truck, I'm suddenly reminded of the opening chapter in Snow Crash: """ The analysts at CosaNostra Pizza University concluded that it was just human nature and you couldn't f
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I'm reminded of a message from The Innovator's Dilemma by Clay Christensen. When PCs first came out, no one wanted them. When Honda motorcycles first came out, no one wanted them. When email systems first came out, no one wanted t
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by wyc 10y ago
From The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks: """ No parts of the schedule are so thoroughly affected by sequential constraints as component debugging and system test. Furthermore, the time required depends on the number
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by wyc 10y ago
Another useful command line service I use almost daily (using a rather wide terminal): $ curl wttr.in/94035 My most frequently used option for cal on GNU/Linux is "-3". It shows the current, previous, and next mon
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According to an episode of Acquired[0], none of Siri's original technology is present in Apple's current products. Siri originally licensed Nuance's (also an SRI spin-out company) voice recognition technology and built some p
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On the flip side, how ketchup got from Asia to America: http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/12/02/248195661/... http://languageoffood.blogspot.com/2009/09/ketc

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