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by yiran 14y ago
If you ask Chinese internet users, most will be skeptical of Facebook's prospects in the country. The social media market was already dominated by Chinese companies, there seems little left for a new player. Even my fellow Chinese in US spe
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by yiran 14y ago
Check out this post of an event aggregation implementation in Backbone: http://devlicio.us/blogs/mike_nichols/archive/2011/08/14/bac...
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Show HN:I am writing my own js library, it's fun. (with demo: particle system) (github.com)
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by yiran 15y ago
Here is the link: http://learning-curve.appspot.com/
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Show HN: yet another weekend project, Learning Curve
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by yiran 15y ago
Quote the article, "Need to prove something you already believe? Statistics are easy: All you need are two graphs and a leading question". This is surprisingly true if you are examining two time series since most time series data tend to ex
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More truth to the freakonomics story(mises.org)
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by yiran 15y ago
You know how many officials you can bribe with $1.6 B? Here's a hint: LOTS OF THEM.
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Dark Forest theorem or why the universe does not value trust and friendship. (sffworld.com)
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CSS3 Image Styles(webdesignerwall.com)
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by yiran 15y ago
In Chinese, the win sound means plague... so you fill in the blank. Plague 95, Plague 98, Plague XP. XP is even funnier, X is pronounced as "Cha" and it means to insert or to penetrate. P is pronounced as "P" which means asshole in Chines
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by yiran 15y ago
The McDonalds v. Subway battle is exactly the reason why Subway needs a clever name. With McDonalds and KFC dominating the Chinese fast food market, Subway needs a point of differentiation. Fortunately, both of the leaders had chosen medioc
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by yiran 15y ago
Just to add to the list, a few other good examples, all meeting the three criterion in the article: Carrefour is translated as 家乐福(jia le fu), which means family, happiness and fortune. The supermarket chain's success was largely due to the
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by yiran 16y ago
Since we have so many chatbots around and I am pretty sure lots of them adjust and update their databases (perhaps algorithms as well?) based on human inputs. Suppose we keep doing this and let them continue talking for hours, days and even
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A conversation between two chatbots and how one found out the other is an AI.(yiransheng.com)
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