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by zyfo 16y ago
Reminds me of Benford's Law [1], which stipulates that in many lists of numbers from real-world data, the leading digit is 1 30% of the time, and larger digits occur as the leading digit with lower and lower frequency (logarithmically). Thi
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by zyfo 16y ago
Is there any relatively easy way to find/record/request this information for one's own phone? Would be enlightening.
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by zyfo 16y ago
Indeed. A poll doesn't say much if anything at all if one does not account for self-selection bias. Today I'm reading the main site, normally I would be reading a daily/weekly/monthly digest. Today I'm commenting, any other day I probably w
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by zyfo 16y ago
You've got it right, the article got it wrong.
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by zyfo 16y ago
Maybe I'm missing something here, but how is "Let all the people you know find out all about your current surroundings" a selling point?
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by zyfo 16y ago
With all this excessive photo-sharing going on, I think we'll soon find ourselves wanting to counter the adage "A picture is worth a thousand words" with its opposite.
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by zyfo 16y ago
But what about black swan events? Say a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami on the cost demolishing some old nuclear reactors? Might nuclear radiation be so severe that it would wipe off life from the planet, or at least fry thousands, and eliminat
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Passing a Worst-Case Scenario Test(kk.org)
1 points by zyfo 16y ago|1 comments
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by zyfo 16y ago
What's wrong with another perspective on things?
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Demand Al Jazeera in the US(english.aljazeera.net)
70 points by zyfo 16y ago|59 comments
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Yet Another Japan Reactor Post (from a PhD in Nuclear Engineering)(plainenglishnuclear.net)
3 points by zyfo 16y ago|0 comments
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by zyfo 16y ago
"Are you serious" is the start. It's a loop to weed out people who aren't truly committed.
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by zyfo 16y ago
I wonder where he gets his supposed statistics from. Seems like he's basically equating social awkwardness ~ extroversion. Which, as many posters here have pointed out, is plain silly.
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by zyfo 16y ago
If you're serious about wanting to build a community, I suggest you read Building an Online Community [1] by Matt Haughey, founder of Metafilter. 1: http://www.digital-web.com/articles/building_an_online_commu...
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by zyfo 16y ago
Same procedure as every year.
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by zyfo 16y ago
They probably didn't miss anything, you did. You are judging two people's (two very initiated people at that) knowledge based on one (semi-censured) email conversation. There are several more likely scenarios, such as: a) no need to mention
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by zyfo 16y ago
Regarding the chances to build something super-successful: It's more interesting to hear about startups that fail. Seeing patterns emerging from failure is way more useful than trying to pinpoint what Google and Facebook founders have in co
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by zyfo 16y ago
Prevent what exactly?
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by zyfo 16y ago
The girls have lost before the match even started.
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by zyfo 16y ago
Related and highly recommended are: * Daily routines - How writers, artists, and other interesting people organize their days. http://dailyroutines.typepad.com/daily_routines/ * How we work - We're interested in the habits, rituals a
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by zyfo 16y ago
They'll also laught at the west for seeing chess as the ultimate intellectual game instead of Go. While the Baroque rules of Chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of Go are so elegant, organic, and rigorously logical that
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by zyfo 16y ago
Anyone knows of any mathematician who made a significant contribution to the field after his thirties?
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by zyfo 16y ago
Schmidt is stepping down as a CEO in a month or so.
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by zyfo 16y ago
I don't see why anyone following a lean approach would have to "prove" that it works. Prove it for whom? To what purpose? I thought the point of lean development was to fail fast and try again.
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by zyfo 16y ago
No, you're getting your upvotes too. Don't worry.
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by zyfo 16y ago
"The rejection email came on November 2nd" He was rejected. The email to pg was sent after he released his app, hoping for a second chance.
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by zyfo 16y ago
What would the equivalent perfect text-centric (articles/blog posts) web layout look like?
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by zyfo 16y ago
delta perceived greatness vs perceived suckyness matters.
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by zyfo 16y ago
Boolean in the sense of: Is X Fahrenheit warmer or colder than the average body temperature?
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aMAZEing Image Processing in Mathematica(blog.wolfram.com)
1 points by zyfo 16y ago|0 comments

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