glxc | 10 years ago | on: What Google Learned from Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
self-selecting group who would join the military
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glxc | 10 years ago | on: My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens”
"being there in the moment" = dopamine squirts
glxc | 10 years ago | on: Yahoo Releases the Largest-Ever Machine Learning Dataset for Researchers
13.5 TB - that is pretty huge!
Great to get some truly "Big Data" sets out there. I consider "Big Data" to be data that can't be conventionally processed on a commodity machine, else it's just analytics
Yahoo must be applauded for supplying various data sets and helping progress machine learning research
glxc | 10 years ago | on: Power Laws, Pareto Distributions and Zipf’s Law
this paper is 10 years old
glxc | 10 years ago | on: Research points to to conscientiousness as the one trait to rule them all (2014)
is this the same thing as awareness?
glxc | 10 years ago | on: When to leave grad school off your resume (2012)
> She lives on a farm in Wisconsin and homeschools her sons
More power to her, her professional success has allowed her to pursue her passion. I think the lesson then is that to pursue your passion you first need to earn it.
> Grad school on your resume is a formal announcement of a mistake [if not working in the field]
Success is working forward, and not worrying about or admitting to mistakes
glxc | 10 years ago | on: Progress in graph processing
a comprehensive survey on "think like a vertex" frameworks has been recently published in CSUR:
glxc | 10 years ago | on: What I Learned from Losing $200M
salivating to know what the number is.. enough to retire, apparently
glxc | 10 years ago | on: YC's 2015 Reading List
glxc | 10 years ago | on: YC's 2015 Reading List
I applaud your nod to empathy
Literature has been shown to increase empathy
There was no literature included in this list (am counting the two SciFi novels as fiction, but not literature)
To anyone looking for an edge, read more literature
glxc | 10 years ago | on: The Line Between Data Vis and Data Art
> ... I tried to make my students ask constantly: “What does it communicate me?”
I am pretty sure there is a word missing here, but am still letting it sink in, with regards to the rest of the article :)
Great article though that makes a strong point
glxc | 10 years ago | on: Graph Isomorphism Algorithm Breaks 30-Year Impasse
is that all it's good for?
glxc | 10 years ago | on: The quantum computing era is coming fast
according to John Martinis, the quantum computing era is coming, but it is a slow and gradual process like most research
glxc | 10 years ago | on: YC Open Office Hours
what will YC Research address?
glxc | 10 years ago | on: Facebook to open-source AI hardware design
so if it's not the best, then it's not worth it?
glxc | 10 years ago | on: How Your Brain Decides Without You (2014)
I know! but there is a big difference between "sharing" an article, and "liking" an article and having it show up on friends' feeds. its the difference between actively and passively sharing a viewpoint
glxc | 10 years ago | on: How Your Brain Decides Without You (2014)
i wish this article appeared on their facebook page so i could like it to share it with my network
this article is a month old, so maybe it went away?
glxc | 10 years ago | on: Cards Against Humanity Has Made Over $54K Selling Nothing on Black Friday
no
glxc | 10 years ago | on: Cards Against Humanity Has Made Over $54K Selling Nothing on Black Friday
is it possible that no one has paid anything and then they're just posting these numbers for attention?
glxc | 10 years ago | on: ‘Outsiders’ who cracked the 50-Year-Old Kadison-Singer Problem
When will there be more info about YC Research??
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