glxc | 10 years ago | on: LSD Microdosing
this. is. dumb.
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glxc | 10 years ago | on: Startup Playbook
what about YC Research?
glxc | 10 years ago | on: Novelist warns against utilitarian trends in higher education
tl;dr colleges are more focused on getting students employed
glxc | 10 years ago | on: Spatial Data Models and Query Processing (1994) [pdf]
there should be a mandatory note detailing significance when any academic paper is submitted that is more than 6 months
glxc | 10 years ago | on: Apache Singa, a Distributed Deep Learning Platform
if your data exceeds memory then a GPU is worthless. distributed makes it scalable
glxc | 10 years ago | on: The Jobs That Offer Great Work-Life Balance (and Some That Don't)
R v Excel
glxc | 10 years ago | on: I am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator – AMA
Hi @sama
TELL US MORE ABOUT Y COMB RESEARCH
What area of research will you be conducting?
glxc | 10 years ago | on: Shinichi Mochizuki and the impenetrable proof
When someone works really hard on a problem and then puts it out there openly, you have to respect their work. And from their perspective, they've put weeks/months/10 years into a piece of work, and it can come off really bad if you approach them and ask them to explain it to you so that you can understand it in a fraction of the time. For complex ideas, you can talk at somebody and they can get the general gist of it, but for many technical things you don't understand it until it "clicks" from gears moving in your own head. I understand this case is pretty drastic, but his claim that one needs to break down the barriers in their mind shows how much he expects from an individual to understand his work.
glxc | 10 years ago | on: YC Research
DE Shaw gave away his hedge fund empire to start DE Shaw Research. He similarly used his own money to start a privately funded research lab. He is their Chief Scientist.
glxc | 10 years ago | on: Mutilated chessboard problem
"here's another interview brain teaser for sociopathic managers"
glxc | 10 years ago | on: New gadget on Indiegogo aims to kill roaming charges
This is pretty cool, a project that directly addresses a problem faced by many millennial travelers including myself.
A few questions that are unclear: do you still need WiFi on your phone while traveling for the service to work? The mechanism for placing calls is still unclear, as opposed to receiving calls.
Republic Wireless and Google's Project Fi seem to be tackling related problems.
glxc | 10 years ago | on: Google's Project Ara phone was delayed because it broke apart when dropped
cant you just put like an otter case around it?
glxc | 10 years ago | on: Informative YouTube channels
weight loss pills that really work!
glxc | 10 years ago | on: Hooking up: zapping your brain
nothing constructive except to applaud "... fitter, happier, and more productive"
glxc | 10 years ago | on: Square Will Name Earvin “Magic” Johnson to Board of Directors
i can't speak to their respective backgrounds, but there was an ESPN documentary not too long ago that explored the post-playing career trajectories of professional athletes for major sports
Edit: ^^yeah, "Broke" that's the one
glxc | 10 years ago | on: Hotel melancholia
this is why i love airbnb
glxc | 10 years ago | on: Microsoft announces support for SSH
first thought- MS didn't support SSH?
glxc | 11 years ago | on: Elon Musk’s Space Dream Almost Killed Tesla
anyone who works as hard at moving forward like he does, a safety net is irrelevant, you can never fall back
glxc | 11 years ago | on: Trader Arrested in Manipulation That Contributed to 2010 ‘Flash Crash’
apparently acted alone, and was responsible for 1 in 5 'sell' orders the day of the crash
must have had some tech skill to get his operation running. i suppose it's not surprising this came from a lone trader, as this behavior would have been caught at an organization.
glxc | 11 years ago | on: Big Data Analytics: MapReduce
k-means clustering is iterative while standard mapreduce is single pass