AElsinore77

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by AElsinore77 8y ago
I'm the above poster's cofounder that pitched this in person with YC on April 30, 2018 - exact same name and idea. I'm definitely curious if this is just innocent coincidence.
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by AElsinore77 9y ago
First thing I thought of too - the only category where students ranked themselves as less proficient than they were perceived to be is technology - the one area they are probably actually proficient in.
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by AElsinore77 9y ago
This is quite interesting -- tangentially related, is anyone aware of studies of the long term effects of sports which include blood chokes (constricting carotids)? These might include Judo, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, as well as modern MMA and su
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by AElsinore77 9y ago
Manufacturing is a big one -- right now most factories are still run very manually, but advances in robotics, computer vision, and AI will change the game. In terms of companies here in the bay area working on this, theres Andrew's own
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by AElsinore77 9y ago
A great read! A sharp commentary on conflating our models of reality with reality itself. So many of our current debates are simply dialogues over which model of the world is most accurate, but we have a tendency to identify our ego with ou
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by AElsinore77 9y ago
What strikes me most about philosophy is in how core it is to everything we do — and this is something I didn’t realize for the longest time. The foundations of the economic, social, and political systems we live in are based upon philosoph
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by AElsinore77 9y ago
An interesting angle on studying personality is through the lens of research on psychoactive substances. A study on magic mushrooms several years ago found that "just one strong dose of hallucinogenic mushrooms can alter a person'
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by AElsinore77 9y ago
Bumping due to relevance to: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609408/quantum-computers-...
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First Quantum-Secured Blockchain Technology Tested in Moscow (June 2017)(technologyreview.com)
4 points by AElsinore77 9y ago|1 comments
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by AElsinore77 9y ago
Is Bitcoin “legit?” Does it have any purpose or value? I think it does, and here are several lenses through which to see cryptocurrencies, that explain why: As an investment: The world is already comfortable with “hot potato” investments th
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by AElsinore77 9y ago
If you encounter a problem with agencies collecting on illegitimate debt, it may be reported to the credit bureaus, which can be a big deal for you (buying home, etc). The bureaus wont help you; I went through an 18-month ordeal figuring ou
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by AElsinore77 9y ago
Check out this: https://www.ted.com/talks/anil_seth_how_your_brain_hallucina... Neural nets are doing something that the mind does too - it takes visual input, then it "predicts" and "fills in the blanks
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How iFixit Became King of the iPhone Teardown(motherboard.vice.com)
4 points by AElsinore77 9y ago|1 comments
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by AElsinore77 9y ago
There's a lot of discussion here about "virtue" and "self-discipline" - I'd like to offer an interesting possibility that "discipline" is not about motivation or willpower, but is actually an intellec
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Industrial Digitization could lead to“£455bn over 10 years”for UK Manufacturing(imeche.org)
2 points by AElsinore77 9y ago|0 comments
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Amazon and Nvidia Simplify Machine Learning(forbes.com)
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by AElsinore77 9y ago
Another key trend to consider - China's labor costs are growing up to 2x per year: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/23/welcoming-our-... China's push for AI is a recognition that the
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by AElsinore77 9y ago
This is a very interesting point. One distinction I'm getting hung up on is that this dilution is in the form of a different currency (Ethereum classic, Bitcoin Cash), not in Bitcoin itself. So the "dilution/inflation" e
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by AElsinore77 9y ago
Think of it as a high-risk hedge against future hyperinflation - the Fed can expand the monetary supply arbitrarily to infinity; but Bitcoin's expansion is limited by design. I think of money as simply a distribution mechanism for the
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by AElsinore77 9y ago
If you are unable to observe a thing directly, and instead could only see it through a distortion lens, would you want the opportunity to look at it through multiple different distortion lenses instead of just one? The world we know is larg
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by AElsinore77 9y ago
In my experience, exercise was helpful, but mostly only after I realized what I could learn about myself from it. Primarily, it allowed me to better understand and manage 2 types of “automatic” thought processes that I have constantly: (1)