Alex_MJ

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by Alex_MJ 12y ago
Seconded. I'm a relatively experienced lifter - heavy squats 3x per week is brutal for the first week or so and then your body adapts to it. I've found that I'll actually stick with a ~hourlong workout, 3-5x a week that I bel
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by Alex_MJ 12y ago
Sikuli is freaking great, though not sure how this is news, it's been around. Super useful for automating things that are easy to handle by looking for patterns/things on screen and hard to handle with APIs (or lack thereof)
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by Alex_MJ 12y ago
Both of these posts have been educational and I now understand the debate in far more detail than before. Thank you!
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by Alex_MJ 12y ago
Also, will books that aren't on Amazon cease to "exist"? There are a number of books I enjoyed in the paper era that I flat out can't find on Amazon now, and I tend to think of Amazon as "ALL THE BOOKS".
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by Alex_MJ 12y ago
WRT Executives interests not necessarily aligning with their parent - absolutely true. And yeah, I probably should have been less abrasive. Can you double-check your link? I tried following it but it just links to this thread.
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by Alex_MJ 12y ago
TIL Comcast isn't in it for the public interest. I'm not missing that at all. The fact that we expect corporations to further their own interests over those of the public (and that people who are cunning enough to get into powerfu
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by Alex_MJ 12y ago
As much as I hate Comcast and occasionally say prayers that a cement truck accidentally crashes into Tom Wheeler's house, and I'd love to see a massive scandal here - these emails don't seem incriminating at all. A high level
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by Alex_MJ 12y ago
I'm still baffled at how everyone considers these startups to be "underachieving". In terms of becoming the next facebook or twitter? Well, no shit. That's a borderline impossible standard. Compared to 95% of their peers
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by Alex_MJ 12y ago
(1) I love this. (2) Having limited legal knowledge, I'm curious what he means with "a lottery ticket to a lawsuit". Is he indicating that patenting something would make a company more likely to get sued? My basic understandi
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by Alex_MJ 12y ago
That's decently accurate. We're all doing what's in our best interest, in the role that we play in that time. In general - I want to give people who don't know me personally (and especially people trying to sell me anyth
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by Alex_MJ 12y ago
Yeah, but Watterson clearly doesn't like working with technology. He's very much a pen-paper-human kind of guy, and I don't see him all of a sudden deciding to step into the internet. I'll be darned if he couldn't f
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by Alex_MJ 12y ago
Am I the only one who thinks that this could hugely backfire from a PR perspective? The message is "The Verizon Network is Crowded Right Now." not "Verizon is Deliberately Slowing This Right Now." (or some less loaded
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by Alex_MJ 12y ago
This is awesome! As a non-neuroscientist, the WashU course on Coursera about Computational Neuroscience was also really good. Not sure if there's an upcoming offering, but I'd highly recommend taking it. Keep in mind it's hea
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by Alex_MJ 12y ago
I kind of suspect Amazon knew this when they were making it. Remember their free-publicity drones segment on 60 minutes that made Amazon Prime go apeshit right before Black Friday? They've got a very clever marketing department. Furthe
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by Alex_MJ 12y ago
Given the way that one hand tends to quietly grabass the other in prestigious U.S. financial organizations and large corporations, we should probably narrow the title to "unsolicited by Tesla".
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by Alex_MJ 12y ago
Yeah - I second that. Quora is one of the few sites that sends me weeklyish emails that I haven't unsubscribed from because the content is fantastic. I always seem to learn something from clicking through it. It's kind of a bummer
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by Alex_MJ 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - San Francisco - Remote or Travel Data - Python - Machine Learning - Human Learning Software developer with experience in machine learning, statistics, web apps, data mining specific to hardware. Work mainly in python, flask&#
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by Alex_MJ 12y ago
I have a different approach to the same problem, although I'm actively building out a solution involving creating geographically local communities around MOOCs and finding study partners (Coursera/meetup have attempted this but it
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by Alex_MJ 12y ago
You're right - I should have phrased it "perceived self-interest mixed with doses of human volatility/irrationality"
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by Alex_MJ 12y ago
I would argue more that the instilled mindset of "do as the authority figures say, you have no influence in the matter" that's pervasive in schools also does a huge amount to train adults to not feel like they have this optio
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by Alex_MJ 12y ago
I would say that rather than "the government behaves rationally" - that every individual behaves in their best interest. High-ranking intelligence officials will push for more power, more capabilities, and will scrap things if the
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by Alex_MJ 12y ago
I've basically stopped believing any science headline from a major mainstream news source. CNN? MSNBC? Fox? Huffpo? Don't even bother, they're misinterpreting the science deliberately. Dat clickbait.
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by Alex_MJ 12y ago
Awesome article! Out of curiosity, how do you handle conflicts? Like, say you have an important customer who wants to meet in the morning, or things have fallen behind and DEAR GOD I NEED THOSE HOURS TO MAKE IT WORK? I'd assume lots of
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by Alex_MJ 12y ago
I'd also love to hear your thoughts on why you're hanging up the jacket - I'm considering starting consulting in the same area for side income. (and whether you'd considered charging per week, Patrick Mackenzie-ing a lot
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by Alex_MJ 12y ago
From a "get people to play with numbers" perspective, this was actually a pretty cool challenge on Warren Buffet's part. Most people are going to spray-and-pray (my facebook feed is full of facetious "shit, there goes my
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by Alex_MJ 13y ago
Thank you for saying this! IMO there's way too much fearmongering (largely from people who have no experience trading, or from traders who don't want to see other people do better than them) about this. I've traded options on
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by Alex_MJ 13y ago
Instead of tossing around hyperbole, can you perhaps point out some specifics?
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by Alex_MJ 13y ago
Appreciate you bringing up the flipside. Out of curiosity, what sites would you say have been constructive? My intuition is that StackExchange would probably be good if you're knowledgeable in esoteric/lucrative fields, whereas mo
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by Alex_MJ 13y ago
THIS. I have a unique last name - there is absolutely no ambiguity whenever anything shows up. Whenever a website (or anything offline that might put rankings or whatever online) wants me to use my real name, I usually default to "Alex
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by Alex_MJ 13y ago
Set up times to work with people. The best stretches of pounding out productive side project work usually start with discussing it with a friend, both lamenting how much we're wasting time and messing around on it, and then we show up

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