corruption

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by corruption 13y ago
Hopelessly optimistic. Spoken like someone who has never taken an experimental design course imho. 1) The search space is practically infinite dimensional. All methods suck when trying to extract a causative model from an infinite search sp
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by corruption 16y ago
Theory != practical. It takes picking up the phone and face-to-face meetings in my experience.
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by corruption 16y ago
Sold instructions on ebay about how to beat a little known tax law [it's now plugged]. A friend went to work for the tax man and in training they were told about me and how it's so important to not let these tricks get out, as it could cost
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by corruption 16y ago
Let's say you had an eclipse plugin that let you write in lisp, but it actually converted the code to java underneath. You could click a button to switch between views. Are you saying that would be a bad thing? If a tool allows you to be mo
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by corruption 16y ago
The smartest people I know have the following in common: - They are the most knowledgeable person in the room in their topic of interest. That takes obsession. - They surround themselves by other smart people constantly - In large groups of
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by corruption 16y ago
Even though code is text, you would think someone would have tried to build a different view given the popularity of MVC. Inline expansion would be nice. So would code paths. So would inline images & html rendering for documentation.
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by corruption 16y ago
I never said anything to the contrary. I said that it's a false dichotomy; just because you don't spend time doing something doesn't mean you don't like it, just that you may not like doing it as much as other activities. I love playing gam
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by corruption 16y ago
Honestly, the world isn't black and white like that. And I can see why you argued about it; that would drive anyone mad being told what they do and don't like based on a histogram of time spent in the last 2 years. There are many explanatio
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by corruption 16y ago
Yes, we are building to to be bought.
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by corruption 16y ago
Once an itch is scratched it turns into a scab. And new itches appear. Seriously though, businesses change over time. Are people who are great at getting things going the right people to run them long term? In some cases yes, in others no.
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by corruption 16y ago
That's amazing, you should write up your project and submit it to diybio google group.
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by corruption 16y ago
Years ago (pre swivel, post quantrix/tableau) I made a competitor as well. We quickly decided once we went out and talked to potential customers that it was a no go. 1) Very few customers wanted to upload their data to the web. Even less we
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by corruption 16y ago
You need enough knowledge to know when someone is making the right decision or not for your business. I run a successful software company, have hired and managed many programmers and still got it wrong with hardware. >I assume the next
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by corruption 16y ago
The odds are stacked against you if you don't know the area you are in. This is because you can't control the competency of the people you hire or the work they do, so you have a random factor that has a direct and long lasting influence on
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by corruption 16y ago
Just an aside, this hasn't been the way good science has been done for a long time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_inference I do however agree; many researchers I work with don't understand the benefits of adopting a strong inferen
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by corruption 16y ago
Take the intersection of the three things you know most about and are passionate about. If you're not sure about this simply look at your most visited sites. Then use those are your "base" and try to find ideas that combine all three.
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by corruption 16y ago
Well, people claim that digg is entirely run by the top users from what I understand, and if only 6/10 stories that make it to the front page are predicted by the top users voting patterns, theres not much to that claim right? EDIT: http:/
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by corruption 16y ago
6 out of ten stories in the new links section can be predicted by whether the top users vote on them. Really, only 6 out of 10? This seems extremely low given the claims of gaming (and if I'm understanding it correctly).
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by corruption 16y ago
Someone should create a "everything" test, which pulls graduate level information from every topic maths, statistics, physics, chemistry, biochemistry, physiology, medicine, therapy, psychology, english, history, art, accounting, business,
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by corruption 16y ago
My goal when I first started was to exit and buy a fully equipped bio/physiology/elec/engineering lab and enough raw material to invent full time. I thought I'd need 10m+ to do this, but over time I'm gradually acquiring everything I need d
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by corruption 16y ago
I think this type of behavior was what everyone feared would happen, but I never really believed they would stoop this low. This may mean that JCP is dead, harmony is doomed and it must be pretty scary for companies heavily invested in Java
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by corruption 16y ago
We'll agree to disagree then, both on the structure of the minds of people who make true breakthroughs and your views on epistemology :) I don't take anything personally at all, and hope you didn't either :)
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by corruption 16y ago
Isn't there a contradiction here: "I don't feel the need for us to be equal. If feel that the idea that we're not is often a cop out..." If the evidence supports the conclusion, we must accept it regardless of our personal biases. My genera
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by corruption 16y ago
It is clear that there are genetic differences in brains that cause large differences in "learning rate" - for lack of a better term. Interpret this how you want, but it's obvious to those in the field what this means (I talked to a researc
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by corruption 16y ago
> Otherwise some of these groups of people, like china or japan who have been isolated for thousands of years, would have serious intelligence differences as the rest of us. Have you read the literature on IQ? These differences exist, w
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by corruption 16y ago
We are both making a claim. He has provided no evidence at all, and obviously hasn't read the literature. The claim here is that the variance in learning rate is absolutely tiny. Think about this. He's basically claiming that despite a larg
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by corruption 16y ago
Even if you did, a SINGLE base change can cause large differences in function. Thats one change out 3 billion, which is many more 9's.
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by corruption 16y ago
Please read the literature. There is plenty of evidence that directly contrasts your viewpoint from the last 50 years. And by the way, your second point is directly contrasted by the article I linked to.
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by corruption 16y ago
Minute differences in genomes lead to large differences in phenotype. Ever heard of databases of SNP's or CNVs? A single base change can make a world of difference. Actually, I'm not basing this on anecdote, as there is a ton of literature
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by corruption 16y ago
It would be nice to believe that, but I would posit that output per unit of input differs. Given infinite time, anyone could obtain a Ph.D, but some people just find it easier than others. Those that find it easier are much more likely to d

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