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by eroo 9y ago
Because foreign agents buying political ads violates US federal law
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Robust Adversarial Examples(blog.openai.com)
166 points by eroo 9y ago|47 comments
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Cassini Moves Inside Saturn's Rings(nytimes.com)
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Cassini Moves Inside Saturn's Rings(nytimes.com)
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by eroo 10y ago
> Where was the outpouring of funding [...] Build the thing that needs funding. Then, seek support and apply.
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Observable Universe contains ten times more galaxies than previously thought(spacetelescope.org)
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by eroo 10y ago
perspective: finished first year @ wharton mba and taking a year off before second year to do an ms in cs (background is quant but not super computational - I'm really enjoying diving deeper into the latter now though). 1) Only do the
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Flooding of Coast, Caused by Global Warming, Has Already Begun(nytimes.com)
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MacArthur Foundation Will Award $100M for Solution to a Global Problem(nytimes.com)
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Google and Apple: The High-Tech Hippies of Silicon Valley(nytimes.com)
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DoorDash Raises $127M in “Down” Round(blogs.wsj.com)
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Philip Knight of Nike to Give $400M to Stanford Scholars(nytimes.com)
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by eroo 11y ago
Many economists are applied mathematicians and the microeconmics crowd is specifically focused on understanding consumer and firm behavior. This checks out.
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by eroo 11y ago
Another great source of reading material: FiveBooks[0] interviews "experts" and asks them to recommend five good books for understanding their field. E.g., this[1] interview with David Brooks from 2009 is a lot of the source mater
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Faraday Follows Tesla to Nevada for $1B Auto Factory(bloomberg.com)
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by eroo 11y ago
The class is also holding a number of seats for those who aren’t affiliated with Stanford but who are keen to help some other “region of the world build a ‘blitzscaling’ ecosystem.” For those class hopefuls, there’s a separate application
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Reid Hoffman to Teach “Blitzscaling” at Stanford This Fall (App Due 9/18)(techcrunch.com)
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by eroo 11y ago
~10 years in flight. ~20 times the speed of a bullet. ~5 billion kilometers away. And there are pictures from this. What a feat.
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by eroo 11y ago
Yesterday: "Twitter CEO Dick Costolo laughs off 'crazy' calls for his resignation"[0] [0] (warning: auto-play video on page) http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/twitter-ceo-dick-costolo-laughs-off...
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Sam Altman says we're in a 'mega bubble' that won't last(businessinsider.com)
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by eroo 11y ago
Devices in millions [2011,2014]: 0.2, 1.3, 4.5, 10.9 Revenue in millions [2011,2014[: 14.5, 76.4, 271.1, 745.4 Paid active users in millions [2011,2014]: NULL, 0.6, 2.6, 6.7 I realize they sell more than just pedometers, but their core prod
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by eroo 11y ago
Click bait with misleading headline. A better headline would be "Comcast plans to roll out personal broadband service at a higher fraction of current business plans." > "Comcast's new Internet service absolutely crush
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Companies That Presented at Y Combinator Demo Day 1(techcrunch.com)
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The Future of Humanity with Elon Musk: Interview by Neil DeGrasse Tyson(startalkradio.net)
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by eroo 12y ago
I would love to know how the conversation about setting up her email went. Does she tell someone and they say "I'm on it," and then no one follows up or audits the infrastructure? Or was the setup one of her people's dec
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Why Many Smart, Low-Income Students Don't Apply to Elite Schools(npr.org)
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by eroo 12y ago
I'd consider that a corner case. And even then, it is possible to get something out. With private investments, that just may not be true or involves high ad hoc transaction costs. My original reply was intended to point out that what w
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by eroo 12y ago
Sure they can except in the most extreme corner cases. You an contrive situations in which it's difficult to sell stock on the NYSE or NASDAQ, but it's basically always quick and easy (e.g., you can move $100K of FB stock in secon
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by eroo 12y ago
This isn't an indictment of valuations being necessarily inflated more than they were in 1999. He's critiquing a new preference for private investments which are very, very difficult to liquidate. That lack of liquidity, combined
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by eroo 12y ago
He isn't arguing firms are overvalued by a greater degree now relative to 1999. He's arguing that investments in private firms, which are far more popular now, are worse for small players due to their lack of liquidity. If things

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