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by ganz 8y ago
Not my area of expertise, but I think the intuition for why evolution didn't make us all Einstein's comes in two parts: (1) IQ is very polygenetic - a big IQ gene might be 0.1 IQ, and there aren't a lot even that large, if I
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by ganz 11y ago
I've been an engineer at Periscope for the past couple years and would be happy to answer any questions about the company or life as an engineer here. I've worked on the whole stack here, but my favorite parts have been new charti
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Building Your Own User Analytics System in SQL(periscope.io)
2 points by ganz 11y ago|0 comments
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by ganz 11y ago
The system isn't training on antonyms and analogies - it's training on wikipedia. It's learning the meaning (and multiple senses) for every word it can find. The test they use to see if it actually learned what these words m
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Analyzing Our Long Term Blog Metrics with SQL(periscope.io)
2 points by ganz 11y ago|0 comments
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by ganz 12y ago
Startups involve having to do everything with a tiny group of people, so the more skills you have personal experience with the better. If you business depends upon your product, sales and marketing skills, and you've only been a devel
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by ganz 13y ago
One problem with time boxing is that it isn't the actual terminal goal - when trying to be self-motivate, there would be an extra level of abstraction between effort and reward, as you'd now be self-motivating to timebox, rather t
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by ganz 14y ago
Isn't that the core purpose of Google Search?
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by ganz 14y ago
Something kind of close is www.beeminder.com where you can pick a goal, keep track of your progress, and have an auto-forfeit sum of money. It doesn't have verification built in, but it's part way there.
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by ganz 14y ago
I have a poor sense of how I spend all my time, and that leads to sub-optimal decision making. I've been building a web app to easily track my time usage and display it as a historical calendar, and adding features to get the most insight
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by ganz 14y ago
The only plausible interpretation I see is that the event had costs that were counted as liabilities, but that the revenue from the event was not yet recognized as assets.