goodwinb

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by goodwinb 14y ago
I agree that knowing how to pull your own data is important. While you are doing the tedious work of pulling data your brain will often spot a good idea for a new experiment or see a new relationship in the data structure.
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Big Data Viz on Small Screen (MicroStrategy)(zdnet.com)
1 points by goodwinb 14y ago|0 comments
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by goodwinb 14y ago
Quite well done. I think his tone and when he signals his strategy also helps how he plays the game.
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Did Wolfram Alpha just abstract data science?(blog.stephenwolfram.com)
2 points by goodwinb 15y ago|0 comments
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Mandelbrot Beats Economics in Fathoming Markets(bloomberg.com)
69 points by goodwinb 15y ago|57 comments
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by goodwinb 15y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote/Freelance Python, R, Django, jQuery I particularly enjoy data analysis. Example site: http://www.testwhethertheyknow.com Code samples: https://github.com/goodwinb
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by goodwinb 15y ago
26% of Oracle's expenses are sales and marketing. (Those strip club trips add up.) In all seriousness, is it just a necessary evil? If you could hold your nose and do it would it not be a barrier to entry for your competitors also? Could
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by goodwinb 15y ago
I'd like to hear more your experiences about breaking into the enterprise world and selling your knowledge management software.
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Ask HN: How would you take on Oracle?
5 points by goodwinb 15y ago|13 comments
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by goodwinb 16y ago
You might have a list of top users that I could friend and get their tabs. Furthermore if I could search the users by tag and get a list of active users for that tag who I could friend, that would be beneficial. I.e. I might search for "d
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by goodwinb 16y ago
Non link-jacked http://www.socialtimes.com/2010/10/report-new-york-times-has...
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by goodwinb 16y ago
In testing a MVP I submitted to several of the startup websites (1). The quality of traffic was bad. Their audience were people who were interested in kicking the tires on startups and not people in the industry I was targeting who needed
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350K sites have installed Facebook like button(ft.com)
1 points by goodwinb 16y ago|0 comments
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Brooks: America’s brightest minds have been abandoning technical enterprise(nytimes.com)
73 points by goodwinb 16y ago|85 comments
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by goodwinb 16y ago
Can you HNers think of a way to separate the teaching aspect of university from the research aspect? They seem to serve two different customers. Teaching is really for students to educate them and season them up for life. Research is for
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by goodwinb 16y ago
I'd caution making your survey "Hey would you use Web app A?" The Mechanical Turk users want to blaze through the survey as fast as possible and get paid. Clicking "Yes" gets them through the fastest and also lets them please the surveyor
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Ask HN: Critique my site please
3 points by goodwinb 16y ago|3 comments
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by goodwinb 16y ago
My eye first went to the screen cap (which could have the white space at the bottom of it cropped off). Then I read the "Sign up for Atombox for Free" link. At this point I am still wondering what is going on. Finally I find the first se
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MasterCard to release open API(mastercard.com)
12 points by goodwinb 16y ago|1 comments
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by goodwinb 17y ago
I'd like to ask what is everyone using for accounting? Anyone have an elegant solution? Does anyone's web app hook into one of the online accounting apps using the accounting app's API?
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Lament: That Hambrecht's Dutch auctions for IPOs never took off(pbs.org)
6 points by goodwinb 17y ago|0 comments
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Ed Thorp: It is realistic to multiply your capital by 1000 using Kelly Criterion(edwardothorp.com)
2 points by goodwinb 17y ago|1 comments
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by goodwinb 17y ago
I'd like to give a plug for playing bridge. It is the best card game there is. Texas Hold 'Em : Checkers :: Bridge : Chess. It can be a sociable game and yet it can also be a game that holds you interest as you try to achieve perfection.