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First Tesla victory over Car Dealers(tirebusiness.com)
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My method for generating startup ideas is notice the things that I hate. For example, I hate shaving, and would kill for a device that I can stick my face into and become clean-shaven one minute later. I also hate choosing the shower tempe
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The Tesla Approach to Distributing and Servicing Cars(teslamotors.com)
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Kevin Rose interviews Elon Musk(youtube.com)
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Auto Dealers Whine That Tesla Stores Are Illegal(wired.com)
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Many comments expressed concern about the alleged inappropriateness of the title. Even the no-free lunch theorem has been invoked, and words like SVM mentioned. However: The original title, "Neural Networks officially best at object recogn
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Actually, it does, since the difference in performance between entry #1 and entry #2 is so huge (25% error vs 15% error!), and since this is by far the hardest computer vision challenge yet!
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Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge 2011 - Results(vision.stanford.edu)
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SpaceX launches reusable rocket for 6 feet (youtube.com)
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Although life is meaningless, every person fears death and can enjoy their meaningless life.
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"first place I’ve worked that’ll change the world"-Apple store creator on Tesla(businessweek.com)
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While he was fired from Pay pal, the other two claims are factually false.
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Tesla model S eliminates range anxiety(motortrend.com)
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These findings should not be misinterpreted, since it is indeed impossible to reach any goals. A person in their late 20s is extremely unlikely to become an olympic swimmer or a squash player because of physical limitations. And some peop
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Elon Musk on the challenges in founding Tesla(automobilemag.com)
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People who are into self-help books are the ones most likely to be miserable to begin with ---- since happy people are not interested in reading them!
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Some people are extremely competent but are risk averse, so they don't take the risk that's necessary for success. Others are risk tolerant but are not very capable, so they are unlikely to succeed despite taking the risk. The trick is to
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Robots are currently unable to be autonomous in any meaningful way. They still have a limited ability to perceive because computer vision is not good yet. They lack the ability to act sensibly in novel environments. Building such robots
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A degree in mathematics requires a very large amount of effort and discipline, especially given your other obligations. Is this effort best spent on a mathematics degree, or maybe you could spend this effort differently and get what you wa
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It is completely irrelevant how the world would be if everyone did X, since it will never happen. The only benefit of not using patents is a righteous feeling. It would be much better if everyone who choose to not use patents would instead
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A person that is against patents will make no societal difference whatsoever by abstaining from them, while hurting their bottom line, so it is not worthwhile. The best way of changing patent law is by lobbying the government. Individual p
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The author is already extremely successful, and not only in his career: " and at 40 hadn’t accomplished much other than finding a good woman who was foolish enough to marry me, and somehow managed to have two wonderful children that I was v
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The problems with statistics is that it's complicated, both bayesian and frequentist. Specifically, all statistical methods make assumptions about the data, some of which are quite subtle and take effort to understand. Their intricacy is t
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A minor note about point 1. It seems very easy to figure out who the real friends are through activity -- e.g., the people whose posts you comment on or whose pictures and profiles you view. So this information doesn't lose much of its val
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It makes sense if you believe that the profit will go up dramatically in the not too far future. And it looks like many people think so.
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I believe contentment goes the other way around. The easiest way to find contentment is to help others. It has been shown that volunteering is a very reliable long-term happiness boost, for example. It seems to me that most people want con
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Not having a degree is like not dressing well for an interview. It's superficial, but people are judged for it. Largely because there are more, percentage-wise, unqualified people without degrees than with degrees. A person may decide that
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A big reason manufacturers don't produce durable devices/clothes is because durability is invisible at purchase time. It is also hard for a manufacturer to signal durability to customers who care about it. It is similar to the reason for
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Intelligence has many aspects, of which the ability to understand complicated "analytic stuff" from books is only a part. There's also intelligence in getting things done and avoiding dumb mistakes in complicated and uncertain situations,
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Few people from Stanford succeed like him. He's an obvious outlier that's worth understanding.

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