jordanchan

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by jordanchan 8y ago
Yeah, I was a bit disappointed to see Donald Trump dragged into this, almost arbitrarily, and almost needlessly. Then I remembered I was afterall reading the Vox.
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by jordanchan 8y ago
Of course it isn't new. Very little is truly new. It is the same old stuff repeating in different contexts, leading us to comfortably believe "yeah, but this is different".
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by jordanchan 8y ago
Have we already forgotten of the ilk that harassed and harangued Galileo and Copernicus? Even Socrates?
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by jordanchan 8y ago
This is especially applicable to the scientific cadre; sometimes leads me to think that some scientists are just as close-minded as the religionists of yore. The same applies to "believing in science". If I have to believe in it,
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by jordanchan 8y ago
You're right that there are few rewards to humility. An example that immediately comes to mind is during my thesis, I set upon the task of creating a multivariate model to predict an observable quantity. My advisor kept insisting that
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by jordanchan 8y ago
The US Gov has a very nice little book on the topic - A Tradecraft Primer: Structured Analytic Techniques for Improving Intelligence Analysis. Just google and you'll find it on the CIA's website. The book is geared towards the in
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by jordanchan 11y ago
The idea of selling to people based on their needs assumes that everyone has needs/insecurities which, if correctly targeted, will result in a successful sale. To this extent, we're fully aligned. Take a step back. To the theor
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by jordanchan 11y ago
They just started YC research. Maybe its time for YC Movies...
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by jordanchan 11y ago
Hydroponics using atmospheric humidity maybe?
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by jordanchan 11y ago
Reading this made me wonder...do SpaceX and other private space flight programs have similar standards of rigor?
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Scientists Discover The Oldest, Largest Body Of Water In Space(fastcompany.com)
46 points by jordanchan 11y ago|21 comments
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by jordanchan 11y ago
Agreed - everyone has their weak spot, but not for everything . Its like everyone has their price, but not the fellow considerably richer than you. As for smoking, if companies were allowed to actually misstate it is good for you, there wo
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by jordanchan 11y ago
Indeed. Everyone has their sensitivities, vulnerabilities and emotional/other needs. A company that has figured out how to push the right buttons in its sales pitch/ad has found its subset of "gullible people" - who will
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by jordanchan 11y ago
Anything can make fools of gullible people. Free markets or oligarchies.
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by jordanchan 11y ago
There could well be discriminatory billing - clean conscientious passengers pay less than drunk party goers.
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by jordanchan 11y ago
Cities where Uber and the like are being blocked with oppose robo-cars even more vigorously. Like the revolts against steam engines and factories we read about. Uber-opposition will seem like a practice exercise.
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by jordanchan 11y ago
On the supply side: No patents, or easy/cheap to license patents. Technical trade secrets don't remain so for very long. Large margins for one or a few suppliers/manufacturers. This is basically what is happening with the s
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by jordanchan 11y ago
I had tried this a while back, and found it depends on what you're searching. For technical topics, I had found bing had a preference towards the articles from the microsoft developer network. It also had a bias towards MS technologies
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by jordanchan 11y ago
This is a good topic, and dear to me too. First and foremost requirement: people with some experience in the various areas of learning. Ideally, not professors; professional educators can have biases this doesn't need. If it is to catc
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by jordanchan 11y ago
Thanks for sharing this! I would love to help with this - once I have gotten up to speed on various things by building a graph on Postgres myself.
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by jordanchan 11y ago
The point about micro services is a really valid one. In principle, if the application is neatly split into a group of micro services, it would make things easier. This is something I am going to look into once the application has evolved s
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by jordanchan 11y ago
Yes, it might be a hack, but it should offer some powerful functionalities... I'll remember this one.
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by jordanchan 11y ago
Yes, it might be a hack [actually I don't think it is], but it should offer some powerful functionalities...
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by jordanchan 11y ago
Thank you so much for this list. I am looking into these... Maybe there's something I can reuse, but at the very least I can get some inspiration from checking them out.
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by jordanchan 11y ago
AFAIK: A proper graph db is almost mandatory if there are complex, ad hoc queries that need to be made on real time data. Using an RDBMS is great if the graph query types are going to be known in advance - so they can be prepared for using
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by jordanchan 11y ago
Thanks for the links. Glad to know there are more experienced people pursuing this seriously!
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by jordanchan 11y ago
This made my day! Thanks, I will check it!
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by jordanchan 11y ago
I noticed the same - the "explosion of tables" when I was doing the actual designing. But, almost accidentally, it also turned out that the tables were almost all either 5NF or 6NF. So I thought this is just a highly normalized se
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by jordanchan 11y ago
Thanks, that was almost the same reasoning I used to settle on this approach. I definitely need acid transactions, and also some graph capability - which may or may not grow in the future. More pertinently, the kind of representation I was
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by jordanchan 11y ago
You raise a good point. I don't expect graph queries that go more than a few links away. To the extent that there will be such queries, I think appropriate indexing will help a great deal. Implementation wise, it is not that different

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