kentlyons

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by kentlyons 10mo ago
This is very common in Europe. PhDs are sponsored by a given company
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by kentlyons 1y ago
For an overview of the psychology of how people understand things (and don't!) I highly recommend this paper. It highlights a lot of ways our brains take shortcuts in terms of actually understanding things. And that facts play only one
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by kentlyons 1y ago
It just updated. Maybe affected by their own outage!
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by kentlyons 2y ago
The actual rule for this part is farther down. Section 465.7b (p161 of the pdf). My reading is basically if the website is showing something that it looks like all of the reviews, then those can't be filtered in this way. But that seem
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by kentlyons 2y ago
I'm allergic to sawdust so went ceramics instead. Making things is awesome and it's always lots of fun with the anticipation of opening the kiln!
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by kentlyons 2y ago
Yep - obviously corner cases are left up to the reader! The other way to think about this is to work backwards from your guess of a final price. So that would give you the size of each step. Likewise 20% is a pretty random number and can al
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by kentlyons 2y ago
Assuming you want to maximize income (and in turn, profit), this becomes a math problem based on data. Income = Price * Conversion Rate. So assuming a constant number of people coming in to your funnel (which should be the case since it is
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by kentlyons 2y ago
The city of San Jose is spread over a huge area (a good fraction of Santa Clara Valley aka Silicon Valley). The downtown area of San Jose which you might think of as a city is rather small.
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by kentlyons 2y ago
And for small businesses, there is a massive wave of boomers retiring. Either they sell or go out of business. For the better ones, PE is buying and rolling them up.
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by kentlyons 3y ago
Was management in place so when the founders exited the company would still grow? With lower valuations (1-3x), the purchaser is often buying a job in some way (either for themselves or needing to find an operator). At 7-10x multiple, the c
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by kentlyons 3y ago
There's a few factors. Are there that many, or is there just a lot of news? And related to a lot of news, there are a lot of orgs chasing AI whether they understand it or not. So to that end, as a founder, one could convince the naive
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Toyota the Biggest Carmaker, Made a Bet on Tech. It Went Wrong Fast(wsj.com)
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by kentlyons 3y ago
Having worked at both. Hardware companies treat thier software like hardware. They spend a ton of time planning and iterate very slowly. It's very waterfall. I think one of the key advantages Tesla has is they are the opposite. They it
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by kentlyons 3y ago
$1m is what - one person-year, two? Sure that's not enough. However it doesn't mean the api is custom. Just not the same as the public one. For your specific example, Tesla renders thier own map tiles.
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by kentlyons 3y ago
Sure just like any (big) company paying for a contract.
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by kentlyons 3y ago
So it isn't nothing. It is something. If it were only the states vs the federal government, that would be great! Unfortunately it is also all of the county, city (and other??) local governments as well that have a say. And then in cali
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by kentlyons 3y ago
The multiple levels of governments and associated regulations is very much preventing it from happening. If any one of them in any of the jurisdictions the train might travel says no (or drags their feet) it doesn't happen.
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by kentlyons 3y ago
Several governments have lists of "good" journals that "count" (tenure, grant considerations, etc), and those lists take into account things like impact factor over the past several years. Needless to say, there is a lot
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by kentlyons 3y ago
Very cool story! How did you grow the group? Was it all through word of mouth from your initial seed group of friends?
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by kentlyons 3y ago
In a previous life, I learned that the fleet of all Toyota vehicles out there produced 320.5 million tons of CO2 in 2019. See line 11 of table I on pg 37. https://global.toyota/pages/global_toyota/sustainability&#x
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by kentlyons 4y ago
The problem with swapping is the battery is a very large portion of the residual value of the car. While functionally very different it'd be more like swapping out the engine or transmission in an ICE car. You don't want to roll i
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by kentlyons 4y ago
I use an extension to remove them - no affiliation but it seems to work. Chrome: "No YouTube Shorts". Between that, a plugin to remove already watched videos and my ad blocker, youtube is a way better experience!
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by kentlyons 4y ago
It also has some more details about wave height: "their models indicate that open-ocean wave heights in the Gulf of Mexico would have exceeded 100 meters (328 feet), with wave heights of more than 10 meters (32.8 feet) as the tsunami a
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by kentlyons 4y ago
I went to more parties last year than the previous 10 combined (maybe past 20)! However, I think this is exceptional and it took me seeking out folks that wanted to have fun like that. Life circumstances and mismatched schedules get in the
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by kentlyons 4y ago
It is the part just before you cut in my quote: "it's playing against a different set of customer values". That is how Christensen defines a new market disruption. That is not enough for a successful new market disruption, bu
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by kentlyons 4y ago
There's a few things to unpack here. One is the perception of the iPhone. Eg here's a quote from PC Magazine I saved when it came out: "Poor business e2mail and PIM connectivity. Bad audio quality on phone calls. Tons of GSM
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by kentlyons 4y ago
Using Christensen's theory against Tesla is an interesting one and one I've thought about. I largely think batteries and EV's are a red herring as far as Tesla goes and this type of analysis. I think it is much closer to a ne
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by kentlyons 4y ago
The actual paper says something slightly different: "Fortunately, the same research that demonstrates people's pessimism about talking to strangers also shows that this pessimism is often misplaced—strangers are more willing to ta
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by kentlyons 4y ago
It wasn't entirely clear from this article, but the intervention itself is the scavenger hunt and associated instructions. From the supplementary material: "Participants in the treatment condition were asked to talk to the person
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by kentlyons 4y ago
They give the full proper citation for referencing the work: @inproceedings{reda2022film, title = {FILM: Frame Interpolation for Large Motion}, author = {Fitsum Reda and Janne Kontkanen and Eric Tabellion and Deqing Sun and Caroline Panto

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