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by mswen 1y ago
I had a grad school mentor William Wells who taught us something similar. A good research publication or presentation should aim for "just the right amount of surprise". Too much surprise and the scientific audience will dismiss y
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by mswen 2y ago
A friend and I built a proof-of-concept of using a variation of Latent Semantic Analysis to automatically build up conceptual maps and loadings of individual words against the latent conceptual vectors back in 2000. In exploring what it wou
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by mswen 3y ago
I recall in the late 70s that my high school also had a teletype terminal and an IBM card reader that connected to a mainframe for the whole school district. As a student I had some awareness that it was unusual. I was also working PT at a
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by mswen 3y ago
Different recession. Spring of 2008 I was in a corporate job within a fairly new business unit. Over the space of 3 years we had grown the new business unit from nothing to a unit with about 25 employees and turning a profit. For the firs
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by mswen 4y ago
This reminded me of a conversation I had with a business owner in southern Florida. I was showing him a demo of some mapping technology I had played around with and mentioned that I was also involved in some web crawling and NLP stuff. He m
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by mswen 4y ago
I lift Monday through Friday at about 11 AM each day. One week I will do pressing exercises such as bench press, squat and leg press on MWF and pulling exercises such as deadlift, hamstring curls, lat pull downs on TTH. Then the next week
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by mswen 4y ago
Weightlifting as a consistent form of exercise. I love to run but I have had issues with my feet. With weightlifting I have been able to work around any injuries and keep consistent. I started in my mid 40s after a foot injury that ended a
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by mswen 4y ago
My son is at the other end of the spectrum having just graduated with a BS in Computer Engineering and started his career as Software Engineer I. He is working as a software engineer at a company that designs and manufacturer's sensors
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by mswen 4y ago
Start-up 1 (2000): Too early and inadequate access to technically sophisticated investors (located in the Midwest rather than Silicon Valley). Proof of concept in semantic knowledge graph but would have required computational resources to d
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by mswen 4y ago
It all depends.... if we were having a private conversation I would be asking about all of the following. But I wouldn't really recommend getting too specific about some of these on a public forum. > How old? > Current health sta
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by mswen 4y ago
I am not sure if Jason Roberts was the first to use this phrase but here was his take on Luck Surface Area back in 2010. That was the first I personally heard of the term Luck Surface Area. I don't know that Jason's take is any m
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by mswen 4y ago
I went to buy something on eBay and found that my account had been suspended. I have never sold anything on eBay. However, I had signed up for an eBay developer account and then never used it because the client who I was exploring it for we
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by mswen 4y ago
Oh, I totally agree with you. And, there are times when it is not useful to try to come up with a solution because the other person just needs to be heard. It is not really about problem X. The real issue is not feeling heard, respected, lo
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by mswen 4y ago
Your comment reminds me of the following. My wife and I have been married over 30 years now. Our total household is 7 persons. A couple years ago, my wife was complaining once again about someone using scissors and not bringing them back to
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by mswen 5y ago
Some great points AlDante2. There is also the issue of how open-ended the engagement is versus clear confined specification. I work with clients on an hourly basis because of the open-ended nature of the work I generally do. It is almost i
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by mswen 5y ago
One of my good friends spent a couple of years selling grain silos to farmers in the American Midwest. I heard about this some years later when we were living in the same community again and able to get together for coffee once in awhile.
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by mswen 5y ago
Trustworthy - they will have access to sensitive information. Articulate - they will communicate on your behalf. A good dose of common sense. Comfortable in the role of follower but not a pushover, they will be helping maintain your boundar
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by mswen 5y ago
The distinctions between self-control and grit as articulated in this paper speak to one of the fundamental issues that start-up founders face. Defining a superordinate goal that will be pursued with grit, passion, zeal and persistence over
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by mswen 5y ago
From this comment it seems you are intending to pursue the masters while working. So the opportunity cost is not lost salary. Your opportunity cost would be measured more in time and stress. You will be giving up social time. If you are sin
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by mswen 6y ago
You are correct that this is very difficult to untangle. But remember features that initially excite and please customers because they were new and provided even unexpected benefits, soon migrate into "more is better" kinds of fe
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by mswen 6y ago
In an organization that size there should be a whole team of internal experts as well as independent, external customer and product research resources devoted to understanding customer needs and desires. Those needs should be researched and
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by mswen 6y ago
I am surprised by the results of this study. My own experience is that Time-Restricted Eating helps with weight loss when I decide to lean out. I tighten down the eating window. And, I lose weight without getting very strict on what I eat a
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by mswen 6y ago
A family story. My father-in-law (now in his 80s) began to stutter when he was very young, somewhere around 4 years old. Teachers, and I think his step-mother were trying to force him to write with his right hand, even though he naturally g
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by mswen 6y ago
Does Kipsu do internships? I have a son who is starting his junior year at U of Minnesota, Twin Cities in the Computer Engineering program. This past summer he had applied for a bunch of internships and with COVID-19 shutdowns everything ju
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by mswen 6y ago
Changeling (The Dark Fae Series Book 1) Faery Tales (The Dark Fae Series Book 2) By McKenzie Rae Book 2 was just released last week. I sat down this morning to read and as of this evening I am about 200 pages in. It really sucked me in. Dis
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by mswen 6y ago
I went down the rabbit hole of looking at Idyll [0] the tool that he uses to create the shuffling simulation. Some pretty interesting examples in the gallery. Trying to decide whether the capabilities are worth the learning curve. [0] https
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by mswen 6y ago
Totally agree with you. Oddly enough I am currently doing a market research project on commercial applications for Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) and also Constrained Binary Optimization. Anyway we were talking about UPS
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by mswen 6y ago
Agree they are using this context for eigenvector without going into detail. Another way I have used PCA and/or cluster analysis as an analogy with a group is to get them to put all the questions, product or service features, or custom
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by mswen 7y ago
I am reminded of a conversation with the CIO/CTO of an Au Pair matching service. Their process at that time (2008) was to have a set of employees who were matchmakers. They would read hundreds/thousands of family requests and requ
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by mswen 7y ago
San Diego CA for that So Cal laid back beach atmosphere plus a good tech scene if you are or can be oriented toward biotech. Santa Fe NM - feels like it has roots. Unique culture and great food. National Labs - Sandia and Los Alamos not too

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