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25,806karma·4,167submissions·September 7, 2007
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Howdy. I'm Sebastian.
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My email is sgutierr@alum.mit.edu. Open invitation: if you're reading this, I'm happy to receive email about any deep learning / data science / software / startup / etc topic from you at any time.
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It probably means that you haven't achieved a high enough level of job-hate to get yourself moving. The friction required to start something new is always high, even more so for something like quitti…
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Links for the curious: If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be 'Shut up and calculate!' [ http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Mermin ]…
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Chris (Cmccann7) was fantastic on the phone. I really can't speak highly enough of him. He responded to my email, took the phone call, explained patiently what he did and then wrote up an entry abou…
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"I pull water out of my well at a cost of $1 per bottle." This is the same as buying a bottle of water from a supplier. Your input costs $1 per bottle. You sell it for $1 dollar. Your profit is ze…
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what's the best way to contact you as your profile is missing contact information?
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I too, like lhuang, am working on a project using sports analytics. It has to do with amateur sports versus his NFL sports. Regarding the math aspect - I think prediction of performance or how certai…
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Regarding copycats, http://la.eater.com/archives/2007/03/13/the_yogurt_wars_part... …
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Your Forum appears to be blank with only one piece of information in it from 5 months ago. I would perhaps seed it with FAQ questions that users have asked, or take it off for now. The fact that the…
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I am not sure why you would want to do this. If it is interesting, then please discuss it here. Don't spam for another website to discuss it there.
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The burn comes from the alcohol. Smoothness could be due to lack of tannins in the red wine. (Tannins cause the feeling of astringency in your mouth and inner cheeks.)
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I would recommend Anki for the spaced repetition. It's fantastic.
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If my understanding is that you want to build a website like "yelp/local business"...then I think you need to go out and talk to local businesses about how their needs aren't being met by craigslist, …
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Right off of the bat there is too much stuff to look at in the front page. I think get rid of the sign up page on the first page and put a bit button link to it and spend more time explaining why peo…
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I have no relation to dropbox other than using it. My guess would be that it is a requirement if the person applying chooses to make it a requirement. To me it's a question of reality. Within any in…
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Disagree. The point is that it is a filter. A high percentage of people will not respond based on this criteria. But the people who believe that they are as good or better will respond anyway. The…
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Quote from the article: Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
-- Albert Camus
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Coming in from NYC
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I'm coming in from new york city and would love to grab lunch with anybody who is around after the event. We can probably just grab some food in MIT's cafeteria in the student center. Would that wor…
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Companies mentioned (four of them) : TipJoy, Lookery, Convoq, Actuality Systems.
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I was going through the django book and here is something that could help you out: search_fields = ('title',) "Finally, the search_fields option creates a field that allows text searches. It allows se…
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I've always found that you can draw a box with four squares. On the top are "can explain material to moms" "can't explain material to moms". On the side are "clear communicator" and "unclear communi…
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My favorite part of the article:
"Professional complaints followed in May, mostly about individual chiropractors’ claims. Then, in June, blogger Simon Perry found the BCA database of 1,029 members onl…
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Emailed your profile email. Thank you.
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Some good ones that I would check out are 1.) The Econometrics of Financial Markets (Campbell, Lo, MacKinlay) and 2.) Time Series Analysis (Hamilton). Note that I would check these out from a library…
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MIT
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looking forward to it.
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I found a web startup here on HN that is based on a subscription model :: https://www.timesvr.com/ . They were using PayPal subscription services when I joined and left. I am interested in these q…
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As someone who works in an investment bank, it would be great if this new, more powerful spreadsheet played nicely with Bloomberg, Reuters, and Factset.