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25,806karma·4,167submissions·September 7, 2007
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Howdy. I'm Sebastian.
Data Science Weekly Newsletter (~68k subscribers): https://datascienceweekly.substack.com/ https://twitter.com/datascinews
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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very interesting. thank you for posting. Looking forward to your other articles.
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link is broken both from here as well as your own website. very interested in reading when it's fixed. thank you.
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Very Kaizen of you. I have used these small thoughts/questions in the area of fitness, diet, social awareness to great success.
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Definitely curious about this. What country are you moving from?
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Definitely interested in hearing the strategies / meditations that you have found successful.
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No worries. Thought about what you wrote above and here's my take on it: First, in defining boundaries of a system, we inherently create an "inside" and "outside." By drawing boundaries, everything …
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I work in finance (trading) so from my perspective, I have seen many people come into this field wanting to "get rich." They soon find that the most successful investors/traders are not those who wan…
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Have you read the guidelines here? "Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html …
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Quoting Richard Feynman --
"During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method was discovered for separating the …
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brilliant. reminds me of the missive: if you are the type of person who would stop working once you obtained a fortune, then you are never going to get a fortune...
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I bet your library smells of rich mahogany.
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The guy is amazing - I took out my money before he was even done with the presentation. Then realizing what I had done, I stayed to watch more presentations to see how he did what he did......long st…
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stumped it with tony the tiger. it guessed lassie.
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Can you tell us of a past situation that you have lived through that was "blood in the streets" so we can get a better idea why this isn't one?
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Bringing it back full circle: From Paul Graham - "Wealth is the fundamental thing. Wealth is stuff we want: food, clothes, houses, cars, gadgets, travel to interesting places, and so on. You can have …
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great. I haven't made it through buffet's letters, but from the one's I've read I've always been very very impressed. Also worth reading are the writings by Buffet's business partner, Charlie Munger…
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Here's what I did in the past when I encountered the same situation: 1. Looked up what reports a company has to file. The key one I liked is 10-Q. 10-Q: (from investopedia) A comprehensive report of …
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good post right up until the end where you wrote "If you enjoyed this post please go back to YC Hacker News and give it some karma." If it's a good post, you don't need to devalue it by getting peopl…
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Link to Tim Bray's essay ( I think) => http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/12/WebsThePla...
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The article starts with the following: " A FEW years ago, a self-described “militant liberal” named Val Curtis decided that it was time to save millions of children from death and disease."
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Karōshi (過労死, karōshi?), which can be translated quite literally from Japanese as "death from overwork", is occupational sudden death. The major medical causes of karōshi deaths are heart attack and s…
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fyi: please note that comments should not be signed. thanks!
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How about we make it the last sunday of the month? This will be easy to follow and people can plan accordingly.
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Joined.
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Eisokant, As someone who interviewed at top US universities (and ended up going to MIT), I would say that you approaching the problem the wrong way. If you want to get an interview/meetings with top …
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5 ps. fortes, you're coming in from Seattle?
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How about Sunday July 20th, 6pm? As I live/work in Manhattan, I would prefer if it's reachable by subway since I don't have a car.
< http://www.mta.info/nyct/maps/submap.htm >.…
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Met some TM employees in Miami a couple of months back and they even dislike TM.