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(That said, as commenters below correctly point out, Twitter, not Loren, owns the patent and gets to decide whom to enforce it against).
"Again and again I therefore admonish my students in Europe and America: Don't aim at success -- the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run -- in the long-run, I say! -- success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it."
It's not clear what "error" they're admitting to, but it seems as if they're admitting some error, however ill-defined.
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You could look at IP law firms and look through their roster of patent attorneys; alternatively, you could look for a small or solo patent attorney (e.g. google machine learning patent attorney).
If you're associated with a university, you wish to investigate working with them to acquire the patent.
Best of luck with your patent and startup!
It's interesting to contrast the utter repudiation of National Socialism after its defeat in 1945 compared to the ongoing romance with Communism after its collapse in 1989...
E.g. On a university campus today, it's acceptable to call oneself a socialist, but utterly unacceptable to call oneself a National Socialist (a Nazi). Considering the horrors of both, the difference in their treatment in American academia today is somewhat surprising.
It's a shame though.
As MP3's were to the iPod, free ebooks in PDF could be to the Kindle.
For example, Google Books has plenty of full content PDFs for out-of-copyright works.
Is there a basis for global warming alarm? http://www.ycsg.yale.edu/climate/forms/LindzenYaleMtg.pdf
E.g. See this video: http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/02/09/video-kindle-2-as-slow-...
I tend to read just one book at time.
Does the Kindle allow full-text search across all books that you own?
Also, an exciting life is not necessarily a pleasant one...
Does Amazon provide any guarantee books for Kindle1 and Kindle2 will continue to work on all future versions of Kindle? I don't want to get stranded having to upgrade book media in 10 or 15 years.
It doesn't seem there's a way to "borrow" books from friends (or a local library) on the Kindle... is that right?
I guess I'm trying to answer "What problem does the Kindle solve that merit using it over books?"
"It's lonely at the top, but it's comforting to look down upon everyone at the bottom."
The article itself dates to pre-economic crash times, as it came out August 23, 2006...
"The core of skill of innovators is error-recovery not failure-avoidance."
"Mastery in anything is a really good predictor of mastery in the thing you want done."
"The proof of a portfolio versus the promise of the resume."
"We want somebody who's more interested than they are interesting."
"People who are interested are much more willing to work on the communication as a destination not as a source -- and breadth, a broad range of experience in the world is the thing that fuels that."
"Depth, breadth, communication, collaboration; of these four collaboration is the most important"
"Collaboration for Pixar means amplification -- the amplification you get by connecting up a bunch of human beings who are listening to each other, interested in each other, bring separate depth to the problem, bring breadth that gives them interest in the entire solution, allows them to communicate on multiple different levels: verbally, in writing, in feeling, in acting, in pictures, and in all of those ways finding the most articulate way to get a high-fidelity notion across to a broad range of people so they can each pull on the right lever."
To me, impersonation on Facebook implies putting up an entire profile pretending to be someone else.
The article also says "a hacker appeared to steal Rutberg's identity" -- surely his 'identity' wasn't stolen, just his Facebook credentials, and even then, they weren't stolen so much as borrowed temporarily and misappropriated.
"For a store that aims to give you a bargain, it also excels at customer service. Here's something that happens often: I'll buy an item on Monday afternoon and be told to expect it to arrive Wednesday. Then, sometime Tuesday, the UPS guy rings my door—amazingly, Amazon has moved the product from its shipping center in Nevada to my apartment in San Francisco in less than a day, for no extra charge."
Imagine what the author would have written had Amazon said the package would arrive Tuesday but the packaged didn't show up until Wednesday.
Gates used the word explain. At about 12:50, he said "This chart takes four different factors and asks how much do they they explain teaching quality?"
Catholics see sex as a mutual gift of self between spouses. Through the language of their bodies, the husband tells the wife "I am yours," the wife tells the husband "I am yours."
As a gift, it is necessarily permanent. It's more than impolite to give a gift and then ask for it back. It's also exclusive -- you don't give someone a gift and then take it back and give it someone else -- the original recipient would rightly be aggrieved at such a turn of events ("Hey, you said that was mine!")
While all of marriage subsumes this gift of self, sex forms the act -- the sign -- signifying the gift. Sex is a physical expression, in the concrete language of the body, of the mutual self-gift that the husband and wife made to each other in marriage. The human reproductive organism consists of two persons: a man and a woman. Their union thus not only signifies their mutual gift of self to each other, but also serves as a creative act, a procreative act that generates life. Thus sex is both unitive and procreative, or in vernacular alliterative, both babies and bonding.
All that leads the Church to say that "the deliberate use of the sexual faculty, for whatever reason, outside of marriage is essentially contrary to its purpose."
I think where we differ is that I'd argue to the theoretical friend that she should not commit suicide, and I wouldn't try the 'in the alternative, if you do decide to kill yourself at least don't kill anyone else' reasoning, if only because I would feel that it would undermine my main point of fervently trying to dissuade her from committing suicide.
On teachers, Gates says that after 3 years, a teachers' performance generally doesn't change.
He put up a graph of what influences teachers' performance. By far the greatest effect came from 'past performance,' distantly followed by a having a math degree (for math teachers), and Teach for America experience. Almost negligible came the last item, 'having a masters degree.'
Next, Gates looked at the incentive structure within schools -- it's primarily seniority based, with a bonus if someone has a master's degree.
He noted that good teachers leave the system at a rate slightly higher than that of bad teachers.
He contrasted charter schools such as KIPP (http://www.kipp.org/), where the school evaluates teachers on their performance -- with the traditional model.
The traditional model contractually limits how schools can evaluate their teachers, for example, a principal is contractually not permitted to sit in on a teacher's class more than a few times a year (sometimes even once per year), and even those times, the principal must provide advance notice. Gates compared this to running a factory with some workers "making crap" but the management being banned from observing them without prior notice, so that the workers "might actually try and fool you into thinking we're doing a good job in that one brief moment."
Gates next noted that even a teacher wanted to improve -- can't. New York, for example, passed a law banning schools using teacher improvement data to determine tenure.
Gates closed noting his optimism, praising the testing data for revealing something. He posited the idea of using digital video to record all public school classrooms to give teachers the opportunity to review their work and consult with each other to improve. Gates said: "By thinking of this as a personnel system we can do it much better."
He mentioned _Work Hard, Be Nice_, a book about KIPP: http://www.amazon.com/Work-Hard-Be-Nice-Promising/dp/1565125... Gates said he sent everyone at the TED talk a free copy.
He finished by saying he thought "education is the most important thing to get right for the country to have as strong a future as it should have." He mentioned the House-version of stimulus bill had funding for "these data systems," but the Senate version took that out, because "there are people threatened by these things." He reiterated his optimism, however, saying that people were beginning to recognize the importance of education.
Dr. Krauss even said that he didn't need to bother to understand theologians in the article itself: "I began my lecture with the somewhat glib remark that it was important for the theologians to listen to me, but not as important for me, as a scientist, to listen to them."