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What constitutes a "good return" on research dollars spent? Is it mere value created? Or a breakthrough in fundamental human understanding? I'm actually quite intrigued now to mine some real data!

News to me that he is moving to UTexas in Austin to build a center for quantum computing and theory. Terribly exciting! With the impetus being a state funded allocation of $4B+ for basic research. It really begs the question: are our governments spending way too little on moon shots? And what could have been accomplished in the last two generations if the focus had been on pure science rather than military technologies?

I also use PeerJS which is free up to 50 concurrent users or so...

http://peerjs.com/

talky.io is great!

Lots of nascent demand for pro photo services. Culture is becoming visual on an unprecedented scale. Two quick queries:

1. How quickly do you think you could scale this globally? Customer requests a shoot on a volcano in Greenland for example ;)

2. Why not provide a full service solution? That is not just the photographer, but for a fashion brand shoot for example, all the models, hair, makeup, location, catering, legal clearances and the other 100 things I am not anticipating ;)

I like it too! Streetware, fashion: its like the new liquid asset right now. The part where buyers can "bid" on price is particularly compelling. I'd also like to see the "sell" side of the interface: in other words the data you are going to present to retailers and brands since ultimately they are the ones you will be selling this product to ;)

Good idea to focus on the European market first. So jealous when I hear my EU friends talking about day trips to eat at a new restaurant in Copenhagen, or a long weekend in Istanbul or Corfu ;)

Whilst we are compiling a bibliography, I'll add another suggestion: the excellent fictionalization of the Cambridge spies by John Banville, The Untouchable

Product Hunt podcasts. Lots of entrepreneurship relevant content: A16Z, HN, as well as their own maker interview series ;)

https://www.producthunt.com/podcasts

There's also tons of stuff on Internet Archive, including, just in time for Easter, Asimov's Guide to the Bible ;)

I love the opening sentence of "Lastborn" from Galaxy Magazine 1958:

Edith Fellowes smoothed her working smock as she always did before opening the elaborately locked door and stepping across the dividing line between the "is" and the "is not"

Also relevant: Beginning Engineer's Checklist

http://www.piclist.com/tecHREF/begin.htm

If a ten commandments of growth hacking ever comes into being, my hope is the first law states: Thou shalt not spam ;)

Rolling your own NetHack is also a fantastic way to get started in gamedev :)

Check out RogueBasin for (mind-bogglingly comprehensive) details:

http://www.roguebasin.com

This is cool. Thinking about smartphones as sensors opens up so many possibilities, even if their capabilities aren't nearly as accurate as dedicated devices. Wondering if the sonar information can be combined with images from the camera to create a close-range depth camera?

Unreal Engine 4

https://www.unrealengine.com/ue4-on-github

Does this mean Vulkan API support on the new MIPS Creator Ci40 dev boards?

Good read! And timely as well, as it comes on the heels of the next big thing, the launch of the ETMF:

First ETMF by Eaton Vance Hits the Market

http://www.nasdaq.com/article/first-etmf-by-eaton-vance-hits...

"To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers." -Paul Klee

Mozilla Hacks article on deferred shading in WebGL, for anyone looking for some weekend fun ;)

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/01/webgl-deferred-shading/

Plain text files written using Vim in a Terminal. Then archived by folder to Google Drive or DropBox. I want them to be in a format I, and any machine, can read N years from now. I've been burned before by proprietary solutions ;)

I revisit old files at odd intervals. I have ~5 years worth of notes. What I love most is when I think I have a new idea, or stumbled upon original inspiration, and I find an almost exact sentiment mirrored years ago, albeit using different language. Then I know I've revealed some deep truth that will remain constant for me, and it is only my manner of expressing it that has evolved!

Yes, I'm beginning to think Serum is quite an incredible deal at $190 retail ;)

Thanks for the thoughtful reply and timeless wisdom that seems to apply not just to music, but life as well ;)

Congrats on being rewarded and recognized for the very important work you do in bringing transparency to the financial markets. The whole story of how this went down is just epic!

My question is about the business side of Nanex. Are sales of your products such as NxCore enough to sustain the company? Do you also actively trade? And what opportunities do you see currently around data science and machine learning for entrepreneurs in the quantitative finance world?

Hate to hijack what I am sure is a mind expanding discussion on software distribution, the law of karma, and modern celebrity. But I am curious about something and was hoping to get an opinion from some of the music production experts on here. Of which there appear to be legion. Which is awesome :)

How difficult is it to duplicate Serum-esque wavetable generation using ChucK or CSound? It seems in my uninformed opinion you would have a lot more freedom using raw math over visual gui. Do you have the same range of available osc's and filters as you have in commercial packages? Or would they be relatively easy to implement if missing out of the box?

There is a concept in Japanese culture, Wa (和), or "group harmony" that seems to nicely complement ruminations on "collective intelligence". Perhaps most interesting is how fragile the cohesion really is, a single person, a single sentiment expressed poorly even, is enough to break the spell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wa_%28Japanese_culture%29

Kudos to the Stripers for continuing to innovate in the payments space! Really enjoying the simplicity and elegance of your btc payment solutions ;)

Wondering if Atlas could be used to "port" successful internet business models to "foreign" locales? Setting up a Flipkart in Morocco, or a Youku for Samoans...

With the NYT, WSJ, Brookings, Economist and virtually every prognosticator of the punditry classes forecasting dark times for the Kingdom, I'm sensing a crowded trade and beginning to look for contrarian, optimistic predictions...

For those interested in exploring stoicism in the Eastern tradition, consider delving into the unswayable ethos of Chinese philosopher Master Zhuang. Pre-dating Senaca by 4 centuries, Zhaungzi was perhaps not as inclined to view the passions so negatively. Arising as Univ. of Toronto Prof. David Machek argues, from differing world views: "rational versus non-rational in the Greco-Roman tradition, and artificial versus natural in the Chinese"

“Emotions that Do Not Move”: Zhuangzi and Stoics on Self-Emerging Feelings

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11712-015-9463-9

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's excellent article on Zhuangzi:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zhuangzi/

And Thomas Merton's poetic interpretations: "The Way of Chaung Tzu"

https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Way_of_Chuang_Tzu.h...

Cool! Thanks for posting. First class I've heard of to focus solely on Rustlang.

It's not just the fingerprints. Entire organs may grow according to the elegant mathematics of reaction diffusion systems. Not to mention metal alloys, igneous rocks, suns, galaxies, and so on...

A mathematical theory proposed by Alan Turing in 1952 can explain the formation of fingers

http://phys.org/news/2014-07-mathematical-theory-alan-turing...

While your interest is in fintech, do take a look at the forces shaping the broader global macro economic environment because you can literally see some of these "open questions" playing out in real-time!

List of Unsolved Problems in Econ:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_e...

What happens when central bankers run out of ammo and realize monetary policy may not be an ideal path to fiscal stimulus? Or having the bright idea of devaluing your currency to depreciate your outstanding liabilities results in a mutually assured destruction scenario when every sovereign on earth implements the same idea simultaneously? And when "too-big-to-fail" entities amass derivative exposure that is 100X global GDP does it become time to panic yet?

But still its innovations like ZeroCoin and SmartContracts that give one hope that out of the rubble, creative solutions will arise. As long as they are grounded in economic reality and not fantasy, humanity will abide...