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There exist algorithms for estimating emotion from facial video. The accuracy is kind of hit or miss, but it's enough for "he's experiencing anxiety during the security search, he must be a terrorist."

For anyone asking the "what startup job will accelerate me towards starting one of my own" question - this is a really good one.

Copy the competition, just don't plagiarize the competition.

Competition means there are customers who think X is worth paying money for. Competition means there are customers who already think X is the solution to their problem.

But design your own solution. Do your own research. Figure out how the competition is letting down specific segments of the market, why people are still arguing about which solution is the best X for Y. Figure out how your target customers are different, then build something that does a better job of satisfying their needs.

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No. Context is very important here, and it's actually quite apt with regard to hiring and being hired.

Data-driven marketing (DDM) is a huge thing now because it reliably magnifies revenue streams. However, the skill set to execute on such strategies is a bit non-traditional for marketing. If you want to hire someone to help build your DDM team, you don't necessarily want a business grad or a top salesman. What you want is an math or engineering transplant, someone with the statistical and technical skills necessary but who knows or is interested in learning the business and marketing aspects.

"Growth hacker" moonlights as a buzzword, but it's actually a great way to spin a job opening to appeal to the audience you need to attract: tech-to-business transplants. Ergo, it can also be effective self-branding if you're a tech-to-business transplant looking to make $$$ for helping to create well-documented X% to XX% revenue improvements.

A good man, and a good engineer.

That, more than one small step, made him a hero worthy of being remembered for the phrase "for all mankind." He made me want to be a better man myself, and to build things of more lasting importance.

Good job shipping.

That said: I use Goodreads for this. One big feature it provides for me is community curation, so it would be difficult for another service to usurp it at this point. My Goodreads account is also tracking 789 books - well past the breaking point of the GUI paradigm you're pursuing. A timeline is not really suited to administration either.

If you want to add a timeline for visualization, restrict it to visualization, then make it compact enough to accommodate more than one title per week across years of use.

"Is a -2 Hz wave travelling to the right the same as a 2 Hz save travelling to the right, but going backwards in time?"

Yes, all other things being equal. It's a bit less confusing if you leave the signs off and just say that "a wave travelling to the right at f in t is the same as a wave travelling to the left at f in -t.

This is also very much in the "spherical cow" sense of physics - it's true of many ideal cases on chalkboards, but it gets fuzzy in practice due to thermodynamics and other nonidealities. Plus, you can only observe things from the perspective of time moving forwards.

"Could there be something to John G. Cramer's transactional interpretation of Quantum Mechanics?"

There's nothing I'm aware of which is implicitly wrong with a transactional interpretation - you just have no way to empirically prove that it's a valid "why." In physics, we are very often limited to "how" and "what."

It looks to have some ideas in common with Feynman's reaction diagrams and path integrals, so it may be an interesting approach if you're partial to those. The catch is that wavefunction collapse is equally true: it's a model which makes accurate predictions about observable experimental outcomes.

Physics often uses the sign of a frequency to indicate the direction of travel with regard to a reference frame.

E.g. 2 Hz is a wave oscillating two times per second and travelling to the right, -2 Hz is the same travelling to the left.

In some cases direction isn't really meaningful (standing waves, or the height or pressure of a medium as seen by a stationary observer). In others, the direction of propagation can be quite significant.

Is it just egos, or is there also an impact on SERP rankings and referral traffic?

Assuming, for discussion, that it still needed further editing rather than being ready to go.

Probably, but doing so is a bit thorny.

A major contributor to the problem is that the primary revenue model tends to be advertising. Ergo, behavior tends to drift towards whatever gets the most hits.

Say you decide to attack this by running a subscription-only model. This has been done, sometimes quite successfully. But from the perspective of the startups which are trying to generate publicity, a subscription model means fewer eyeballs.

What would get more eyeballs? Well, you could offer the content for free, then make revenue via advertising - and we're back to the current state of things.

Any ideas?

Here's the paper (PDF):

http://physics.aps.org/featured-article-pdf/10.1103/PhysRevL...

It's about observations & theory where you can get waves in Cherenkov radiation which propagate against the dominant direction.

The layout looks rational enough in the context of the tiled GUI layout they're trying to push.

But the top bar could be a few times thicker. It's too cramped. I tried a quick hack increasing the min-height attribute on hpHdr_PriRow to 50px, which gives much nicer proportions.

I've heard this same result regarding business ebook sales at least half a dozen times. There's a sentiment in tech culture to the effect that we are free thinkers who should be dismissive of obvious sales tactics. But maybe the sales guys use them because they're statistically effective.

"Test everything" includes "test the options you're dismissive of, just in case not everyone thinks like you."

LinkedIn and Facebook can both be pretty good when you need narrow targeting.

There are three big issues with using MTurk for business research. You can't do much to refine who you get as respondents, the respondents are incentivized to complete the task without regard for the effect on your data, and you have restrictions on what you can do due to the anonymity rules.

If you're following the way of the niche, MTurk may be too problematic compared to just slogging through some cold calls. The benefit for more broadly targeted projects is that it lets you grab a large sample size with fairly low effort.