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stenlix··on Leveraging AI for efficient incident response
Curious if you explored any external tools before building in-house? Looking to do something similar at my company
stenlix··on An engineered PET depolymerase to break down and recycle plastic bottles
Don't have access to the full article so I've only read the abstract, but what's the feasibility of deployment here?
stenlix··on Stanford CS253: Web Security
Hey Feross, took this class in the fall and loved it! Highly recommended for anyone who wants to get the lay of the land in web security.
stenlix··on Front (YC S14) raises $59M round led by other tech CEOs
Curious how you got the search to work in the fb ad library. My queries seem to just hang there?
stenlix··on Big Pharma is using faux generics to keep drug prices high, critics say
Highly recommend the book, "An American Sickness," for reading about tactics like the one described in the article that Big Pharma and other players (e.g. insurers) in the healthcare ecosystem use to extract money out of said ecosystem.
stenlix··on Founder’s Guide to the Y Combinator Interview
Just wondering, in what ways are you different from Front (I’m not too familiar with the space)?
stenlix··on U.S. Defense Budget May Help Fund “Hacking for Defense” Classes at Universities
A big theme in the class was the importance of understanding the real experiences of potential beneficiaries. The specific team in the picture wanted to understand what it was like to be in SEAL training since their project specifically dealt with that problem area.
stenlix··on U.S. Defense Budget May Help Fund “Hacking for Defense” Classes at Universities
I'd like to politely disagree. I took the Hacking for Defense class at my school and had a completely different experience from the one you worry about. I think the most important misunderstanding to clear up is that the hacking in the class is not about hacking in the NSA/cybersecurity sense but rather the process of building something. Just like at a hackathon, students aren't all trying to hack the school's wifi etc., this class is about using a different approach to tackling military problems.

I've attached a link to our class website which contains a superset of the problems that my classmates and I tackled throughout the quarter. Hopefully you'll find it informative.

Class website: http://hacking4defense.stanford.edu/

stenlix··on U.S. Defense Budget May Help Fund “Hacking for Defense” Classes at Universities
Those are my classmates! I took the Hacking for Defense class with them this past Spring at Stanford. I found that fundamentally the class trains students to apply the iterative, quick-moving, need-based approach to product development often found in startups to military problems that have traditionally had lots of bureaucratic overhead. We were exposed to a ton of different people through our interviews and were constantly asked to create and improve our minimum viable product as we learned more about our problem space. Overall, I would highly recommend the class.
stenlix··on The Acceleration of Addictiveness (2010)
Seems like as of 2015 he has one!

source: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/575490964527034368

stenlix··on The Decline of Investment in San Francisco Startups
Many of the Bay Area public high schools are very good. Schools like Monta Vista, Lynbrook, Gunn, and Palo Alto high school are top in the state if not the nation.
stenlix··on Lifestyle changes can reduce dementia risk, study says
Looking past all the numbers and the correlation/causation concern, I think the most important takeaway is that "of building a "cognitive reserve", which means strengthening the brain's networks so it can continue to function in later life despite damage."

All the factors listed have something to do with staying mentally engaged and constant learning and I think that's the overarching message we should be taking away.

stenlix··on Lifestyle changes can reduce dementia risk, study says
I think this is a great point. Video games get a bad rep because they're a distraction for kids (which is mostly fair), but I think that it's a really good alternative to simply watching TV among the older population in terms of reducing dementia risk because it requires constant mental engagement and also some degree of learning to progress.
stenlix··on Plenty, Indoor Farming Startup, Raises $200M
Thanks for the info. Since you seem to have some knowledge on the topic, do you happen to know how they determined that Plenty produced "crops at yields 530 times greater than that of a typical field"? It seems like there should be a more nuanced discussion around that number judging by the healthy skepticism in the comments. Any thoughts appreciated!