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I'm not sure that's true.

Andrew Gelman once mentioned that Black Swan events are actually routinely _overpriced_ via the Longshot Bias. [1] He had talked about this in the context of the recent Leicester FC win and the odds on that team. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favourite-longshot_bias

[2] http://andrewgelman.com/2016/06/02/30183/

An interesting business idea if not a depressing future.

Doesn't Amazon do this in a way? I've seen prices for kindle books change depending on if I'm logged in or not, and not always in my favor.

Not beyond 14 in my experience.

Honestly, I probably spent far too much time hanging out in parking lots. I grew up in NJ and I am currently 22 in my last year of University so I'm talking about '06-'12 period.

I agree. I've seen a lot of people who have no intention of "settling down" or "having kids" become surprised when their peers who do exactly that become more "successful" (earn more money, move up in job position, etc.). I think making the decision to have kids instills a bit of discipline to get something stable in life.

I'm surprised that more people don't know about lists, it seems like Twitter doesn't promote it as much as they should.

That video is fantastic I watched it a week or so ago.

Your explanation also explains why computer performed music is so off. It still has that uncanny valley effect. So when Sony had a computer generate a "Beatles-esque pop song", they still had a human perform and produce it. But at the point there's so much creativity and human-added value on top of it that I don't think its fair to call it computer generated imho.

Any reason why this is incompatible with the iPhone 5c?

I never knew you could get a job writing automation scripts. That's pretty cool.

Sort of asked before, but does anybody have experience with packet.net as a cloud host?

I think times were a bit different then. People are bracing for a major change to the automotive business between autonomous driving and electric cars.

There's a certain level of intuition that one can grasp with hardware as opposed to software. I suspect this might contribute to most robustness in design.

This looks a _lot_ like word2vec applied in large scale to me. [1] I have a feeling Google already does this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word2vec

I think the bigger idea is to think outside the box. Apple has stacks of cash to experiment with. This is precisely the sort of thinking it should take into consideration, spending big on wild ideas to see what works.

Perhaps the _exact_ idea he mentions isn't solid, but the spirit of it is true.

where can you get offered a Lifetime Employment Contract?

Does anybody use R in production services or just for exploratory work?

It seems that once you figure out a good model in R, its almost always rewritten into either Scala or Java for real production work.

I seem to recall reading that the original IBM PC was still in use at United States National Weather Service outposts. Why fix it if it isn't broken?

If you got to the youtube video [1], you'll see that the song was produced and arranged by a human.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSHZ_b05W7o

ok that I knew, I suppose you could compile python via C, at least theoretically.

Is there a guide to doing this? I'm curious to know, the pebble seems like a closed system so it would be hard to "just run micropython" on it vs. something more open.

Box isn't private, they IPO'ed around a year and a half ago I believe.

Its so bizarre to me. You'd think there would be a finite appetite for advertising, but apparently not.

This seems to confirm just how important the price of data is for ML & AI based startups. Methinks there is a market alone for data companies, not even those that are necessarily doing anything productive with said data, just collecting it.

Also raises the question of whether its possible to bootstrap a data science, ML, or AI startup, given the high expense of purchasing that data.

huh, I was not aware of this study. Thanks!

The internet also forms a sort of release valve.

People being bigots with words over the internet is better than lynching or public beatings imo.

Is it just me or has there been a lot of these aggressive takedowns lately?

Nostalgia Critic, Louder with Crowder, now Criswell... I'm sure I'm missing more too.

Does Salesforce pursue the same model of customer acquisition as Oracle does? I know Oracle is known to sell to existing customers additional products & services, so Salesforce might be "acquiring" new customers if there is little overlap in current customer base.

It seems highly unlikely this sort of acquisition is for the technology alone.

Isn't it unfair to think of Saas as a classification of software a la "word processing software" and more as a business model?

Like, nobody sets out to build a page that will host ads. One builds the product and then later settles on a way to get revenue. I've always thought of Saas like this, just another potential business model to follow.

but increasingly, the internet for people is facebook and Twitterand and Instagram, etc.

The issue is that its hard to get the message out with a few brands dominating the internets. How will one get the message out about a website if she or he couldn't blog about it on a platform like Twitter or Facebook?

p.s. I might be reading you wrong here

This reminds me of a This American Life episode where many members of a town collected disability because doctors there didn't consider them "smart enough to work". Seems to be the beginning of Universal Basic Income in all but name.

On another note, it must be depressing to live there.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/490/t...

So DuckDuckGo gives their site description as being "the first Decentralized Autonomous Organization on the Ethereum blockchain" for those who are curious.

But my God, that site is horrendous.