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warrenmaron Books Warren Buffett thinks you should read

You can get it direct from Charlie. https://www.poorcharliesalmanack.com/ You can even get an signed copy.

They also have Andrej Karpathy.

warrenmaron What are Bloom filters? (2015)

Marissa Mayer's interview at Google was using Bloom filter for spell check.

warrenmaron What are Bloom filters? (2015)

Understanding Bloom filters helps you understand Count-min sketch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count%E2%80%93min_sketch

warrenmaron What are “actual pictures” of atoms actually pictures of?

You can also hear it when you move atoms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbLvy-ayi4A

warrenmaron Ask HN: Is it worth paying for a Coursera course?

Depending on how you structure your loops, things can be optimized on how it hits the cache and reads contiguous memory addresses.

warrenmaron Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Bayesian Inference – The Metropolis Algorithm

Not to hijack this post, but I'm saddened every time I see anything monte carlo related referred to as the metropolis algorithm. When you're the boss, what you say goes.

http://andrewgelman.com/2014/06/30/invented-metropolis-algor...

warrenmaron Slackware 14.2 release candidate 1

For those of you that don't know about Slackware. Slackware is the oldest distro and it is still plenty alive today. When to setup linux on my computer in the early days with other distros (red hat/suse/etc), this would eventually crap up (rpm hell) and give me something unusable. Using Slackware forces you understand how everything works in a linux distro. This lets you fix your own problems.

warrenmaron Quantum Computer Comes Closer to Cracking RSA Encryption

If you want to know more about Quantum Computation, there is an edX course (https://www.edx.org/course/quantum-mechanics-quantum-computa...). It goes over the Shor algorithm and the quantum Fourier Transform that leads up to the Shor algorithm.

warrenmaron Hackathon Be Gone

Selling Out and the Death of Hacker Culture by Rodney Folz

https://medium.com/@folz/selling-out-and-the-death-of-hacker...

Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10249887

warrenmaron How Google’s Web Crawler Bypasses Paywalls

You can also access WSJ for free at the library.

warrenmaron Ask HN: Making the switch from physics to industry?

I recommend the Insight Data Science Fellowship. http://insightdatascience.com/ You can read Ethan Rosenthal's blog about the transition from physics to industry. http://blog.ethanrosenthal.com/

warrenmaron Ask HN: What should we fund at YC Research?

Cancer

warrenmaron San Francisco Bubble

StitchFix started as an Excel sheet. https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/2rjqt2/stitch_fix...

warrenmaron Word2vec, LDA, and introducing a new hybrid algorithm: lda2vec

Previous work by Chris on word2vec

http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2015/03/11/word-is-w...

warrenmaron The Refragmentation

The Economist has a four paragraph summary of the book.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/05/ec...

Low growth causes more income to come from capital, which causes more inequality due to inheritance and the rich getting richer. The solution is a global progressive tax on capital.

warrenmaron Theranos Wellness Centers Aren’t Using “Nanotainers” at This Time

There's a paper in the Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine journal titled, "Theranos phenomenon: promises and fallacies" [1]. It says most of the cost are related to overhead and personnel, not technology. Consumables are cheap. Also it is entirely possible that tests are being subsidized with VC money currently. I don't know what they would have to charge to be cash flow positive.

[1] http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/cclm.2015.53.issue-7/cclm-20...

warrenmaron Accessing Amazon Alexa via the browser

You can also run Alexa from your desktop and integrate Alexa to any other physical device besides the Echo with the Alexa Voice Service. Great for those who want to play with Alexa, but don't want to shell out money for an Echo. Amazon has an easy to follow reference implementation for this. https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-vo...

warrenmaron Sock startup raises $50M

Fancy socks is a silicon valley thing according to this New York Times article since people normally dress down. If everyone is wearing t-shirt and jeans, socks become your differentiator. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/fashion/in-silicon-valley-...

warrenmaron Bitcoin futures market just changed the game

Are there any other ways to trade derivatives on bitcoin?

warrenmaron Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg starts reading program

My local library lets me check out e-books too. It is very convenient.

warrenmaron Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg starts reading program

I've been trying to read one book a week since 2013 (http://warrenmar.wordpress.com/book-of-the-week/). I think everyone should try it. I never read that much when I was in school, but now I really enjoy it.

warrenmaron Why YKK? The Japanese company behind the world’s best zippers

YKK gets a shoutout on So Fresh, So Clean by Outkast.

warrenmaron The Making of Elite

Elite Postmortem at GDC

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014628/Classic-Game-Postmortem

warrenmaron Pythagorean cup

This principle is used in aquaponics in the form of a bell siphon. You don't want to keep the roots of your plans submerged for long periods of time, so this lets you flush out the water automatically.

warrenmaron Analysis of Over 2,000 Computer Science Professors at Top Universities

"weaker" metrics can be useful, because you can understand it better. If I tell you a PageRank of an author is 3.452. That means nothing to me. If I tell you somebody's h-index is 18. That means they published 18 papers that got 18 citations each. The h-index is useful for comparing people in the same field. There is also a metric for journals called impact factor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor

warrenmaron Analysis of Over 2,000 Computer Science Professors at Top Universities

The original funding Larry got was from the Digital Library Initiative. Then the web blew up. Maybe I shouldn't say PageRank was designed for citations, but that is where it draws its influence from. Things don't magically pop out of no where. But if you look at the PageRank algorithm, it looks like it is designed for paper citations. As a graduate student, you start a some place and you end up at a different place from where you intended to end up.

My point is that one shouldn't be surprised to see that PageRank would work well for paper citations.

http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=100660

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

warrenmaron Analysis of Over 2,000 Computer Science Professors at Top Universities

PageRank was originally designed for this purpose.

warrenmaron Poll: What database does your company/you use?

Redshift? or would that go under PostgreSQL?

warrenmaron Large Public Datasets

Amazon hosts public datasets at https://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/ Good if you want to quickly spin up an instance, copy data over from s3 and process it.