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hey I've got a question about Kagi:
so, a bunch of third party apps made for Reddit are getting killed this month because Reddit decides to jack up the prices. What's going to happen to Kagi if/when it becomes somewhat of a competitor to Google/Bing and they want it dead?
Thanks for the link. Could you give an example of something you learned better/easier after having implemented a simplified version?
Side question: Is there a entry level build your own language model or gan type learning tool out there as well?
This articles reads more like a student recruitment brochure than an actual article
Very nice history.
I couldn't understand the "how AChE works" portion, but found this article and its diagrams helpful. https://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/weap.html near as I can understand it, our entire body including heart and lungs work by cells sending messages to and from the nervous system. When the nervous system is no longer able to rely messages, our vital organs stop working. So if our nervous system is like a chain of inbox/outbox message relay system, the letters are ACh. When one cell's axon sends an ACh to the next cell, the next cell's inbox becomes full and nothing else can be received until it's cleared. AChE is the enzyme that clears a full inbox. Nerve agents bind to the site on an AChE that grabs ACh. Without the ability for these AChE protein to "clears the inbox", our nervous system cells can't communicate anymore, stopping these messages entirely.
I'm not sure exactly what ACh actually does other than "activate", but since they are used by central and peripheral nervous system, I'm guessing it's bad news bear. Little more detail here
IIRC, financial fraud that makes the country (e.g., from its citizens/organizations) lose a lot of money is a capital offense in China. And also everything you own will be confiscated to pay back to the country.
(If you ignore the "China is Evil" bit for a minute) It kind of makes sense: you steal money from a country, maybe go to jail for a bit, leave the country, reunited with all your stolen money. Not so good.
Looks like the policies* are starting to work. Good. Hopefully they can avoid "The Bubble Which Will Dwarf All Other Bubbles"
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/14/us-china-property-...
It's interesting how entitled people feel from $10-15.
I'm just glad Toady (of Dwarf Fortress) doesn't have to deal with this kind of behaviour.
>One is they learn how to create new ideas from existing ones
This is how our brains are wired to work: the more places we can cross-reference the material from, the more likely we can "derive" it again quickly even if we can't memorize it.
"shut up/memorize it/some things just are" kills the intention to learn faster than a speeding bullet to the brain.
I'm unfamiliar with Quora. How is it different from, say, yahoo answers or stackOverflow??
=) then you can tell people you are this many years old this year, up until you're 31.
What is...not understanding the limitations of the Socratic method, clearly outlined at the bottom of the link?
Everything that we know can be broken down into "basic" atoms which cannot be broken down further, but are so tiny the can be learned quickly, or things built up bit by bit, which can be explained given enough time. Even things like "capital cities and states" can be taught by asking how things get named and who names them and who would name something the way they did, giving a bit of historical background etc.
Plato's Republic?
I'm very very interested in considering homeschooling. How did the article's method differ with your child, since the "class size" is reduced to one? Your child won't have the benefit of being "filled in", but maybe she feels that she owns 100% of the achievement?
By the way, "one-ten-two" and "three-ten-thee" is literally how the Chinese would pronounce their numbers (一十二，三十三）. In a way I think it's helped me understand place values earlier.
in an ideal world, none of the founds will need the money to pay rent or pay for child care etc, they'd all be young guys with no debt living at home.
The fact that one founder may have bills to pay, and him being the only guy having to cash in very early, will beat the morale out of him: he'll be working as an employee. This is also your guy whose tolerance for risk is the lowest precisely because he's got bills to pay. He might as well quit and go work 9-5 for steady pay in that case.
What kind of form....just email?
I would personally be very hesitant to fill out a form for free software (trial? full?), and be completely turned off by the prospect of having sales people contact me about it later.
Sometimes having nothing to say is a good thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3po2gdQNgqk
I remember watching the episode of Top Gear where James May drives the new moon buggy, then sits down and talk about the old moon buggy.
[Kind of a spoiler] The old one, which served everyone so well, was left behind to collect dust on the surface of the moon for the rest of eternity. And then, he says, "But if you ask me, it's not half as sad a moon buggy that will never get up there at all." I tear up just thinking about it.
Right. So the IOUs need to be a form of investment as well.
re: star employee example--it's not how much you made the company, it's how much of the company is yours to begin with. Founders will be smart to reward performance, but to reward proportionally based on contribution wouldn't work. If the star is unhappy, he's welcome to quit, take the risk and start his own company.
WOAH you just suggested a Palin-target style game, except instead of a map, you use images of people. Too soon, my friend.
A funnier idea might be an app to throw elephants at donkeys in their straw houses, and another app to throw donkeys at elephants in their glass houses.
His answer for "What happens if not all the early employees need to take a salary? " makes sense, but leaves the question of "why don't I get paid now instead of getting paid later if it means I get just as much (or less due to inflation)." Presumably, you'd have an understand co-founder who understands that cash in the company now is a little more important. Failing that, I think it might be fair to add interest to that IOU.
One positive about this game is that I would not have to go back for that "last" pellet I left behind, surrounded by ghosts and no power pellets left.
Not as idle a comment as it would seem. In a marriage, the stakes are high, the "opponent" is someone you know well, and the difficulty can increase faster than in the "outside" world where civility is still maintained even when upset. The pay-offs are also much greater when you succeed.
Alternatively, negotiate with family members.
a definite disadvantage of being non-middle aged is that my friends do not parody Dr. Johnson, they post pictures of their last meals with their boyfriends.
HN is one of the means through which I escape the constraints of my real life social circles.
The paper itself doesn't talk about "explaining" this paradox in quantum theory: that's the next paper, apparently.
I'm more interested in whether anyone else also picked bet I and III
there's simply no reason why they can't either a) parse the zip code differently based on country, or b) why country isn't listed first if there are uncrossable chasms. To do neither is simply laziness
Why is it not a race anymore? Even if you're Hussein Bolt, the race is still on: set new records, challenge others, show boat. And why is "having a strategy the start of the end"? You seem to imply that it isn't because Google's strategy is flawed, but that having any kind of strategy is a sign of the end times. Surely all organizations, even a colony of bacteria, will need a strategy.
I love free stuff!
Small suggestion: the first instruction was to "drag zipped website here", but it did not mention that I need a file exactly called "index.html" inside. Maybe change it to "drag zipped website containing your index.html here" ? I understand that it gets too long, but then, your first response to customer would be "womp womp womp".
indeed: when people clamor that everyone should re-think nuclear power, we should actually look at the human cost of the current alternatives. For example, the news is happy to report that China will be building 50 reactors in the future. (One even said that that's almost as many as there are in the rest of the world; completely untrue). But should China really stay with coal mines? How many people do they think die from coal mining every year, to say nothing of the refinery and pollution? 2631 in 2009, 3215 in 2008, nearly 7000 in 2002.
I agree with you: what do people think happen to the brightest and the best from a few decades ago? They grow old and retire, of course. Perhaps the reason they don't sound like experts to younger folks is because they've become experts in a field we don't care about: how to view life once you have the proper perspective. After a certain point, how many lines of code or how fast your site can scale takes a back seat to how to lower your blood pressure and how to maximize your enjoyment from "simple" pleasure like family and food.
I'm pretty new around here: why is your post likely to get downvotes?
Yes, it's quite refreshing to see great literature quotes in a "technical" or "business" kind of blog post. His reference to Owen's poem is incorrect though: the phrase originates from one of Horace's Odes, which Owen is quoting from. In Owen's poem, the phrase was used ironically: it's about as sweet and proper to die for one's country (or startup) as mustard gas and dead horses stuck in the mud. Perhaps the irony is intended....?