rohunati

Curious about your breakdown between heavy lifting vs. cardio. I find that I can't do more than 4x/week of heavy lifting, so I've been trying to run (or something else) on the remaining 3 days.

Do you have a source? this is really interesting, would love to read more.

Actually, Nietzsche's idea of the Ubermensch is a pretty strong criticism of the fear of death.

Data science / data scientist / data analyst role.

Location: SF Bay Area

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You know it's bad when real headlines sound like they're from the Onion...

no, i think you're spot on. it's always interplay between reading reviews, while factoring in cuisine, distance and price.

It would be nice if you responded to emails.

Swift on Sails

I agree. I have found that I've done best in courses where the instructor post solutions to all problems, homework, practice, and exams.

The service Magic is an instance of excellent design imo. It's scrappy, clever, simple, and most importantly, there is a very clear reason to use. I can't say the same about the many of the products he listed.

I'm buying the Apple Watch!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcYppAs6ZdI

My biggest problem is I have so many services linked to Facebook, so if I delete Facebook, I delete the other services as well (Spotify, and every other website where I lazily clicked "Sign up with Facebook").

I agree, what a bunch of horseshit.

No. It's obvious that they are smart and talented folks that can give you a good shot at success. It isn't obvious that they are genuinely nice people.

Anybody know how the headphone jack will work?

It's only correct if you are following your passion to achieve some other end. If it's means based, then everything this guy says is completely wrong. Under a means based approach, you wouldn't care about great fame/recognition, because, for instance, painting everyday and being a community college arts teacher to support yourself is sufficient to make you happy.

I do agree 100% with what he says about systems vs goals.

It took me a while to realize that I was supposed to scroll. I spent like 15 seconds trying to click something. Might want to make that more obvious.

I am always puzzled at how "high brow" people scoff at sports. There is so much to learn from athletes. MJ, Kobe, Tom Brady -- these guys have all the skill in the world, but more impressive than their skill is their incredible work ethic. I feel there's a lot to learn here.

For example, one of Kobe's conditioning trainer's had this to say:

"When I arrived and opened the room to the main practice floor I saw Kobe. Alone. He was drenched in sweat as if he had just taken a swim. It wasn’t even 5AM.

We did some conditioning work for the next hour and fifteen minutes. Then we entered the weight room, where he would do a multitude of strength training exercises for the next 45 minutes. After that we parted ways and he went back to the practice floor to shoot. I went back to the hotel and crashed. Wow."

Later on, around 11AM, the trainer sees Kobe on the court, practicing with the USA Olympic Squad, and has this conversation:

"So when did you finish?"

"Finish what?"

"Getting your shots up. What time did you leave the facility?"

"Oh just now. I wanted 800 makes so yeah, just now."

...

This is not unique to Kobe, you find stories like this with all athletes in conversation for "greatest of all time."

Secondly, there's a lot to learn from coaches as well, especially from the perspective of a startup founder. There's a reason Keith Rabois brought up the Bill Walsh's (SF 49ers coach) book, "The Score Takes Care of Itself," in the HTSAS lecture series.

Lastly, watching sports at a high level is like appreciating great art. A great backhand in tennis, a brilliant pass by a quarterback, these all have a quality of beauty about them. I feel they induce similar awe-inspiring feelings one might find in an art museum, a great music album, etc.

Yup, I have trouble doing the body scanning technique also. I recently came across Sam Harris' interview with Joseph Goldstein, who I believe himself began with Vipassana. He has a guided meditation on youtube that I found very helpful, though different from my Vipassana experiences.

I've done the course a few times now, and I would say the hardest part is integrating meditation into daily life. Goenka recommends meditating twice a day, one hour each sitting. Sometimes this isn't possible, so I just try to meditate however much I can.

I have heard from others that serving a ten day course (as opposed to sitting a course, as the author here did) is more beneficial as you are able to talk with fellow servers, help prepare food, and can even read a newspaper. Although you can't go deeper into your mind, you learn to integrate meditation into daily life better. I have yet to serve a course.

I knew this was going to be a Borowitz when I read the headline.

For those interested, I highly recommend "The Difficulty on Being Good: The Subtle Art of Dharma" by Gurcharan Das.

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I met with the head of the Data Science institute at NYU a few years ago (not LeCun). I don't remember the specifics of our conversation, but I remember at one point I mentioned Jeff Hawkins (I had just read his book "On Intelligence") and I remember he responded with some comments that were politely dismissive of Hawkins.

Some of the other comments here seem to share the same sentiment. I really loved his book, but I haven't really followed his work for the past few years. Anyone know what he's been up to in ML/AI lately?

What is the point of going to YC if you're going to do such things to ask for an investment?

The whole idea of YC, I thought, is they hook you up with the best investors in the valley because of their amazing network. Seems like a lot of trouble to go through (not to mention a messy legal situation) when you can just call up Sam and ask for an introduction...

i agree that failure is an important data point, but i don't understand why that means amazon would want to build the fire phone. their reasoning couldn't have been "well this seems like a good idea, and if it fails, at least we'll have a data point!" I am curious what caused them to think the fire phone was a good idea.

How did they not see this one coming? Bezos is notoriously a data driven decision maker, I wonder what data prompted them to build the fire phone.

That's right! I thought it was CJ but I thought I remembered hearing that about a running QB also (Cam maybe) so wasn't sure. And yes, agree about Harvin also.

Honestly, I've found /r/fantasyfootball has been a great resource.

Here's one thing I've been curious about for fantasy football.

Stats are obviously important, but I'm not sure they can ever replicate simply watching film. For instance, two weeks ago, Odell Beckham Jr of the NY Giants caught 5 catches for 44 yds and a TD. What the stat line doesn't tell you is that he actually smoked his defender a few times, was open in the endzone on a play, and if Eli had chucked it up to him or seen him in the endzone, ODB would have definitely had a couple more TDs, at least.

I don't know enough about fantasy basketball/baseball to say whether film is as powerful for those sports, but it seems like the best fantasy football analysts give heavy credence to film because it protects against overreacting to good/bad performances.

Another example - last year there was some player that saw a significant drop in touchdowns (I can't remember off the top of my head who it was). But after looking at film, it became apparent this player unfortunately kept getting tackled at the 1 yard line. Clearly, an anomaly.

"And they want to avoid competing with other search engines to be the browser of choice for existing portals. In fact, Page said Google doesn't have any real competitors at all, which may be why they don't intend to do much marketing."

Interesting to think about in light of Peter Thiel's lecture for "how to start a startup" at Stanford. He is correct that the narrative has changed. Contrast the above quote with the one Thiel used in his lecture from Schmidt, which basically said "Google is not a search company, it's an ad company," or some variation thereof.