Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — AndrewWorsnop

AndrewWorsnop

HN member
Joined
Mon, Jul 04, 2011, 8:25 PM UTC
HN karma
19
Public activity
22 items

About AndrewWorsnop

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #20309155

    >> Also anyone has any tips on filtering multiple good ideas to finding the best for for startup? Thanks! I'm in the same boat, I'm going through the resources in the SuS library h…

  2. comment
    Comment #12114757

    This article has now been deleted? Anyone grab a copy before it went down?

  3. comment
    Comment #8684117

    Do we perceive octaves as precisely 2:1 or is that an approximation? i.e. is it really 2.041256:1 or similar. Is this problem then because we start with integer ratios? Is this pro…

  4. comment
    Comment #8322776

    Desmos (supporting MathQuill) is leading the space here I think: https://www.desmos.com/calculator Absolutely agree that if this was made and made open there would be a lot of oppo…

  5. comment
    Comment #6965816

    This is pretty much the selection criteria for "The Apprentice".

  6. comment
    Comment #6409095

    Why not just let TED know about this? Like you say, if there are pseudo-science talks at a TEDx event, TED will want to know and get involved.

  7. comment
    Comment #5848111

    What about the massive mobile money networks in Africa?

  8. comment
    Comment #5550696

    To head off the comments that are already starting to appear: Correct, you can't become an expert at most things in a week and probably misrepresentative to advertise yourself as a…

  9. comment
    Comment #5309033

    The real problem is that no one teacher is "the best" for all students. What would be brilliant to see is testing which types of presentation styles, speakers or ways of explaining…

  10. comment
    Comment #5114738

    there is something in our nature that stirs at a call to arms despite our civilisation.

  11. comment
    Comment #5081994

    Is there a transcript?

  12. comment
    Comment #4864926

    That is a woefully low sample size...

  13. comment
    Comment #4290358

    A great example of fiction in business writing is "The Richest Man in Babylon". It's focused on principles of personal finance but you could easily construct something similar for …

  14. comment
    Comment #4067620

    Mmm, I disagree about psychology of investing stock, time and products together - in Aus, there's a lot of Apple love but little investment in it's stock. Doesn't harm the brand...…

  15. comment
    Comment #3976127

    I think learning how computers/software works is just as useful as learning history or geography or science, which we already make students learn.

  16. comment
    Comment #3232879

    Of course @kaggle (Melbourne-launched, though I hear they're at least part moving to SF) would be a highlight for your start, given they just raised $11m from some very high profil…

  17. comment
    Comment #3232215

    Great! Looking forward to reading this.

  18. comment
    Comment #2952237

    Ok, I'm in Australia, so that would make sense :P

  19. comment
    Comment #2948948

    yeah doesn't seem to work for me. Keeps "Waiting for connection"...

  20. story
  21. comment
    Comment #2772677

    Improvements to education (expand the Khan Academy model beyond mathematics) - Khan Academy already has a great model with the videos and exercises for mathematics (go contribute a…

  22. comment
    Comment #2772318

    absolutely.