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Drew came to PG with a lot of good work done. As is common in VC, at least for funding from YC, PG said that Drew needed a 'cofounder'. PG in his http://paulgraham.com/startupmista…

Good question. You asked it, so now I don't have to! The comments are good. So, yes, for my startup, I'm using the Microsoft 'stack'. But for C#, I'm not using it! Haven't touched …

Twice I've posted to this thread a good answer to your question "Can you please suggest online resource to learn great beginning and advanced probability concepts?" but somehow som…

"Can you please suggest on-line resource to learn great beginning and advanced probability concepts?" Yup! The subject at the level you ask is a major topic in applied math but is …

Part II Here's some actual good career advice for women: For the big corporations, essentially f'get about those. Instead, nearly all of the US economy is on Main Street. A big adv…

Part I It's simple: The article is promoting a grand disaster. It's still more simple: The article has a huge logical gap. Sandberg does a lot of 'reaching out' to women; she does …

'Probability' is a field of 'applied' math and as such is well defined: The intuitive foundations went back to gambling. About 100 years ago, E. Borel student H. Lebesgue invented …

Bertsekas is one of the authors and profs and definitely knows what he is doing -- he's a world class guy. But, for the question of this thread, the course is not really on "probab…

"As a side project, he created shouldichangemypassword.com, a website that allows any Internet user to search a database of known-compromised e-mail address and password pairs to s…

Is math important? Yes. The video clip gave some examples early on. How is math applied? Well with his four steps he has a start, but it's not very good. For "computation", it is n…

Oh, oh, oh, how you exaggerate! Maybe he paid himself $2 billion one year, but, gee, that's little enough for the Chern-Simons result, right! I don't know what Simons does, but he …

NICE summary.

The "thread" is that there is a mess, and main cause is gumment messing up the situation.

The answer is dirty: First, computing is relatively new. So, the 'old power structure' was surprised when people in computing started getting paid well enough to buy a house and mo…

Our academic system, especially in the research universities, is just fine. Nearly all the world's best research universities are in the US. Why? After WWII the US War Department c…

It's simple. We're not short of "brilliant minds", not at all. Instead, the employers want to have a shortage of a simple word, a common, single, two syllable word, MONEY. It's not…

Beware: I've done some of the world's best work in computer security, e.g., nicely beyond David J. Marchette, 'Computer Intrusion Detection: A Statistical Viewpoint', ISBN 0-387-95…

You are getting close: List the characteristics of the usual professions and then conclude that in the US software is not a profession. It's even less of a profession than being a …

I started with the main, loud evidence -- Al Guru and, at the time, the main IPCC technical document. Flush. Bubble, bubble. It's possible to do some good work in 'climate science'…

No, "the medium is the message", and not really "the consumers". Again, back to Ben Franklin, the "medium" was the printed word, and the media still has that. Last century we got r…

"High school" WOW! What distant planet did you just arrive from? You didn't get the memo: "All content is to be at the level of a not very good student in the fourth grade. There a…

I didn't claim that the issue is a "plot" or 'intelligence'. My main explaination was "the medium is the message", and old media found that pushing emotional content, drama, formul…

The whole page is just about 'energy balance', and that fails as soon as there is any significant change. E.g., as there is any significant warming, there may be more water vapor a…

Emotion? Of COURSE it's emotion! It's ALL about emotion; the rest is just window dressing. It's to grab you by the heart, the gut, or below the belt, always below the shoulders, ne…

Organized left-wing drum beat for more in immigration. So, here we have a tear jerking story in the NYT. A few days ago we had Mayor Bloomberg touting immigration in DC. Then we ha…