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Ditto. Great talk.

Stanford is the most affordable school in the country. Pretty much bar none. If your family earns under $100k / year, you go for free. Many families with incomes in excess of $200k…

Anyone interested in the early days of personal computers should check out Triumph of the Nerds. It's many of the same people but interviewed 16 years ago. Awesome stuff. First Epi…

Both can still be true. The majority of people do not die as children, but the effect of those who do is disproportionately large on "life expectancy" because it's an average. Let'…

This works, but setting the cornerRadius property kills performance. It's preferable to overlay an image with black corners or to bake the black corners into your art assets.

Doesn't this mean that others made a killing, taking advantage of all the mispriced orders?

I can't speak for the creators of R, but I have a strong suspicion that it wasn't intended for erehweb or MBAs. It's not Microsoft Excel, its R. It's used by PhD researchers in Mat…