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ganz

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About ganz

Was a Googler, then got bored and decided to try my hand at starting my own thing.

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    Comment #18531412

    Not my area of expertise, but I think the intuition for why evolution didn't make us all Einstein's comes in two parts: (1) IQ is very polygenetic - a big IQ gene might be 0.1 IQ, …

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    Comment #10312947

    I've been an engineer at Periscope for the past couple years and would be happy to answer any questions about the company or life as an engineer here. I've worked on the whole stac…

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    Comment #9710012

    The system isn't training on antonyms and analogies - it's training on wikipedia. It's learning the meaning (and multiple senses) for every word it can find. The test they use to s…

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    Comment #8428487

    Startups involve having to do everything with a tiny group of people, so the more skills you have personal experience with the better. If you business depends upon your product, sa…

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    Comment #6957773

    One problem with time boxing is that it isn't the actual terminal goal - when trying to be self-motivate, there would be an extra level of abstraction between effort and reward, as…

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    Comment #5383870

    Isn't that the core purpose of Google Search?

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    Comment #4830354

    Something kind of close is www.beeminder.com where you can pick a goal, keep track of your progress, and have an auto-forfeit sum of money. It doesn't have verification built in, b…

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    Comment #4830283

    I have a poor sense of how I spend all my time, and that leads to sub-optimal decision making. I've been building a web app to easily track my time usage and display it as a histor…

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    Comment #4797391

    The only plausible interpretation I see is that the event had costs that were counted as liabilities, but that the revenue from the event was not yet recognized as assets.