Viewing profile — grayje

Addy Pross wrote a similar paper in 2011, but the neologism then was "dynamic kinetic stability" https://aeon.co/essays/paradoxes-of-stability-how-life-began... http://www.bgu.ac.i…

https://www.quantopian.com/ has a great community, lots of examples & tuts available, and you can look at everyone else's algos. It's free, there's free backtesting, etc. They're a…

I've been using org-mode in various capacities for a little over a year now. I've tried other tools but keep coming back. As far as complexity goes, I feel like I'm barely scratchi…

Congratulations are in order, whether or not the credential helped you get the gig :-) Based on your comment it almost sounds like your "portfolio" is what got you the job, not the…

"At the point of desire, you want more, but at the point of daily use, you want less." -John Maeda, on complexity in product design

The same story from 2014: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/06/03/this-... Not that it isn't still very, very relevant...

Remember, there's a special name for the type of reporting journalists do when they aren't just copying & pasting government and corporate press releases in their news stories: "in…

Careful, don't poke the Russian internet troll war machine. Before you know it, this thread will be filled with posts from users with no posting history defending Russia Today's jo…

> an unbundled or streaming subscriber would need to pay $36 a month for ESPN access for them to generate the same revenue they generate through current cable carriage contracts Th…

Fascinating. I believe we're nowhere near a full understanding of the diversity of pre-H. sapiens species. Just last year the discovery of another Homo species, H. nadeli, was clai…

"Heads I win, tails you lose" The guarantee still doesn't prove that Udacity's credentialing process provides any incremental value above and beyond just taking the classes. Is it …

Interestingly, this practice is more common than you'd think, even at name-brand universities. My own alma mater got in some controversy over this [1]. This is also a shady practic…

Reading a lot of the comments in this thread, you guys are taking this announcement and running with it in some weird directions. Google's just playing catch-up with ad targeting f…