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I'm already out after Rule 1 (prioritize your ease of being). If I prioritized my ease of being I wouldn't throw a party in the first place.

You know what I blame this on the breakdown of? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw39tcyg7So

You still have to pay to access the Internet. Comcast/AT&T aren't free.

Hey Kyle, we didn't try anything more advanced than next-step sampling. You probably have a better sense than I do how much improvement such techniques are likely to yield. My unfo…

Another way to frame it is: how many additional people are homeless because of the efforts of San Francisco?

By far my favorite use of Hangouts is the crossword puzzle app. It's much better than having 5 people try to collaboratively solve a crossword in person. I have no idea why I haven…

Other people being willing to pay for something doesn't necessarily make it positive-sum or economically productive. A lot of startups (certainly not all) seem to be trying to win …

This is an abuse of probability. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results.

Why?

> If there is a 1% chance the world will end unless we do x, we shouldn’t do a cost-benefit analysis. Instead, assuming x is feasible, we should simply do it. What is the chance th…

Ian Bogost. Example review: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/01/hun...

Alternative hypothesis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tournament_theory

The algorithm is also relevant if you want to compute the nth Fibonacci number mod k.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximate_and_ultimate_causatio...

It looks like the original study dealt only with "communication of feelings and attitudes" i.e. emotional content: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Mehrabian#Misinterpretat... I…

Where does that number come from? It sounds suspiciously made up -- not by you, mind you.