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1. Your idea is probably not identical. You execution almost certainly won't be. 2. There is usually room to compete. 3. Innovations often take root slowly and need a network of co…

If you made a kit and put it on Kickstarter I’d buy one. Just sayin’

There are subtle differences between 3D printing types that seem at first to be the same. Stereolithography is horizontal, one layer at a time, and uses photopolymerization (that's…

I strongly suspect it’s intentional, to get more clicks. I find it annoying and wish there were a way to push back.

Note that many people still use HMC without a closed form for the gradient, via approximation. In fact, Stan ( http://mc-stan.org/ ) automatically approximates the gradient by defa…

Specifically this is about what business customers of AI startups report about the impacts of AI adoption. Main result is for professional positions it creates more than it destroy…

Totally unintentional, came from copying a link from a website. I just removed the referral.

>Auto executives say they need to avoid a nightmare tech scenario that’s become a common refrain at industry gatherings. They don’t want to become the next “handset makers”—commodi…

Thoughts and habits are related, but they aren't the same. Interesting counterpoint to the replacement theory of kicking bad habits: https://www.nirandfar.com/2015/04/bad-habits.ht…

A bit of self-promotion. I wrote an essay on this topic. Perhaps it's worth reading for those interested in this thread: https://hackernoon.com/a-guide-for-getting-lucky-in-startup…

A bit of self-promotion. I wrote an essay about this. Perhaps it's worth reading for those interested in this thread: https://hackernoon.com/a-guide-for-getting-lucky-in-startups..…

This is a fascinating point. Perhaps the cleanest way to fairly treat your option value is to not compensate you in expectation, but to allow you to "sell" your idea internally whe…