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Being old as dirt, my observation is that potential tech revolutions take ten years after the initial exuberance to be realized broadly, or three to five years to fizzle. Of those …

Still upset about Wikipedia too?

This is amazing. Great format. It would be cool to link original recordings too, but merely nice-to-have, not essential. I love being able to listen to the solos unaccompanied.

Large companies’ CEOs need to be wealthy in order to be in the club with others whose influence might matter. Wealth == Power.

Kapton insulation was not shown to be the root cause of the crash of Swissair 111, nor was it entirely ruled out. https://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/aviation/1998/a98...

Right, excuses carry no weight. Got it. Agreed! But fuck football coaches and sports analogies for business. Sports is a zero-sum game. Business sometimes is,sometimes isn’t. Depen…

Yes, this!

Democracy is ostensibly majority rule (don't nitpick). The majority of people are poor. Therefore, democracy is the rule of the poor (Aristotle). We do not live in a democracy.

Sometimes what you need is change. I am sixty-five years old. I was a programmer for fifteen years, started a consulting company, then a software business. Was acqui-hired. Became …

It's a thing, isn't it? I mean, as words and phrases go, it at least means something , like not just front-end, back-end, or client-side view-model reducer mapping specialist. AI i…

What's up with the phrase, "Still programming?" Would anyone think it odd for a 60-year-old physician to still be doctoring, or a 60-year-old lawyer to still practice law. Or for t…

This discussion misses an important element, the skill of the interviewer. It is unsurprising that unskilled interviewers' assessments are poor predictors of future performance. It…

The Triumph of Politics by David Stockman - totally changed the way I understand the operation of government.

All the time

Never ever take any kind of test before talking to a person, preferably the hiring manager. Not even for fun or practice.

If you're seeking work: If you want to be in demand, be the machine learning person for __________ , electric energy revenue protection, or healthcare payer fraud detection, invest…

That certainly makes sense since the problem has a higher likelihood of stemming from the same root cause, but also speaks to how little is known. So include the social graphs of p…

It seems to me that many of the drugs in this category are effective sometimes for some people. People I have known who were suffering acutely often cycled through several drugs, s…

@dilemma's suggestion is the right one. The best way to use powerpoint is DON'T USE POWERPOINT to create your presentation. For example, if you use PPT shapes and text objects on a…

Exactly what I saw. Your expectation is correct.

When I was working on a recommender for television shows, I ran SVD on a large User/Item matrix to create a low rank approximation, essentially reducing thousands of user features …

Perhaps the best minds are thinking about the challenges of teaching middle school special education in Detroit or how to deliver basic healthcare in East Africa. Are the minds of …

Use the opportunity to learn: (1) What it is that attracted the potential investor to your idea; (2) What they would require of you in order to make an investment. Investors can be…

Q: What is the difference between a methodologist and a terrorist? A: You can negotiate with a terrorist. Methodologies are useful as tools used by developers to organize their wor…