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I like him much better after this interview. That last paragraph seems far more damning of the author than of Mason -- they're so disappointed that he doesn't have any obvious stat…

seconded! I think i changed the wind variable. I remember printing out the whole listing on our dot-matrix printer and unfolding it across the living room. I might've been 9 or 10.…

No problem :) I think you're catching enough flak for your over-50 comments below, so I didn't mention that one ;) BTW, shallow thought wasn't meant as a derogative. It's what we m…

No, it isn't. I was writing a long post about how we think we're really good at detecting "important signals" like if someone's lying, but that we're actually terrible at it. But t…

You're completely right. Too funny -- i had written a comment about how there was probably some bullshit MBA phrase for the process of "correctly valuing passionate customers", but…

This is dead on. It's a mistake to read this and take away some homey homily about how "every customer is a snowflake!" -- the point is that you should correctly value the passiona…

yikes. These are impressive (and terrifying). I particularly like the "see if you use my return value and dynamically change my behavior" trick, I bet debugging a library that used…

I think it could probably be called "outbox" instead -- it might make a bit more sense?

MoGo is not 5d KGS -- there are some bots that are 4d/5d KGS, using the approach given in the article. The two best (that I am aware of) are Zen19 -- closed source -- and pachi -- …

is that it? I thought it was about thinking you were going to build something Awesome and World Changing, and ending up ...being a bolted on web-layer on legacy Access databases, a…

I totally agree. He even admits as such that this is the purpose of the question: "Instead the question ... taps something deeper and more closely held. ... If I know what matters …

Yep, sounds about right. At the risk of pointing out the obvious, 1% of the US is still ~3,000,000 people!

Did you just not look at the first graph in the NYT article? It actually shows where the projections came from. And i'm not really clear if you understand the difference between re…

yes, doing all of the above is best :)

from speaking to staffers (i live in the DC area). They are generally young 20-somethings whose job it is to answer the phones, tally the e-mails & letters, and report on it to the…

you could be participating in your local elections. You could vote in primaries. You could be concerned about who's going to be your next local county sheriff, local zoning board o…

Go is a great mirror; i'm glad it played a role -- even if an antagonistic one ;) -- in such a positive result.

real question here: Should it be obvious that the carrier controls the OS? Second question: is that acceptable? I mean, that assumption underpins your dismissal of an MITM as "pret…

He's based his argument on the recruiter's statement, which is a poor choice. On the other hand, other material from the company supports, in fact, a much larger number. I don't th…

ah! Finally! Clear evidence of a meritocracy at work! Actually, in all seriousness, doesn't this suggest there's a real imbalance or opportunity here to be exploited? Companies tha…

It collects measurements from distributed renewable energy installations and uses those measurements to measure & optimize the systems' performance. I suppose you could have engine…

It amazes me that so much writing on this subject is so reductionist. I read so many of these comments talking about the "return on your degree" and ROIs like they can be measured,…