glxc

self-selecting group who would join the military

"being there in the moment" = dopamine squirts

13.5 TB - that is pretty huge!

Great to get some truly "Big Data" sets out there. I consider "Big Data" to be data that can't be conventionally processed on a commodity machine, else it's just analytics

Yahoo must be applauded for supplying various data sets and helping progress machine learning research

this paper is 10 years old

is this the same thing as awareness?

> She lives on a farm in Wisconsin and homeschools her sons

More power to her, her professional success has allowed her to pursue her passion. I think the lesson then is that to pursue your passion you first need to earn it.

> Grad school on your resume is a formal announcement of a mistake [if not working in the field]

Success is working forward, and not worrying about or admitting to mistakes

a comprehensive survey on "think like a vertex" frameworks has been recently published in CSUR:

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2818185

http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.04405

salivating to know what the number is.. enough to retire, apparently

I applaud your nod to empathy

Literature has been shown to increase empathy

There was no literature included in this list (am counting the two SciFi novels as fiction, but not literature)

To anyone looking for an edge, read more literature

> ... I tried to make my students ask constantly: “What does it communicate me?”

I am pretty sure there is a word missing here, but am still letting it sink in, with regards to the rest of the article :)

Great article though that makes a strong point

is that all it's good for?

according to John Martinis, the quantum computing era is coming, but it is a slow and gradual process like most research

what will YC Research address?

so if it's not the best, then it's not worth it?

I know! but there is a big difference between "sharing" an article, and "liking" an article and having it show up on friends' feeds. its the difference between actively and passively sharing a viewpoint

i wish this article appeared on their facebook page so i could like it to share it with my network

this article is a month old, so maybe it went away?

no

is it possible that no one has paid anything and then they're just posting these numbers for attention?

When will there be more info about YC Research??

this. is. dumb.

what about YC Research?

tl;dr colleges are more focused on getting students employed

there should be a mandatory note detailing significance when any academic paper is submitted that is more than 6 months

if your data exceeds memory then a GPU is worthless. distributed makes it scalable

R v Excel

Hi @sama

TELL US MORE ABOUT Y COMB RESEARCH

What area of research will you be conducting?

When someone works really hard on a problem and then puts it out there openly, you have to respect their work. And from their perspective, they've put weeks/months/10 years into a piece of work, and it can come off really bad if you approach them and ask them to explain it to you so that you can understand it in a fraction of the time. For complex ideas, you can talk at somebody and they can get the general gist of it, but for many technical things you don't understand it until it "clicks" from gears moving in your own head. I understand this case is pretty drastic, but his claim that one needs to break down the barriers in their mind shows how much he expects from an individual to understand his work.

DE Shaw gave away his hedge fund empire to start DE Shaw Research. He similarly used his own money to start a privately funded research lab. He is their Chief Scientist.