ryw90

Re:The first autonomous, entirely soft robot on Monday August 29, 2016 @10:41AM (#12382134)

There's a subfield called soft robotics, which Baymax from the film Big Hero 6 was inspired by: http://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2014/october/octobe....

Re:Why smart people are better off with fewer friends on Friday March 18, 2016 @07:39PM (#11316190)

I find it hard to take his work seriously. Here are detailed criticisms of some of his other papers: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/kana...

Re:Square jumps in market debut on Thursday November 19, 2015 @11:57AM (#10595854)

Google used a Dutch auction in their IPO. But then again they are pretty obsessed with auctions. There is some research on auctions for IPOs, e.g. http://www.nber.org/papers/w16214, that suggests they are too complex for investors.

Uptake, a Midwest Startup, Achieves Rare $1B Valuation

Posted by ryw90 on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @01:32AM
from the nytimes.com dept.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/business/dealbook/midwest-start-up-achieves-rare-dollar1-billion-valuation.html

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Re:Paul Tudor Jones to Staff: Learn to Write or I'll Rip Up Your Memo on Friday October 23, 2015 @04:02PM (#10440970)

It's even possible to write simply about complex topics. Nobel Prize announcements are especially good at this, see e.g. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/201.... Obviously nobody's going to walk away from a summary with a full understanding of a deep subject, but some of the key ideas have been conveyed.