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"Professor Winter Gig"

    Location: on the beach in FL / SoCal / ?
    Remote: yes
    Willing to relocate: no 
    Technologies: A.I./Machine Learning, Crypto/Bitcoin/Blockchain
    Résumé/CV: see below
    Email: profsummergig@gmail.com

I'm a computer professor in the business school of a university in the Rocky Mountain area. I get a month off in winter and want to visit some place surfable (e.g. coastal FL or SoCal) to practice surfing.

During that stay, I'd like to work for a start-up on strategy / evangelizing for A.I./Machine Learning or Crypto/Bitcoin/Blockchain. Don't need pay, but sweat equity and a place to crash would be yuuuuuge.

My ideal schedule will be to surf 4 hours a day, and spend 8 hours a day working at the start-up.

Good public speaking skills (have presented at TEDx, video is online).

My regular reads (and YouTube and Twitter addictions) include: Nassim Taleb, Scott Adams, Derek Sivers, Marc Andreessen, Paul Graham.

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Lifelong autodidact. I've taught myself some Spanish (Pimsleur Level IV and Michel Thomas Level "Foundation") and some French (Pimsleur Level I and Michel Thomas Level "Foundation"). Fluent in English and Hindi. Earned a PhD. Good cook, regular meditator, swing and salsa dancer, barefoot hiker. U.S. citizen.

"Professor wants a Summer Gig"

    Location: remote or on the beach in SoCal or FL.
    Remote: yes
    Willing to relocate: N/A
    Technologies: javascript, php, database, SPSS. Know some: R, ReactJS, python, machine learning (did Andrew Ng's MOOC), bitcoin (did the Princeton MOOC)
    Résumé/CV: see below
    Email: profsummergig@gmail.com

I'm a computer professor in the business school of a university in the Rocky Mountain area.

I get summers off. I want to visit SoCal or FL during July / August 2017 to learn surfing (I'm a young-at-heart, very physically active male 44 year old, never married, no kids).

During that stay, I'd like to work for a start-up or some such. Don't need pay, but sweat equity and a place to crash would be yuuuuuge.

My ideal schedule will be to surf 4 hours a day, and spend 8 hours a day working at the start-up. I consider myself well-versed in human communication, cognitive biases, UI/UX design, pricing, coaching.

I'm well read. My regular reads (and YouTube and Twitter addictions) include:

    - Hacker News
    - Nassim Taleb
    - Daniel Kahneman
    - Marc Andreessen
    - Paul Graham (Y Combinator)
    - Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert)
    - Derek Sivers

I'm huge into hacking "learning." I've studied Spanish (Pimsleur Level IV and Michel Thomas Foundation) and French (Pimsleur Level I and Michel Thomas Foundation), and am fluent in English and Hindi. I have a PhD, and hope to do a J.D. one day. Good cook, regular meditator. Originally from India, I have my green card, and expect to have citizenship in mid-June.

"Professor wants a Summer Gig"

    Location: remote or on the beach in SoCal or FL.
    Remote: yes
    Willing to relocate: N/A
    Technologies: javascript, php, database, SPSS. Know some: R, ReactJS, python, machine learning (did Andrew Ng's MOOC), bitcoin (did the Princeton MOOC)
    Résumé/CV: see below
    Email: profsummergig@gmail.com

I'm a computer professor in the business school of a university in the Rocky Mountain area.

I get summers off. I want to visit SoCal or FL for 3 months during summer 2017 to learn surfing (I'm a young-at-heart, very physically active male 44 year old, never married, no kids).

During that stay, I'd like to work for a start-up or some such. Don't need pay, but sweat equity and a place to crash would be yuuuuuge.

My ideal schedule will be to surf 4 hours a day, and spend 8 hours a day working at the start-up. I consider myself well-versed in human communication, cognitive biases, UI/UX design, pricing, coaching.

I'm well read. My regular reads (and YouTube and Twitter addictions) include:

    - Hacker News
    - Nassim Taleb
    - Daniel Kahneman
    - Marc Andreessen
    - Paul Graham (Y Combinator)
    - Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert)
    - Derek Sivers

I'm huge into hacking "learning." I've studied Spanish (Pimsleur Level IV and Michel Thomas Foundation) and French (Pimsleur Level I and Michel Thomas Foundation), and am fluent in English and Hindi. I have a PhD, and hope to do a J.D. one day. Good cook, regular meditator. Originally from India, I have my green card, and expect to have citizenship in mid-June.

On the bright side, India could benefit immensely from less brain drain.

I don't understand this focus on "white".

Young people everywhere are haunted by crises and despair.

The word "Mercedes" in Kalanick's summary is a highly loaded word with a lot of prior meaning attached to it.

Similarly, I think, when people say "Airbnb for something", they're using shorthand for something with a lot of prior meaning attached to it.

My point: we're being too harsh on those who use "Uber for this" or "Airbnb for that"... they're using shorthand the way Kalanick used "Mercedes".

Twitter doesn't work predictably. Period.

The mobile web app is a disaster. There are two back buttons (one in the browser and one in the app), and if I click on a "retweet with comment" to go into the original tweet, and then try either back button, it doesn't take me back to the "retweet with comment".

"Hatching Twitter" claimed they smoke a lot of dope in the offices there. I'm inclined to believe it.

Zuck was 100% apropos: it's a clown car that fell into a gold mine and now doesn't know what to do with it.

He probably has a phone though ;-)

http://www.dailyedge.ie/news-reporter-pornhub-bookmark-13109...

His internet browsing history is needed.

The fluting looks like an affordance to attach a spear stem or arrow stem to. To my admittedly "know nothing" self, calling it a shock-absorber might be over-thinking it.

Why wouldn't the storm wipe out Dropbox / Amazon's HDDs too?

    1. The U.S. and ISIS are on the same side in this war.

    2. Assad is a secularist, modernizer.

Shudder.

If you read up on what Taleb writes about Lindy Effect, you should be able to understand.

OP said that it's probably good because it has lasted so long. I would agree.

^ This reply is very good, and is an example of "Systems Perspective."

Lindy Effect.

Master stroke. This is strategy.

Why the downvotes? This person is describing a real problem with dealing with staff patent attorneys. This is real life.

"Professor wants a Summer Gig"

See my post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14024910

"Professor wants a Summer Gig"

    Location: on the beach in CA or FL
    Remote: yes
    Willing to relocate: no 
    Technologies: javascript, php, database, SPSS. Know some: R, ReactJS, python, machine learning (did Andrew Ng's MOOC), bitcoin (did the Princeton MOOC)
    Résumé/CV: see below
    Email: profsummergig@gmail.com

I'm a computer professor in the business school of a university in the Rocky Mountain area.

I get summers off. I want to visit FL or CA for 3 months during summer 2017 to learn surfing (I'm a young-at-heart, very physically active male 44 year old, never married, no kids).

During that stay, I'd like to work for a start-up or some such. Don't need pay, but sweat equity and a place to crash would be yuuuuuge.

My ideal schedule will be to surf 4 hours a day, and spend 8 hours a day working at the start-up. I consider myself well-versed in human communication, cognitive biases, UI/UX design, pricing, coaching.

I'm well read. My regular reads (and YouTube and Twitter addictions) include:

    - Hacker News
    - Nassim Taleb
    - Daniel Kahneman
    - Marc Andreessen
    - Paul Graham (Y Combinator)
    - Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert)
    - Derek Sivers

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I'm huge into hacking "learning." I've studied Spanish (Pimsleur Level IV and Michel Thomas Foundation) and French (Pimsleur Level I and Michel Thomas Foundation), and am fluent in English and Hindi. I have a PhD, and hope to do a J.D. one day. Good cook, regular meditator. Originally from India, I have my green card, and expect to have citizenship by summer.

What a nice problem to have!

> What makes you think they'll be treated with violence and hate?

"Upper caste" Indians (Brahmins / Kshatriyas) have a history of treating marginalized tribal groups with violence and hatred. Forcibly removing them to exploit natural resources.

Source: I'm Indian. I've seen quite a bit of this happen during my life. Here's an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narmada_Bachao_Andolan

Unbelievable. I hope they can be studied with compassion and care. Not with violence and hate. And I hope they can be gently introduced to modernity without reducing them to janitors in Mumbai.

Also, the article claims it's located between Myanmar and Indonesia. That's just wrong. It's apparently located in the Andaman Islands, which are claimed by India.

This is begging for a simple solution. Just putting it out there.

How do people go to the various offices if they don't even have money for bus tickets (or a cup of coffee to wake the senses up)?

Could someone please clarify what the ": 5" in "2014: 5" means? Thanks.

Sad to see Apple turn into this closed loop.

I'm looking for a truck with hand cranked windows. What brand is this?

won't hurt to try:

1) wim hof breathing technique

2) contrast showers

3) yoga (especially the 'mayur asana' pose)

4) any 21 day meditation audio series where each meditation is about 10 minutes long (you'll find some on YouTube)

I was thinking maybe the poorer cognition actually helps relieve the depression. Because a lot of depressives overthink (some past event, etc).

In the USA, there's a fantasy Denmark that exists in the media.

In the fantasy Denmark, there's no crime, all the women are hot blondes who never get fat, there's cheap weed every where (and apparently free clean heroin), the furniture is sleek, all the men are feminists who never objectify women (there's no porn), the school system is fantastic (every child is good at math), the healthcare is free and high-quality, education is universal, free and high quality, and there are plenty of jobs for everyone (and high quality ones too!).

Pretty much like the rest of fantasy Europe.