Anyone from evanston taking the purple line/red line? Hit me up (if you want to meet up before hand).
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Ideally, you could pick smaller fraction of the array as N gets bigger, giving you sub O(N) scaling.
In other words, if the array indexes that get picked using a slow algorithm are distributed randomnly, you might as well just pick a random subsection, as long as it is big enough to have the same distribution of W's as the whole array.
Also, you're forgetting about the "Broken window effect" which says that crime flees an area when the surroundings simply look better.
2. It would be cool to be able to replicate popular button styles of other companies, or at least similar to them.
3. I didn't see the undo/redo links until I was done. Maybe move them somewhere else, like under the center button?
4. Def need to make it easier to find colors you want. Plus more fonts like others suggested.
5. Can you automatically have it generate a "button pressed down" version?
2. Make the concept of the money pot more prominent. I think its the most important piece of information to display. Try to rework the layout to put it at the top, perhaps next to the logo.
3. Consider asking more questions with your account, then looking up the answer online and answering it. Consider it your personal notebook of business info. I haven't thought about this rigorously, but I would at least give it thought. It would make your site seem more accurate.
4. Users don't want to answer the same types of questions over and over. Consider making a startup 101 page that tries to lay out the very basics of startups that some people seem to be asking. Then users can just point people to that page.
"Brainbank lets you post short online classes. Then when a customer downloads your lessons we'll send you the lead. Here's how to create a lesson"
Also, I didn't know anything about your site before I viewed it. The video helped but I still don't know why someone would create a lesson. The end mentions something about "client acquisition" but I have no idea what that means. I assume the lesson creator wants to get email addresses of people so they can try to sell them something? Personally I think you should consider letting people sell complete lessons, rather than posting crippled lessons that require the lesson-master to try to hawk products through email.
On the one hand, I don't really care if people grow marijuana, so I'm not sure I'd want to sell that data anyways. On the other hand it might save the gov money.
I think that should work. Doesn't scribd have a download pdf option?
However, it took me close to an hour (at 4 in the morning) to figure out how to get a pdf file that was readable in scribd. My pdf looked great on my computer, but 90% illegible in scribd. I finally figured out I had to tell my pdf program to embed the fonts in the file. I was using a latex program to create the pdfs (LyX).
Sorry to say I now have a fairly negative view of scribd. I suspect anyone else going through this would also. After all, scribd is all about pdfs right? Why can't it recognize when this happens and provide help? Why can't it display pdfs that look fine on my computer?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCcZyW-6-5o
Here's his one on heat energy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhQEVR_Tsiw&feature=relat...
Also, physics for future presidents is a cool video lecture series at berkely. The first lecture is on heat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ysbZ_j2xi0
You can get anything into google reader. For instance you see something shareable online, then just use google notebook to save it to the appropriate tag.
However, anyone I mentioned it to (all males, one female incidentally) thought it was silly.
I still think it has potential though.
Also try to avoid falling prey to any cognitive biases. There is a list of them at wikipedia that is probably worth acquainting yourself with. Perhaps you might favor one idea over an other just because you have been thinking about it more recently. This would be related to the Recency Effect - increased saliance and recall of recent stimuli. Thus you will weight the benefits (and drawbacks) of recent ideas more than the benefits (or drawbacks) of past ideas.
One way around this might be to rate your ideas at multiple times after rethinking various past ideas fully.
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In other words there may be profitable techniques that are impossible for the big boys to use, simply because they can't be bothered with tiny investments.
Also, I thought you could eliminate transaction costs using a broker like zecco. Such a broker might invalidate my above theory though, if it were true.