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knobleon Free “Deep Learning” Textbook by Goodfellow and Bengio Now Finished

Would you mind sharing any of the resources you are using for re-learning? I've been meaning to do the same.

knobleon Spotify raises $1B in debt with devilish terms to fight Apple Music

Mark Cuban did this when selling broadcast.com to Yahoo. It's a pretty amazing hedge: http://investmentxyz.blogspot.com/2006/05/cubans-collar-anat...

knobleon We only hire the trendiest

First dates are probably most analogous to phone interviews. It's a testing of the water. If you've met the barrier of entry, you'll probably make it to the next one unless there is no chemistry whatsoever.

knobleon The Decay of Twitter

I think the main point is that it is dangerous to engage in spoken-word type contexts publicly because there is no delineation between contexts that should be treated as conversational and those that should not. Conversations provide the context to say something dumb, realize it is dumb, and then learn from it without the public shaming and castigation. Tweets are eternal, whether through screens caps or similar preservation techniques.

The most compelling argument for me was about context collapse. Shifting between spoken-word contexts and written-word contexts is at the core of the issue that requires a feature like moments. Spoken-word contexts lack an explicit connection to the events they discuss and require manufacturing a context. I think moments has been great at doing this so far but its existence is a symptom of the bigger problem.

knobleon ESPN to lay off nearly 4% of workforce amid changing pay-TV landscape

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/02/12/275922026/episo...

http://regressing.deadspin.com/how-much-is-lebron-really-wor...

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2013/5/1/4291088/lebron-james...

And many more...

It is generally agreed upon that in a salary capped league, and especially in basketball wherein a single player has a disproportionate impact on the outcome of a game, salaries are depressed in comparison to what teams would pay for his services on an open market. Lebron guarantees a competitive team no matter where he plays and significantly increased revenues and franchise values when leaving for Miami and returning to Cleveland.

knobleon Bernie Sanders' 404 page

I don't think the problem with scaling is as much economic as it is a product of the number of disparate motivations at scale.

The more people you have, the more difficult it becomes to have any sort of general consensus.

knobleon Race conditions on Facebook, DigitalOcean and others (fixed)

This is really helpful. Thanks for sharing!