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Your job as founder is to create revenue.

Or even just a convergent infinite series. Infinitely many positive numbers that sum to a finite number.

I can't remember where I read this but it reminds me of the quote "You've only ever experienced on thing; your own mind".

The best way to think of this is that there are no odds at all. All money goes into a pool and is shared evenly amongst the winners. That's it. The fewer people* that bet on the winner, the larger their share.

Talking about the odds while the betting is open is really talking about what the payout would be if the event occurred with the current pool.

*It is of course about the amount of money, not the number of people.

That's a good question. They may not state it explicitly but all betting sites would have an escrow (or 'wallet') system. The alternative, where if you lose, they send you an invoice for what you owe would be, er, uncommercial.

I think it's a worthwhile exercise to look at situations like this and objectively asses the indiscretion. My first response was, 'that's fine, he's just talking about his girlfriend, no issue'. This is an oversimplification. The offence comes from the humour, which relies on the implication that all girlfriends are like this. It's a little subtle but it's there.

I don't really like males (I'm male) being portrayed as domestic buffoons who can't cook, are too lazy to clean, even in the context of light humour. It's a false stereotype.

Your links are about comedians getting into trouble by offending people. That is a different issue to gender stereotyping in a professional environment. People do have a right to be offended, call people out on it, and try to improve the world they live in. I don't think that makes then sad.

Apologies are by definition when you apologies for your own actions. To claim that it applies to people based on their reaction or is explicitly for people who reacted a certain way is not IMHO a real apology. This type of conditional apology (called the 'Carey' apology where I'm from http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/my-vile-apology/story-e6frf...) is an apology for the reaction in others, not the act itself.

You do it by stretching the informal but accepted definition of "book". Which reminds me of the more irksome side of marketing.

The spacial resolution of analog photographs is not at the scale of individual molecules. It is limited by the "grain" of the film [1]. Other factors include distortions from lens shape imperfections in the lens material.

Audio tapes record their signal in magnetic domains. These are areas of tape the are large enough to be written and read. Much larger than anything approaching the scale of individual molecules.

Sound recordings on vinly are similarly limited by other factors. To "read" the signal from a record groove a needle is dragged a needle through a v shaped groove. This needle jiggles up and down and left and right, hence the two channels in stereo. The time resolution of the signal (max frequency) is limited by the physics of the jiggling head. It's inertia prevents it from reading signals over a certain limiting frequency. Again, well before the molecular level.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_grain

[edit] - Changed momentum to inertia in the last paragraph.

The venn diagrams work better if you read them as "and" rather than "things that are members of both sets". (Apologies for the nitpick.)

Genuine question on this. Why can't you just scale a recipe directly? Are there ingredients that play a binary role (so to speak) so they just need to be present regardless of the quantity? What am I missing here?

Perhaps they could adopt the model used by some online dating sites. You browse profiles for free but you pay to make contact.

The books are on different topics. You only read the ones you want to.

Why is this the only way to win? Computers don't have unlimited storage.

Also, don't underestimate the "lipstick", in this case the user experience. Dropbox beat jungledisk (another s3 backed cloud storage company) on UX.

I used a dropbox shared folder to transfer a large file just last weekend. The sender (I was the recipient) didn't have a dropbox account. All I did was share the folder with his email address and he worked out the rest.

The difference is that most people don't know how to do that. What they can do however is load a website and follow simple step by step instructions.

When I was a student I found juggling to be a useful distraction when taking a break. It kept the mind engaged but took my focus completely away from my studies. I think this the key to a good break activity. You want to stay sharp but completely distract yourself. There are probably also benefits that come from using your motor skills, different parts of the brains and even shifting your focus to follow moving objects.

It was also quite rewarding to slowly see myself improving.

I think it's because we start to feel more pressure to succeed and to succeed quickly, so we stop playing and tinkering.

I think the key here is the low quality work at the end of the day. I often knock off when I detect that I'm running at a very low productivity rate. Invariably the next day the overwhelming and seemingly massive task from the night before takes just a few minutes for the well rested brain.

There's also something about the "self control as a finite resource" that comes in to play here.

Similar advice that was given to me during a messy legal fight'; Assume that anything you put in an email might one day be read out to you in court.

The lesson I'm taking from this is be ok with slow progress and early failures. The trap I fall into is being discouraged too easily and giving up. What this guy has done is the opposite. He just kept going and got good.

Fair comment. I'll search first in future.

OK, I think this is a little misleading at a glance. From my read they didn't show a video to the subject then create images from the brainwaves. Instead they showed videos to subjects, recorded the response. This allowed them to greate a mapping of response to video. You then show videos later, read the response then look up the video.

The article states; "The reconstructed videos are blurry because they layer all the YouTube clips that matched the subject's brain activity pattern."

They could have just shown the best match, this would not have been a cool blurry image that is very easy to misinterpret as being generated from the brainwaves directly. More than a little slippery.

Apologies in advance for making a fairly trivial observation but I really like this guys use of bold in the text. It's a little like a tabloid newspaper but I found that it genuinely added to the writing making it more readable and more amusing.

I'm interesting in submitting a project but I don't know how much to offer for it. In a "marketplace" you get to see what other people are offering and what's being accepted. I'd like to see this sort of information.

Ok, just to be clear. It isn't me you need to tell but everyone. No one will sign up to something, no matter how good it is if they don't know anything about it. So my suggestion is to explain your service. This might be with text but you could also use videos or screenshots.

A company that has no growth potential is not very exciting to an investor. They 'make bets' on companies they think might take off. It's high risk high return as most small companies fail.

I think investor won't be interested in buying a business for small scale steady income. There are plenty of very safe ways to do that like bluechip shares or even term deposits.

I was reluctant to enter my facebook details when I don't really know what the app does, so I didn't do it.

Also, discovering and sharing future happening with friends sounds like something that facebook already does well.

If you're really interested in introducing this into a working business, and have spent days researching the options a 7 minute summary (advert) like this is a gift.