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01 Jan 10

Sree insisted I try it. So I did. And he became my first follower.
my tweeting quickly went beyond conversations and into new and better ways of accomplishing tasks.
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- I asked my followers if they could help me solve this puzzle. Before I knew it, I had received several insightful responses.
- I’ve joked that my Twitter followers seem to be setting my research and writing agenda these days and it’s not that far from the truth.
- Twitter is amazing as its the most efficient mechanism I have ever seen to allow me to peruse the thoughtstreams of others who live all over the world.
- Writing a full blog post is time consuming and comments can be lengthy. Who wants to read or police all of them? IM is essentially a one-to-one communications tool. Facebook has elements of microblogging but it’s not really the kind of place where I want to share thoughts about immigration reform

31 Dec 09

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29 Dec 09

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23 Dec 09

Rex Jung, PhD - The Mind Research Network

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09 Dec 09

How to encourage big ideas

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The work shows that biologists whose funding encourages them to take risks and tolerates initial research failures wind up producing about twice as many highly influential papers as some peers whose funding is dependent upon meeting closely defined, short-term research targets.
The researcher has to believe that short-term failure will not be punished.

08 Dec 09

Harvard Kennedy School - Lant Pritchett

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06 Dec 09

The Startup Visa And Why The Xenophobes Need To Go Back Into Their Caves

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No one would ever have thought of giving me an O-1 visa. But I came, I worked hard, and I learned. And I developed ideas for how to make better software.
Most of us read articles but don’t post comments.
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- it is frustrating to wait on the sidelines for years for a green card and not be able to help in any way. and to add insult to injury, having to listen to people who call you names like job stealer and having to fend off questions like “what have you done for this country?” is just plain disheartening
- america is the land of innovation and that is why ppl come here
- Prof. it’s great to see someone speaking for the silent majority.
- The whole spirit of entrepreneurship is about failing and learning from them, so you succeed in the future. Sending them home goes against the very spirit of entrepreneurship. If they don’t have money / don’t add value, they’ll leave themselves.
- The issue is even more serious. Huge tech hubs emerge is Asia. China et al. is not only cheap toys and appliances. In few years the US only advantage would be the entrepreneurship spirit.
- There is a reason why VC’s are starting offices overseas now. It’s because we have managed to drive enough smart people out of this country that now there are the beginnings of thriving valley like areas in places other than the valley.
- their actions have managed to push talented people overseas who have the drive and smarts, to start companies that then compete with the US for those very jobs that the idiot states are trying to save
- You can physically only have so many auto companies, or boat companies, etc… The number of potential tech companies is not limited by the same factors that limit auto production and sales. So letting H-1B visas into the country just increases the potential pool of jobs, not decreases them.
- NOT finding any bank willing to loan money to a company making money
  - cash flow doesn't necessarily imply profitability and low risk. All these factors influence the credit decisions. - on 2009-12-06
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- If your so good why not start up your company in your own country first and then look into coming to the USA.
  - Still immigration was far from easy - on 2009-12-06
  - This is what StumbleUpon did - on 2009-12-06
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- The worth of an immigrant can only be made retrospectively
  - while this is true in some cases, most of the time you can get a good estimate - on 2009-12-06
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- How is a major corporation going to exploit a visa for “Entrepreneurs”..who, by definition, cannot work for a corporation?
- Because no place besides the US has the resources and the network of people available, like the one in Silicon Valley. And really why do you have an issue if they start a company in the US? Their creating jobs AND helping the US economy. Sounds like a WIN WIN to me.
- Whatever they earn 30% goes to the Social Security and Taxes etc which is not going to get returned to him in any ways ADDING to the Fed Cash
- Whatever money a H1 holder or any other visa holder makes 70-80% gets spent in US economy ADDING to the everything!
- H1 or other visa holder seldom gets involved in any kind of crimes etc ADDING to the stability of society
- People from diverse culture live ADDING to the diversity of this country
- When an H1-B enters the country, s/he is a degree holder of some sort. USofA has spent exactly $0 on her/his education
- It’s not Americans or Indians or whatever else…point is in today’s digital world distribution of people around the world is a norm..people have to step up to become a global citizen where their own abilities rules and not the simple fact of taking birth in any particular country..
- The fact is that a new business creates jobs. Too bad people are so worried about their own job they forget that an immigrant starting a new business could be their next employer.
- Why not list down your city and street as well. Obama could make it easier for those people specifically..
- The major problem with the O-1 is that it is for people to join companies not found them.
- This is why we need a startup visa. Before my O-1 I was working on a startup in the US for two years without a work visa. Now I run two high-profile startups but in order to be able to make it in this country I had to start as a criminal. That should not be how we treat our entrepreneurial class.
- It’s very inspirational stuff, but from the perspective of somebody who has travelled around a bit, not really all that accurate. The uality of living in the US is quite terrible and the power struggle at the top of America worrying.
- This country makes me depressed sometimes.
  
  Still, it does contain some of the kindest people I’ve met
- You don’t realize this but this makes sure that almost every immigrant is inspired to make America better
- What differentiates USA from the rest of the world?What constitutes its USP? It is the freedom to dream, innovate and create value for the society.
- There is a difference between “deserve to get paid” and reality. Do you think those fellas in GMS get paid that much coz they are the best and brightest??
  
  In that case I got a big red bridge in CA to sell ya
- faster GCs for people on O-1 visas – you will get some entrepreneurs with that but more importantly also get top tech talent who will form the base R&D for such startups
- Geniuses are scarce resource and should be welcomed to any country with open arms. They will increase the competitive advantage of those nations.
- The 99% of the everyone else, who is sensible, don’t write because they rightfully realize there is no gain in debating with fools.
- In the past, Professor Wadhwa has graciously responded and debated with anyone who has presented a sensible argument. You should try it.
- I have advertised at schools such as MIT, Florida, U Miami, etc. I’m not looking for any exotic skills, but
  I have gotten one person who is able to work in the United States to respond to my query out of maybe twenty or so respondents. I never understood, or appreciated the search for talent until now…

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03 Dec 09

Andrew Ng - Publications

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01 Dec 09

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22 Nov 09

Wikiversity:What shall we do with Wikipedia? - Wikiversity

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Wikipedia is a goldmine of original research. People publish original research on Wikipedia all the time. More original research (by far) is published on Wikipedia than on Wikiversity. Where does it all go? Well, it gets deleted fast, because of the no original research policy, which is a loss to humanity. But so much original research is published on Wikipedia that there is a backlog.

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it was immediately obvious that the sender’s race was a huge factor.
- It is not obvious from this table if the differences are significant. It would be nice to see p-values along with averages. Also it is not clear where is the data for other combinations, it is unlikely that white males only send msg to white females - on 2009-11-22
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04 Nov 09

Chapter3: Luie

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The real problems
to solve are not the ones at the end of each chapter in the textbook. The
real problems come in dealing with the unexpected. The questions are vague
and fuzzy. How do you pick a research topic? How long do you study a subject
before you publish? What do you do when things don't look like you expected
them to look, when your results surprise you? How do you recognize when to
quit a not-completely-hopeless endeavor?
The real problems
to solve are not the ones at the end of each chapter in the textbook. The
real problems come in dealing with the unexpected. The questions are vague
and fuzzy. How do you pick a research topic? How long do you study a subject
before you publish? What do you do when things don't look like you expected
them to look, when your results surprise you? How do you recognize when to
quit a not-completely-hopeless endeavor? Coping with these problems is the
art of physics, and it is very similar to the art of business, or the art
of art.
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- It was a research area
  in which many people could work together, be they great scientists or only
  mediocre. Some people would fit more pieces together than others, and some
  were particularly good at finding that hard piece, the one that everyone else
  had given up on. But everybody was able to find some little way to help.
- He intro duced himself with
  "I'm Luie Alvarez," avoiding the title "professor," which
  many other faculty members obviously favored.
- At the end of the tour, Alvarez
  asked me, "When can you start?" I had not understood much of what
  I had seen, and I didn't think I had asked any intelligent questions. In addition,
  Alvarez hadn't had a chance to check my grades or to look at my record in the Physics Department office, so he had
  no way of knowing whether I was a good student. But it was an offer I couldn't
  refuse.
- Alvarez's
  whole approach to physics was that of an entrepreneur, taking big risks by
  building large new projects in the hope of large rewards, although
  his pay was academic rather than financial. He had drawn around him a group
  of young physicists anxious to try out the exciting ideas he was proposing.
  Many of these people were later to leave basic research and become entrepreneurs
  themselves of one kind or another. The true rewards for this kind of work
  were in the challenge, in the adventure. Alvarez seemed to care less about
  the way the picture in the puzzle would look, when everything fit together,
  than about the fun of looking for pieces that fit. He loved nothing more than
  doing something that everybody else thought impossible. His designs were clever,
  and usually exploited some little-known principle that everyone else had forgotten.
- You can read memos anytime, in the evenings, at home, but you can only learn
  experimental physics by being in the laboratory, by doing it
- Even today, when I visit someone's laboratory and they sit me down in a nearby
  office to hear a lecture on their experiment, I protest. I want to go see
  the hardware, if possible to touch it.
- In the Greek legend, the wrestler Antaeus
  was invincible as long as he touched the ground. Hercules defeated him by
  lifting Antaeus above his head, out of reach of the Earth, where he was able
  to squeeze him to death. This legend may have originated as a reminder to
  farmers to stay in close touch with the land, the source of their sustenance,
  and not to relegate all the manual work to hired laborers. The reminder applies
  equally well to experimental physicists, who must return periodically to their
  apparatus, to get their hands dirty, lest they forget why it often takes an
  hour to put in a screw.
- To become an experimental physicist,
  Alvarez seemed to feel, you had to destroy some expensive equipment. It was
  a rite of passage. "Don't do anything differently," he advised.
  "Keep it up."
- There were more Nobel laureates at Berkeley than in the entire
  Soviet Union. And there was Luie, who had no Nobel Prize then but seemed to
  have more important discoveries to his credit than any of the scientists who
  had won the honor.
- But it wasn't the art of invention, but the art of discovery that
  I most wanted to learn. How did he do it? What secret knowledge enabled him
  to make discovery after discovery? If only I could identify what it was, then
  I could try to learn it.
  
  Skepticism,
  the ability not to be fooled, was clearly important, but it is also cheap.
  It is easy to disbelieve everything, and some scientists seemed to take this
  approach. Sometimes Luie was skeptical, but more often he seemed to embrace
  crazy ideas, at least at first. He rarely dismissed anything out of hand,
  no matter how absurd, until he had examined it closely. But then one tiny
  flaw, solidly established, was enough to kill it. His openness to wild ideas
  was balanced by his firmness in dismissing those that were flawed. He had
  a finely honed skepticism. Perhaps that was part of his secret talent.
- the
  key to discovery was not being "lazy."
- The
  hardest discoveries to take seriously are often your own.
- Walter Alvarez never came that close to a Nobel Prize again,
  but he made sure that his son learned the lesson.
- he hadn't looked long enough
- The
  art of physics consists in knowing what to work on and for how long.
- Luie
  worked out virtually all the details before he even told anybody what he was
  thinking of, and he put these in a memo.
- The gaps in his
  knowledge were surprisingly large, but not detrimental to his work.
- He seemed to have a knack for learning just the right amount about everything,
  and for spending the time he saved inventing and bringing together ideas from
  disparate fields.

23 Oct 09

You and Your Research

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One lesson was sufficient to educate my boss as to why I didn't want to do
big jobs that displaced exploratory research and why I was justified in not
doing crash jobs which absorb all the research computing facilities. I wanted
instead to use the facilities to compute a large number of small problems.
Again, in the early days, I was limited in computing capacity and it was clear,
in my area, that a ``mathematician had no use for machines.'' But I needed more
machine capacity. Every time I had to tell some scientist in some other area,
``No I can't; I haven't the machine capacity,'' he complained. I said ``Go tell
your Vice President that Hamming needs more computing capacity.'' After a
while I could see what was happening up there at the top; many people said to my
Vice President, ``Your man needs more computing capacity.'' I got it!
You can educate your bosses.
It's a hard job. In this talk I'm only viewing from the bottom up; I'm not
viewing from the top down. But I am telling you how
you can get what you want in
spite of top management. You have to sell your ideas there also.
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- The people who do great
  work with less ability but who are committed to it, get more done that those who
  have great skill and dabble in it, who work during the day and go home and do
  other things and come back and work the next day. They don't have the deep
  commitment that is apparently necessary for really first-class work. They turn
  out lots of good work, but we were talking, remember, about first-class work.
  There is a difference. Good people, very talented people, almost always turn out
  good work.
- personality defect of wanting total
  control and was not willing to recognize that you need the support of the
  system
- If you want to do something, don't ask, do it.
  Present him with an accomplished fact. Don't give him a chance to tell you `No'
- UNIX was never a
  deliverable!
- Management can do very little. If you want to talk about
  managing research, that's a totally different talk. I'd take another hour doing
  that. This talk is about how the individual gets very successful research done
  in spite of anything the management does or in spite of any other opposition.
- I find it desirable to talk to other people; but a session
  of brainstorming is seldom worthwhile
- I picked my people carefully with
  whom I did or whom I didn't brainstorm because the sound absorbers are a curse.
  They are just nice guys; they fill the whole space and they contribute nothing
  except they absorb ideas and the new ideas just die away instead of echoing on.
- Yes, I find it necessary to talk to people. I think people with closed doors
  fail to do this so they fail to get their ideas sharpened, such as ``Did you
  ever notice something over here?'' I never knew anything about it - I can go
  over and look. Somebody points the way. On my visit here, I have already found
  several books that I must read when I get home. I talk to people and ask
  questions when I think they can answer me and give me clues that I do not know
  about. I go out and look!
- If you
  read all the time what other people have done you will think the way they
  thought. If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what a
  lot of creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to
  look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you
  would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.
- there's no effect named after him because he read too much
- You read; but it
  is not the amount, it is the way you read that counts.
- The
  present growth of knowledge will choke itself off until we get different tools.
  I believe that books which try to digest, coordinate, get rid of the
  duplication, get rid of the less fruitful methods and present the underlying
  ideas clearly of what we know now, will be the things the future generations
  will value.

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Gene Expression: Facial attractiveness and correlation vs. experiment

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Broader Perspective: Improving science innovation

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In the absence of clear feedback loops aligning research investigations
with implemented results, scientists can languish in isolated labs for
years and the majority do not seem to care whether their findings are
useful to or implemented by others.
The most successful scientists have been those who have perceived their
roles as not the mere discovers and handers-off of the Truth but also
as being responsible for rendering their findings implementable by
others.
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- Emphasizing full realization of pursuits and results from a more
  service-driven than ego-driven mindset could also produce better
  results more quickly.

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