Comments on: 245: TZ Discussion – The Two-Sigma Problem

By: Andrea

Andrea — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 19:46:10 +0000

Fareed Zakaria GPS has an interview with Elon Musk this week.

By: Philippe Monnet

Philippe Monnet — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 22:45:06 +0000

Another interesting show! Although the first 30 mn sounded a bit like an extended segment of “letters from the dark side”. 😉
It’s great to hear that AnyFu may become a “trio”. Hope that works out.

By: Simon Holmes

Simon Holmes — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 19:45:58 +0000

I have to say, I’d love to see you guys break through this barrier with Anyfu. I think it’s one of the most common hurdles that causes tech startups to fail. if you guys break through it and succeed you might well inspire a few more entrepreneurs to keep going.

Good luck to you!

🙂

By: Alfie

Alfie — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 04:15:19 +0000

I highly recommend the movie Sneakers for Colby, and possibly Hackers (non-nudity edit).

By: Ben Boyter

Ben Boyter — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 02:30:19 +0000

Oddly my habits of listening to things are different again to you guys. I cannot listen to anything spoken (lyrics included) when programming, but podcast’s and lectures (my current favourite being Greece and Rome integrated history of the Mediterranean) when closing my eyes makes me sleep instantly.

Totally with you about the Tron Legacy soundtrack though. The best code I have ever written was to that soundtrack. 100% awesome.

As for odd posts that generate work, here is mine http://www.boyter.org/decoding-captchas/ I get about one email a week from someone either asking me to write a CAPTCHA decoder for them or from people wanting more information about it. Have not generated much work from it but I do get correspondence with some interesting folks which is always good.

By: nethy

nethy — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 21:20:26 +0000

Jason, sounds like you’re a modernist – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_to_materials .

I liked discussion about mixing tutoring and computer based learning. It sounds right to me. I was an on campus correspondence student too, even in high school. It reminded me of an NPR podcast I listened to recently about computer assisted chess playing. Sounds like a promising path.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 20:25:11 +0000

@James Robert – I think you’re probably right.

By: James Robert

James Robert — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 20:12:15 +0000

I have a feeling the reason you’re getting less interest in the anyfu partnership is the generally techie nature of the tech zing audience. If you had said, we’re badass marketers, but really need to hand off the technology portion of this product, are there any tech people around? I’d bet you’d get a lot more responses.

That’s not super useful, but maybe it’d inform future attempts to find someone?