The author has some serious design and coding skills. I just wish they were more precise about what it is (a window manager? an gnome user theme?) rather than trying to brand it as a javascript-based operating system.
I tried to install the OS, assuming it's a debian-derived distro but couldn't download it yet. Checking the author's twitter, patreon, instagram says he released beta 1, and is trying to name the web browser.
I do a lot of work helping early and mid-stage companies scale their workforce and technology. Some companies scale by the seat of their pants: they hire people for specific needs as they arise (e.g. servers crashing, or too many sales requests coming in). Other companies scale in a more organized, planned process, like having a big vision of becoming a global company in 5 years. In both of these scenarios, especially because you don't have a co-founder, you're going to find that it's hard to give your #2 hire a sense of agency. You'll likely feel disappointed in their style (different coding practices, different customer interactions, etc.) and want to micromanage. To help with this, start them off on a non-mission-critical project (like expanding to a new region or building a feature that's been in the backlog), and be clear with them about what "success" means for that project. Having the definition of success be written by them, in their words, will also help ensure a two-way communication here. After they have a successful project under their belt, you'll find it easier to trust them with more important work. Also keep in mind that right now you have a product, but when you hire your second employee, you'll also be establishing a culture, so it's worth putting thought into what culture you want to promote.
Markov chains are much simpler than Markov models. The lecture starts off with the simpler idea to motivate the more complex one that you're describing.
It's more reasonable to parse "depends only on" as expressing conditional independence than unconditional, and that parsing has the added bonus of making the original statement correct.
No. Again, once again, over again, one more time, in a Markov process, including a discrete time Markov chain, even one with a finite state space, the past can, and in practice usually does, provide a lot of powerful information to predict the future. The future really can depend on the past. Typically the past and the future are not independent -- not even close.
But, the Markov assumption (property) says that GIVEN (excuse my emphasis -- it is just crucial here) the present, the past does not contribute more information for predicting the future. That is the past and the future may not be independent at all, but the past and the future are conditionally independent given the present.
To discuss the Markov property, desperately need the concept of conditional independence -- there is no substitute, no easier terminology or description.
Alas, conditional independence is not so easy to discuss, even in the simplest cases. And in the grown up cases, need the Radon-Nikodym theorem of measure theory and the associated machinery of conditional expectation.
Tellingly, the part I quoted never mentioned conditional independence or even conditioning.
Sorry, again, the quote was wrong. I tried to correct the quote and, thus, keep readers trying to learn from being misled.
My sympathies are with the readers trying to learn. Early in my career, I read lots of such elementary, easy to understand introductions to lots of topics in applied math. The biggie problem was, as here, the content was from not very good down to actually wrong. Later I got a first class, rock solid foundation in grad school. In particular my background in Markov processes was from a star student of E. Cinlar, a world class expert long at Princeton. And my Ph.D. dissertation was in stochastic optimal control where the Markov assumption is just crucial -- indeed, stochastic optimal control is also commonly called Markov decision processes. In addition I've applied Markov processes in some serious work in US national security.
What I'm saying here is on the center of the target. What I quoted no one should try to learn from -- it's wrong.
I clicked on this link expecting a conversation about commenting in code, which is broken for several reasons. Commenting on this post seems to work for me though.
A quick google search turned up http://www.mobilepodcaster.com/ which is somewhat similar. What's the killer feature that sets your idea above this one ? Also, what are your ideas for an impressive demo of this idea?
The capability of giving anyone a monetization channel. Mobile Podcaster is really good, but its just a recording/publishing app. The main features they have is to add intro and publish directly to WordPress. There is no editing to add commercials or ads that can monetize your podcast. Also the feature I'm talking about should be from the listener to the producer (not the other way around). So if I listen to your podcast and I want to advertise my site in it, I just select a "free space" on your episode and record myself or upload my ad.
As a related aside, it's often possible that the software you want exists. It's extremely tiresome and boring and frankly awful to weed through and try them all out.
As an example, I tried to find some good RC helicopter simulator software recently. Horrendous. Top scoring links are talking about software from the 90s. Stuff like that.
Solve that issue and you'll probably do really well.
We stuck with facebook to keep it simple, but I agree it would be really nice to login via twitter. This is definitely on our roadmap, but I don't think we'll get to it for this time. If you have a great idea and think you can get people to vote for it (where they're on facebook), then feel free to email it to appoutloud@coshx.com and I'll try to enter it in on your behalf.
I completely agree with this. One skill that I pride myself in is being able to internalize others' ideas. For example, I'm working on a startup right now (it helps that I have equity), and am pretty happy when I'm still up coding at 5am because I just want it to work perfectly.
Part of the reason for requesting others' ideas for this, is that there are so many domain experts for domains other than technology that I want to meet,learn from, and ultimately help.
Thanks for reporting this. It looks like the database connection went down just as you were submitting. I'll switch to a better database tonight to ensure the connection stays up. Would you mind trying to submit again?
You're right, if the winning idea is "build the control software for a self-driving boat that can search for a missing airplane," then the tech certainly will not be easy (and would be pretty awesome). What we were getting at with that line was that there are lots of great business ideas that can be prototyped without solving monumental technical challenges, and having a solid prototype isn't enough for a startup to succeed - it's only the beginning.
