What to do if your startup is about to fail

Today Jason Calacanis sent a post to his mailing list subscriber titled “What to do if your startup is about to fail (or ‘Dont stop believing’).” It is not a post with a happy tone, but it has actionable suggestions about what you can do to cut cost and to prolong your runway. The best [...]

Human Chemistry

I just had an unusual enlightenment this afternoon, as witness some event took place. Human interaction dynamics are often called “chemistry” for all the right reasons. Persons are the elements, and they react with each other with such a chemistry-like reactions. Elements and persons have different degrees of reactivity. Elements and persons have different polarities, [...]

Valentine’s day timestamp = 1234567890

I saw this at Planetvc this morning. The unix timestamp will be 1234567890 at 00:31:30 CET on Valentine’s day this year. CET is GMT + 1, so technically it will still be Feb 13 for those of us in the US. However, our hacker friends in parts of Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia will get [...]

Coincidence ?

This morning I received this in my email: Hi Ezra, I’m searching for a method for utilizing GA to create starting weights for FANN to predict price fluctuations for NASDAQ securities. When I learned, through a search related to GA/FANN, that you were working on a similar project by the same means I was pleasantly [...]