Deal with it

Quant and other related musings from Frankos

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An idea is not a mockup A mockup is not a prototype A prototype is not a program A program is not a product A product is not a business And a business is not profits

from my Coursera Stanford Startup Engineering Course

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Big Data is any data that is expensive to manage and hard to extract value from.

Michael Franklin 

Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Computer Science 

Director of the Algorithms, Machines and People Lab 

University of Berkeley 

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Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday's code.

Christopher Thompson

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Mind Expansion

well well well what do we have here

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This marvellous ripple effect happens when we think, honest

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When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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The Depressing Day After You Get TechCrunched Vinicius Vacanti, viniciusvacanti.com

You wake up ear­li­er than nor­mal, grab your iPhone which you slept on top of and do a twit­ter search for your start­up name.

Boom. A tweet every 5 min­utes.

Peo­ple are re-tweeting the TechCrunch arti­cle cov­er­ing your start­up’s launch.…

Welcome to the world of the entrepreneur. I joined in this month too!

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Is Your Company Heading For a Cuban Missile Crisis? Steps to Make Sure Big Data is Working For You, Not Against You Milo Jones and Philippe Silberzahn, forbes.com

The rise of big data – the abil­i­ty to gath­er mas­sive amounts of infor­ma­tion about both envi­ron­ment and oper­a­tions – rests on the assump­tion that hav­ing more data gives orga­ni­za­tions bet­ter con­trol and the abil­i­ty to avoid nasty…

Don't get left behind.

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Great article by one of my former professors.

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Time by John Clang | Tumblr

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Fantastic way of doing a time-lapsed photo collage

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A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Sorry, just going through a phase of Einstein quotes appreciation

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"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

Albert Einstein

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This is an illustration of the “Twitter Activity Network” for The New York Times, which allegedly shows a “high number of users participating in long chains of tweeeting and retweeting.”

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Really?