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Downstream from academia, how about education? It's not too hard to imagine what a great education would be, and yet, you know, schools, here we are. Parents with any number of opportunities from home-school to public to private still find themselves unhappily optimizing among several unpalatable choices. Looking at something like Musk is doing, or even more ambitious, Khan academy as an experimental platform, you'd think there's a lot of room here. I just wonder how it would best met by a small crack research team with a 25 year mandate. Unsure.

The real travesty of the blurred lines case is that data science was not used, from what I gather, at any point. At a minimum, the two tracks could have been compared as to quantifiable similarity using any number of methods. EchoNest, and other recommendation approaches, convolutional neural nets, etc.

The lack of computational methods to abstract and describe the material on either side is particularly bizarre considering the judge's decision to preclude original song material from being played by the Gaye family. I'm convinced that science, rather than expert insider testimony that culminated in a courtroom live-performance jam, could have prevailed.

I quite liked this article for associating Twilio's success with strategic decisions to treat developers as customers with particular implications for evangelism and growth. This approach isn't obvious because of the pressure to tie tool adoption to large-sized recurring enterprise contracts, often losing the individual developer as the engine of that model.

Also note, Twilio brilliantly dances between concerted efforts in grassroots developer campaigns such as hackathons while bringing down tier 1 enterprise contracts at the same time. This is awesome and not easily done. Developers are smart and ultra-wary of hackathons as thinly veiled API marketing attempts.

Over the past year, I've pitched a developer API startup to countless VCs, many of them top tier, and Twilio has almost always come up as a point of reference from the other side of the table. In many, many cases, the VCs will have passed on Twilio, not liking either the developer tool or enabling tech aspect of the company, and are now face-palming a bit...Only a bit...show me a VC that will wholeheartedly admit to making a mistake ;)

Overall, the venture sentiment towards developer tools is definitely shifting. A year from now I expect to see quite a lot more activity in financing this space, albeit, in domains that largely coincide with VC comfort zones. Twilio offers communications and telephony, which is a market a lot of folks are comfortable in, compared to education, health, government, or creative industries.

Ah. It's a max patch.

If they mess with transistor man, riot.

Subscription pinball capacity?

This fails to take into account state and local taxes, which are often seem the single largest driver of difference in cost-of-living. Seattle, no income tax. CA, different story.

It also gets you soundbyte statements like "chip in your head" when in fact it's a fairly mundane technology that need not necessarily be implanted to have the same effect. You could hand his system to anyone and we could all have this extra-sensory experience. The article is strongly written from with the perspective that this is exclusive.

I'm not sure why the implant is relevant. His hearing is intact. It's not going to be projecting into midbrain audio centers. Is it just under the skin bone conductance to leave his ears free?

What ?! This isn't about robotron? Ah. I thought 2048 was a typo.

No .fm necessary for sextettes - the online dating site for music professionals.

A music notation startup's field-day Multiple music terms: Decrescendoes, diminuendoes.

What's your retention rate at decrescendoes? <add joke here>

Didn't pioneer square just roll out broadband like a year or two ago on the city's dime because at $60k rollout cost none of the cable companies wanted to touch it? And that's supposed to a be a small business and startup friendly enclave!