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Comment · 11 years ago
His father also called him Loong (not Hsien Loong), at least sometimes:
"He was still young and it was better that someone else succeed me as prime minister. Then, were Loong to make the grade later, it would be clear that he made it on his own merit."
http://www.singapore-window.org/sw04/040531a1.htm
(They use English in the family, although Lee Hsien Loong can speak Chinese fairly well.)
Comment · 11 years ago
Cambridge professor about Lee Hsien Loong:
"No, he was truly outstanding: he was head and shoulders above the rest of the students. He was not only the first, but the gap. I think that he did computer science (after mathematics) mostly because his father didn’t want him to stay in pure mathematics. Loong was not only hardworking, conscientious and professional, but he was also very inventive. All the signs indicated that he would have been a world-class research mathematician."
"I’m sure his father never realized how exceptional Loong was. He thought Loong was very good. No, Loong was much better than that. When I tried to tell Lee Kuan Yew, “Look, your son is phenomenally good: you should encourage him to do mathematics,” then he implied that that was impossible, since as a top-flight professional mathematician Loong would leave Singapore for Princeton, Harvard or Cambridge, and that would send the wrong signal to the people in Singapore. And I have to agree that this was a very good point indeed."
http://therealsingapore.com/content/cambridge-professor-lee-...
Comment · 11 years ago
It may be true that this particular sample is too small; I haven't looked at the experiment in detail. However, just pointing out that n<=20 per group isn't enough of an argument to justify this statement. Significance is about more than just the sample size. The idea that it's impossible to get significant statistical result with small samples is a common misconception.
Comment · 11 years ago
I do. (The number of layers varies with the temperature.)
May I ask the opposite question?
Why do many people change outfits almost every day? Do they derive satisfaction from the process of choosing clothes? Or do they derive satisfaction from the fact that other people notice these changes?
As you point out, choosing and owning different outfits comes at a cost, and people who choose to do so must have a reason for this behaviour.
Comment · 11 years ago
Really? com.ycombinator.news seems much more logical and intuitive to me, just like 2015-04-01.
Or how about com/ycombinator/news?
Comment · 11 years ago
The US (Great Plains Shelterbelt project), China (Great Green Wall, or Three-North Shelter Forest Program), and Russia (Siberia) are precisely the inspirations for this project.
Comment · 11 years ago
Writing out long variable names while working on a mathematical model is like writing the same text with ten times the number of characters. It's neither elegant nor efficient.
Imagine you're playing around with variables and model configurations in complex mathematical terms, but one formula stretches over two pages and you always need to cross out and rewrite whole words.
Comment · 11 years ago
It makes sense to use Greek letters for exogenous parameters so that we can use Latin letters for endogenously determined variables. The distinction between capitalized and uncapitalized letters is useful for a similar reason.
This makes economic formulae much more readable.
Comment · 11 years ago
Is this "issue" a bug or a feature? Isn't it very liberating that people can't see whether you're looking at them or not?
Comment · 11 years ago
Alexa's China sample appears to be unrepresentative, so the numbers are flawed.
Another indication: chinadaily.com.cn (English) is #23, just after one of the most popular Chinese web portals (sogou.com).
Comment · 11 years ago
The Pico CMS website features an attractive description / value proposition: "Pico is a flat file CMS, this means there is no administration backend and database to deal with. You simply create .md files in the "content" folder and that becomes a page." Perhaps you can add a similar sentence to the Baun website as well?
Comment · 11 years ago
Possibly.
But Sandwich Video's decision to accept equity is obviously based on an assumption that start-ups continue to reach high valuations.
So if we're at the top, Sandwich Video is late. In that case, cash out now by purchasing a video. The service provider will suffer the valuation loss.