@emollick It could very well be the case that founders who raise money gain visibility and accumulate more connections because of their successful fundraising. Also, the study should ideally have included a subset of failed companies.
@emollick The demonstrated association seems of limited utility - the study setup doesnโt make it possible to determine whether connections are predictive of success, in that it only considers the number of connections extant after โ vs. before โ funds were already raised.
@dnanian@BostonDynamics In addition to new software, the upgrade may require the replacement of a number of your organs and many parts of your fatigued airframe.
@statesdj@ItaiYanai The human genome is a complete self-contained data set which exists independently of any hypothesis. This is in contrast to data sets which are subsets of some underlying but not easily accessible true distribution. Such subsets are more prone to sampling errors and biases.
@schrep Throw in currency and unit of measure conversion, and this would be a must-have travel app. Bonus features: local price comparisons, and culturally appropriate bargaining suggestions.
@danfaggella Passing down down virtue is indeed rare and difficult. However, malignancy seems easily inheritable, as exemplified by certain examples much in the news recently.