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Re: Lessons learned building an ML trading system that turned $5k into $200k

Blacknox — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 13:31:07 -0000

Thank you for this. Excellent read. Just realized my comment looked like all the other spam comments. This is incredibly helpful to us as we work on our own models. Appreciate you taking the time to write this up.

Re: Book: Buddhism 101

Blacknox — Sun, 08 Sep 2019 19:38:25 -0000

Excellent. Very foundational for me many years ago.

Brad Nickel

Re: Book: Buddhism 101

Blacknox — Sun, 08 Sep 2019 18:01:23 -0000

Great to see you diving in Brad! I'd also like to highly recommend:

Steve Hagen's
Buddhism Is Not What You Think: Finding Freedom Beyond Beliefs
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B...

Fantastic way to see and understand.

Re: Satis Group Analysts: 81 Percent of ICO’s Are Scams

Blacknox — Fri, 18 May 2018 14:26:32 -0000

Did you verify the validity of the data in this "study" before you published this article? It feels incredibly bogus and the criteria are a mess. They've been asked repeatedly for the raw data on Medium where they published and have not answered a single inquiry. Really should do your diligence before posting such an inflammatory article.

Re: All That We Share

Blacknox — Sun, 05 Feb 2017 21:32:07 -0000

Thanks Brad.

Re: AVC, Gotham Gal, and Feld Thoughts Communities Rally $100,000+ For The ACLU

Blacknox — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 01:05:38 -0000

Brad, I'm not sure trump and company plan to follow what the courts say.

https://medium.com/@yonatan...

Re: Why Goliath Should Be One Season Only

Blacknox — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 21:00:40 -0000

Fascinating insights. Thanks for sharing that. I had no idea how it worked, but explains a great deal.

Re: CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap – Startup Week

Blacknox — Tue, 03 May 2016 18:32:23 -0000

At our coding camps (http://codekidscamp.com) last year, girls dominated boys. As we move to educate children on coding, the gender gap dynamic is going to change and I expect women will turn the tide dramatically. The boys did well, but the girls blew past them. When a significant number of girls and boys have 5-11 years of real coding experience in school before they graduate from high school, amazing things are going to happen in tech beyond what we can imagine today.

Unfortunately, the curriculums and methods our schools are trying to institute are not great and teachers just aren't ready to teach coding. Our camps had 2 college developers and 1 public school teacher in every camp and we are doing the same as we grow to 20 plus locations this year. Schools, camps, and online services attempting to teach kids with 1 curriculum and instructors with no real coding experience will for most kids fail. We found we needed 5 different self-paced curriculums (of the 23 we tested) to adapt to kids needs, a mix of offline training (ex: most kids don't know what the Internet is, because it is like electricity for them), and the guiding hand of developers to help them through concepts.

Many kids will be able to self-teach, but if we do not change what is being attempted in our schools (private and public), then we will miss out on what we experienced last year, which was kids devouring the lessons and advancing more rapidly than we expected and we will lose out on the opportunity for girls to become engaged with coding, utilize their superior attention spans and to eventually eliminate the gender gap dynamic.

I am very hopeful though, because we have had schools ask us to help them institute our model for them and there are schools that are innovating enough to make it a success, but the desire to be STEM "compliant" will drive many districts to rush into a half-baked model that will fail. As we take our model national and add after school programs and clubs, we hope to be a part of shifting the dynamic for girls and for all kids that might not realize what is possible for them with coding.

Re: Help Me Understand The Value of Slack Instead of an Email List

Blacknox — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 20:25:16 -0000

I advocated and then gave up. Some search and knowledge retention makes it semi valuable, but for the most part just not worth the hassle of trying to get "normal" people on board. I have better luck with Basecamp Pings and discussion groups because my clients can interact via email or the interface.

I have too many groups to manage and companies to connect to and Slack is horrendous at that model. I suppose it is fine for one company or group with a semi-singular focus, but any other use is a painful user experience. I keep it open in case something interesting comes across, but frankly won't be investing any more time in Slack nor will I try to get others to use it.

Re: Book: When Breath Becomes Air

Blacknox — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 07:38:58 -0000

Thank you Brad. Awaiting takeoff to Seattle and found the end of Paul's life and book a perfect awakening for me to begin. Uplifting.

Re: The Sad State of Personal Knowledgebases

Blacknox — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 23:33:46 -0000

Right now, I am just using DokuWiki (https://www.dokuwiki.org/). Best solution I can find is a wiki. I love TrunkNotes (https://itunes.apple.com/us... on iOS, but must have a better desktop interface (currently accesses IOS via Wifi). It is incredibly powerful though for an iOS app.

Re: Are Individual Angel Investors Starting To Get Tapped Out?

Blacknox — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 22:10:25 -0000

Wow Brad, I just read your Unicorpse post AFTER I submitted this comment:

"I hope to live another 50 years as I think this is going to be the most interesting point in the history of our species up to this point."

Me too man.

Re: Are Individual Angel Investors Starting To Get Tapped Out?

Blacknox — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 22:05:37 -0000

"And, at the same time, the cycle of innovation is intense – there is a huge amount of interesting stuff being created at all levels."

I am so fired up by the pace.

This is one of those times (or THE time) when we are going to look back at a fundamental transformation of our existence. I'm certainly not the first to say this, but smart folks can go out today and use any number of machine learning platforms and start on concepts that will dramatically change how we live, communicate, and function throughout all components of society. I am more giddy now than I ever was in 98, 99, or 00 and that's saying a lot for a 50 year old guy who started with a PET.

Re: The Foundry Group Detroit House

Blacknox — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 11:25:40 -0000

Miami!

Re: Tracking Time and Expenses

Blacknox — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 00:32:47 -0000

New to ActiveCollab, but does the timer app still exist? The link above pulls a 404. Would like to be able to keep time. Also looks like the existing iOS app is not compatible with the current version of the system, since the app is asking me for a subdomain to manage projects.com to access our account. Will there be an app for time tracking and for the system in general?

Re: WARNING: avoid the “Apply to Present” & “Angel Pitch Contest” event scams

Blacknox — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 23:57:24 -0000

So glad you posted this. I tweeted about a Miami group doing this a few weeks back. Our founders here are less sophisticated than those in SV and so I am more concerned about it, but I am sure it's happening everywhere.

Re: The Great Coding School Rollup of 2015

Blacknox — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 11:14:52 -0000

"that’s another story for another day" -

Seems like another book for another day.

I remember salivating over all those web hosting customers for AppsOnline... sigh. :)

Re: Happy Holidays From Techstars

Blacknox — Sat, 20 Dec 2014 10:53:20 -0000

That was fun. Nice job sending warm happy feelings.

Re: Ep. 1 – Amazing Startup Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Peter Pezaris – Founder/CEO of Glip.com

Blacknox — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 20:32:41 -0000

Thanks so much!

Re: Is Inbound Marketing Actually Profitable or Just a Slogan

Blacknox — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 07:37:24 -0000

Oh and the smaller companies that buy it don't know what they are doing and don't have the talent to implement what they need to be successful with inbound marketing. So, I guess that is product too.

Re: Is Inbound Marketing Actually Profitable or Just a Slogan

Blacknox — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 07:17:58 -0000

Product, price, target market, and product. Nothing to do with inbound marketing conceptually. The product just isn't worth the money they charge and the way they price it.

Re: How to Create Your Own Twitter Auto Retweet Bot

Blacknox — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 22:06:17 -0000

Thanks for setting this up. I am getting the same error from IFTTT that its not a valid feed url missing feed title now with the script in your post as it is.

Re: Protected: The Birth of Our Book

Blacknox — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 15:48:02 -0000

No problem. Just wanted you to be aware.

Re: Protected: The Birth of Our Book

Blacknox — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 12:02:54 -0000

Looking forward to reading it. Just ordered digital version and so you know, it shows Pre-Order price of $7.50, but when you order via gumroad, its charging $9.95

Re: Going Beyond Amazon: A New Model for Authors, Retailers, and Publishers

Blacknox — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 11:05:01 -0000

Brad, this is timely, because I just finally started writing my first book, but I am using a very cool open source platform and loving it. It comes with a built in publishing desktop tool that uses Markdown for writing, has publishing in all formats built in and it makes complete sense to me so far. The site allows you to publish and see in their library, but you can take the books anywhere you want. Since this is my first book, I'd like to see what experienced authors think of it nad what it's missing. So far for me, it's brilliant and it's free: https://www.gitbook.io/