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Betting on Green - 5 views

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Nicholas Lan on 16 Mar 11

breakthroughs vs. accelerated deployment in climate change mitigation technologies.

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LeopoldS on 17 Mar 11

interesting guy indeed ... "Forget today's green technologies like electric cars, wind turbines, solar cells and smart grids, in other words. None meets what Mr Khosla calls the "Chindia price"-the price at which people in China and India will buy them without a subsidy. "Everything's a toy until it reaches that point," he says. I also like this one since its a bit like ACT topic selection: ""I am only interested in technologies that have a 90% chance of failure but, if they do succeed, would change the infrastructure of society in some radical way," he says." should we propose SPS to him ? :-)

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">interesting guy indeed ... "Forget today's green technologies like electric cars, wind turbines, solar cells and smart grids, in other words. None meets what Mr Khosla calls the "Chindia price"-the price at which people in China and India will buy them without a subsidy. "Everything's a toy until it reaches that point," he says. I also like this one since its a bit like ACT topic selection: ""I am only interested in technologies that have a 90% chance of failure but, if they do succeed, would change the infrastructure of society in some radical way," he says." should we propose SPS to him ? :-)</div>

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LeopoldS on 17 Mar 11

one more: ""I never compute returns. If you start forecasting cash flows, you lose innovation, you lose instinct. You average yourself down to mediocrity." "I've had many more failures than successes in my life," admits Mr Khosla. "My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">one more: ""I never compute returns. If you start forecasting cash flows, you lose innovation, you lose instinct. You average yourself down to mediocrity." "I've had many more failures than successes in my life," admits Mr Khosla. "My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed."</div>

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Nicholas Lan on 17 Mar 11

indeed. puts me in mind of the often reinvented private ACT idea. actually there's a bunch of interesting looking articles on his website. http://www.khoslaventures.com/khosla/papers.html . No sps in the solar one as far as i can tell :) found this bit intriguing too in that, albeit presumably out of context, it doesn't make sense ""The solution to our energy problems is almost the exact opposite of what Khosla says," declares Joseph Romm, who is the editor of Climate Progress, an influential climate blog, and a senior fellow at the Centre for American Progress Action Fund, a think-tank. "Technology breakthroughs are unlikely to be the answer. Accelerated deployment of existing technologies will get you down the cost curve much more rapidly than a breakthrough."" found this seemingly not very well considered piece (to be fair a blog post) by the guy http://climateprogress.org/2010/07/02/is-anyone-more-incoherent-than-vinod-khosla/ . maybe he's written some more convincing stuff in this vein somewhere.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">indeed. puts me in mind of the often reinvented private ACT idea. actually there's a bunch of interesting looking articles on his website. <a href="http://www.khoslaventures.com/khosla/papers.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.khoslaventures.com/khosla/papers.html</a> . No sps in the solar one as far as i can tell :) found this bit intriguing too in that, albeit presumably out of context, it doesn't make sense ""The solution to our energy problems is almost the exact opposite of what Khosla says," declares Joseph Romm, who is the editor of Climate Progress, an influential climate blog, and a senior fellow at the Centre for American Progress Action Fund, a think-tank. "Technology breakthroughs are unlikely to be the answer. Accelerated deployment of existing technologies will get you down the cost curve much more rapidly than a breakthrough."" found this seemingly not very well considered piece (to be fair a blog post) by the guy <a href="http://climateprogress.org/2010/07/02/is-anyone-more-incoherent-than-vinod-khosla/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://climateprogress.org/2010/07/02/is-anyone-more-incoherent-than-vinod-khosla/</a> . maybe he's written some more convincing stuff in this vein somewhere.</div>

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Ma Ru on 25 Apr 11

"Mr Khosla (...) is investing over $1 billion of his clients' money in black swans" Well, with his own money his approach might be a little different :-)

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Edge 285 - videos of a conference combining mathematicians, physicists and economists o... - 0 views

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LeopoldS on 18 May 09

have not looked at them yet but the tiltle sounded intriguing ...

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Python is becoming the world's most popular coding language - Daily chart - 3 views

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Marcus Maertens on 10 Oct 18

In the past 12 months Americans have searched for Python on Google more often than for Kim Kardashian, a reality-TV star. The number of queries has trebled since 2010, while those for other major programming languages have been flat or declining.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">In the past 12 months Americans have searched for Python on Google more often than for Kim Kardashian, a reality-TV star. The number of queries has trebled since 2010, while those for other major programming languages have been flat or declining. </div>

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dharmeshtailor on 11 Oct 18

Likely this is correlated with the increased interest in machine learning in the past decade - all the popular DL libraries are Python-based after all...

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