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Homemade binary-compatible 1/10th scale Cray supercomputer
Sunday, August 29th, 2010
via chrisfenton.com
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In 2006, Zoho’s CEO, Sridhar Vembu, initiated an experimentto hire 17-year-olds directly out of high school. He found that within two years, the work performance of these recruits was indistinguishable from that of their college-educated peers. Some ended up becoming superstar software developers.
We present a set of very unusual dice, and a two player game where you will always have the advantage.
You can even teach your opponent how the game works, yet still win again!
Finally, we will describe a new game for three players where you can potentially beat both opponents - at the same time!
Let’s take our hypothetical entrepreneur who just cashed out for $4.3mm and see if we can retire her within a year or two.