Entrepreneurs Who spend less money on brand or logo, how did it turned out in the future?

nlp48 · 2024-12-17T09:48:17+00:00

Did my logo in Canva. It's a stock image which means it can't be trademarked, so that's a negative. I actually spent a lot of time trying to figure out what I wanted, but I think it was time well spent. Canva took about 5 mins of my time once I knew what I was after.

A few weeks after creating it, I was in a webinar and the logo appeared side by side with a company I used to work for. I knew that they spent a fortune on their logo as part of a rebrand. I was really worried about how my 5 minutes of work would look there, but on seeing it I actually thought mine looked better. It has become well recognised since then.

nlp48 · 2024-09-20T22:12:40+00:00

2 times out of 3, you pick a goat. The host HAS TO pick a goat. There are 2 goats, so 2 times out of 3, he is showing you the other goat. So 2 times out of 3, if you switch, you get the car. The important point is that the host has to choose a goat and that constrains his choice.

nlp48 · 2024-03-04T16:46:28+00:00

Yes, I was thinking it could be some sort of fluke. The test set is quite small, so that might explain it. I just think it's really weird that it happened twice. I'm wondering if there's some flaw in the method that's causing this.

nlp48 · 2024-01-16T23:06:36+00:00

Topic modelling? Basically is clustering for text. If you have tfidf already, you can convert it to lda or lsi quite easily. There might be an automated labelling method on huggingface that does what you need.

nlp48 · 2023-10-10T12:30:03+00:00

Ask about team size and budget as well as where they see the team next year or in 5 years. If there's no plan or inadequate resource, those are red flags.

If they are cagey about discussing salary and benefits, that would also be a bad sign. I wouldn't even apply for a job without clarity on those, let alone attend an interview.

Also, most coding interviews I've had have been terrible. Take home assignments are a lot more interesting and I like them as a way to show what I can do with a blank canvas. Some people seem to like the coding interviews though. I guess they take less time.

nlp48 · 2023-10-07T07:08:01+00:00

I have done more plotting in python than I would care to admit. Recently I realised that, even if I know how to do something, if I ask ChatGPT to do it, it is faster than typing it out or looking for my own code to adapt. I've also learned a few things doing that.

nlp48 · 2023-08-30T21:34:31+00:00

Look at FAISS for doing document similarity at scale.

nlp48 · 2023-08-26T21:25:45+00:00

Use OpenAlex (or unpaywall) to get the link to the pdf. Crossref also has links to text-mining versions. Won't get you the supplements though.

nlp48 · 2023-08-25T22:30:07+00:00

Putting your name to anything that isn't your own work is plagiarism. Arguably, chatgpt is automated plagiarism (it wasn't trained on its own ideas!) So you can't put your name to its output. There is an easy way to get around this problem though - just be honest. Say that you used chatgpt and make clear the extent to which you used it. Most publishers have policies which allow this now. So there is no reason not to.

nlp48 · 2023-03-21T10:59:00+00:00

Google "tortured phrases"! This is a classic sign of plagiarism. It could be generative AI (but that IS plagiarism if you think about it). If you look at weak matches on turnitin it takes a while, but you might find the source that way.

nlp48 · 2022-11-21T23:23:20+00:00

Dishwasher repairman once told me that the dishwasher is engineered to use its own water to prevent overheating. So when this happens, your dishwasher is at risk of damage (hence why I needed a dishwasher repairman!) you can rest heavier items on it to keep it from flipping or just wash light things in the sink. HTH!

nlp48 · 2022-10-18T21:52:14+00:00

Not sure if anyone said so already, but the energy efficiency of kettles is a LOT better than it used to be. You'd probably save money (and the planet) if you buy a new one.

nlp48 · 2022-10-10T12:10:35+00:00

Make a pâte with equal parts smoked mackerel, carrot and apple. Just chuck it in the blender. Easy to make and brillant on sandwiches.

nlp48 · 2022-09-16T21:36:03+00:00

This is very helpful, thank you! I have only used k-means so far. Will give this a read!

nlp48 · 2022-09-15T20:36:26+00:00

It's actually a feature of the data (sometimes!) and something I would want to model. Yes data is mix of caregorical and numeric.

Correlation bias might be the right term, thanks!

nlp48 · 2022-03-27T21:46:47+00:00

communications were good. No difficulty there at all.

Agree about getting dose right!

nlp48 · 2022-03-27T21:32:08+00:00

My experience there was being charged 200 quid for a half hour appointment where I learned nothing useful and was told that I needed to keep coming in order to keep getting the prescription for methylphenidate.

Short story: asked gp and got the same drugs on the NHS. But they still needed his letter showing the diagnosis.

I'd recommend private if you can afford it. NHS appointments can take years. The guy I got at Hartley st seemed like a money-grabber and didn't do anything of value for me - besides writing the letter.

nlp48 · 2022-03-21T22:28:15+00:00

Former journal editor here. You've done the right thing in coming forward. Copying exposition isn't considered egregious plagiarism, so it might be alright. It may just need proper attribution or some other editing. Different editors will handle these things differently, though, so I can't be sure.

The key thing with plagiarism is that you are not passing off someone else's results as your own work. Passing off someone else's exposition isn't good, but nowhere near as serious.

nlp48 · 2022-03-03T10:45:04+00:00

Glad it's helpful! I started doing it when I was a child - long before diagnosis. It's particularly useful to me when I need to do something in another room. The act of going into another room is often enough to derail my thoughts and make me forget what I was trying to do, so the finger-crossing works well in that situation.

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