When I face the same problem and when my head is full of all the noisy - "why is this thing not working, I think I did everything right" s

- I stroll around, walk a mile or two - have some coffee there at some store - look at the people there and think - 'what is running on their mind? Not a buggy code,I guess' - and then come back, stare at the screen and voila! there it is! An insignificant pesky ';' was missing!

So, yes, walk away from your computer. What you and your computer have is a relationship and you need to spend some time apart to realize what you're missing in there.And to get it to work. ;)

About the 70's group, can you share the link to the article?

on the flipside, i would be certain that certainty is a particular kind of hell, if having such knowledge didn't condemn me to it. excuse me while i proceed to consume my tail http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros

I so so digg your 'the more we learn, the less we know' dialogue.

10: Question Reality

20: Verify Results

30: GOTO 10

    while anyone_cares:
        improve_model()
    
        if theory_of_everything_appears or strong_ai_appears:
            raise Exception("rethink loop")

20: Verify Results

30: GOTO 10

In scientific studies, a question is made and an answer is given. That answer then leads to newer questions further probing the ultimate. One can approach, but never completely know.

In the Occult, one accepts a maxim or answer as an answer. Questioning hinders or derails to what is desired. I am speaking of the ultimate goal of the study of the esoteric: understanding of self.

(You mentioned an occult icon, thereby opening this line of commentary)

I forget the source, but they later tested their setup with random input and found it predicted tachyons from that as well.

'Words' and 'Expressions' along with a meaningful message are the best ways to communicate yourself across to a room full of people. Some visual material is as much important but only 'useful' material.

Rather than wasting your time on thinking 'how to fill N number of slides', it will be a lot more useful if we know our material, practice our material and choose our words carefully. Practice how to engage audience, than trying to make awesome visuals to enchant them with your slide making skills.

Why 'three slide' rule?

Lets make it a 'one' slide rule! :)

I'll wait for 2-5 years for them to grow,and in the mean time the jetpack will become safer!

Especially if you've never done this before I'd expect that you might need a bit more runway than just 100K. YC pulled it off to have reddit and loopt in their first batch but it did take the combined efforts of Robert Morris, Paul Graham, Trevor Blackwell and Jessica Livingston to decide on those five.

It may have helped that for none of them it was the only money they had.

I applaud you for being daring but typically the failure rate of start-ups is such that you'd need pretty deep pockets as an inexperienced and relatively unknown investor to make a go of it.

On top of that you'll be in competition with other incubators with more visibility which likely will attract the 'hot' ones first.

Seriously, chad, Congrats. :)