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by 110011 8y ago
There are so many presumptions in your comment (and your comment below) that I don't know where to start, but I find it very amusing :) My original comment was based on the reading of the title of this thread and the first few sentence
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by 110011 8y ago
"Ana Bell, lecturer in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, chooses the best books to learn computer science and programming."
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by 110011 8y ago
Her recommendations are poor. You dont read books on software development methodologies when "learning to program". Nor would you learn type theory. That's like suggesting to someone who wants to learn to sail, the intricacie
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by 110011 8y ago
Sorry but neither the article nor the subject can be said to pique "intellectual curiosity". Working hard and winning an unheard of competition? Yeah very fascinating. Understand that anyone can rewrite their past to draw out a co
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by 110011 8y ago
Why is this on HN? Irrelevant, poorly written, lacks credibility.
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by 110011 8y ago
Have a goal in life. What do you want to achieve in the long term? This is a very hard question. Most people don't think about this because they are too depleted in the short term addressing problems in the lower levels of Maslow'
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by 110011 8y ago
Jesus, can you be more melodramatic, self-congratulatory and pointless all at the same time?
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by 110011 8y ago
The problem is that most people conflate social media with the predominant mode of social media use, i.e., smartphones. Many of the jedi mind tricks that the mobile apps play to keep us addicted don't really work that well on a compute
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by 110011 8y ago
You claimed a contradiction but didn't present it. And you go on to assert exactly the things that I said. I am saying that the system failed the students by forcing them to prepare relentlessly for these exams, which the students come
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by 110011 8y ago
The people referenced in the article, who attend several years specialized coaching preparing for these exams, paying large sums of money in the process, are hardly doing so in "a desperate attempt to escape poverty." They are sim
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by 110011 8y ago
The answer is a bit nuanced and I am suggesting that it is the case, perhaps about the same instead of being exactly the same. You can argue that the apparent cost of not studying hard in is wildly different in these two countries (basic we
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by 110011 8y ago
The pressure to succeed is immense everywhere, this is hardly a notable feature of Indian society. Others have mentioned this already on this thread but let me paraphrase, basically no one is satisfied with some objective notion of success
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by 110011 8y ago
Without a doubt all the years of exam preparation in the teenage years come at a steep cost. For a young person in their teens to not have the time to reflect, be self-aware, and explore what life has to offer, is necessarily a failure of t
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by 110011 8y ago
This is a pretty inane article for placing too much emphasis on a stupid gimmick like anti-suicide ceiling fans, when the underlying issue is a serious mental health issue of extraordinarily stressed students. I'm Indian and I remember
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by 110011 8y ago
Eloquently formulated case against the blind acceptance of digital devices into our lives, and outsourcing ever more of what makes us human to algorithms. While we have always been talking of splintering of our attention, and the constant b
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by 110011 9y ago
I haven't read the book but I wonder.. as a billionaire he clearly stands to gain a lot from spreading a message of optimism and collective progress over the last century presumably to maintain status quo when an equally factual but co
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by 110011 9y ago
Yes that is in essence all that needs to be said. Work is just one manifestation of competition between individuals driving us to outdo others. Of course if we weren't occupied by work all day then we'll find something else to com
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by 110011 9y ago
I see people downvoting my comment, but honestly if you think this is anything but hilarious then you may be too deep in this speculative bubble!
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by 110011 9y ago
Hahahahaha this is hilarious, where are all the bitcoin fanatics now hmmm? Does this confirm its singular status as a vehicle of enormous speculation or do we have to wait till people finally agree it is worth precisely zero US dollars...
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by 110011 9y ago
It is not a currency today, just a source of endless speculation that is bound to end badly for many. Let's not forget that above all it's just a horribly inefficient way to trade value. I suppose all the people who think Bitcoin
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by 110011 9y ago
I am not romanticising the past. I am not advocating to stop using smartphones altogether. What I am saying is that people by and large don't seem to use it in a healthy way. It seems many of the folks are using smartphones exactly in
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by 110011 9y ago
The way mobile phones are being used in the present day, by both children and adults alike, is unhealthy and at the very least it can be said that the potential ill effects are not very well understood. Much like how research into the ill e
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by 110011 9y ago
What OP is saying is if you invoke undefined behavior in your program (like the Heartbleed bug for example) it doesn't matter that in the end the compiler is correct. And this does account for the vast majority of bugs (programmer erro
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by 110011 9y ago
> Because only a vanishingly rare amount of the incorrectness in compiled C programs comes from a bug in the compiler. True. What I meant to say, but didn't, is, why aren't more people working on ensuring that this provability
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by 110011 9y ago
Nice interview. What a tremendous achievement to formally prove the correctness of a C compiler! It boggles my mind why more people are not involved in this direction. I hope to live to see the day when lots of commercial software will be w
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by 110011 9y ago
What an amazing result! Evaluating fewer (by a factor of 1000) positions AlphaZero still beats Stockfish. In the figure on its preferred openings I find it very interesting that it doesn't like the Ruy Lopez very much over training tim
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by 110011 9y ago
Amen. There are some truly mind bending puzzles there.
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by 110011 9y ago
That's a good point. I noticed the spectacular bias in the comments on HN as well. Anything relating to Google is almost surely beaten down for no good reason at all. One of the best examples of this was the new Google Calendar UI anno
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by 110011 9y ago
Wasteful as in we can do better. Did you see the link in my comment? One of the authors of that paper is actually a Turing award winner. Ultimately we've reached a point where there are more efficient alternatives to having hundreds of
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by 110011 9y ago
It's scary to see so much faith in bitcoin given it's horrendously wasteful proof-of-work scheme to avoid double spending. There are better alternatives that minimize latency nearly a hundred-fold and avoid proof-of-work altogethe

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