UmDieWelt

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by UmDieWelt 10y ago
People were thinking about the difference between life and non-life way before robots. Philosophers/biologists needed to come up with a definition that could get just the right subset of a fire, a rock, a tree, an animal, a human, a vi
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by UmDieWelt 11y ago
Pretty easy to have a strong risk tolerance when you come from a wealthy background and have an elite degree on your resume. Also, there's very little risk to starting a company these days.
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by UmDieWelt 11y ago
New frontier? They've been popular for over 20 years.
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by UmDieWelt 11y ago
It's no match for my 12 week PhD bootcamp.
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by UmDieWelt 11y ago
Electric wiring is a vocation that is far more important than coding and yet society isn't constantly encouraging everyone to be an electrician.
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by UmDieWelt 11y ago
It's already common knowledge, which is why the amount of people majoring in CS is skyrocketing.
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by UmDieWelt 11y ago
Forecasted ROIs are meaningless considering major is more important for ROI than where you went to school. Harvey Mudd isn't a better university than Harvard, Yale, or Princeton just because its graduates go almost exclusively into wha
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by UmDieWelt 11y ago
The point is that the words don't really have a useful meaning anymore. It is especially important in technical topics to have terms with some specific meaning.
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by UmDieWelt 11y ago
If your goal is to get a PhD you should probably focus on finding some way to do research style work. Research is a lot different than taking online courses.
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by UmDieWelt 11y ago
You realize people take jobs at companies they don't want to work for all the time, right? So your statement is the one that doesn't make any sense.
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by UmDieWelt 11y ago
I guess CS students can't be bothered to know anything about companies, because there's no rational way to rank companies the way you described.
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by UmDieWelt 11y ago
How many of the greatest films of all time was he supposed to make to be considered a genius? Also, he was pretty accomplished in radio and theatre in addition to film.
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by UmDieWelt 11y ago
I know you're trying to be edgy, but it's actually objective fact that 14th century music still being enjoyed by millions in the 21st century is among the least ephemeral music. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dicti
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by UmDieWelt 11y ago
Also, a lot more data to train on.
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by UmDieWelt 12y ago
You are right that the current state won't last long. Computer science enrollments are skyrocketing, and businesses and government alike are pushing hard for even more people to flood the industry.
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by UmDieWelt 12y ago
For some reason every generation seems to rediscover the same things and think they've invented something new
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by UmDieWelt 12y ago
Except people who aren't the best aren't idiotic rubes who can't spot talent. I'm terrible at basketball but I can see that Lebron James is good.
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by UmDieWelt 12y ago
First-rate people hire people that went to the same group of first-rate schools they did. Also, why wouldn't second-rate people hire second-raters? According to that quote, no one hires second-raters. It really doesn't make much s
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by UmDieWelt 12y ago
I don't see it as something morally wrong. I think the point is more that you're less likely to succeed if you're just doing it because you see other start-ups getting rich. So you start a company just to start a company, ins