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by ege_erdogan 3y ago
If you are getting a PhD without a stipend (~3k usd/month) and even paying tuition on top of that, you are doing something egregiously wrong. The financial opportunity cost is very high though especially in CS.
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Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech (2019)(knightcolumbia.org)
646 points by ege_erdogan 6y ago|269 comments
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by ege_erdogan 6y ago
I see online synchronous 1-2 hour exams as a mistaken result of the "let's emulate in-person teaching in a remote setting" mindset. You don't succeed in remote teaching and learning by trying to make it as close as possi
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by ege_erdogan 6y ago
I always appreciate when someone leaves the well-defined path and does something different, such as you self-studying Math and getting enrolled in a Masters program. I am just curious about your process of actually joining the masters progr
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by ege_erdogan 6y ago
I think the textbook vs. Pinker/Taleb/Dawkins books can be coarsely classified as "fact books" and "idea books". Pretty much every textbook (especially introductory ones) is a fact book. They are structured sum
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How We Need to Remake the Internet – Jaron Lanier (2018)(youtube.com)
1 points by ege_erdogan 6y ago|0 comments
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Privacy Preserving AI – Andrew Trask (2020) [video](youtube.com)
1 points by ege_erdogan 6y ago|0 comments
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by ege_erdogan 6y ago
There will be many people migrating to other services once Roam stops being free. This seems like a promising alternative.
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by ege_erdogan 6y ago
> Rule #5: Schedule and limit your exposure I wrote a simple Go program to email me weekly updates of the RSS feeds I follow. It runs on AWS Lambda with weekly triggers from Cloud Watch and sends emails using AWS SES. [0] If you are foll
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Ask HN: Which magazines/publications do you follow?
5 points by ege_erdogan 6y ago|3 comments
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The Psychology of Security (2008)(schneier.com)
7 points by ege_erdogan 6y ago|1 comments
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by ege_erdogan 6y ago
For the theoretical part of computer science, Introduction to the Theory of Computation by Michael Sipser is the best there is. It covers three main topics: - Automata theory - Computability - Computational Complexity What I especially like
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Ask HN: Which public chat groups are you in?
2 points by ege_erdogan 6y ago|1 comments
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A twenty-year professor on starting college this fall: Don’t(medium.com)
141 points by ege_erdogan 6y ago|176 comments
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Turkey's approach: weekend lockdowns and age-specific restrictions(edition.cnn.com)
1 points by ege_erdogan 6y ago|0 comments
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by ege_erdogan 6y ago
I recently started a new blog: https://www.thecomputation.com I simply write about anything I find interesting, and want to learn more about. Topics are mostly from computer science. I try to refrain from 'Intro to x',
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Claude Shannon and the Art of Choosing a Problem(thecomputation.com)
3 points by ege_erdogan 6y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Hackrdot – Read Hacker News, r/programming and Slashdot reader(hackrdot.com)
3 points by ege_erdogan 6y ago|0 comments
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What Do Finite Automata Tell Us?(thecomputation.com)
1 points by ege_erdogan 6y ago|0 comments
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by ege_erdogan 6y ago
I am using the exact same router from the same ISP. I was wondering what the problem was when I wasn't able to forward port 22 to my computer for an SSH connection. I had thought it had something to with the ISP allocating the same sta
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The structures of computation and the mathematical structure of nature (2010)(rutherfordjournal.org)
137 points by ege_erdogan 6y ago|24 comments
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by ege_erdogan 6y ago
An addition to money and disputes could be 'things beyond your control.' If something is bothering your mind, yet there is nothing nothing you can, or will be able to, do about it, then there is no reason to bother with it.
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A Brief History of Quantum Computers(thecomputation.com)
1 points by ege_erdogan 7y ago|0 comments
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by ege_erdogan 7y ago
Regarding the photography books, how does a complete digital archive of a photographer's works compare to a physical book of the same content? Would you still prefer the physical book in that scenario?
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Digital Wellbeing Experiments(experiments.withgoogle.com)
2 points by ege_erdogan 7y ago|0 comments
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From Sand to Silicon: The Making of a Chip (2012)(blogs.intel.com)
1 points by ege_erdogan 7y ago|0 comments
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by ege_erdogan 7y ago
I have this USB-C looking like this[0] (not the same one though). The thing is whenever it is plugged into my MacBook Pro, the hub starts to overheat, even when there is nothing connected to it. I once tried plugging it into the MBP adapter
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by ege_erdogan 7y ago
Even though it covers much more than Corbato and the time-sharing system, The Dream Machine[0] is a great read if you want to learn more about the history of the computers and the Internet. [0] https://www.goodreads.com/book
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Ask HN: How do you take technical notes?
3 points by ege_erdogan 7y ago|1 comments
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by ege_erdogan 7y ago
The number 2 is because it doesn't fetch the posts for each user. You might be seeing posts with a delay of max. 10 min.

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