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by partition 11y ago
Would you think there is still a chance for iPad games that are well-made and well-advertised on the internet, that cost perhaps over $10, maybe even $20, to do well? I see this as, first you have the stuff that's top ranking on the ap
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by partition 11y ago
What could "use pedagogies that work better for each group" possibly mean other than racial and gender segregation? Here I'll break this down into pseudocode. for each group in racial_gender_groups: teachWithMat
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by partition 11y ago
I just think it's a tragedy that the prof only goes this far. The observation in the article you paraphrased is more the realization of a student or bright child, not a fucking professor . It's sad that we let things degenerate t
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by partition 11y ago
That's right on with "too shy". The issues of pedagogy whether it is music or programming are largely sociological. So why not make being a manic musician attractive and marketable like they do in movies about music? I guaran
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by partition 11y ago
Ok, instead of reading a Wikipedia page or two, or the most elementary chapter in a probability/statistics textbook and gaining a bunch more skills (among them the tools needed to reason about whether your MCMC is doing anything close
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by partition 11y ago
Pretty much. Also, as a non white person I feel their echo chamber effects acutely. Casual racism and race "realism" is especially pronounced in nerd circles.
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by partition 11y ago
Arthur Schopenhauer wrote extensively on this and I feel he said it best. [Excessive reading] robs the mind of all elasticity; it is like keeping a spring under a continuous, heavy weight. If a man does not want to think, the safest way is
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by partition 12y ago
Hawthorne effect: "Feels good to track mood."
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by partition 12y ago
> - "The computer only does what it is literally instructed to do. What do you literally want to do? What are you literally instructing the computer right now?" I feel like after you really know a system you almost start thinki
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by partition 12y ago
Wow, this was a big wake-up call. It's ironic because I am in research and I always did a lot of theory and problem definition up front for whatever I did, but I am now in this "reckless rapid prototyping" phase where if I ge
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by partition 12y ago
What was interesting is that the higher-performing group (Alpha) was stuck less often that the lower-performing group (Gamma). Is this the next programming motto after "Don't Repeat Yourself"? Don't Get Stuck! Now how do
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by partition 12y ago
This is also known as value _creation_ versus value _transference_: http://halfsigma.typepad.com/half_sigma/2008/03/value-creati... I do not completely agree with the guy's views; in particular I do not
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by partition 12y ago
Aka the importance of mentally being a headless chicken. You're not being "introspective" or otherwise "deep" when anxious. You're just applying a blanket negative bias to all of your observations, and then loo
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by partition 12y ago
Is the blotchiness due to uncertainty principle or sensor imperfections? Both maybe?
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by partition 12y ago
The part at the end where she is against top-down thinking, and instead promotes bottom-up inductive thinking where you first figure out how to make airplane parts well before tackling the whole aircraft, is a lesson I've learned the h
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by partition 12y ago
Thanks!
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by partition 12y ago
How did you get your terminal to look like that?
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by partition 12y ago
This is an excellent attitude to have and may be the only healthy attitude. As opposed to the conventional wisdom, which wants us to Never Settle by keeping on jumping between things, reading broadly and pretending you are a coding god afte
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by partition 12y ago
Nice assumptions dude. I guess this is the internet for ya; post something that is not even very controversial, and your own caricatured projection is jumped on. On your other note, it is not bullshit as long as it is sustainable and people
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by partition 12y ago
I can't believe that fallacy got around. It's oxymoronic, it is just like the sentence "non-swimming fish moves around in your filled aquarium."
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by partition 12y ago
Ok, you are literally equating food production, which includes agriculture which led to humans being able to support groups bigger than a circus troupe, with "bullshit job." Got it.
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by partition 12y ago
Ok, then let's kill 99% of the people on this earth. Oh no, where did our civilizations go? Having long term impact that is noticeable is good and should be everyone's goal. But being this confused about value is what leads to shi
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by partition 12y ago
My subjective value judgement can still be better than yours, and its degree of truth will be seen in the years to come. The only concept you need to understand to get the truth of my statement is _order_. A "meaningful and important&q
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by partition 12y ago
Where do you get the nyancat progress bar?
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by partition 12y ago
They claim that avoiding vacuuming the same area twice saves power, but is that true in every situation? Math-wise, it seems possible for a self-avoiding path (with thickness) to be _longer_ than a similar path (with thickness) that does se
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by partition 15y ago
I actually think this is a completely valid viewpoint, and the people downvoting you and criticizing you are more signaling their supposed moral superiority---suicide and depression is a topic people love to brag about how supportive and re
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by partition 15y ago
Very well said. I agree, it seems that in this society mental illness, depression and suicidality are more used as a label to further ostracize those in distress instead of as a signal to actually take steps to help them while they can stil
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by partition 15y ago
Can I get some background on what the leaked HBGary emails are, I'm curious.
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by partition 15y ago
I think we actually agree. I too feel that computer science these days is gibberish relying on the form but not substance of mathematical proofs to convey superior status, whereas "why" systems worked back then didn't require mathemtical _g
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by partition 15y ago
Completely agree. The fact is that most people in STEM aren't so much encouraged to go into STEM as deceived into it by a combination of science documentaries, science types bragging that STEM-like subjects are of Superior Intrinsic Value a

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