smilefreak

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by smilefreak 11y ago
This is exactly my experience, recently I have sometimes worked 9-5 got nothing done and gone home feeling like shit for being so unproductive. Then, to make up for it, I would find myself working some late nights and always made up for the
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by smilefreak 11y ago
As in every number in that set is a subset of the larger set of x < y < z. Poor language choice it's not true, yes I was wrong. I am just curious as to how much laziness and not necessarily confirmation bias has to do with the re
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by smilefreak 11y ago
Does laziness have anything to do with the responses? You get a rule that seems to work and so you seek the reward early. It takes effort to prove yourself wrong. I was trapped by this and guessed it was exponential series n^1,n^2 etc for n
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by smilefreak 11y ago
Great article. I am a instructor for Software Carpentry[1] , the goal of these workshops from my experience is to try and help mostly scientists get started on the journey to becoming early programmers. In biological sciences with more a
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by smilefreak 11y ago
These slides are great, I was thinking of presenting something similar to a bioinformatics lab group I am a part of. Could I adapt some of these slides?
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by smilefreak 12y ago
I think that a smile should never be forced, for two reasons. 1. I want to find people who are genuinely passionate about what they do. 2. If people are truly unhappy not being o.k with that, and not faking it may bring attention to a probl
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by smilefreak 12y ago
>Growing up 'smart' made me stupid. I agree and also have faced this problem as I was in the gifted programs all through school, then into university. However, in my third year of University I failed the entire year, owing most
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by smilefreak 12y ago
Thanks for the useful list. The only problem with these things is that they require some time, effort and expertise to set up, which the average citizen may not have. I understand you are just being pragmatic, but we definitely need to work
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by smilefreak 12y ago
I guessed some of the next steps, and considering I have the automobilic knowledge of the ancient greeks, that was pretty impressive. An education in how to present to a lay audience.
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by smilefreak 12y ago
This is seriously an awesome and well executed concept. I am working in genetics lab that studies complex disease. Many of these diseases have many environmental component and there is much interest in investigating these so-called gene-env
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by smilefreak 13y ago
https://www.dropbox.com/jobs . They hire for a wide variety of roles with some quite specialised knowlededge. I would expect they do not want anything different from the big tech companies. Core CS concepts and maybe some in