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Cal Newport: I implore you to earn a 4.0 in CMU's 15-251 ... I dare you ...

• pitt1980 14y ago
  you aware that he's a PhD grad from MIT? http://calnewport.com/info/ http://calnewport.com/info/ no need to take it personal
  • DugFin 14y ago
    Citation of a CS PhD from MIT does not constitute proof that he could earn a 4.0 in Great Theoretical Ideas in Computer Science at CMU studying only an hour a week. no need to take it personally
    • pitt1980 14y ago
      seems like he's done ok grade wise in life, whether he could or couldn't get an A in some supertough class at CMU, don't like his methods, don't use them give him a little credit for accumlating and sharing alot of different strategies to do well in some pretty tough academic settings
  • pyoung 14y ago
    In that case, perhaps there is an intelligence bias that he is not acknowledging. Seems to me that if someone is naturally intelligent (re: genetics), they would be much more successful with this strategy than someone who isn't.
  • yukoncornelius 14y ago
    He is also a Professor at Georgetown and teaching graduate level theory of computation and distributed computing: http://cs.georgetown.edu/~cnewport/index.html http://cs.georgetown.edu/~cnewport/index.html So the opportunity is there to take his course and practice his message.
  • cynest 14y ago
    > no need to take it personal This sort of passive-aggression has no place in polite discourse.