Arun2009

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by Arun2009 9y ago
I have struggled, and continue to struggle, with a lack of focus in my learning projects. My focus tends to cycle between some 6-7 subjects. In an effort to tame this, I have come to believe in the power of (a) concrete milestones and accom
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I think the first thing we should do is to understand how superlative human intellectual performance as it exists today even works, and try to make it commodity knowledge taught in everyday classrooms. In a typical physics, mathematics or
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As an Indian, India's performance in the PISA test is simultaneously both humiliating and horrifying. India ended up near the bottom of the test when it first took it. Cause for concern? Sure! What did the government of India do? They
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by Arun2009 9y ago
That may be a fallacy of composition - what's true of a part or a component needn't be true of the whole. For example, your cells divide, they are part of you, but you do not divide.
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Six Strategies for Effective Learning(learningscientists.org)
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The Key Lessons from “Where Good Ideas Come From” by Steven Johnson(medium.com)
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Here is the original article if anyone wants to take a look: Acoustic Enhancement of Sleep Slow Oscillations and Concomitant Memory Improvement in Older Adults: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/314295073_Acoust
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Looking back, I can't claim that my university experience had anything much to do with it. It was a realization that I came to by myself: if you want to learn anything, the only person you can really depend on is yourself. Once the wil
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by Arun2009 9y ago
Nobody, absolutely nobody, has a greater interest in and responsibility for your education than yourself. In today's world, the only people most of us can blame for our poor education is ourselves. Most of what I learned, I learned aft
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Solving Math Problems Terribly(affinemess.quora.com)
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Here is a rebuttal to the article: http://all-about-sanskrit.blogspot.in/2015/06/my-response-to... . Note that the article itself is from 2015. Major points I could gather from the rebuttal: - The recorded languag
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These sentences capture my takeaway from this article. Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. So it would seem f
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I'd hope that by then AI would have advanced well enough to enable us to navigate the language jungle more easily. Who knows, maybe the theory related to this will be one of those seminal Mandarin papers?
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I keep a private blog for my side-project, with key links and resources in pages specifically set for them. For example, I might have a page on market research with links to posts on specific topics. But probably I should be more systematic
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I just love how everything about China is huge! The three gorges dam, the grand canal, the great firewall and the great wall, the nation itself, and now this. Befits a nation whose founding myth itself is centered on an engineering project.
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If anyone else is wondering like I did how to pronounce it, visit this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrbZSYlR_bM . It's apparently the name of a shrub and also a color: http://dictionary.cambridge.or
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Here's the wikipedia article on this statement by experts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream_Science_on_Intellig... Quote: > Mainstream Science on Intelligence was a public statement issued by a group of
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Mainstream Science on Intelligence(psychpage.com)
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I tried to tease out the "meat" of the article excluding the filler as follows. It's mostly the same old cliches - nothing new. * What makes a genius? We don't know the answer, but science offers some clues. There isn&#
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Not events, but several trends and crises. Two that personally concern me are the looming water crisis and pollution: I would love to have more water security and be able to breathe cleaner air. I can put up with the haphazard electric supp
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> Is there someone among you HNers who has retained a positive outlook by believing that the universe is a bleak, chaotic place with no intrinsic meaning to the things happening in it? I see many living things around me - kittens, birds,
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by Arun2009 10y ago
> Albert Ellis came up with an early form of cognitive-behavioral therapy, based largely on Epictetus’ claim that “it is not events that disturb people, it is their judgments concerning them.” This actually is presented in Buddhism too,
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Reactionary philosophy in an enormous, planet-sized nutshell(slatestarcodex.com)
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> "I am righteously indignant; you are annoyed; he is making a fuss over nothing." > Notice how the factual content remains unchanged. I know that I am nitpicking and I am not a logician at all, but the factual content in th
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by Arun2009 10y ago
A key skill in focusing on something is realizing when you have become distracted and bringing your attention back to the task at hand. The sooner you do this, the better. Usually we tend to get carried away by stimuli and become "lo
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Redis core implementation(key-value-stories.blogspot.com)
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I suggest that you work patiently through a good text on algorithms and data structures that has code samples in it. I recommend "Algorithms I and II" by Sedgewick or "Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis in Java" (or
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Intel 80386 Reference Programmer's Manual(pdos.csail.mit.edu)
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There are a couple of problems that I see with the entire premise behind this article. 1. Web development can be challenging. Writing a simple blog or wiki system in PHP might be "easy", but creating a wordpress.com or wikipedia.o
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Meta-Meditation: A Skeptic Meditates on Meditation(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
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