BigJeffeRonaldo

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by BigJeffeRonaldo 10y ago
These people hate white American men. Since white women voted majority Trump, they're beginning to receive hate as well. Whether or not reality fits their narrative isn't really relevant. Leftists seem very intent on pushing the r
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by BigJeffeRonaldo 10y ago
I felt the same way until I got to undergrad and relearned math from the basis of naive set theory and spent time working through the basics (proper definitions, proofs, Dedekind cuts etc.).
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by BigJeffeRonaldo 10y ago
Nobody pays for Netflix; they just use their cousin's/sister's/girlfriend's/etc.'s account.
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by BigJeffeRonaldo 10y ago
Recent events have convinced me not to follow such a course of action. Most of the media seems more intent on printing fake news that fits their agenda than honest investigation, leading to the more sarcastic among us to refer to WaPo as Je
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by BigJeffeRonaldo 10y ago
Passion is not really interesting. I'd rather hire someone who is skilled, easy to work with, and will get stuff done. I don't really need him to get hyped up on caffeine and write medium articles about how passionate he is; I&#x2
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by BigJeffeRonaldo 10y ago
I can tell you're upset, Vince, so I'll be the one to end this discussion.
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by BigJeffeRonaldo 10y ago
This generally won't work for straight forward game theoretic reasons. Boss thinks you're slow->boss brings on h1b consultant willing to pump out spaghetti code and toady up to him->you looking for a new job. Organizations g
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by BigJeffeRonaldo 10y ago
But it does. It depends on the organization, but there are groups where chugging coffee, talking a lot, and pumping out dozens of half-working features by coding like a drunk cowboy will get you promoted and recognized as a team player, whi
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by BigJeffeRonaldo 10y ago
It's a matter of incentives. Business folks don't care about comments unless they have a dev background. Your options are then to focus on the incentives present in the situation, or materially harm your own life and well-being by
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by BigJeffeRonaldo 10y ago
If that is the case, public education does not exist to educate children (or at least this is not its primary goal), but rather exists as some sort of bizarre redistribution program. High IQ parents are then expected to feed their children
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by BigJeffeRonaldo 10y ago
You're asking parents to sacrifice the mental health (via bullying and social issues) (and thus physical issues likely stemming from mental health problems), intellectual development, future earning power, etc. of their gifted children
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by BigJeffeRonaldo 10y ago
I think resentment of this kind of social engineering is a major key in recent US political shifts. Let's talk about the basics. If a kid can learn more difficult material and the kid wants to, most reasonable people would agree that t
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by BigJeffeRonaldo 10y ago
Well, the model at least does not maximize likelihood
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by BigJeffeRonaldo 10y ago
I find it very interesting that many so-called "Ivy Misser" schools such as WUSTL and Tufts have more 1%ers and fewer 60%ers than extremely elite schools such as Princeton and Harvard. Even Yale has a lower ranking on the list. Pe
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by BigJeffeRonaldo 10y ago
This is exactly what I thought when I heard about this guy. He's undervaluing himself bigly. If you obsess over one company, or girl, or whatever else, you take all of your own power away and hand it over to chance. An interview or con
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by BigJeffeRonaldo 10y ago
I don't care about self-driving cars until car company CEOs have their kids riding in them. Until then, I am not interested in taking the risk of testing their engineering.
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by BigJeffeRonaldo 10y ago
Because investment banking is a sales job.
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by BigJeffeRonaldo 10y ago
Great post. If you have a worse background, you have to fight your way up, whereas those with more family resources just have to not screw up badly and they'll probably end up alright.
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by BigJeffeRonaldo 10y ago
Well, most states won't let me practice as an engineer, even if I get really good at Solidworks from watching YouTube videos, because I have no background in the field.
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by BigJeffeRonaldo 10y ago
And this is why Trump's win was so confusing for many citizens if the US--too stuck in their bubble to understand the rest of the world and its happenings. See also Nassim Taleb's essay on the Intellectual Yet Idiot class: https
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by BigJeffeRonaldo 10y ago
Exponentiation isn't a middle school operation. Most probably don't know what real exponentiation is until they do the famous problem in chapter 1 of baby Rudin defining it (or equivalent problem in another book), and bright stude
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by BigJeffeRonaldo 10y ago
It was past the peak last year, i.e. machine learning somehow went backwards up thr hype cycle over the past year according to Gartner. Maybe due to deep learning news stories over the past year+. http://m.imgur.com/gallery&
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by BigJeffeRonaldo 10y ago
I studied math and computer science at university. My personal experience was that if you wrote a long string with quantifiers in your vector spaces or analysis homework or whatever, the professor would ask you why you were acting like you
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by BigJeffeRonaldo 10y ago
Leave it to STEMlords to reinvent Christianity
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by BigJeffeRonaldo 10y ago
Kids didn't know that Chicago existed? I don't know how to respond
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by BigJeffeRonaldo 10y ago
https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/decimals.html You can construct a complete ordered field from infinite decimals
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by BigJeffeRonaldo 10y ago
Solving equations is NOT easy.
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by BigJeffeRonaldo 10y ago
Great, I'll tell my Peul friend that he's a genetic bottleneck for wanting to marry a Peul girl
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by BigJeffeRonaldo 10y ago
I'd be surprised if there weren't somewhere out there who didn't understand additivity of variance (and linear combination with the covariance terms, or that it is a more natural parameter for the normal distrovution, or som
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by BigJeffeRonaldo 10y ago
My wife was offended the first time her manager told her that she should think about management as a career path :)

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