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by FD3SA 14y ago
I think the value proposition of college is completely based upon whether the learning strategy of classroom lectures followed by written tests works for you. For me, reading books and attempting projects are the only way I can learn effect
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by FD3SA 14y ago
Hi there, this sounds incredibly effective and I know a number of very talented friends who'd be interested. I briefly read through the description but couldn't find the answers to the following questions: 1. How are accommodations handled?
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by FD3SA 14y ago
Some further reading for the curious [1][2]. It is becoming increasingly apparent that the structural unemployment issue is indeed due to rapidly advancing automation technologies. Note that the current 58% labour force participation rate i
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by FD3SA 14y ago
Governments will not be able to stop a brilliant engineer from developing an unstoppable drone army. There will come a point where technology will allow such massive leverage to the talent that wields it that nations will literally be at th
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by FD3SA 14y ago
All well and good...assuming that human life spans cannot be extended significantly. Fortunately, there are some very smart people who disagree with that assumption [1][2]. 1. http://www.sens.org/ 2. http://halcyonmolecular.com/
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by FD3SA 15y ago
The only satisfactory definition of art I've found is the following: http://youtu.be/KQ35zNlyG-o?t=7m11s More detail for those interested: http://youtu.be/sa65t1fVsNA (You will have to watch all 4 parts)
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by FD3SA 15y ago
The quality of the graduates will bring the employers. Employers only want a mechanism of sifting the wheat from the chaff. If MITx tests students at the rigor of regular MIT courses, there is no reason why employers won't be tripping over
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by FD3SA 15y ago
Unfortunately, as you've alluded to in your post, capitalism is a winner take all game of poker that never ends. This means that those with capital have disproportionate leverage over other players, to such a degree that skill and chance be
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by FD3SA 15y ago
Precisely. I get a chuckle every time I hear "there's a shortage of developers!" I want to make a t-shirt with that on the front, and "PAY UP CHEAP ASS!" on the back.
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by FD3SA 15y ago
Perhaps this will convince you: http://youtu.be/bKGhvKyjgLY
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by FD3SA 15y ago
Precisely. These articles are inevitably too narrowly focused on the von Neuman architecture, which at this point is relatively old technology. Memrister computation architecture will be radically different, and orders of magnitude more pow
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by FD3SA 15y ago
Relevant reading: Race Against the Machine ( http://amzn.com/B005WTR4ZI ) The Lights in the Tunnel ( http://amzn.com/B002S0NITU )
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"You're looking to tear down something without suggesting something else to take its place. In fact if you succeed what you'll have done is to shift more wealth to people who are already wealthy (by societies standards). You will have destr
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by FD3SA 15y ago
This method would have the immense benefit of turning a subjective "policy" into an objective algorithm, whereupon its direct impact could be measured numerically via simulations. As it stands, policy submissions are vague tomes of legal ja
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by FD3SA 15y ago
Directy democracy fails for exactly the reasons you have stated, yet those reasons all have one source: complexity. The system of law was designed not by engineers, but by law makers who had no concept of system architecture and runaway com
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by FD3SA 15y ago
Thank you nirvana and andrewcross for the salient information. One more pertinent question: how is medical insurance handled in Startup Chile?
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by FD3SA 15y ago
How does Startup Chile facilitate the injection of capital necessary to continue product development past the seed stage? Are there networks of angels, super angels and VCs ready to invest in companies as per YC? Also, is the $40K per found
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by FD3SA 15y ago
A very salient point, which is a frequent discussion topic on HN. If you are interested, the following books are excellent primers: http://www.amazon.com/Race-Against-Machine-Accelerating-eboo... http://www.thelightsinthetunnel.com/
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by FD3SA 15y ago
This seems to be a transition stage for fine motor skill robots with advanced object recognition capabilities. A few more iterations will surely make the human counterparts obsolete, as demonstrated by the rapid automation of manufacturing
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by FD3SA 15y ago
The issue is precisely that regulators are in bed with monopolizers. More regulation will only strengthen their stranglehold on this market. The proper response in this scenario is complete deregulation, allowing international players to dr
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by FD3SA 15y ago
Food for thought: http://tinyurl.com/7erlzzn
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by FD3SA 15y ago
An ad hominem attack with a dash of appeal to authority...enlightening. If you require proof of sexuality's impact on human behavior, I recommend reviewing the extant literature. Here are some examples: 1. http://www.amazon.com/Red-Queen-E
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by FD3SA 15y ago
It seems unwise to promote casual sex without fully understanding the consequences. And I don't speak of the overblown disease fears, but the far more serious effects of emotional desensitization. Sex elicits a chemical response much like c
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by FD3SA 15y ago
Exactly. Innovation is far more likely to occur at the boundary of multiple disciplines, rather than at the pointy end of one. In this day and age, expertise in one area is required, but to be a visionary CEO, one must also have a breadth o
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by FD3SA 15y ago
Indeed. I am quite familiar with the Luddite fallacy. Unfortunately, it is predicated upon two assumptions:(1) humans are infinitely capable and re-trainable, and (2) technology creates more jobs than it automates. Both of these assumptions
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by FD3SA 15y ago
Interesting that none of these articles ever address the root causes of structural unemployment. Globalization combined with rapidly advancing technology are allowing an ever shrinking pool of extremely talented people to satisfy the world'
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by FD3SA 15y ago
Indeed. High capital fields such as medicine are the great entrepreneurial challenges of our time. Everyone on HN knows of the decaying behemoth that is academic research. It is an unsustainable system built upon a terrible incentive archit
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by FD3SA 15y ago
Unfortunately, there is a simple yet sinister explanation for the government's interference with extremely successful startups. Startups can only become massively successful by stealing market share from established companies. As you've sta
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Precisely. Markets such as social, search, and cloud were the low hanging fruits because they required relatively small seed capital. The reason why PG is complaining about a lack of truly unique startup ideas is because, frankly, many of t
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by FD3SA 15y ago
My bet for a brain simulator is on memristor[1] based neural networks. HP is commercializing[2] memristor storage devices as we speak. We need economies of scale such that memristor computing becomes cheap enough to implement universally. U

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