MarkMc

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by MarkMc 6y ago
Mastery in any field involves 4 components: Accumulation of knowledge, conceptual understanding, judgement and skill
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McLaren College | Mumbai, India | Online Teacher | Full-time | REMOTE "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?" -- Steve Jobs to Pepsi CEO John Sculley, 1983
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That's a good point - for example, the smartphone was a hardware improvement which led to a Cambrian explosion of software products. Regarding the question about making sure it happens in the U.S.: A big factor would be increasing skil
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Notes on Technology in the 2020s(elidourado.com)
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Here's interesting observation by by Nobel prize-winners Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo: "We have already seen, in the previous chapter, another example of people who had lucrative opportunities to save but did not use them: the f
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If anyone's interested, our students built an HN reader app: https://mclarentimes.com/ The cool thing is that users can crowdsource story subtitles and images. Plus it can remember what stories you've already seen
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The Knowledge Project Invest Like the Best Conversions with Tyler
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That's an interesting point. It makes me wonder more generally how empathy from doctors and nurses affects patent outcome.
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> An increase in recorded cases can be attributed to an increase in infection rate only when the increase is not accompanied by more testing I'm not sure it's that simple. Doesn't the infection rate have an effect on the d
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McLaren College | Mumbai, India | Online Teacher | Full-time | REMOTE "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?" -- Steve Jobs to Pepsi CEO John Sculley, 1983
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Jason Crawford answers your question here: https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1333576261877125121... Short answer: it's extremely computationally expensive
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Ask HN: Best way to get Zoom cloud recordings onto S3?
1 points by MarkMc 6y ago|2 comments
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Elon Musk overtakes Bill Gates to be world's second-richest person(theguardian.com)
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"Hey bro, I'll pay you $50 to let me listen while the teacher asks you questions"
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If the students are being tested from home, you would still need to ensure that they weren't getting an expert friend to help them.
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McLaren College | Mumbai, India | Online Teacher | Full-time | REMOTE "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?" -- Steve Jobs to Pepsi CEO John Sculley, 1983
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Nice! Is there a steep learning curve with Manim? How long did it take to create that video?
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Yes I presume you have to report your location, and risk being fired if you aren't truthful.
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I'm not talking about on-premesis work. I mean someone working remotely in San Francisco gets paid more than someone working remotely in Detroit. I'd be surprised if the supply and demand curves are in fact the same for each gende
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Back in the 1960's, many people argued that it was OK to pay a single women a lower salary than a married man for the same job - because the man was the breadwinner for his whole family. These days most people believe in "equal pa
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McLaren College | Mumbai, India | Online Teacher | Full-time | REMOTE "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?" -- Steve Jobs to Pepsi CEO John Sculley, 1983
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I wonder weather this will make it harder for coinbase to attract minority job candidates.
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Show HN: A Hacker News app with pics and subtitles(mclarentimes.com)
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I'd put it differently: It was a great pitch, just aimed at the wrong person
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Reminds me of this quote from Charlie Munger: In the New York Police Department, they have a simple system. Your pension is based on your pay in your final year. So when anyone reaches the final year, everybody cooperates to give him about
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by MarkMc 6y ago
McLaren College | Mumbai, India | Online Teacher | Full-time | REMOTE "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?" -- Steve Jobs to Pepsi CEO John Sculley, 1983
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My understanding of Stripe is that it would require quite a bit of coding. As a bare minimum I would have to implement: - Some sort of login system which populates a Users table on my server - An HTML/Javascript component which (if th
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'Ask clarifying questions' and 'think out loud' are also two of the suggestions in this excellent video from Google showing an example of a great technical interview: https://youtu.be/XKu_SEDAykw
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Ask HN: Simplest way to add paid subscription plan to my webapp?
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It's not mentioned in the article, but one benefit of this approach would be as an A/B test to see which group was more successful in life - the successful applicants or the rejects. This would allow the college to see exactly how

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