SatvikBeri

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by SatvikBeri 15y ago
What is the point of thinking about it? I thought about it for a while, realized there was nothing to gain by focusing my mind on this topic, and haven't thought about it since.
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by SatvikBeri 15y ago
Perhaps it was just the Math department. I shouldn't have said "the sciences", since the Math department was the only place I had any experience with-but sexism was definitely prevalent there. It's worth noting that it was more common at
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by SatvikBeri 15y ago
People react wildly differently in different circumstances. This has been proven over and over. The Milgram experiment was heavily designed to influence how people act. A twist in circumstances can easily get 100% of people to do the "right
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by SatvikBeri 15y ago
Having studied graduate level Math at UC Berkeley, I can tell you that there are consistent, major disadvantages for women in the sciences even in California. Examples: 1. When working together on homework, guys would almost never accept co
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by SatvikBeri 15y ago
This kind of reframing is a technique to align your subconscious motivations with conscious ones. In contrast, there's very little evidence that discovering the "cause" of a motivation really helps. There's a significant amount of evidenc
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by SatvikBeri 15y ago
I have certainly noticed that when I am thinking constantly, I am hungrier and eat about 15% more without gaining weight. This is not a physical matter, because when I'm thinking about hard problems I don't change my physical routine-I just
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by SatvikBeri 15y ago
Sure, but the vast majority of people still tend to underestimate how much they could get. And you can get a pretty darn good estimate from a person's background and skills.
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by SatvikBeri 15y ago
Great article. This is a question that's come up before in Mathematics, for example the Four-Color theorem. "Can a proof that's not comprehensible by humans really be called a proof?" Personally I'm with Norvig. While finding simple pattern
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by SatvikBeri 15y ago
One basically puts public domain information online in searchable form and gets massive traffic + ad revenue. Took a while to set up, very boring, but very easy to maintain. Note that being the first mover was very important, the #2 compe
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by SatvikBeri 15y ago
Depends on what you mean by successful. I know a small company that makes about $300-500k per person year and several smaller ones in the range of $100k per year that never had any major problems. They are not particularly interesting stori
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by SatvikBeri 15y ago
It took me about a month to really get limits. Once I did, I started complaining about how horribly unintuitive the definition the class had used was. So a friend asked me how I would define it. After a few tries I had the perfect definitio
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by SatvikBeri 15y ago
Not a stretch at all-I have become massively more productive since automating the simple things in my life, not because it saved any amount of time (maybe 45 mins/day), but because it saved so much of my mental energy. Even getting a GPS ma
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by SatvikBeri 15y ago
Of course you can't tell with certainty but you can guess at averages. Would you rather work with a programmer who has a track record of launching excellent products or a random guy picked off the street? Encouraging immigration of skilled
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by SatvikBeri 15y ago
How long were horses used for transportation? There were no alternatives to paper books at all until personal computers and PDFs. E-book readers aren't perfect yet but they're the first real alternative to books.
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by SatvikBeri 15y ago
Black and white TV's. Note that what you're describing are items that are symbols of pride due to their limited accessibility. I don't think social symbols based on indicating wealth will ever go away. Collectible books like TAOCP are a dif
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by SatvikBeri 15y ago
I think the LP analogy holds very well here: when LPs came out, having a large musical collection was a major point of pride for most people. Today it's an edge case. I'm guessing that will happen even with "collectible" books, although I d
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by SatvikBeri 15y ago
Personally I don't think learned behaviors have to be unnatural. Writing and driving are learned behaviors which feel completely natural to a lot of people. In fact, writing is an interesting example because many people say that they can th
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by SatvikBeri 15y ago
I think this is a technology issue-skipping back pages or searching is difficult with today's e-book readers, but I can easily see it becoming easier with e-books than with paperback books in the future. As with many technological advance
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by SatvikBeri 15y ago
I think there will be a major shift with the next generation. A lot of the reasons for keeping hardcover books are due to tradition/"I grew up with this therefore I like it"-similarly to music. I agree that consumable books will disappear
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by SatvikBeri 15y ago
AFAIK the limits are imposed by government, but the fees are totally up to banks.
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by SatvikBeri 15y ago
This is a completely viable concept-www.freepatentsonline.com makes at least $150k/month through taking patent information and putting it online in a searchable format. When you take useful information and put it up like this, that also cre
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by SatvikBeri 15y ago
Exactly. Using a GPS to go everywhere will make your sense of direction worse. But that may be worth the easing of the cognitive load for you. Also, many of the things to automate-such as sorting email or paying bills-don't really improve y
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by SatvikBeri 15y ago
I think this is why the study of Personal Development, or just in general examining your life is so important. Think of how big an impact these realizations can have on your life. Now imagine having one of these moments every month, or even