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by abnry 8y ago
In other words, a 130 page write up focused on the overall picture instead of lots of details has the usual number of typos without a couple passes from a skilled editor.
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by abnry 8y ago
Learn how to listen -- One of the hardest parts of being a human.
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by abnry 8y ago
How these things often go: Headline: "Smart people do X" "I do X, therefore I am smart!" Oh the irony.
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by abnry 8y ago
The advice I gave is not exclusive to working through the typical undergraduate books. I was questioning why the OP wants to self-study an undergrad math curriculum to begin with. It's probably not to become a pure mathematician. So I
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by abnry 8y ago
This is fair. That's why you need to make the goals your own and make sure they are doable. And sometimes, an unreachable goal will still help you learn and value the fundamental material. Like, if you are into Rubik's cubes, that
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by abnry 8y ago
By mistake I swapped lines in my post when composing it. It is fixed now.
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by abnry 8y ago
Here's my personal opinion about how you should approach this. It's all well and good to want to cover undergraduate math courses. When you are actually enrolled in a university, you will have enough inertia and motivation to comp
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by abnry 8y ago
Well, the article headline says otherwise. Which is typical of media headlines.
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by abnry 8y ago
You dug into the sources? The author of the linked article wrote, "I discovered that 75% of med students (and new doctors) are now on psychiatric medications." That seems to exclude caffeine from coffee.
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by abnry 8y ago
I don't know if it is too harsh. What seems unfair is that paypal gives no reason.
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by abnry 8y ago
This looks very nice. If you have an excellent grasp of each item in this list, you should be able to interact well well with any kind of thinking person.
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by abnry 8y ago
Yes, I am gobsmacked by their bravery. And as a Christian myself, I am amazed by how they root their bravery in their faith, and not in some idea of social justice. The lead pastor wrote a letter going into this (published after he was deta
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by abnry 8y ago
I think this is a problem orthogonal to private versus public healthcare. I think it is a problem relating to what health insurance is today. Pretty much all hospitals get all their indirectly from patients through insurance agencies. And t
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by abnry 8y ago
No disagreement here. It's just that what I originally wrote I feel is under emphasized.
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I left a math PhD program due to health reasons. Looking back, none of my reasons for studying math was for the potential usefulness of the ideas I was studying. It was all for social status and personal play reasons. Investing in ideas tha
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by abnry 8y ago
This is pretty interesting. People like Peterson get massive amounts of money through their Patreon. I would find it very hard to give that up. On the other hand, it seems necessary to do so to stay consistent with his values.
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by abnry 8y ago
If you revel in the joy of learning "useless things," that's fine. Just realize you are wealthy in time, energy and cognitive power being able to do that. People learning "useless things" are often found in between
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by abnry 8y ago
Most of clothing sales are based on branding, not quality, and buying a certain brand means buying into a certain image you want of yourself. People will avoid WalMart like the plague because they don't want to be "someone who get
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by abnry 8y ago
Watching the game live with this open in another tab is cool. On Friday, it showed that Caruana had a winning position with a mate in around 30 moves. It was so non-intuitive that no chess player would have ever found it. But it is cool to
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by abnry 8y ago
If the reasoning skills of nutjobs are already suspect, you can't take as trustworthy their endorsements.
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by abnry 8y ago
The placebo is based on belief. You give a sugar pill to someone and they believe it is something more. That's "tricking them." And yes, I do think most doctors in Western medicine cling to a form of Cartesian dualism. It&#x2
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by abnry 8y ago
I don't have an opinion on whether what google did was good or bad. I'm just a point of "outrage fatigue," especially with protests that come off as gimmicky. Maybe pushback against google is appropriate, maybe it's
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by abnry 8y ago
If men and women are completely interchangeable, physically and psychologically, then this article makes a lot of sense. But if women really do have something different (at least on average) to bring to the table, then this women really doe
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by abnry 8y ago
You have a fair point. Anything about Trump is tabloid gold. However, everything I know about Trump is consistent with the idea that he'd be careless enough not to keep proper security protocol with his phone. And given that drip of le
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by abnry 8y ago
This makes me furious. Our president cares so little about his job and protecting American interests that not only did open himself up to this possibility but it actually happened. It's these sorts of things that infuriate me, and I&#
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by abnry 8y ago
Is there a defensible argument for Apple's tactics?
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by abnry 8y ago
Sigh. So people who would normally vote liberal are now going to vote on the wrong day because they got the election day date from a troll account mocking their liberal position--and they didn't bother to remember that elections are al
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by abnry 8y ago
To the complainers about this story: It is interesting because a major tech company changed communication standards in response to public outcry. How many stories are about tech companies pointlessly responding to outcry? Or making silly ch
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It is unlikely only and all men. They probably don't target men without college degrees. They way they probably get where they did was by successively narrowing down by selecting more attributes.
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It's not overkill. Your representatives are there to represent you, especially for the problems that "never should have been an issue". There are contingencies and mistakes that will always happen that need help from "hi

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