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by aik 14y ago
Could you give a quick summary of how technology inevitably leads to loss of freedom? I understand that this is often the case, but is it always necessarily the case? Ie. Is it a universal law that "Technology leads to loss of freedom"?
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by aik 14y ago
The quotes are headed by the question "Why learn design?" This site doesn't have a monopoly on design, so I had no inclination to think they were endorsing the site.
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by aik 14y ago
The fonts look right for me (not like the other pics here) but I'm on Chrome 18 in Win7. Nice looking site.
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by aik 14y ago
Maybe it's a bit of both? Going IPO strictly to attract top talent seems a little naive, no?
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by aik 14y ago
Too bad. It's a pretty good interview I think.
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by aik 14y ago
Interesting, but it doesn't necessarily take into account the opportunity cost due to the very significant time investment. But more importantly, you know there's something wrong with the system when so many feel they have to try to justify
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by aik 14y ago
I'm curious where this came from. I wonder if it can also be broken into something like: [1] Public school: low, low and mid classes [2] Alternative school (private or public): upper mid class [3] Best private schools: elite With [2] and [
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by aik 14y ago
I'm interested in your thoughts here. Concerning a): I think there are very very few cases where calling someone a "loser" is a good choice of words -- I agree that Hawking's comment is most likely one of the cases where it is not a good ch
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by aik 14y ago
Do you disagree with the effort in trying to find the commonalities between high-performing people, or merely the stated results? I agree that they may not have the whole answer here, but it's a whole lot better than any random commonality
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by aik 14y ago
I believe the underlying idea in Hawking's comment isn't that people shouldn't boast, but it's that no information of value is conveyed in the act of boasting about one's IQ. This is due to an understanding that the IQ test does not (nor wa
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by aik 14y ago
There's so much misinformation about what the IQ test is for. It has become common understanding that it's a measure of intelligence (or ability, or potential), however it was never created for that nor ever intended to be that. In additi
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by aik 14y ago
Is that the case, or it sounds like from the other commentors here that it also represents the effectiveness and focus on fundraising? If instead people were given a single fundraising plea form with 2 checkboxes (one for academics, one fo
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by aik 14y ago
There has to be a connection between them. The athletics draw no resources from education, but how can this be so? Instead of increasing the budget of athletics, why can't the education budget be increased instead?
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by aik 14y ago
People are different in that some people are better at achieving regardless of their feelings towards the goal (good example would be many straight A students), while other people struggle endlessly with a task unless their feelings are in
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by aik 15y ago
Sure these ideas sound pretty good (though I don't fully know what you mean by "cultural improvement" or "right connections"). Thousands/millions of people around the world are working towards a lot of these ideals. I'm not fully sure what
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by aik 15y ago
This is great. More professors need to be like you. With the exception of barely 2 projects in uni, all my homework/projects were short and small scale, meaning I already knew how to complete 90% of it, and just had to learn the content fro
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by aik 15y ago
Great, thanks for this and thanks for the resources. Do you by any chance know of a cheaper method of learning from the Feynman lectures?
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by aik 15y ago
Thanks for this explanation. One question: Once the atoms are entangled, I understand that both take on the same superposition. At this point, in any possible way, although we don't know the states, do they actually communicate instantane
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by aik 15y ago
Oh I see -- I think we're interpreting 'external motivator' differently. You coming to the decision on your own that you wanted to create a game is not to me an example of being externally motivated to begin programming. That's an example
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by aik 15y ago
Great points here, thanks for posting. I'm especially interested in your first point on the difficulty of cultivating care beyond all the "games" in school (grades, etc.). To extend on this, I agree you can be motivated to do work because y
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by aik 15y ago
I'm not sure if I understand what you mean. If I do I'm not sure if I agree. A love for computers and all they're capable of isn't born inside a game that gives you points for building [insert program]. A love for programming goes deeper
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by aik 15y ago
I don't think it gets lost, it just loses it's value. In my company we have "games" all over (also known as extrinsic motivators or artificial targets). For example, in the consulting world we're chasing higher billability, ie. the more hou
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by aik 15y ago
I'm not convinced that a society run on supercharged external motivators is any better off. I'm actually thinking the opposite is true, which is why the trend of gamifying education scares me. It's a temporary and imperfect bandaid for a
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by aik 15y ago
Pretty cool. One point that makes it less "Hipmunky" to me is the fact that for a new search I need to select a maker/model from a dropdown (there's no other option). Feels like an artifact from the past in this case. Why not just have a s
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by aik 15y ago
I think what makes it confusing for me is that the link between the pictures isn't hugely clear. If it could be more clear that there's actually a meeting taking place, it could be easier to make the link. ie. have some similar object or ot
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by aik 15y ago
This article is great. There are quite a few very good tidbits to keep in mind as you establish core values for your organization.
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by aik 15y ago
Cool. It could be a useful visual metaphor as long as the shake was smaller and didn't last as long (didn't affect usability). So I created an account and the site has now been stuck on "We're uploading your bookmarks." for the past 3 hours
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by aik 15y ago
This looks great. Will try it out. Just FYI -- I found the shaky window upon inputting an incorrect password very annoying and disorienting. I just wanted to reenter my password but wasn't able to because the window was still shaking.
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by aik 15y ago
To expect all students to take calculus is prioritizing. There has to be some give and take. In any case, I believe the OP was asking why it's important that every student takes calculus? I'm very curious about that as well. Why again is
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by aik 15y ago
Do you think the Singapore method at one point was a fad (or new math teaching methodology) and if not, why or how not? Secondly -- You say "Teaching math is easy." What does that mean? Just from personal experience, 10 years or so ago I

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