amcintyre

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by amcintyre 15y ago
Similarly, it would be nice to let students specify whether they are graduate/undergraduate, and maybe their field of study/interest. I can imagine if I was paying to send an offer out to find people to solve hard CS or math problems for me
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by amcintyre 15y ago
"As we can easily see" == doesn't seem implausible after you read the paper countless times, re-work all the derivations from scratch at least 7 times, read the cited docs, get out your old analysis texts to look up some theorem you'd forgo
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by amcintyre 15y ago
> Mr. McCullough's eyebrows leap at his final point: "And they're so badly written. They're boring! Historians are never required to write for people other than historians." In my opinion, this is probably the biggest problem. History
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by amcintyre 15y ago
How is paying off your house and car, and saving enough to choose not to work for 3-4 years not a bunch of "tangible returns?" (By the way, kudos on that level of self-discipline; I would be extremely happy to accomplish that much with 8 ye
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by amcintyre 15y ago
I'm an autodidact that managed to earn ~100k without formal education with programming, and then got some formal education in something else just for the fun of it. I don't like it when people use their adacemic experience (or lack of it)
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by amcintyre 15y ago
The problem seems to be that there's not much demand for people to solve those problems (not that I agree that all of those are worthy goals, particularly the "get rid of lawyers" bit). Solving some of the things you mention could produce i
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by amcintyre 16y ago
> someone straight off said 'can't be done - someone tried it last year, didn't work.' Translation: we gave it to an intern and he couldn't do it in a week.