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by aspirant 18y ago
I later found some material that comprehends both our thoughts. ""Systemic learning theory suggests that it is valuable to distinguish levels of learning. It is clear that most learning that goes on within and outside learning institutions
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by aspirant 18y ago
Look at the man on the Charlie Card. Seriously, go look. See him leaning out of the window with that mocking grin, waiving his forged card in triumph and thinking, " Suckers! "
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Ask HN: Cities and Ambition Practicum
5 points by aspirant 18y ago|0 comments
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by aspirant 18y ago
I sympathize. In an attempt to help I wrote and submitted the item below, but I think it got zero visibility on the site due to my newness and lack of karma. As far as I can tell it's the sort of thing you want to see more of, but if not pl
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by aspirant 18y ago
Sell your company, keep your company. If you want to maximize your ability to work on interesting stuff, remember that there is a effective but unglamorous dual pronged approach to financial security. Require less luxury to be happy. Lear
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"...people and communities learn and adopt different social standards." No kidding. To give you an idea of just how wide ranging the standards can be, consider this passage from Gandhi's autobiography. "...there was an unwritten law among t
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"Instead of searching for some type of ultimate mission, you should try and figure out what makes you happy and where your skills lie." Sensible, but I say keep searching for the ultimate mission too. "It is not the critic who counts; not
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by aspirant 18y ago
Studying a theory of knowledge for the past year hasn't left me with a bunch of definitions, but with models for the acquisition of knowledge that have proven very useful. I'm sure someone probably told Newton that all that math stuff looke
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As far as I can tell, no one here has posited the blank slate theory. My point was that the conclusions we come to about the world around us are the largest factor in determining where we end up on the spectrum between mediocre and extraord
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by aspirant 18y ago
I've never heard of meta-learning, but about a year ago I stumbled onto a branch of philosophy called epistemology or the Theory of Knowledge. My studies there have been absolutely exhilarating and disturbing. Next time you see someone at
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by aspirant 18y ago
Argh, sorry.. first submission ever. I goofed up and didn't permalink: http://modicus.blogspot.com/2008/07/why-hacking-exists.html
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Why Hacking Exists(modicus.blogspot.com)
2 points by aspirant 18y ago|1 comments
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"I've always felt that taking people out of ignorance will always make them less inclined to kill." Actually, taking people out of ignorance always results in warding off some error. The thing to be doing with the great bounty of western pr
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by aspirant 18y ago
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world go blind" - Gandhi
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Thoreau said, "For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root." Here is my attempt. Shortly after we're born, we begin to perceive a certain amount of value in everything we encounter. We assign value to
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by aspirant 18y ago
All I know is that Startup Girlfriend is going to be in the title of my next product.
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But shouldn't we judge a work of political philosophy by how long it continues to inspire debate? Probably not. If well reasoned people are debating, wouldn't we judge the philosophy by its ability to end the debate? People who are poor
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by aspirant 18y ago
Reading a book is a linear process. Writing may be anything but, especially with fiction. I have never exactly 'made' a story. With me the process is much more like bird-watching than like either talking or building. I see pictures. Some
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I'm old, Gandalf. I know I don't look it, but I'm beginning to feel it in my heart. I feel... thin. Sort of stretched, like... butter scraped over too much bread. I need a holiday. A very long holiday.
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by aspirant 18y ago
Ineed. Mayson, I hope there are a few copies of the Ways of Knowing left on AbeBooks because that's where I scored about six copies a few months back. I realize now that in littering my friend's apartments with these books, I've been tryi
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by aspirant 18y ago
"Highly technical," says the Times. "Popish!" raves the Globe. Sorry, couldn't resist. Seriously though, I bet he's at the library checking it out right now. :) But while we're recommending books he doesn't want, I would like to suggest W.P
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Explain how the grammar is sound? And I mean that seriously because I want to be well written. It seems like it should be: "Or would you?" - so that what follows 'or' is the converse of what was said. Or "Wouldn't you?" - without the 'or' t
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by aspirant 18y ago
"Ideas today are a commodity. Anyone can have an idea..." This line scares me. Yes anyone can have an idea. In fact everyone has ideas. The catch is that they range from disastrously false to powerfully true. A place that: 1. Values ideas
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Keep going, but take time to imagine a world where flash-search is commonplace. What will the world need then? What will Google need then? If nothing else, the work you've done puts you in a better place to answer that question than almost
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by aspirant 18y ago
I had an 'anxiety disorder' in my early high school years (mid 90's). I don't just mean around girls either. I would actually get butterflies whenever the monotonous redialing of my modem would be broken by that glorious screeching and scra
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by aspirant 18y ago
Like KK, I recommend Gandhi's book. Hell, I recommend the title. The Story of My Experiments with Truth Gandhi didn't outsource the pursuit of truth. He thought it was too important. It was a job that would be poorly done if left to the aut