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by bz 15y ago
Seeing death as a problem, and possessing a discomfort or fear of all the suffering death causes is often dispelled by gaining a fuller perspective over time. Not many years ago, when I was that age, death and human suffering seemed to be t
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by bz 15y ago
The concepts outlined are pretty good, but I want to make a counterpoint against heuristics in general. Distilled ideas like these are certainly useful for trying to grasp a complex system, but they do not, for the non-expert player, repres
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by bz 16y ago
I know someone who might be interested in chatting with you. Do you mind throwing up your email in your profile?
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by bz 18y ago
The general sentiment about the TEAL classes (the ones with the clickers) is that they are really gimmicky. Supposedly, it gives the professor some feedback on what concepts are unclear and pushes the students to be attentive. The problem s
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by bz 19y ago
When analyzing systems, we typically look for a transient response and the initial conditions. Extending this analogy, it would seem natural that even if we knew the characteristics of a system, the behavior of the system would be largely c
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by bz 19y ago
I worked on designing something along these lines in a bioengineering design class I took for fun freshman year. The idea (for us) was motivated by the work that Ram Sasisekharan had done in his lab along these lines: http://web.mit.edu/
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by bz 19y ago
I don't mean to imply that I think all the points the article makes are bogus because there are some insightful things that are said, especially near the conclusion. I do think the format is extremely poor, granted that it's an opening spe
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by bz 19y ago
This article is more informative for what it implies about the writer/audience than its actual contents. It dabbles in a mess of pseudoscience (plus a generous dose of bolds and underlines) and ends up drawing an absurd amount of conclusion
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by bz 19y ago
If you think engineers can get carried away on tangents, I don't think you will find much better out of marketing and sales geniuses (whatever this means). Maybe it's better to save your money and invest in people that are more grounded ins