davidroberts

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Neural Networks(doc.ic.ac.uk)
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How much gold is there in the world?(bbc.co.uk)
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Robot ants: mini-machines mimic insect colony(bbc.co.uk)
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by davidroberts 14y ago
I'm not sure Steve Jobs would be such a great employee anyway. He was born to lead, not follow. To innovate, not bend himself to someone else's vision. Invest in him? Yes. Hire him? Hmmmmm. Maybe not.
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In pictures: Syrian refugees' most important things(bbc.co.uk)
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The pleasures and perils of the open-plan office(bbc.co.uk)
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Yvonne Brill, a Pioneering Rocket Scientist, Dies at 88(nytimes.com)
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by davidroberts 14y ago
It was Grossmont High School on the border between La Mesa and El Cajon, CA. It was the same with my son. He hung out with a group that included all the 10 best students by GPA in his class. Except for him, they all went to state schools.
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by davidroberts 14y ago
Harvard's endowment is $32 billion. They can fund many students at $50,000 a year from the interest without touching the principle, and it's a major goal of theirs to do so. Yale, Princeton, and Columbia also have multi-billion dollar endow
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by davidroberts 14y ago
The amazing thing is that excellent students from poor schools really should apply to the elite private universities, because the private schools will pretty much pay for their education through their huge endowments. It's a much better pat
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Patient Receives 3D Printed Implant to Replace 75 Percent of Skull(singularityhub.com)
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by davidroberts 14y ago
When I was learning to code C, I would often spend all night trying to chase down a bug, then finally go to bed in frustration at 5 am. After a few hours of sleep, I'd look at the code again, and immediately see the problem. I would feel so
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by davidroberts 14y ago
D&B executive's spouse: You've really got to help my little brother. He hasn't had a job since he got fired from McDonald's two years ago. Executive: What can he do? Spouse: He's really good at programming. He took a class in it in high
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Have We Evolved to Be Nasty or Nice?(online.wsj.com)
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North Korea: What happens if Kim Jong-un acts on his threats?(csmonitor.com)
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by davidroberts 14y ago
Sorry, I posted this. I Googled into it and didn't realize it was behind a paywall. And I can't delete it. When you do get the karma to downvote, you'll discover that it doesn't work on links, only on comments.
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by davidroberts 14y ago
Definitely not a classical guitar unless you intend to play classical only. It's a whole different style of play, and you'll have to relearn everything if you change over to a steel string acoustic or electric. The fretboard is much wider a
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To All the Colleges That Rejected Me(online.wsj.com)
15 points by davidroberts 14y ago|13 comments
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by davidroberts 14y ago
Learning to program is really difficult. Teaching to program is even harder. The only programming class I ever took was taught by an unmotivated teacher who only taught programming because he needed the money. That was in high school. I s
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by davidroberts 14y ago
Not everyone wants to go to college. A lot of people enjoy working with their hands and are really good at it, and plumbers, carpenters, welders, machinists, mechanics, and electricians are a lot more useful to society than yet one more per
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by davidroberts 14y ago
When I went to school, junior high was heterogeneous and I was miserable. High school was tracked and pretty good. It was divided like the article said, into Applied Arts, College Prep, and Honors. Applied Arts was where kids who would like
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The Beijing Olympics Were A Huge Mistake For China(businessinsider.com)
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by davidroberts 14y ago
Everything is so pristine and untouched. If it were the US, it would have all been looted and graffitied long ago. But I'm afraid by publishing the condition of his town through Google Maps, the mayor has pretty much assured it won't stay p
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by davidroberts 14y ago
Maybe wearing a beat-up t-shirt that says "Come to the Dark Side. We have cookies. " would help establish the OP as an engineer.
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by davidroberts 14y ago
Growing beyond working age is definitely an issue to be addressed, especially in our case where our retirement savings largely disappeared during various economic crises both external (like the dot-com crisis) and within our family (various
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by davidroberts 14y ago
OTOH, for people who do not want to have children (like me, at this time), there is no way to 'convince' that it is worth it. And that is exactly how it should be. Because if you have to be "convinced" to have children, then you shouldn't
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by davidroberts 14y ago
I have three kids, one in high school and two in college. They are expensive, but like many other things, you can decide how you want to divide the expense between time and money. Take education for example. You can send them to expensive p
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by davidroberts 14y ago
I think you are confusing a problem-solver with a perfectionist. One solves problems because he or she enjoys it. The other because they live in a world that will never match an ideal they hold. The second is doomed to misery no matter what
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by davidroberts 14y ago
I don't think there is any contradiction between being a problem-solver and having a positive outlook on life, as long as you are a competent problem solver and getting a lot of problems solved. Successful problem solving provides both an i
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Bad at Their Jobs, and Loving It(blogs.wsj.com)
2 points by davidroberts 14y ago|0 comments

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