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by dayvid 3y ago
I spent a summer teaching at a high school with separate gender classrooms. One thing that stuck out was that the women were motivated from hearing them out and how they felt first and men were motivated by giving them a challenge. To some
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The article confirmed what I thought. The best way to teach students CS is to work to their interests. Almost everything any student wants to do is involved with computers. Find some way to give them a project related to their interest and
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People paid $550 for a pair of headphones. They'll buy this if it's good
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Meditation. I got into it by accident when I taught English overseas. Some of the best friends I've had came from it, especially on retreats. Also if you make the community, you grow a community more. This happened when I became a teac
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He gets to the bottom of things and isn’t a trend rider. His algorithms and concepts will be used or are being used in the development of AI technology and other fundamental technology for years to come.
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Keyboard looks like an oldschool Thinkpad. You can also get an older Thinkpad x220 for around the same cost or cheaper with more power.
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To add on, having a phone being your heavy computing device is a little silly if you think about it. It's essentially the smallest portable form factor people can conveniently carry around, connect to the internet, consume and send inf
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by dayvid 3y ago
I went to Japan last year and it was rough haha. I'm vegetarian so it was a little better. I spent a lot of time navigating to the sparse vegan/vegetarian restaurants which were overall mediocre. I subsisted on Starbucks veggie sa
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The most important thing is food education. Most people's eating habits are inherited from their parents and family. It's really hard to change them. In USA at least, the default options are not good. You have to make most of your
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by dayvid 4y ago
I lived in FL during the DeSantis/Gillum election and voted in the election (not for DeSantis). Everglades conservation was one of his main points he was running on and things he's done. Don't want to get too political in thi
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by dayvid 4y ago
A few months into the pandemic was one of the best job markets for tech as more people were online than ever. A lot of my coworkers jumped to different companies or startups with huge salary bumps.
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You're worth as much as you get paid. This applies to business owners negotiating business contracts and employees negotiating salaries. Don't understand the hate on FAANG salaries as it sets a precedent for higher tech salaries.
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The big hurdle is a lot of new jargon that sounds more complicated than what it's doing.
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If it's any consolation, the guy from nomadlist is building AI businesses with jQuery and PHP: https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1633422349012992007
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by dayvid 4y ago
Agree. Sugar also blasts your immune system: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32395846/ Better to reduce sugar and artificial sweeteners, but sugar alone, especially in a concentrated food/drink additive form is fa
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by dayvid 4y ago
They are. Durham, NC; Pittsburgh, PH; Atlanta. They already have facilities or will grow. Remote will also have an impact. Housing prices will still grow with more tech jobs, though certain areas can absorb that impact better than others. T
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Even in those companies at the higher level you need additional skills to figure out impact and opportunities (opportunity sizing, XFN alignment, communication, good writing, etc.). Interviewing mainly gets your foot in the door. There are
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I liked their bookstores a lot. Shame they all shut down before
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Big fan of lightweight merino and almost never wear cotton except for pants. Looks and feels nicer than cotton and doesn’t retain moisture like cotton does and not as heavy. Bamboo-blends are also good for cooler weather, but not as popular
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I think for a good deal of them you're in silence (no cell phones or talking with others). It's really valuable to be in silence if you haven't before. You can gain awareness of random thoughts and things you don't notic
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Doing intensive meditation retreats is a Navy Seal hell-week for your mind. If people took that into consideration, they would be better prepared for the results. It's much better to start with a simple meditation practice or go on a s
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Agree 100%. Many western meditation practices, especially mindfulness, take the soul and context out of meditation and treat it like an extreme sport or pilates class. Reminds me of when Tim Ferris went on a prolonged fast before doing a mi
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Enjoy the recent added queue feature as well. There's a few products add they could make to keep it a killer product.
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The same people who talk about automation and AI taking over want people to go back to the office. It makes no sense that it's table stakes and a requirement. I remember the first time I worked remote, I had an appointment that took me
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Beautiful site! Bookmarked it as I'm interested in exploring parts of the silk road in the near future.
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I agree 100%. I know many white and asian people who didn't get their foot in the door or opportunity solely because they had amazing skills and talent. Get in however you can and then work your ass off so no one doubts you.
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by dayvid 4y ago
I'm guilty of this as well haha. Not saying it in a negative vibe. I lived in Japan for two years, and even tried to build an over-engineered learning tool (built a short roguelike version of Shortstraw algo to learn Kanji in Unity). F
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Programmers are really attracted to Japanese. It's the language with the most over-engineered tools for learning.
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I literally bought a lockbox for this reason, because she would things to a different place every time. She freaked out when I told her, but it came with two keys and I gave her one so she doesn't think I'm hiding anything from he
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Anyone read the Data Science Design Manual by Skienna and find it useful? Curious if it’s a good intro source or something like Statistics in a Nutshell

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