eatkinson

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by eatkinson 9y ago
If Einstein or Shannon hadn't discovered their respective theories, they would have discovered something else. Not sure what that does for you, but it also seems true.
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by eatkinson 10y ago
I thought Terrence Tao had an interesting viewpoint on this: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/there%E2%80%99s...
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by eatkinson 10y ago
Sort of related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Le_Gentil
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by eatkinson 10y ago
"I find that the major objection is that people think great science is done by luck. It's all a matter of luck. Well, consider Einstein. Note how many different things he did that were good. Was it all luck? Wasn't it a littl
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by eatkinson 10y ago
Because it looks weird. Seriously. There is a long list of excellent aircraft like the Long EZ and the Facetmobile that never took off because, at the end of the day, people are willing to pay extra to have something that looks like an airp
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by eatkinson 11y ago
I don't know about subways, but elevators should never be a part of a building's security because they're so easy to hack[1]. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUvGfuLlZus
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by eatkinson 11y ago
The largest heist of all time was in 1990[1], which I consider pretty recent. The tools they needed to pull it off (impersonating the police mainly) seem like they could still work today. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by eatkinson 11y ago
FWIW Berkeley does use Python 3 in their intro to programming class [1,2]. This is useful because if I remember correctly, Python 2 does not have things like the "nonlocal" keyword or coroutines. [1]: Website for 61A: http:/
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by eatkinson 11y ago
> First, there is your biology. You might simply not be intelligent enough to become a great engineer. Biology is overrated. From "You and Your Research"[1] by R.W. Hamming: "You observe that most great scientists have tre
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by eatkinson 11y ago
This isn't really sound reasoning, for reasons mentioned elsewhere and because of the following. You need to know that the probability of acceptance is conditionally independent of the "type" of the applicant given the succe