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by fburnaby 17y ago
It completely depends on what's happening at the time! And even worse, you can only know in retrospect. Some of my time in this life has been priceless and I wouldn't give it up for anything. Much of it turns out to be near useless, on the
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by fburnaby 17y ago
This is definitely a problem. I'm trying to write a paper now (in applied math), and there's no way I can fit the true details of the implementation into the paper (there's just too much detail in the implementation!). While I can skim over
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by fburnaby 17y ago
I had concluded just the opposite.
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by fburnaby 17y ago
Good point on the feature-creep leading to innovation. Maybe it's not all bad then! But how can I find the one product without all the useless crap while others pay for the mistakes on the road to innovation? These features are still us
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by fburnaby 17y ago
Perhaps the article was a more minimalist way to say we need to head in the direction towards minimalism in order to find the optimum. But that would've taken too long to say...
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by fburnaby 17y ago
Making use of the notifier would imply one's heightened savvy, no?
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by fburnaby 17y ago
This is definitely cool. May I ask whoever submitted it why what made them think to submit it here?
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by fburnaby 17y ago
Crap, I need 10-11 hours if I'm going to be productive.
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by fburnaby 17y ago
I used to use my school's webmail. When I switched to gmail, I leaned about gmail notifier, which tells me as soon as I get an email. Instead of checking twice a day, I respond immediately. Are you talking about differences in response time
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by fburnaby 17y ago
That was a very nice explanation. I love the rubber band analogy. But one minor qualm: A transformation, when applied, typically has several eigenvalues and eigenvectors associated with it. The "first" (usually selected as the largest, or t
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by fburnaby 17y ago
And it's for the same reason as stated in the article.
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by fburnaby 17y ago
In fact, he took the pains to make it clear that he politically supports meritocracy during his talk. So, yes.
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by fburnaby 17y ago
I want a house. One with a really nice kitchen. With plate-racks. Grad school was a bad choice in this regard.
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by fburnaby 17y ago
Great service, keep it up! What will you be looking for 1.5 years from now?
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by fburnaby 17y ago
Some things might be worth losing productivity over. "Aww shoot, I guess I'll have to stay overtime!"
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by fburnaby 17y ago
Couldn't a fail be an indicator that schools still are serving kids? "Oh, Johnny didn't really get it the first time around, let's get him to try again"? I'm not necessarily advocating this point of view, but stating the statistic isn't e
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by fburnaby 17y ago
Maybe it isn't all about your profession. Maybe you should try to know some of the basics taught in high school in order to be a good citizen. Not to say that the high school I went to wasn't a waste of time, but that doesn't mean high scho
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by fburnaby 17y ago
The thesis here is easy to believe when I'm stuck in a hot stuffy office, being completely unproductive!
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by fburnaby 17y ago
Gorgeous. I've been trying to work through a 600 page textbook on this for a few months (intended for a biology major). It's nice to see someone just come out and say how genetics works !
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by fburnaby 17y ago
Freedom Evolves - Dan Dennett
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by fburnaby 17y ago
http://www.livemocha.com/
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by fburnaby 17y ago
This definitely happens to me. I have an hour around 9pm where I am very sharp mentally and physically. It can fluctuate drastically throughout the rest of the day.
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by fburnaby 17y ago
Did anybody know that big o notation is more general than either of these articles lets on? These two articles are explaining the use of big-O notation in algorithms, which is just one possible use. The article by Knuth gives a better insig
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by fburnaby 17y ago
Biology was the first singularity. Something sophisticated enough to reproduce itself, and then improve itself.
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by fburnaby 17y ago
I'm not sure if this would apply to thesis defenses, but it's at least relevant for more general presentations: make a presentation on the essentials of your research. Your research is too complicated to explain to an audience (even an expe
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by fburnaby 17y ago
Don't identify more than a few people from the same IP. It's easy to do QA and spot someone who's putting in fake names if you get carried away.
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by fburnaby 17y ago
I'm in town for a conference which starts tomorrow. I was planning on seeing the talks that sound interesting, and then talking to the speakers, or other people who thought that same talk would be interesting. I agree with you that I'm not
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by fburnaby 17y ago
I just finished my EE degree. I did well, but it certainly wasn't by getting lots out of lectures (though going to them probably is a good idea). The trick is to have friends to study with. I always had a hard time focusing on the coursew
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by fburnaby 17y ago
He's just distinguishing between pure and applied maths. Pure math -> "level one". Start with axioms and apply logic. Applied math -> "level two". Take some pure math, and find an analogous system in the real world. The question in
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by fburnaby 17y ago
Steven Pinker discusses this topic in his books: - "The Language Instinct" covers it in detail - "The Stuff of Thought", in which he pretty much responds directly to this article. I definitely side with his views on this one, though it's to

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