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by gems 13y ago
Of course. But do you realize that some groups/schools filter by GPA? You don't even get considered unless you're above a certain threshold. How do send other signals then? Are you going to try to talk with the professors per
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by gems 13y ago
"We'd get some material that was non-trivial to figure out on an exam. That's just bad teaching." You should reconsider what you just said. I tend to think that most 'good' universities do that.
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by gems 13y ago
"But it's true. It is hard, but that's okay. The whole point of the grading system was to acknowledge subtlety; that it's okay if you don't have an A, because it doesn't mean you haven't learnt anything, i
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by gems 13y ago
I don't understand: there's nothing stopping you from reading what you want.
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by gems 13y ago
What conclusions have I made? Next time make a new post instead of editing your previous one.
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by gems 13y ago
That's your evidence against the statement made by enraged_camel. Does that mean that the statement is false? No.
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by gems 13y ago
"Says you, but my experience contradicts it. You have not convinced me." Your experience is dependent on several factors including how willing you are to listen to and engage people with different lives than your own. I can close
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by gems 13y ago
"Where you start in life doesn't matter" How can you possibly say that?
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by gems 13y ago
There are many things people might generalize about the brand from having experience with one instance of that brand. By driving a bmw, for example, you might get to experience the luxury offered by bmw-built cars. You can keep asserting wh
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by gems 13y ago
Why does something have to be wrong with the system for that to be happening?
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by gems 13y ago
Or you could say that playing one song is an advertisement for the album or for the artist. There are many artists I wouldn't have otherwise known about if it wasn't for pandora. "If you don't understand that, you should
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by gems 13y ago
"You seem to be under the impression that being an entertainer is easy" No I'm not. If something is not profitable, then do something else that is. Don't complain that you're not being paid enough.
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by gems 13y ago
Why do entertainers feel so entitled to high payment? Why is this even a story?
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by gems 13y ago
Reality: nobody cares what you consider real and fake, and whatever those words mean to you. If you're not examining it in a scientific way, then you have no business making conclusions.
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by gems 13y ago
"I'm a spring 2013 undergraduate in CS, and this goes on in America just as it does in China. (the entire process is a charade.) I will admit it without hesitation." www.de.ufpe.br/~toom/my-articles/engeduc&#x2
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by gems 13y ago
"Consciousness is not solely a matter of computation." How do you know that?
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by gems 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5864439
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by gems 13y ago
It still takes time to retrain, even if the education is free.
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by gems 13y ago
"matters which you consider trivial," I've reread his post 3 or so times, and I never came to the conclusion that he had this belief. "and that they simply don't have the 'mental bandwidth' to understand w
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by gems 13y ago
err, the point of the OP was that people are too concerned with their own lives to be involved in politics. He wasn't claiming that it was an inferior mindset (myopic, trivial, narcissistic, apathetic), so he wasn't describing peo
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by gems 13y ago
Do you have any idea what sort of things PL researchers study?
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by gems 13y ago
"If your machine isn't already rendering that page flawlessly, I would argue that you weren't the website's target audience. IMO, the site caters those looking for a high end performance machine; those who likely already
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by gems 13y ago
What would happen if you didn't remember your gpa? It is shocking that they would ask something like that though.
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by gems 13y ago
Is it looked down upon if you don't go up in the ranks as you age?
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by gems 13y ago
What is a line engineer?
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by gems 13y ago
He's a somewhat successful mathematician. Does that make him a genius?
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by gems 13y ago
Why do you have to keep going?
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by gems 13y ago
Or, you know, don't say anything. If nothing comes to mind, then maybe there is nothing important to say.
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by gems 13y ago
It's true. I could just be bitter about not having a spot. But actually, I don't work in tech and I probably won't anytime in the future unless I'm forced. You can't verify that any of this is true, and that's fine.
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by gems 13y ago
What I'm saying is that you shouldn't focus on getting a job for its own sake. I'm questioning motives, not really the direction you should take your life. The former is more about staying goal oriented, the latter is more about value judge

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