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by grot 9y ago
I am a non-native english speaker too; I guess I bristle at the the reading that this man isn't in control of his english when he writes with obvious proficiency, a reading I suspect, would not at all be in question were his name John
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by grot 9y ago
I also come from a similar background, and his points also seem poignant to me -- the first, in my reading, is about the lottery of birth; would he or I or you have been successful (with presumably our predisposition to succeed in academia)
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by grot 9y ago
I think he meant it. His English is very fluent throughout the article.
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What html5/js framework should I use for a webgame?
1 points by grot 13y ago|0 comments
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by grot 14y ago
all's fair in love and war right?
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A crash course in prolog(howiprovedit.com)
2 points by grot 14y ago|0 comments
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Naive Auction Theory: First-bid closed auctions(howiprovedit.com)
2 points by grot 14y ago|0 comments
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Gamification is already here(howiprovedit.com)
1 points by grot 14y ago|0 comments
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Learning as an Adversarial Game(howiprovedit.com)
1 points by grot 14y ago|0 comments
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Reflections on Design, My first year as a software engineer(howiprovedit.com)
2 points by grot 14y ago|0 comments
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In Praise of Idleness (Bertran Russell, 1932)(zpub.com)
2 points by grot 14y ago|0 comments
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by grot 15y ago
The argument I find most compelling for learning the memory palace technique is that building a memory palace is a creative act (Yes, like Picasso). One must be creative to construct a memorable palace for something as mundane as a grocery
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by grot 15y ago
I don't think the author means to justify age discrimination so much as to use it to underscore a point, which is that programming knowledge is something that takes (on the order of) 5 years to acquire rather than 40 years to acquire. Wheth
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by grot 15y ago
Maybe not in his particular case...but as an alumni interviewer, I can tell you that personality and extracurriculars matter a lot.
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by grot 15y ago
The thing is, admissions to elite universities is almost never about test scores. Immigrant parents from countries like China and India are used to test scores mattering a lot. In those countries, your absolute score on the National Exam de
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Mild electric shock + contrived mathematical exercise = improved number sense(cell.com)
2 points by grot 15y ago|0 comments
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by grot 15y ago
Freud?
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by grot 15y ago
That's one of the first hypothesis discussed in the article: our brains aren't getting smaller because we are getting dumber, but because the wiring is becoming more efficient. I think the most interesting part of the article comes at the e
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Donald Knuth on how he became good at math(webofstories.com)
102 points by grot 15y ago|31 comments
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by grot 15y ago
What about the disutility from alienating everyone else in the coffee line? Yet another example of how private incentives (to the cashier) trump public good...
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by grot 15y ago
When I was learning Galois Theory, I found Keith Conrad's notes really helpful for understanding the details -- http://www.math.uconn.edu/~kconrad/blurbs/ . The subject of this post is mostly covered by the paper titled "Galois corresponde
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by grot 15y ago
Yes, or alternatively I believe In [27]: class Foo(object): ....: pass ....: In [28]: def hello(self): ....: print self ....: In [29]: blah = Foo() In [30]: blah.hello = hello.__get__(blah, Fo
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by grot 15y ago
Also, i forgot to add, your code snippet doesn't work. Some magic goes into the self binding. In [21]: def hello(self): ....: print self.name ....: In [22]: class Foo(object): ....: name = 'blah' ....:
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by grot 15y ago
you may not have seen it, but it does work: n [8]: class Foo(object): ...: pass ...: In [9]: blah = Foo() In [10]: blah.asdf = lambda x: x In [11]: blah.asdf(3) Out[11]: 3 In [12]: blah.asdf(5) Out[12]: 5
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by grot 15y ago
In javascript you can modify an object var foo = Object(); foo.blah = function(x,y) { ... }; But in python, that doesn't quite work. You can only do foo = object() foo.blah = lambda x,y: ... lambdas are a bit more
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by grot 15y ago
tl;dr Successful man fails 10th grade standardized test, concludes that success is not correlated with being able to do math. Aside from the obvious logical/statistical falacy of making an overreaching conclusion from a sample size of one,
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by grot 15y ago
An admirable attempt, but -- the formatting and the grammar are distracting detractors from the content. For anyone who is serious about learning abstract algebra but lacking mathematical background (i.e. an analysis course under the belt),
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by grot 15y ago
So ads are less annoying now than they were a couple of years ago... Is it perhaps because they've adapted to the increasingly common practice of adblocker(and browsers which prohibit unprompted javascript popups)? Let's not forget that adb
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by grot 15y ago
A liberal arts education teaches you many useful things: grammar, for example. Read his opening paragraph again. "As usual I get a ton of mail on subjects that are controversial, and one of the more painful ones was the fact that the Droppi
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by grot 15y ago
To properly answer the question "is brogrammer a sexist term", I think it's important to distinguish -- for a moment -- what a sexist term might be. 1. Is a term sexist when the speaker intends to be sexist? 2. Or is the term sexist when ot

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