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by imranq 6y ago
There's a lot of confirmation bias on this thread. If people want to believe that an elite institution is worthless, they will try to focus on the facts that yield that conclusion. But consider, - Most of the educational material that
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by imranq 6y ago
I'm going to take a different take, and say there are a lot of opportunities to apply CS to education and have a meaningful outcome. I think we can break higher "education" down into three roles: 1. Getting someone from skill
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Bad software usually gets out of my workflow quickly as a software engineer. Postman's workflow is really confusing to me however. Also why bad software exists: https://twitter.com/jaukia/status/11140447166167
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Funnily enough, I was reading this letter last week as part of the excellent compilation, Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track (which has many more letters). I've always admired Feynman's ability and perseverance
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I guess there's also an aesthetic component to limit the extent of generalization
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Visualization: How the Virus Won(nytimes.com)
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Where this would be most useful is automated testing suites just by specifying what you are testing for. A product manager looking to test portions of a system that absolutely need to work can specify code comments and generate 1000s of tes
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by imranq 7y ago
I will do that! OCW, and Princeton Coursera have enabled me to do far more than I ever thought was possible as an immigrant kid.
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by imranq 7y ago
A job is simply the key to the building, what you do after is up to you
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How much space does the full instance take? It would be interesting to have a personal article recommender based on the stats form your own Wikipedia instance
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The only way someone can even approach those problems is if the basics are so good they can do it in their sleep.
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This is so misguided. The magic of math doesn’t happen when you are superficially going through more “advanced” topics. And they are definitely going through it superficially since only one score mentioned was a 5 (which is incredibly easy
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by imranq 7y ago
What’s mind blowing is how much negative press Tesla gets, but when it comes to the real things Tesla wins out. Amazing.
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Thanks! This is really fascinating for me, i had never heard of this way of doing proofs and I studied math in college
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Thanks, I'd imagine an extremely small number of proofs could be verified this way
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What’s the purpose of automated theorem provers? Seems to take the fun out of proofs
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What do the colors mean in the images? I’m confused on how they actually generated them
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by imranq 7y ago
Old but always immensely valuable .. Feynman is a huge scientific hero of mine
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While I appreciate that this is a large advance, I’m worried that these releases will make the internet completely worthless after some time. If AI can come up with fake news, fake text, fake videos and pretty much anything the user wants i
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by imranq 7y ago
Sadly Calc iii is not “real” math, just an applied version of what newton created 300 years ago. Real math starts at analysis and abstract algebra. It is extremely inefficient to learn this kind of math completely by yourself since there is
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by imranq 8y ago
Excellent, thank you!
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I’d love to hear more about your experience. I’m designing new ways of conducting research at a big research institute.
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What if Mate kept track of the vocab you learned and as you browsed the internet, replaced English words in articles with that vocab
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by imranq 8y ago
This article is so one sided that it feels like Bloomberg really has it out for Musk. There’s no proof that Musk did this, even though I’m open to the possibility.
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by imranq 8y ago
The Harvard physics problems of the week are a great set too: https://www.physics.harvard.edu/academics/undergrad/problems
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Show HN: Visualize Neural Networks in the Browser(imranq.github.io)
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Can this transmit more than 1Ghz of spectrum? I can’t see that from the description
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What advantage would instacart have over amazon? Outside of being the first mover.
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I think the key issue for these devices is that they can only give you a representation of the “real thing”. Kids don’t have much experience of reality to create natural intuitions about nature, social relationships, and society and foistin
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It would still take linear time to determine the prime factors

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