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by imranq 8y ago
This is a good counterpoint, but they could probably survive without it. I don’t agree with discrimination and don’t think it’s right, but I do feel like Harvard should do what it wants if it didn’t take a single dollar of public funds.
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What’s stopping you from making a groundbreaking company of your own and becoming an employer yourself? Employers can hire who they want and if Harvard’s selection of candidates does not meet their standards, you can be sure that employers
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Why should anyone care what Harvard does? Isn’t it a private university, and shouldn’t they be able to choose who they want? The whole thing strikes me as presumptuous and entitled.
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And parrots. No natural predators and spend most of their day eating from lush forests. Seems like they were born to be idle.
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In praise of idleness by Bertrand Russell is a great read on this topic But also keeping a journal and writing everyday and analyzing the thoughts you have is incredible for slowing down time and cutting out fluff in life.
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Breadth first search is simple but effective
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If you apply a regret minimization framework to this decision, I’m 100% sure a focused sabbatical is better than working a lame job where the next year is the same as the last.
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Thanks!
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That’s an amazing story. Do you mind sharing the name of the library?
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The human brain isn’t a “computer”, it’s way more complicated and can’t be described in terms of inventions it has created.
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How do all of these note taking apps compare with Evernote?
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What’s the difference between a MOOC and doing all the problems in a textbook?
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That’s a good example. Piano is also a classic foundational problem
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Agreed, top 1% is probably 100,000 musicians and there are probably only about 10,000 people actually making a good living with music
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The key thing that self studiers don’t realize is that you don’t know what you don’t know. And frequently those things are very subtle but build up over time. Luckily with the internet, any motivated student can find great teachers to help
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What if every commercial plan was equipped with LiDar and perhaps a downward camera...could we scan most land masses?
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What stopped you from moving out?
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But that’s 8% off of 26% though which is a lot
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I was thinking that it couldn’t feel so bad, but once I clicked on the link I was definitely in awe and then felt bad...
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Similar to Princeton Companion to Mathematics perhaps?
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Isn’t this the premise of HBOs Silicon Valley?
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I’m just saying there should be more collaboration instead of silos. Machine learning is advancing so much because mostly everything is shared openly via papers, talks, etc
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Why can’t all these companies just make one self driving car? Seems like a lot of overlapping effort with all of these separate initiatives towards the same goal. The technology is agnostic unless you redesign the car from the ground up. Al
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Which profession are you in?
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Real programming jobs exist and pay a lot. You have to be extremely good though - more like a mathematician or a CS researcher. Some examples: C++ Latency programmer for HFT funds, Staff Research Engineer at Google, AI Research at DeepMind&
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I see a lot of ML startups on a daily basis, and most of this rings true. Software 1.0 is for accomplishing tasks by going from need -> logic -> solution. Software 2.0 is translating human intuition into machine code directly through
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Personally I think Myvhold’s company is not as evil as people say. It actually makes a lot of sense if you take a long term view. The goal is to create a market for innovation and decentralize DARPA-like institutions so that market forces c
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Why assume the market is correct? Most people have no idea about the valuation of securities and patents are even harder to value
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If you’re in one place for a year, try volunteering as an EMT. Gain some different skills, meet good people and get a different life experience.
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This is the third assignment in Princeton’s Algorithms II course on Coursera - highly recommended!

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