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by imranq 10y ago
Hopefully if the previous generation paid it forward. And as long we are talking about scientists, Feynman said this in his speech: "The ideas I wish to describe are old ideas. There is practically nothing that I am going to say tonigh
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I think you could make a similar argument for a lot of important choices: when you pick a doctor, an employee, a job, a computer, you're going to pick the best you can afford even if the middle of the road doctor or computer could get
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Advice from my physics professor: make a detailed plan and then discard the plan and do what you feel. This doesn't mean the plan was unnecessary...rather the plan carves out the neural pathways in your mind. The feeling part is import
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I guess you are referring to Yitang Zhang who created the first bound on the twin-prime conjecture. These days mathematics has become so specialized that its rather difficult to come up with anything new that is noteworthy and not already d
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by imranq 10y ago
why is this downvoted? every company I've worked at that has IPO'd companies has been, in my experience, soul-sucking.
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Wow did 4 people respond to one comment at the same time?
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This is great! But I couldn't find any way to learn visually?
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In Praise of Idleness – Bertrand Russell [pdf](libcom.org)
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Ah that makes sense. They can still use a cloud based coding pad like most companies do
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1. Why bring your own laptop to an interview? 2. Isn't this scenario incredibly suspicious?
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this is great - thanks!
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wow I actually thought someone had discovered some ridiculous orbital pathway
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There's a book series called 'America's Best Writing" each year for science, literature, etc. There's also one for travel which is really good.
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For me, philosophy shows the ideals of human affairs and the the higher ideals, but it seems to suffer from too many opinions and contradictory viewpoints. Mathematics gives you the kernel of the universe. Its a much finer grained tool that
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Don't start a company until someone asks you to(sivers.org)
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I love the idea and the technology and design seems great! However, I found out that I save way more time and am more effective just sticking to a few basic principles of eating food instead of tracking everything. Slow-carb diet where I ea
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"If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the
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Electric cars change the whole logic since you need a relatively simple drivetrain (similar to that solar powered car built in high school) and a whole lot of batteries. So there's a lot more room for creativity and design I think. But
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Category Theory for the Sciences(category-theory.mitpress.mit.edu)
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What about...Walmart, Glencore, Phillip Morris, Blackwater, Palantir...
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I like the idea of scientifically vetting foods, but as you said it might be hard coming up with a balanced viewpoint if you are not considering all the research. Also might be helpful to consider the impact factor of each paper you are cit
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Personally I think the goal isnt to be called a "genius". That seems like a trick for parties - like to show off ones intellect like a lion shows off his roar at a zoo. Sometimes I feel we worship at the altar of genius way too mu
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You know there are plenty of drug and money free ways to make yourself "vastly smarter". Unfortunately it takes about a year to go through the natural route. Read Mindset by Carol Dweck. Worked wonders on me.
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Badly designed for what? Coding CRUD apps?
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Oh I didn't know they were different people! Then I am wrong and apologize for any misinformation
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This guy used to run Barclays tax evasion division, which while apparently completely legal, gave the wrong impression as Barclays accepted taxpayer money...
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Surprisingly - as stated by others - memory is crucial to math and problem solving. Most problem solving is just memory on a higher domain anyway. Break down a problem with first principles (hard part), and solve with a mental model gained
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TV is one of worst forms of media out there. It is practically the definition of mind control and although there are multiple channels, there is a strange sense of groupthink. This is similar to the Murray Gell-Mann amnesia effect, where fa
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Wow - this is hololens for your ears!
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What's up with all these major guides

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