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by inetsee 16y ago
I would love to learn Lojban. But when I'm feeling pragmatic, I think it might be easier to to find someone to practice with if I tried to learn Esperanto.
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by inetsee 16y ago
If you can get by with something really lightweight, Amazon has their new EC2 micro instance. It's free for the first year (for new AWS customers), then an on-demand instance runs 2 cents an hour. You can't beat those prices with a stick. M
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by inetsee 16y ago
In order to solve really big problems you need leverage. Solving the problem of really powerful AI would give you the leverage to solve a lot of other really big problems. Really!
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by inetsee 16y ago
Some education is expensive because you are paying for the name and possibly for the contacts that you might make there. If you go to a big name Ivy League school expecting to learn from prominent professors, you are likely to be disappoi
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by inetsee 16y ago
Anki is the one you are probably thinking about. There are others that do the same kinds of things. These include Mnemosyne (" http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/ ), and SuperMemo (" http://www.supermemo.com/ ). For a longer list and an explanat
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by inetsee 16y ago
I have a soft spot for "Meet the Robinsons". I went looking for the exact Walt Disney quote at the end of the movie, and discovered " http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walt_Disney which includes quite a few quotes that can relate to entrepreneu
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by inetsee 16y ago
The link is broken. It's missing an "f" at the end. It should be "www.cs.virginia.edu/~weimer/p/p109-weimer.pdf".
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by inetsee 16y ago
Build your own computer using FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays). Bonus points: Make it capable of reconfiguring itself based on the program it's executing.
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by inetsee 16y ago
- Learn to play the electric cello
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by inetsee 16y ago
There's another bug in the directions; if you specify walking directions, Google Maps still has you kayaking across the Pacific Ocean, when you obviously should be using "walk on water shoes".
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by inetsee 16y ago
If you are interested in learning for retention (i.e. learning something and then being able to remember it the next week, next month, next year...) then you should look into Spaced Repetition software (search for "spaced repetition" on Wik
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by inetsee 16y ago
There are actually a couple of books that can probably help with this kind of informal user experience testing. Both are by Steve Krug. The first is "Don't Make Me Think" which focuses on design for usability, and includes a chapter titled
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by inetsee 16y ago
This isn't exactly an answer to your question, since you asked for just one programming language, but there is a book coming out soon (pub date listed in Amazon is Nov 10th) entitled "Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Lea
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by inetsee 16y ago
“Good artists copy, great artists steal”. quotation from Pablo Picasso
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by inetsee 16y ago
I have to disagree with at least one point in Ben Scofield's talk. If you are doing deliberate practice and you are failing most of the time, then you are either not trying hard enough or you are setting your goals too high. Deliberate prac
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by inetsee 16y ago
You want to be working right on the edge of your abilities. If you're in your comfort zone you aren't going to learn anything new. If you're completely in over your head, you'll just flounder. Working right on the edge lets you make the inc
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by inetsee 16y ago
One thing: A reliable host/server?
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by inetsee 16y ago
If your primary interest is in maximizing the amount of information you remember, I suggest you look into Spaced Repetition software like SuperMemo, Mnemosyne or Anki (" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition ). These are online fla
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by inetsee 16y ago
I thought 'On Writing Well' was written by William Zinsser. Amazon doesn't list any books by Ziglar with that title.
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by inetsee 16y ago
I'm a huge fan of Charles Stross's "Accelerando". I also love (most) of what William Gibson has written, including his non-science-fiction stuff like "Pattern Recognition" and "Spook Country".
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by inetsee 16y ago
I think Writing to Learn by William Zinsser: ( http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Learn-William-Zinsser/dp/00627... ) would also be a good choice.
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by inetsee 16y ago
A lot of people swear by Org-Mode ( http://orgmode.org ) under Emacs. Everything is contained in a text file. Org-Mode adds tags, lets you collapse/expand sections like a folding editor, lets you search on tags, etc. As you might expect fr
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by inetsee 16y ago
If you want more information you might want to look at the High Scalability web site " http://www.highscalability.com . They discuss a lot of issues related to big, high-performance web sites, and how they scale. Some of the posts are also
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by inetsee 16y ago
One fundamental problem with this idea is that if you don't already have a clearance it's very difficult to get a clearance. Getting a Top Secret or Special Access clearance can take 6 to 12 months, and costs the company a great deal of mon
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by inetsee 18y ago
There is an open source project providing similar functionality called Mnemosyne that runs on Linux, Mac OSX and Windows. Its home page is here: http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/index.php