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by mian2zi3 16y ago
Bubble sort? You just got your ass kicked.
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
Did you read the second article? > Intel announced it will reduce its workforce by 4,000 workers (5%), mostly through attrition or voluntary separation programs. I joined Intel shortly after that article was written (2002). For much of
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
I saw a guy I know at a wedding a few weeks ago who works at Shaw Research, and I asked him about this. He didn't give explicit details on custom vs. commodity performance, but he did say they had machines up and running and giving novel r
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
My morning routine is pretty standard, today was no different: cup of coffee, hour and a half of yoga, bowl of steel cut oatmeal with fruit and nuts (today: apples and almonds) and a splash of milk. Unbeatable.
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
Mathematically, the beginning, more or less. I had the advantage of having dropped out of my undergrad, so I went back (after 13 years), changed my major to math (from CS), finished in two years and applied to graduate school. If I hadn't
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
I'm just starting my 4th year back studying math formally, 2nd year of PhD. I couldn't be having a better time. Who knows what the other end will look like, but I doubt I will ever work the "typical software job" again.
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
Intel had a geographic cost of living salary adjustment when I worked there.
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
> The trouble is that I don't remember anything. ... [If I came into enough money] I'd probably repeat my undergraduate schooling. I agree with other posters that you'd relearn the material faster, and this is a kind of remembering. I
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
Thanks imp! I'll take a look and let you know what I think.
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
This does seem like a great book. I haven't read it, but I did enjoy the google tech talk, "From Nand to Tetris in 12 steps": http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7654043762021156507# However, the poster already has an undergraduate d
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
> ... you see the pattern? Here's the syllabus ... I didn't mean to say that's the best way to learn. But it is certainly A way to learn, and one that should be (utterly) familiar to you.
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
I couldn't agree more. Every time I see a question like this, I have to hold back a rant. What, didn't they teach you to read at your liberal arts college? How many classes do you have to take before you see the pattern? Here's the syll
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
Well, put that way, it sounds like I'm asking for a lot. Medium-term, at least. I'm not exactly certain what "social learning context" means. Online. Tool, I don't care so much. I care more about connecting with people. If a tool facil
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
I think you might be surprised. I'm not sure where you'd go to find these people, however. Is there something like stackoverflow for code reviews? I just posted a related Ask HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1632965 but sadly go
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
University of Reddit seems like one possibility: http://universityofreddit.com/ Feels a bit hacked together. Has anyone taken a class there? What was your experience?
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
I have a similar background, and I thought this book was good: http://www.amazon.com/Molecular-Biology-made-simple-fun/dp/1... You might also check out the MIT OCW Intro Biology videos: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/biology/7-012-introducti
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Ask HN: Teaching online?
8 points by mian2zi3 16y ago|6 comments
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
Two did, yes. One was ArsDigita, which basically came out of Philip Greenspun's Ph.D. work on database-backed web sites for online communities. The second was a compiler company that spun out of a research project in program analysis and
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
I know what you're going through. I was deeply troubled (still am, really) when I first read Hume and started thinking about the Problem of Induction. You might enjoy taking a look at Hume's Inquiry on Human Understanding. (I'm sure you
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
One perspective is that physics at this level is purely descriptive. Hawking, in his response to Penrose in the book The Large, the Small, and the Human Mind, writes: "[I believe] that physics theories are just mathematical models we const
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
Tao has a nice post describing some of the accomplishments of the Fields medal winners here: http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/lindenstrauss-ngo-s...
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
I have an email in my profile.
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
> "The complex sugars were long thought to have no biological significance, even though they constitute up to 21 percent of milk." Serious, modern biologists still say things like this? Amazing. It is the biological equivalent of pro
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
The amazing thing is not so much that our politicians are bought, but they are bought so cheaply and so profitably by special interests.
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
I met a guy (I can give more details offline) who worked for an international gambling syndicate based in HK. Software written by teams in Shenzhen running on servers in HK fed by data from handicappers in Australia directed bettors to pla
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Not a Day Over Infinity(nytimes.com)
4 points by mian2zi3 16y ago|0 comments
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
And (TVs) certainly not a sign of privilege.
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
I remember mine (1981-2) being $100, but that was a long time ago. We hooked it to a junky old black and white TV somebody had thrown out. I think TVs were pretty ubiquitous by then.
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
I don't buy it. I grew up on a subsistence farm and we were, I think, living well below the poverty line. I started programming when I was 8, on a Timex Sinclair 1000, which my brother and I saved up to buy. We learned by trial and error
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
Long ago, I dropped out of college (to join a startup.) I went back three years ago because I wanted to get a PhD in math. I'm about to start my second year in grad school. Honestly, I push myself past my confort zone every time I sit do

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