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by mian2zi3 16y ago
Excellent advice. I'd go one step further: accept the problems in your life are your fault (responsibility). You'll end up fixing them faster.
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
No, that's consuming value.
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
Yeah. Learn how to get a satisfying job instead of taking bad advice from an incompetent career counselor. Maybe doing 3hrs worth of data entry this the most economic value this guy can provide. In that case, he better learn to settle. The
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
Dumbed himself down for a job he was over-qualified for and ends bored to depression. Sounds about right.
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
http://math.stackexchange.com/ is now in beta. From the FAQ: "Mathematics - Stack Exchange is for people studying math at any level & professionals in related fields."
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
I don't mean to be negative and I wish you well, but when did HN become about therapy and personal life counseling? You mention a therapist and a psychiatrist. Shouldn't you be going to them with these problems? (Or some other profession
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
I second the recommendation for Mindfulness in Plain Language. Great book.
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
As I hope the tone of my post made clear, I'm not sure either, but I am very skeptical of the claim. There seem to be two issues here: how full you feel (which I don't have an opinion on one way or another) and whether drinking water impede
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
> Have a drink about 30 - 60 mins after you have eaten, not during a meal. This ... allows food to be digested more efficiently before the digestive enzymes get diluted by a drink I hear this claim a lot and it always sounds simplistic
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
The only thing better than writing code is deleting it.
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
I've always eaten reasonably well (comes from having grown up on a subsistence farm), so I have never radically changed my own diet, but I have a few (untested) thoughts: 1. Get some food culture. It is easier to make good decisions when t
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
If you're going to be pedantic, it is best to be right. I don't have a copy of the C standard here, but I do have a copy of the C++ standard. From 5.7 Additive Operators (discussing an expression of the form P+N, where P has pointer type
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
> It would be very hard to accurately account for a microprocessor's out-of-order instruction issue in a compiler. This is true. However, a lot of modern processors do in-order execution, they just aren't made by Intel or AMD for desk
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Mindfulness in Plain English: A practical introduction to Vipassana meditation(urbandharma.org)
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
The phase ordering problem in compilers is notoriously hard. You wouldn't worry about the interaction between strength reduction and scheduling, but in other cases you do need to take these interactions into account. In my compiler (aka a
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
In a modern CPU, instruction selection is much more complicated than, "Oh, addl (or sll) is faster than umul," and depends on the micro-architecture/pipeline, surrounding code, etc. Addition usually takes one cycle, while multiplication mi
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
Nice post. This is how the Nullstone compiler optimization benchmark suite is organized: two functionally equivalent versions of a C program, one cleaner/suboptimal, the other optimized by hand. The goal is to have the generated code perf
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
That's great, I'm genuinely happy for you. This may very well be my own failing. I learn the most when either I sit down, alone, and struggle with a book, programming task, math problem, etc. or when I talk through something in person with
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
Agreed, if there isn't one already. artofproblemsolving.com might fit the bill, for example.
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
Anyone played with lldb yet? Thoughts?
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
MathOverflow's explicit purpose is to discuss research-level mathematics. First sentence of the FAQ: "MathOverflow's primary goal is for users to ask and answer research level math questions, the sorts of questions you come across when you
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
Yes, but for the opposite reason. I usually walk away wondering why I wasted my time here when I could have been learning something or, even better, creating something.
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
"Discovering math", depending on what you mean, could be setting the bar pretty high. Memorizing formula is not what mathematics is about, but you're unlikely to get very far if you just "play with numbers". To learn mathematics and to th
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
> For instance, what does this even mean? I'm not a physicist. Here is my lay understanding of the holographic principle. Let's think of a physical theory (that attempts to describe the universe) as space of states together with a "t
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by mian2zi3 17y ago
I agree. I couldn't watch to the end.
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by mian2zi3 17y ago
I expected MicroUnity to be on the list. They blew $200M. But I guess much of that money came from industry partnerships instead of VCs.
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by mian2zi3 18y ago
Neither yet, but I feel like I've been accepted by the academic community and the opportunity is mine to lose. I dropped out of my undergrad CS program to do my first startup. That was 15 years ago. When I decided to go back for a PhD two
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by mian2zi3 18y ago
I traveled for a couple of years, then went back to get a PhD in mathematics.
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by mian2zi3 18y ago
Intel made a similar offer to a group of engineers it laid off when I was working there, around 2003. So many people took them up on it they blew their budget and had to rescind the offer.
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by mian2zi3 18y ago
Why will putting off a PhD make it more difficult? I had lots of options like the poster, and dropped out to do the startup. Ten years later I went back to finish my undergrad and get my PhD, this time in math.

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