muddyrivers

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by muddyrivers 10y ago
The multiple aspects of the power of celebrity endorsement. It works so well, which makes one wonder how gullible human beings are, in a general sense. The thought is depressing.
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by muddyrivers 10y ago
Depression and sadness are very different emotional states, especially when we are talking about clinical depression.
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by muddyrivers 10y ago
Please read the article.
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by muddyrivers 10y ago
Sigh
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by muddyrivers 10y ago
What you described is true in 1950's until early 1980's. The government had dictatorial control over everything in academia. (Let's restrict our discussion in academia. Otherwise, it would be a very large topic.) The scenario
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by muddyrivers 10y ago
There is always nationalism embedded in this field. It is naive to think it is free of it. On the other hand, it is moronic to think it "comes down" to nationalism. It is utterly disrespectful to dozens of scientists devoting thei
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Burned by a Margarita(theatlantic.com)
10 points by muddyrivers 10y ago|3 comments
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Is Sushi ‘Healthy’? What About Granola?(nytimes.com)
1 points by muddyrivers 10y ago|0 comments
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The People Who Can't Imagine(bbc.com)
2 points by muddyrivers 10y ago|0 comments
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Money, Race and Success: How Your School District Compares(nytimes.com)
1 points by muddyrivers 10y ago|0 comments
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China let 13 North Koreans defect through its border(qz.com)
2 points by muddyrivers 11y ago|0 comments
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The Rich Live Longer Everywhere. For the Poor, Geography Matters(nytimes.com)
6 points by muddyrivers 11y ago|0 comments
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by muddyrivers 11y ago
Also, as you can see from the article, it is common to make fun of the government and criticize its policies in the Internet in China. That part is true.
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by muddyrivers 11y ago
I haven't heard of anything like what is mentioned in this article from my friends/classmates in China. Usually news like this will show up in my WeChat groups in no time. I am NOT trying to prove or disprove the credibility of th
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by muddyrivers 11y ago
This is bewildering to me as well. There are many talented students in second-tier (if we have to use ranking to define them) public universities. For example, many kids in small midwest towns didn't know much about the prestigious pri
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Don’t Grade Schools on Grit(nytimes.com)
2 points by muddyrivers 11y ago|0 comments
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Forgotten Victims of Terror [video](nytimes.com)
1 points by muddyrivers 11y ago|0 comments
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by muddyrivers 11y ago
Yeah, it takes a while to get used to scanning QR several times a day. I installed many apps. I am very curious about their features and how well they worked. It was much better than I expected. It was easy to navigate the features and figu
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by muddyrivers 11y ago
WeChat is an ecosystem that integrate so many things extremely well. First it is a chat app. Almost everyone with a smartphone is a wechat user, including my mother over 70 years old. She even figured out how to video-chat with me in Chines
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Tech Workers Get Choosy About Changing Jobs(wsj.com)
3 points by muddyrivers 11y ago|1 comments
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by muddyrivers 11y ago
That is over-simplification. First, the samples are not randomly selected. The selection process tended to lean toward means, based on the article. Second, the variables are not independent. They are strongly correlated. The selection proce
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by muddyrivers 11y ago
As a non-native speaker who started to regularly use English in my 20's, I find pronunciation is the hardest part. As mentioned in the article, "The fine distinctions of English vocalism are beyond many adult learners’ phonetic ab
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by muddyrivers 11y ago
I would like to add that interviewing requires quite different skills from engineering. A good tech interviewer has to be a good engineer, but a good engineer might not be a good interviewer. I have seen good engineers with poor ability to
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by muddyrivers 11y ago
On the spot. I fully understand that many good engineers could freeze up, myself included. That is the reason the coding question is about a realistic problem. No dynamic programming, graph theory, suffix tree, etc. Also, before the coding,
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by muddyrivers 11y ago
The current common interview practice is more like a programming contest. The candidate has to figure out a problem and finish it within ~30~35 minutes. Very competitive, but with little engineering involved. I like the "Software engin
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by muddyrivers 11y ago
I apply almost the same approach as OP. You can get a relatively good picture at a candidate's engineering skills and thinking ability via "go[ing] deep into the details", compared to asking algorithm questions. I also ask ca
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by muddyrivers 11y ago
I just tried it. It is an interesting project, but the article exaggerates its intelligence, I think. First, it is much better in Chinese than in English. It couldn't carry a sensible conversation in English. In Chinese, I tried many t
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by muddyrivers 11y ago
There are many serious issues in China's economy. Unfortunately, there are no feasible way to avoid them considering the hyper-growth in 30 years, as far as we as a society know. If you have thoughts and ideas, please share. Call it &q
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by muddyrivers 11y ago
There are many serious issue in China's economy. Unfortunately, there are no feasible way to avoid them considering the hyper-growth in 30 years. If you have thoughts and ideas, please share. Call it "Monumental Ponzi"? I sug
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by muddyrivers 11y ago
Here is the story of Chang'e and Houyi, for the curious. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Chinese_Stories/Houyi_and_Chan...

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