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by mulcahey 10y ago
Often kids have lots of motivation for learning but classes can really take the fun out of it. They add friction by poorly presenting the material (I prefer a well formed book or document over chalkboard scribbles and ambiguous powerpoint s
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by mulcahey 10y ago
Sure but the "none of your business" argument doesn't really work in education. Secondly, in the work place, it's reasonable to assume the work you are doing is beneficial to the business, whereas with classes your work
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by mulcahey 10y ago
Some people really enjoy them though! To each their own.
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by mulcahey 10y ago
> willing to work hard at things that aren't immediately obviously essential but you do them anyway. I view this as actually one of the biggest problems with current pedagogies and curriculum structures. They don't teach the wh
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by mulcahey 10y ago
Very well said. It falls somewhat along the lines of "work to live" vs "live to work (or create)." This is why you choose your company carefully based on its culture and mission. If it's a place that's not doin
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by mulcahey 10y ago
+ 1 for GEB. I read that freshman year (now a junior). As an example of its utility, I really like its description of formal systems which are a somewhat simplified version of context free grammars. There are many other concepts described i
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by mulcahey 10y ago
If you have some other stuff to show for yourself beyond a transcript you should be just fine. There are still TONS of places hiring that just aren't big sexy brands.
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by mulcahey 10y ago
I really wonder how they will differentiate themselves from Tesla's offerings. Tesla represents the very cutting edge of innovation in the automotive industry being the leaders in autonomy, EVs, battery production, the chargin network,
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by mulcahey 10y ago
Though of course we can't run an exact experiment, the premise is that the occupants would have seen much worse injuries had it been an average car without the saftey ratings of the Model S.
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by mulcahey 10y ago
Maybe because they recently had a recruiting event and handed out shirts?
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by mulcahey 11y ago
I could have sworn this has already been posted. Ah, yes, it mearly changed hosts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10768440 Also, the author of this book, Ian Goodfellow, is now working at OpenAI: https://op
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MIT wins SpaceX’s Hyperloop competition, and Elon Musk made a cameo(theverge.com)
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