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by pgbovine 17y ago
minor nitpick - you probably want to change the HTML title to something other than "Home Page"
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by pgbovine 17y ago
my lame speculation: a.) once you're that wealthy, i don't think you care too much about 'get rich quick' or 'crazy investment strategies of the week' books anymore. you probably stash your money somewhere safe b.) i'm sure paul cares a lo
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by pgbovine 17y ago
i'm a bit late to this thread, so not many people will end up reading this, but i'm very much against overloading of the term "graduate school". in particular a Master's degree and a Ph.D. are not (not, not, not) merely different shades
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by pgbovine 17y ago
yup, that's totally okay. it's better to lay out the premise up-front, though, so that my articles can be fail-fast ;)
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by pgbovine 17y ago
actually, you gave me a good idea that i might incorporate into future articles. maybe i should always start with a "Premise" line, which would be something like a hokey version of software preconditions.
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by pgbovine 17y ago
thanks for the compliments! it's good to see people on HN reading my articles, because the meta-level thing i'm learning about my own writing style is that many of my articles take on one extreme and over-simplified POV and just run with it
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by pgbovine 17y ago
there is a HUGE difference in time commitment and 'psychological toll' between a 2-3 year master's and a 5-8 year Ph.D. in the humanities. getting an MA is a great launching pad for new ideas and careers like teaching high school, etc., bu
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by pgbovine 17y ago
"In general these tips sounded like a guide to lowering your social self esteem and how to not meet and get to know people. If that's your thing - stay home in the first place." sorry i didn't make it clear enough in the original article, b
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by pgbovine 17y ago
totally agreed (see my comment one level above) ... these 'tips' are only for when you're stuck in a social situation where geekiness is NOT cool! if you're hanging out at start-up parties or YC meet-ups and follow these tips, then everyon
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by pgbovine 17y ago
this is the author here ... yes, i know this article sounds half-retarded, but let me try to provide some context: i'm not saying that you should always be a phony and hide your true self --- these so-called 'tips' are only for when you hav
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by pgbovine 17y ago
"Then there’s the cultural perception of math achievers–the nerds who are heckled in one society are exalted in another. Irina Mitrea, a math professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in Massachusetts, who finished high school in Romani
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by pgbovine 17y ago
sorry, i don't want to fan any flames here (again, i don't think this article is HN-worthy at all), but there are lots of small poor countries in southeast asia with oppressive, politically-unstable regimes around the time when lots of refu
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by pgbovine 17y ago
uhhh, ok guys, i seriously don't think this is relevant to HN at all. it's not even remotely about hacking to any degree! i don't have enough karma to kill submissions; could somebody kill this? (i'm the author of this article, btw)
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by pgbovine 17y ago
what are some examples of software products with soul?
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by pgbovine 17y ago
just out of curiosity, did you attend an academically-intense high school? if so, then perhaps people weren't as obsessed with popularity because there was so much competition to get the highest grades and into the best colleges. but i wo
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by pgbovine 17y ago
I was definitely a nerd in school but, like the guys in the post, had a group of friends and my own activities. The popular kids were definitely a different group, but they weren't better than us. It's not a linear ordering of groups. tot
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by pgbovine 17y ago
my definition of popularity is the form portrayed in mainstream media and films ... e.g., student council officers, athletes, cheerleaders you bring up a good point, though. the popular kids are actually in the minority at school; there ar
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by pgbovine 17y ago
or, like myself in 7th grade, you can start as a newcomer already at the bottom of the pile :)
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by pgbovine 17y ago
this is the author here ... ummm i'm pleasantly surprised to find my article on HN. anyways, here are two other articles that are probably better than mine on this subject: - Why Nerds are Unpopular (i'm sure everyone knows this is by Paul
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by pgbovine 17y ago
(this is the author here ... wow i'm amazed somebody actually found my article and posted it to HN ... cool!) most of the interesting clubs or school activities aren't a road towards high school popularity. (e.g., death metal hate bands ar
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by pgbovine 17y ago
research labs typically only hire Ph.D. students as interns, not master's students. an alternative choice might be start-ups who have a need for machine learning (e.g., collaborative filtering for e-commerce). i can't imagine why they wou
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by pgbovine 17y ago
peter norvig has a great chapter in the O'Reilly book "Beautiful Data" about using naive bayes + a ton of data mined from the web to do fairly good natural language processing. one of his recent themes has been "naive algorithms + lots of
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by pgbovine 17y ago
Dale Carnegie's "How to win friends and influence people" It's a classic for helping you to converse and connect better with people (its contents are much more sincere and wholesome than the semi-cheesy title suggests)
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by pgbovine 17y ago
his points are definitely commendable, but i'm wondering how he can more effectively convey them to a wider (read: low-brow) audience. WSJ readers are (hopefully) not the same people leaving abusive remarks on youtube or 4chan comments :)
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by pgbovine 17y ago
who should be the judges, though?
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by pgbovine 17y ago
i use Markdown ( http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ ) regularly rather than directly writing HTML. like this thing, it's also just syntactic sugar, but it's well-designed and makes it so that i can concentrate on writing and not
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by pgbovine 17y ago
i don't want to be 'that guy' , but Playboy does publish legitimate articles (in the style of, say, Rolling Stone or Vanity Fair or GQ). at least in its early years, it was well-known (in part) for its left-leaning editorials and investig
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by pgbovine 17y ago
you might want to take a look at the Shazam song classification system, which essentially does a 'brute force' search like the one you sketched out, except with a lot of cleverness to make it run super-fast research paper: http://www.ee.co
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by pgbovine 17y ago
yup, the prequels are like the ultimate example of the second-system effect :)
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by pgbovine 17y ago
totally agreed about the meatspace thing! talk to your relatives, family friends, acquaintances, etc. about their jobs and hobbies whenever you're at a social occasion, and if you can see some inefficiency that they're currently forced to

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