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by pitt1980 14y ago
so do you have any itenerary planned for your time in NYC?
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by pitt1980 14y ago
http://www.advancednflstats.com/2010/06/bill-walsh-on-random... In his early Stanford days, Bill Walsh had already cracked the code on how un-random football coaches (and almost all people) are. From "Controlling the Ball with the Passing
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by pitt1980 14y ago
as best I can tell, the orginal point is, go to college, its great, you'll learn alot of stuff, and you'll get marketable credentials which is all obviously true, and not neccesarily determinate to the decision as to whether or not to drop
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by pitt1980 14y ago
want to guesstimate how many people on the Forbes 30 for 30 list had private college paid for by their upper middle class (if not better parents)? I think it makes sense to think seriously about the restrictions taking on education debt wil
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New Technology Is Making Us More Like the Amish(slate.com)
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by pitt1980 14y ago
I'm not entirely sure what the argument was here seemed to be stay in school, work for a big company, save some money, and get to know as many people as you can, and you'll be better perpared to start a company after all that (say at 30) th
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by pitt1980 14y ago
There are a hundred different ways to look at this 1) you could look at it as a nuisance that isn't worth wasting any career capital fighting (that's a perfectly valid way to look at it, you can only fight stupidity on so many fronts, this
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by pitt1980 14y ago
the social systems adjust to the facts on the ground the facts on the ground don't adjust to the social systems the next Marx will come up with a theory that fits the facts, and if it makes enough sense to the people on the ground, it'll ga
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by pitt1980 14y ago
I'm curious, would you opt in if it meant mining through your minute by minute click history? if you're hiring, you can get alot more data about the udacity student you're hiring than you can about the U Phoenix student, or the Big State U
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by pitt1980 14y ago
some well designed pretesting would go a long way in improving the usefullness of online schools
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by pitt1980 14y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4849300 to beat a dead conversation past the point of anyone caring other than me... if you looked at the minute by minute activity, an honest effort to take a class should produce a fairly detectable m
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by pitt1980 14y ago
the branding of "hey have your minute by minute activity mined" is weak on alot of different levels but that's not so different from alot of real world activity, showing face time at work, being 5 minutes early for meetings, that sort of th
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by pitt1980 14y ago
that's one of the most profound comments I've read in a really long time, an upvote doesn't really seem sufficient I wish I had thoughts that could further this comment, right now they are failing me though tangentially related thoughts ht
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by pitt1980 14y ago
interacting with people in person doesn't remove the context problem the context in which you interact with someone changes how you know that person the same person (everyone, you included) will seem like a different person based on whether
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by pitt1980 14y ago
I think this is sort of bullshit first shouldn't you take every discrete chunk of your life seriously? to the degree to which this is true, its true because we tell ourselves its true, most people don't reinvent themselves past their 20s be
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by pitt1980 14y ago
I think the better take is to not treat YC as the gatekeeper to your success, 1. Its hard to get into 2. tons of great companies have been started that didn't go through YC (in fact with a few exceptions almost all of them) 3. its a great o
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by pitt1980 14y ago
so how helpful is an article that says the real key is to just generally be awesome at everything? True or false, the people who get into havard are the people who don't need to go to harvard? the people who get into YC, are the people who
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by pitt1980 14y ago
so is have multiple Harvard degrees the answer to how to get into YC as a single non technical founder?
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by pitt1980 14y ago
what's the incentive to stay a subscriber? why wouldn't people sign up, look at their information, then cancel their subscription? how do you know if they have anything relevent for you prior to you signing up? seems like the same thing wit
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by pitt1980 14y ago
wasn't there a shark tank where something similar was pitched? Thought he said he had patents protecting the idea, who knows what that covered http://today.ucf.edu/ucf-engineering-alum-lands-500000-deal-... http://abc.go.com/watch/shark
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by pitt1980 14y ago
However, the question of the existence of Jesus as a historical figure should be distinguished from discussions about the historicity of specific episodes in the gospels, the chronology they present, or theological issues regarding his divi
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by pitt1980 14y ago
Its cheating because its against the rules. The question is as the designer of the rules should you design that to be against the rules? Practicing to the test is a seperate question and a function of how useful you make the test Another in
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by pitt1980 14y ago
been a while since I was in college, but nothing was better for studying than just taking practice tests, if nothing else, MIT's OCW, and all these online classes create a vast library of practice tests, if I was in college now I would try
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by pitt1980 14y ago
I don't know what to tell you, He has a blog that I actually find pretty entertaining though if you hated this piece, maybe his writing isn't your thing recommend: http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/02/how-to-be-the-luckiest-...
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by pitt1980 14y ago
if you judge people for being self deprecating, you wind up self selecting people who overpromote themselves
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by pitt1980 14y ago
different viewpoint on ROI calculations: The average tuition cost is approximately $16,000 per year. Plus assume another $10,000 in living costs, books, etc. $26,000 in total for a complete cost of $104,000 in a 4 year period. Some people c
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by pitt1980 14y ago
"My company is a small start-up, and we're looking actually to hire someone who is skilled, so the reason I came is to talk to Andrew and the people and see if they could recommend someone in the class," said an executive who asked not to b
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by pitt1980 14y ago
yeah this, if your not getting credit, what does the name brand mean? some people may get a kick out of taking a 'Stanford' class (myself included, I took the original AI class) those people will get discouraged quick if they go through the
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by pitt1980 14y ago
The average tuition cost is approximately $16,000 per year. Plus assume another $10,000 in living costs, books, etc. $26,000 in total for a complete cost of $104,000 in a 4 year period. Some people choose to go more expensive by going to a
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by pitt1980 14y ago
One straight forward example of what paleopathologists have learned from skeletons concerns historical changes in height. Skeletons from Greece and Turkey show that the average height of hunger-gatherers toward the end of the ice ages was a

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