planet-and-halo

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   by planet-and-halo 6y ago

   I believe OP's point is that which state you're seeing varies by distance. We see Andromeda as it was millions of years ago, but we see other stars as they were "only" hundreds of thousands of years ago. Closer = more
2. 122.▲
   by planet-and-halo 6y ago

   This was basically my experience on both sides of the process (with a major exception when I interviewed for my current job). I learned from both. On the interviewer side, I sat down and wrote out a framework for how to do a good interview
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   by planet-and-halo 6y ago

   Writing is an imperfect technology for moving thoughts between minds. "Writing simply" is valuable if it communicates your thought more efficiently and accurately (and it is indeed a common peccadillo to write thoughts in a bloate
4. 124.▲
   by planet-and-halo 6y ago

   Thanks a lot, these are great suggestions.
5. 125.▲
   by planet-and-halo 6y ago

   I'd like to second this question. I'm very interested in bioinformatics as a field, but no background. Would be happy to devote some free time but I wouldn't want to be counterproductive.
6. 126.▲
   by planet-and-halo 6y ago

   Honestly as a human being I think you also have to be careful what you're optimizing for. This is a nice framework if you're thinking about survival and to some degree career, but as human beings we also have a very complex psyc
7. 127.▲
   by planet-and-halo 6y ago

   The best thing I ever read on this topic came from biology. In "The Diversity of Life," E.O. Wilson describes how specialist species thrive in stable environments. The stability allows them to evolve "deeply" into a nich
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   by planet-and-halo 6y ago

   I really like that approach. The tradeoff is that you're asking someone to spend a non-trivial amount of personal time prepping and it opens the door a bit more to BS'ing and just memorizing Stackoverflow or whatever. But presumab
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   by planet-and-halo 6y ago

   I think the issue is "a minute." You still feel pressured to get moving and keep talking, even if it buys you a little time. My favorite part of the job is whiteboarding with colleagues, but in an interview there is something that
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    by planet-and-halo 6y ago

    This has been my experience. Time is crunched in a rather unrealistic way. Not that time crunches don't happen, but it's never once been the case in my real job that I was approaching an unpracticed academic algorithm problem whic
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    by planet-and-halo 6y ago

    Well this gets back to the question of the output. For the law firm itself, this might be a valid approach. For the client, though, this is a terrible way to measure productivity. At a certain point hours may even be inversely proportional
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    by planet-and-halo 6y ago

    I mean these are all sort of arbitrary categories. I'm not saying "go have casual sex, it'll enrich your life." I agree that long-term meaningful relationships are fulfilling. But sexual attraction, flirting, humor—these
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    by planet-and-halo 6y ago

    I'm not trying to glorify a life of reckless abandon, but in the context of the actual article, it's a little concerning to me that normal parts of human life like humor and sexuality seem to be a negative to you, and we should in
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    by planet-and-halo 6y ago

    Currently reading The Master and His Emissary and can't help but feel this is a related problem. In short, more and more of life is being packaged into lifeless utilitarian abstractions, and less and less are we connected to spontane
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    by planet-and-halo 6y ago

    I think you hit the crux of the issue. On the one hand, life does not work the way OP assumes. It's not linear, we don't "read HN –> profit." On the other hand, news in general can become a meaningless and value-les