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I for one didn't know the political views of my professors -- it simply never came up. That said, college students are adults and can be exposed to different viewpoints without worry. IMO students are influenced politically vastly more
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It's "indoctrination" to point out arguments that fall apart under a modicum of critical thinking? You could easily argue that education involves learning to construct solid arguments that do not fall apart.
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> Now? I can study online, I can read, I can converse with super bright people of my choosing This is true, but in practice few people do it. Most people will not have much time left for study alongside a job. And without the "frict
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It sounds like zero bridges were burnt. The perceived animosity was probably because they felt awkward about it and ended up doing it suboptimally. From what you've written, they very possibly look fondly on your early involvement. Get
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This is my concern as well, since I learn so much by incidentally reading docs and example code. That said, many people copy-paste Stack Overflow code without reading or understanding it. So, this is not a new problem.
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> I'm curious whether you've found the exercises are enough to ensure you've really learned the content? IMO if a student is motivated to learn, there is plenty of interesting content to think about deeply. However, if a s
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Brilliant ( https://brilliant.org ). It particularly excels at math but also has great physics and CS courses.
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At its current state, I would guess minimal impact. Compared to other areas like frontend, code is more likely bespoke than "boilerplate" (though automated command-line arg processing would be nice!). Most low-level code is detail
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I know of at least one startup that claimed to use AI (including having AI in the company name), but in actuality humans did nearly all of the work. Hoped that once they got enough customers (and supposedly "proved the concept"),
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Try taking a screenshot of Paint, then open the screenshot in Paint. Repeat. This is what OBS does -- no recursion involved.
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Academic research has the same problem. When I studied neuroscience, flashy fMRI studies received substantially more funding than fundamental research. Without understanding how small neural nets work, it's difficult to construct botto
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Students have lots of competing deadlines. If one class has no deadlines, most students will deprioritize it until the very end when it's too late to realize their mistake. So, having homework worth something (no matter how minor) woul
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I view general algorithm problems as a "programming subfield", just like graphics/frontend/AI are. Certain coding techniques are overrepresented in each subfield, and each subfield has fundamental "base code",
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Not sure why the author insists on "exactly one" server. You can easily also host a SQL server in the same datacenter (or even run a SQL server on the same server!). This was how most web apps were built before the other options e
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Craziest to me was that 82% visited on mobile (with a 2:1 iOS:Android ratio). Perhaps this is a consequence of most visits being from Elon's tweet. Also had a 2:1 desktop:laptop ratio -- would have guessed more laptops. (The author que
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> tl;dr: Use an old-fashioned USB 2.0 flash drive, format it FAT32, download the firmware, make sure it's named correctly, and use the motherboard's 'BIOS Flashback' option after powering off the computer. Also: Ensur
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Great game! It could help to initially show a sample word along with a beat/pulse to show the user they can enter the letters "slowly".
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I showed ChatGPT to some non-technical people, and they immediately asked it political-related questions, such as about carbon emissions. (I assume hoping it would affirm their belief.) These things are very nuanced -- even if the response
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Make stuff you think is cool, share it online, and like-minded people will contact you! You can also get involved in smaller communities, like those surrounding new languages or libraries. Since they are not yet big, they tend to have very
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fasterthanlime hosts his own videos, made his own video player, and does his own transcoding: https://fasterthanli.me/videos
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"classical ML" is not very different from NNs. For example, basic NNs are essentially logistic regressors chained together. And NNs are evaluated and trained very similarly as simpler models (gradient descent, log loss, etc). NNs
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There are a number of possible ways to approach it. Based on the description, you seem justified in getting more than 50/50 equity. But it may not be as "late stage" as you imagine. For example, your description is very produ
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I got started in middle/high school too! Feel free to send me any questions/code (email in profile). I recommend also hanging out in the Discord of an open source project that interests you (and of course start contributing with t
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The supervisor typically has a major hand in choosing a productive research direction. Asking the "right" questions often is what makes research valuable! Also, the supervisor's name is typically last on the paper, and it&#x2
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Mature fields ideally are driven by theory. Newer fields are driven by experiment, until the theory catches up. I've learned that it is a waste of time (and brainpower) to blindly tweak code without understanding the algorithm, hoping
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Purposefully avoiding academic challenge sounds like a poor strategy for grad school success! From my experience, the best students take classes based on interest rather than ease, and they are more prone to overload their schedules (rather
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I'm surprised the smallest listed size is 296 KiB. To me this is very large, especially only for a website's HTML. If I were making a similar list, I would use it to compare modern sizes versus what sizes could be (e.g. on older c
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In general, a brain model is not meaningful unless it is falsifiable. Meaning, the model would make (ideally surprising and specific) predictions that could be tested via experiment. Historically, the vast majority of brain models are not f
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You could also write the example as a list comprehension, which essentially mimics set-builder notation in math, i.e. "The set of all pairs such that ..." [(x, y) for x in [1, 2] for y in [7, 8]] // Python (list com
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It sounds like you initially found the terms acceptable but now less so. From a contracting perspective, I'd decide what terms would make you happy then present them to the founders. The founders might not realize that you feel this wa

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