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by rsaarelm 14y ago
It's not about what you guess the distribution in the population to be, it's how you represent distribution you get from the actual test results. Someone who does the IQ test and gets a result 1 standard deviation above the mean of all the
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
People used to use an IQ test scale that had 24 instead of the current 15 IQ points as the standard deviation. An 125 IQ in that scale would correspond to 116 IQ in the currently used one.
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
If you want to change private bar to public Bar from package foo, the standard trick is to use gofmt's rewrite option and run "gofmt -r 'foo.bar -> foo.Bar' -w *.go".
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
That the most experienced devs say this the most might not be just about status games. You need to have a very solid shared background to be able to jump to understanding something after the sort of short verbal explanation "I don't underst
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
I liked the Internet better when we had things like irc and news to talk with that weren't controlled by any single corporate entity.
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
Don't all new bathrooms have bidet showers? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidet_shower Huh, guess not. Those have been around in Finland at least since the late 80s, and don't have the "what's the deal with the computerized toilet seat" im
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Language learning without rote memorization(squid314.livejournal.com)
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
An ebook system where I can read as much of I want of as many books as I want from an Amazon-scale catalog as long as I keep paying the subscription.
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
Thought experiment: What would you think a struggling college student would try doing if you told them, "you need to learn how to work"? What about if you said, "you need to learn how to learn"? At least for me, the "work" priming hurts lea
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
You can find every possible book longer than the default length split into several volumes.
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
What I got from it that you get problems if you advance far enough and then don't keep going. The benefit claimed in the first part of the series is having a permanently clearer sense of your thinking process, whatever that means exactly. I
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
Here's one interesting short guide: http://lesswrong.com/lw/5jj/meditation_insight_and_rationali...
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
It can be a legit dysfunction that starts getting a lot of false diagnoses once parents start thinking that the medication boosts academic performance whether or not the kid actually has the problem.
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
Another question: How much luck was involved beyond making the necessary good choices? You can look at John Carmack or Peter Norvig and say that they made good choices X and Y and so on, but how much will this tell you about the prospects o
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
There's definitely more you could do with education. A lot of professional programmers are people who started doing programming as a hobby as kids. Attempting to teach programming to 20-year-olds entering an university seems to not work ter
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
A very simple format would be regular fixed dot patterns (⣿) corresponding to bytes, spaced a apart a bit. Then it's the user's responsibility to be sensible and encode stuff without too clever compression. This wouldn't guard against tryin
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
I did guesstimate that in. You'd only need to save an average of $200k per year to get to $1M savings in five years, you can do that before you hit the $400k rates. I'm not really familiar with US costs of living, where I come from $50k is
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
Some people really like their 22/7: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201003/whe... Though come think of it, is this a thing particular to US education? I don't remember ever encountering this in elementary school. I think
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
If it's actual visual dots on the glass, it sounds like you'd just need to figure out how to get a good enough photograph of the thing to see the dots in and spend an afternoon whipping up an image processing script in Python to convert the
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
The "building it" for clothes currently involves cutting and sewing the material. I don't see how that would be very easy to do with a machine with anywhere close to as few degrees of freedom as a 3D printer. I suppose you could try to make
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
I can't think of regular uses I'd have for present-day 3D printers, but I do appreciate the "1970s affordable microcomputer" comparison. I'd have a hard time thinking of an use for an Altair 8800 too. Printing clothes would be one killer ap
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
If I were a math grad-student type and actually had the talent and skills to get into a high-paying quant job, I'd consider doing the job for something like five years, saving everything I can, and then leaving for more fun jobs with the op
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
I don't want to commit temporary debug cruft to version control, so I'd still need to keep adding and removing that whenever I do a commit. Though I guess I could just always skip it with git add --patch. I do have need for some solution, s
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
It's documented here, with an admonition not to expect the feature to remain in all future versions: http://golang.org/ref/spec#Bootstrapping
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
I've started using the builtin "println" function for stdout debugging to get around the Damnable Use Requirement. It works without any packages imported, so that the very low-level stuff can tell it's alive without a full stdio library sta
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
The simplest long-term consumer approach to digital media is to just hold a list of the titles of the stuff you like, and assume you can download any item from it at any time if you want access to it. You don't need to worry about keeping a
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
Nice calligraphy, sure, but hopefully not cursive. Careless cursive handwriting ends up illegible much, much faster than print handwriting, and relies way too much on context to let you figure out what individual words are for my liking. I'
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
I'm not that much worried about whether or not there's an asymptote of diminishing returns for self-improving intelligence. I'm quite a bit worried about just how far away a genuinely self-improving intelligent system will move from the lev
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
Randall Hyde's The Art of Assembly Language is available online for free: http://www.plantation-productions.com/Webster/www.artofasm.c...
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What do startup founders want?(aaronsw.com)
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