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by sajithw 16y ago
This blog post makes it sound like he didn't fill out an application. However, I'm guessing he did and also sent in code as supplemental material (which is quite common). College admissions is a game. I currently go to MIT and it's definite
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by sajithw 16y ago
Meditation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_on_meditation
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by sajithw 16y ago
It's a long term investment to bring security down to the hardware level.
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by sajithw 16y ago
From a legal aspect, how is this going to last at all? IANAL but I was under the impression most meta-search engines operated in at least a semi-grey area because they don't spoon feed illegal content to you. Most just index the big tracker
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by sajithw 16y ago
All of our classes are identified using numbers. The 6 corresponds to the sponsoring department (EECS) and 912 happened to be available within the department, so we snagged it.
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by sajithw 16y ago
Yep, on it right now. Will post the link in a few minutes. Edit: It's up, see my above comment.
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by sajithw 16y ago
I'm one of the guys behind this. I realize it's MIT students only right now (we have a special 1-month term in January with no classes for competitions like this) but if there's enough interest we would love to hold an open tournament in th
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Odds Skew Against Investors in Bets on Strangers' Lives.com(online.wsj.com)
2 points by sajithw 16y ago|0 comments
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by sajithw 16y ago
I feel like I can't do a google search for anything technical without the top results being horrible MFA sites with content scraped from mailing lists/stackoverflow and completely plastered with ads. This might not be the same as autobloggi
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Google Acquires Like.com(techcrunch.com)
60 points by sajithw 16y ago|16 comments
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by sajithw 16y ago
Yeah, that's definitely an accurate workaround I was just hoping I could factor in how my college years will affect my investments (like you said projects are pretty sensitive, so a few years and a few thousand each year may change things a
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by sajithw 16y ago
This looks like a cool service. However, there are only a few brokers (mine is not listed, boo). I've also noticed every investment site (understandably) has no student options (i.e. no salary ranges below 30k, no way to say I expect to be
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What can cleantech learn from Google?(infinitetoventure.com)
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by sajithw 16y ago
A few days ago I saw a link to a "roadmap" for Rails ( http://techiferous.com/2010/07/roadmap-for-learning-rails/ ). It'd be nice if someone put together something like this for a rigorous and practical computer science skill-set.
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by sajithw 16y ago
Likes: - Simple/clean interface - Gossip scraping and integration into the stream - The discussions! Dislikes: - Medal system isn't that compelling to me - Streaming is pretty limited. But I assume this is due to the scarcity of legal strea
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by sajithw 16y ago
Discrete mathematics: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
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by sajithw 16y ago
- Get rid of standardized testing and change the culture of teaching for the purpose of passing these tests. On the subject of just regular in-class exams: they are a necessary evil in many cases but only should be used for a mid-term or fi
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by sajithw 16y ago
Actually, I think it's worth considering the other side of the coin. Either work for free or ask for a wage that is comparable to your skillset (i.e. well beyond minimum wage). Working for free is a great way to build your portfolio of proj
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by sajithw 16y ago
At the end of the day degrees are just pieces of paper. Don't fall into the trap of going into college thinking you are going to double major in X, Y and get a minor in Z. It isn't high school anymore, so take classes you are interested in
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by sajithw 16y ago
Yeah, fair enough a lot of those posts are a bit old (although Linode/Slicehost seem to be dominant still). Removed the link to YC archive, it won't add much value to this discussion.
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by sajithw 16y ago
Am I the only one that hates having to answer on a spectrum from "Strongly Disagree" to "Strongly Agree"? I don't need 7 choices, just give me Yes/No options.
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You are not your phone(gizmodo.com)
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by sajithw 16y ago
Scraping real scientific data from journal articles/headlines published in PubMed would be a lot more interesting and noteworthy. Not to mention "causing cancer" is a bit of a misnomer. Cancer typically arises when genetic mutations cause a
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by sajithw 16y ago
It is used in MIT's Intro Algorithms class. That said, it's very rigorous and requires use of discrete mathematics. It might be worth looking into some lighter reading first to see if algorithms are interesting enough to you personally to w