solarmist

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by solarmist 16y ago
Thank you for your feedback. I appreciate it. All of my projects on GitHub are new projects that I've started recently (within the last few weeks) as an effort to actually have something presentable, so everything on there is a work in prog
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by solarmist 16y ago
You got me. I hope I'm in better than the top 80%, but I'm doubting myself now that I wrote that... :P
1503.
by solarmist 16y ago
Lol, I'm probably just a decent sized fish in a small pond, but I do keep growing, so I've been looking to find myself a bigger pond.
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by solarmist 16y ago
Great link. Thanks.
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by solarmist 16y ago
The salaries I mentioned at my old companies and classmates are relatively accurate, I got to see paperwork at my old company and my classmates were pretty excited about their offers.
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by solarmist 16y ago
Since I STILL seem to be low balling the figure what WOULD be an average salary in the valley? For someone just out of grad school?
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If average salaries are 80-100k why does everyone keep getting 40-60k offers?
127 points by solarmist 16y ago|136 comments
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by solarmist 16y ago
What? I'm just saying they haven't gotten there yet, so there's no use trying to evaluate whether Khan Academy will work on more subjective areas of learning. I do see maths as being the easiest subject to use this method with and only time
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by solarmist 16y ago
Gotta start somewhere. The website's only been around for less than a year.
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by solarmist 16y ago
Yes, but Khan academy also provides exercises to test your undestanding of the material, so I don't think it falls into this category. Also, Sal doesn't write the exercises and the people that write the exercises don't use Sal's videos excl
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Google maps 300TB of real-world Internet speed data(arstechnica.com)
4 points by solarmist 16y ago|0 comments
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AnandTech's review of the newest Macbook Pros 13" & 15"(anandtech.com)
2 points by solarmist 16y ago|0 comments
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by solarmist 16y ago
I think this is a really keen observation.
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by solarmist 16y ago
I think the biggest difference in making it revolutionary vs evolutionary is the target audience. OCW and their kin are all targeted at people that are highly motivated (and generally highly educated already) to learn something new. While K
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by solarmist 16y ago
I'm a big fan of OCW and other online resources, but they just move the traditional style into an online format. And I'm especially excited for the OCW scholar site to get more material (plus, I'm excited to go through their Physics courses
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by solarmist 16y ago
What I found more interesting was that lack of those tools in current teaching. I can't believe no one's made those kind of analysis tools available to teachers before.
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by solarmist 16y ago
Over the years I've found lectures less and less useful to attend in person as profs and other presenters post their lectures and powerpoint slides online. I can just watch/read those and get everything I need from those materials, then whe
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by solarmist 16y ago
Haha, wow. That's the first time I've ever heard reference to that film outside Korea. Awesome. And it's totally true. It took me decades to get over my I'm smart syndrome.
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by solarmist 16y ago
He was Major Ed Murphy.
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by solarmist 16y ago
What did they have to gain from contacting you? There needed to be a compelling reason from their perspective to get back with you.
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Graphics fundamentals - the why of 4-D (homogenous) coordinates (solarmist.blogspot.com)
1 points by solarmist 16y ago|0 comments