tkahn6

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by tkahn6 16y ago
I agree with everything you've said. I think you would understand my position better if I clarified that it was memorization of the lines I was being graded on not the understanding of what the lines meant . That is the issue I took with
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by tkahn6 16y ago
Correct. I was talking about it in terms of information. I can memorize the particular order of the symbols in Schrödinger's Wave Equation and still not understand what it means.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
That ordering of words might actually convey some insights into life, love, and other such follies. Definitely. Hamlet has some amazing passages that are beautiful and thought-provoking. Maybe in the act of memorizing it this may come
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by tkahn6 16y ago
This was generally my philosophy in high school. So I fully understand your point. The honors program I'm in requires a 3.5 but I never realized how fulfilling undergraduate research can be. That's definitely something I will look in to.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
If what you say is true, I'm very excited and I'm actually going to VT! I convinced the undergrad CS department to let me start taking CS classes first semester despite the fact that Exploring Engineering is a prerequisite. Do you think you
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by tkahn6 16y ago
we (or the next generation) will decide that it's in the better interest of society to embrace free sharing of ideas and reject the concept of owning information Um... what? Can you clarify what you mean by "information"? In the Physical
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by tkahn6 16y ago
I'm surprised you have any upvotes. You haven't actually made a substantial claim. All you've said is that memorizing Shakespeare is not the worst use of one's time. I don't know how anyone could disagree with such a statement when obviousl
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by tkahn6 16y ago
I fail to see how lines from Shakespeare are 'complex [pieces of] information'. They're just words arranged in a particular order. When memorization happens out of convenience that's a great thing. I have no problem asking students to memor
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by tkahn6 16y ago
School only kills creativity if you let it. Unfortunately, in general, to really succeed at school (and I say 'at school' to mean school as a system), you cannot take risks. It's a simple transaction: You give us your time (and that is
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by tkahn6 16y ago
Justice, Digitalism, and Hypnotic Brass Ensemble Hypnotic Brass Ensemble isn't strictly electronica but their music is really cool (no words too). http://vimeo.com/1418890 I have a Ratatat station and Justice station on Pandora which I've
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by tkahn6 16y ago
Wow that's exactly what I listen to. It's a good combination isn't it, electronica and classical?
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by tkahn6 16y ago
this will make absolutely no difference to him in terms of how he lives his life. You are conflating the suffering usually accompanied with a a good deed with the deed itself. The fact that he may not take any hit to his lifestyle means
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by tkahn6 16y ago
That's a pretty major change. Did you have any knowledge of embedded systems beforehand? Why did you switch? Why not go engineering the first time around?
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by tkahn6 16y ago
FWIW I laughed out loud at "salmon of knowledge". Great analogy.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
Definitely true. The point I should have emphasized is that the StackOverflow questions and answers usually are about a user's experience with a framework/language or lack thereof. Few questions require answers that are creative or profound
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by tkahn6 16y ago
This is somewhat tangential, but I would bet the set of all people who stood in line for an iPhone and who refuse to use facebook is vanishingly small.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
Most of the questions asked on SO generally fall upon a spectrum of either "super domain specific" or "fundamental misunderstanding about a language". And then you have questions orthogonal to those classifications such as "what's the best
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by tkahn6 16y ago
Do you not do anything algorithmic in your line of work?
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by tkahn6 16y ago
I agree 100% but you seemed to be implying that one's coding skills were the only determining factor in whether or not you are a good employee which is what I was responding to.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
Is this a social club? No, but I would prefer not to work with a douche-bag. However, if you're only referring to the strict subset of traits that make you a good programmer (and nothing else), then yes I agree.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
Either on the whole females are fundamentally less capable of excelling in mathematical subjects or it's a societal thing. I believe it's the latter. I think the article hit it on the head: "girls are often told that's OK and try something
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by tkahn6 16y ago
aka Absurdism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absurdism
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by tkahn6 16y ago
Another thing is that most programming resources that I've come across assume a unix-like system. Windows 7 is an excellent operating system but I do all my dev work on ubuntu.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
Maybe with a one-bit half-adder? 1 + 1 ---- 0
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by tkahn6 16y ago
According to Wikipedia, the PBS Newshour has a 'pro-establishment' bias [1]. [1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBS_NewsHour#Criticism ]
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by tkahn6 16y ago
There's a large difference between gossiping within your circle of friends and committing character assassination in a public forum with complete anonymity. I just went to Virginia Tech's section on http://collegeacb.com and on the front
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by tkahn6 16y ago
Digg is compared to reddit because they are nearly identical in their function. Digg is about comments as much as reddit is. It just so happens that the comments on reddit are slightly more intelligent and Digg is more commercialized. My op
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by tkahn6 16y ago
Uh, yes. If this wasn't the case then 'marketing' wouldn't be a skill.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
Agree. When I was going through K&R I was always thinking to myself, "did they just know all of the variables they would need before hand?".
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by tkahn6 16y ago
Well as a counterpoint, my father returned his Droid for a Droid Eris because he liked the Sense interface much more than the stock Android one.

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