tritogeneia

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by tritogeneia 15y ago
Has anyone tried this with a Python backend and a Ruby user interface?
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by tritogeneia 15y ago
I'm not sure which of these factors contributed most to getting out of my bad spot, but in no particular order: 1. Running. (Strength training is good for many other goals, but frankly handling heavy objects isn't safe when you're severel
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by tritogeneia 15y ago
I learned sporadically: I fooled around in Scheme and Java when I was a kid, and used MATLAB as a student doing research, and learned the modicum of Unix that everybody in a math department knows, but it didn't really stick. Until recently
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by tritogeneia 15y ago
Test and iterate is obvious. What's not obvious here is just how early and where: test the idea before you have a project, test on a high-traffic site instead of picking a group of test users to play in a private setting.
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by tritogeneia 15y ago
Seconded.
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by tritogeneia 15y ago
Networking can mean two different things and the author's conflating them. 1. You have a connection with a successful professional and so you're closer to promising job opportunities. 2. Your social circle contains a lot of rich people wh
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by tritogeneia 15y ago
How does one get non-bullshit advice? I understand that nobody wants to be "brutally" honest. And, being only human, on some level I'd prefer to hear that I'm awesome. But it's more important to know if I'm doing something stupid. So is
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by tritogeneia 15y ago
Chicago.
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by tritogeneia 15y ago
Also note that high schoolers who apply to college are applying to more colleges. Ever since the Common App made it convenient there's an arms race to apply to more schools every year.
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by tritogeneia 15y ago
I think this is more a matter of transferability. If you're good at one quantitative or technical skill, it's not so hard to learn another, and you can do it pretty quickly. Teaching yourself to become an artist is a bigger gap. I can ap
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by tritogeneia 15y ago
To summarize a few of the articles you linked: Students do better at math in East Asia than in the US because East Asian math teachers know math and American math teachers don't. My own experience bears this out. I once taught in a program
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Courant Researchers Crowdsource Pose Recognition(nyu.edu)
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by tritogeneia 15y ago
Learning Python, Django, and JavaScript for a project; goal is to have a prototype by the beginning of July. Stuff to learn: numerical linear algebra, dictionary learning, Judea Pearl's Causality Research: diffusion geometry for databases (
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by tritogeneia 15y ago
I weighed the advice/secrecy tradeoff myself, and I figured I needed the advice more than I could benefit from secrecy. Never sharing your ideas just seems idiotic if you're a novice and you need input.
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by tritogeneia 15y ago
Learning on your own != learning as a college CS student, it seems. I'd be curious to compare and contrast "Hacker's Paths" for students versus people trying to squeeze in a few hours a day. (My intuition is that the theory-first approach
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by tritogeneia 15y ago
Music with lyrics is distracting; classical instrumental music is usually ok, and techno (at low volume) actually helps me work. Also important: music that you change often (e.g. youtube videos) is more distracting than music you turn on an
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by tritogeneia 15y ago
How about: Python first (because it's intuitive and I want to build motivation by completing a project right away), and then C (to learn memory management and other subtleties.) That sound reasonable?
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by tritogeneia 15y ago
Try an experiment: tell some people it's called "Sfalma" and tell other people it's called "The Bug Eater" and see which group is more likely to create an account within 2 weeks. I'd guess that obscure names aren't good, but you never know.
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by tritogeneia 15y ago
These questions are important, but I doubt it's best to define the laws before developing the technology, if the risk is on the order of killing a person per upload.
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by tritogeneia 15y ago
www.buttonmash.com is available.