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If Einstein or Shannon hadn't discovered their respective theories, they would have discovered something else. Not sure what that does for you, but it also seems true.

I thought Terrence Tao had an interesting viewpoint on this: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/there%E2%80%99s...

Sort of related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Le_Gentil

"I find that the major objection is that people think great science is done by luck. It's all a matter of luck. Well, consider Einstein. Note how many different things he did that …

Because it looks weird. Seriously. There is a long list of excellent aircraft like the Long EZ and the Facetmobile that never took off because, at the end of the day, people are wi…

I don't know about subways, but elevators should never be a part of a building's security because they're so easy to hack[1]. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUvGfuLlZus

The largest heist of all time was in 1990[1], which I consider pretty recent. The tools they needed to pull it off (impersonating the police mainly) seem like they could still work…

FWIW Berkeley does use Python 3 in their intro to programming class [1,2]. This is useful because if I remember correctly, Python 2 does not have things like the "nonlocal" keyword…

> First, there is your biology. You might simply not be intelligent enough to become a great engineer. Biology is overrated. From "You and Your Research"[1] by R.W. Hamming: "You o…

This isn't really sound reasoning, for reasons mentioned elsewhere and because of the following. You need to know that the probability of acceptance is conditionally independent of…