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I am a non-native english speaker too; I guess I bristle at the the reading that this man isn't in control of his english when he writes with obvious proficiency, a reading I suspe…

I also come from a similar background, and his points also seem poignant to me -- the first, in my reading, is about the lottery of birth; would he or I or you have been successful…

I think he meant it. His English is very fluent throughout the article.

Here are my constraints - - the game will be simple -- probably one mechanic, -- no physics beyond simple harmonic motion, -- 2d -- definitely not more complicated than "bubble spi…

all's fair in love and war right?

annotated links to learning prolog.

In which Bertrand Russell advises a four hour work day.

The argument I find most compelling for learning the memory palace technique is that building a memory palace is a creative act (Yes, like Picasso). One must be creative to constru…

I don't think the author means to justify age discrimination so much as to use it to underscore a point, which is that programming knowledge is something that takes (on the order o…

Maybe not in his particular case...but as an alumni interviewer, I can tell you that personality and extracurriculars matter a lot.

The thing is, admissions to elite universities is almost never about test scores. Immigrant parents from countries like China and India are used to test scores mattering a lot. In …

Freud?

That's one of the first hypothesis discussed in the article: our brains aren't getting smaller because we are getting dumber, but because the wiring is becoming more efficient. I t…

What about the disutility from alienating everyone else in the coffee line? Yet another example of how private incentives (to the cashier) trump public good...

When I was learning Galois Theory, I found Keith Conrad's notes really helpful for understanding the details -- http://www.math.uconn.edu/~kconrad/blurbs/ . The subject of this pos…

Yes, or alternatively I believe In [27]: class Foo(object): ....: pass ....: In [28]: def hello(self): ....: print self ....: In [29]: blah = Foo() In [30]: blah.hello = hello.__ge…

Also, i forgot to add, your code snippet doesn't work. Some magic goes into the self binding. In [21]: def hello(self): ....: print self.name ....: In [22]: class Foo(object): ....…

you may not have seen it, but it does work: n [8]: class Foo(object): ...: pass ...: In [9]: blah = Foo() In [10]: blah.asdf = lambda x: x In [11]: blah.asdf(3) Out[11]: 3 In [12]:…

In javascript you can modify an object var foo = Object(); foo.blah = function(x,y) { ... }; But in python, that doesn't quite work. You can only do foo = object() foo.blah = lambd…