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I agree. No need to make it emotional and confrontational with a “respect” interpretation in my opinion. Of course this is hard but if I can do it I imagine the best approach will …

I simply buy a weekly newspaper and read it. I’m always 1-1.5 weeks behind so I never feel as “emotional” or follow things that closely. I want a general feel for some of the thing…

I did a CS undergrad and skipped compilers, O.S., DBs, and many others cause I just took as many crosslisted math/CS electives as possible (at least a theorems or math heavy course…

Taleb is smart etc but he’s basically a rambling eccentric who I ignore at this point

This is what they did at my undergraduate university Do all of these in order first: Calculus 1 and 2 Linear algebra and multivariable calculus and an introduction to proofs / logi…

I believe this might be more prominent among uneducated folks of (at least in my neck of the woods) non-mainline American Protestant denominations. At least the doctors of the Cath…

Sometimes I wonder if people are actually really good at thinking in groups but the thought process is just too terrifying and different from what we could understand as individual…

So it’s not clear that the Idaho kid isn’t better than the average MIT admit, but it’s also not clear that he’d do better at MIT than going to his state or Montana state or somethi…

Thanks for your post, I’ve removed the numbers from mine as it appears they were likely quite inaccurate

To be honest, my number was based on my rembering of opinions from people who were in management but were certainly not experts on HR budgets or something. So it could be very wron…

Does that mean that the market is simply devaluing capitalists?

I’m not sure of numbers but I’d imagine a 70k salary would mean higher than purely salary costs (depending on company industry etc) after other expenses

His pretty face might leave your superiors with a better impression of your group. A friend manages a software group and actually told me that one of the best things to increase ch…

Was it Seneca who mocked this line of thinking? If I remember right he mocked it by saying either 1) a good man is a good man and thus equal to other good men Or 2) you proceed thr…

So true. My impression of one guy at my current organization is that he had some skills and productivity years in the past, but now he’s just given up and fiddles around on his pho…

One of the reasons I like the PhD in my case is I consider it to be “fuck you education”. I don’t expect it to give me any significant income advantages in software company, but I …

I mean PhD might be a piece of paper but most people I know who do them in marketable fields don’t pay tuition and get paid assistantships

I feel like power is an issue often solved by education or something. The more you understand about what is going on in the world, what has gone on in the world, humanity, how peop…

Interview with a financial firm and with high probability you will hear “We’re not a financial company, we’re a tech company that does finance”

An impression I have of USian culture is that one is only “allowed” to spend time on pursuits such as essaying, the humanities, etc. without mockery after one has made a fortune

That’s always the way I’ve heard the term muscle memory used in a technical setting, but the people I’ve met who go to the gym a lot use it to refer to the phenomenon of gaining ba…

Idk, I tried to self study the first two chapters of a very hated textbook (Principles of Mathematical Analysis). If you’d have asked me if I understood the material I would have s…

I used the book “A Transition to Advanced Mathematics” in undergraduate and I loved it. Many but not all exercises have answers in the back

Depending on your level of math ability you can often learn a lot by reading textbooks and proofs very carefully and closely (my opinion)

So I ain’t read the book from OP or Noetzsche but ain’t Nietzsche explicitly say this in Zarathustra or something. I’m sure I didn’t do a good reading but I thought I remember hear…