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Would you think there is still a chance for iPad games that are well-made and well-advertised on the internet, that cost perhaps over $10, maybe even $20, to do well? I see this as…

I really like this categorization of political conflict into levels. It sums up a lot of my experience. It's very helpful because putting it into objective terms like this makes th…

Story of my life lol.

Sure, just like food is a kind of obesity of the body! Aren't there good things about reading information you want to read on the internet? With food it's quite obvious: you don't …

AKA Why the [white world] is obsessed with midcentury [white] modern design. It's exceedingly popular because it allows white people to vicariously live out their racist/classist f…

What could "use pedagogies that work better for each group" possibly mean other than racial and gender segregation? Here I'll break this down into pseudocode. for each group in rac…

I just think it's a tragedy that the prof only goes this far. The observation in the article you paraphrased is more the realization of a student or bright child, not a fucking pro…

Ok, so I didn't notice that she was a woman. Big fucking deal. Doesn't change a thing I said.

If by "post" you are referring to the pile of shit that is linked, then yes. My negativity here is NOTHING compared to the negativity and resentment by the professor in the article…

That's right on with "too shy". The issues of pedagogy whether it is music or programming are largely sociological. So why not make being a manic musician attractive and marketable…

Is English your first language?

No, of course it's good to have people of vastly differing experience and aptitude learning from each other! You just need to separate the assholes and subhumans from the inexperie…

Rubbish article by a professor who somehow can't think straight. Newsflash: Everyone is as "self-driven" as your typical Golden CS Boy who is going to be next #1 at sucking up to V…

Ok, instead of reading a Wikipedia page or two, or the most elementary chapter in a probability/statistics textbook and gaining a bunch more skills (among them the tools needed to …

Pretty much. Also, as a non white person I feel their echo chamber effects acutely. Casual racism and race "realism" is especially pronounced in nerd circles.

Arthur Schopenhauer wrote extensively on this and I feel he said it best. [Excessive reading] robs the mind of all elasticity; it is like keeping a spring under a continuous, heavy…

Hawthorne effect: "Feels good to track mood."

> - "The computer only does what it is literally instructed to do. What do you literally want to do? What are you literally instructing the computer right now?" I feel like after y…

Wow, this was a big wake-up call. It's ironic because I am in research and I always did a lot of theory and problem definition up front for whatever I did, but I am now in this "re…

What was interesting is that the higher-performing group (Alpha) was stuck less often that the lower-performing group (Gamma). Is this the next programming motto after "Don't Repea…

This is also known as value _creation_ versus value _transference_: http://halfsigma.typepad.com/half_sigma/2008/03/value-creati... I do not completely agree with the guy's views; …

Aka the importance of mentally being a headless chicken. You're not being "introspective" or otherwise "deep" when anxious. You're just applying a blanket negative bias to all of y…

Is the blotchiness due to uncertainty principle or sensor imperfections? Both maybe?

The part at the end where she is against top-down thinking, and instead promotes bottom-up inductive thinking where you first figure out how to make airplane parts well before tack…