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>Is the putative student "bad at math" or "bad at math the way it's taught in high school, perhaps even by a certain teacher"? It could also be a mismatch between someone's persona…

>The remaining intelligences have nothing to do with intelligence or cognitive skills per se, but rather represent personal interests (for example, musical represents an affinity f…

Oh God, the horror. Almost every time neural network library I've seen manages to obscure a very simple idea in piles of useless objects. "Neural networks" are just the composition…

>What about evidence of design patterns? Does it look like the person who wrote the code doesn't know about things like Observer, Visitor, and Decorator patterns? This is his crite…

No matter which language you choose for productivity, I would start with the exercises in the Little Schemer or Little MLer. They're disarmingly simple while still challenging your…

I think you're misunderstanding the role of "neural networks" in academia. NIPS has a lot of value to the machine learning and AI communities but, beyond vague inspiration, it has …

Is that a map of population density I see?

>Adam Leibsohn, a 27-year-old communications strategist who makes roughly $60,000 a year and pays $1,650 a month for his own apartment in the East Village...“It’s kind of a spartan…

The machine learning lectures here are of fantastic quality. I hope this is the future of academia.

Other questions for PG: - Why does God allow evil? - Does P = NP? - How does it feel to be so gosh darn awesome?

Anything specific?

>There is a political swing towards what were once considered the ideas of the political left such as minimum wages, benefits and so on,' said Holgar Schaefer, labour economist at …

First of all, kudos on the turnaround. I think the most important thing to keep in mind is except for a few scattered geniuses, no one is inherently good at math. I know it sounds …

Yes.

An article on CSS layout with overflowing text and a search box several ems too long? (firefox 2.0.0.6 / linux)

I wish I could search the database without having to give you my email address. also: I find the high contrast a little painful to look at.

I just updated linkherd.com and urls are now stripped of spaces and underlines. Please let us know if you spot any problems.

Yeah, not dumb at all. It's on the to-do list, thanks.

I know this is supposed to be a startup echo chamber, but come on... I feel silly even contemplating spelling out the many reasons (beyond loss aversion) why not everyone starts th…

It's pretty well established in the psychology literature that the effects of money on happiness are relative. You're happy (for some short time) if you make more than you expected…

There is no such thing as public domain for software. If you simply give your software away, it's still your copyrighted work...just without a license for other people to use it. h…

I second zlib. It's slightly more restrictive than MIT, but in a very sensible way. I don't think preventing modified sources from masquerading as the original Arc, or maintaining …