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What was John Nash like as a professor?

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Re: What was John Nash like as a professor?

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Post by dirtyaura »

This is gold:

Appropriate to today, Gerard, The space futurist, asked John and Freeman about what computers will mean to us in the next 50 years. Freeman said "everyone would have one or more to do many tasks so that humans could spend time doing more important things".

John paused for about a minute and said "Freeman that is ridiculous, computers will be used to calculate better chances to date the pretty girl next door that does not notice you".

Re: What was John Nash like as a professor?

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Post by pdenya »

smhinsey wrote: post #8
zasz wrote: post #2

So, given the number of times a post from Quora has made the front page now--have any doubters changed their mind about Quora's value?

How valuable is Ask Metafilter by this rubric?

In my personal experience, somewhere between 'very little' and 'lol'. I'm sure there is quality somewhere on that site but between the hard to look at design and the piles of low quality answers it's difficult to find.

Taking what other posters saying are saying a little bit farther: stack overflow is for work, quora is for fun, metafilter is for nothing.

Re: What was John Nash like as a professor?

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Post by jpadvo »

dirtyaura wrote: post #11

This is gold: Appropriate to today, Gerard, The space futurist, asked John and Freeman about what computers will mean to us in the next 50 years. Freeman said "everyone would have one or more to do many tasks so that humans could spend time doing more important things". John paused for about a minute and said "Freeman that is ridiculous, computers will be used to calculate better chances to date the pretty girl next…

The best comment, in my opinion, is the one that had this nugget. Sadly, it isn't the top rated comment. Here's the link:

http://www.quora.com/What-was-John-Nash-like-as-a-professor/...

Re: What was John Nash like as a professor?

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Post by JonnieCache »

I resented a lot of my lecturers at uni for nakedly scorning their roles as teachers in favor of their research. What is the point of me paying the (rapidly increasing) university fees if the people I am paying to teach me cannot bring themselves to deign to teach? It was, and is, insulting.

Re: What was John Nash like as a professor?

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Post by Tycho »

zasz wrote: post #2

So, given the number of times a post from Quora has made the front page now--have any doubters changed their mind about Quora's value?

It is interesting, but only because of the people on it. It's sort of like the Ask HN section here but slightly broader audience and scope.

The site itself has some impressive features but also some bewildering layout issues. One problem is - how much bigger can the site get before the quality of the participants is diluted too much?

Re: What was John Nash like as a professor?

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Post by [deleted] »

jpadvo wrote: post #13
dirtyaura wrote: post #11

This is gold: Appropriate to today, Gerard, The space futurist, asked John and Freeman about what computers will mean to us in the next 50 years. Freeman said "everyone would have one or more to do many tasks so that humans could spend time doing more important things". John paused for about a minute and said "Freeman that is ridiculous, computers will be used to calculate better chances to date the pretty girl next…

The best comment, in my opinion, is the one that had this nugget. Sadly, it isn't the top rated comment. Here's the link: http://www.quora.com/What-was-John-Nash-like-as-a-professor/...

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