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Re: Elon Musk AMA

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Post by simple1 »

dmunoz wrote: post #19
simple1 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also made a site ( http://www.amatranscripts.com ) that transcribes popular AMAs. Elon Musk's is here: http://amatranscripts.com/ama/elon_musk_2015-01-05.html

Nicely done. I've seen a couple of these sites, but I quite like the output of yours. Is there any logic as to what order the questions and replies are displayed on the page? It doesn't seem to be either of reddit's 'top' or 'best' sorting. Perhaps whatever order they landed in within the JSON?

The questions and answers are presented in the order that they were answered, which I believe gives the best flow to the "interview".

Re: Elon Musk AMA

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Post by mkhpalm »

kyllo wrote: post #18
jacquesm wrote: post #4

"When going through hell, keep going".

That's actually a country song.

Musk attributes it to Churchill though I don't think anybody has found any evidence that the prime minister ever said it. The earliest evidence anybody can find of the phrase came from the 90s.

Re: Elon Musk AMA

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Post by EpicEng »

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People here typically expect a higher level of quality in a comment. Not that you said anything bad, just nothing that added anything meaningful to the discussion. I wouldn't recommend whining about the downvotes. I've had plenty of comments end up in the negative, it happens, no big deal.

Re: Elon Musk AMA

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Post by axefrog »

One thing I'd have liked to ask if I hadn't missed the window of opportunity would be regarding his desire to go to Mars himself. I have often wondered about the psychological effects of being effectively stranded on a barren, lifeless planet potentially for the rest of your life. On Earth, we can "get away from it all" and go to the country, go camping near a nice stream, listen to birds sing, go for a swim in the ocean, sit in a nice garden and eat our lunch, and so forth. How would one cope with the loss of all of that, not to mention also having to deal with the long-term physiological effects of a change in gravity?

Re: Elon Musk AMA

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Post by lukeqsee »

I found his comment regarding learning to be the most insightful. It is a more developed explanation of what I have found to be an effective strategy for me:

> One bit of advice: it is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.

Without the structure of prior knowledge, I never understand or remember facts; however, when I've had the time to develop that "first principles" knowledge, I can usually grasp and understand the significance of minutiae.

How do you of HN learn? Is it similar?

Re: Elon Musk AMA

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Post by icpmacdo »

I really like this comment

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2rgsan/i_am_elon_musk...

Saying that he has no idea what is going to happen with the launch tomorrow, its a refreshing honesty.

I was also wondering on an semi unrelated note if HN had ever had AMA's from interesting people? I am not preposing that they should start happening though.

Re: Elon Musk AMA

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Post by tvcgrid »

lukeqsee wrote: post #25

I found his comment regarding learning to be the most insightful. It is a more developed explanation of what I have found to be an effective strategy for me: > One bit of advice: it is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to. Without th…

I highly recommend Make It Stick. Spaced repetition, testing effect, effortful learning, retrieval training, constructing mental models... it's chock full.

Re: Elon Musk AMA

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Post by Cogito »

mason240 wrote: post #28

The moderators of r/IAMA apparently deleted several of the highest voted questions. http://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/2rgzgo/official...

Yeah, I've been following r/spacex for a little bit.

When they started trying to work out some good questions a day ago someone suggested that everyone upvote the resulting questions but the mods there quickly shut that down. [1]

The reasons given for deleting the comments was specifically what everyone was trying to avoid, that is voting brigading. As far as I can tell no one was asking for votes, simply working together to produce some high quality questions.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/lBCWvQh.png

Re: Elon Musk AMA

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Post by kakakiki »

"The best teacher I ever had was my elementary school principal. Our math teacher quit for some reason and he decided to sub in himself for math and accelerate the syllabus by a year. We had to work like the house was on fire for the first half of the lesson and do extra homework, but then we got to hear stories of when he was a soldier in WWII. If you didn't do the work, you didn't get to hear the stories. Everybody did the work."

Amazing.

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