Is the instructor using Hagoromo Fulltouch Chalk?
Ha, I remember seeing that post recently. Looks like it goes back to a 2015 gizmodo article, and was in a recent youtube clip.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19718287
Advanced Data Structures (2017)
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#42I was pleasantly surprised to see that improving Wikipedia articles is an acceptable final project for this course. Is this an MIT thing?
I saw that too! What a brilliant idea, given that extremely technical articles tend to have inconsistent/incomplete coverage, and could benefit greatly from this kind of initiative.
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#43Hey! I’m a coauthor with this guy :^). Incredibly fascinating (and extremely smart) dude. His interest in origami is what drew me to MIT in the first place, since I was interested in it as well from a young age. A few years ago I took his class on the computability/complexity theory of folding, and we ended up solving an open problem in the field and published a paper out of it [0]. If you had told highschool me some…
> If you had told highschool me something like that would happen, I never would have believed it :)
I find it interesting that a common story of people who did big things is that nobody would have predicted they'd end up doing the things they did.
Reminds me of my own reflections on things that I have done that I never would have expected I'd be doing. As well as this recent article by the creator of Entrepreneur magazine [0].
"literally nobody, myself included, would have once predicted that I’d be running a magazine called Entrepreneur"
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#44Honest question, I'm very new to this but I really want to learn. Does putting the video on repeat help with grasping the concepts?
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#45Hey! I’m a coauthor with this guy :^). Incredibly fascinating (and extremely smart) dude. His interest in origami is what drew me to MIT in the first place, since I was interested in it as well from a young age. A few years ago I took his class on the computability/complexity theory of folding, and we ended up solving an open problem in the field and published a paper out of it [0]. If you had told highschool me some…
> If you had told highschool me something like that would happen, I never would have believed it :) I find it interesting that a common story of people who did big things is that nobody would have predicted they'd end up doing the things they did. Reminds me of my own reflections on things that I have done that I never would have expected I'd be doing. As well as this recent article by the creator of Entrepreneur mag…
Someone needs to apply Bayes theorem to determine if not believing in oneself is truly a prerequisite to achieving greatness.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
> If you had told highschool me something like that would happen, I never would have believed it :) I find it interesting that a common story of people who did big things is that nobody would have predicted they'd end up doing the things they did. Reminds me of my own reflections on things that I have done that I never would have expected I'd be doing. As well as this recent article by the creator of Entrepreneur mag…
Someone needs to apply Bayes theorem to determine if not believing in oneself is truly a prerequisite to achieving greatness.
Is it "not believing in oneself" or is it "life takes unexpected turns and you don't always end up where you thought you would"?
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#47Years ago, I watched all those video preparing for a Google interview. They are really great. I was told advanced data structures would be a big part of it. Not a single thing came up in the process :/
Tech interviews never go beyond the most basic data structures. I'm willing to bet that most of the interviewers would not be familiar with these ones either.
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#48Years ago, I watched all those video preparing for a Google interview. They are really great. I was told advanced data structures would be a big part of it. Not a single thing came up in the process :/
"advanced data structures" in that context means maybe trees and linked lists. But I have to admit I did something very similar too :)
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#49FYI: lecture notes are here https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.851/fall17/lectures/
Updated notes from 2017 are cool, though I was hoping the videos would be updated too. They are good, but I was hoping for newer higher resolution recordings.
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#50Got confused by the broken link too. Those aren't separate links. It's a single link, and given the name of the file is "poster-design.pdf", I don't think the PDF is very important. It's just an image that gives examples of what is probably covered. The real content is described below as the video lectures and notes of the class[1] and the github account[2]. There are also problem sets[3], and it recommends a couple…
It's too bad that the links are broken. When the links at the top of the page didn't work, I immediately assumed that this was for an old course and none of the material would still be available. I only kept looking because I didn't think a useless site would make it to the top of HN. People who find the course site another way might not have a reason to keep looking.
What links are broken? I only know of a single link to a seemingly unimportant file that is broken.