loose-cannon
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- So this is aimed at somebody who has mathematical maturity but prefers... less content and detail? The point is that you are losing something in a shortened presentation. You're not just losing "unnecessary exercises" as you put it.
- If you just pick one of those subjects, you'll probably find a textbook just as long as his entire PDF trying to cover 13+ subjects.
Sorry to be negative Nancy over here, but you're going to need more than 54 pages to cover calculus. There is value in organizing the major theorems in the different disciplines. But, to be honest, this doesn't really serve the beginner.
- Would anyone here want their kids to attend this school?
- I think a big part of undergraduate math is theory/abstraction building, which is usually very different than the activity of programming. I've studied quite a bit of math, so I can appreciate both. But I can definitely see why the former drives people away.
- I wonder how quickly you can load some of the modern, popular, websites on a dial up connection.
- seems like another distraction. If it permanently disappears, maybe then it's worth talking about?
- You're posting this in a thread filled with stories which paint him as an asshole.
- That's a really hard belief to justify. And what implications would that position have? Should biologists give up?
- Reducibility is usually a goal of intellectual pursuits? I don't see that as a fault.
- As opposed to?
- Something similar actually happened to me. Somebody called me about a job application I submitted through craigslist/email 6-7 years ago. This was while I was a student. I had to tell the lady that I don't even live in the same area.
Obviously this is nowhere near 48 years.
- We can refine and optimize granular tasks. So we start subdividing careers this way as well, with the assumption that nothing is lost along the way. It's profitable, so companies keep doing it. Then you have the situation described in the article: nobody knows why something is going wrong and nobody can help you. The world starts feeling bureaucratic, inefficient, and impersonal.
Of course, the delivery driver isn't going to have any idea why your package is four months late. It's not his responsibility. Depending on how you look at it, that may not be a bad thing.
What's the incentive to correct this? Are there examples of companies which have these faults at large scales, but are still somehow profitable enough to not be pressured to make changes? I mean it's difficult to even describe the problem.
"or see a doctor, if that’s still a thing people do?"
Yep. People still do that.