- selfhifive parentUnfortunately people who like to socialize much less than their colleagues seem to have these labels put on them quite frequently.
- First the unrelated concepts argument. It's generally hard to know if a concept is related to your research without understanding it or knowing about it. Then there's the dunning kruger effect where we overestimate our own abilities. It's likely that there was a tangential link and the author failed to see it. Ironically her failure to see the relation possibly led to a poor impression.
The argument of not having family members to talk about research is absurd because you always have some colleagues talking shop.
The language argument fails because every year many immigrant students with English as a second language take the same exams and do well.
- A friend of mine couldn't share his screen on meet or teams and I had to change it from Wayland to X11 to make it work. His was a Ubuntu 22.04 distro (GNOME) 4 month old install. Wonder why that happened.
- Does screen sharing work on wayland now?
- That's a very one-dimensional analysis of a complex problem. You can't ignore the obvious physical differences and roles in reproduction. These factors affect how you relate to a larger society and to what extent you depend on it.
The problem is not of one isolated mouse but a society of mice and how your physical size, vulnerability (men don't have period pains or pregnancies) affect how you relate to society and thus your personality.
- Read books by Gary Provost on writing. Writing Tools by Roy Peter Clark. Draft number 4 by McPhee. They contain a variety of ideas. Writing Tools is great if you want to identify and drill techniques. Provost's books cover everything and are written well.
- There's was a great article on HN on how C is more than a programming language. It is a protocol for most of computing. I would suggest you to look into the actual influence of C on computing and protocols instead of just looking at software.
- There's a great George Carlin bit on how changing the names to less severe sounding terms can actually be harmful. He gives the example of shell-shock being changed to PTSD which sounds more benign and doesn't capture how horrible the condition is. Also the race baiting in black box and red team is so unintentionally hilarious.
- It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent. -- Charlie Munger
- Edsger Dijkstra, Cal Newport, and Charlie Munger.
- What if the fixation points are not on every word but create a narrower space by being a couple inches in from either side of each line to use the classic speedreading trick of using peripheral vision? Has it been tried?
- Depends on your style of synthesis I think. I need to think and establish axioms in my head after every two paragraphs so I pause a lot. Going over something again on TTS puts me to sleep.
- Looks like a 'text producer' article. There's a lot of ideas mixed together into one long rant about writing. Even the headline itself isn't good. Surely, 'writing: a misunderstood activity' does the job better. But the article is not so much about style than it is about exploring ideas.
The author doesn't consider the other way people explore ideas: talking and engaging in discussions. The 'text producer' is this other kind of explorer of ideas. Yes it pays to organise your mind, but the exploration itself is important too.
- You gauge the level of the class by asking questions, get an idea of where they are, and vary the pace accordingly. You've also got to factor in the experience of the teacher in gauging the level of the class.
You don't need to know everyone's level, just a rough idea about what the worst student of the class might need.
- That problem and increasing intercaste marriages is why casteism is dying in many parts of India. The new generation doesn't know how to determine the caste and are generally not interested. Most of the system in large parts of the country will die out with the previous generation.
- Mac users are the preppies of CS. They all think they're cool but come across as snobs living in a walled garden.
- The other side of the argument is that online classes have horrible engagement. Orders of magnitude worse than a normal class.
Virtual meetings also induce more fatigue in the participants than normal meetings (researched).
One or two off weeks can derail a whole semester. And professors themselves seem lost in absence of live feedback.
The schedules for live classes are rigid. While at college it is easy to follow them as you're in the same place, but schedules of individual homes vary widely and many students don't have the means to change them to suit the class timings.
- The classes being online is a major factor. Those classes are engagement hell. Also research has shown video conferencing is much more fatiguing than a real meeting. Even if you start engaging one bad week can put you off the course for the semester.
- It's not pleasurable if any one of the two is dehydrated and has a dry tongue.
- Since minorities are more likely to buy old used cars that make more noise in general they will have higher rates of offense.
- It's always interesting how artists go from generic to eccentric. There's no one as divisive as Picasso. Are there any artists who just took the fundamentals and did everything textbook to become successful? Any near unanimously good ones?
- One of my friends ruptured some discs and couldn't code for a year because he couldn't sit without pain. This kind of a setup would've helped him.
- I don't see how they can come up with software hardware integration and optimisation by working in silos that converge at the eleventh hour. In fact the closed ecosystem criterion would mean lots of internal dependency and more communication.
- From what I've seen and heard: Salesforce, Codenation, Wells Fargo, DE Shaw, so basically Hedge fund/finance or teaching/coaching/consultancy.
- LSTMs were around for about 17 years before they revolutionised NLP.
- I do CP on various sites so I don't know if it's for Leetcode in particular. But some companies like Salesforce or DE Shaw or Codenation do include advanced problems on their tests.
- A standard Introduction DSA course will generally not cover advanced DSA stuff like segment trees or Heavy-light decomposition, or theoretical stuff like number theory, or computational geometry all that stuff you would find in the competitive programming space.
- I think you're ignoring your own passive thought processes as the mind turns a problem over.
For me, I've noticed that my mind cogitates while I appear to be procrastinating.
Once there's a potential solution in sight the "keep going once started" mode activates and it's easy to keep going because you've already anticipated pain points.
- My point is that many software engineers don't really understand things you mentioned: load balancing, caching, scaling, etc. in depth and proceed with a high-level understanding to use tools that implement the low-level logic without fully understanding it. I'm not saying it's all of them but a significant number of them use the black-box approach.