February 2012
10 posts
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Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career... →
first paragraph:
“If there was one course I could add to every engineering education, it wouldn’t involve compilers or gates or time complexity. It would be Realities Of Your Industry 101, because we don’t teach them and this results in lots of unnecessary pain and suffering. This post aspires to be README.txt for your career as a young engineer. The goal is to make you happy, by...
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Cloud Atlas →
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A cloud atlas is a pictorial key to the nomenclature of clouds. Early cloud atlases were an important element in the training of meteorologists and in weather forecasting, and the author of a 1923 atlas stated that “increasing use of the air as a means of transportation will require and lead to a detailed knowledge of all the secrets of cloud...
"The Symbolism Survey" →
“In 1963, a sixteen-year-old San Diego high school student named Bruce McAllister sent a four-question mimeographed survey to 150 well-known authors of literary, commercial, and science fiction. Did they consciously plant symbols in their work? he asked. Who noticed symbols appearing from their subconscious, and who saw them arrive in their text, unbidden, created in the minds of their...
"Why are Scientific Retractions Increasing?" →
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January 2012
10 posts
“Unfortunately, the hoped-for day when philosophy will be “discussed in...”
– Nelson Goodman
Neuroscience-informed, unconventional learning... →
- “Interleaving” topics of study, rather than progressing through them linearly.
- Spacing out one’s studying (temporal and spatial):
“Bjork also recommends taking notes just after class, rather than during — forcing yourself to recall a lecture’s information is more effective than simply copying it from a blackboard.”
“Reflect on everything, regret nothing.”
– ~ Montaigne
creepology.: Don’t get me wrong, internet... →
creepology:
Don’t get me wrong, internet censorship is a huge deal, but i wish people paid a little bit more attention to the fact that Obama rejected the Keystone XL Pipeline today. Though TransCanada is going to chart a new route so that the pipeline won’t go straight through Ogallala Aquifer and the…
Obama may have waited until today to veto the bill precisely because it’s...
December 2011
8 posts
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“The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it seems pointless.”
– Steven Weinberg (via o————o)
"...your half-life as a [technology] worker in... →
“But by the time you turn thirty-five, you’d better have a plan.
That gives a new college graduate fifteen years to build some savings, to get the house paid off, and to find a second career. That’s plenty of time.”
source, with comments on ageism.
Zielschmerz
aznsensazn:
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the exhilarating dread of finally pursuing a lifelong dream, which requires you to put your true abilities out there to be tested on the open savannah, no longer protected inside the terrarium of hopes and delusions that you created in kindergarten and kept sealed as long as you could, only to break in case of emergency.
Weltschmerz: the kind of...
November 2011
7 posts
“I have one secret. It’s a very easy secret. You get up early in the...”
– Philip Glass
“We can not afford to turn out of college men who shrink from physical effort or...”
– Theodore Roosevelt
Hard Work vs. Hard To Do Work →
bittersweetromantic:
How do elite violinists get more sleep and feel more relaxed than average violinists who practice for the same amount of time per week?
tl;dr -
Whether you’re a student or well along in your career, if your goal is to build a remarkable life, then busyness and exhaustion should be your enemy. If you’re chronically stressed and up late working, you’re doing something...
“…such high-stakes tests are often spectacularly bad at predicting performance in the real world. Though the SAT does a decent job of predicting the grades of college freshmen—the test accounts for about 12% of the individual variation in grade point average—it is much less effective at predicting levels of achievement after graduation. Professional academic tests suffer from the...
WSJ: sortable chart of college major vs. earnings,... →
October 2011
15 posts
“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery (via loveliketruth)
http://vimeo.com/30840741 →
Not embedded, because I like it more on the original site. If you’re watching, watch it in HD.
Sourced from http://www.indyddr.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3990.
“Psychosis is an attempt at rigour. In that sense, I would say that I am...”
– Yale Lecture 1976 - J. Lacan (via circulationwithinmyskull)
“Because I’m a smart person…. I mean, survival of the fittest....”
– “Crybabies,” This American Life (via angelawublog)
psychoticpianist:
intelligence is overrated. hard work, however, is underrated.
“Almost everything—all external expectations, all pride, all fear of...”
– (via moorehn)
Turn that body / into GDP
