In maths, the people who write the proof sometimes aren't the people who make it rigorous. The elements of the proof are there and there are people who like coming in and fixing it. Same thing with grammar/writing...There are people who like coming in and fixing it.
Hey, behave. The article was pretty good. Fast-paced but I liked it. Only the last three or so paragraphs dropped below the quality standard I'd like to read.
Behave yourself. I gave feedback on a poorly written essay. He responded with an even more poorly written response. Don't try to be condescending to people simply because you disagree with their opinion.
Thanks, a combination of lack sleep and food the last couple days. See the last line, I knew there were tons of mistakes but up in the sky so hard to see them.
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It means attack the problem from a point of interest. Ergo, can mean reading that same book ;), back to front maybe :D
Personally, I'm waiting for you guys to go again. From, HNLondon meetups, to busmapper to donothingfor2minutes, to the turntable hack, I haven't meet anyone with so much executing power. Having that many successes in such a short time is not luck.
[PS. If you do set sail again, give me a shout. Shipmate Chester Grant reporting for duty.]
“Computer generate for me the sequence of all possible steps I could take; highlight moves that results in high economic and emotional payoff. Feel free to use alpha beta pruning and dynamic programming to reduce the time taken to polynomial time. Also, constrain possible moves to reflect my personal proclivities. Also, highlight a path were I'm dating Alicia Keys and Drake is with Nicki Minaj.. hate to see him beg on a music video.” [1]
My dream programming language should be able to run this. Good luck.
It seems like this is getting heavy flagging. I think the rule is if it reach 10 flags before 10 comments the post is killed. So, don't just upvote, comment.
"In the mosaic of America, three groups that have been unusually successful are Asian-Americans, Jews and West Indian blacks — and in that there may be some lessons for the rest of us."
"Do African immigrants make the smartest Americans? The question may sound outlandish, but if you were judging by statistics alone, you could find plenty of evidence to back it up.
In a side-by-side comparison of 2000 census data by sociologist John R. Logan at the Mumford Center, State University of New York at Albany, black immigrants from Africa average the highest educational attainment of any population group in the country, including whites and Asians."
First, there's already an established Asian community that has been here for a long town. There are old Chinatowns, Little Tokyos, etc. There's no Little Nairobi that I've ever heard of. So many Asians aren't actually recent immigrants.
Second, regarding those who are, many Asians aren't here by merit alone. Sure, there are some (like my parents) who came from a poorer background and managed to make it to the US. But increasingly they are supplemented by people who were born into rich families (fu er dai, "second generation rich people"). Now, I don't have statistics to back this up, but this seems to be more prevalent now because of China's recent economic boom. It's just my own theory, anyway.
Also, if you were to visit some Chinese social event (church for example), there are distinct groups of people. It's not just middle class white collar workers, there are also lower class people and older people. There are multiple generations, from the older people (mostly Cantonese speaking, at least where I live), to the middle aged people, to the young people (either ABCs or international students).
I don't mean to make any particular assertions about one ethnicity or another. My point is simply that, given the (genetically driven) physical variance between ethnicities, I expect there is a reasonable chance of (genetically driven) mental variance as well. In what way? I have no idea, and no opinion.
Isn't fluid intelligence variable and hence working memory? Didn't they say that dual n-back can increase intelligence?
I wish they had an equivalent of dual n-back for motivation. I think I have always said it, people on HN don't need more intelligence; they more need to actually get things done.
The problem with motivation and anything technique related to it is you have to be motivated to execute said technique.
Poor working memory is a motivation problem for some people who find it too difficult to do what they want to do.
Other people need to hack their principles, their health, their environment, etc. to do what they want. I believe all of those have a "gamified" way to increase them the way dual-n-back improves working memory, though they have not all been developed yet.
In all seriousness, motivation is pretty heavily dopamine mediated. You can train for willpower, but it takes a long time and a lot of effort in return for modest gains.
In maths, the people who write the proof sometimes aren't the people who make it rigorous. The elements of the proof are there and there are people who like coming in and fixing it. Same thing with grammar/writing...There are people who like coming in and fixing it.
Diverge then converge, I do stay a little on the diverge side. http://creatingminds.org/principles/div_conv.htm
Or if you would like, it is part of the art form to stay raw.
PS. No amphetamine were consumed during, or before this post or even ever.