realitygrill

I agree. I'm in data analytics.. I wonder if they would take fairly unexperienced programmers.

Your address is hidden... I would like to know more about the work :)

Interesting. I hadn't thought of that.

The study also indicated a small percentage of treatments evidenced as actually harmful, so that in the end only a third of the treatments were efficacious.

My own experience in a clinical setting showed that most doctors (say, outside a university health system) have trouble keeping up with the research in their field.

Certainly doable in medicine: http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/294/2/218.abstract

Maybe they should ask their doctor, given the recent spate of articles on ineffectiveness of medical treatment:

http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/294/2/218.abstract http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/the-ideology-of-hea... (If someone could find a British metastudy containing a nice graph indicating ~50% of current standard medical treatments has no evidence of effectiveness, I would appreciate it - have had much trouble locating it.)

But of course, doctors are not scientists.

I took the liberty of emailing you; hope you don't mind. It's quite tough to explain what the School of Info actually does, and in fact one of the first lectures I heard there was about this problem.

I learned this lesson from Go rather than chess, but I'm not sure why (having been exposed to chess for far longer).

Try The Energy Project [http://www.theenergyproject.com/] or the older book The Power of Full Engagement.

This is just confirmation bias. Page credits "part of that training of not following rules and orders, and being self-motivated, questioning what’s going on in the world, doing things a little bit differently." As a Montessori kid myself, I could see myself having differing opinions depending on how the future turned out.

Successful: go back and credit Montessori for making me a rebellious, curious nonconformist.

Unsuccessful: go back and partially blame Montessori for those same values, that make navigating this world of rules and structures difficult.

PG's writings would make me think that he leans more towards the Montessori side of things, and probably a lot of HNers are the same. I'm glad jsavimbi spoke about his need for strong discipline.

I made an abortive attempt to learn C++ by myself long ago, and was frankly scared of programming for a while because of it (was fine with BASIC, but.. a good idea of how I felt: http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1178).

But a couple months ago I decided to give it another go with Scheme and I have been pleasantly surprised by how much more natural it seems to me. I'm having fun!

Very much so. Poll?

You've studied a cleaned-up, simplified (and likely ossified) version of economics so far. Economists analyze market power all the time, and game theory is a good suggestion. Putting it all together in macro terms is difficult, though.

I think you may be interested in the older version of economics, political economy. As I understand it, political science is all about analyzing power relationships.

I always wonder about this - I used to be completely touch-avoidant, and trained myself to be less so (As you can probably tell, I'm not a sales/marketing guy). I don't think I'm unnatural about it, but how can you really tell?

It's only blown up once.

I've seen this to a lesser extent comparing those who go in-state and out-of-state, but by the end of college it becomes more what you've chosen to do at In-State U.

I went out-of-state, then moved back to live at home (HN helped keep me in a wider loop). Relatively unambitious fellow students were the most demotivating part of this.

...how?

Looks gorgeous. Would you be willing to list everything you need to know (as a beginning programmer) to be able to build something like this?

Look forward to your blog post!

Heh. Just getting started with SICP. This reminded me even before college..

You mean Huffman, right?

I am absolutely amazed to have read this yesterday, then heard about it again this morning on a local radio station (I'm from the Midwest). Wow. How's it holding up?

do you have contact info?

I don't think I've ever heard the Kiko backstory (before justin.tv), and I hope you guys tell it sometime.

To my utter shock - I thought it'd be one of the last bulwarks against premed memorization. When I learned otherwise, it was sad to think that those students who flocked to non-calc physics (and floundered; the classes are of course curved) really would have a good shot at medical school.

I picked up Self-Theories after reading the excellent Mindset (which dealt with fixed vs growth mindsets). For an HNer, I would suggest you borrow Mindset but buy Self-Theories.

Last I remember, most programs could play about 12-10kyu evenly and some specially augmented ones had hit dan levels.

Computer moves always looked unnatural to me, though, and you could often exploit this easily. I'd say most players are at least comforted by lack of computer headway into Go.

I got to about 2kyu on KGS and was very addicted. Getting beyond this apparently required me to seriously dedicate myself to studying, though, and I had to deal with my normal life. So I haven't played in over a year.

I hope to start playing again sometime.

That's interesting. What do you recommend they do instead? [I know you're an autodidact, and so am I - apparently you're a lot better at it than I am though]

I am thinking of using LeanPub, which takes 25%. You keep your rights.

Ah. I was wondering why it read like, "Stuff that's in China"

That's kind of interesting, because I thought Feynman came up (maybe just popularized?) the cargo-cult idea. Yet he himself advised his sister to aim high in physics.

Yet I agree with you, and somehow feel I'm making an improper comparison here. Why?

Maybe. But the Asian languages all tend to be displayed left-to-right on the web. I've only seen Arabic (or Farsi?) script written right-to-left online.