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2pac work ethics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spqz-PDCp80

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.

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

It's not the universities that are racial bias because Asians are overrepresented at Ivy League school.

The real question should be why is the SAT so racially bias?

This might be of some interest:

Savant-like numerosity skills revealed in normal people by magnetic pulses

http://www.centreforthemind.com/publications/SavantNumerosit...

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.

[1] http://chestergrant.posterous.com/your-favorite-programmer-d...

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.

So, isn't it also so with Asians?

By any chance, is this a honey pot post? Flag.

"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."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/opinion/07kristof.html?_r=...

"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."

http://thesouthern.com/news/opinion/editorial/page/article_2...

I think it is more cultural than genetics.

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.

I remember when I was participating in start-up weekend, one of the thoughts through my head was whoever the person sitting at the front I'm going to be on their team, whether male or female.

"Fortune favours the bold."[we won]

Why does aggression has to be bad? To me I kinda use it as a filter. I don't think I'm special, and a lot of other people have their radar set to identify aggressive people.

I think what happens is the price of an engineer has gone up. Engineer starts a start-up, big company buys start-up at a million per Engineer - Everybody happy.

For 10 pts, Lisp niche is AI?

Need more females. :)

I wrote about it here like a year ago: http://chestergrant.posterous.com/consistently-underperformi...

1. It takes on average 66 days for a habit to be formed.[1]

2. The intensity need not be there to form the habit. After a habit is formed you can increase the intensity of the activity. Start small like reading 2 pages a day and add a page every two weeks. This is probably the most important step.

3. Willpower is at a maximum right after waking, so whatever you are trying to accomplish do it first thing in the morning.

4. Stop dieting. It will burn through your willpower.

[1]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/5857845/It-take...

As a rule of thumb, if you have to ask, it's yes.