realitygrill

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Comment · 3 years ago
Would you email me? I'm really interested in learning about this. I have similar intuitions about places to avoid.
Comment · 3 years ago
Would you mind reaching out to me? I'm trying to learn more about how to do OSINT (with that particular slant!).
Comment · 4 years ago
If one was a young or returning adult with interest but little background in mathematics, would you suggest learning category theory first (assuming the adult is interested)? How would you suggest going about doing this as a path?
Comment · 4 years ago
I appreciate the civil perspectives of you both, and would be interested in seeing you two discuss this in written format. I'd admit to having a relatively poor view of Gould, but this is not an impression formed from particularly close reading.
Comment · 5 years ago
You might also want to look into ME/CFS. I'm very sorry to hear about this, because I had an analogous experience for years and know how hopeless it feels to try to figure out what the issue is (while your cognitive abilities / stamina are limited by brain fog), fail over and over, and in the meanwhile others cannot understand and don't believe you.

Feel free to email me if you want to chat.

Comment · 5 years ago
I would love to hear more about this, particularly the Medicaid fraud angle.
Comment · 6 years ago
Have you tried the Guoyu Ribao, or Mandarin Daily News? Seems like you need extensive reading practice, and that might be a good way to start.

I've also heard excellent things about Outlier Linguistics' resources for Chinese characters, assuming you're still spending a lot of effort learning characters.

Comment · 7 years ago
It's practically 100%. Once you're in, they'll do everything in their power to graduate you (legitly). Every incentive they have points at a perfect graduation rate.

EDIT: In the US, anyway. Things are different in, say, Caribbean medical schools.

Comment · 7 years ago
That seems to be a common opinion on the ground, apparently.
Comment · 7 years ago
Taiwan is the awkward counterexample. It never experienced the cultural severing of the Cultural Revolution, yet is arguably the most thriving democracy in Asia.
Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
Would you be willing to chat about approved vendors? I can't find your email, but here's mine: [email protected]

My team did some work for the KS04 special election last year, and now we've developed a service for political campaigns. But traction.. maybe we're getting screwed by this approved vendors thing.

Comment · 8 years ago
Harvard didn't have an engineering department until a few years ago (might be year 5 or 6 now).
Comment · 8 years ago
As someone who wanted to redo my mathematical foundations and go onto higher maths, I tried (and failed) many different approaches. Eventually I found that New Math books worked for me. I'm about 70% through the www.elementsofmathematics.com course, which is derived from New Math, and loving it. Warning: it's about 3 years worth of work at a normal pace, and covers 6th-12th grade (through precalc, though you get some abstract algebra and number theory too).

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