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Steppenwolf expressed this much better.

And yes, watching certain professors (not YouTubers) makes one's heart run faster.

I remember prof. Brian Harvey 2008 course (Scheme based) of old MIT courser by Eric Grimsin. Or Systematic approach by Gregor Kiczales, or Dan Grossman's "Programming languages" course.

And then you stumble upon another node_modules shit...

Andrew Ng was also very cool.

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Steppenwolf expressed this much better

Care to name the song?

Maybe they meant the novel rather than the band? (I haven't read it)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppenwolf_(novel)

P.S. it seems there are multiple bands inspired by Hesse, not just Steppenwolf.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anyone%27s_Daughter

Thanks.

I realized I might be guessing wrong about the reference but was willing to look foolish in the interest of brevity. Appreciate the reply.

It was bugging me why I knew it was a famous novel when I hadn't read it in or out of school. When I woke up, I remembered - in my freshman psychology class many years ago, we were given a choice of literature to do a presentation on, and one of them (which I did not choose) was Siddhartha, also by Hermann Hesse. And the professor talked about Steppenwolf.

No better illustration is ever needed.

You're on HN, assume the more highbrow option.

If I'm on HN, you can assume I'm exhausted, running a fever or otherwise too impaired by my incurable medical condition to be trying to work. I always appreciate it when people are kind in their interpretation of my efforts to engage to distract myself from the misery that is my life.

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