konstantintin

everything about web development... apart from the two of the biggest languages/platforms for web development.

nobody needs to do 3+ hrs of homework a night. when the load is so needlessly excessive, I think it's fine to cut some corners.

how much of an increase in accuracy is gained by using the full collection of data rather than sampling?

probaby not right...

E(number_of_rabbits) = rabbits_in_last_turn - prob(land on rabbit) - sum_i_to_infinity(prob(land_on_blackhole)^i*prob(land on rabbit))

why would you not allow your kids to play organized sports?

what evidence is there that teachers are underpaid in the US when you look at total compensation?

higher education -- a period in which someone (you, the university and/or the state) spends a lot of money to enable your education -- is a huge luxury. It's a totally fair question to ask "what are you going to do with your philosophy degree?". If you're deeply passionate about your subject, then I think you can justify pursuing education purely for its own sake. But that simply does not apply to the vast majority of people studying philosophy/history/sociology etc.

I could already write and think before university and I had all the mathematical tools that most people ever use in real life. University taught me how to write an academic essay of adequate quality, but I don't think this is an essential life skill.

I think the effect is overstated by selection and attrition. if you're not capable of thinking logically in the first place you probably will not choose to study philosophy or fail out if you do.

are there no problems with mongo 'once you get over a few million rows'?

once you are a fully developed adult, intelligence is normally very stable. an analogy with weight simply doesn't work: anybody can increase their weight simply by eating more, but we don't know of any reliable methods of massively increasing or reducing intellignece.

most economists are not very serious about testing their models. this is reflected in the way the subject is normally taught.

yes, there is a huge difference in humanity between someone in who simply misleads about company finances and someone who actively ignores their duty to care for their own children

what % of developers regularly make use of such knowledge? what prevents non-cs graduates from opening a book on algorithms?

you forgot mongodb

you can't get good bone and muscle structure from a needle!

yes, cultural differences and training are important for sporting success. this still can hardly explain the pattern pointed out above...

How many fresh CS grads have a strong command of database performance or concurrency?