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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

For those curious about Julia, I just found this:

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3284380/data-science/what-...

Close to C speed in a dynamic language? Seems pretty great on paper. Is this generally the case?

Brave (with default search engine Qwant) has been a nice replacement. Of course, there is always Firefox/DuckDuckGo

Natural language processing and how it can be used to research health/well-being

Getting people to click on ads

Biochemistry MD/PhDs

Geologist for a lithium mining company

I think so, and iirc there are s lot of studies that have actually shown a negative relationship with conscientiousness.

Have you tried mindfulness? I have had the same experience as you have (it sounds like) in that I am able to speed listen more effectively at 2-2.5x than at 1x. Since I've started trying to be more mindful and meditate regularly, the improvement in focus I've experienced is incredible.

Check out How To Read A Book by Mortimer Adler. Great resource for techniques for understanding many different kinds of books.

If you haven't seen Colaboratory from Google check it out. This, but for jupyter notebooks.

https://research.google.com/colaboratory/faq.html

This. I learned that it's ok to feel dumb when learning difficult ideas, and to take a break, let your mind do some diffuse thinking, and come back to it.

Reading this book (A Mind for Numbers) and taking the mooc changed my life. The main thing that stuck with me above all else was the idea that it's okay to feel dumb when learning new things and to push through instead of giving up. I wish I had learned that lesson much earlier.

Glad this was posted. I was admitted to Penn's MSE in CIS as well as OMSCS for the Fall. No funding for either. Penn is roughly $60k. I currently live in Philly. I'm curious to see what HN thinks would be the better option.