This November was my sixth 10 day Vipassana course (first was 12 years ago). I achieved momentary clarity on the 8th day which helped me get rid of some of unnecessary but deep rooted complexes of my mind. I believe that it was possible only because of the continued practice and focus of the past 7 days. If it were two courses of 4 days each with some gap in between, I do not think I would be able to experience what I did. In other words, I feel that my brain needed the 10 consecutive days.
Very good work. I am extremely happy for you! I have no clue why some people expect this all to be either open source or free. I have personally invested a lot of money on building an adaptive learning tool (and two years of salary losses). We are not yet live, but when we are, I hope to have some revenue model as well.
What do you guys think of Knewton (The gorilla in adaptive learning)? They claim to be super adaptive but it is hard to tell. I used their product and was not super impressed with the adaptivity.
Which problem is more important
a) Make simple algorithms more accessible to the masses who do not get it even after reading a book. OR
b) Make more complex algorithms and programming patters/styles more accessible to the good programmers who want to become excellent programmers ?
I would like your opinion and how you define "importance" ( it could be market size, or economic impact in the world, or as some people have argued -- reduces gender inequality in tech)
I have always wanted to create a Data Science training course which finds the right dataset to expose the power of the technique in question. I think this dataset will give me a good start. Thank you!
This is pretty interesting. So I can theoretically bring down a competitor's rank by creating spammy websites and providing unnatural backlinks ? Even if the competitors figure it out from the webmaster tools, they will have no way to remove the backlinks. Right ?
I read your post because I am looking for some help with a non profit I am establishing. Wish I could help but we don't have any funding right now.
But I did see your other posts and realised you have been in the "should I quit" phase for some time now. I sincerely hope you haven't quit without finding a new job.
Can I please ask why Non-Profit though ? [This answer will help me personally]
Is it because you
1) perceive that a non-profit job is easier to find ?
2) expect that people are nicer at non-profits and there may be more self motivation and lesser politics ?
3) want to be part of something that makes the world a better place?
KA probably receives too many applications. Even when, some time ago, I was happy to volunteer for free, I just got an automated email and no response. Perhaps because of visa issues ? Or maybe there is too much supply because who would not want to help change the world ?
Very interesting read. Is it even possible to solve the problem if the publisher itself is fraudulent? Since they are the layer of communication and they will provide parameters to run your code, there is only so much you can do.
It seems like once of those problems in which the damage is limited to a small percentage and the advertisers are kind of OK with it deploying too many resources to find a solution.