This morning, I thought to myself that I was very dissatisfied with my classes. CS 499 is boring. Math 226 is explained terribly. ITP 477 is cool (ask me about this if you’re interested). I still need to start writing for the Core 103 midterm Thursday. EE 101 is the one class that’s going well…Continue Reading…
There’s an article in Yahoo Business today that says it takes hard work to become great. I agree. There’s also mention of something researchers call the ten-year rule. Reinforcing that no-free-lunch finding is vast evidence that even the most accomplished people need around ten years of hard work before becoming world-class, a pattern so well…Continue Reading…
Why doesn’t someone make eBay with video? I’d like to see a ~1 minute demo of whatever it is I’m buying, giving me a sense of its condition, size, and what it looks like from different angles. Plus in the audio, the seller could do a little narration. Everyone has a video camera these days,…Continue Reading…
Slashdot recently ran a story saying that the human species may soon split in two. The interesting thing is not the article, which is ridiculous, but the comments that people have left on Slashdot. I read through all the Score: 5 ones (and a few others with interesting titles), and they are excellent. Of course,…Continue Reading…
Yahoo News says that marriage is losing its edge. A new survey has shown that traditional marriage has ceased to be the preferred living arrangement in the majority of US households. The findings were released in August. Nearly 55.8 million American family households, or 50.2%, were unmarried. More than 14 million single women 5 million…Continue Reading…
…in a post about the ASU Sun Devils. Well, they lost the game despite having Google Apps for Education, but that got me thinking– why doesn’t USC do the same? The USC email system sucks in comparison with Gmail.