Path to a free self-taught graduation in Computer Science!
https://github.com/open-source-society/computer-science
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“…The problem is not the camera, the ISO settings, or even Nikon. The problem is that your kids are blurry to begin with. My recommendation, is to take pictures of other kids, and digitally place your kids faces on the pic. If that is too difficult, a visit to a local pediatrician, will provide the antibiotic that corrects this.
I placed 4 stars for the camera, since I am only 80% sure this will resolve your problem.”
http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R2LV4YQVC8VZB0/ref=cm_cr_pr_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B0007KQWE6
“Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good.” – Picasso
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist”. – Picasso
http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2015/10/picasso-create-50000-works-of-art/
“Just consider the shift from a world without telephones to one with them, or from a world of oil lamps to one with electric light. Next to that, who cares about Facebook or the iPad? Indeed, who really cares about the Internet when one considers clean water and flushing toilets?”
“The collapse in child mortality is surely the single most beneficial social change of the past two centuries. It is not only a great good in itself; it also liberated women from the burden, trauma, and danger of frequent pregnancies. ”
“The only recent connections between homes and the outside world are satellite dishes and broadband. Neither is close to being as important as clean water, sewerage, gas, electricity, and the telephone. The great breakthroughs in health—clean water, sewerage, refrigeration, packaging, vaccinations, and antibiotics—are also all long established.”
( ‘Connections between homes and the outside world’ … instantly this brought to mind BRT in Curitiba, and Human Transit’s model of VERY Frequent Bus/Public-Transit-Mode passenger stop within VERY close walking distance of every Person/Dwelling. )
“In the nineteenth century, they argue, machines replaced artisans and benefited unskilled labor. In the twentieth century, computers replaced middle-income jobs, creating a polarized labor market.”
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2015-06-16/same-it-ever-was
“The close relationship between Hoffman and the White House isn’t just about his being a major political donor. He and others like him have something more powerful than money to offer: a way for officials to connect with the largest possible audiences. In the nineteenth century, the bosses of political machines served this role; in the twentieth, it was media barons, especially in broadcasting and newspapers; in the twenty-first, it is people who have created vast online social networks.”
“Even in this age of inequality, there’s nothing as unequal as the distribution of success in Silicon Valley. One of Hoffman’s venture-capital friends, Mike Maples, Jr., estimates that of the roughly thirty thousand tech startups a year, only ten will wind up representing ninety-seven per cent of the total value of all of them, and one will represent as much value as all the others combined.”
“A waiter entered. “I have an algorithm,” Hoffman said. “If it’s a good place, order the special. If it’s a bad place, order what they can’t screw up.” They ordered the special.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/12/the-network-man?mbid=rss
Semantic Search and Visualization for the Quran
http://qurananalysis.com/
“The right idea in the wrong hands is indistinguishable from the wrong idea.” — Garry Tan
https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/649610750617477120
“…the high price of books was the original intent of lectures and the difficulty of communicating new research was the original reason for seminars…”
“As long as you can get your foot in the door, being autodidact practically puts on you on equal grounds with a college grad.”
http://earlyretirementextreme.com/the-secret-of-education.html
“When you choose technology, you have to ignore what other people are doing, and consider only what will work the best.”
“…server-based applications magnify the effect of rapid development, because you can release software the minute it’s done.”
“In business, there is nothing more valuable than a technical advantage your competitors don’t understand. In business, as in war, surprise is worth as much as force.”
“Ordinarily technology changes fast. But programming languages are different: programming languages are not just technology, but what programmers think in. They’re half technology and half religion.[6] And so the median language, meaning whatever language the median programmer uses, moves as slow as an iceberg.”
“If you ever do find yourself working for a startup, here’s a handy tip for evaluating competitors. Read their job listings. Everything else on their site may be stock photos or the prose equivalent, but the job listings have to be specific about what they want, or they’ll get the wrong candidates.”
http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
“I suspect the biggest source of moral taboos will turn out to be power struggles in which one side only barely has the upper hand. That’s where you’ll find a group powerful enough to enforce taboos, but weak enough to need them.”
“Great work tends to grow out of ideas that others have overlooked, and no idea is so overlooked as one that’s unthinkable.”
“Whatever the reason, there seems a clear correlation between intelligence and willingness to consider shocking ideas. This isn’t just because smart people actively work to find holes in conventional thinking. I think conventions also have less hold over them to start with. You can see that in the way they dress.”
“The most important thing is to be able to think what you want, not to say what you want. ”
“When people are bad at math, they know it, because they get the wrong answers on tests. But when people are bad at open-mindedness they don’t know it. In fact they tend to think the opposite.”
“Instead of being part of the mob, stand as far away from it as you can and watch what it’s doing. And pay especially close attention whenever an idea is being suppressed. ”
“How can you see the wave, when you’re the water? Always be questioning. That’s the only defence. What can’t you say? And why?”
http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html