This is part 3 of a 4-part series addressed to the author's brother, discussing the author's perspective on "elite education". [ | | ] Sorry, friends; my jet lag (from returning from Hong Kong on Saturday), seems to have finally caught up with me. Part 3 proper is
This is part 2 of a 4-part series addressed to the author's brother, discussing the author's perspective on "elite education". [ | | ] Dear brother, Yesterday, we talked about the (for some) counterintuitive fact that an elite education isn't just for those with elite pocketbooks.
This is part 1 of a 4-part series addressed to the author's brother, discussing the author's perspective on "elite education". [ | ] Dear brother, Congratulations on making it through three years of that purgatory called high school! Soon you'll be getting up close and
At work, for the past week or so, I've been wrestling with a complicated-ish thing, born of a conversation over lunch about something completely different, and taking me deep into some statistics and algebra that I don't really understand (yet). It's awesome. But (more
Today's quote comes from a talk about programming languages: "If you're ever writing code to loop over the indices of an array, just assume there's a bug in it somewhere." (In particular, we were discussing pitfalls of imperative languages, but that'