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pheaduch | 14 years ago | on: Why Do Some People Learn Faster?

What is this 4am club? I'm a big Jordan fan and I haven't heard about any of this and a quick Google search comes up nothing about Jordan practicing at 4am.

pheaduch | 14 years ago | on: Stanford/Coursera Machine Learning class delayed

All the courses have been delayed, I received one for the Tech. Entrepreneur that indicated the delay has to do with IP and copyright issues. Problems that sound like they do not bode well to resolving quickly ...

pheaduch | 14 years ago | on: New Stanford class on Cryptography

I'm not fond of the idea of giving out a recognized form of achievement as then the incentive changes from the sake of learning to earning a degree.

pheaduch | 14 years ago | on: 4chan's Chris Poole: Facebook & Google Are Doing It Wrong

Absolutely spot on. I struggled with the notion of putting myself out there on the internet as since the days of BBS's I've always interacted with other "internet folk" through an alias and very much under a different persona. Even running successful websites I ran them under a female alias not just because I could, but because it was a great marketing trick.

But today, the web has become so ubiquitous with the real world that I know I now have to play the game. It has taken me a long time to realize this, and I still don't feel comfortable with it.

pheaduch | 14 years ago | on: VC Decries Airbnb’s Recent Funding for Founder Control and Cashout

Interesting that he brings up Apple as during their IPO, if it wasn't for Wozniak and his "Woz Plan" the majority of Apple employees and the former earlier employees would have been frozen out of the IPO. Jobs was very much against giving up his share of the pie.

To me, being greedy is hardly the worst trait to have as entrepreneur.

pheaduch | 14 years ago | on: Square COO: There’s no value in NFC

Interesting that I read this article today as yesterday my bank called and said that they are sending a new debit card with this technology. I never heard the technical term of NFC before but it's been around my country for awhile under the more consumer friendly term of "touch and pay".

And BTW I live in Canada, not some European country or Japan. Why is America so slow to adopt these things?

pheaduch | 14 years ago | on: This is what happens when one guy practices art every day for nine years

There are internal and external roadblocks when trying to learn a new skill as an adult and sadly both become reinforcing. Externally I think there's a lot of cynicism from other people wondering why you are bothering trying to learn something new as an adult. They doubt that you can do it for various reasons including the favorite that you're too old to learn and that you must have started when you were five because the brain is so ripe.

But I always thought that belief was illogical, especially if you believe learning itself is an actual skill. If learning is a skill as much as say drawing, then you should only become better at trying new things as you get older.

pheaduch | 14 years ago | on: Practicing 2000 hrs (The Dan Plan: a 10,000 hr deliberate practice experiment)

I'm doing something similar with trying to learn how to program. I call it Brute Force Learning which is not exactly deliberate practice but more akin to just doing it and hoping it sticks. The reason is because I've always wanted to learn how to program, going back to wanting to build my own BBS door back in the day which gives you a reference of how long I've been around computers without learning to program. I know the reason was never an issue of mental capacity but just a question of will, which is why I'm now carefully keeping track of my learning time log.

I just started the experiment and do not have much online but if you're interested you can follow at http://theoutliers.com

pheaduch | 14 years ago | on: Why 80 Percent of Web Projects Are Total Bullshit: A Freelancer’s Rant

I'm in the same boat working on a simple web application. There are great lessons to learn when you try the other shoe on for size. Things that I thought were trivial become real difficult, especially when you don't plan them from the start and you have to re-architect your entire code. However I do find the process enjoyable and in the end it feels fulfilling to actually create something instead of just dreaming all days about ideas.

pheaduch | 14 years ago | on: My Family’s Experiment in Extreme Schooling

Every school in America does this, but in English of course. I came to Canada at the age of four and enrolled in kindergarden without knowing a word of English. I don't remember much but I know I was able to assimilate fairly well and able to pass without being held back. At that age, the mind is an amazing thing and children just soak everything up.

pheaduch | 14 years ago | on: What if the Secret to Success Is Failure?

I always thought failure was an important concept to learn, not failure in itself, but failure and the ability to pick yourself up afterwards. I cringe to think about today's kids who are growing up in an environment where failure is foreign, whether that is in sports where no scores are kept or the no fail policy at schools. I can just imagine a generation of kids who will grow up and are perfectly content in their mediocracy.
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