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What ought to happen is that everything I’ve described so far should be put in reverse. College should become free or very cheap. It should be heavily subsidized by the states, and robust competition from excellent state U’s should in turn bring down the price of college across the board. Pointless money-drains like a vast…
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zowieee: righty
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The Five Laws of the Curation Economy The First Law: People don’t want more content, they want less. We’re overwhelmed in raw, unfiltered, context-free data. Humans want it to stop. The Second Law: Curators come in three shapes. There are Curation Experts — people whose background and depth of understanding makes their curatorial choices valid.…
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artofmanliness: (via Morse Code: How to Translate and Use it | The Art of Manliness)
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thenewartemis: Wise words. 🙂
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jtotheizzoe: I get this question a lot: “Should I go get a PhD?” (or its variant, “How can I get a PhD in X?”) This is just one small part of my answer to that question (we’ll dig in more in the future, I promise). It’s very important that people see this graph before taking…
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new-aesthetic: Networked Optimization | silviolorusso.com Networked Optimization is a series of three crowdsourced versions of popular self-help books. Each book contains the full text, which is however invisible because it is set in white on a white background. The only text that remains readable consists of the so-called “popular highlights” – the passages that were…
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Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. Arthur C. Clarke (via stannisbaratheon)
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A circle of dots, but every dot alone is just moving in a straight line. phased harmonic motion, offset at angles around a common point.