> After two weeks, I come up with some of my own tweaks that make the algorithm work a bit better. I happily add “built a state-of-the-art library for numerical integration, with novel improvements on the best techniques in the academic literature” to my resume.
Ok so he's a liar. He made something "work a bit better" and then claimed to build the whole thing. Two weeks of work. Talk about resume padding.
> After declaring, I finally get assigned an adviser who doesn’t tell me to take easier courses.
Where I went, you barely got any such advice. P R I V I L E G E.
> Math classes haven’t saved me from getting bored of college.
Links to an another article "Why I left Harvard early" oh FFS
> directly trying to improve the world, at Wave.
As opposed to those lesser folks who aren't "directly" trying to improve the world, or just not improving the world at all. Just trying to get by and live a decent life.
> For some reason, a lot of smart college students end up with the idea that “solving hard technical problems” is the best thing they can do with their life
Well it's better than fucking up the world at least.
> most graduates of elite schools—including me—
Yes mr elite.
> my root goal was to use my skills to get the most possible leverage on improving the world.
I'm reminded of the great "Make the World a better place" skit from Silicon Valley.
> Thanks to Eve Bigaj, Alexey Guzey, Jeff Kaufman, Dan Luu, Lincoln Quirk, and Yuri Vishnevsky for reading a draft of this post.
Someone actually didn't catch the lameness of the post.
> > For some reason, a lot of smart college students end up with the idea that “solving hard technical problems” is the best thing they can do with their life
> Well it's better than fucking up the world at least.
I think there's a good case to be made that over-focus on narrowly defined "hard problems" is one of the biggest drivers of existential risk we face
> After two weeks, I come up with some of my own tweaks that make the algorithm work a bit better. I happily add “built a state-of-the-art library for numerical integration, with novel improvements on the best techniques in the academic literature” to my resume.
Ok so he's a liar. He made something "work a bit better" and then claimed to build the whole thing. Two weeks of work. Talk about resume padding.
> After declaring, I finally get assigned an adviser who doesn’t tell me to take easier courses.
Where I went, you barely got any such advice. P R I V I L E G E.
> Math classes haven’t saved me from getting bored of college.
Links to an another article "Why I left Harvard early" oh FFS
> directly trying to improve the world, at Wave.
As opposed to those lesser folks who aren't "directly" trying to improve the world, or just not improving the world at all. Just trying to get by and live a decent life.
> For some reason, a lot of smart college students end up with the idea that “solving hard technical problems” is the best thing they can do with their life
Well it's better than fucking up the world at least.
> most graduates of elite schools—including me—
Yes mr elite.
> my root goal was to use my skills to get the most possible leverage on improving the world.
I'm reminded of the great "Make the World a better place" skit from Silicon Valley.
> Thanks to Eve Bigaj, Alexey Guzey, Jeff Kaufman, Dan Luu, Lincoln Quirk, and Yuri Vishnevsky for reading a draft of this post.
Someone actually didn't catch the lameness of the post.