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Yeah bicycles are great. One doctoral biochemistry student I know cycled 7 kms through the maze of city to his science campus. He said it keeps him fit. He looked veeeery healthy.

Well, if you want to be good programmer, then you will cetainly have to put in a lot of effort, more than in uni. It took me a month until I got recursion ;D You might be more lucky. I'll tell you this: my friends who study CS/Maths field have many strange hobbies they like to delve in when...

If you have a hobby, keep it on your side. It is better to delve into car's internals and have fun than get drunk with young idiots at college due to having nothing else to do on your free time. ;P

In the end, it is all about finding what you love doing. When you find it, it changes everything. The sun looks brighter, the jerks are less jerky and obstacles in life seems like temporary defeats to make you stronger. Paul McCartney, the famous Beatles guy, was terible at school. He was even...

It helped me to change my nutrition(I became healthier), try out many things and choose subject to study(I did) and get some wisdom from people smarter than me. :)

Linear Algebra Functional Programming Computation and Logic + EE modules. Intro to EE This is first semester.

Recently Barclays bank opened a branch in my country and they take in high school grads interested in becomming programmers. They pay above average salary, pay your trips but it si intensive two-year course and you must produce results quickly. Not for everyone. Also banks don't tend to be an...

I have not seen any films you all mention except The Big Lebowski. :D That one was really good.

Hi, I need good headset(headphone + microphone) for a laptop. Laptop has only two sockets: one for microphone, another for headphones. I have Senssheir(maybe spelled wrong) and it has 4 connections to the PC. So they do not produce good sound due to limited amount of sockets to plug in...

Mhm yeah. I used to work summers in one doctor's house and she said to me that in order to stay sharp, she solves crosswords in a foreign language. She is Russian but currently learn English and solves crosswords in that language. Smart :) I can share another story which I read on a blog post...

At uni from September, they teach linear algebra and they assume we know quite a lot already. Well, I don't. So I have to brush up. 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development, 2nd Edition: Fletcher Dunn, Ian Parberry: 9781568817231: Amazon.com...

Okay. Henry Ford had little education and formal schooling. Most of us would call him illiterate or some other names. Yet, a man was educated and had a goal. When he achieved it, no one dared to call him not intelligent. This is why I gave such a definition of intelligent person. Motivation is...

Intelligent person is an individual who works towards his goals and aspirations. If he acts towards his goals he acts intelligently, if not, then he is not intelligent. When you consider this, most of the intelligent people had goals and were actively trying to achieve them. Not intelligent...

I think in this topic, all of you mainly consider brain intelligence(scientists, chess players, programmers). Did it ever occur to you that there are other types of intelligence? What about physical intelligence? See basketball players in NBA, look at their developed physique and mastery they...

As one man once put it: "you can either become depressed and cry or you can go shout yourself out somewhere, get up and take action to fix problems. The choice is yours."

If you are not interested in medical career, don't do it. Would you like to live with the fact that after plowing through 12 years of education you understand that this decision was made by your relatives and not you? In my environment, I have a person who fallen prey for this. He did 10 years...

Botting Diablo 2 , no time to play

If you ain't hired, hire yourself and start a business. Of course, firstly find out what you like and what market needs.

BigApplePi, I posted this video for others to watch and then discuss. Why? Because we saw only experts say that it is not possible to build the Great Pyramid in 20 years. Maybe we can reason this thing out somehow and this forum is full of clever people :) I'll check out your TV program you...

Yeah, choose something you like and is challenging for you. As my wise friend once put it this way: "go to university to learn a subject you could not learn on your own". It includes all science careers etc..

Oxford. You will apply through UCAS service at ucas.com The deadline is October 15th for all applications to Oxbridge and medicine/veterinary courses. All other courses and unis has a deadline of January 15th next year. When applying, you need to write a personal statement, have...

Cherry Cola, this documentary gave you many options to believe what you choose by using maths and common sense. Also experts engineers could not replicate this very easily. This is why I liked this: it shown many possibilities and it is your choice. Some couch potato will think it is aliens...

Hard to say. Why? Because you need to participate in this forum more in order to determine your usual style of expressing ideas and thoughts. Even then, it is hard. I bet if one would meet you in real world, their opinion would be different than typing you in this forum.

Nice reasoning Architect but second half is a lot more interesting. When someone recommends me a movie or a book, I found that stopping in the middle just because it seems uninteresting left me without a bang in the end. When I first watched the video, my thoughts were exactly as yours such as...

If you are INTP, you will be glued to the screen because everything is calculated and thought out. I never knew this stuff and even though history for me is boring, this was so interesting...when you watch, discuss here what do you think? It is a long watch but bear with it and it going to...

doncarlzone, she worked her ass off and when she found that she can do everything on her own terms, she quit and created a business. I can hardly understand what it is you see lucky here. She worked, work proved to be beneficial, she made contacts and then found her business. And that's nice...

I read her book and everything made sense. Some of us are led to believe that we have all the time to figure things out. Which is truth. You must find ultimate happiness. But! You must not simply procrastinate to start something with your life. The examples from her book were people who worked...

I talked with many programmers and here are their observations: Pros: * They get paid to play with computers * They emphasized the love of building a product from nothing * Best business to get into. Low start-up costs compared to other disciplines * You can reach millions instantly...

"12 Angry Men" a masterpiece. I was so astonished about this movie. The acting is superb and the crime scene development is amazing.

65% INTP 8% ISTP 7% INFP 7% INTJ 5% ENTP All tests are BS :} These days I feel more S than N. Probably because I decided to spend at least one month a year relaxing.

My days on e-learning are over unfortunately. The schedule at Edinburgh in Informatics course and probable part-time work in IT industry will leave little time to learn. Thanks for suggestion though.

What experience do you want to hear about? Most of the courses I've taken were tough. Very tough, especially MIT style Intro to CS last fall. It was hardcore for me but I plunged through. Now it looks like a joke, too easy :D Then, I took another course in the subject I hated in school -...

Go to Personality Junkie and read about functions. All parts. Learn them really good. Then go and investigate various types of people(16 of them) and their functional stack. Then think whether this is what you mostly do. Tests are garbage and you can forget them. They have questions like: "You...

I'm not used to luxury and putting me into such a life would seem very strange to me. By the way, you become the king or whatever when you are born to a queen. So. This question is unrealistic. Also living in luxury is bad. You don't understand people who sometimes have nothing to eat for...

Another reason to live healthy life and prevent a need of any intervention to your body. :d

Sensors are not bad or of less of intelligent people. They are just annoying sometimes. Just as we probably are annoying to them.

It depends.Yesterday I forgot to eat at all. Ended up in front of computer for 8 hours. I am learning Javascript currently, and follow 6 week schedule to finish it. Usually, when I remember to eat, it is 5 meals a day.

Switzerland. It's expensive but I love that country.

Bag, the article bashes away sensors. I don't like that. We are not superior to them. When that guy will do a survey of 1m+ people who are Ns and Ss, then we can see the trend. Now his opinion is just a mix of stuff from the Internet which he absorbed somewhere on the Net. I think intuitive...

Michel Thomas courses. They cost, but I learnt basic german without even trying in one month slowly. No homework, you just repeat what he says. He repeats stuff and you just remember it.

You could read in this file using any programming language as a string, access 200002nd element because 3. is the first two. And then you can solve it. Since I don't have time for that, you can do this on your own :) Did you think of this question or is it some prank on the Internet? :}

Pure water. Or chamomile tea. My grandmother is knowledgeable about all herbs and she always advice people with stomach aches to drink only this tea. I advise everyone do the same because I once did a terrible thing: ate garlic before going to sleep. I woke up at night and my stomach hurt a...

Nice correction. I have no idea why I said it is a lot more than 2-3 times... I remember some strange object in that series and they said it is very high in density and mass. Neutron star... Fascinating object. The last time I saw something about universe was last year so some facts about the...

What you eat to get 3k calories? Ain't you get bored lifting weights fast? I certainly do but have to continue because no work = no gains. :)

Just do your job. Continue to achieve what you aspire to become. This beating in front of the class would make me feel guilty and force me to reconsider my current state of learning. I tell you: do not give any shit about this event. Think about it as a kick to the butt and a hint that you need...

Relax. Understand that you are not a dumbass but if professor is unhappy, it means it's your fault. Always do the work. She is right about wasting money if you don't do the work. However, bullying you is not professional. Even high school teachers don't do this and it's professor... I deal with...

1. Are you a vegetarian / vegan, or do you eat meat? I eat meat very rarely. I abide the laws published in Fuhrman's book on healthy living. So I'm ... lol a human who eats to live. 2. What are your reasons to support whichever one you are? Vegetarians are in two bunches: first one is radical...

No one is when they start. If you think that mastering anything is fast, then the future will be hard for you. Everything you mentioned in your post takes time to master. Several years at least. :) When you are young, your attitude should be 'let's try this' not meh it's boring. It's a...

Try computer programming. Stick it for a year and see what happens.

I think typing people to me by using their posts as an indicator is a silly endeavour. I cannot type people rightly when I talk with them, what to talk about some posts on some forum. However, I found one very important indicator who is definitely some intuitive type: it is long post with...