Getting muddle-headed with a lot of things.
On that note, happy with my ScL :) time to find a job real soon.
Metacog: The Curious Case of Alvin Wang's NUS Appeal
Alvin Wang’s appeal to get into the Computer Science program at the National University of Singapore, available at http://www.helpalvingetintoschool.com/ is … strange. I was, at first, in support of him: I emailed the NUS Hackers mailing list, asking people to share his page on their social…
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84 Epistemology is the study of knowledge. The branches are basically empiricism (emphasising experience, A Posteriori), idealism (innate, not derived from experience, A priori), and rationalism (all three, adding in abstract).
Does inductive reasoning lead to knowledge, by generalising based on some experiences or forecasting future events based on historical events? (Hume)
Angst at 4am
Do you go to class aiming to speak up a lot, or go to class and speak when you feel you have something meaningful to discuss? Or does the end justify whatever the means?
Angst at 3am
The thing about MPW is that it contains a lot of general research and general answers. Sure they are good to know and be aware of, but in work do you really apply them? Do you really apply the general to the specific? The subject warns us of tunneling and mental model, but isn’t it one in itself?
What a way to end the last night of school
Life is fragile
Went to a jc classmate’s wake yesterday night; it’s all quite a blur. He was a really nice guy, even a grassroots person (something that I’ve seen in in that I’d want to be but never quite), although I couldn’t remember when was the last time we met up.
So many thoughts in my mind.
It’s like waking up from a long long dream.
There cannot be intrinsically a more insignificant thing, in the economy of society, than money; except in the character of a contrivance for sparing time and labour. It is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously, what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it: and like many other kinds of machinery, it only exerts a distinct and independent influence of its own when it gets out of order.
- John Stuart Mill
