A Little Bit of Slope Makes Up for a Lot of Y-Intercept – Brian Keng
Math can sometimes be useful in explaining things. I came across this witty quote from Professor John Ousterhout. He’s a computer science professor at Stanford that spends 15 minutes every …
Math can sometimes be useful in explaining things. I came across this witty quote from Professor John Ousterhout. He’s a computer science professor at Stanford that spends 15 minutes every week in his lectures giving a life lesson. This is one of my favourites. The basic idea is you want to be the red line and not the blue line. From one of his lectures (emphasis mine): “So in a mathematical sense it’s kind of obvious. But I didn’t really mean in a mathematical sense, I think this is a pretty good guideline for life also. What I mean is that how fast you learn is a lot more important than…
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