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For more than 500 years, the honorary degree has provided an opportunity for colleges to build relationships with the rich, famous, and well-connected, in hopes of securing financial donations and cheap publicity.
What's the best way to learn data science? This guide will show you how to learn data science and stay motivated.
On May 4th, my book Hello Web App was released. Since then, hundreds of people used it to learn how to build web apps using Python and Django.
An eclectic online curriculum that covers the core requirements of a typical undergraduate CS program.
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
For quite some time we've been grilling our candidates about dirty corners of TCP/IP stack. Every engineer here must prove his/her comprehensive understanding of the full network stack. For example: what are the differences in checksumming algorithms between IPv4 and IPv6 stacks?
Patrick McKenzie is driven by a strong work ethic, but not the kind you see touted in business journals and productivity books.
Today is the start of my last week as an employee of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. I will be leaving after nearly 15 years as EFF's President and Executive Director, having started as a Staff Attorney back in 1992. As I wrap up things here, I've been thinking a lot about where we've been...
A MOOC professor takes a contrarian view and creates a MOOC without relying on videos, and makeing the claim that they are not necessary for a meaningful online learning experience.
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
The Graduate School of Education and the Computer Science Department engaged in a joint research project to advance new approaches to teaching.
Edit: Peter Thiel is no longer affiliated with Y Combinator. I’m delighted to announce Peter Thiel is joining YC as one of the (now 10!) part-time partners. In addition to founding PayPal and Palantir and being the first investor in Facebook, Peter has been involved with many of the most important technology companies…
Open offices are all the rage, but are they actually helping us get more done. We don't think that's the case.
