Then let me say thanks! There was a programming competition in university where we made bots to play 2048 for (with a few months time), that played against each other in a live tournament (who got the most points mostly).
That was the most fun competition I ever participated in!!
The bot was playing way better than me personally and regularly reached the 4096 tile. It was a lot of fun to just watch it play and really awesome to make it play better :)
What do you mean by dangerous exactly? I was briefly involved with some people from the Steiner philosophy (the school) and while some people could definitely be labeled as a weird bunch with esoteric tendencies, none of them seemed dangerous at all.
Everything seemed very open and accepting to people different than themself. In a positive way, not in a "join my cult" way.
They form most of the anti-vax movement in Europe (there are documented case of a presumed-extinct disease killing children in Steiner schools) and are also deeply sexist and homophobic due to their beliefs in a mystical balance between "Man" and "Women". They also actively infiltrate medical institutions in France, Germany and Switzerland to favor meds from their official medicine (and private labs), and some country allow them to be officially sold as medicine with reduced controls in regard to efficacy.
Oh and they successfully lobbied the French state into shutting down it's own observatory of derives in cults, known for having rose many alerts against Steiner schools to the govt over the years.
Thanks for the information. It does seem like the anti-vax movement is a lot larger within the Waldorf-community than outside. I never really thought about that.
This is the first I've ever heard of this, I normally give my kids Weleda cough mixture and always pretty much saw the whole movement as basically a slightly better commercialized version of homeopathy.
Not going to mention any of this to my wife though - it'll just cause fights :)
For once, it will always place your resume above the ones without a masters degree. And even if you look at the topics and think you won't like it or need it - you will always learn things that will likely be useful in the future! Be it to just get a different perspective on things or be able to suggest or bounce some ideas.
For me personally, the masters degree was the best thing I could have done. It helped me academically, made me a better programmer and helped several times when applying for jobs!
This is pretty much how the interview with my current position went. It felt really good to just talk about software development, private projects and other topics instead of doing tests in one form or another.
I didn't really read any books on that topic. But did lots of general research about compiler stages. I also posted a few links some comments up, that helped a lot.
For for it! Start small and increase. But seeing a program in your own language output something makes it all worth it :)
