I too share this grand delusion. I know it's a delusion, yet I can't formulate a solution. I'm a first year right now, I share the same story from high school, to rejection from the university I wanted to go to, and finally to the low grades in university. Thanks for sharing the story, it gives me insight on where my behaviour will lead. Thank you.

This is comedy gold.

This + Data Mining & Neural Networking.

^^ agreed.

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Right click > Inspect Element.

This is the greatest teacher/tutorial.

+1

Simple yet difficult to conjure. This is awesome!

What makes it awesome? It seems like a way to take something simple (swapping variables) and write it in a complex way (three operations) so that neither the humans nor the compilers reading it will know what is going on.

Real temporary variables are clearer for both humans and machines.

Read crntaylor's explanation of this via group theory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5278915

So this is awesome insofar as you find things like group theory awesome (I did). But like he says, if you find this awesome to use in production code, that's a horse of another color.

What's the point of finding the trillionth number in pi? The same is implied here. We do things, just because we can.

Although I'm only 19, there are a ton of things I wish I could go back and talk to past me. Too many times have I missed out on opportunities and lost advantages.

Ah well.

Wow, thanks for the info. I always liked proof based math more than the applied math. Linear Algebra is going to be a lot more interesting now.

"Hey Charlie, how does it feel to have a golden ticket?"

That is one hell of a line up aha. Is it possible if you can tell us what school you went to? My curiosity needs feeeeeeding!

TBH, I feel so blessed! I never would have expected to receive such an offer.

"Do your work. Don't be stupid."

That is surprisingly effective.

Well, it's as simple as it can be :)