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Doing well in your courses: Andrej's advice for success (2013)

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674 points peterkshultz | 1 comments | 19 Oct 25 16:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.432s | source
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thefaux ◴[20 Oct 25 03:11 UTC] No.45639916[source]▶
Chalk it up to youth perhaps, but this piece would benefit, in my view, from more "for me..." or "I found..." and less "You should/must/are..."

I have reached a point in my life in which I recognize that I do not generally appreciate direct advice, especially not the unsolicited variety. Even the bits that I agree with in this piece are tainted by the many cases where I did the exact opposite of what he advises and excelled academically.

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1. tibbar ◴[20 Oct 25 03:15 UTC] No.45639928[source]▶
> Having been tested for many years of my life (with pretty good results), here are some rules of thumb that I feel helped me

Oh, come now, I think Karpathy adequately qualifies his advice. :-)