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Lumifer comments on Starting University Advice Repository - Less Wrong Discussion

12 Post author: Bryan-san 03 December 2015 11:51PM

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Comment author: Lumifer 04 December 2015 05:06:58PM 1 point [-]

great advice for 2%

That number seems to be off by orders of magnitude.

imitate his/her college trajectory

The problem is that the world changes. At one point nuclear engineering was an excellent high-potential major.

Comment author: ChristianKl 04 December 2015 11:08:38PM 1 point [-]

That number seems to be off by orders of magnitude.

Spending effort on coding a program for a startup can be useful even if you don't have a successful startup.