{"id":1784,"date":"2013-09-27T00:15:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T08:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2013\/09\/27\/links-9-26-2013\/"},"modified":"2013-09-27T00:15:46","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T08:15:46","slug":"links-9-26-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2013\/09\/27\/links-9-26-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Links: 9-26-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/2013\/09\/nate-silver-on-finding-a-mentor-teaching-yourself-statistics-and-not-settling-in-your-career\/\">Nate Silver on Finding a Mentor, Teaching Yourself Statistics, and Not Settling in Your Career &#8211; Walter Frick &#8211; Harvard Business Review<\/a><br \/>      Quote on the best way to learn stuff: &quot;That intellectual curiosity. That bullshit detector for lack of a better term, where you see a data set and you have at least a first approach on how much signal there is there. That can help to make you a lot more efficient. That stuff is kind of hard to teach through book learning. So it&rsquo;s by experience. I would be an advocate if you&rsquo;re going to have an education, then have it be a pretty diverse education so you&rsquo;re flexing lots of different muscles. You can learn the technical skills later on, and you&rsquo;ll be more motivated to learn more of the technical skills when you have some problem you&rsquo;re trying to solve&#8230;&quot;<br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/learning\">learning<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/motivation\">motivation<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/statistics\">statistics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/math\">math<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nate Silver on Finding a Mentor, Teaching Yourself Statistics, and Not Settling in Your Career &#8211; Walter Frick &#8211; Harvard Business Review Quote on the best way to learn stuff: &quot;That intellectual curiosity. That bullshit detector for lack of a better term, where you see a data set and you have at least a first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2013\/09\/27\/links-9-26-2013\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links: 9-26-2013<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}