Except this isn't weaseling words as much as you'd like to think. Many driving instructors use the metaphor that a car is a 2 ton bullet to their students.
I would check out Quern. Quern is an excellent Myst style game and comes closest to Myst style puzzles. From what I've seen of the "The Witness" is looked to be the same maze puzzle but repeated throughout the game. I loved Johnathan Blow's "Braid" but I passed on the Witness after seeing some gameplay.
The Witness is a fantastic game, and while all the puzzles are drawing a line on a screen, without getting into spoilers, they have a great deal more variety than you might think.
That said, unlike the magical-realism of Myst and Riven's lived-in locations, the island of The Witness is impressionistic: It's not supposed to feel like a real place, only a kind of 3-d painting filled with relaxing and thought-provoking details, and coincidences to notice. So it might not be your cup of tea.
IIRC it may be one of the water reflection puzzles. You see the solution reflected in one half of the room, and have to repeat it on a panel in the other half. One of a small handful of puzzles I cheated - my short term memory is horrid.
I'm 30 and trying to relearn the math courses I did in college (Computer Science degree) and more. I am currently using Standford & MIT's open couseware. I feel like I am moving slower than I would if I were in a course but able to grasp the material better at this rate... I made good grades in my math courses but like you, I didn't have to use them in software engineering that much. I would like to get into a field that requires a stronger grasp of mathematics but also has a need for programming and computation (maybe machine learning or computational biology). I feel like I'm getting tired of being a software engineer (defense contractor) at a small company and looking for something higher level
"No one knows what actually happens in college or why it’s supposed to make you more successful."
I stopped reading after this line.
Anybody who takes what FEE says for more than a grain of salt, is in fact, 'religious'. When you understand that they are a libertarian think-tank, you would see the obvious bias against social infrastructure and would rather have our education system collapse than have smart, well educated citizens.
"Break out the champagne, and get busy doing real stuff in the real world. Don’t live your life by averages and aggregate data that reflect little more than the superstitions of the day."
Not everyone can be a successful drop out like Bill Gates
"many giraffes are slaughtered just for their tails, which are considered a status symbol and have been used as a dowry when asking a bride’s father for his daughters hand in marriage in some cultures."
I would say more that humans have evolved to be very interested in status (as stated in the text you quoted) and that wasting resources is high on the list of how to show your high status. Status used to be critical to survival when being kick out of the tribe was basically a death sentence. Tim Urban wrote a good article about this[1] with some good ideas to ponder about the value of caring about what other people think about you.
„Our bodies and minds are built to live in a tribe in 50,000BC, which leaves modern humans with a number of unfortunate traits, one of which is a fixation with tribal-style social survival in a world where social survival is no longer a real concept.“
James Damore will be eager to know more about this theory.
Yeah in a world where people are known to commit suicide because of rejection from their peers, in a world where people die homeless on the streets of the richest cities due to rejection from their peers, I would strongly disagree that social survival is no longer a real concept.
I think of Arby's "ITS THE MEAT!" campaign to make it appear manly by slamming a sandwich in slow motion on the table. You can just do a google search for something like "Meat and Masculinity", "Meat and Toxic Masculinity", or "Meat Heads" to see what I'm getting at. Basically, there is the continued association between meat and masculinity when its mostly caged animals and you just go to the grocery and pick it up like any commodity.
Materialistic modern cultures are the most wasteful. Native American Plains tribes used every part of the buffalos that they killed. Then white Americans came and killed for their fur and for sport.
Because there's no point in going through all the steps, but that's exactly where it would end if you absolutely refused to pay taxes and refused to pay fines or go to jail for not paying.
I fail to see how having a gun to your head is in any way true. Can you give any examples of this happening?
Tax evasion is a crime and you should go to jail (you are exploiting the benefits you have received from society). But big companies find tax loopholes all the time and they go to white-collar prisons or get away with it anyways.
Well, I just bought OpenGL SuperBible and was eventually going to go about making a simple game engine from scratch and learn the linear algebra required for graphics engines.
Would anyone still suggest learning OpenGL/building a graphics pipeline or just proceeding on to Kronos's Vulkan?
OpenGL is still very relevant, and it works on more hardware than Vulkan. You can get very good performance out of OpenGL if you try to follow AZDO practices, and it'll be good practice, should you later decide to learn Vulkan.
+1, if you really care about learning just the math OpenGL is a lot simpler from an API perspective. Once you start caring about performance then dig into Vulkan to understand the various render commands/pipelines/etc.
I would also assume that OpenGL is better supported on multiple platforms, by virtue of having been around much longer. You'll also be able to get more help if you run into issues with OpenGL.
