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Reviews by parents | Cognito Mentoring
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Note: The reviews are from people who received detailed personalized advising from us. We no longer offer this service. The reviews are maintained for historical purposes and also because there is overlap between the advice we offered in our personalized advising and the advice on our blog and information wiki. Advice. Their outstanding mathematics background is a huge plus when working with kids with gifts in STEM. I just had a 40 minute free phone consultation with Jonah concerning my young son. It...
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Human capital or signaling? No, it’s about doing the Right Thing and acquiring karma | Cognito Mentoring
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Human capital or signaling? No, it’s about doing the Right Thing and acquiring karma. April 20, 2014. There’s a huge debate among economists of education on whether the positive relationship between educational attainment and income is due to human capital, signaling, or ability bias. But what do the students themselves believe? Bryan Caplan has argued that students’ actions (for instance, their not sitting in for free on classes. And their rejoicing at class cancellation. The case of the devout Christian.
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Moving on from Cognito Mentoring | Cognito Mentoring
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Moving on from Cognito Mentoring. May 16, 2014. Back in December 2013, Jonah Sinick and I launched Cognito Mentoring. Hoping to attract the attention of LessWrong’s intellectually curious readership. Since then, we feel we’ve done a fair amount, with a lot of help from LessWrong. We’ve published a few dozen blog posts. And have an information wiki. Slightly under a hundred people contacted us asking us for advice ( many from LessWrong. We might revive Cognito Mentoring as a part-time or full-time endeavo...
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People | Cognito Mentoring
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Graduated from Swarthmore College in 2007, and finished a PhD in pure math at University of Illinois in 2011. He taught precalculus and multivariable calculus at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology and is currently teaching for Art of Problem Solving. Designed as a reference for people learning and working in group theory. He has also worked on other projects, such as online math videos. Dedicated to discussing open borders. Advisors and idea contributors. Follow me on Twitter. Earnin...
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Reviews | Cognito Mentoring
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Note: The reviews are from people who received detailed personalized advising from us. We no longer offer this service. The reviews are maintained for historical purposes and also because there is overlap between the advice we offered in our personalized advising and the advice on our blog and information wiki. Follow me on Twitter. Moving on from Cognito Mentoring. Human capital or signaling? No, it’s about doing the Right Thing and acquiring karma. Economics majors and earnings: further exploration.
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Cognito Mentoring | Vipul Naik
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Graduate studies (University of Chicago, Math Ph.D.). Undergraduate studies (Chennai Mathematical Institute, Math & CS). Olympiads (math, last two years of high school). Math 151 (limits differentiation). Math 153 (advanced integration techniques sequences/series). Math 195 (multivariable calculus). Math 196 (linear algebra). Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI). Subject wikis (Groupprops etc.). Vipul’s Classroom (videos in calculus, group theory, etc.). Some of which was cross-posted to LessWr...
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Reviews by students | Cognito Mentoring
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Note: The reviews are from people who received detailed personalized advising from us. We no longer offer this service. The reviews are maintained for historical purposes and also because there is overlap between the advice we offered in our personalized advising and the advice on our blog and information wiki. Were a good kickoff to check out the rest of the blog. I’ve also been checking Quora out more, and I think that was a good suggestion. Linking to the Vannevar Group. Talking with Vipul helped my c...
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How much does where you go to college affect earnings? | Cognito Mentoring
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How much does where you go to college affect earnings? April 8, 2014. Students who go to more selective colleges make more money later in life. The 2013-2014 PayScale College Salary Report. Gives starting salaries of $60k for graduates of Ivy League schools vs. $45k/year for graduates of mid-tier state schools, and mid-career salaries of $110k/year for graduates of Ivy League schools vs. $80k/year for mid-tier state schools, so the difference is about 30%. Specifically, controlling for. Dale and Krueger&...
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Career prospects for physics majors | Cognito Mentoring
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Career prospects for physics majors. April 4, 2014. Physics is attractive to many highly intellectually capable students, because. Physical theories represent pinnacles of human achievement. It’s intellectually stimulating. It has a reputation for being a subject that smart people do. See the comments on the post What attracts smart and curious young people to physics? But what of career prospects? In an answer to the Quora question What is it like to major in physics? PhD physicist Joshua Parks wrote:.
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Advising flow | Cognito Mentoring
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We’re happy that you’re here, and we hope we can help. You can start by checking out our information wiki. In beta). We’re continually adding content to it, and you can probably find something to get you started. If you’re interested in talking about your specific situation with us, please connect with us. Describing it. We’ll send a brief response. We’d also be happy to receive feedback on our content. Follow me on Twitter. Moving on from Cognito Mentoring. Human capital or signaling? Increasing the poo...
