Today's college students don't read XKCD. The target audience, as this comic demonstrates, is the people who were taking calculus in college in 2007, for whom XKCD remains a mnemonic callback to the last time they were able to believe that their above-average intellects would lead to the fulfillment of their material dreams. Reading it conjures up again the sense of having potential.
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2652 Self-deprecation can't last forever; at some point you have to actually be good at your job
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2651 It's hard to be as smart as Randall, because you become aware of so many conflicting threats and demands you have to keep in bala...
Remember learning how to harness these sophisticated models, before you realized that there's a software package that does it all for you and requires no brainpower
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