Make a Great Design - by Apple

Is there such a thing as being too smart for your own good?

Are society and organizations designed to work best for the mediocre? Are there any studies that correlate increasing IQ with better "life results", or do chances of "success"  worsen with increasing IQ (say beyond 130 or so)?

I have just finished high school. How do I build my profile to get into Harvard for an MBA, around 10 years from today?

HBS doesn't care about you. They care about building their brand. They want future leaders. The best way to get in is to dominate whatever field it is that you're passionate about. 

Barring that, they play the prestige game. It's a signaling mechanism for future success. HBS sources elite candidates with sterling resumes as part of their class, and they want to put yet another brand name on their resume. Their brand name. That way they can claim you as one of their successes. So your goal for the next 5-6 years should be to work for the right prestigious companies to convey that signal to them.

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Concept of Programming Languages by Robert W. Sebesta Answer

Review Questions

1. What are the three primary uses of symbolic logic in 

formal logic ?

to express propositions, to express the relationships between propositions, and to
describe how new propositions can be inferred from other propositions that
are assumed to be true.

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Review Questions

1. Define functional form, simple list, bound variable and referential transparency.

Functional form : one that either takes one or more functions as parameters or yields a function as its result. 

Simple list : A list that does not include sublist.
Bound variable : A bound variable is a variable which never changes in the expression after being bound to an actual parameter value at the time evaluation of the lambda expressions begin. 

Referential transparency : A state where execution of function always produces the same result when given the same parameters.

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Review Questions

1. Define exception, exception handler, raising an exception, disabling an exception, continuation, finalization, and built-in exception.

Exception : any unusual event, erroneous or not, that is detectable by either hardware or software and that may require special processing.

Exception handler : a code unit which processes an exception.

Raising an exception : When a event associated with an exception occurs

Disabling an exception : Ignoring a certain hardware-detectable exceptions.

Continuation : Control transfer to somewhere in the program outside of the handler code or program might terminate .

Finalization : ability to complete some computation regardless of how subprogram execution terminates.

Built-in exception : Exception that is not made by the user, but rather comes as default.

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Review Questions

1. What are the three possible levels of concurrency in programs ?

Instruction level, Statement level, and Unit level