For a student with a strong math/science background, MATLAB might be useful to learn especially if he decides to pursue engineering. It helps you to learn fundamental programming (at least procedural programming) concepts while not requiring too much time to get up an running. The symbolic toolbox along with more traditional capabilities will also give him a massive leg up in doing assignments and projects because he can focus on learning concepts in most of his classes rather than executing procedural mathematical techniques (matrix operations and PDEs, I am looking at you...).
P.S. I know a TI-xx can do some of this, but calculators are the slide rules of the 21st century...

I think the kid would be better off learning touchscreen typing...

You missed the implication that learning to think would be a better use of the kid's summer than learning ho to type even though the latter helps...

Great until he moves to Europe :S ... Rediscovering hunt and peck is painfully slow :/

This is silly... It's like a car mechanic who will not diagnose your problem and starts talking about his skills and expertise. Most places give you a free quote to have you as a customer. Lawyers and doctors charge for the first consult too and you could take that approach by *BEING* a consultant rather than interviewing for a job. Or you could tell the interviewer to fuck off as opposed to taking your hour of consulting (worth $100 or so for a decently salaried position) and considering that an investment into your job hunt. Of course, if you are looking for a job, your time is probably worth far less to you, so make a grown up judgement call as to whether the odds of getting a job are worth taking the insurmountable risk of *gasp* working for free *gasp*!

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I was able to calculate the noise from the jet *inside the cabin* without so much as a calculator...

Makes sense...right handed folks with iPhones trying to call for help => 'death grip'

Simple answer: No one (probably not even you) expects them to be 100% correct*. If I am forcibly isolated and "helped" because their classifier uses 16 bit inputs from the temperature sensor and not 32, I wouldn't accept the shitty quality of life that I expect to have because my gait makes me fall more than 3 std. deviations outside the defined "average human being".

Paranoid corollary: By defining what is "not criminally psychotic", we are fundamentally influencing opportunities for reproduction. Thereby, the fitness function involved in natural evolution has an additional term introduced by those who decide what constitutes "normal". This leads to a severe risk of targeting a minority population with certain quirks as "criminally psychotic" and therefore 'cleansing' the population of this minority.

Due to the above arguments, I would say that even if you gave the "chosen ones" the best possible quality of life, this would have unforeseen effects of human evolution and I do not want to risk that. I agree that life is unfair, but being born with a propensity for crime is like having a handicap. I know this is insensitive, but having to give people in wheelchairs the same opportunities for employment possibly lowers overall productivity, but that is what I treasure in society - knowing that losing my legs tomorrow does not immediately turn my life into a total bag of shit - these rules would make my life suck a little bit lesser than it otherwise would.

* The criteria for "criminally psychotic" would be generated by psychologists (or other humans) or statistically which have the weaknesses of subjectivity and uncertainty respectively. Neither can be 100% sure of anything. Throw in the fact that we have no fucking idea whatsoever how many people with "criminal psychosis" actually commit crimes and I am really unnerved by Pre-crime detection.

Arguments based on culpability for your thoughts and human profiling are wonderfully described in almost every dystopian novel - I believe the required reading for your geek card (at least 1984 and Brave New World) ought to cover these arguments.

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Why would you see Jimmy about that? I recommend you see Similing Bob or JG Wentworth about your problems.

*rimshot*

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If your going too be pedantic, better you are in right!

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/couple
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/couple

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If the same kind of people went to both, the former might be better for some jobs. On the other hand, smart and capable students typically tend to favour 4yr programs which means you are more likely to find better talent coming out of a 4yr program.

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Looks like he was paying for a service. I don't see how this is any different from Homeopathy or Scientology...

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