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by 0815test 8y ago
> Enrollment in AP Statistics, which requires only Algebra II as a prerequisite, has surged nearly 50 percent." Probably has a lot to do with the intro-to-stats stuff that they introduced to the math curriculum as part of this reshu
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by 0815test 8y ago
> We all know that BASIC is a load of rubbish. I don't think this is right - BASIC was quite well designed considering these machines' capabilities and projected use. The model of a BASIC-powered home computer was essentially
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by 0815test 8y ago
Yes, but what US schools call "pre-algebra" is largely review of earlier material, with a few random concepts tacked on such as how to factor natural numbers. It's nothing like the comprehensive introduction to algebraic t
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by 0815test 8y ago
You really think you can tell who the "outstanding rockstars" of your country are going to be from an 8th-grade Math class? I mean, if we were teaching stuff like "data science" and JavaScript coding in elementary sch
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by 0815test 8y ago
From your link, knowledge of the standard algorithm for addition/subtraction is only requested by Grade 4, and for multiplication by Grade 5. So the Common Core standard is basically relying on a hidden assumption that students can
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by 0815test 8y ago
Very nice article, but I'd say that this horse has left the barn a long time ago. "Responsive" web technologies in general make it so that the website owner can discover things about the client that they arguably shouldn&#x27
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by 0815test 8y ago
If you're going to run an interpreter as a unikernel, arguably you should pick a typed assembly language and use that to enforce desirable properties about the assemblies you're running (e.g. protection domains). FORTH doesn&#x27
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by 0815test 8y ago
It's a relative comparison. Kids are far better at memorizing stuff and dealing with things that have been made "concrete" to them, compared to abstract thinking - because effective abstraction requires a sort of overall
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by 0815test 8y ago
> If they cannot then it is not the internet. It's more akin to a 'web' only service. CGNAT means that the same is true of "mobile" connections in general, so it's not like Warp is changing anything for the
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by 0815test 8y ago
And rdtsc is entirely right about that. The Common Core math curriculum has been taken by many self-described "math teachers" and "educators" as an opportunity to just not teach the effective algorithms for doing arith
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by 0815test 8y ago
I'm not seeing any advocacy of memorization? The only thing you might have to memorize, out of what parent listed, is the algorithms for doing written out arithmetic; and that too is in fact an exercise in mathematical thinking. After
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by 0815test 8y ago
The general pattern is that big markets create big players, but also increase the amount of "effective" diversity and competition at the local level. The smaller automakers of the 1950s and 1960s were essentially monopolies in
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by 0815test 8y ago
> A computer is not something that gives holy orders. Unless it's running HolyC and TempleOS, of course! Rust and RedoxOS may be the best human-made solutions, but a computer with TempleOS is the only true "ordinateur",
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by 0815test 8y ago
Sure, but what do they do in grade 4 and 5, after basic arithmetic and fractions? I'd be surprised if the answer didn't involve quite a bit of proto-algebraic "word problems" of the sort described in my comment, and in t
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by 0815test 8y ago
> What do you do between doing your times tables and fractions in maybe 3rd or 4th grade and 9th grade? Geometry? Other countries do a sort of "pre-algebra", mostly focusing on non-trivial word problems which are then solved by
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by 0815test 8y ago
> wish it was easy for people in rich countries to buy someone a cow, change the roof, pay for a kid's school etc etc. GiveDirectly does something very much like that. It's not quite a one-to-one link (there is a bit of planni
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by 0815test 8y ago
They don't obey robots.txt files posted after-the-fact by domain hoarders that have zilch to do with the original content . This is entirely proper on their part.
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by 0815test 8y ago
To be fair, Google does allow access to your own data via Google Takeout.
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by 0815test 8y ago
That's too bad. Needs more HolyC! (Rust would also do, in a pinch.)
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by 0815test 8y ago
> you're always free not to use that service Unless that service has monopoly power. SGX makes it far too easy for an entity to abuse monopoly power, by directly turning it into power over what their customers have to run. This i
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by 0815test 8y ago
> Because society as a whole hasn't spent hundreds of years literally enslaving short people Actually, they have done exactly that. For many centuries before appropriate nutrition became essentially ubiquitous, there was indeed a h
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by 0815test 8y ago
SGX always involved trusting Intel. It was Intel basically telling a third party "yup, this machine is running the binary code you expect it to be running". Which is exactly why it's nefarious, of course - a third-party has
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by 0815test 8y ago
> Having the zombie company isn’t inefficient. Yes, it is. If the price drops, it becomes that much more feasible for an outsider to rescue it with a takeover bid - either way, the company will surely be viable as a going concern. You
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by 0815test 8y ago
> Intel is not in the business of making secure cryptoprocessors like the ones used in payment cards and SIMs They have entered a rather comparable space with stuff like TPM and SGX (and are largely using it for nefarious, consumer-hos
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by 0815test 8y ago
Why undocumented? Because Intel is not RISC-V or even Arm. Do you expect other chip makers to document every internal detail of their chips? And yes, as chips grow in internal complexity, bugs like this one become inevitable - so perhaps w
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by 0815test 8y ago
Why would you assume that? I think he's just looking for a physical copy. Given what sibling comment says, I assume it was published on DVD at some point.
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by 0815test 8y ago
It's a lot better than the status quo. What's easier for the teacher, motivating a student during practice or getting them to pay attention to the lecture?
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by 0815test 8y ago
True to some extent of course, but HD content seems to be better protected. Then again, HD video content also takes up large amounts of bandwidth and storage space (especially with the newer features that are being added over time), which
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by 0815test 8y ago
Exactly. Or, to phrase it a bit differently: "Black cat, white cat, as long as it catches mice it's a good cat."
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by 0815test 8y ago
> universal healthcare, higher pay, etc. This is what's technically known as "socialism with Scandinavian characteristics".

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