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by 7402 2y ago
I think a course like that would need to be called something like “Mathematics Appreciation,” in analogy to “Music Appreciation.” I would never hire someone whose only music education was the latter to actually play in a band or write a mov
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Some source information about the group that has claimed responsibility: "A group known as SN_Blackmeta claimed responsibility for the attack, with a confusing antisemitic message that the archive “belongs to the USA” as if it were a g
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by 7402 2y ago
I think it's poor practice for the seller to advertise those simply as a "Walkie Talkie," as that Amazon link does, without making it clear that it is an amateur radio transceiver that requires a license with an FCC-issued ca
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Send Messages via Satellite on iPhone or Pixel(theverge.com)
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by 7402 2y ago
Rule of thumb for my college classes was 3 hours of outside work for every hour in class. So 3 hours of lecture per week = 9 hours of problem sets, reading, etc. That was 50 years ago.
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by 7402 2y ago
Old time ham radio operators know this one. Answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_signal
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by 7402 2y ago
> your free time has a higher dollar-per-hour value than your work time This doesn't seem right to me. I think it would only apply to someone who felt comfortable with the level and stability of their income. When I was self-employe
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by 7402 2y ago
Classic New Yorker cartoon: https://condenaststore.com/featured/if-my-mother-and-father-...
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by 7402 2y ago
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery” ― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield https:/&#x2
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ARRL IT Security Incident – $1M ransom(arrl.org)
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Disillusionment with Climate Models(pubs.aip.org)
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A Profane Joke on Twitter Spawned a Legal Army(nytimes.com)
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by 7402 2y ago
I was in elementary school in the early 1960s. We had New Math. We learned set theory and how to do arithmetic in any base from 2 to 10. It was fun for a budding math geek. However I kept failing miserably at the tests of memorization of th
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Higher Education Needs More Socrates and Plato(nytimes.com)
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> the only way a messanger is wrong is if they send the wrong message. Well, if a messenger carries a message that he or she knows or should know is incorrect, illegal, or lacks crucial context or qualification, there's a problem th
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by 7402 2y ago
Sure, it's wrong to shoot the messenger. But sometimes the messenger is wrong . I think that real solutions to complex problems only arise from analysis and thinking carefully. They don't come from application of simple heurist
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How the SAT Changed My Life(nytimes.com)
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by 7402 3y ago
Education is about helping students know more about a subject after they take a class than before. Activism is about convincing others of something, or, failing that, to punish them. Is it proper for an atheist to be able to earn an "A
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by 7402 3y ago
Standard kit is a $15 RFID blocker box from Amazon, to keep near front door and put car keys in.
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Time to retire the term 'renewable energy' from discussion and policy directives(judithcurry.com)
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I think the allies (largely the US) were able to effect massive cultural changes in Japan and Germany after WWII from aggressive, totalitarian, racist societies committed to military victory by any means necessary to relatively peaceful, ev
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by 7402 3y ago
Fair enough. I'm sorry if that is the way things are, and I fully accept how out-of-date my viewpoint may be. It seems to me there's a problem any time the focus on just "the degree" as a goal, as opposed to what lies be
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by 7402 3y ago
This is utter and complete nonsense. There was no Women's Studies at Harvard until 1977. [0] And no women received a Harvard undergraduate degree until 1963; before then Harvard College was all male, although there were shared classes
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by 7402 3y ago
I think this is a category error. A vocational school ideally provides training in skills that can lead to direct employment in that area. A college ideally provides greater understanding of the world, though general study in many areas, co
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by 7402 3y ago
Yeah, right. When _I_ went to Harvard (of all places!), it was all about learning Physics (in my case) and being with other people who cared _deeply_ about what _they_ were studying. Everyone I knew there regarded all the final club /
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by 7402 3y ago
I was taught about significant digits in Junior High School science classes. (in a public school in US, late 1960s.) Answers were marked wrong if they had too many digits that weren't significant. Is this no longer taught in school?
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High-tech shirt helps deaf and hard-of-hearing people enjoy opera(washingtonpost.com)
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ARRL hails FCC action to remove symbol rate restrictions(arrl.org)
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Laser Guided Hawks to Scare Away Pests(cafalconry.com)
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by 7402 3y ago
It is as foolish to say you shouldn't hire people from Ivy League schools as it is to say that you should hire people from Ivy League schools. How about looking at applicants as individuals instead of stereotypes? Here's a bette

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