SamBam

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by SamBam 4y ago
It's a good question, and I honestly think that SimTable has struggled with that. From a playing perspective, or educational perspective, the sand is great. What happens with wildfires if we make the mountain this big? What happens t
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by SamBam 4y ago
Prions are spread by eating (or otherwise becoming infected with) prions, not by eating something that is you, or is similar to you. There's no reason why a lab-grown me-burger would have prions in it. Or, at least, it's no more l
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by SamBam 4y ago
I always just assumed it was simply because it was a last-ditch effort. But I just Googled it, and someone on Reddit pointed out: "Hail Mary full of Grace." Groan... Actually makes me like the book a little less than I already d
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by SamBam 4y ago
I used to write agent-based simulations for science education, and one of the main libraries was AgentScript, which I believe is now SimTable [1]. They had developed their own sand table with an agent-based model running on top, and used it
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by SamBam 4y ago
Exactly, that was my take-away. You don't need to think of the Sum function as a for-loop every time you use Sum, but it certainly helps explain it to a programmer who doesn't have a sense of what Sum is, but knows what a for-loop
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by SamBam 4y ago
Very cool! Very elegant, I like the style, and I like how intuitive it is to play, and yet gets tricky in some of the later levels are. I'm currently on level 12 with perfect stars. To me the order of the levels doesn't quite alwa
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by SamBam 4y ago
Undated, but I think this is at least (2016). Edit: D'oh, is dated, apologies. In any case, should have date in HN title.
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by SamBam 4y ago
Are all the horizontal and vertical elements near your picture level? i.e. the ceiling (often not level) the floor (ditto), the door frames, etc. If those aren't then your "level" picture will look uneven.
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by SamBam 4y ago
I would assume that these can still be defeated by producing output and then looking at the output and seeing if it appears to violate policies. The engine that looks at the output doesn't need to have been influenced by any prompts. I
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by SamBam 4y ago
ChatGPT has no notion of truth or lying, it produces Bullshit, which simply means strings of words that look at the surface level to be similar to other text would be expected to say.
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by SamBam 4y ago
I'm so confused. GP was talking about old pull tabs, and showed them in a video. You said "I don't think that video is correct." The video does inded show old pull tabs. What's not "correct" about it?
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by SamBam 4y ago
> [Fifth grade classmate] Did you watch the new Wednesday episode yesterday? > [My kid] I could only catch the last half hour, it took a little longer than I thought to solder all the components on the TV's motherboard before I c
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by SamBam 4y ago
I think this is truer and truer. Part of the issue is our built-in bias towards thinking of other Reddit users (and HN and whoever) as people just like ourselves. That means we give undue weight to their recommendations. I definitely find m
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by SamBam 4y ago
I think GP was referring to an IRL meeting.
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by SamBam 4y ago
What's not correct about it?
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by SamBam 4y ago
I remember grownups telling me how terrible the change was, because any dust on the tab now flipped downward and fell into the can, whereas before it was pulled away. I was never that concerned myself.
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by SamBam 4y ago
Regardless of Eastern bloc vs West, or anywhere else, I think the biggest issue might simply be era. Parents in the States were much more permissive in the 80s, and to a certain extent the 90s. That started to change in the 2000s, with far
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by SamBam 4y ago
It was well done. I put in the bare minimum of information > Paste the Job Description: Do the STEM stuff > Paste your Resume: * Worked with kids, * Know some STEM and it spat out a cover letter that filled in all the unsaid details,
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by SamBam 4y ago
This is the answer that is always trotted out, but it's unclear whether there is any truth to it being the reason bloggers actually add the stories. Heck, if that were the reason they wouldn't need three pages of content they coul
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by SamBam 4y ago
It's not PR branding, cities actually spend time and energy and money actually making streets "worse" for cars. A common technique, for instance, is to alternate the side that cars are parked on. This creates a sinuous road w
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by SamBam 4y ago
> All drivers in the whole neighborhood understood this as normal. But the fact remains that kids get hit in suburbs more often. We feel like drivers in suburbia understand this, but the roads are actually designed to encourage speed, an
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by SamBam 4y ago
To be clear, in the city kids don't play literally in the streets. They're on the sidewalks and playgrounds. It's the fact that suburban kids are often in the actual street that is part of the problem, and the fact that the s
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by SamBam 4y ago
> and low traffic streets that are safe for kids to play around Actually, suburban streets are significantly more dangerous than urban streets, in terms of number of children killed, as a fraction of both population and miles driven. &gt
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by SamBam 4y ago
Isaac Asimov's The Last Question is an excellent short story that explores whether future civilizations will ever be able to reverse entropy. [1] Also, Ten Chiang's Exhalation is another short story about trying to stave off
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by SamBam 4y ago
"Ignition" was as much a marketing term as anything. It relied on a very specific accounting of energy-in vs energy-out, which no one doubted could be done. The fact is that they used 50 kWh of energy and produced 0.7 kWh of energ
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by SamBam 4y ago
Digital natives have more and more been shown to be digital illiterates. And I say this with compassion as a STEM teacher who thinks kids are great and smart in many, many ways, just not digitally. Besides the much-talked about problems wit
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by SamBam 4y ago
I mean, it's pretty standard to sort data. The original was sorted based on the change in number of degrees awarded. With that sorting you can see instantly whether, say, Gender Studies or Chemistry gained more students. The sort-by-fi
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by SamBam 4y ago
Starches thicken sauce in a way that's quite different from reducing. Most Italian sauces end up adding some of the pasta water back in at the end. This is starchy water which has two purposes: both to loosen (thin) the sauce, making
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by SamBam 4y ago
You still have to import most of them.
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by SamBam 4y ago
I don't think OP was referring to jarred sauces, rather home-made sauces made using canned (tinned) tomatoes, as opposed to fresh. The majority of Italian tomato-based sauces call for canned tomatoes.

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