SiVal

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by SiVal 16y ago
Graham cares about having a better programming language, but he doesn't really care enough to do what it takes to make it happen. (He has no obligation to do so, of course.) Practical programming languages these days aren't just ways of exp
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by SiVal 16y ago
Every time a professor complained, "you students worry too much about grades and not enough about learning," I wanted to respond, "and you teachers worry too much about tenure and not enough about teaching." Of course I never actually said
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by SiVal 16y ago
In fact I pay very close attention to what teachers actually do in classrooms, to the extent that I've traveled to several East Asian countries to observe how they teach with my own eyes and read the academic studies contrasting their appro
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by SiVal 16y ago
Everyday Mathematics, a "reform math" curriculum, is taking California by storm. You should check out a speech on reform math by Democratic Senator Robert Byrd expressing his incredulity at what passes for math instruction today. Byrd calls
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by SiVal 16y ago
"Evidence suggests - and my experience agrees - that correctly teaching process creates the ground-work for moving to understanding." Yes, but this discussion can't really be understood without understanding what it is that the US education
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by SiVal 16y ago
Because of the selection process. If you are trying to make a judgment about an entire population based on a small sample, the chance of getting a non-representative sample is already high. If the sample is selected on the basis of what sti
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by SiVal 16y ago
Yes, and I wasn't talking about one's income, but success at one's "work". The "achievements you can be proud of" will mostly be in the area of what you "do" since most achievements you can be proud of take a great deal of time and, as you
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by SiVal 16y ago
Well said, neilk. I always have mixed feelings when reading about the wisdom of people who are dying. I don't doubt that they feel the way they say they feel at that point, but are their judgments relevant to how they WOULD HAVE felt for ye
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by SiVal 16y ago
I meant to add "in the private sector." It's a great way to turn a private company into a pseudo-gov't bureau.
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by SiVal 16y ago
The British FirstGroup PLC owns Laidlaw Int'l which owns Greyhound. FirstGroup, with the tag line "Transforming Travel", seems to see this relic of America's past as its ticket to Britain's future and features it prominently on FirstGroup's
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by SiVal 16y ago
Great. Page after page of detailed information, a request that you sign in for more info, specific info about the delivery day for people in your zip code is provided, and near the bottom of one of the linked-to pages it finally mentions of
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by SiVal 16y ago
I'm not interested in your bonus points, but in the correct answer. I believe this is it: Large, liquid markets reduce economic friction. They make an economy larger, more diverse, and more adaptable. The low friction allows small changes i
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by SiVal 16y ago
Another fallacy is that smart people are more likely to be found behind profanity-laced rants. In my experience, people resort to vulgarity as a gimmick intended to convey a message that isn't adequately conveyed by their content itself. Th