WBrentWilliams

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by WBrentWilliams 4y ago
I look at this issue and see a market failure. Maybe it is not corporately profitable to provide the pile of services that a population aging in place need (welfare checks, transportation, food, housing...) but it should be possible to buil
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by WBrentWilliams 4y ago
Works better when the hanging '/' is removed. https://www.edutopia.org/textbook-publishing-controversy
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by WBrentWilliams 4y ago
I'm saying that you can be admitted without test scores. You leave money on the table when negotiating the bill when you do not take the test. Opting not to take the test could be an optimum strategy if you already know that the offere
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by WBrentWilliams 4y ago
The English language has a plural "you". The word "you", in this case, means "anyone who applies for admission". I said nothing about increasing or decreasing your chances of admission.
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by WBrentWilliams 4y ago
Cute. Disclosure, I make the data (transcripts, test scores) flow to decision makers as part of my day job at a Big 10 University. We just went "test optional". I view "test optional" as a signaling exercise. In brief, h
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by WBrentWilliams 4y ago
My instruction to teach the generator. Basically: 1. Here is what the generator produces. 2. Here is why you will fail if you rely on it. 3. Assignment: Write a better essay using [these listed points] than the AI. 4. (extra credit) Write a
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by WBrentWilliams 4y ago
Disclaimer: I work for a university where I routinely route testing inputs to systems and people to make admissions decisions. Teach the generator via an in-class markup of the output. Challenge the students to out-produce the AI. There are
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by WBrentWilliams 4y ago
Going meta (note the lack of capitalization and insert your own joke here) I would say that the stress of running comments on your own blog, in any form, costs more most of the time as compared to sending the comments to places like HN, Red
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by WBrentWilliams 4y ago
On paper, SCotUS _can_ be held accountable by the public through their representatives. The process is called impeachment. The house _can_ impeach a sitting Justice, and the Senate _can_ vote to remove them from office. This currently is un
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by WBrentWilliams 5y ago
My careful reading of the facts (disclosure: my daytime gig is making the wheels in a university's student records system whir) * Forgiving student debt is an endless political cycle, promising to piss off anyone who has either paid of
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by WBrentWilliams 5y ago
I think the problem is the word "free" in open source. Along the axis of freedom, this is a strength. You can read the source, figure out how it works, and adapt it to your uses. Or, as my senpai (pity English doesn't have a
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by WBrentWilliams 5y ago
For me, it comes down to the right tool for the job. Excel (strictly speaking, spreadsheets) is very powerful. It is a grid-based visual programing environment that has an interface simple enough to be groked by its original target audience
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by WBrentWilliams 7y ago
An alternate take is that, from a certain point of view: 1: Cancer and heart disease are the leading causes of death in Rich Countries, specifically the US [1] 2: Your chances of dying from either cancer or heart disease, given no other inc
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by WBrentWilliams 9y ago
The important thing to remember is that everything of substance has already been written up and will be read by congress members and their staff. Keeping that in mind, the more important object is to make use of the five minutes of micropho
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by WBrentWilliams 9y ago
You would have a point if # apt-get required registering a credit card number. Last I checked, it does not. True, apt is a pedantically-speaking economic marketplace: a true free market. It is a free market based on ideas, usage, and popula
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by WBrentWilliams 9y ago
As a friendly pile-on, yes, you do have to agree to the terms of the GNU license or cease using the software. That's in black-and-white in the text of the agreement, along with making the source available and releasing changes to the s
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by WBrentWilliams 9y ago
I've been kicking around a business plan idea for about seven years: A software marketplace for items under a GNU license. The key: I neglect to put that fact in the marketing. The full license is posted with the software download, via
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by WBrentWilliams 10y ago
Down here in the ignored bottom of the comments, all I can really say when it comes to juggling family and any other activity (job, interest, hobby...) you either do it or you do not. All I can tell you is the how of what I do. I set a goal
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by WBrentWilliams 10y ago
Looking this over, I'd say that the controlled environment had more to do with the reported weight loss than the diet. Specifically, the observation that the people in the study lost weight on the baseline diet before going on the carb
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by WBrentWilliams 11y ago
That precisely illustrates my point. See also, Agile as it is currently practiced in many companies. Politics, in any form, is a very rough game.
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by WBrentWilliams 11y ago
Historically, worker-owned cooperatives did get much mention. The ideal of early labor organization was that the workers should own the means of production. This was exactly why early labor disputes were so bloody: the owners of the factori
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by WBrentWilliams 11y ago
If all the students do is take this "bootcamp", then yes, they will be short-changed. However, if these students already understand that they need the four-year BA/BS certification to get past HR and are either getting that e
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by WBrentWilliams 11y ago
I would hope that would be the ultimate goal. However, that might not be possible without at least some VBA work. Experimentation will have to be undertaken. The real question is how do you sell the ClojureScript "macro" to an end
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by WBrentWilliams 11y ago
I'll leave the article as-is. This isn't the first article to grace HN that stated that Japanese companies tend to be slow adopters. What I want to know is why the highlight on human traffic signalers as an indicator of how "
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by WBrentWilliams 11y ago
I go a step farther. In my state, there is no requirement to join a party to vote in the primaries. Instead, you simply pick a party for which to vote. I believe the only rational choice is to say "Give me one ballot for each party,&qu
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by WBrentWilliams 11y ago
Interesting reading. I think the intellectual mistake the author made is in thinking that one's political dogma (and therefore party affiliation) should not change over time because the party does not change over time. That is, the ide
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by WBrentWilliams 11y ago
Let me answer that with a statement and an anecdote. The statement: The proportion of costs I outlined, from my point of view, have always been true. I finished my first degree in 1997. The anecdote: All the professors in my computer scienc
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by WBrentWilliams 11y ago
I like the way that these articles and the comments ignore the elephant in the room: The cost of living while attending college. Here is a data point for my local State University. I happen to work there, so I can verify that these numbers
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by WBrentWilliams 11y ago
I think the whole problem with the smoking debate is that neither side (pro and anti) are willing to embrace harm reduction, even though the market has introduced many methods to use nicotine and/or tobacco that, to one degree or anoth
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by WBrentWilliams 12y ago
Very true and so very close to what I think is Microsoft's true motivation: Office. Viewed through the prism that Office is Microsoft's cash cow and the criticism that the Office version available online in browser is limited, lik

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