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by alimw 9y ago
The course is great, but nothing I learned there about the nature of money seems to apply to cryptocurrencies (about which admittedly I know very little). Could that be your point? That bitcoin only looks like money if you don't unders
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by alimw 9y ago
More Maths Games We have Qwirkle and City of Zombies in the classroom. I hate them :) mainly because I am rubbish at them.
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by alimw 9y ago
I haven't read it closely, but it looks to me as if the calculation estimates the expected number of counterexamples rather than the "measure" of them (however you've chosen to define that).
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by alimw 9y ago
It's probably not something I should advertise, but a lot of my maths I learned from Wikipedia.
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by alimw 9y ago
> Power law indicates an exponential distribution This sounds wrong. One is invariant under scaling, the other under translation.
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by alimw 9y ago
Physicists in particular have a reputation for over using the assumption of a power law! http://bactra.org/weblog/491.html
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by alimw 9y ago
Can you say more about the connection you make?
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by alimw 9y ago
Where I did my undergraduate degree they squared the marks scored for each question before adding them up! Slow but accurate was an advantage.
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by alimw 9y ago
Previous discussion of the associated paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14658832
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by alimw 9y ago
I don't see it. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=amazonian+hunter-gatherer+...
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by alimw 9y ago
Have you tried reading the articles linked to on this page? http://www.bris.ac.uk/arts/research/projects/homotopy-type-t...
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by alimw 9y ago
So this looks interesting, but my first thought is how can a conserved quantity like water model something like money that is created and destroyed?
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by alimw 9y ago
Maybe this one? https://www.ponylang.org/media/papers/opsla237-clebsch.pdf
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by alimw 9y ago
> Wings work for what we want them to do, and have since they were first tried. Pretty sure people have been messing with wings for centuries longer than they have worked.
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by alimw 9y ago
Sheldon Axler, Linear Algebra Done Right. There are now videos! http://www.linear.axler.net/LADRvideos.html
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by alimw 9y ago
"They only have one hole apiece" is not the joke! rather the awkward explanation. I think the lol is at least misplaced here
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by alimw 9y ago
These 'solutions' won't do much to slow the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria unless everyone does the same.
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by alimw 9y ago
Does that still work?
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by alimw 9y ago
I never much appreciated Shakespeare at school. Maybe I was just too young; I'm glad I took another look in later life.
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by alimw 10y ago
What country? In the UK the advice for Boston is to use tap water only if it's been boiled and cooled.
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by alimw 10y ago
Inspiring.
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by alimw 10y ago
> My time is split between finishing my novel, learning German, and trying to catch up on tech that came out while I was writing. Thanks for sharing!
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by alimw 10y ago
It is testament to Trump's art that you have forgotten the term "fake news" was more specific when it first appeared.
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by alimw 10y ago
Not sure what point you'd like to make with those statistics. That a lot of books are written? Probably more interesting to a prospective author would be statistics on how many of them are read.
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by alimw 10y ago
I think it is disgusting that you throw around accusations of sexism without foundation. I acknowledged ideas that children tend to have concerning sexual identity (as the designer of Ellie will have done, as anybody who wishes to address
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by alimw 10y ago
I don't know who I've offended but I hope it wasn't the developers. I genuinely think this is very cool, and if I can get my boss on board I will try using it in my class.
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by alimw 10y ago
It's got some interesting design decisions for what's potentially a cool classroom tool. If it appeals to girls that's great, but I'd have to hope it wouldn't actually repel the boys.
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by alimw 10y ago
If it needs more than one point to rank at all, how does a new submission come in?
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by alimw 10y ago
Suddenly all these people communicating among themselves in a strange language that sounds like nonsense to me. Must be what it feels like getting old.
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by alimw 10y ago
If you scroll down a bit further, you should find that both your points are addressed in the second set of figures. US tax rates looking even lower there.

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