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by angdis 11y ago
I really don't believe that anyone has "control" of our public schools-- unless their intent is to simply run them into the ground by failure.
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by angdis 11y ago
Yes, I agree. There's another nuanced advantage to this kind of tool, however: the ability to perform "reproducible" analysis. With an excel spreadsheet, the person doing the analysis typically pulls in some data (usually by
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by angdis 11y ago
I like! One thing that I am hoping for however is some kind of notebook-like interface for doing small, ad-hoc data analysis projects. This looks fairly close to that. Mathematica pioneered "the computational notebook" concept, an
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by angdis 11y ago
I've looked at some recent high school algebra textbooks. What a disaster. These books are literally written by committee, the "author's" page in the front has a dozen headshots complete with bios. The content inside the
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by angdis 11y ago
Good for Apple! Its about time the big carriers got their comeuppance. We come some way since the days when the business model of carriers was little more than $5 ringtones, un-installable crapware, and nickle-diming every feature. There is
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by angdis 11y ago
While those are all "text posting on the internet", they're VERY distinct forms of text. He certainly has a deep understanding for writing and how writing can work on the internet. More power to him !
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by angdis 11y ago
Yep, and I would go further and say that interviewing is something which has NOT been (and may never be) objectively "figured out" even though industrial psychologists have floundered for decades on how to best evaluate candidates
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by angdis 11y ago
Why can't folks take a joke anymore?
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by angdis 11y ago
I am sure it was a blast, but it was NOT done "for fun" to amuse the engineering staff. Nor is it an effort at "home automation". This is part of a marketing campaign not unlike the office depot "easy" button,
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by angdis 11y ago
Indeed, all you have to do is to read up on who's murdering who. Drugs and violence are intimately tied together at least in the USA. The laws are set-up to punish drug offenders based on the quantity of drugs in one's possession.
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by angdis 11y ago
I think that technical hiring managers tend to get obsessed with finding the "ultimate" interview question as a short-cut for evaluating candidates. The problem is that such a question doesn't exist, or rather, that it may v
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by angdis 11y ago
Yes, in the short-term, being up written up in the NY times for what they are is the best way to deal with most egregious unethical behavior from scum like Turing Pharmaceuticals. It will be interesting to see if the prices goes back down a
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by angdis 11y ago
Maybe that's the best thing that ever happened to him? If he had gone to Harvard, he could very well have ended up as a well-paid, well-connected cog in a huge corporation. Whatever, I find it useless to think about what 1-in-a-billion
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by angdis 11y ago
Actually, there are _very_ significant and growing manufacturing operations in Mexico for automotive and electronics.
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by angdis 11y ago
If the discussion is about gaining an increasing measure of understanding and an ability to control biological systems for particular purposes, sure, that certainly makes sense. And, yes, manufacturing when you look at it closely is really
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by angdis 11y ago
Yeah, they brush it off as a minor issue, and just conclude Google can handle it! This sentence makes me dismiss the entire article: "The trading model and real time issues are just technical problems. Google is smart enough to solve t
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by angdis 11y ago
That actually sounds like very interesting fodder for a hit movie.
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by angdis 11y ago
Stock markets go up and down, so what? Governments can only do so much to keep the economy positive. The real problem with China is repression of its citizens and the complete lack of protections and "safety nets" that is taken fo
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by angdis 11y ago
It is a relatively novel method for transmitting signals through the body with applications to body sensors, medical devices and ubiquitous computing. People have gotten PHD's on a lot less. Who are you to say it isn't worthy?
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by angdis 11y ago
Yes, this is definitely near-field stuff. It can also be done with electric potential!
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by angdis 11y ago
No, not actually. I only used the word "trick" because you did. There are NO TRICKS in math. If a practitioner uses the word "trick" its because he's being facetious or joking. The algebraic manipulations which you
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by angdis 11y ago
Those "integration tricks" are introducing you to some of the most basic fundamentals of mathematical thought. Pay attention, kid, you'll have a lot harder time picking up maths in the future if you let it slip now.
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by angdis 11y ago
It is depressing because it makes dubious assumptions about what is valuable-- as though not getting into MIT or Stanford means "failure". Achievement does NOT necessarily require playing a nasty, zero-sum competitive game.
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by angdis 11y ago
OK, very nice, but can someone explain the gloves ???
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by angdis 11y ago
I am sure that extraordinarily dedicated people can educate themselves in a library or using internet resources as well as in a university, Abe Lincoln did it, right? But for the vast majority of young folks that just isn't going to fl
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by angdis 11y ago
Of course :) I agree that employability is something the students, parents and society _want_ after college. But look at it this way, if a student decides to major in philosophy, whose fault is it if the student graduates and ends up as a a
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by angdis 11y ago
If that's really the case, then perhaps universities should just dump all their humanities departments, fire the faculty, and re-purpose the buildings, along with any other department that doesn't produce "outcomes". And
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by angdis 11y ago
Well, yes, they did lie to you (a little bit). If you really _just_ want "a good job" there are easier ways to do it than going to a 4 year university. I think that students who major in something like philosophy or literature are
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by angdis 11y ago
Another facet of this problem is misaligned expectations about the PURPOSE of a degree. There seems to be an underlying assumption here that a university degree is nothing other than "job training". Is a university degree basicall
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by angdis 11y ago
Obviously, I used emotional hyperbolic language and I admit it. There's no way I (or any observer after the fact) can definitively tell if any one person is guilty or not, let alone make a factual statement about many people. HOWEVER,

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