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by aoki 1y ago
> His educational background includes a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Villanova University Huh. Career counselors take note, new path opened up.
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by aoki 1y ago
She says she’s 50. I think the “young” vibe comes from the way she talks about experiences and what is important, because it doesn’t read like she had kids.
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by aoki 1y ago
Pell grants
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by aoki 1y ago
IIRC to collect Pell you have to be enrolled past the withdrawal deadline. The CCs are keeping the disbursement fraud rate low by filtering initial admissions (they are estimating >30% fraudulent applications) and then kicking out bots b
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by aoki 1y ago
This is not cheating at all. Professors often tell serious students to read multiple textbooks in parallel to see different pedagogical presentations of the same material. (In the US, syllabi often list “recommended” texts as well as “requi
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by aoki 1y ago
No, they bucket Vygotsky into “continental philosophy teaching methods” (see first paragraph), and dismiss “continental philosophy” as meaningless word play (see last paragraph). The first point is false even if you accept the second point.
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by aoki 1y ago
Vygotsky’s Ph.D. was in psychology, from a psychology institute, and he worked professionally as a PI in experimental developmental psychology. Indeed, one of the themes of his work was to try to find a scientific basis for the study of cog
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by aoki 1y ago
In the fine tradition of Nachos and Pintos! (Still waiting on Burritos - which would obviously have to be based on functional programming principles - and Churros.)
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by aoki 1y ago
> What’s really needed is more story-focused content between basic number sense and undergraduate level math. YouTube channels like Numberphile (particularly Tadashi Tokieda’s episodes that explore curious toys) are a fantastic invitatio
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by aoki 1y ago
Japan’s dream: robot caretaking that becomes cheaper (including its inputs, like food for the human) at an even faster rate.
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by aoki 1y ago
I mean, we literally just saw what happened at JHU when their USAID funding vanished. Everybody on that soft money got laid off. That’s what makes stands like this hard for admin: you’re risking massive layoffs in the programs that are ofte
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by aoki 1y ago
Valid, my younger kid forgets a lot of stuff without that kind of reinforcement.
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by aoki 1y ago
This shows as “Borrow Unavailable” for me. The Internet Archive lost a court case against the publishers, so many books (including all books that are still available for sale) have been (or are being) soft-removed :-/
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by aoki 1y ago
Honestly I’d do the BA. Later he’ll have memories of silly characters, funny pictures with hidden cultural references, and bad jokes, not just grinding XP. We still refer to Grogg and Captain Kraken.
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by aoki 1y ago
In the US, the standard course sequence (e.g. at a good state university) is two years of calculus, diffeqs, and linear algebra (all taught as on-paper computation) concurrently with a course in discrete mathematics. The discrete mathematic
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by aoki 1y ago
It’s less than ideal if you do want to be a technical IC later as it’s typically a multi-year technical career gap. I never saw another ex-(US-)officer SWE/SEM appear in the veterans@google ERG. And tbh I didn’t really count either bec
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by aoki 2y ago
I suppose they’ve been watching the Australian “everything here will kill you” meme and taking notes. Moose, geese, land planaria, Albertans…
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by aoki 2y ago
TIL there are land planaria, what a pain that must be: “kill them with salt, vinegar, or neem oil, then dispose of them in a sealed container…avoiding any method that involves cutting the worms, as these segmented creatures can regenerate i
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by aoki 2y ago
> Quals will never be implemented at large in undergraduate mass-market coursework. I believe proctored math placement tests are still common upon matriculation at less-selective colleges (e.g., directional public schools). Usually Accup
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by aoki 2y ago
In the US, it was estimated that about half of HS grads had an A- (3.7) average or better. That was in 2016 and was ~10% higher than in 1998, so one should assume that it would be higher now.
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by aoki 2y ago
As others have said, every state is already a dual state to some degree. But I would like to thank OP for introducing me to this useful term. (I took more poli sci classes than physics classes in college but still somehow never ran across t
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by aoki 2y ago
It’s not. A census literally counts every individual. Census public reports are aggregated for privacy. This is about spatial disaggregation of aggregated census data. The problem in developing countries (which is what these datasets are us
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by aoki 2y ago
Each area has its own “most important” conjecture(s), so Quanta is in no danger of running out of proofs to write about that somebody legitimately thinks are super important. (Alas, while “most important” conjectures are a renewable resourc
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by aoki 2y ago
The study of Kakeya sets is over 100 years old — so if you think this generalized conjecture is the most important one in their subfield, you can see why somebody would describe it this way.
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by aoki 2y ago
I laughed when I got to the end of this wall of text, full of “ahistorical fantasies” and “what the fuck moment,” and read: “Despite my negative comment about some points in the book, I would actually recommend it as a reasonably priced, mo
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by aoki 2y ago
> The trilogy raises an Elizabethan question: After college – what comes next? …universities were producing more scholars than there were opportunities for them. …Their great education tended to discourage them from taking up the humble
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by aoki 2y ago
The lease mentioned in the article that concerns me more is the weather radar support facility in Norman. Last time I looked into weather data, prediction quality was much worse in the places where the WSR-88D radar coverage is spotty (the
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by aoki 2y ago
> What's the point of the article It’s an interview with Rosemary Grant, occasioned by her new memoir.
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by aoki 2y ago
They rebranded (and reinvested in) Humboldt State a couple of years ago in the hopes of reversing declining enrollment.
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by aoki 2y ago
Most don’t and live with the crowding (recently happened at Purdue, Northeastern among others). But UCI rescinded aggressively in 2017 and nobody cares anymore. (You just have to actually enforce the things like “you need xyz GPA in your fi

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