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by aoki 2y ago
Elite universities don’t weed out to get rid of students, they need a super high graduation rate for the rankings metrics. But they can use weeders to get you to change your major to an easier one.
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by aoki 2y ago
Wait until you open the arxiv paper and find that one of the authors is Michael E Brown, the self-proclaimed “guy who killed Pluto”
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by aoki 2y ago
> College can't ever get cheaper. Residential college. For most, college will look more like community college, commuter college, night school and other extension sites, or online college. As you say, this is already underway in the
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by aoki 2y ago
>So if school kids are being taught "the WW2 era American internment camps should be called American concentration camps," they're actually being mislead. Internment is for foreign nationals. The implication is there is a
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by aoki 2y ago
As the old saying goes: “Chemical engineers do it in packed beds”
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by aoki 3y ago
I can’t read the second article, but the first does not cite the later work and makes exactly the same mistake as Winner: sitting at a desk, assuming that (per Caro) parkways were the only way to get there, and looking only at the parkway b
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by aoki 3y ago
It’s worth noting that Winner's specific story about the low parkway bridges blocking bus access to Jones Beach (which he got from Robert Caro) has been debunked. Some design researchers in Canada, cued by earlier work in STS, finally
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by aoki 3y ago
Surprisingly, these appear to be rigid foils (hence WindWing) instead of Flettner rotors.
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by aoki 3y ago
Phalanx is the US CIWS based on the 20mm Vulcan gun. in other words, Phalanx is the “last line of defense machine guns” to which you are referring. You may be thinking of Aegis, the integrated combat control system. We don’t yet know why th
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by aoki 3y ago
10th grade is the “on level” time to take geometry.
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by aoki 3y ago
The “standard” place for geometry is 10th grade (after algebra 1 in 9th grade). A few geometric ideas have been moved from geometry to algebra 1 so that slope can be explained using similar triangles but this is just about memorizing explan
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by aoki 3y ago
There’s also an intermediate number theory class that’s basically at the level of a college elementary NT course (one that does not assume abstract algebra), an Olympiad geometry class, and a group theory class. The first two do not have a
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by aoki 3y ago
The ones that have “instructors” and class times have chat-based sessions that you can skip if you prefer. Part of the homework is based on an adaptive problem system (Alcumus, which you can actually use for free) and part is weekly problem
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by aoki 3y ago
> details that your interviewer is fishing for (because they learned it in their PhD) Haha, that was my third interviewer! Some random computational geometry problem. But it worked out for me as I happened to have read Preparata & Sh
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by aoki 3y ago
I suspect this comment under TFA is closer to what’s going on: “My sense is that winning Westinghouse has slanted substantially toward the types who just want to overachieve and go to Harvard relative to the types who are weird nerds even a
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by aoki 3y ago
Fry’s knew that single queue multiple server had lower waiting time variance before everybody else in retail did. No surprise that John Fry funded the American Institute of Mathematics!
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by aoki 3y ago
Plot twist: it gets 25/25 on AMC 8
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by aoki 3y ago
No idea why this came up in HN, but I remember being boggled by this while reading Randy Hyde’s book on 6502 assembly. Made the idea of p-code and such seem more mundane, later.
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by aoki 3y ago
Yes! These kinds of initiatives are not focusing on tutoring the ”ahead” kids as some think, they are about tutoring the “behind” kids because teachers cannot possibly overcome multiple grade level differences using classroom differentiatio
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by aoki 3y ago
100% of large companies I’ve worked for. Any competitive lawsuit can trigger keyword-based e-discovery. The rationale is that nobody but lawyers even understands the full legal meaning and significance of those words so you shouldn’t use th
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by aoki 3y ago
The US just announced that it is buying off-the-shelf anti-drone systems for Ukraine that operate chain guns in single-shot mode. Drones are slow so they can use VT rounds instead of the CIWS spray-and-track method. https://eos-a
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by aoki 3y ago
I avoided his classes like the plague. His name was already a verb in the 80s. Which is not to say that I ever held that against him personally. It was kinda cool that you’d be in Evans at 2am and he’d still be randomly wandering the halls.
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by aoki 3y ago
I couldn’t figure out why this was here, but I guess it’s because there’s a new barrel processor design: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37315802
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by aoki 3y ago
By ABET. The institution as a whole is accredited. The question is whether accreditation from an engineering org is worth the limits they place on your curriculum. Stanford EE and CS and Cal EECS all say no, they’d rather give their grads m
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by aoki 3y ago
My real analysis instructor drily pointed out “You really like proof by contradiction huh” and my defense was that my main life skill is spotting why plausible-seeming things don’t work correctly
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by aoki 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co . It’s hard to defend generic standardized tests. (Whereas ASVAB is ok.)
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by aoki 3y ago
They don't grant degrees or diplomas. As such it is presumably accredited as a Supplementary Education Program and (like JHU CTY, Stanford ULO, and AoPS) do not grant credit. Such programs can be the basis of credits if your "real
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by aoki 3y ago
If you go to Venice for the Biennale, part of the exhibit space is at the Arsenale [0]. 0. https://www.labiennale.org/en/venues/arsenale
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by aoki 3y ago
The PARC campus is part of Stanford Research Park, so no.
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by aoki 4y ago
There’s this gap between ~$150k HH income (where the good aid disappears) and whatever you think it takes to afford $90k/year and still support the rest of your nuclear family. That gap covers a lot of the HN population so I think you

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