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by aoki 6y ago
The related example that I always remember is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_drop_experiment
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Glass viscosity calculations debunk the myth of flow in medieval windows (2017)(ceramics.org)
123 points by aoki 6y ago|160 comments
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by aoki 6y ago
Judging by Eureka Math, 10% of a 6-8 Common Core math curriculum (by hours) is rudimentary probability/statistics.
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by aoki 6y ago
The current approach to deal with the remedial situation you describe is “corequisite support.” In the case where the placement test says you’re not up-to-speed, you get assigned to extra sections of prep/tutoring rather than being tol
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by aoki 6y ago
+1, and I’m eagerly awaiting Mullaney’s follow-on (in progress) about post-typewriter text entry. An odd but interesting related book is Unger’s _Fifth Generation Fallacy_. If you ignore the dubious framing about 1980s Japanese AI, there’s
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by aoki 6y ago
1) Yes, it’s nicknamed “Gertrude”. 2) Yes, every tactical platform that hunts subs has an active sonar capability of some kind. (Hull mounted, towed, dipping, sonobuoys, ...) When the ambient noise floor exceeds the target sub’s noise, you
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by aoki 6y ago
The books by Tent are mathematically at a 4th or 5th grade level. They’re sort of like Jean Lee Latham’s bio of Nathaniel Bowditch (you learn a fictionalized life story but you can’t really grok the person’s contribution). Of course, most m
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by aoki 6y ago
Ambitious wireless folks were already pitching MIMO mobile networks to investors. For example, ArrayComm was started in 1992.
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by aoki 7y ago
you should try offering three peer bonuses
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by aoki 7y ago
There’s a relatively recent novel set during the removal of Les Innocents to the new catacombs (Pure, by Andrew Miller). A good read, and like many discussions of these events, it makes the obvious connection to the moribund Ancien Regime.
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by aoki 7y ago
“battle short”
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by aoki 7y ago
The chapter in The Invention of Tradition (there are PDFs of the book online if you're interested in the topic) is about the efforts by Scottish nationalists over the century prior to the Allens to establish the idea of kilts and clan
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by aoki 7y ago
The bogosity of clan tartans has been documented since at least 1940; see the footnotes in the chapter on Highland culture in Hobsbawm and Ranger’s The Invention of Tradition (1983).
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by aoki 8y ago
alnar is likely referring to the US system, or something like it: unless you are tutored externally (rich), an autodidact outlier (gifted), or selected for honors courses, you basically take computational courses for 14 years (with one curs
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by aoki 8y ago
please consider the statement from the position of a student just learning the material (like the OP). if you are working through a book with 1000+ problems, like pinter (as some people are suggesting), and you have to keep looking up stuff
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by aoki 8y ago
i agree that memorization by internalization (concepts) is different from (and superior to) memorization by rote (text); i was agreeing with the other fellow that rote memorization is not the end goal. however, to me they're both &qu
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by aoki 8y ago
very true, in the sense that rote memorization is not the point. but false in the sense that doing math requires fluency - in applying a small amount of technique up to lower division math, and in applying a large number of definitions&#x2F
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by aoki 8y ago
in the US, most engineers take the standard two-year lower division sequence (calculus, linear algebra, a bit of diffeqs). for the most part, you learn technique rather than proving things. upper division engineering math courses teach more
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by aoki 8y ago
in case anybody's curious, the Einstein letter mentioned in the article is Appendix II of Hadamard's "The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field" (ISBN 0486201074).
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by aoki 8y ago
the general idea is that it is unhealthy to be right in the beam of a high-power air search radar. when you are in port, you get used to lots of pierside announcements to the effect of "do not rotate or radiate any electrical or electr
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by aoki 8y ago
You can’t, in general, put people above the air search radar. (Exercise for the reader: why is it ok for the pilothouse of US AEGIS ships to be located above the SPY-1 arrays?)
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by aoki 8y ago
The 70s era DD I served on had a fully enclosed pilothouse. Everybody standing underway deck watch (except the deck sailors standing lookout watch on the bridge wings and aft, and the signalmen in the signal shack above) was in the pilothou
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by aoki 8y ago
The DLGNs were reclassified as CGNs in the 70s. As you say, they were decommed after the Gulf War (after spending all that money on NTU).
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by aoki 8y ago
As a kid growing up in the US, I liked “Aplets and Cotlets” a lot, so I could really empathize with Edmund. I suppose that if my parents had given us rose or bergamot lokum it would have been a very different story.
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by aoki 8y ago
It seems to me that most commenters are missing the point, which is that results like these usually remain unproven until the end of 2-3 course sequences that are mainly taken by math majors. What the authors are doing is to reduce each res
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by aoki 8y ago
mathematicians writing for peers don’t aim for the maximally explicit proof. details are frequently left out as obvious to the knowledgeable reader. leaving out tedious matter is a matter of professional style, like tightening regular prose
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by aoki 8y ago
it was interesting to see from the comments that there have already been corpus analyses filed as SC amicus briefs (not just law review papers).
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by aoki 8y ago
for anybody who didn't attend high school in the USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartering_Acts
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by aoki 8y ago
NHST was always intended to provide evidence within a corpus of replicated research. institutionalized careerism creates disincentives for science to work that way in practice. it's actually consistent with the NHST paradigm to treat
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by aoki 8y ago
i don't think it's as inaccurate as you're suggesting, though. i've recently taken upper-division/graduate courses in math, stats, EE and CS at three different US universities. 100% of the courses used piazza, becau

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