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Science in Pictures: The Ventriloquist Bird and Monkey Syntax(nytimes.com)
1 points by bbg 17y ago|0 comments
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by bbg 17y ago
Thoreau's cabin was only 45 minutes' walk outside of Concord, however.
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by bbg 17y ago
Herodotus 2.2 gives an instance of a similar experiment tried by Egyptian king Psammetichus. Here the children were exposed to no language. Eventually they uttered a word ('bekos') that was deemed to be Phrygian. http://old.perseus.tufts
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by bbg 17y ago
I typically leave all my sites "zoomed" with Firefox. And when I temporarily want something bigger, I use Ctrl + scroll-up (Mac).
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Minute mysteries(math.umass.edu)
1 points by bbg 17y ago|1 comments
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by bbg 17y ago
The phrase is from Horace, Carmen 3.2, line 13. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%... Whether it's ironic or not is hard to say. It doesn't really sound like it. First he urges a boy to become skilled in war, t
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by bbg 17y ago
Best part of this article: "I don’t work that many hours a day." "I always went home at night, and didn’t work in the evening," she said. "I always found that downtime to be really useful."
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by bbg 17y ago
Procrastination
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by bbg 17y ago
A related post, in case anyone wants the link, is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=866889
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by bbg 17y ago
Yes. In fact my whole rant is overblown. Not altogether wrong, but overblown.
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by bbg 17y ago
The author embraces a noble and historically justifiable view of the university. I wish he were right to do so. Academia does have venerable traditions stretching back to the rituals and prerogatives of medieval guilds of learned men (and
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by bbg 17y ago
http://xkcd.com/179/ I'm sure almost everyone has seen this anyway, but why not post.
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NASA's Ares I-X: Why Launch Empty $450-Million Rocket?(news.nationalgeographic.com)
1 points by bbg 17y ago|0 comments
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by bbg 17y ago
Very interesting. Strangely, no mention of the hangar collapse that destroyed the Buran. At least that's what happened if Wikipedia and this picture from buran.ru can be trusted: http://www.buran.ru/images/jpg/bbur89.jpg
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by bbg 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=667689 It's an interesting article, and worth a repost.
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by bbg 17y ago
I second the choice of K&R for learning C -- where better to learn C than from the authors themselves. For assembly I've had a good experience with K. Irvine's Assembly Language for Intel-Based Computers , available on Amazon here: ht
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by bbg 17y ago
I just note that the link below, a subdivision name generator, submitted (by someone else!) a few days ago, got killed after being quickly upvoted to the front page. I can't find the HN link -- maybe it no longer exists -- but commenters s
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by bbg 17y ago
I wonder whether the discounts that are factored into the net price include loans that must, of course, eventually be paid back, with interest. Anyone know?
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by bbg 17y ago
Good points, but... You should feel pain when unclear I had to follow the link to find out what he meant by "when unclear." It's ambiguous between "express yourself unclearly" and "perceive something unclearly," which is a pretty big dif
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by bbg 17y ago
I've been in this columnist's shoes, and I can confirm what he says: the score depends on the grader. At the center where I graded, only 1 in 14 essays were read by a second scorer for verification. "Calibration" consisted of a half-hour o
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by bbg 17y ago
The Economist in July of this year made an interesting contrast between the fiscal policies of California and Texas. http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13990207
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by bbg 17y ago
I'm reminded of the advice of Thomas Jefferson to his daughter: "It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing," from this HN post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=675308
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by bbg 17y ago
btilly clearly expressed a fine method for effective teaching. I was impressed when I read the HN post a while back, and I'm even more impressed with the blog post. I am incorporating the idea about homework divided into thirds into my ow
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by bbg 17y ago
I don't think I'll run with this; it looks to be a mess. But after a good 25 minutes of research, including a perusal of an AARP guide to the process, whose URL is at the bottom of this post (or Google "drug names medicare plans"), the rele
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by bbg 17y ago
Here's a recent post on a NY Times blog regarding a cropped photgraph of Dick Cheney: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/essay-9/
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by bbg 17y ago
I use Gmail because of the refined and intuitive UI, and because it has eliminated spam almost entirely. However, I feel uneasy about handing over to Google large helpings personal information, even though most of it is mundane.
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by bbg 17y ago
Yes, and the selfless rescue / recovery workers had to brave the raging 39 degree water to look for his presumed corpse.
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Dolphin Speak Relies on Brevity(dsc.discovery.com)
10 points by bbg 17y ago|8 comments
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by bbg 17y ago
I have recently begun participating in the TopCoder 'Arena', where I've made some code that could be of absolutely no monetary value to anyone (except to me, as training). Actually, it's a lot of fun. Still, I wonder about this company. It
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by bbg 17y ago
French: vingt trois (twenty three) German: drei und zwanzig (three and twenty)

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