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by bluenose69 3y ago
I was taught this in High School and I know that it is still taught. We learned it because the option for such (and many other) errors was a zero on the work and likely an F in the class overall. Teachers have a lot less latitude nowadays
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by bluenose69 3y ago
The site [1] provides more detail, including a media kit [2] that is quite informative as to the details of a lot of the setup. 1. https://global.jaxa.jp/countdown/slim_special_site.html 2. https://global.ja
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See "Time Pressure", a novel by Spider Robinson.
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I think screenshots are very helpful. They are much easier to follow than instructions like "look at the top-right of your screen; find the word just below the red box; click that; on the new screen, find ..." and so forth. As fo
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by bluenose69 3y ago
One line of the article stood out for me: "College admissions officers value calculus, almost as a proxy for intelligence." I think what lack of Calculus signals is more lack of facility with Mathematics generally. When I speak wi
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by bluenose69 3y ago
Here are some things I tell young professors: 1. The students are not like you. For you, the topic is fascinating, and something you've pondered for much of your adult life. For the average student, the topic is moderately interesting
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by bluenose69 3y ago
I don't think the analogy to woodworking is sensible. The problem with dull tools is twofold: (1) the wood can be damaged and so the task has to be started anew and (2) the woodworker can get injured. Neither applies to the problem at
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by bluenose69 3y ago
Also reported at https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/29/google-ca...
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Every team has a way of expressing things. Teams exist in communities that, again, have particular ways of expressing things. In my work environment (in my community) the typical expression is "Could you please". This is clear a
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by bluenose69 3y ago
> At some point, move on For some in the scientific community, Julia is seen as a a nice alternative to python. It has some great libraries, and installing them is easy, perhaps because the system was well-designed from the start, and r
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by bluenose69 3y ago
I don't see why the discussion centres on TWh, not TW. The former means something only when a time-frame is stated (per year, in this case). To avoid confusion, that interval ought to be stated in every phrase containing the unit. Wh
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This is outside my field of knowledge, so I could only skim the paper. It does seem that they have demonstrated an effect, based on what they say and on the graphs they show. How it translates to humans is of course an open question, but
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The second last sentence is "This result makes it clear that academic impact — as quantified by citations — is to some extent inherited." Two things come to mind. 1. Figure 2, which supports the conclusion, does not seem all that
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by bluenose69 3y ago
I use it mainly as a data-exploration method. For example, if the Winsorized mean gives a value that differs a lot from the conventional mean, then I might examine the outliers in a bit more detail with tools like a boxplot or a histogram.
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by bluenose69 3y ago
To avoid the intimidation factor, skip the notebook. Use the back sides of printed pages. Use cheap scribbler-type notebooks, if you can buy them where you live. And play with a few pens. I prefer fountain pens, and you can buy some very
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by bluenose69 3y ago
The author suggests that "The fear that multiple submissions would overwhelm the peer-review system lacks empirical evidence". Maybe it won't "overwhelm" it, but it will certainly add to the reviewing workload. Si
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by bluenose69 3y ago
If the title had a "their" after the "for", it would make a bit more sense. Maybe people who want e-vehicles are just not interested in VW nowadays. VW once had quite a lot of brand loyalty, because they made good produc
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by bluenose69 3y ago
The field flips from time to time. I wonder how that works into the theory/tests.
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https://www.theguardian.com
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Exactly. It took me 2 seconds to swear and close the site so I could read HN comments instead. This happens so much that I often just skip the original articles and go to the comments. HN is the only site where I do that.
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by bluenose69 3y ago
It seems to me that citing R (or some other software tool) makes sense when it spares the author the task of providing detailed explanations. Administrators who gauge work quality by counting citations are not helping the world much. Maybe
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Professors have a summer assignment: Prevent ChatGPT chaos in the fall(washingtonpost.com)
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by bluenose69 3y ago
Same for me: vi (later vim, later neovim) since the late 1970s. I used ed in the early days, too, and that may be why I love the fact that vi* lets me type ":" to do powerful things.
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by bluenose69 3y ago
This is an exceptional piece of writing, finely crafted and suffused with unusually deep insight. I read a lot, and seldom have I run across a writer possessed of this level of skill. A writer's central task is to place the reader in a
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by bluenose69 3y ago
Agree completely, particularly with the smirk I can see in the final word! As an academic, "AI" means "fund me". It's the new "big data". And "exponential" is the new "rising" (or, s
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by bluenose69 3y ago
This article recapitulates a press release [1], except for one important thing: the latter holds a link to the actual paper [2]. Unfortunately (although not atypically), that paper is behind a paywall, and its abstract does not mention sta
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Somehow, I needed that blast from the past!
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I actually forgot about google-news. It used to be my landing page, long ago. Now my landing page is an actual (online) newspaper. I like the fact that it is well-organized, with curated content by professional reporters. I pay a little
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by bluenose69 3y ago
There's no need to spend $200 for a good fountain pen. There are some very good pens for under $30, for example. I always have a fountain pen in my pocket, one in my desk at work, and one in my desk at home. And 3 or 4 others, empty
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by bluenose69 3y ago
Having been quite interested in GNU/Hurd a long time ago (the years have become decades, I fear) and having lost track of the project, I wonder whether somebody can comment on where GNU/Hurd is being used nowadays.

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