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by bluusteel 9y ago
I kept expecting the author to recommend this book, but then he never did...
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by bluusteel 9y ago
It seems like blog posts on simple statistical methods like this one land on the front page of HNews a lot more than one would expect.
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by bluusteel 11y ago
I think this is called varied practice and that the idea has been around for awhile. The book Make It Stick[1] discusses a study that had 8 year olds toss beanbags at a target. For one group, the distance to the target was varied. For anoth
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by bluusteel 11y ago
Really nice writeup! I wish more graduate students would blog about their research in this way. Could be a great way to educate the public and convey the importance of government research funding. I wonder how big the reflection coefficient
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by bluusteel 11y ago
I wonder if they plan to tackle other educational settings in the future (e.g. schools, self-studying individuals, etc). Am also curious to know if the card design happens automatically or maybe the customer selects from different card type
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by bluusteel 11y ago
I don't think I realized how important default colors/styles are for visualization software until using seaborn. Quickly producing sensible plots in terms of aesthetics should not require 10+ lines of extra code. Fortunately, it l
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by bluusteel 11y ago
I thought closed form expressions existed for linear regression. Why is gradient descent needed?
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by bluusteel 11y ago
Reminds me of the "talking" drums used in West Africa[1]. Low frequency sound can travel distances measured in miles. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_drum
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by bluusteel 12y ago
Sounds like a good project for a graduate level computational electromagnetics course. The method used in this app is FDTD, which is pretty easy to understand and implement compared to other methods for solving Maxwell's equations nume
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by bluusteel 12y ago
"Desirable difficulties" were originally suggested by Robert Bjork, a psychology professor at UCLA. For a short overview, see his website: http://bjorklab.psych.ucla.edu/research.html#idd