bun-neh

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by bun-neh 12y ago
It would seem unfair to criticizes academics for your experience, at least based on the description you gave.
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by bun-neh 12y ago
You might be interested in StoneSoup, a project a friend of mine developed for teaching his week long Intro to Video Game Programming for middle school and high school students. Most of the students have little to no prior programming exper
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by bun-neh 13y ago
... or through the lens of "Stephen Wolfram has a huge ego".
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by bun-neh 13y ago
Many universities are utilizing MOOCs and/or online material in order to implement a reverse classroom. In a reverse classroom, students watch lectures and do reading at home and class time is used to extend and reinforce that material
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by bun-neh 13y ago
From what I read, I don't believe it is. In my opinion it should also never be used for this purpose. While you could probably catch a lot of cheaters this way, there is a possibility for a large false positive rate. If this is true th
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by bun-neh 13y ago
Seems like just another case of Betteridge's Law of Headlines.
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by bun-neh 13y ago
I wouldn't call it the "Java" philosophy. Rather, I would call it the "wet behind the ears" philosophy. It just so happens that they correlate because of the way people are trained.
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by bun-neh 13y ago
We actually lost a nuclear weapon just off the coast of Spain. Even scarier is that these are not the only two instances in which nuclear weapons have gone (and still remain) missing due to negligence or accident. http://en.wiki
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by bun-neh 13y ago
It often is. Whether or not students learn anything is the issue. Perhaps you could say that basic statistical competency should be required for a college degree.
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by bun-neh 13y ago
There was a paper not too far back that used SVMs in deep learning and leaped over the then state-of-the-art performance. http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.0239
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by bun-neh 13y ago
Whether or not the brain has any inherent structure for "types" is irrelevant. Types are a mechanism for providing reasoning about the correctness of code. At the very least they are a notification to the compiler or interpreter as to the f
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by bun-neh 13y ago
They are working on reimplementing ARM support in the next release. It is in an incomplete state ATM.
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by bun-neh 13y ago
You should look in to Factor, a higher level concatenative language.. http://factorcode.org/ There is a package for lexical variables for those instances where stack shuffling is absolutely not the way to implement your algorithm. This pa
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by bun-neh 13y ago
If its the parentheses that get you, why not try a postfix language like forth or factor?
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by bun-neh 13y ago
One thing to expand upon: This is just the classic formulation of the Multi-Armed Bandit Problem. There are countless variations to the formula which have slightly different underlying assumptions.