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by clintonc 13y ago
Handy tip: one .beat (or a milliday, if you like) is about 1.5 minutes. This means that one percent of one day is about fifteen minutes. Try thinking of tasks in terms of percentages of a day. You spend about 30 percent, give or take, sl
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by clintonc 13y ago
A GUI!? Oh, my stars... Honestly, I like Octave a lot, and this new feature gives me the option to use it in collaboration with folks who aren't as UNIX-happy as I. I'm interested to know how "unpolished" the GUI is.
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by clintonc 13y ago
From the web page: Do we need to purchase a Matlab license to take this course? You will be able to use Matlab under a special license provided to you as a course participant to use for the CVX101 course. This is a limited license for the d
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by clintonc 13y ago
So, what are the criteria of "scientifically valid" theses these days? I would have preferred a statement like, "After discarding all parts which relied upon the fabricated data, the resulting thesis is still acceptable to th
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by clintonc 13y ago
I get at least that good with DEFINT A-Z
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by clintonc 13y ago
http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ may be your best friend, in this case :) Here you can write in markdown and include TeX, thereafter converting to many different formats (using, for example, mimeTeX, MathJax, etc).
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by clintonc 13y ago
This does a couple of things -- rendering TeX, and plotting graphs. As has been pointed out, [MathJax]( http://www.mathjax.org/ ) is really excellent, has thorough support for many of the TeX-isms which you may ever need, an
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by clintonc 13y ago
As you suggest, size is not necessarily the appropriate quantity to consider. The general idea would be that each player has "valuations" of slices, and that a player chooses based on this valuation. This might result in a sort of sliding
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by clintonc 13y ago
There's an open textbook (David Lippman's Math in Society -- "a survey of mathematics for the liberal arts major") which covers several topics like this. The chapter on fair division is bite-sized, so you can read it without investing a lo
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by clintonc 13y ago
The way I see it, ADA is not paying -- Github is donating. This is, actually, much less incendiary than the headline would lead us to believe...
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by clintonc 13y ago
I'm actually pretty angry about this. A much better plan would have been to offer free private repositories to any not-for-profit entity. Offering exclusively to women seems, to me, discriminatory. Edit: Reading the article more closely,
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by clintonc 14y ago
The bit about taking the safety demonstration out of the cabin is not quite so simple. The author suggests a sort of "driver's license" for planes, so that a person only has to learn about the safety features and procedures once. Unfortun