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by coastflow 4y ago
Poker may have good life lessons, but I would hesitate to wholeheartedly recommend poker to children because the worst-case scenario for the player is much worse than for a player of chess. From a research review paper [0]: "In the maj
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How to Start Making Music(psyche.co)
2 points by coastflow 4y ago|0 comments
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by coastflow 4y ago
Good candidates for relevant terms may include "stream of consciousness" as a narrative style [0], with a writing tone that is "highly informal" and "colloquial" with "vulgarity" (from the inclusion o
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Automated Medication Dispensing May Cause Drug Mix-Ups(undark.org)
1 points by coastflow 4y ago|0 comments
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by coastflow 4y ago
Thanks for the responsiveness, and linking to sources for your remaining facts that are the main arguments of your article.
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by coastflow 4y ago
The article (which as published today) has a factual error. The author wrote: “New York passed a law decriminalizing marijuana but never got around to issuing licenses or a legal framework to retailers.” But New York State legalized cannabi
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Population booms overwhelm schools in the West(hechingerreport.org)
3 points by coastflow 4y ago|0 comments
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by coastflow 4y ago
Mexico is part of North America, and Mexico was included as part of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) when it was active (reference: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/nafta.asp ).
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by coastflow 4y ago
>” Even Americans get kind of brainwashed that their local culture is inferior and everything is better in New York (and California) because that's where so much of our popular media originates and is set.” For additional evidence,
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by coastflow 4y ago
Note that the article focuses on the ability to find work in the creative and media industry, versus the technology industry. In addition, though it captures a feeling that many Canadians have, I wish it were backed by statistics and data t
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How Noise Shaped a City (2020)(thelocal.to)
1 points by coastflow 4y ago|0 comments
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Digital Investigation Techniques: A NIST Scientific Foundation Review [pdf](nvlpubs.nist.gov)
1 points by coastflow 4y ago|0 comments
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by coastflow 4y ago
The iPad mini might be Apple's response to mostly fill the gap. The device can run phone apps without having the features of calling/texting. The tablet also has more educational value as it supports handwriting and drawing, thoug
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by coastflow 4y ago
>to make a screen display some text and pictures. But it's fancy text. It requires codes. This rhetoric vastly understates why businesses hire developers: there is far more than displaying text and pictures. Consider Hacker News. Th
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by coastflow 4y ago
Food trucks can plausibly provide healthier options for food than in convenience stores, which often only sell junk food, according to a research paper that is a literature review [0]. This is especially true for low-income areas where ther
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by coastflow 4y ago
There are additional steps. You need to take a spoon (extra tool), scoop out the loose leaf tea from the container, make sure not to spill it, and then pour it into the strainer. After steeping, you need to dump the used leaves (assuming yo
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by coastflow 4y ago
Out of curiosity, I found a sample kindergarten curriculum for the province of Ontario in Canada. [0] Children as young as four in the province are evaluated by educators on (pages 306–308): the development of the ability to interpret and r
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Algorithm predicts which students will drop out of Math courses(uni-tuebingen.de)
2 points by coastflow 4y ago|0 comments
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by coastflow 4y ago
The longevity of his employment is likely a result of the company's willingness to promote him instead of hiring externally, despite his start at the entry level. This is not likely to happen anymore, at least nowadays. From the articl
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When will humorous AIs press our buttons with their jokes?(psyche.co)
1 points by coastflow 4y ago|0 comments
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Researchers say AI will ‘greatly impact’ the future of education(hechingerreport.org)
2 points by coastflow 4y ago|0 comments
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by coastflow 4y ago
This video presents a version where the piece is sped up to 36 seconds in length: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5-Yo328Rp4
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Doing Your Own Research a Little Bit Better(mcgill.ca)
1 points by coastflow 4y ago|0 comments
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A parachute accident helped jump-start augmented reality(spectrum.ieee.org)
2 points by coastflow 4y ago|0 comments
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by coastflow 4y ago
The standard way to solve this nowadays is to report error measurements, which introductory university physics textbooks teach. >"(And yet once told of that scientist who added 1 metre to his measurement of a mountain, because he fe
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by coastflow 4y ago
This wouldn't really be the same, but use a habit tracking app based on streaks (aka not breaking the chain) to make consistent progress on two learning projects on my own time (mathematics and programming). The goal is small for each
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by coastflow 5y ago
To build intuition on scaling, the 1997 "Powers of Ten" video is an excellent resource that is still shown in introductory university physics lectures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0
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by coastflow 5y ago
Intuitively, it might be because the mouse predates the touchpad, and most mice only have vertical scroll wheels (so it conditions users to avoid discovering horizontal scrolling as an option, unless you click and drag a horizontal scroll b
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by coastflow 5y ago
For easier access for discussion, the full paragraph is: "Danny Sullivan, Google’s “public liaison for search,” told me that people using Google to find Reddit threads is actually evidence that search is working the way it should. User
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by coastflow 5y ago
It was pleasantly surprising to see the article cite Hacker News as a source ("“Google is dead. Long live Google + ‘site:reddit.com’ ”—became the No. 10 most upvoted link ever on the tech-industry discussion board Hacker News."),

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