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by cokernel 11y ago
It's worth devoting a portion of classroom time (in my opinion, a substantial portion) to discussion of the topic, perhaps focusing on particular problems and generalizing from there. For example, you might select random students each
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by cokernel 11y ago
At my (American, liberal arts, flyover country) university, linear algebra was my first real mathematics course. (The prior classes were calculus and a "proof" class, AKA intro to intro to number theory.) I'd been introduce
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"Kind of harsh" is an understatement. Insulting the reader like this is not acceptable. Mathematics is already difficult enough to learn by its very nature. Authors, you don't need to help make it more difficult. We alrea
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by cokernel 11y ago
In case it helps, this is literary theory (aka "theory"), not philosophy. Although there is definitely communication between the two fields, they have their own traditions and their own vocabularies. One of the more obvious diff
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by cokernel 11y ago
Comma and colon are also quite different.
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by cokernel 11y ago
For the first obvious difference, watch the 'i' in 'login'.
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by cokernel 11y ago
I thought this was certainly interesting as a companion piece (for a decidedly different era of graphics). I can't know this for sure, but I suspect a brief summary of the article -- in particular, an indication that it's not mer
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by cokernel 11y ago
She has a website for her tesselations (which that Wikipedia article links to), but unfortunately is no longer able to respond to queries: https://sites.google.com/site/intriguingtessellations/home/ There&#x2
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by cokernel 11y ago
Unless they all picked the barn owl: http://macaulaylibrary.org/audio/50147
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by cokernel 11y ago
> I wonder if the time is ripe for a procedurally generated Zelda game? The Binding of Isaac is a good attempt in that direction.
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> dream of the web This phrase always reminds me of Abigail's WWW Dream: http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/int/abigail.htm
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That's exactly right. In the comments Homakov mentions that the $15 and $5 figures have been "adjusted for simplicity".
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> I was surprised that with the emphasis on debt and credit in the article, David Graeber's Debt: The first 5,000 years wasn't mentioned. This is minor, but the article probably didn't mention that book because it wasn&#x2
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by cokernel 12y ago
The insult is not that the company is specifically European but that it is non-US. I think the analogy you describe would be more apt if a Californian company were attempting to prevent French people from using the term champagne to descri
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by cokernel 12y ago
Interesting game. There's a minor typo in the instructions: 'the a' should be either 'the' or 'a'.
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by cokernel 12y ago
I am interested in learning more about this test. Which record store performed this test? When? I guess record stores don't normally publish their experiments, but it would be nice if they did.
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by cokernel 12y ago
As far as I can tell, this is the same game as Unruly[0], which is included in Chris Boyle's Android port[1] of Simon Tatham's puzzle collection. EDIT: The history is a little more interesting than that. The janko.at page on Tohu
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by cokernel 12y ago
Groupon has indeed filed several trademark applications for the Gnome name, e.g., http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4801:uz6... What is the purported scam?
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by cokernel 12y ago
> you don't have a sense of smell? How is this called? Anosmia. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/smell.html
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Having used both noise-canceling and noise-isolating headphones, I'd recommend going for noise-isolating headphones, at least if you expect office chatter to be your major irritant. Most active noise-canceling systems do best with con
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by cokernel 12y ago
There is no license notice in the sample. LibreJS looks for a license notice as a comment in the script: http://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/manual/librejs.html#Free...
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There are varieties of compatibilism (the view that determinism and free will are compatible) that do not require the existence of souls. I'd suggest taking a look at Daniel Dennett's _Elbow Room_ for one example. The Stanford En
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Yes, "different than" is an Americanism. I believe that "different from" is most common across all dialects of English: http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxdiffer.html (Note: This only compares
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Then the educator should ask .
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by cokernel 13y ago
Here's one place to start for Pakistan: http://tribune.com.pk/story/84402/wikileaks-gilani-open-to-d... As you point out, this is for drones capable of attack, not reconnaissance drones.
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by cokernel 13y ago
The wording of https://www.aclu.org/translaw certainly suggests that many states do not prohibit discrimination against transgender people.
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> Wouldn't that prove that language inherently affects cognition, and thus proves linguistic relativism? No, it wouldn't. It's not the language that is affecting how the brain works here; it's the other way around.
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A common paradigm in the 1990s version of universal grammar (I have not kept up) is the principles and parameters framework. In this framework, the universal grammar consists of a collection of principles (such as "syntactic movement
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I can't speak for the OP, but there have been studies of appropriate line lengths for reading text on computer displays. See for example https://web.archive.org/web/20020725135307/http://psychology.
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There is an excellent list of suggestions at http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-03-08_146 . The short answer is, no, you don't quit your job and forfeit your college degree; you aren't bad for

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