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contingo
9y ago
The infomap "Broadband is still foreign to much of the U.S." shows high speed internet largely confined to urban areas, as the article discusses. But large swathes of North Dakota are deep green. What's the reason for that?
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9y ago
It's refreshing to hear generated piano music that isn't either strictly metrical or entirely freeform, but with patches where you do get a somewhat natural sense of rubato and sensitive dynamic shaping. It's sort of convinci
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contingo
9y ago
I did have bad experiences with bad lecturers as an undergrad (hello, here is a handout, now I will project the handout on a screen, now I will read what's on the screen without any elaboration, goodbye), but they were the exception. O
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contingo
9y ago
> First of all we have access to less than half of this organism only. What about root mutations? The study specifically examined the issue of mutations arising in the cell line from zygote to terminal branches, since that is where repro
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contingo
9y ago
> Of course someone who gets paid to teach would highly stress learning tidbits slowly and excruciatingly. That's their economic incentive... Well, I can see that's a factor, but not necessarily an overriding one. As someone wh
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> “To this day, that’s to a large extent how I learn,” he said. “I never really learned the basic things like linear algebra, actually — I only assimilated it through learning some other stuff.” This was interesting to me. My math profs