davidwees

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by davidwees 13y ago
Which means that they don't need to do broad sweeps of people to find the terrorists, they can use their algorithms on people who are already suspected, via some other means, of being a terrorist, and crucially, they can get a warrant
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by davidwees 13y ago
There's one thing missing from your analysis: the life expectancies calculated this way include all deaths; someone who is 58 has managed to avoid some pretty dangerous parts of life, for example: 1. They did not die during their first year
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by davidwees 14y ago
If we attempt to look into the future, I think we see that computers are likely to permeate every aspect of our culture. If they continue to decrease in size as they have been doing, they may actually end up being embedded in much of the st
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by davidwees 14y ago
I wrote an online attendance system for my school, which often come with way more features than we need and cost in the range of $50k. It's not $2 million, but $50k is a teacher's salary. In education, that's huge. It took me 2 weeks to set
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by davidwees 15y ago
Aaah, I suggest that the Khan Academy talk to educators, and I am immediately down-voted. Why am I not surprised?
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by davidwees 15y ago
Mathematical notation has been chosen, or developed over time, because it is highly efficient at communicating a huge amount of information in a short amount of space. It is almost as if the natural tendency of mathematical notation is to a
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by davidwees 15y ago
It would be nice if when teachers gave them feedback, they'd act on it. Unfortunately, it seems that any criticism of the Khan Academy is seen as an attack on the whole of the Silicon Valley, and every geek comes out to lead the charge agai