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by dubya 14y ago
A/C is less needed in Seattle than in other parts of the US because it cools off substantially at night. I was there two(?) summers ago when some weird inversion layer was both raising the temp (105+ F) and preventing the night time coolin
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by dubya 14y ago
At least on OS X, different users can be logged in to different Dropbox accounts at the same time. So you could use different user accounts for your different tasks, or work out something with shared directories. But, yeah, it's not user
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by dubya 14y ago
Hint: the 't' and 'e' in yell(i,n,m,a,t,e) are irrelevant.
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by dubya 14y ago
This thread would be more informative if the post author had said _what_ he was trying to read. Most math is written to communicate with other mathematicians, so if he grabbed some random paper off of ArXiv then it's not at all surprising
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by dubya 14y ago
Mathematicians have given this some thought. The relevant keyword seems to be "Truchet tilings", though there's a curved variation that's more widely known. Here's a very accessible overview with some lovely generalizations of this patter
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by dubya 14y ago
Cardamom in coffee is quite tasty. It gives some of the flavor of Turkish coffee without all the viscosity.
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by dubya 14y ago
Some condos have a common space that can be reserved for events. Instead of charging when you use it, they charge everyone a little bit through condo fees and then have it available by reservation.
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by dubya 14y ago
I prefer to believe this was the minimum viable product for the DRM market.
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by dubya 14y ago
MS actually has OneNote in the iOS App store as well, though it's surely severely gimped: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-onenote/id41039524...
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by dubya 14y ago
Isn't the new model first-to-file though? So you'd have a second group of robots actually patenting things coming out of the generator.
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by dubya 14y ago
It is super annoying that Apple does not unlock this menu when they unlock phones. Apparently it's present on some, but I don't know which. (The menu being settings > general > network > general data network) Instead, I just j
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by dubya 14y ago
There are sites that I visit regularly and many more sites that I arrive at only through search results. It's the second set of sites that keeps the adblocker turned on. There is an option in Adblocker Plus, I think, to allow non-annoying
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by dubya 14y ago
Wouldn't the person with the gun just demand both codes? And typically a ballot has multiple offices to elect. Would you flip all of them for the "duress" code? It seems like it gets complicated really quickly.
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by dubya 14y ago
This is generally true. I think I learned a lot in the Scala course, but it would be nice to have a human look at the code at some point. And the assignments were more or less fill-in-the-blank. OTOH, this language course http://spanishm
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by dubya 14y ago
A good PDF reader is the minimal requirement, but the organization is more important than the annotation for me. Possibly something like Zotero online would work, but I'd definitely want to see a review or find a store where I could play w
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by dubya 14y ago
I'd be interested to know if there's something like Papers or BibDesk for Android. Something where you can browse ArXiv, save PDFs for later, and then read and optionally mark up what you've saved. Integration with bibtex would be nice as
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by dubya 14y ago
I read this as "if any area is well-served by standardized tests, it's math" rather than "standardized tests are the best thing to happen to math". Sort of like a honey badger is best served by a snake bite. The AMS Notices has an interest
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by dubya 14y ago
Thanks for the link. It seems like the bold claim is supported by a ton of data, as it should be. If this was what Boaler was offering, I think she would have a much stronger case. I skimmed some of the papers on Boaler's site as well, a
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by dubya 14y ago
Mathematicians can definitely be opinionated, but a lot of the problem lies elsewhere. The "suspicion of empirical methods in the social science" is actually pretty well justified, for example the recent replication studies flap in psychol
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by dubya 14y ago
LaTeX does have the frenchspacing option, which does try to make wider spaces between sentences. What's nice about LaTeX is that you can actually tell it what you mean, like "Dr.~Strangelove" has a non-breaking space, while "add the eggs,
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by dubya 14y ago
> Seriously, calculus? I think that not knowing calculus would prevent you from working in a lot of interesting areas where there is an optimization component. Coursera's Machine Learning class is actually a little frustrating because
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by dubya 14y ago
I'm taking this course, and have no idea what the motivation for the cheaters was. But, it would be nice to have some sort of forum where you could discuss your answers after you had successfully completed the homework. I know my code is
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by dubya 14y ago
One more Knoxvillian here. But I'm teaching part time at UT, not working in tech, so no clue on the job situation. ORNL definitely has some interesting tech jobs, but maybe not a ton of them.
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by dubya 14y ago
Generally, you can't compress every n-bit file into an (n-1) bit program because there are twice as many n-bit files as (n-1) bit programs. So the average n-bit file is not compressible. On the other hand, there are clearly some files that
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by dubya 14y ago
I remember that decoding GIFs was pretty advanced for the Atari ST I had as a teen. Compiling C code on a floppy was pretty slow as well.
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by dubya 14y ago
It's not uniformly available in the US either. If the local transit authority publishes the data in the right format, then Google will add it to their maps. I suppose if there's sufficient interest they might write a custom scraper. My lo
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by dubya 14y ago
This is happening to an extent with the wide adoption of the Common Core. Unfortunately, at least with regard to math, this curriculum is not better than all of the state versions it's replacing. I'd rather see something like tying fundin
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by dubya 14y ago
StraightTalk doesn't have LTE. I'm not sure if an iPhone 4S claims it is using 4G as it does on AT&T.
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by dubya 14y ago
I will be happy if there's a way to sync podcasts across devices.
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by dubya 14y ago
It's a mirrored version of Apple's connector. This was an especially goofy choice, as there's already a standard called PDMI they could have used. There's a detailed discussion here: http://www.pocketables.com/forum//showthread.php?p=5594

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