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by dubya 8y ago
It used to be a problem that you couldn't cut and paste text from TeX-generated PDFs, and I assume this would be a problem for screen readers. I think the dvi->pdf conversion produced a PDF consisting mostly of coordinates and char
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by dubya 8y ago
Twelve hours of video for $20, if you only watch it once, does not qualify as 'prohibitively expensive'.
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by dubya 8y ago
I really enjoyed Marilynne Robinson's "Death of Adam: essays on modern thought". It's a pretty wide-ranging indictment of the "glib and dismissive" nature of a lot of modern thought. It won't help you re
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by dubya 8y ago
I don't think there are any "must-reads", but I'll recommend the Ramona series by Beverly Cleary as fantastic read-alouds for kids age five or older. My older child (12 now) and I really enjoyed Bill Bryson's &quot
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by dubya 9y ago
I'm getting this on Comcast in Knoxville. https://1.0.0.1 works fine, and https://1.1.1.1 works on my phone if I turn off wifi.
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by dubya 9y ago
The author of the article is a "tenured professor at a large public research-oriented university", which isn't a female dominated profession, and isn't a good job if you're looking for a 30 hour work week. The stat
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by dubya 9y ago
> That people can say that with a straight face indicated to me that we have a real problem in teacher education [0]. The standards you link may be different than what is addressed in lesson plans that have been handed down with only inc
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by dubya 9y ago
I wasn't addressing the article, just the GP. My experience was with my daughter's school. She was in 1st grade five years ago, but through 4th grade she was still bringing home piles of worksheets that had been done in class, a
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by dubya 9y ago
What is actually done is that teachers have children do tons of worksheets focusing on small aspects of reading. This allows teachers to check the boxes showing that they've covered the relevant standards, because this is what's
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by dubya 9y ago
Apart from his interesting ideas about infinity, Zeilberger has things to say about math contests. See http://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/Opinion71.html I'd love to find a modern equivalent of the "gilyo
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by dubya 9y ago
Math contests are not related to standardized testing. The contests are entirely extra-curricular, and probably mostly benefit those kids who have exhausted their school's standard curriculum.
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by dubya 9y ago
Safari has this as well. I've taken to using private mode for just about everything, mostly because I click on so many random links to Amazon, and Amazon is so aggressive about trying to sell you things you've clicked while logged
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by dubya 9y ago
My favorite example is one of the Poppleton books, where in one chapter the librarian is a chicken, and in the next, the pig is having chicken noodle soup.
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by dubya 9y ago
My local Ace hardware will be getting glasses in tomorrow, supposedly. Plan B is this improvement on the pinhole projector: http://richardsont.people.cofc.edu/safe_solar_folder/index.h...
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by dubya 9y ago
I have this weird memory of Tom Hudson, former Atari developer who I think ended up at Autocad, listening to the Rambo II soundtrack while developing. Not sure why this memory stuck. http://www.atarimagazines.com/startv3n3&
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by dubya 9y ago
I was still deciding between "ODED GIRL SHE BRUSH TWICE" and "ODED MANY THE KNUTH SLAVE". This makes more sense.
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by dubya 9y ago
The event detection really isn't good enough to rely on yet. I've also run into the problem that the default settings for auto-created events are bad. Things like an alarm 10 minutes before a flight, or appointments being hidden
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by dubya 9y ago
Safari has uBlock Origin now, so adblocking is decent. What I still use Firefox for is tree-style tabs, which as far as I know isn't a possibility in Safari.
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by dubya 9y ago
I don't think Pearson has such materials for upper level courses. They could probably figure out a way to be contractors for the courses no on wants to teach though, if they can find a way to work for less than lecturers do.
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by dubya 9y ago
I stopped grading homework in mid-level math classes except for completion. If students turn in something, they get credit, and I grade two or three problems, of their choosing, carefully to give them feedback on their proof writing. I st
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by dubya 10y ago
As a parent, I dread seeing worksheets come home with my kids that are obviously downloaded from the web. It's mostly been busy work dressed up with clip-art, or just totally unvetted by the teacher (e.g. "fun" word puzzles
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by dubya 10y ago
I agree. I had to dust off my WRT54G for a few days when my modern router died. I accidentally switched it to https only, and none of Safari, Chrome and Firefox would connect to it because of the SSL version.
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by dubya 10y ago
I replaced my router a few weeks ago (lightning!) on Comcast and the configuration was completely automatic. Maybe I had to enter my comcast id and password, but I didn't have to call anyone and it was done in just a few minutes. Thi
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by dubya 10y ago
One of the more interesting ideas I've come across was for teaching reading. Basically you present the text in editable form and let the student rearrange and rewrite and add their own thoughts "between the lines". It really
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by dubya 10y ago
It's widely accepted to use an apostrophe s to form the plural of single digit numbers. See, for example, https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/punctuation/apostrophe (This comes up a lot in math for variable names t
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by dubya 10y ago
No reverse engineering required: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/abcde.html It would be interesting to know at least if it was using the same algorithms.
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by dubya 10y ago
My inlaws have a bird clock, the kind that plays a different bird song at each hour. Cats figure out which birds to listen for.
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by dubya 10y ago
If you long press the reload button, you can "Reload Without Content Blockers".
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by dubya 10y ago
I'll add Flexeez (US name) or Wammy (European name), a geometric construction toy originally from Japan, I think. My 10yo figured out all of the Platonic solids using it, and then moved on to hyperbolic shapes. Also made lots of hats
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New free security scanner checks Internet of Things devices(betanews.com)
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