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by dubya 11y ago
The quote is about a pair of university courses. Students, and probably just people in general, are really bad at knowing what they have learned.
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by dubya 11y ago
Frustratingly, Donald Knuth still uses the bitmap versions; see any of the TAOCP fascicles. I don't mind the appearance that much, but OS X does a terrible job handling files with bitmap fonts.
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by dubya 11y ago
This is likely heresy, but the virgin birth is not really central to Christianity. It ties the events of the NT with certain readings of the OT as prophecy. It's part of the Nicene creed, although not the original version. OTOH, sho
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by dubya 12y ago
There's a nice intro to this type of problem for kids (maybe 2nd grade and up) called "Anno's Hat Tricks".
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by dubya 12y ago
Not a robot, but Persi Diaconis (mathematician and magician) built a coin-flipping machine. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1697475
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by dubya 12y ago
Two spaces is a sensible convention for distinguishing inter-word spaces from inter-sentence spaces. If it's being typeset then the spacing can be adjusted then. It's also not true that this is just a convention left over from ty
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by dubya 12y ago
Running Linux or OS X?
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by dubya 12y ago
You could motorize it so it moves maybe half a desk width per day in the absence of any other movement. Just put a rubbish bin on the downstream end.
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by dubya 12y ago
For what it's worth, the installer app contains a .pkg for the JRE that you can install by the normal methods. OTOH, the Flash installer used to contain a normal package, but no longer does.
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by dubya 12y ago
There was an X-Files episode with this idea. Something Jesus said ("Talitha cumi") was recorded in a piece of pottery.
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by dubya 12y ago
If it's really a problem, couldn't you map maybe shift-space to underscore?
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by dubya 12y ago
This paper has 7 explicit examples of the universality phenomenon, including the bus scheduling. http://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0603038 It's moderately technical, but really interesting.
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by dubya 12y ago
I don't know of the legal status, but I believe the GPL originated when Stallman and others wanted access to the source code for the drivers of a printer. Anyone who uses the software, which is anyone who uses the hardware, should hav
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by dubya 12y ago
This varies between schools. At my current school it's fairly straightforward to say "I saw this student looking at X's paper" and show that the answers are more similar than would be expected. Multiply choice would be
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by dubya 12y ago
Oded Schramm died in 2008 on solo climb in Washington State. Really should have won a Fields medal for his work on SLE (Schramm-Loewner evolution), as his collaborator Wendelin Werner received.
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by dubya 12y ago
This looks glitchier than the original for some reason, probably just sheer numbers. Balls bouncing off the bottom of lines that are moving away appear to jump.
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by dubya 12y ago
There are a series of math texts called Beast Academy that are comic book format. There is a lot of enthusiasm for them on some homeschool forums, so those might be places to try to drum up interest.
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by dubya 12y ago
Potentially even more useful is the split view. Unfortunately, it only does horizontal splits, and only two at a time. I need to search again sometime for a reader with vertical splits, as horizontal splits are mostly useless on a little
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by dubya 12y ago
I think one big plus for LaTeX is its slowly changing nature. Word was appalling 15-20 years ago for writing technical papers. If you gave up then and learned TeX/LaTeX, you're most likely over the learning hump by now and have
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by dubya 12y ago
Supercaps are in Mazda 3's, so the parts are available. The system is call i-eloop. I think they're just used for powering accessories so far.
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by dubya 12y ago
I keep hoping someone will use Jason Davies' D3 map stuff to project a globe on a polyhedron and then split it over multiple pages so you can make larger globes, and add tabs for gluing. See http://www.jasondavies.com/
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by dubya 12y ago
The keyboard part definitely doesn't make sense. The Macbook air 11 inch I'm typing on has 7/16" of flat part on both sides of the keyboard, so trimming the width by 1/4" would require no rearrangement at all.
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by dubya 12y ago
I think Devlin has useful things to say about math education sometimes, but his argument here is terrible. The big mistake is conflating the CCSS eight basic mathematical principles with the actual curricula as implemented by the textbook p
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by dubya 12y ago
Reading the Mindstorms book made me want the Lego Logo kit for my kids. The things in the book seemed like mostly basic Lego constructions with a bit of automation added, which seems more accessible than the Technic based set, which requir
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by dubya 12y ago
\displaystyle makes things in $...$ format like things in \[...\] but still inline, so it doesn't squash fractions. \dot puts a dot, usually meaning a time derivative.
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by dubya 12y ago
You also miss the booklet and liner notes. Whether this matters is probably genre-specific. Jazz in particular has more meta-data than is ever encoded in an mp3, and if it was encoded, players don't support showing it. Classical has
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by dubya 12y ago
It's not just signing, there's sandboxing too. Some apps have avoided the app store or have somewhat less-capable app store versions because of the sandboxing. I'd actually love if they could get the Flash plug-in into the a
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by dubya 12y ago
They won't know how to use specific libraries, but they can sometimes help with things like how to install iPython on a Mac or Windows machine. It does seem like some of this would make a good online course. There's some good stu
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by dubya 12y ago
This sounds like a gap in the curriculum that could be filled by grad students. I'm not in CS, but I know that the bioinformatics students have organized a course that covers some basics of the unix command line tools, probably becaus
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by dubya 12y ago
The reality is that this data is already out there. Faculty will us whatever is most convenient, and that's never been BlackBoard or whatever the official IT service is. Student grades will end up in DropBox or in a Google doc, FERPA

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