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by emilga 12y ago
How do you stay informed on economics? Any tips or recommendations?
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by emilga 12y ago
I was grading some students' Python code. On the line above a particularly complicated piece of code, there was the single comment #yolo.
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by emilga 13y ago
> I agree with these statements, and I disagree with those. I find both of these reactions to be equally subversive. Whenever I find myself agreeing with something, I'm unwilling to poke around for holes in arguments or question
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by emilga 13y ago
It's the same thing with foreign units of measurement (in, ft, F, stones, etc.). Although I know there is a one-to-one mapping between meters and feet, I only grok a measurement given in meters. There's probably some conditionin
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by emilga 13y ago
Norwegian here. I can't really translate your first quote, but a better translation of the second one is: " 'If it were possible to wait for one-self to enter a room', the British author Rebecca West wrote, 'then th
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by emilga 13y ago
> I’ve been asked over and over for good books about mathematics for a layperson, someone who hasn’t taken advanced courses in university and is more simply interested in learning about what math is, and some of the more interesting hist
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by emilga 13y ago
You might also want to check out the FSI Language Courses [0]. The "Basic" course is probably the one you want. Good luck! [0] http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php?page=Spanish
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by emilga 13y ago
"Clean Code" by Robert C. Martin may be what you're looking for. Basically: express yourself in code. If you feel that some part of your code needs commenting, ask instead if it's possible to rewrite the code so that it
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by emilga 13y ago
I agree. The authors of Genesis 11:1-9 even describe the world's languages as a _punishment_ by God(!): """5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The Lord said, “If as one peop
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by emilga 13y ago
This is great! The only thing missing is a .pdf version. Here's what Minsky himself says [0] about the book: "My first book about artificial intelligence was a book called the Society of Mind and it had one page chapters. And this
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by emilga 13y ago
What can a bitcoin be used for, other than as a medium of exchange, which also increases demand for the remaining bitcoins? To (unqualified) me, this seems the crucial question. If your money is not propped up by government fiat, it better
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by emilga 13y ago
Thanks. I did not know this.
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by emilga 13y ago
On the problem of grasping, can you please comment on this video [1]? Instead of making a robot "hand", they have filled a balloon with ground coffee beans. "Grasping" and "ungrasping" then simply becomes sucki
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by emilga 13y ago
DragonBox does a surprisingly good job at teaching rudimentary algebra.
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by emilga 13y ago
I don't know how the "screen shot" works for a given phone, but it seem your solution could work. But it would still be possible to just videotape a snap.
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by emilga 13y ago
This is really an excellent introduction to programming in python!