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by ethbr0 3y ago
Do you remember the first time you found math "hard"? What was your teacher like? What was your experience like? Honestly curious! (as someone who cried memorizing multiplication tables)
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Indeed. I think the most cost, effective, and resource-efficient pedagogical method for undergrad would be {best video} + {played in a lecture all} + {with a TA breaking the video into chunks and asking for questions} + {TA session with sma
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by ethbr0 3y ago
I'm of the opinion that no one is bad at math. But as the article says, math is challenging and precise , in ways other subjects aren't. There isn't always one and exactly one English answer: they have smoother correct&#x2
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Also, the generative model isn't understanding precisely enough. You or I would read that and, asked to write a set of instructions, think "Hmm, there are a lot of idiots out there. I'm going to choose particular words that k
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by ethbr0 3y ago
>> "Compared to the private sector, even getting the cost of an RS-25 engine down to $70.5 million is a preposterously high price. Blue Origin manufactures engines of comparable power and size, the BE-4, for less than $20 millio
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New report finds NASA has spent an obscene amount of money on SLS propulsion(arstechnica.com)
2 points by ethbr0 3y ago|2 comments
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by ethbr0 3y ago
The difference is that in personal mortgages the house isn't expected to be cash flow positive. The bank extending a residential mortgage is securing against default with the asset (house), but they're guaranteeing the income st
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Serve as a trusted name conduit for a lot of shady products.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Some direct link context on ground proximity warning system (GPWS) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_proximity_warning_sys... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrain_awareness_and_warnin... O
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by ethbr0 3y ago
You're joking, but you're not wrong. The lack of emotional (and explicitly confrontational) experiences in modern society are underdeveloping skills to deal with them. Consequently, you get childish spats over what should be a te
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by ethbr0 3y ago
110%. Any organization that lacks transparency in decision-making and accountability (that is, attribution of decisions to specific people) devolves into a shadow-hierarchy. Which is even worse than an explicit hierarchy, because it provi
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Add in a mandatory portion of device sales that goes to responsibly-disclosed vulnerability bounties. It'd have some side effects of centralizing handset manufacture into a few manufacturers (and core component suppliers) and/or p
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by ethbr0 3y ago
If we're going to see an AI spike and bust, we're just at the beginning of it. Nvidia is pricing on actual revenue growth (~16%?) and projected growth (~20%). Since 2016 they've been killing it. AI will turn into a bubble whe
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Pretty sure that would result in juvenile orcas rolling their eyes and telling us "That's so last year."
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by ethbr0 3y ago
If I were a long-lived species that had relatively low numbers of offspring with an extended maturation time spent in social groups... ... it seems pretty reasonable that a death could trigger a lifelong vendetta. If humans were casually ki
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by ethbr0 3y ago
As a counterpoint, if someone asks these questions in an interview of me, they'd still go to the "Had questions prepared" higher slice of rankings. Prepared questions indicate you have initiative and do your homework. I'
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by ethbr0 3y ago
If they didn't end up in control of the Bosporus Straits, they probably wouldn't have been. But world as it is, etc.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
The book's better, if you liked the movie. It was actually the first "adult" book I read. Maybe when I was 9? I told my father I was bored of school books, and he handed it to me. As well as Clancy's other stuff! Just st
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by ethbr0 3y ago
It was published by the (US) Naval Institute Press, their first published work of fiction. [0] And yes. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SMCoIwsaRVw&t=1m31s [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt
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by ethbr0 3y ago
The key element for both distributed storage and open source codebases appears to be refresh/review frequency. Which is similar, but slightly different than popularity. Essentially "With what frequency will someone put eyeballs on
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by ethbr0 3y ago
I dunno if I'd trust Google hardware from a reliability and support standpoint.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
There's a difference between safety and consistency.
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The operative word there is "our"
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>> Historian Geoffrey Roberts recently wrote: “Could war have been prevented by a Russian-Western deal that halted NATO expansion and neutralised Ukraine in return for solid guarantees of Ukrainian independence and sovereignty? Quite
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by ethbr0 3y ago
The one where the US claimed hegemony over the western hemisphere?
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Microsoft post: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2023/05/24/vol...
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Microsoft: Chinese hackers hit key US bases on Guam(bbc.com)
4 points by ethbr0 3y ago|1 comments
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by ethbr0 3y ago
The older I get, the more I'm convinced the secrets of life come in contradictory tuples, and the application of all elements at appropriate time and in appropriate ways. Zen koans were onto something. {"You are not your lines of
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by ethbr0 3y ago
> Information workers and factory workers are different. Should they be, in terms of work-life balance?
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by ethbr0 3y ago
The thing I don't get is why more people don't choose */5 (aka adjusts every 5 years) or similar ARMs, if they're going adjustable. Rates aren't that different than more aggressive adjustables (i.e. */1), and i

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