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by frossie 17y ago
I assume The Turk was being funny rather than actually being from Alcatraz?
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by frossie 17y ago
I was more impressed by that before I bought the app and saw they had spelled Celsius as Celcius... I mean if you are going to piss around with fonts and colours for so long, you would think someone would get the names of the units right (w
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by frossie 17y ago
In other words (in case that was too succint for the OP) - just wait a while and you will be able to reply. It's supposed to keep the lid on flamewars.
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by frossie 17y ago
I agree about the homogeneous culture comment - even if it was true (which I accept your point that it isn't) I still don't understand what "a culture that has a consistent way of thinking about mathematics" means! You have expressed some v
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by frossie 17y ago
Not sure what conclusion you can draw from that - it was a self-selected sample. For example I didn't vote because of the non-existent "academia/research" option. I think if you wanted to get a better handle of how many women are in HN, a p
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by frossie 17y ago
Confused. The OP says it was a hidden feature, not a press release?
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by frossie 17y ago
For those who find this too long, I suggest you skip to the "Bar none" graphic insert about 2/3 of the way down. I would be interested if anybody here would defend the "Guess and Check" method, because personally I find it a terrible way to
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Miracle Math (2006)(educationnext.org)
7 points by frossie 17y ago|3 comments
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by frossie 17y ago
The ads are too invasive The results presentation is confusing in that if I specify 5 ingredients, I should be able to get the recipe with all 5 at the top of the list. In fact I get one that uses 4/5 at the top and the one that uses 5/5 lo
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by frossie 17y ago
Is there some reference for the statement that they are failing to chase monetisation solutions because they are "unsexy" as opposed to some other reason?
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by frossie 17y ago
My first thought was to just post the answer to save people the bother, but I didn't want to spoil the submitter's game. At least having the links there might shave a few seconds off the time we are wasting on this story.
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by frossie 17y ago
Clickable links: http://www.microsoft.com/businessproductivity/default.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/poland/businessproductivity/default...
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by frossie 17y ago
Huge thanks for digging that up. Not surprisingly, it doesn't say what one might think after reading the OP, with its mention of Catholic guilt. First, the term guilt is used here to describe any kind of emotional discomfort (eg. anxiety)
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by frossie 17y ago
Unfortunately, the primary source material is behind a paywall, so I can't reference it directly. Personally, I have a negative gut reaction to guilting kids into doing what you want. I think it is a technique that is manipulative and not i
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by frossie 17y ago
You're missing my point I think you are missing your own point. Faced with 99 head tosses, you think the 100th should be heads because it proves the system is gamed (eg. the coin is biased). The article addresses people who believe that f
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by frossie 17y ago
As does the google calculator widget: http://www.google.com/ig/directory?hl=en&url=www.google....
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by frossie 17y ago
"Your experience has allowed you to do your job better. [...] O'Reilly is a [...] pundit" Well the thing about pundits is, they know people, and people listen to them. Now don't get me wrong - I see inefficiencies in IT infrastructure eve
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by frossie 17y ago
Now, I dont read any article on mashable or techcrunch before I read user comments on that article on HN. I am guessing everybody has sites that fall into the category of "check HN comments first, and only then follow the link". I also do
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by frossie 17y ago
"it’s just an issue of IT planning" I don't think it is. I think I recognise this problem - this is a case where the customer does not know what they want, because they lack the necessary background to formulate their needs or define th
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by frossie 17y ago
My preferences change over time. How can a good recommendation algorithm account for that? I'm confused. You just re-rate the discrepancies - I do that routinely (some movies seem okay after you watch them, then a few days later you reali
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by frossie 17y ago
Let me get this right. Dude doesn't bother to rate movies, and then complains that an algorithm based on movie ratings fails to read his mind? If you keep putting on Criterion discs on your queue and then fail to watch them or rate them, wh
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by frossie 17y ago
Depends who you compare yourselves with: http://www.milkproduction.com/Library/Articles/Milk_prices_a...
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by frossie 17y ago
It also doesn't do what the OP thinks it does. It's more like a Hawthorne effect - eventually your body adjusts to anything. A few years ago I had to give up nicotine (and caffeine and alcohol) cold turkey; I did not become appreciably dumb
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by frossie 17y ago
"The housing bubble was BLATANT. No black swans involved." Yes, but what was not blatant was that the housing bubble popping would kill Lehman Brothers, cause runs on banks and almost bring down the whole world economy. Taleb's point is t
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by frossie 17y ago
Okay, fair enough, but I have a soft spot for Reader's Digest. When I was growing up in a small country a long time ago on a continent far away, Reader's Digest was a window into american life in easy-to-understand English. The coupons were
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by frossie 17y ago
Quite a thin piece this one. The interviewer at one point says: " Old-line psychologists such as Piaget thought that children didn't understand cause-and-effect until they were well into their school years. " I'd like to know where they thi
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by frossie 17y ago
I am also not sure why it matters - we switched 3,000,000+ lines of code from subversion to git, but the effort was not really correlated with LOC. The major overhead of switching from subversion to git is the learning hit on the developers
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by frossie 17y ago
Also, I worry about the health-related question part - aggregating data sets of medical data is a serious business; it's not just a case of pooling it all together. If there is really a specific question of interest, either gather data from
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by frossie 17y ago
I realise it's off-topic (and I am somewhat cranky), but it's not the level of the explanation that is the problem - it's the way it seems to be addressed to a 7 year old ( "He's smart!" , "It's amazing" ). As an adult, I personally would
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by frossie 17y ago
(sidestepping the actual issue because I do not have an informed opinion) "Interdisciplinary curriculum? If you're teaching a historical novel, Requa explained, English and history are linked, and students learn in greater context." Actua

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