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by geomark 7y ago
This. Despite trying to be continuously concious about touching my face I am sometimes surprised that I absent mindedly do it. And now when I do it I am reminded and I immediately pull out my little bottle of hand gel and lather up.
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by geomark 7y ago
Masks also prevent you from absent-mindedly touching your mouth and nose.
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by geomark 7y ago
Average as in mean? I think you might have meant median.
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by geomark 7y ago
Farenheit 451
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by geomark 7y ago
Data analysis of the Spanish flu seems to indicate that it is indeed smart to close before cases appear. A pretty good analysis here: https://twitter.com/NAChristakis/status/1235204443362205699
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by geomark 7y ago
The Expected value would be exactly 3.5 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected_value#Finite_case ). But isn't the question malformed since for a single role only one of the discrete values can come up?
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by geomark 7y ago
I have been wondering about this for a while, because I have some anecdata of a few kids with very strong language aptitude but somewhat weak numeracy. And they are pretty advanced for their ages in learning programming.
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by geomark 7y ago
Isn't the correct answer about 500? Sure, getting exactly 500 would not be highly probable. But getting approximately 500 would be.
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by geomark 7y ago
I like the UV theory, that seasonal decline in UV reduces the chances of virus getting damaged or killed by it. So I'm pinning my hopes on that one to save me from Covad19 because I live in the topices at 400 meter elevation where the
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by geomark 7y ago
We once had a contest at my old company. You would win a valuable prize for giving the best answer to "Define what quality means to you.". Winner by popular vote (not management's vote) was "Quality means doing such a gr
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by geomark 7y ago
That makes sense that competitors who can only compete on price can't keep up the quality due to mold wear even if they do know the recipe for the plastic.
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by geomark 7y ago
I have a bunch of different knock-off brands and, although the quality is pretty good, none approach the quality of Legos. You would think that by now someone would have reverse engineered their manufacturing trade secrets to get the same q
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by geomark 7y ago
I took a close look at Lego's robotics offerings. There didn't use to be many options where I live; Lego was the main one. Had my kid go to a couple of robotics camps based on Lego. They were good. But Lego price versus features w
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by geomark 7y ago
Yeah. Every one of my past employers has been acquired and my old organizations picked apart and my old managers ended up who knows where.
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by geomark 7y ago
This is great. I wish I had seen it before I did the unit on color with the kids in my after school club, although they did have their minds blown slightly when I made the screen on my cell phone all yellow and then put it under a microscop
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by geomark 7y ago
Where I live the year isn't 2020. So, meh.
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by geomark 7y ago
Interesting idea. I have a very confident and talkative kid who is not shy about approaching adults. I bet he could collect lots of contact information.
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by geomark 7y ago
I have noticed that it doesn't have much effect after a while. The students are like, meh, someone gets an award every week, and eventually it rolls around to my turn unless I really screw up. The effect on parents seems bigger, which
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by geomark 7y ago
Motor skills, certainly. But not fine motor skills, obviously. There's a pretty big difference between getting within a cm of accuracy needed to press a key and drawing submillimeter-accurate curves. An aspiring artist or surgeon cer
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by geomark 7y ago
Digital devices are harmful to younger kids. Indeed. Results of a study published in November 2019 [1] actually show a structural difference between preschool age children who experience a lot of screen time and those who don't. Myel
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by geomark 7y ago
There are (or were, it was a while ago) rare exceptions. The community college I went to had a deal with CalTech that if a student aced all 4 semester of physics at the CC they did not have to take some of the entrance exams. So it was actu
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by geomark 7y ago
There are also block-based coding IDEs. I have taught physical computing to primary school kids using it.
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by geomark 7y ago
I think it is broader than that. Maybe it is becoming a cliche already, but I think being able to code is a new literacy that everyone should learn even if they are not going to become software engineers or computer scientists. It's ju
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by geomark 7y ago
I'd like to hear more about dangers of including programming in early stages. Can you comment or link to something about it?
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by geomark 7y ago
The article talks about a few things that they call inventions, like making interconnections across what would normally be scribe lines. But I personally worked on wafer scale integration about 25 years ago and we were already doing that. W
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by geomark 7y ago
Then you consider that the total unsubsidized out of pocket cost for a surgery at a private hospital in one of the medical tourism destinations amounts to only a few months of premiums. And on top of it the service and hospitality with whic
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by geomark 7y ago
You are correct indeed. That's why some countries in SEA are major medical tourism destinations for many people from western countries.
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by geomark 7y ago
Certainly there must be geniuses who are quite the opposite, who are so masterful at social skills that they are able to bend the masses to their wills while seeming most pleasant.
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by geomark 7y ago
"...hands and mind together..." mens et manus - does MIT really practice that or is it just a motto with no action behind it?
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by geomark 7y ago
I didn't grow up there during that time, but moved there in the late 70's. There were indeed many smoggy days. But surprisingly it got much better after about 10 years. I assume it was a result of stricter regulations. These days

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