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by gsinclair 1y ago
Anyone who learned to read before their third birthday is exceptional and not an example from which we can draw inferences. But good on her! My son is similarly talented with language and it’s a beautiful thing to watch.
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by gsinclair 1y ago
Such a unique and wonderful contribution to the culture. RIP
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by gsinclair 1y ago
Tabula Rasa is such a beautiful modern masterpiece.
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by gsinclair 1y ago
Praise be to this comment!
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by gsinclair 1y ago
I think anything that is chock full of backslashes and braces can surely be improved upon.
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by gsinclair 1y ago
I heard that from a lecturer too. It really stuck in the memory.
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by gsinclair 1y ago
Because US culture is exported around the world.
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by gsinclair 1y ago
A human-readable game save file is presumably human-editable.
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by gsinclair 2y ago
I don’t understand the negative talk about Cocomelon. Kids learn a lot through songs. Cocomelon is full of songs. My son enjoys singing many of them. I’m happy with this.
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by gsinclair 2y ago
And I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s still the best language for teaching programming to a novice. At least for a little while.
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by gsinclair 2y ago
When I scrolled down on mobile, the butterfly was no longer visible.
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by gsinclair 2y ago
That abbreviates to LCD. If we could make it LSD somehow, that would help to explain the hallucinations.
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by gsinclair 2y ago
Lesson plans are inherently individual to a teacher. So even if a year’s worth of lesson plans was created and shared, and even if I thought they were good, it would still take non-negligible time for me to absorb them and mentally plan how
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by gsinclair 2y ago
Grover thinks the purpose of Markdown is that the author knows what HTML tags will be generated. That was his purpose, but it’s long outgrown that!
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by gsinclair 2y ago
Something more talky is Real Analysis by Jay Cummings. Great book!
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by gsinclair 2y ago
Love it. Just two questions from curiosity. One. In your experience of using it for a while now, what is a typical tree size? What’s the highest it’s ever been? Two. Why did you write it in C? Several other languages would surely make it mu
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by gsinclair 2y ago
The depth of talent here is unbelievable. Thanks Tom!
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by gsinclair 2y ago
I have some specific ideas on high school maths education that I’d like to develop into a book or two for self-publishing. Working is currently one serious obstacle to that.
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by gsinclair 2y ago
I use an iPad Pro as a teacher. I value the pencil and the screen size. Much of what I do ultimately involves A4 paper, so the screen size is a good match. A lot of teachers now project their iPad screen wirelessly in class, sometimes almos
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by gsinclair 3y ago
Society as a whole suffers because of the disrespect shown. Every person committing the act you describe edges society marginally closer to a world in which little respect is shown at all. (I acknowledge this is specious!)
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by gsinclair 3y ago
I don’t get it. I see Palestinian advocacy all over the place.
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by gsinclair 3y ago
I recommend checking out uiua.org for fun. The docs are well written and the concepts, while foreign to most, are ultimately accessible and interesting. k and uiua are in different branches of the APL family.
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by gsinclair 3y ago
Completely different. But I think the other ones you mention are great too,
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by gsinclair 3y ago
My little boy has loved them since ~12 months. He doesn’t get the concepts, of course, but they are [1] so well written with the infant, and the adult reader, in mind. And one day he will get the concepts earlier than I ever did. His first
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by gsinclair 3y ago
“Bad” depends on purpose. For teaching novices a bit is programming, I think old-school BASIC with line numbers and goto is hard to beat.
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by gsinclair 3y ago
I believe the continuum hypothesis is an example of an undecidable statement. That is, we know that the integers have cardinality of “aleph null”, the smallest infinity. And we know how to construct the “next” level of infinity using someth
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by gsinclair 3y ago
Fair, but one aspect of functionality is highlighting local landmarks like schools, so a viewer can more easily get their bearings.
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by gsinclair 3y ago
GP said the rage was appropriate. I think you responded as if GP said the rage was inappropriate. Or did I miss an edit?
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by gsinclair 3y ago
Try a shaving supplies website, I think.
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by gsinclair 3y ago
> Why shouldn't each student receive a kind of individual plan where they can have lessons and classes tailored to their needs? A nice idea that runs aground in reality, due to typical teenager personality characteristics and the t

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