heymijo

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Do you use lists?
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Yes, #mtbos - The Math Twitter Blogosphere Tremendous community of math educators from pre-k through professors. Education has horrible silos, especially up and down the stack. Twitter gave this community an opportunity to break those silos
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In the event GP doesn't respond, I probably have the same unsatisfactory answer that the Q&A from the link does: we don't yet know. I too, have the same interest regarding insulin spikes from artificial sweeteners and spent co
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This just, kind of blows my mind. What is management if not people? I mean Drucker's very definition of management is the idea of organizing a group of people to drive towards a common aim where you learn how to make each individuals&#
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Thanks for the explanation. I've got a working theory: most people, even managers, even lauded ones, don't know much about "textbook" management. They mostly manage how they were managed, some picking up a few things her
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"A lot of textbook management techniques..." Can you unpack this? Would like to hear more.
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Clair Patterson, during a 60 year quest to prove that lead in our modern environment was harmful, went to tremendous lengths to find evidence of pre-industrial levels of lead. This is the guy who invented the clean room and associated techn
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Once upon a time I went to a basketball camp at the College of Wooster. Thanks for the suggestion!
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Ask HN: Liberal arts colleges with strong CS programs?
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They began with black cars because that was the original idea from Garrett Camp. Something on the scale of UberX wouldn't be fathomed by the Uber folks for several years yet. Then, competition showed them the way [1]. "Now, an imp
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I'm reminded of Marc Andreessen's guide to startups, particularly on firing executives: "Demotion as an alternative to firing (or, alternately, "I know, we'll hire her a boss!"). Hate it. Great people don'
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I agree on the audio production but maybe it's just a taste I have not acquired. What really surprised me is how lauded this podcast has been. I was expecting at least the level of depth of YC's Startup School series from a few ye
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This is the underlying issue why Amazon is not ready to be a one-stop clothing shop.
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Wow, I knew almost none of that! Thanks for the history. I hope you do make it back to Columbus one day to start that tech company.
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The saddest part of doing this to teachers is that it's students who always lose the most.
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Ugh, that kind of teaching, whether from tech or a teacher just kills me as I suspect it kills students' dispositions towards those subjects. I truly hope that your daughter has many other opportunities to engage in meaningful mathema
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Depends on your state. I'm in Ohio and that's perfectly permissible. Under the Ohio Revised Code and the State Operating Standards for Schools you could do that and have it be considered a) home schooling or b) a private school wh
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We can also look at tech from the student side of things: There is some nice software out there. Desmos comes to mind. https://teacher.desmos.com But most software that makes its way into schools is not Desmos. It's usually
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That's not surprising. Let's take a look at this from the teacher side of things: Next let's substitute computers for manipulatives (something you can model math with such as a place value block) for the educational treatment
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The main thing we can learn from history, is that we do not in fact learn from history. That's what I have taken from B.H. Liddell Hart's great little book "Why Don't We Learn From History?" and it is exactly what i
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When was Columbus, Ohio an internet and tech hub? Are you somehow referring to Batelle? https://www.battelle.org/about-us Genuinely curious. I used to live in Columbus and knew it mainly for retailers (Express, Limited Bran
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We can conjecture all we'd like, but Sam Quinones wrote a rather definitive history of the opioid epidemic in America. https://www.amazon.com/Dreamland-True-Americas-Opiate-Epidem... Sam ran the podcast circuit awhile
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Yes and it goes beyond homelessness and crime. Social services, never built to handle an epidemic like this, are overrun. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/17/ohio-drugs-c... Hospitals are ill
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Early 30's as well. After picking and choosing random episodes I went back to the beginning to listen chronologically. Agree wholeheartedly about von Meister. Something I've been thinking about lately stems from Chapter 2 about Mi
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This caught my attention: "...insurmountable issue with applying formal statistics to any sort of meta-studies..." If I wanted to get a better understanding of what formed your opinion on this, where might I look? P.S. I enjoyed t
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I live this ad nauseam in education. Legislators, administrators, and boards often say they want creativity (or innovation). Yet there is almost no tolerance for (or even awareness?) of what it takes. My purview in education is broad and th
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Employer-sponsored healthcare in the U.S. is an accident of history. How we got to now: 1. Roosevelt chose to forego nationalizing healthcare when he introduced social security in the 30's, fearing it would doom both to failure. 2. The
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"I have learned nothing." - Ted Seides
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"An important part of how this funding was carried out was not just to find the best scientists, but to create them." Is anyone doing this today? Bell Labs had this practice in the early 20th century, ARPA, Xerox PARC, and DEC it
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That is much snappier than Google Maps.

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