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by imb 14d ago
1. Students with no prior programming experience start with Logo (in-house version). 2. Logo is of course not strictly necessary, but for beginners, especially if they have had no interest in coding or have math/problem solving anxiety
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by imb 14d ago
The original link seems to work for me, but yes, the book is "Lines and Curves: A Practical Geometry Handbook"
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by imb 15d ago
For many years, our students[0] have used Logo as an integral part of their math circle-style[1] classes. When we started Wally Feurzeig, one of the creators of Logo, was instrumental in helping us incorporate ideas from Logo into the kind
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Study Turns Central Dogma on Its Head(genengnews.com)
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High Schoolers Win Congressional Data Challenge(labs.loc.gov)
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Why Decentralization Matters(medium.com)
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Civil, the blockchain-based journalism marketplace(niemanlab.org)
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Gathering in Remembrance of Vladimir Voevodsky(youtube.com)
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by imb 9y ago
Others have had similar complaints for a while and Google/Firebase has not resolved them: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38959321/firebase-databas...
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by imb 10y ago
A laptop is probably not the best idea for deep learning, but you can certainly use one as a terminal to connect to a much more powerful gpu-optimized server. I'm curious to hear what others are using for their deep learning setup.
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Decentralized digital library controlled by the community(lbry.io)
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Winners of the 2016 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards(sjawards.aaas.org)
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Dataviz: Explore how illegal drugs have become cheaper and more potent over time(statnews.com)
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World's Top Arms Exporters and Importers (D3.js Visualization)(insightfulinteraction.com)
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World's Top Arms Importers Visualized(insightfulinteraction.com)
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World's Top Arms Exporters Visualized(insightfulinteraction.com)
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by imb 12y ago
No personal account yet, but tweeting about computer science and math issues on behalf of our education organization. Looking for interesting people/projects to follow. https://twitter.com/gentleknowledge
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FSB forces founder of largest Russian social network to give up company(twitter.com)
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Theory, Pattern Recognition, and Neural Networks Lectures(videolectures.net)
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Pi Calculus(en.wikipedia.org)
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Cicada 3301(en.wikipedia.org)
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Electronic Carjacking (youtube.com)
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Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil (2012)(theguardian.com)
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Massachusetts Introduces Software Service Tax(masslive.com)
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Coding Across America(codingacrossamerica.com)
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Kasparov Will Not Return to Russia(chessbase.com)
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The Fallacy of Human Freedom(nationalinterest.org)
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Donald Knuth on Computer Science and its Relation to Mathematics(mathdl.maa.org)
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App that creates coffee shop hum and helps concentration(well.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Feynman: Mathematicians versus Physicists(youtube.com)
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