ivan_ah

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by ivan_ah 10y ago
What about free education for kids all over the world? (a standardized curriculum that avoids nationalism, that focusses on group work so students get to know ppl from other countries/cultures at a very early age)
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by ivan_ah 10y ago
Sure, your suggestion works well, but where is the PROBLEM statement? Starting with a comparison to the competitor works only for an existing market. Like OP on the 3 min pitch says, ppl want to hear what problem you're solving, otherw
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by ivan_ah 10y ago
github repo for the tutorial: https://github.com/amueller/scipy-2016-sklearn
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I really like the "Idea Introduction Pattern" template. I think it's a good way to give a concise description of any business project: For [target customers], who are [dissatisfied | frustrated | ...] with [the current
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Is that 12.5% of the list price or 12.5% of the profits? E.g. if the list price $100, the publisher sells it wholesale for $45 and the printing cost is $10, will your royalty be $12.50 or $4.37=(12.5% of $35)?
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In summary, the difference between "fast" programmers and "slow" programmers is not 28 (as per Grant and Sackman folklore), but more in the range 1--7. Specifically, The work time variability tends to be larger for tas
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Amazing essay. It's chock–full of good stuff. I extracted my favourite quotes from it here: https://minireference.com/blog/the-aims-of-education-accordi... (warning long post)
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What Blair said to Bush in memos(bbc.com)
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I always wondered what exactly people mean when they say “controlling for ...” as if somehow they can tell apart cause A and cause B for the effect C. It turns out if you can measure A and B without noise, the whole "controlling for...
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A good "outliner" can take you very far. You can start with a good, logical outline for what you want to write, then just fill in what you need. There are also tools like https://gingkoapp.com which helps with structur
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You raise an interesting point, and you're right that quantum treatment is not necessary in the regime where many light particles pass through the circuit, in which case we can talk about light as a continuous thing, that can be infini
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Very nice. Would be great to explore geometry problems. Another approach towards the same goal is this http://ravichugh.github.io/sketch-n-sketch/
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I see some parallels between J2EE and containers. In both cases it is a platform that runs a "bundled application" with the hope of interoperability and ease of use. Download and deploy the .war (and edit five .xml config files) a
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Python is very good for beginners. It has lists and dictionaries as native objects, which are very versatile. JavaScript is very good too because you have the "developer tools" in your browser and you don't need to install an
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The khan academy code editor is nice like that and avoids infinite loops.
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The paper is on the arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.06526
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Very good article with great observations, and even greater practical recommendations. Anyone working in edtech should read this. I posted a reply my thoughts on the topic here: https://minireference.com/blog/learning-c
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> Were the AZ with the single NAT to go down, then instances in the other AZs wouldn't be able to communicate outside the VPC (ie. to the rest of the internet) Oh I see. Though assuming app servers are wired up behind an ELB, the
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by ivan_ah 10y ago
Very nice. I didn't know about terraform, and seems like a very powerful combo... Can anyone comment as to the differences in functionality between ansible AWS playbooks and terraform? The Segment Stack is a good showcase of best-pract
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+1 for boto (use boto3/botocore for latest stuff, not boto2). I usually click around in the web interface to learn what the options are, then automate the same procedure using a boto script. It's not trivial, but then you never ha
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I am totally biased, but I think my book is a good introduction to math fundamentals (high school) and calculus: https://minireference.com/ preview: https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSgu
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This reminds me of a the dash-plus system for note taking: http://patrickrhone.com/dashplus/
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Okay I found it, though it is quite complicated logic: https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/34b74935bdb0da9f3... also https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/34b74935b
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Does anyone have specifics (code) for this just-in-time loading of images in AMP? I see something related to this here https://www.ampproject.org/docs/get_started/technical_overvi... but do not know enough about A
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I highly recommend reading the Django docs. This is how I got started with web programming, after struggling to get off the ground with PHP and Zope/Plone, it suddenly clicked for me while reading the django docs and I was able to fini
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Something that I've found to work on a lot of the paywalls is to half-load the page and then hit the escape button to stop some of the media and js from loading. The payall script hasn't had time to load yet so you can see the ful
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Our startup is working to fix the mainstream textbook problem. Specifically, I think the biggest ripoffs are the textbooks for first-year students; they're totally full of bullshit, so our mission is to replace them with more concise,
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The ePub and mobi versions are in the works (using softcover + polytexnic), but I'll need to tweak the build script some more. ETA July, but can be sooner if you there is popular demand...
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Very interesting project, since it combines an authoring tool for teachers, printable worksheet generator functionality, and "quiz tool" for students to use. The random problem generation functionality in particular is very powerf
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> these AI services could be a socially awkward fad like Google Glass or a tonedeaf annoyance like Clippy That's my general feeling about most things AI and "chat" these days. I see one or two useful applications, but no

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