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by ivansavz 5y ago
same ideas explained in video format: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww47bR86wSc
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non-paywalled link: https://archive.md/XvYAL
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Bonhoeffer’s Theory of Stupidity Explains the World Perfectly(medium.com)
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Here is a direct link to the Lancet review article "Open-source automated insulin delivery: international consensus statement and practical guidance for health-care professionals": https://www.thelancet.com/journal
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Thanks. The concept maps were created using CmapTools, in case you're interested: https://cmap.ihmc.us/ It's a GUI tool for drawing, but the underlying format is some sort of XML so it could potentially be compute
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> to locally remove some sites via an /etc/hosts entry +1 for this. It helped me a lot to reduce usage. I can now go for weeks without checking news sites, and I must say my mental health has been much better for it. The need f
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disclaimer: self-promotion ahead, highly relevant but still... > RE: resources for filling in the gaps I recently published a book titled No Bullshit Guide to Mathematics that has precisely the goal of reviewing concepts form high scho
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I recognize your two categories of bad math books and would like to add a third: commercial textbook publishers "padding" the pages with filler. It seems every book made for first-year undergraduate students is 10x thicker than it
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> It's basically one big graph of concepts True that. I have created a bunch of concept maps for my books in order to show readers this graph. It's really useful to find your way in a new field, to keep track of your progress,
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Slightly better version here https://archive.org/details/ZeldovichYaglomHigherMathematics (the PDF is 20MB instead of 150MB and the text has been OCR-ed)
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Thx for the tip. I managed to get it working. Here are the additions to ~/.vimrc in case anyone is interested (this after installing vim-plug https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug#unix and running :PlugInstall as p
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Does anyone know how to get the narrow column at the center of the screen in full screen mode pictured in the article using vim settings? see https://breckyunits.com/writeThin.png I tried :set textwidth=<tw>, but tha
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+1 about the tall and narrow, especially for editing. I used to work from my friend's office who has these giant monitor that can pivot 90 degrees and I was easily 1.5x or 2x more productive given how much text was on the screen (almos
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Github has a similar thing called an account "successor" you can setup. More info here: https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-an...
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For me, I never got into using it much (due to lack of experience with Mathematica syntax). I had some niche uses like "how many work days between <date1> and <date2>" but that's hardly so important. Instead I use
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Yes! SymPy is a beautiful thing. Between using it on the command line, or in jupyter notebooks, or the live shell online at https://live.sympy.org , students have the best-in-class computer algebra system easily accessible. For
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by ivansavz 5y ago
I'm assuming you don't know what the term means in general, not specific to beej71's comment Flipped classroom = instructional approach in which "lectures" are pre-recorded and watched by students and home, while cl
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It's a good book indeed. Here is another quote about metis , which I reread every time I need inspiration: https://markpasc.org/blog/gems/athena.html
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QFUD — it's a little hard to pronounce, but I like it.
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Not exactly using the same terminology as the blog post, but the book Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Ericsson and Pool has a lot of details about the importance of deliberate practice and getting into "tight"
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Here are direct links to the "caught on camera" videos with ExxonMobil lobbyists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNFBjcrU5Pc [10 mins] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v1Yg6XejyE [9 mins] I found
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Yea, I checked sci-hub.se, and that DOI is not available (because it's new). Let's hope someone with a university subscription will post a link to the PDF.
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Disclaimer: I'm the author of these books. I have a book that might be of interest to you and/or your girlfriend as a review of math fundamentals like high school math (with exercises): https://nobsmath.com/ see
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Very cool. The take-any-webpage-offline need is also common in the education space (teachers want to save a webpage and send it to their students as part of a lesson and don't want to worry about availability or ads etc). I used to wor
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> "Just in case" Nice, I had not heard this term before. It's a very apt description of the current system of un-motivated learning. > "Just in time", This has a lot of potential in conjunction with project-ba
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I learned to solder for TI-purposes too! Not for battery but to build the 2.5mm-jack-to-serial connector cable (I was too cheap to buy an official one, but successfully wired together the 2-3 resistors and diodes necessary to make the cable
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> I still get mad about it, [...] never done anything as cool as that. Quite the contrary, you should feel proud. IMHO, the real metric of success in life is not what you have achieved, but what your "students" have achieved, s