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by japhyr 9y ago
Thanks, that's really helpful. And thank you as well for providing something that's helpful to professionals and beginners alike!
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> We will maintain python2, python3 and python@3 aliases. Is the python3 alias likely to be present indefinitely? I work with beginners a lot, so I look for a simple installation with as few steps as possible. I like that someone who has
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Explore math with Desmos(desmos.com)
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How hard is it to build something new while under a non-compete? I understand you can find new areas to work in, but I imagine you'd think back to previous work and be tempted to make connections to that field, or use some of what you
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by japhyr 9y ago
I used to carry a leatherman wave, but that was so big and bulky. I downsized to a leatherman juice, but even that got annoying to carry after a while. Now I carry a Gerber Dime. I hardly know it's there, but when I need a knife or a p
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He said “real water” should expire after a few months. His does. “It stays most fresh within one lunar cycle of delivery,” he said. “If it sits around too long, it’ll turn green. People don’t even realize that because all their water’s dea
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Here's a pdf version of the assignment: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lAG9o3f106qwLBODURsglUChsBs...
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I'm a high school math teacher. As part of their high school math education, I encourage all of my students to do one of their projects on analyzing loans. I ask them to pick an item they might take a loan out for, such as a car, a boa
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Interactive US Budget – 2016(us.wikibudgets.org)
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>More regional 'net growth? Eh, the speed of electrons is basically the speed of light, so the reach may not be affected all that much. No, by regional growth I was asking what happens if a new project is more visible on one ISP tha
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Ask HN: What does the end of net neutrality mean for startups and side projects?
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> At this point the best thing people can do is prepare to vote in 2018 and 2020, whether that's registering voters or forming groups to get lazy liberals or independents to vote to send better people to Washington. My biggest fear
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My son is 6 now, and he has loved these two books since he was about 3: The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos - https://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Loved-Math-Improbable/dp/1596... Bedtime Math: A F
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Those rocks move because they're carried by thin ice sheets every once in a while: > rocks move when large ice sheets a few millimeters thick floating in an ephemeral winter pond start to break up during sunny days. These thin float
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I teach high school math and science, mostly to students who have not done well in math earlier in their education. So I spend a lot of time doing pre-algebra and algebra 1 work. I love teaching at a school that lets students spend as long
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> A good 70% or so were pretty much furniture. They were there because they had to be, and their parents saw school as free babysitting service. They would end up in a trade school afterward if they were lucky, or a more likely future dr
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For the modeling I've wanted to do, I haven't run into any limitations through openscad. As a programmer and not much of an artist, it's perfect for me. I also love that I can use it as a core part of my math curriculum, whic
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> We've played with Jupyter/Python. My son is learning solid modeling using some free app. Have you seen OpenSCAD? It's open source constructive solid geometry modeling software, and I use it in my math classes. If your so
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What are you trying to reduce the cost of?
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Or just change the way we do school. I teach in a small school in Alaska, and we get to do school the way it makes sense for everyone, not just the way that makes it easiest for administrators and students. At our school, everyone's in
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Do they use Python for their homework? I'm a math teacher and a programmer, and I can't wait to see the end of the TI dominance in education. I would happily let students in my classes use Python/ Jupyter for most of their wo
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Ask HN: Do you know any good high school websites?
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I was wondering what a fair price would be for this kind of work. There's a lot of work that goes into producing a high-quality version of this. If you take into account the hours and materials, it certainly seems like you could reason
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The Sheets of San Francisco(aeracode.org)
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This has me reflecting on how I learned to program, compared to how people learn to program today. I learned to program using BASIC when I was between 5 and 10 years old. My dad was a software engineer at DEC, and he had a kit computer in o
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I teach high school math and science, and I fully recognize that most of my students will not end up in math and science-focused careers. So I think pretty carefully about my goals for these students. One clear purpose in everything I ask s
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If all the resources for this project are in one folder as you described, what keeps you from waiting until the new year to start using version control? It seems you could do something like: $ git init $ git add . $ git commit -am "Ini
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Can someone with a better understanding of the medical industry comment about the quality of this device? It seems like a small portable ultrasound device would be a great thing for diagnosis. But I understand there are all kinds of issues
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We've recently seen the removal of some publicly-available datasets that are overseen by the federal government. Does anyone have any perspective on how stable this particular dataset is?
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You might also be surprised at how effective bear spray is. You have to know how to use it; you have to wait until the bear is close enough to you, you have to not run, you have to pay attention to wind, and you need to know a few things ab

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