jasonmorton

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by jasonmorton 11y ago
I think this is absolutely the way forward for technical courses (where the prof and maybe students already know how to use git, or can be expected to learn). A course is kind of like a web app with a lot of common functionality. Too bad m
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by jasonmorton 11y ago
There are several arxiv overlay journals. Example: http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA/about.html
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by jasonmorton 12y ago
Administrators and staff is the likely answer. From 1975 to 2005 there was no change in faculty-to-student ratios, but students per administrator dropped from 84 to 68 (and pay increased) and students per professional staffer dropped from 5
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by jasonmorton 16y ago
I think Tex is wonderful just as it is. It does have a learning curve, like any powerful system, but so does e.g. html+css or any programming language. Emacs is a great editor and I run it with a simple inotify script to get automatic compi
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by jasonmorton 16y ago
I find it somewhat astounding how much we are still reliant on blowing stuff up whenever we want to go fast. At least this is being somewhat mitigated on land with electric cars. I'll venture that we won't see any deep improvements in spa
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by jasonmorton 16y ago
Fun place, thanks for putting it together.
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by jasonmorton 16y ago
Happiness is the sensation of gradient ascent.
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by jasonmorton 16y ago
This is a huge problem to address, and could be the thing that changes the dynamics of search. Google has become useless to me for a lot of searches -- many things that attract "MFA" -- because of the overwhelming amount of search spam. T
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by jasonmorton 17y ago
and 640K ought to be enough for anybody. Seriously, if you want to move things like working on a big chalkboard or with papers spread out on a big desk to the computerized version, it makes sense to have space to work.
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by jasonmorton 17y ago
I'm an academic, so it is mostly black-and-white and some data visualization.
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by jasonmorton 17y ago
Just came across this discussion. I'm one of the authors, and if anyone is interested, I'd be happy to answer any questions about the paper (jason@math.stanford.edu). It originated in me hearing from Andrew Ng and other folks in the ML co