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by jergason 16y ago
"My daughter and I have a bedtime routine where we read a story and also make up mathematical word problems that we solve together." I am a late-bloomer in mathematics, by way of computer science. I love my parents and had a wonderful child
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by jergason 16y ago
Do you have a link to these studies? I looked around a bit and only found the ones claiming multitasking doesn't work.
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by jergason 16y ago
I dislike all the trumpeting of the levels of radiation compared to some "legal limit". I wish it was in terms of effect on humans. I guess that is a conversion I could do, but many people will not do that, and will just be horrified by the
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by jergason 16y ago
Protovis is fantastic. It goes well beyond charts and graphing, but you can create some wonderful, interactive charts with it.
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Beginner's Explanation of P and NP(jamisondance.tumblr.com)
2 points by jergason 16y ago|0 comments
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by jergason 16y ago
There are opportunities to pick it up. I have worked in bioinformatics labs and have learned tons of biology and chemistry just through osmosis. Also, they always need more people that program well.
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by jergason 16y ago
That was my first thought as well. The games are rated 17+ for a reason: graphic violence and strong language in a "fun" context is not something I would want my 12-year old experiencing for hours on end.
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by jergason 16y ago
My sarcasm detector is beeping, but very faintly. If you are being serious, wouldn't it kindof defeat the purpose to be condescending towards people spouting that stuff?
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by jergason 16y ago
Can you say that "getting screwed" is a habit too then?
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by jergason 16y ago
Whoa. Eric Schmidt co-wrote lex? I had no idea he had that kind of programming pedigree.
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What can you do with a PhD in CS besides become a professor?(reddit.com)
3 points by jergason 16y ago|2 comments
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by jergason 16y ago
This just looks like a justification for what worked out well for you, along with some sweeping generalities about academia in general. Because it worked well for you to write about your experiences in college, everyone should be required t
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by jergason 16y ago
It appears that they did this in order to avoid having to rehire teachers based on seniority first: Teachers begged the School Board to issue layoffs rather than fire them outright because, under the layoff provisions, teachers are recalle
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by jergason 16y ago
Much of our code is not CPU bound, and the PI is something of a Ruby evangelist. If everyone jumps away from Ruby it will never improve. That being said, I don't think Ruby will ever be the fastest language, but speeding things up is always
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by jergason 16y ago
I use Ruby in a research lab for scientific computing, and in our case, most of our applications are definitely CPU bound. We end up re-writing many of them in C to speed them up and use threading but if we could keep them in Ruby while sti
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by jergason 16y ago
This looks really neat. I am doing web development for a lab that is pretty obsessed with open source, open protocols, ect, so I will for sure keep an eye out on this. Wish I wasn't so swamped with work, because this looks like it would be
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by jergason 16y ago
Wow, there are some NSFW (in links to unrelated stories) on that site. Heads up to the rest of you guys if you care about that sort of thing.
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by jergason 16y ago
I often feel like my reading on the Internet is more hurried and distracted. Part of that is due to the medium, but I wonder if part of it isn't due to the writing style of writing for the Internet. It will be interesting to see how writing
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Interstellar Marines: AAA FPS funded by community support(interstellarmarines.com)
1 points by jergason 16y ago|0 comments
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by jergason 16y ago
Wow. There is some intense vitriol in that link. Disagreeing with ideas is one thing, but demonizing people who thing differently is not healthy political discourse. Of course, maybe that is not the purpose of this article.
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UNIX as Literature(theody.net)
3 points by jergason 16y ago|0 comments
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by jergason 16y ago
DNA methylation is heritable because the DNA strands that are methylated become part of the gametes and thus part of the developing fetus. The DNA is physically modified, and that same modified DNA combines with DNA from the other parent to
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The Anti-Smartphone(eweekeurope.co.uk)
1 points by jergason 16y ago|0 comments
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by jergason 16y ago
Also of note: if you follow the link to the source of the data, it shows that the click through rate for the "staring eyes" banner was sometimes 10x greater than some of their other tries. See https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=t79ue7
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by jergason 16y ago
This appears to have started on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/e6nmp/dear_mr_pres... It will be interesting to be able to pinpoint where this started if it has any actual effect on the situation.
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Prezi: mind-map style presentations(prezi.com)
1 points by jergason 16y ago|1 comments
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by jergason 16y ago
Day[9]'s King of the Beta launch party was 12 hours of streaming, and there were 13k+ people watching the stream most of the time.
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by jergason 16y ago
There is actually nothing but rumors and speculation about the price of the future expansions. Blizzard has said nothing about the price, so it is a little sensationalist to assume they will all be $60.
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by jergason 16y ago
Some weird behavior when I open a new browser and try to go to <my_account_name>.geckoboard.com. It would be nice if that went to a login page and then took me to my account.
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by jergason 16y ago
They could charge you for how much shipping would have cost if you weren't an Amazon Prime member.

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