jgamman

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by jgamman 5y ago
Full disclosure: The second author started a new math- ematics software system in 2005 called SAGE
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by jgamman 5y ago
even easier to just use the free online version - standard freemium model
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by jgamman 5y ago
ssshhhh https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/05/all-the-m...
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Teaching Machines: A History(insidehighered.com)
2 points by jgamman 5y ago|0 comments
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by jgamman 5y ago
I am not against business education. A knowledge of accounting, finance, business law, and the like can be of value in a business environment. What I do believe is harmful is the impression often created by those who teach management that
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by jgamman 6y ago
"there are hardly any" would understate the problem. today i achieved the (almost) impossible and i've just finished breakfast.
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by jgamman 6y ago
the crystals that form and bind the aggregate together are a hydrolysis reaction (water using). Water is the main reactant not CO2.
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Beautiful animated 3-body orbits
3 points by jgamman 6y ago|1 comments
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by jgamman 6y ago
'It's hard to find maintainers' (that will work for free)
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by jgamman 7y ago
Note to chemists: PCB is a printed circuit board not a polychlorinated biphenyl. i know i came for the wonder of atomic scale printers but still, printing circuits is cool too.
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by jgamman 7y ago
"your earlier book, “Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All” " yeah, nah.
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by jgamman 7y ago
"As for the acidifying ocean, NOAA proposes two methods of attack: Reducing our overall carbon footprint to reduce the carbon dioxide absorbed by the sea, or teach wildlife and the people who rely on it to adapt to how the sea will cha
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by jgamman 7y ago
i think 'onboard' might refer to the wider context of using a tool in say, a research group. it's not just you learning the tool, it's about how the group uses the tool and the historical developments in place.
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by jgamman 7y ago
I know you're using "money shot" as slang for "key take-away" or tl:dr but it's origin is intertwined with porn - you might want to re-consider keeping it as a goto phrase online and in the real.
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by jgamman 7y ago
more meta-analysis literature, open, N=350,000: To What Extent and Under Which Circumstances Are Growth Mind-Sets Important to Academic Achievement? Two Meta-Analyses Victoria F. Sisk1, Alexander P. Burgoyne2, Jingze Sun1, Jennifer L. Butle
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by jgamman 7y ago
ironically the only thing that made me stay away from the service. if he'd added a paragraph that said he'd put some $$ in escrow and some code/instructions with his will/lawyer the site will continue to run with a contr
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by jgamman 7y ago
uummm 'we' already do. NZ for one has a carbon credit for forestry.
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by jgamman 7y ago
if people paid the price of a coffee for good software, post-docs could attach themselves to a research group and fund themselves by maintaining quality software products - freelance scientist FTW. the problem here is that lots of people wa
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by jgamman 7y ago
hate me if you want but i think we should call these milli-grids if they are 2-3 orders of magnitude bigger than a micro-grid... i admit there will be some marketing issues.
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by jgamman 7y ago
I disagree. The other thing unions create are standard working conditions. Some supervisors/departments are terrible - even within the same dept/uni. Grad school isn't about the money but it is all about the supervisor&#x2F
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by jgamman 7y ago
they have a 'democracy sausage' - i think it also may be compulsory to eat one.
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by jgamman 7y ago
slightly off topic but IIRC the only time Adam Smith mentioned 'an invisible hand' in his Wealth of Nations book was to explain why English companies _wouldn't_ do this. Nothing to do with a market reaching equilibrium etc. I
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by jgamman 7y ago
i love the fact that they posted their jupyter notebooks on github ie, https://github.com/jdechalendar/why100renewable-suppl/blob/m... but there's nothing there to _read_ other than code - it may as well
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The potentially seedy side of the hotel bed jumping community(thespinoff.co.nz)
93 points by jgamman 7y ago|12 comments
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by jgamman 7y ago
can't speak for the people who flagged it but for me personally - someone who made their living for many years denying climate change has now flipped to a new narrative of 'risk'. i just assume that he's shilling for th
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A physicist has some questions about physics culture(joylandmagazine.com)
2 points by jgamman 7y ago|0 comments
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by jgamman 7y ago
as the client, i would always split the project into 2 parts - a functional spec and a technical spec. my job was to interpret and write the func spec as a kind of pseudo-code version of what i thought could be built. then i would commissi
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by jgamman 7y ago
big fan of lists/checkboxes. my default is to just use a spreadsheet and use traffic light colours. let's me move them around a bit and group as per the article - it'd drive me nuts to re-write everything all the time. als
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by jgamman 7y ago
Gryd and CoCalc
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by jgamman 7y ago
and a more jupyter-centric agree/reply by Tony Hirst: https://blog.ouseful.info/2017/11/15/programming-meh-lets-te...

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