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by jgamman 8y ago
Geena Davis (actress) picked up archery at 41 and got to 24th in the US. Resources count since she _started_ with an Olympic coach. Imagine if she had the access and desire at 14... https://www.archery360.com/2017/05&
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by jgamman 8y ago
anyone quoting BF Skinner should get an Audrey Watters reply: check out http://teachingmachin.es/timeline.html
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by jgamman 8y ago
another thing to consider is that approx. half the emissions associated with a building come from heating and cooling during its lifetime. saving 10% in carbon for the construction and then skimping on say, double glazing and passive solar
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Exploring Histograms – interactive webpage explanation(tinlizzie.org)
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by jgamman 8y ago
I try and write a tutorial about a subject-chunk - the kind of tutorial that i think would have made sense to me if I'd read it before writing it. you have to suspend the obvious fact that by writing the tutorial you've learnt mo
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Lab equipment backdoors(theregister.co.uk)
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by jgamman 8y ago
we had similar childhoods - those Rats books were like a horror movie that lasted for days till i finished each book ;-)
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by jgamman 8y ago
if there's a GoFundMe page for this I've got $1 to help send him on his way
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by jgamman 8y ago
i think its one of the classic logical fallacies - you can't disagree with me unless you have a better idea. it's a false dichotomy in the sense I can think you are wrong without further explanation. unless there's expt evi
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by jgamman 8y ago
i think that's literally ones of the objectives of under-funding. then privatise. then monopoly rents for those that can own shares. while still under-investing - who cares about trains? just uber a private jet/helicopter.
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by jgamman 8y ago
the difference between a community and a workplace is its tolerance, and need, for whimsy...
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TIL – Holocaust tattoo numbers were primary keys for IBM machines (Dehomag)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jgamman 8y ago
At this point in time it's not really relevant to say cellphone vs no-cellphone. It's death by cellphone vs saved by cellphone ie, you need to compare how many people have been able to call for help in an emergency, get a taxi ra
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by jgamman 8y ago
It's all about the UX right? I scroll down on my mbp laptop and the @#$@#$ pictures move to the right...
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by jgamman 8y ago
email the PhD guy who wrote the website you've just commented on and ask if he will recommend/supervise your personal learning at the rate of 50$/hr (or whatever). Aside from the credentialing problem, you will get an amazing
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How should code be pronounced?(quora.com)
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Sustaining the Underfunded (open source labour not supported)(fordfoundation.org)
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by jgamman 8y ago
in NZ (and Aus i guess) we call this an OE (Overseas Experience) and it is incredibly common for someone in their 20's to up sticks and bugger off to the UK (and others) for several months or years. They/we aren't, for the mo
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by jgamman 8y ago
apologies to Jane if I implied that her skills weren't on par - that wasn't my intention.
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by jgamman 8y ago
remember: slope _and_ gradient...
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by jgamman 8y ago
wow - 28 people on the about page and the only woman is the diversity director.
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The interesting case of the Ecuadorean dwarfs and longevity(nytimes.com)
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AI bias in medical school applciations (since 1988)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by jgamman 8y ago
tl;dr US shocked (shocked i say!) that other countries doing the same sorts of things they do.
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Non-traditional science research(medium.com)
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Programming as interaction: A new perspective for programming language research(tomasp.net)
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by jgamman 8y ago
Be good-ish at 2 or 3 different things - one of which is programming which has a leveraging effect on anything else you learn (just trust the default libraries). Being good-ish at 2-3 different things (as a strategy) is rare and if you&#x2
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by jgamman 8y ago
I hate Excel. I use it extensively every day. It is amazing.
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by jgamman 8y ago
it's not excel that's the problem - it's you or your replacement 6 months later trying to reverse engineer the iterated solution that you willed into being... ;-)
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by jgamman 8y ago
maybe the opposite is true too - SV/US has more innovation because there's absolutely nothing to lose and you can't expect to eat/medical because US.

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