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FBI PSA – EdTech considered risky(ic3.gov)
1 points by jgamman 8y ago|0 comments
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by jgamman 8y ago
the best teacher(s) in a 'bad' school overlap with the worst teachers in a 'good' school. Keep in mind that there is a relationship between student and teacher and that clicking with one teacher isn't guaranteed or
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by jgamman 8y ago
aside: Sisk et al (To What Extent and Under Which Circumstances Are Growth Mind-Sets Important to Academic Achievement? Two Meta-Analyses DOI 10.1177/0956797617739704) looked at >450,000 students and found little or no effect size f
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by jgamman 8y ago
If we unbundle the courses and/or make MOOCS minimally OK - what's to stop students hiring their own TA to help them through. So long as you pair this up with a nationally recognised micro-credential framework you could see the
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by jgamman 8y ago
the new new normal is to check the HN comments first...
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by jgamman 8y ago
NZ has been running an 600 km HVDC line for decades for exactly the same reason - lots of hydropower in the south, lots of demand in the north. difficult? certainly. but it's definitely a solved problem. https://en.wikipedi
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Putting the 'suck' in success(idealog.co.nz)
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by jgamman 8y ago
and use platinum in the fuel cells. the real-world problems are pretty obvious though - Pt is worth stealing and it's expensive 'cause there aint that much of it so you can't expect to use 100x as much as now and not expect
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by jgamman 8y ago
yep. the 'mainland' in NZ refers to a chunk of the Sth Island - from back in the day when english migrants were busy recreating the english aristocracy.
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by jgamman 8y ago
you can see the moniac running if you happen to be in wellington on the first(?) friday of the month. there's a refurbished one in the foyer of the reserve bank (invented by a NZer - while employed in another country of course).
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by jgamman 8y ago
like i'd trust that to happen properly
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by jgamman 8y ago
i can't see a business model - the scientist is already paying with their time to get something working that is just good enough for publication. all the problems you describe are down the road and scientists kick that to 'indust
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The State of Jupyter (2017)(oreilly.com)
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by jgamman 8y ago
Ormat does large Stirling engines for geothermal power. The binary units mean you don't run the risk of taking too much of the reservoir fluid. I wouldn't be surprised if tech like this ramps up for the same reason battery tech
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Scroll-Interactive story on NZ's dissapearing glaciers(interactives.stuff.co.nz)
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Science Education in Computational Thinking – CT Projects Page(secant.cs.purdue.edu)
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by jgamman 8y ago
they hire a deliveroo task rabbit to run behind every uber txting constantly to the customer where they are - bonus, can use local landmarks as way finders ;-)
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by jgamman 9y ago
perhaps the point is also 'code to learn' - i always thought archiving these constructions would be an interesting way of seeing how tangentially educated people can get themselves from their area of expertise to this result and a
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Bret Victor Redesigns Classic Strogatz Paper (2011)(worrydream.com)
206 points by jgamman 9y ago|50 comments
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Bret Victor: Redesigns Classic Strogatz Paper(worrydream.com)
26 points by jgamman 9y ago|2 comments
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by jgamman 9y ago
my assumption is that anything new is weaponised _first_ and then slowly over time diffuses out into the world and is nett positive (it's like society figures out how to take the spikey edges off) but you definitely don't want to
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by jgamman 9y ago
Toys'R'Us
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by jgamman 9y ago
good to see a fellow NZer getting ahead in the world.
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by jgamman 9y ago
excel/LO as a list of @#@#-that-needs-to-get-done. next column over is a r/b/g traffic lights. move them around in rough order. highlight those that are fixed dates. scribble on post it notes. lots and lots of post it no
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by jgamman 9y ago
pretty sure you'll need to get a degree and a teaching certification otherwise you'll be a teacher's aide. at least in my country.
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by jgamman 9y ago
thank you.
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Ask HN: TTW paypal guy gets NZ citizenship: doesn't show up in HN
2 points by jgamman 9y ago|3 comments
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Advice on recruiting data scientists in public sector NZ(ellisp.github.io)
2 points by jgamman 9y ago|0 comments
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by jgamman 9y ago
'unhampered' seems like a loaded word for a headline. 'unregulated' seems like it could be inserted and would change the tone considerably. ahhh wsj, how i've never lamented not clicking on one of your links.
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by jgamman 9y ago
the very first example in the story was a dancer that paid off $180k in loans - almost a textbook example of someone that's 'poor'. this grant is literally a lottery win for some of them

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