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by jgamman 9y ago
The Monsters of Education Technology
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it's the 10% i'm worried about - what's the false positive rate? priors or it didn't happen...
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that's cool - hadn't realised. i still dream about a word-excel mashup. imagine a table in word that when you click on it revolves around to reveal a spreadsheet and you hook the 'other side' to the calculation cells.
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>It is mostly text [...] doesn't make it readable at all. that is the weirdest comment ever. On HN no less which is literally just text.
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by jgamman 9y ago
Aim for a front end notebook interface like Jupyter or Mathematica. Most excel i've had to play with was to store/manipulate data _and then_ C&P charts or data to word for the report. Seriously, notebooks.
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I'm going back to uni to get qualified as a high school teacher. if i had the skills I'd complement kicking around on campus again with contributions to the Jupyter notebook (which i think is going to do wonders for high school s
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people with 10s of Giga $$ hiding in tax havens are moving it to the next hidey hole. maybe they started it, mined the first few hundred thousand coins and now they're just dumping $$ into it at regular-ish intervals for long enough t
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by jgamman 9y ago
i wonder if you could set up an agent on your phone (for instance) that 'sells' one ad per day to the highest bidder. your data profile lives on your phone encrypted up the wazoo but there's an API that goes out, finds the c
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by jgamman 9y ago
AFAIK Ponoko just uses the line widths to indicate cuts vs etching. they provide an Inkscape template but I don't think it's required so long as the line widths are right.
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drilling the well is about $1 million per km. only a few spots around the world make 1-2 km wells cost effective for extracting energy for electricity. this is even worse with the costs of PV installed now 100 fold less than the marginal
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by jgamman 9y ago
yeah - you gotta manage the extraction. think of it as heat mining/fishing. you want a rate of extraction just less than the replenishment rate or else you screw up the reservoir.
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they never used to at the turn of the 19th/20th century. then innovative bridges collapsed killing lots of people. then they ensured minimum standards. makes sense for bridges/tunnels etc but it's not a free speech thing.
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by jgamman 9y ago
i'm training to be a teacher next year - the programme is in the school of education and social work.
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Algorithm M/F Discrimination in the Display of STEM Career Ads(papers.ssrn.com)
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Funny - that's kind of what I'd expect for people building software for self-driving cars, surgical robots and pacemakers...
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there's a good R/Jupyter blog discussing the same concept but without as much SW snark that HN comments always seem to have: https://blog.ouseful.info/2017/11/15/programming-meh-lets-te...
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NZ runs a proportional representation election system and since we had our election 2 months ago it would seem that 52% of NZers have chosen to temper the neoliberal flights of fancy. Good? Bad? I dunno but you're in 'culture&#x27
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ad blocker pop-up. no thx.
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subscribe to read - no thx
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the cocaine ads from the 70s in the link at the bottom is surreal. the more things change huh...
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have to sign up to Medium to read... no thx
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shouldn't you be quoting examples from within the same society? it seems a bit suss to quote a German budget chain acting reasonably responsibly towards its employees as a counter point to an American one. last time i looked labour la
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by jgamman 9y ago
weird, same price to get to NZ! $5 for the cards, $47 for the shipping.... thx but I'll pass.
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The Perfect Apology: how-to(thespinoff.co.nz)
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Britains' Gulag is a tough read about the British colonisation of Kenya in the 50s (?60s?).
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Benchtop and education NMR machines(magritek.com)
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by jgamman 9y ago
someone remind me how big the sci-hub archive is - when do i get _my_ copy of the literature? ;-)
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the n=4-Queens visualisation is excellent.
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but it does create options for a lot of countries lucky enough to have geothermal resources ie, those around the pacific rim, NE africa, east coast US and Italy. not a lot of driver for domestic electricity production but carbon capture is
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yep i do and i've carried the habit from the lab into the workforce. it's mostly a write-many, read-few kind of thing but i've got a very loose system for capturing Action Items and i find having doodle space helps me keep t

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