jimhefferon

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by jimhefferon 3y ago
Thank you for crediting Abigail.
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by jimhefferon 3y ago
I use an Android app called Aurora. In honestly though, I didn't exhaustively check all the options. But it works well.
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by jimhefferon 3y ago
Um, because people here are interested in stuff like solar numbers. Maybe some are hamsters, for instance.
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by jimhefferon 3y ago
People might be interested that there are lots of free apps that will tell you what the k index is and maybe send you a notification if it goes above a certain number. Around here numbers above seven are interesting.
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by jimhefferon 3y ago
I don't know if you are US, but at least here, I perceive it is against the current culture to do this. Love to be wrong, but I don't think so.
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by jimhefferon 3y ago
Couple of points, which as a former seller I suspect you know, but students often do not. 1) There is no best book for a subject. What suits a class in Elementary Statistics in one place or program might be all wrong for another. 2) There&#
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by jimhefferon 3y ago
This is a fun read. But I don't find LaTeX to be slow, personally. I'm working on a math text. 449 pages with hundreds of equations, hundreds of graphics, you get the idea, and on reading this article I timed a compile. On my 201
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by jimhefferon 3y ago
I like it better. I used it for all the diagrams in my latest book. I especially like the 3D. (BTW, the tutorial is first rate.)
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by jimhefferon 3y ago
It comes from a famous koan. Google "three pounds of flax".
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by jimhefferon 3y ago
Good for farmers. What about others?
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by jimhefferon 4y ago
I like the deadpan, but just to say it: when billionaires decide something is in their interest to have at least some people believe, they can find someone so unscrupulous that they will repeat the lie on air.
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by jimhefferon 4y ago
Try cable sometime.
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by jimhefferon 4y ago
I hear you and I have experienced the same thing at the local schools. But I will say that my wife is a teacher and there are many more kids with serious needs today than I believe there were when she and I went to school. Not a statistic I
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by jimhefferon 4y ago
I'm a college professor in VT. They care a lot around here, anyway.
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by jimhefferon 4y ago
Professor, so maybe not who you mean to ask. Four hours of deep work, that is, creative work. Maybe another eight of stuff. No AI yet, although I'm super interested.
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by jimhefferon 4y ago
The job of the future: butler.
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by jimhefferon 4y ago
Perhaps people will concede something is happening once GPT begins to worship UNIVAC.
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by jimhefferon 4y ago
The key there is that it is indeed supposed to be, but it isn't. People have tried to make a way to get at some kind of inherent ability but no one has succeeded.
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by jimhefferon 4y ago
Most of the time when I have a tool that tries to guess what I want, I hate it. I hate it with a deep and burning hatred. I call it the "Clippy" effect.
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by jimhefferon 4y ago
I got afib from years of running. I hear you about smoking, etc., but sometimes stuff happens. I was very glad they invented an effective treatment (an operation).
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by jimhefferon 4y ago
I for one would be very interested.
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by jimhefferon 4y ago
I was sorry to read that recently Martin Davis passed. Along with JR, another giant.
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by jimhefferon 4y ago
It seems like they owe us all compensatory damages. Big damages. I never really understood how they could take my information, which presumably belongs to me, and then could use it to make millions. How about my cut?
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by jimhefferon 4y ago
Thanks for the link. I'll note that this single burner costs half again what our four burners plus oven costs, though. I guess I'm just not that interested. But thank you.
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by jimhefferon 4y ago
We just bought a replacement for a gas stove, out of concern for fumes and some other reasons. When I asked about controls that are not touch buttons I was told that is hard to find. The other point is that induction models were much more e
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by jimhefferon 4y ago
Not what I thought. Can you please provide more information?
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by jimhefferon 4y ago
What mass storage?
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by jimhefferon 4y ago
Yes. Not to overshare but I find that failure to actively dry changes the biome back there; in short it can get itchy. Just pulling up and heading off is not enough (use a small towel). That said though, it is great.
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by jimhefferon 4y ago
I'm a math prof, who took up cello in middle age. I'm struck by the parallels between music and math education. Take the comments here and change a few words to math and this is a typical list of posts in response to a HN math edu
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by jimhefferon 4y ago
Adobe works. I've heard of at least one other but I couldn't get it to go. People say Adobe Reader is bloated, but if you need it then it is not bloat.

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