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by johnminter 8y ago
From the context supplied it appears to me that this was a first offense. If it were a repeat offense, I would agree. I still recommend a softer tone. If your goal is to maintain a healthy collaboration, that helps. Either way, the offended
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by johnminter 8y ago
Thank you for sharing the context. One of the problems we have with written interaction is that we don't have all the information that we have in face-to-face communication. One helpful approach is to initially grant the benefit of the
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by johnminter 8y ago
Go read The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman. Things changed greatly from when I got out of grad school in 1982 and when I was laid off from my job at the end of 2017. I worked for a company that had 65,000 employees in our city when I star
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by johnminter 8y ago
I agree. Too many students and their parents seem to engage in wishful thinking about college and not do due diligence when considering the costs. The schools have a financial conflict of interest: they get paid whether or not the student s
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by johnminter 8y ago
It is unsustainable. US higher education costs have risen faster than health care. The fraction of graduates who are behind or deferring their student loan payments has been rising. Queue Admiral Ackbar: It's a trap! Students and their
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by johnminter 8y ago
One advantage of this approach is that the instructor can provide scaffolding to get the students started and later provide solutions where they can see where they went wrong. A second advantage is that the students have a written record to
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by johnminter 8y ago
As I recall, Usenet took freedom of expression to the extreme and a few trolls ruined it. I remember one who referred to himself as Archimedes Plutonium and would spam the discussion of specific science and programming topics with wild disc
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by johnminter 8y ago
I am not at all surprised. In many (most?) corporate environments, all your work product belongs to the corporation and management decides whether the benefits to the company outway risks. To get approval for conference talks I always had t
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by johnminter 9y ago
> This was also the case with TV's. Where one family in the street would own a TV and all the neighbourhood kids would come and gather to watch. I'm old enough to have experienced something similar. When I was young my dad won
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by johnminter 9y ago
I really like conda. It is easy to have multiple enviroments and minimizes the footprint by symbolically linking in what is needed.
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by johnminter 9y ago
The author answers the question in the first sentence. It is not that we can't, the problem is that it is not cost effective to do so. Or, as the cliche goes, "It's all about the Benjamins". The inconvenient truth is tha
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by johnminter 9y ago
It is even easier using conda.[1] Install whichever you use the most (likely python3) using either the full anaconda installer or the simpler miniconda installer. Then use conda to create an environment that uses the other python release.
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by johnminter 9y ago
Decisions and choices have consequences. These are not made in a philosophical vacuum, they are made according to the values the individual holds - which are largely influenced by the culture from which the individual comes. Indeed the term
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by johnminter 9y ago
I'm with you. I have my system to do data analysis. I have a late 2013 MacBook Pro and like it, especially the SSD and the Retina display. When I upgrade I want a faster processor, more RAM (I have 16GB now). I like my keyboard with th
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by johnminter 9y ago
> ...the writing wasn't as fluid as it was when the students were putting pen to paper. "You could also see an increase in copy-and-paste," he says. The laptop is a tool, albeit a very useful one. Eliminating the laptop i
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by johnminter 9y ago
If you read a bit further, they will share all the details in a book (written in English) for $8. They are not going to get rich on this....
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by johnminter 9y ago
IMHO this is the most apt description in the thread :)
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by johnminter 9y ago
The last phrase is the key. The economists in the Austrian school explain: Money is simply a proxy for goods and services. It solves the "coincidence of wants" problem. When the Fed and other similar agencies print money unbacked
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by johnminter 9y ago
You have missed an important point. Those loan officers were paid a fee for the service and their institution sold off the loans that were derivatized. The patsy was down the line. They all got paid... Go back and review the news that came
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by johnminter 9y ago
That was true of state universities as late as the mid 1970s when I attended. It was the rise of easy credit for guaranteed loans that permitted the current runaway inflation in costs. College costs have grown faster than health care.
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by johnminter 10y ago
You can also look at Zareason[1]. I have been interested, but my 2015 MBP still gets things done. I did install Lubuntu on my old 2009 MBP. Runs well, but I have yet to get the keyboard mappings right and a USB mouse makes things easier. I
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by johnminter 10y ago
Yes! This! I am 30+ years post Ph.D. and work in microscopy and image analysis. I have repeatedly needed to go into areas that I never anticipated and learn what I needed to solve the problem at hand. Happily, my graduate advisor taught our
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by johnminter 10y ago
I agree with you. I thought that both Jacob Rees Mogg and Nigel Farange made some pretty strong cases for a lack of ability to have a fair hearing for redress of grievances. Mogg relates the story of a constituent who was a farmer and had a
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by johnminter 10y ago
College - indeed all formal educations - isn't free. It never has been. Someone has always paid. Someone always will. There needs to be a good return on investment for all parties involved. That includes the taxpayer, if she is footing
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by johnminter 10y ago
Guess you haven't been following the violent protests and attacks on his supporters at the Trump rallies. I get it - many do not agree with Mr. Trump. Many times I smack my head at some of his comments. That said, the key to a free soc
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by johnminter 10y ago
I think you are on the right track when you compare the Brexit surprise to the Trump phenomenon. There are many of us who view the main difference between the Democratic and Republican establishment as only the particular special interest,
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by johnminter 10y ago
First, I have a STEM Ph.D. and am in my 35th year at a U.S. corporation. Now my question: Just where do you expect all these newly minted Ph. D. grads to do that research? At least in the US, the last two decades have not been kind to the o
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by johnminter 11y ago
We came to the same conclusion. My wife is a teacher and we often print her notes, tests, homework assignments, and worksheets to be copied at school. The B&W laser "just works" and is both fast and economical.
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by johnminter 11y ago
They are quite complex and the consumer versions are commodity items. There are printhead - ink - paper interactions and the electrophotographic process for laser printers requires optimization to print on different media. There are lots of
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by johnminter 11y ago
Yes. The analytical chemist's credo: never test an irreplaceable sample using an untested procedure. Or as Norm Abrams from This Old House put it, "Measure twice, cut once." Spares one that embarrassing moment when you say, &

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