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Microschooling: The new way parents are getting creative about school(goodmorningamerica.com)
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by jqgatsby 6y ago
so, he did pretty well up until level 7, but then it starts to get a bit too hard. I wish they had an easier version for kids. It's okay though, if I sit with him we can figure it out together, but I now agree it's slightly too di
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by jqgatsby 6y ago
Thank you so much for this recommendation. I was looking for some kind of educational game to keep my 8-year-old occupied, and just downloaded this and it's so awesome.
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by jqgatsby 6y ago
For those trying to contextualize this, CindyJS is based on Cinderella, a geometry framework developed by Jürgen Richter-Gebert. He also wrote a book called "Perspectives on Projective Geometry" where he goes into full detail abou
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The Geometry of Random Vectors [pdf](mosaic-web.org)
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by jqgatsby 6y ago
sorry, fixed that! Here it is here as well: johnafries (At gmail)
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Ask HN: Would you like to read “Perspectives on Projective Geometry” with me?
2 points by jqgatsby 6y ago|3 comments
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by jqgatsby 6y ago
How would you recommend they change it to help low-traffic stack exchanges?
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by jqgatsby 7y ago
There isn't consensus on whether "ok, boomer" is a slur vs a protest or criticism. It seems inappropriate to me to ban accounts for using that phrase.
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by jqgatsby 7y ago
The localization claims in this article seem very exciting. Could someone with a background in quantum computing provide some context for whether this is something likely to be important in the future?
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by jqgatsby 7y ago
I don't think "fixing income inequality" needs to mean that everyone is paid the same amount. It's reasonable to believe that <insert billionaire here> isn't a million times more productive than their median e
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by jqgatsby 7y ago
@ProfHewitt, I have to say I think you did a lot of people (including myself) a disservice by polluting Wikipedia with promotions of your original research on the Actor model of computation. Modelling concurrent computation is not the place
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by jqgatsby 7y ago
I'm guessing it is a portmanteau of 'ginormous' (itself a portmanteau that has legitimately replaced 'enormous' for my kids' generation, much to my chagrin) and 'humongous'? Maybe with some relation t
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by jqgatsby 7y ago
I agree with you 100%, ralusek. This sounds like a particularly infantile form of nimbyism to me. Apologies to the folks living there that the forests suck, but with the fate of the planet at stake you get very little of my sympathy. Yes, i
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by jqgatsby 7y ago
That's a common fallacy. Places that have high paying jobs usually have high cost of living. You can't typically command high salaries in cheaper areas, but people seem to think that just by virtue of living in a certain area you
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by jqgatsby 7y ago
Your example of the guy who has $100K in student loans and is making a $100K salary in New York is a good example, but I think we very much disagree on how he should be treated. If he's living in NYC, his take-home is about $68k after
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by jqgatsby 7y ago
Is it the case that you are coming at this from a point of view that is opposed to progressive liberalism in general? That would have been helpful to mention up front, because the article you cite is actually arguing from the view of Sander
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by jqgatsby 7y ago
This kind of excessive fixation on perfect fairness is exactly what got us into this mess. They thought they could help the poor attend college by giving them grants, then the middle class would have loans, and the rich had to pay their own
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by jqgatsby 7y ago
Wait, "redefine derivatives to be based on multiplication"? That sounds really interesting, could you please expand on that?
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by jqgatsby 7y ago
I'd be very curious to hear what you think of the interleukin 17A and 23 blockers, like taltz and tremfya. They're being sold as miracle drugs for psoriasis, but how sure are we that they don't somehow screw up your heart or
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by jqgatsby 8y ago
Plastic is the new lead.
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by jqgatsby 8y ago
I am not a physicist, but one thing I've noticed is that the physicists I know tend to be very good at Mathematica, and if they happen to transition to a data science role, then Mathematica is sort of this secret weapon that they have.
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by jqgatsby 8y ago
That really sounds like an indispensible feature. Is Mumble the only voice chat system that provides this kind of hierarchical linking of channels, or is it available on other systems as well? If it's not available on, say, Discord, wh
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by jqgatsby 8y ago
I don't have any experience with gaming so this is a bit hard for me to understand. Are nested channels used as a way of grouping channels in a hierarchy in the UI? Or does the hierarchy affect what people hear? In the latter case, I&#
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by jqgatsby 8y ago
That sounds like a really interesting feature! Trying to find some documentation on this specific feature but it's hard to find exactly what you're talking about. 1) Can you elaborate how "hierarchical chat room" works a
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by jqgatsby 8y ago
I was wondering this myself. Does anyone know anyone at King games who can comment? This game seems to have a real community. The Paradise Bay YouTube channel lists Clint Tasker as the lead designer, but I don't think he's at Kin
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by jqgatsby 8y ago
My wife has been playing this game on her phone for years, and is super sad that they are closing it down. She's probably bought a fair number of "gems" from them too, to beautify her island and trade fruit, I guess. Some of
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Farewell from Paradise Bay(paradisebaygame.com)
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by jqgatsby 8y ago
That's very interesting. Can you please clarify "if you have a low-magnitude high-dimensional signal corrupted by highly-correlated noise"? I don't understand what "highly-correlated noise" means. I thought noi
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by jqgatsby 8y ago
Personal anecdotes have value in situations where data is sparse. Often one has to extrapolate from a small number of use cases when developing a new product. I found his comment valuable.

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