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by jvvw 4y ago
All the schools round here in the UK where I live are 'nut-free'.
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by jvvw 4y ago
Agree - most of the interviews I have had have been 1-2 hours plus some sort of coding test or similar. I guess if you are trying to recruit people already in a job, you can't get away with that much more than that - unless the job is
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by jvvw 4y ago
Definitely. Going to university is also a very gentle way to leave home and grow up - you gradually learn to do things like budget, cook, find accommodation and so on while there is still support around you and have vacations when you can g
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by jvvw 4y ago
Export tariffs are so low (around 4p per kWh) compared with import tariffs (more like 35p per kWh last time I looked) that if you got solar panels recently, after the feed in tariff was stopped, then getting a battery too made sense. I imag
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by jvvw 4y ago
I've taught maths at a few universities and until recently taught computing at a university, teaching algorithms etc (and am female if that is relevant!). I ended up recently at a talk at the university where they were talking about de
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by jvvw 4y ago
The second time I gave birth, the midwife was amazing at coaching me with breathing and it made an incredible difference. More than the gas and air!
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by jvvw 4y ago
What's more likely is that coursework will be abandoned and all assessment will be done via invigilated exams :-) (As it was in my degree in fact). I've marked 'essays' in computer science (billed as reports but equivale
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by jvvw 4y ago
Deborah Tannen talks about this type of thing in her book 'You Just Don't Understand'. There's a whole chapter about interrupting. There is a difference between overlapping and trying to dominate and it talks about succe
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by jvvw 4y ago
Maryam Mirzakhani is a lovely 3xamoke of somebody who didn't find mathematics effortlessly easy as a child. On the other hand, there definitely are people for whom mathematics is much easier than others. I found mathematics effortless
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by jvvw 4y ago
My husband and I are pretty sure we must have been in the same room at university on various occasions (we knew lots of people in common) but didn't meet until several years after we both left. I'm three years older and was four a
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by jvvw 4y ago
I'm sure I've read various stories of children using their sleeping parent's fingerprints to enable them to purchase things too.
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by jvvw 4y ago
Just to warn you, mine (older now - 9 and 11) found Spirited Away scary and still refuse to watch it again!
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by jvvw 4y ago
Some babies still cry even if carried all the time; But there is an issue in our society that if you are looking after a baby by yourselves during the day, so nobody to hand them to, you do need to put them down briefly for practical reason
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by jvvw 4y ago
Also some teachers are better than others! I think two year in a row can have advantages. But different teachers bring different perspectives and different strengths. Sometimes a teacher will magically click in some way with your child and
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by jvvw 4y ago
I'm in the UK and this studied in a system where you can't just skip ahead, but I also got so much out of sucking in the riches as you say and helping other students. Because I already knew the basics I could spend time really mas
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by jvvw 4y ago
I never remember explicitly learning the epsilon-delta definition. By the time I had worked through enough problems, read enough books etc I just knew it. I saw other students learning definitions etc off by heart and to me it seemed liked
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by jvvw 4y ago
What type of mathematics? What level? I taught myself all of A-level maths and further maths here in the UK from the standard text books at the time (Bostock and Chandler) before I started in the sixth form and then maybe about half of the
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by jvvw 4y ago
Two player games do have an advantage as you only need two of you. Finding other children to play with is a huge advantage too and lots of schools have chess clubs, so I understand it's popularity. It's hard if you are much better
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by jvvw 4y ago
Read the book Teaming with Microbes by Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis, about soil, recently - very interesting.
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by jvvw 4y ago
Those participants are going to mostly become mathematics academics which doesn't seem like the best demographic income-wise of you are trying to get a good return on investment? Especially as HPMOR doesn't directly lead you to th
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by jvvw 4y ago
Do agree that it's hard to talk about averages - you almost need e.g. a heat map of the price for a certain size of 3-bed semi or 2-bed flat or such like. It's tricky too because house prices in areas of the country where there ar
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by jvvw 4y ago
Related to this - Scientific American article by Scott Barry Kaufman on Spiritual Narcissism: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-science-of-sp...
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by jvvw 4y ago
A friend of mine is selling his 1 bed terrace (about £200K) and the prospective buyers are older than they would have been twenty years ago - in their 30s not their 20s is the impression I get. I imagine there are large mortgages too. Possi
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by jvvw 4y ago
I don't think London throws them out of whack all that much. I'm around Milton Keynes/Bedford so SE but a bit further than most folk would want to commute to London (and I'd imagine a reasonable percentage of the populat
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by jvvw 4y ago
Most kids here get phones around 9/10 when they start walking to and from school alone, so before they really start using social media so it isn't a sudden one day they are using it, next day they aren't thing. Also children
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by jvvw 4y ago
When trying to find a graphic designer once, got a portfolio from one designer mostly comprised of work for a soft porn site. It may have been professional graphic design experience but not exactly something I wanted to look at as part of m
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by jvvw 5y ago
I practice yoga and pranayama but I think for many people decoupling the breathing exercises from the spiritual side encourages them to try things they would have otherwise have shunned. I also think many of the secular breathwork practitio
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by jvvw 5y ago
From what I have read, one of the issues though is that there are only a finite number of trees that can be planted on the earth so carbon offsets of that nature are in a sense a one-off thing available to humanity - they buy us some time b
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by jvvw 5y ago
We have solar panels on medium sized house in the UK (15 panels - half east, half west roughly) and an induction hob and use it without needing power from the grid!
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by jvvw 5y ago
Alice in Numberland by Baylis and Haggarty was one of the books that made me want to become a mathematician when I found it in the school library and read it as a teenager. There was also a little set of booklets called Derek Holton's

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