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by jvvw 5y ago
It's the Law of Leaky Abstractions though isn't it? Most of my time isn't taken by the mainline stuff - it's dealing with things that don't do what they say on the tin or weird edge cases. I'm thinking back to
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I think typing skill does matter with text representation. I've seen a lot of 7-9 year olds who might be able to cope with text-based languages conceptually just get frustrated by the slowness of typing when introduced to them. Which d
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I feel like there must be better mathematics books than those two if what you want is a taste of mathematics. What you get from Euclid is the idea of proofs from a set of axioms, but Euclid in the original is quite a painful way to get intr
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by jvvw 5y ago
At Oxford, my degree depended entirely on 8 three-hour exams at the end of the final year, which were mostly set by different people from the people teaching you. There are issues with this (not least that if you are slightly ill say during
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by jvvw 5y ago
I like that way of framing it. I'm reminded of Atul Gawande's The Checklist Manifesto.
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At the organisation where I worked at in the UK, all interviews were panel interviews - it's not ideal in various ways but it does it harder for discrimination (not just racial discrimination) to slip through the net - obviously just b
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I worked part-time (3 days per week and the 2.5 per week) as a developer for 7 or 8 years and found that you had to be as ruthless as you could get away with with 2. I deliberately worked Fridays as it was often quiet and easy to get lots o
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by jvvw 5y ago
You can definitely generate a large percentage of the electricity you use - there are diminishing returns for the last portion because it isn't worth paying for extra panels etc that you will only need for a couple of months of the yea
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You should mention that it was her idea and that you worked on it together on the web page! I'd buy it to support her efforts more than because I am sure my 11 year old would enjoy it! One other thing I wasn't sure about it from t
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by jvvw 5y ago
This reminds me of my elder son who didn't walk until when he was 18 months old. Before he finally learned he spent several months repeatedly 'practising' falling over. Eventually he seemed to decide that he could fall over h
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by jvvw 5y ago
I actually think that when they are young is the most expensive period - unless you have family nearby to help, either one of you gives up work or you pay a large amount of money on childcare, or some combination thereof if you work part-ti
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by jvvw 5y ago
You can use the Scratch website on a Chromebook assuming that the school hasn't blocked it. I'd recommend using the website and not installing the desktop version. We use Chromebooks at the Code Club at our local library. I would
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by jvvw 5y ago
Just been reading Why We Eat (Too Much) by Andrew Jenkinson and he is basically saying this - that CICO is true but there is also this feedback system with the 'Calories Out' part so that our body adjusts to physical activity leve
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by jvvw 5y ago
The block reward dropping doesn't mean that the value of the block reward drops though, does it? If the value of bitcoin goes up then the value of the block reward can increase even though the amount of bitcoin in the reward decreases.
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by jvvw 5y ago
The problem is that you usually desperately need a car when you are at the pick-up point. I can only drive an automatic and am less than 5' tall so some cars are just too big for me. I've had times where instead of the car I have
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by jvvw 5y ago
Yes - I guess what we do as parents is prepare our children for the society they are going to enter and how to best do that depends on what that society is. Although I suspect other environments have different types of stresses, but perhaps
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by jvvw 5y ago
Stress is a strange thing though because short-term stress can be good for us whereas chronic stress generally isn't. Robert Sapolksy has written some interesting books on the subject. I certainly don't think one should deliberate
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by jvvw 5y ago
My two boys play Magic and I definitely agree that they've learned a lot from it. I think it does need a parent or other adult who plays to teach them (and who presumably has their own decks already from the expense perspective!). We p
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by jvvw 5y ago
What age are they? Big difference between a 6 or 7 year old and a 13 year old! I've got two children (8 & 11) and done lots of volunteering teaching programming to children (and teach on a computer science degree as well!). I think
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by jvvw 5y ago
There's very little academic kudos survey articles or other educational articles (as another commentator mentioned, PhD theses are often the best place to go for those types of summary). I'm not sure how one changes that. I rememb
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by jvvw 5y ago
Agree, and I suspect only a tiny percentage of mathematicians have read it (I certainly did a degree and doctorate in maths at Oxford and sat the logic and set theory paper in my finals and it never went through my mind to read it). I get t
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by jvvw 5y ago
I remember going to a talk given by the developer of something similar (can't remember the name of the site, sorry, but was given at a university, so probably a charity or public sector project of some sort) and apparently there are lo
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by jvvw 5y ago
I got the impression that the same phenomenon was present with driving instructors and driving test pass rates. If it's clear after a dozen or so lessons that they might not pass then say that you will stop teaching and suggest a diffe
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I assumed that we were not told to use masks here in the UK because there was a limited supply of them at the time and they didn't want that supply diverted from medical settings.
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Also if you are writing a document, it's much easier to just give it a high classification to be on the safe side than try and figure out what the lowest classification it could have is. And as everybody you are working who will need t
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by jvvw 5y ago
I've helped a lot of children learn Python (volunteering) and the whitespace hasn't actually been a huge issue. They seem to get the hang of it quickly. The typing, dealing with syntax errors which don't explain clearly the p
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by jvvw 5y ago
I worked in a large academic educational technology department at a university for 13 years (as a developer) - and spent a lot of that time immersed in that world of research etc. in the area. The general vibe I would say was quite anti-beh
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by jvvw 5y ago
Mine are 8 and 10 and it's hard. They are playing a lot of Minecraft at the moment, and I feel that has really got them into the time of mindset that you describe as a child, making things incredible things out of redstone, more than t
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by jvvw 5y ago
As a parent, the pacification thing is very useful sometimes! Toys don't pacify as reliably and if you are in a situation where you need or want to pay attention to other adults undisturbed but your child is there, then I totally under
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by jvvw 5y ago
Walkability isn't a binary thing I guess. I'm in a pleasant but unexciting town (population 12K) in the UK and everybody is in walking distance of the schools, the supermarket, parks and leisure centre. Most houses here are 3 or 4

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