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by jvvw 5y ago
I think anger is a natural part of life sometimes - but we have some control of how we react to anger. I certainly would quit a job if one of my co-workers was allowed to shout at me! Often when we feel anger, there is something that needs
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One thing that is hard is that not all areas of mathematics have obvious easy problems to work through or rote computations, although you should clearly do that if those exist. I do think problem-solving and 'getting your hands dirty&#
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I have also had that with HSBC -if you call the main online banking number they will put you through but it involves being shunted around on hold. The thing I found most annoying was the attitude of the HSBC representatives when I said (ver
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by jvvw 5y ago
Surely this is up to the company? They make a decision as to whether to pay somebody to work after-hours versus the business they lose by not doing so. I specifically took a job that didn't require after-hours work (I have a family whi
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by jvvw 5y ago
The problem I've found with kids' platforms - thinking mostly of YouTube Kids but others too - is that they are so tied down that your children can't get to things that they or indeed that you want them to - often quite educa
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When I was at Oxford in the mid-nineties, there was a lady (a post-grad? not sure) who organised latin-speaking tea parties for interested parties across the university. I'm not sure I'd have enjoyed Latin as much at school though
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by jvvw 5y ago
Luton? I think some parts of London are more reachable from affordable places than others and that requirements do change when you have a family (more space and you may not need the best school but you don't want a terrible one). We li
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by jvvw 5y ago
For those of us with that background, it looks like it might be really useful though. I've only had a brief look so far, but as somebody who took all the pure courses in my maths degree, I've been looking for something a bit like
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by jvvw 5y ago
But most people with imposter syndrome don't talk about it I assume? And the people who do are mostly just trying to say that it is normal to feel like that.
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I've used PictureThis a great deal to identify both wild and garden flowers. I've found it really good for the 95% most common plants and also for getting you in the right ballpark so you can then look things up more easily in a f
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by jvvw 5y ago
My children did karate - as well as being exercise, I liked it terms of giving them the experience of how they could get better at something with practice and discipline, especially as they aren't typically sporty. 'Being able to
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by jvvw 5y ago
This reminds me of Deborah Tannen's book You Just Don't Understand. She's a professor of linguistics and the book talks a great deal about using language to demonstrate superiority vs using language to connect.
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As somebody who has read more than average about home education and unschooling and certainly contemplated it, but ultimately decided to send their children to school (and can see the pros and cons!), that is interesting. It must be hard to
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by jvvw 5y ago
It's not formal experiments as such but I quite like Felicity Cloake's How to Cook the Perfect ... column: https://www.theguardian.com/food/series/how-to-cook-the-perf... which has both a home cook feel
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by jvvw 5y ago
I do empathise with people in that bind - it's hard to know if a job paying much less will actually be significantly less stressful - big gamble to make with lots at stake. Affordable areas generally have fewer jobs - just moving somew
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by jvvw 5y ago
Coming from the opposite direction, I'm quite curious as to where the linear algebra and combinatorics fit in. As a former mathematician (switched to computing after one post-doc) who has been trying to learn about music and to play th
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by jvvw 5y ago
Hmm. My mother was a university lecturer in mathematics and I don't think contacts etc helped at all with my PhD in maths and academia. What did help was the enthusiasm she passed in for her subject when I was young and the encourageme
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This is certainly how the school my children goes to teaches it (after all the home education recently I now have a pretty good idea how they teach!) And yet, I get the impression that most of the children still find the concept of fraction
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I've read it twice and don't remember anything about humour (which doesn't mean that it isn't mentioned, but definitely not a key part!)
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Tony Gardiner was in charge of the maths olympiad training in the UK for many years - he produced some very good material for that including a book on maths olympiad preparation and the fact that he was one of the authors made me definitely
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There is also a question as to the extent to which the current rules send a signal to be careful or not. Anecdotally and highly subjectively, I felt like when schools were closed here in January, everybody started being more careful general
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I practice Feldenkrais which is partly about improving coordination of movement and practicing things slowly is one of the major ideas behind that. I watched an online talk earlier this week talking about the 'Weber-Fechner-Henneman Mo
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by jvvw 6y ago
I've found a yoga teacher who is good at this - reasonably authentic yoga but without a requirement for superstition etc. I'd be surprised if he were the only teacher like that around - but it might take a bit more hunting out tha
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by jvvw 6y ago
It's been interesting watching the slightly slippery slope of YouTube with our children (now 7 and 10). A lot of good stuff isn't on YouTube Kids - to give an example off the top of my head, the Royal Institution channel with its
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My sister became fluent in less than a year I'd say (living in Hungary, Hungarian boyfriend, worked hard at it and super-good at languages generally). I don't know what her accent is like but she definitely has no problem being un
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by jvvw 6y ago
There's a nice 5 minute video by neuroscientist Anil Seth here: https://aeon.co/videos/on-the-beholders-share-how-past-exper... and I was going to link to Schmidhuber too - I like this page on his site: https:&#x
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by jvvw 6y ago
I doubt there are many professors of mathematics who have read the original Gauss! Certainly in my field of mathematics, nobody ever talked about reading older work in its original. It feels like something only of interest for historians. M
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Do you grok equivalence classes because quotients (of anything) are basically sets of equivalence classes? And on the parenting front, luckily you start with a baby not a ten year old so you have lots of chance to grow as a parent before ma
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by jvvw 6y ago
I think if you want this from an engineering perspective then Mark Kistler's You Can Draw in 30 Days is a good bet. It's not about how to see (unlike Drawing With the Right Side of the Brain) but if you want to draw certain types
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by jvvw 6y ago
I think that depending on age of the children, it's actually about a half-time job. This puts you in an awkward position - it is really hard to get a half-time job, or at least a good half-time job - even if you can find one, you have

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