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by jvvw 6y ago
It's worth saying that the OU model partly works because of an economy of scale (a small module for the OU probably has a couple of hundred students, many have thousands). A huge amount of work is put into making the modules high quali
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by jvvw 6y ago
I've done lots of volunteering teaching programming to kids and recommend this for Python - it is pretty much foolproof to install which is a major thing of you only have an hour and a half session and you can get pygame working on it
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by jvvw 6y ago
I have a 7 year old and a 10 year old and have done lots and lots of volunteering teaching kids to code (via the Raspberry Pi Foundation's Code Club and CoderDojo schemes). My boys are very into building things with redstone in Minecra
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by jvvw 6y ago
I always feel I have to qualify, because when you say you have a DPhil, people often don't know what you are talking about! Technically I have a DPhil not a PhD though even though they amount to the same thing.
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by jvvw 6y ago
Peter was so incredibly supportive. He wasn't my DPhil supervisor (a DPhil is the Oxford equivalent of a PhD) but he urged me to start writing up and spent an hour with me each week during that period encouraging me to get my DPhil fin
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by jvvw 6y ago
I'm laughing at the 'good night's sleep' bit! After a lot of sleeper train travelling (mostly in Europe but also Russia and China), I still sleep incredibly badly on them and have had times where I have arrived exhausted
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by jvvw 6y ago
When I worked in crypto 20 years ago there was a journal like this which took papers that were only a few paragraphs long for quick results. I think it was called Electronics Letters.
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by jvvw 6y ago
I should add that it's actually the speaker and microphone that I am most excited about in terms of the potential for interesting new projects for kids. Crocodile clips and headphones were quite cumbersome, especially for kids. Althoug
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by jvvw 6y ago
I've got quite a bit of experience of doing coding stuff with kids - I set up the CoderDojo at The National Museum of Computing in the UK (paused at the moment), have run a Code Club at our local library, have two kids myself and am a
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by jvvw 6y ago
The UK has 3-year PhDs. I was 24 when I submitted my thesis!
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by jvvw 6y ago
I discovered that the proof of a fundamental proposition in my maths PhD thesis had a mistake in it two weeks before my viva, after I had submitted. Not sure if that was a better or worse time to discover it! After a rather stressful few da
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by jvvw 6y ago
I've got a PhD in maths and can translate symbols into concepts in my brain much quicker than words into concepts in general. Also writing symbolically forces a rigour on the writer. I've been trying to read some semi-mathematical
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by jvvw 6y ago
This is tricky because practices aren't just random sets of poses. I don't know much about yoga sequencing - maybe you could generate a reasonable set of rules as to how to combine poses but it doesn't feel trivial to me. Als
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by jvvw 6y ago
I'd like to see his partner's figures too!
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by jvvw 6y ago
It's about socialising with like-minded people though isn't it? I used to enjoy the mix of semi-intellectual discussion about the book and socialising at the book club I used to go to.
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by jvvw 6y ago
We have primary school aged kids and after the first few weeks, have decided to just do a token hour a day on the work set by school, although we try and do other 'educational' things in some of the other time, but not following a
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by jvvw 6y ago
It is a weird position at the moment too where you are home schooling but you know your kids will be returning to school and the schools are still setting work, so you are forced a bit into the 'school at home' thing. We're t
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by jvvw 7y ago
Ocado in the UK has been having queues to get onto the site and limiting people to one slot per week. They are now giving people who have been paying for delivery passes before 2020 priority access to the site one day per week (divided rand
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by jvvw 7y ago
Bread flour and yeast are almost as scarce here as loo rolls!
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by jvvw 7y ago
I have heard through word-of-mouth (third hand) that there are models made by experts not being shared publicly (but presumably with governments etc).
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by jvvw 7y ago
I'll add that if you are looking at books, to make sure that they are Scratch 3 not Scratch 2 (most of the books out there are still Scratch 2). I've got lots of experience with kids with Scratch (via my kids, and running a Code C
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by jvvw 7y ago
Processing and Scratch are completely and totally different by the way - Scratch is a visual programming language designed principally to teach kids programming while Processing is the main language used for generative art and is used by ad
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by jvvw 7y ago
Hmm, curious as to whether there is any real evidence for this or whether its wishful thinking - not seen any among my kids (2010 and 2013) and their friends. My elder son did decide to give up screens for a month after reading an article
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by jvvw 7y ago
Just as a warning most maths algebra beginner textbooks will focus on groups, rings and fields and not talk about most of the other structures mentioned (including Fragleigh and Herstein recommended by others - they are incredibly different
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by jvvw 7y ago
Hmmm, what about social contact with family members? How long does the interaction need to be to count? Would coffee qualify or chatting to other parents for five minutes each day on the school run? Once a month does feel like a very low th
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by jvvw 8y ago
I can't see when I'd find an hour or two undisturbed to learn to solder! And it's not something you want to be doing with younger kids around necessarily - even though the older of your children might be old enough to learn t
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by jvvw 8y ago
The fundamental problem, I think, is that alignment is a key concept in design which isn't reflected well in CSS. The concepts of normal flow and the box model are almost at odds with wanting to align lots of different parts of a page.
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by jvvw 8y ago
Or harming a sibling!
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by jvvw 8y ago
I worked for a company that did this very successfully for a long time - they paid very high salaries and had lots of nice perks so that people weren't tempted to jump ship for financial reasons. However, as tech salaries have increase
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by jvvw 8y ago
Agree - I have a 5-year-old and an 8-year-old, and yes, enormous difference even though only 2.5 years apart. Suggested age range is definitely helpful for parents even though I often take them with a pinch of salt. Also if a developer hasn

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