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by jvvw 10y ago
I studied mathematics at university (though in the UK at Oxford so a different system) and studied a good proportion of the first year course independently from text books before I go there. But I still learned so much more in my first year
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by jvvw 10y ago
I think the tricky thing is that they are going to encounter fractions in everyday language before they are at the stage of discussing different fractions as being equivalent. I've got a 3 year old and 5 year old. The 3 year old uses &
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by jvvw 10y ago
I remember that the designer of the auction did various mock auctions beforehand getting maths PhD students to do the bidding pretending to be the various mobile companies. I was a postdoc at the time and didn't take part myself but so
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by jvvw 10y ago
I've tried the Vive and it is very cool, but I do wonder how much physical space will be an issue for its take-up in the UK. We've got a decent size house by UK standards (4 double bedrooms and 3 reception rooms), but, with two ki
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by jvvw 10y ago
We have a few users and a large number of repos - small team of developers supporting research projects in a university department.
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by jvvw 10y ago
There's no doubt that C-sections etc. have saved huge numbers of lives. On the other hand, the US actually doesn't have great maternal mortality rates for childbirth for a developed country: http://www.theguardian.com&#
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by jvvw 10y ago
I did a PhD because I really loved my subject (mathematics). I never envisaged it being a path to riches and it didn't bother me unduly that my friends who went into jobs on graduation were earning much more than me. It really didn&#x2
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by jvvw 11y ago
I am in the UK and was quite worried about the compulsory religious education (and it was a bit demoralising that when I asked about it at the open day, they assumed that I wanted lots of religious education and were gushing about how much
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by jvvw 11y ago
Attention span varies considerably from one child to another. The 'How to Train your Robot' game appears to be aimed at a 2.5 year old and as the mother of a 2.5 year old myself, it seems ludicrous to try to get a child that age i
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by jvvw 11y ago
I did jury service a couple of years ago in the UK - obviously a different system to the US. I came away feeling although in many ways a jury is a terrible way of deciding verdicts, that it is probably better than any of way of making a dec
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by jvvw 11y ago
This was one of the factors (certainly not the only one) that made me move out of the field of cryptography - I was doing work related to attempting to break a major cryptosystem and I realised that I wasn't completely sure what the ri
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by jvvw 11y ago
There's the fourth option of not judging yourself on whether you are a good programmer or bad programmer but instead just trying to become better (which I think is essentially the conclusion eventually reaches). It's the shift fro
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by jvvw 11y ago
Also, from a practical perspective, most large organisations don't have a system where you can go to your manager and say 'please can I spend $X of my own money on my monitor/chair etc' and then have them buy them for yo
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by jvvw 11y ago
Oxford has no exams in the second year for many subjects (and no tests other than maybe college 'collections' at the start of each term which don't count for anything, but my college didn't even do those for my subject).
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by jvvw 12y ago
I was the 'top girl' in various mathematics contests etc. (British Maths Olympiad, Oxford entrance exam) when I was at school. It didn't really bother me and if anything was useful recognition at school. I think this was prob
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by jvvw 12y ago
I became curious about this when I became significantly less short-sighted during each of my years of maternity leave. A few more kids and I won't need glasses any longer :-) Indeed, I spent much more time outside while on maternity le
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by jvvw 12y ago
This may be different in the US but in the UK, I would say that small talk about sports, especially football, is much more common among men than women and I was surprised that the article didn't mention this. I've spent a lot of t
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by jvvw 12y ago
I suspect there is some confusion here by the use of 'first principles' in the title. As a former mathematician when I see 'first principles' I think of axiomatic approaches to mathematics and the study of subjects like
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by jvvw 12y ago
The UK does not have the same concept of tenure as the US. Professors would have permanent positions and be subject to usual UK employment law.
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by jvvw 12y ago
I'm a mother of two young children and was a bit puzzled by the gender issue. Now we are past the breastfeeding stage, my husband is just as capable of looking after our children as me (and when my first was very tiny, I took him to a