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by kaitai 8y ago
I have to say I'm disappointed in your reply. Neurons only occur in animals, and the concept of neural signaling is not directly analogous to plant signaling in communities. Plants have a much wider vocabulary than electrical activatio
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by kaitai 8y ago
If you're going to attempt a definition like this you need some more conditions (approaching concepts like linearity, for instance). Otherwise you can have a black box like x^3 y^3-u^3 v^3 that takes in [u,v] and [x,y]^T and spits out
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by kaitai 8y ago
While not really discussed in the article, it's interesting to look for instance at Robin Wall Kimmerer's "language of animacy". She makes the point that the pronouns used to refer to people vs objects influence the dire
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by kaitai 8y ago
It's not Coursera and EdX. It's that foreign students pay full price. As administrative costs increase and infrastructure costs increase and state contributions decrease if there ever were any, the money needs to come from somewhe
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by kaitai 8y ago
What I think you and a lot of fellow commenters are missing is the history of higher education in the US. In many countries in Europe, universities were established by the state and the state promotes its values through admission criteria.
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I think this would be very useful. So useful. I personally haven't been able to get anything code-related through the curriculum committee though (I'm not in CS).
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A lot of academic code is also written by students. For instance, I'm working on a project that ends up with code written by 6 masters' students. I'm trying desperately to get them to use Git or some other kind of version con
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by kaitai 8y ago
Also, this is a few articles and a Facebook meme. There's no Nobel prize or anything. Why begrudge someone their 15 minutes of science fame for leading a cool effort, making cool science happen?
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by kaitai 8y ago
I benefit, as a woman who likes math and has great spatial skills! Sorry y'all are buying stuff to soothe your souls 'cause I'm happier.
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At least they're talking about PowerShell rather than gender!
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Daubechies has done some really cool work in math. She's probably best known in math for work in wavelet/image compression/signal processing and inverse problems. Here's an abstract for a talk that gives you a better ide
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by kaitai 8y ago
Depends on your age; heat-related deaths among the elderly and other vulnerable populations are up in several areas. Is RE Reunion? If so, in a place like that if nighttime temps start failing to drop humans start experiencing heat stress.
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by kaitai 8y ago
Adding some fun science: pumps are particularly unsuited to FL because of the "sponge" that makes up its land. As freshwater is taken up from the soil for human use, saltwater slowly follows it in (contaminating Fl's freshwat
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by kaitai 8y ago
I don't think it's religion, personally, because in Christianity for instance you see the pro-lifers and the people at the border protesting to give refuge to Honduran asylum-seekers in accordance with the teachings of Jesus and t
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by kaitai 8y ago
As with so many ideas in American politics, the use of moral outrage has ping-ponged back and and forth across the political spectrum -- everyone uses it, and people have for a long time. The civil rights era: both sides used moral outrage.
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by kaitai 8y ago
There are a lot of downvotes to this comment and I don't think it deserves it. I think the comment adds something substantive to the discussion. If you want to rise far in our economic system, a willingness or eagerness to figure out h
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by kaitai 8y ago
I went to public schools and then to Caltech, where I could sleep through freshman chemistry because my public school chem teacher was so great that I already knew the material. Experiences with public education vary.
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by kaitai 8y ago
"What is it that ... do with primary-age Asian kids that your SFUSD doesn't do with its Asian kids? Why not start with that?" Because that's culture. That's respect and reverence for education and teachers. And then
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by kaitai 8y ago
Progress has been slower than expected, in some ways. But I think that persistent homology and topological methods like Mapper are slowly allowing interesting research. My favorite recent application: two-parameter persistent homology for d
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by kaitai 8y ago
Uhlenbeck is delightful, and one of her big ideas discussed in this article -- bubbling -- truly has changed both her field and algebraic geometry. It's a cool idea. In a previous thread here (How I learned to love algebraic geometry,
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by kaitai 8y ago
That's right. There was eventually an effort to inspire and give instructions "lone-wolf" attacks, so that a central organization couldn't be targeted. This is what white supremacists and nationalists are doing today, as
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by kaitai 8y ago
I'm a child of immigrants 'refusing to assimilate', in that I am teaching my kid the language of my parents, which is not the language of my country. We have books & videos in this language and go to a Saturday school for
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by kaitai 8y ago
I think this really depends on the field. In mathematics, my field, you can argue that the work of various people is undervalued , but it's a bit harder to argue that certain theorems are overvalued . However, the metrics of evaluati
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by kaitai 8y ago
If you do have some math background, "An Invitation to Algebraic Geometry" by Karen Smith et al is a lovely, slim volume that gets to important ideas right away. "Ideals, Varieties, and Algorithms" is an "invitation
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by kaitai 8y ago
There are many other tools for studying these pathological cases: symplectic geometry, different flavors of algebraic geometry that look at orbifolds (manifolds with corners), schemes (lots of nice singularities), deformation theory... Ther
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by kaitai 8y ago
Every state covers mothers who are poor (133% or less of poverty line) or mothers who are "medically needy" under Medicaid. You need to prove you're poor or medically needy to get Medicaid coverage.
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You're essentially right. My neighbor poster harryh mentions Medicaid, but there are many situations in which you can be destitute and not qualify, or not qualify for many months, during which time you can suffer from lack of chemo for
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by kaitai 8y ago
And I'll point out that state governments often do this, and it seems to work fine for them.
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As someone who's raised funds for a program for HS girls in STEM recently, it seems like those 'billions of dollars' are all going to advertising or something 'cause they're sure not coming to, say, pay for teachers
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On their Windows phones Nokia's Finnish autocomplete was actually even a bit better -- it suggested suffixes and was pretty accurate. I wonder how they trained it.

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