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Yes, but different celestial bodies get there energy from different sources. For the earth it's mostly radioactive decay in the core of the planet. In others, like Io, it's believed to be mostly tidal friction.
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Maybe it's your expectation that anything interesting in linguistics needs the language of part of speech categories, relative clauses, morphology ... Maybe that assumption needs to be updated? Maybe the language of network architectu
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Earth has also got a small bit of tidal movement of the crust, but not remotely as much as Io. There there is a theory that tidal movement of the Earth's crust is one (of many) factors that can trigger earthquakes.
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I agree with all that, and in my experience, students really react well to courses and coursework based on doing games. And yet, I will use Fibonacci as introductory example tomorrow when I teach "Intro to computational complexity&quo
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I agree, I don't think there is much difference in intrinsic ability. I'm absolutely convinced that every healthy person can become a really good programmer. But becoming a really good programmer requires putting in a lot of time
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This is an interesting suggestion. However, it is very easy to cheat your way through college and obtain good grades. My assessed coursework regularly shows up on rentacoder.com and similar. There is an industry out there for writing diss
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Interesting theory. I have a different one, derived from teaching 1000s of students over 2 decades. the bimodal distributions comes from two sets of people: one set working hard and putting the hours in until the master the subject, the oth
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I teach computer science at a well-known, large and mediocre university. I see bimodal grade distributions all the time. The more technical a subject, the more bimodal the grades. In fluff subjects like software engineering where grading re
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Io, Jupiter's innermost moon and the most volcanically active body in the solar system, is interesting because its source of heat is believed to be tidal heating: Jupiter's gravity pulls Io inwards while Jupiter's other moons
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No hindsight. Communist takeover plans were very well-know and public for a long time. Moscow hardly had a monopoly Nobody claims this. The fact of the matter remains: the KR and Pol Pot were created following the standard communis
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I disagree. While it is true that the Vietnamese and Cambodians didn't want to be colonies, the KR were vastly worse than being colonised. KR were following the classic communist script that we have seen played out in many developing
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KR almost certainly would not have come to power Whatever one thinks of the Viet Nam war, and there are many valid criticisms of the conduct of the western armies and their leadership, it is worthwhile to bear in mind that the
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I'm happy to believe that almost all IoT vulnerabilities are application level problems. The beginning availability of verified kernels and compilers makes it much more worthwhile to invest in formal approaches for application level vu
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True, seL4 verification doesn't solve the application level security problem but it makes it more approachable in several ways. - No longer need the verification of application make assumptions about the semantics of the operating sy
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This is all true, but wouldn't somebody who has the technical skills to pull this all of, be able to pull in a legal income far in excess of what burglary is likely to yield?
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Most people learn by direct interaction I'll have to disagree here. I've been a university teacher for over a decade, and the number of students who interact with me is small. Most students don't actually interact w
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effective only on adults that already have an education. Why is that a bad thing? It's already a sizable demographic, and one that self-selects for being interested in education.
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Thanks. Do you know who is working on this? I'd like to talk with them.
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Are higher-kinded types scheduled for inclusion? If so when?
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naive It's not naive, but a well-executed damage-control move to detract attention away from Mrs Clinton's health problems. The ludicrousness of discussing frogs close to the election of the world's sole superpower i
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Human Rights Watch being an American organisation, led by a member of the US power elite (e.g. Goldman Sachs, Soros' OSF) might have something to do with it? Nah, perish the though!
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The optimization is unsound. The JIT compiler is sound, w.r.t. to the source language's semantics. That's the only thing that matters for the programmer. but it's inelegant. Elegance is in the eye of the beh
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is an unclean design. It's not unsound. Otherwise you'det g incorrect results. You could say the design is wasteful, because you optimise and then throw away the optimisation. But it's hard to do better for some kind
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trust a language that ... Where's the problem? JIT compilers work. Most high-level languages require compiler tricks for achieving performance from Scala to Haskell to Prolog. It's useful to distinguish between (1) havi
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their crimes. Which crimes have you got in mind? The crime of being outvoted on the ECB board and having to bail out everybody?
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one should question the competence of these people Have you considered the possibility that they are extremely competent at reaching their goals, that and you just don't yet understand at what their goals are?
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great deal of deliberation I suggest to study the works of people like Saul Alinsky, Leon Trotsky, Antonio Gramsci who have spend a great deal of effort on thinking about political activism and how to undermine organisations and
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that root cause are addressed The root cause is money, people get paid for SJW-style bullying, people get jobs so companies can tick the (legally mandated) diversity boxes. That's all you need to know to understand the root ca
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book that's more popular Yet another benefit of popular books is that they won't be first edition, so a lot of mistakes that make it into the first edition will have been ironed out. Don't underestimate how much a s
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Development aid also undermines democracy in developing countries because the elites focus on pleasing foreign donor organisations, rather than being accountable to their own population. There is also a tendency of aid to destroy local econ

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