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by maire 8y ago
Some school districts in the bay area are doing better than San Francisco. In the Los Gatos school district my daughter completed her first year of college level calculous and some second year calculous by the time she graduated from high s
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Death and illness in the family is particularly stressful and there is no amount of NVC tactics that are up to the task. Your brother in laws protective instincts have kicked in and you will not be able to talk to him rationally until he fe
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Scientists are trying to study nutrition, it is just that the data is inconclusive. Yet the popular media reports each conflicting study as fact. Here is an interesting Stanford Medicine study of individual variation on the impact on low ca
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A really good book to read on this is "the Signal and the Noise" by Nate Silver. Basically, the scientific method requires modeling the system correctly which only works for certain kinds of systems. Systems where the complexity e
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Anger is chemical and not psychological and will pass. See Sapolsky's discussion of the Limbic system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAOnSbDSaOw When I am angry I am self aware enough to wait until the chemicals are
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She not he. When my daughter had her babies I recommended my doctor who was pretty young when she delivered my babies. In fact - we were both pregnant together. She was a couple of months behind me. My doctor notified up front that she did
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Malpractice insurance takes a surprising % of doctor's income. Delivering babies is particularly expensive. It reached the point that the doctor that delivered my babies no longer carries malpractice insurance.
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> Google Sheets with Google Forms (or whatever it may be called) for some users. That was my reaction too. I have a google sheet for bread that allows for different batch sizes and displays out baking instructions in english. This is wha
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I had the opposite experience from the author of the article. It must have been because I valued my family time over my working time. When my son was in high school I went from full time employee to part time contractor. It was great. Since
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There were 3 issues involved in the decision to drop the bomb: 1. The battle of Okinawa was fought vigorously by the Japanese leading the allies to increase their estimates of the cost of war on the Japanese homeland. 2. The fear that if th
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by maire 8y ago
The thing I remember most about Office Space is how the questions asked in Contextual Inquiries sound exactly the same as the questions asked by "the two Bobs". In the winter of 2008 (the real estate crash) I was in charge of desi
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This article brought back so many memories! My first job out of college was writing z80 assembly language at Cromemco. Later we ported everything to the 68000. We didn't write anything in a higher level language because it was too slow
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by maire 8y ago
I used to use GTD. I still use it for reactive tasks. It is not good at proactive tasks. I use evernote as a GTD repository, but I only act on it occasionally. Since I retired my tasks are by nature proactive (since they come from me). I te
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The law is specific to pet stores because it is one step removed from the breeder. You can still buy directly from the breeder. If a person cares about a particular breed they typically buy directly from the breeder anyway. That way they ca
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by maire 8y ago
I just finished reading the Undoing Project which is a biography of Kahneman and Tversky. I realized that Kahneman and Tversky's conclusions seem the opposite of Gladwell's Blink which I read many years ago. I need to go back and
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by maire 8y ago
A lot of times this is done for continuity of the data not for political ignorance. If you look at gapminder.org they use modern countries so that you can track data over time. Gapminder goes back to 1800 before Germany existed - yet they s
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by maire 8y ago
Sorry - but Facebook made it trivially easy for a small group to put up a website. This is why we depend on it more than you realize. You can go to a Facebook based business site without having a Facebook account. I try not to use Facebook.
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Everything seems common sense except ethnography. An understanding that there are people who think differently than me is difficult for almost everyone. Ethnography was created because mass marketing started to break down. It broke down bec
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Design Thinking is a way of integrating user feedback into the development process. When your product is iterative it almost always works. When your product is outside the comfort zone of the current users - that is when it is a problem. At
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Pinterest has an issue with their support. I was using it for a while to gather inspiration on a particular subject. It just started crashing with a server side error message. I submitted a bug report and the response was lame. I kept sayin
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by maire 8y ago
You are right. I just came across this article which talks about using rational cubic trigonometric Bézier curves. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40064-016-2544-3
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by maire 8y ago
"Easier for what?" is a legitimate question. I also had the question after I submitted my question because the "for what" wasn't specified in the article. If the target application only takes beziers, then that is t
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Would it be easier to use rational beziers (NURBS) rather than just beziers?
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You should try contracting. When my son was in high school I switched from full time employment to contracting. The pay was about the same and I took every summer off.
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The big thing that is missing in this service is a community of like minded people. The service itself could be completely automated since the person is still just generic. To get stuff done you need both community and organization. Organiz
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I am on another list with fire fighters all expressing their opinions. Here is what one said: I just got back from Butte Co - the ignition point in Pulga wasn’t deep forest, but grasses, shrubs and forest patches littered with downed and d
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Controlled burns are best practice but are not being done. For federal land, agencies have had their budgets repeatedly cut. This has left less money for thinning and other prevention work. Fire fighting money comes from a different "e
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by maire 8y ago
Wood shingled roofs are currently against code. The wood shingle example was from 1980. Current code even disallows wood decks. My childhood home burned in the Oakland hills fire - and it had a tile roof -- so roofing material is not enough
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The USAAF split into a separate military service after the war, but it was still considered a separate unit within the army during the war. My father was in the Army Air Force during WWII - and he always said he was in the Army Air Force an
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It all depends on who is rewarded for the automation. Salaried employees who automate are generally recognized for the productivity that automation provides. Low level data entry people are not rewarded. Your story reminds me of my son who

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