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by mjd 3y ago
You may love make, but make doesn't love you back.
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I just love that little five-pointed star symbol. I also like labeling formulas with playing card suits. I think they are easier for the reader to distinguish when they are looking back for the labeled formula. A while back I had the idea
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Sorry about this. I added an explanation to the article.
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This is a great example. Thanks very much!
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> “look at it, deeply, deeply, deeply; and then solve it” That's the Feynman method: write down the question, think really hard, then write down the answer. Only three simple steps! Unfortunately, some of us are not Feynman.
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There is nothing that is always a good idea.
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Sorry about this, I added an explanatory note to the article.
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> All you need is to notice… All you need is a magical inspiration from out of nowhere! But if you don't happen to have that magical inspiration, the graph will make the periodicity visually obvious.
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by mjd 3y ago
1. Look at the graph! You can see that the graph, between 0 and 2, is a straight line through the origin. 2. On the interval (0,2), the expression x/2 is a number less than 1. The floor of this number is zero.
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George Pólya writes that a method is a trick you can use more than once. (Although I think he ascribes this to professors who are not good teachers.)
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I think this is really important for good teaching. It's not enough to show the student how to solve the problem. One needs to also show the student the patterns of thought that could have led them to the solution. And it's not
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by mjd 4y ago
In 2016 I discovered that a mountain on the planet Ceres had officially been named "Ysolo Mons" after the Albanian festival that marks the start of the annual eggplant harvest. There is no such festival. An anonymous Wikipedia edi
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That's what I thought it was going to be. (P.S. Something seems a little off about your username, but I can't put my finger on wha tit is.)
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When news articles say "faces 100 years in prison", they are often talking about the maximum possible sentence for all the charges. Such sentences are rarely imposed.
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As a longtime and successful tech blogger, I endorse this position. The tech blog is primarily for personal growth and may also help get you a good reputation. The personal growth is the important part. The blog gives you practice thinking
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Here's a 2002 pediatric journal paper that comes to the same conclusion: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5457713_Effects_and... "Results of this study show that requiring CRSs on airplanes would prev
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Machol discusses it in this address he gave at a 1992 sciences conference; it's on page 10. https://icus.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Machol-Robert-E.... He says that the calculations they did at
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by mjd 4y ago
This came up decades ago when Bob Machol was chief scientist at the FAA. A plane had pitched downward, and the parent lost their hold on the baby, which fell to the front of the cabin and died. A ban on lap babies was proposed. Machol point
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by mjd 4y ago
Better luck next time, Pavel.
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My recollection of the plot is that Danny, Joe, and Irene had to solve all the problems themselves and store the answers for later retrieval. And nobody in the book seemed to think that this wasn't cheating.
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Genius.
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Note that the title may be misleading. It is not talking about fried potatoes. Rather, these are the so-called "potatoes" of raw starch produced by the Fried condensation process, originally developed in the 1920s by American chem
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by mjd 4y ago
This is an unhelpful response because it doesn't say what you want me to stop. I say to you: this is not Reddit, and I have been here twenty times as long as you have, so please assume a little more good faith on my part.
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by mjd 4y ago
That was what I meant. If the Obama birth certificate release didn't satisfy the birthers—and it didn't—nothing will satisfy the JFK conspiracists. Because the original situation is much more complex, and because the conspiracists
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by mjd 4y ago
A reader who is a former employee of SAP has sent me a technical explanation of how this could occur. The explanation makes a lot of sense to me, and I have updated the article to include it.
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My number one complaint about Goofle Calendar is that it'll let me schedule an event in the past, with a reminder and everything, and say nothing.
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> It's strangely embedded deep in... The goal was to deliver advice that wasn't so widely available. "Practice beforehand" is something you can hear a lot of places. "Don't jingle your coins" and "
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One funny thing about this twenty-year-old talk is the part about making the book thicker. Those books moved to DVDs and then disappeared completely, at least ten years ago.
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I don't think there is a precise rule. because the exact meaning depends on the context. In part 3 of the series, in the section about "branches are fictitious", that's what I will say. The talk has an abbreviated versi
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I'm reading it and I think I got it right. The Git community, the Git documentation, and the Git tools all refer to "branches", and I think what they mean when they talk about "branches" is much closer to what I de

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