mtdewcmu

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>> Re 3: I think it's likely that there are diminishing returns the longer you present material the same way, and that switching it up makes students more interested. Maybe as important, variety helps keep the instructor from los
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>> Note that this means we don't know there isn't learning styles; we just know that those handful of ones so far tested have proven ineffective. The ones that have been studied are most likely the most widely-believed and p
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I'd make the bayonet C. It's good for all the situations in which the gun isn't.
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Think there's any significance in the title echoing Bill Gates' book? I have appreciated Anandtech a great deal over the years; the coverage of AMD's rise to the top with hammer was especially gripping. Thanks and best wishes
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Do you mean that as good or bad? Controversy can cut either way.
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Coming from a professor, I, myself, would always presume that there was a worthwhile lesson in those kinds of short remarks. It sounds like they were possibly steering students away from questions that could not be resolved empirically, whi
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Perhaps we should pitch in a little more so that the experimental physicists can also have blackboards.
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My experience has been that expecting people to do more work, even a little bit more, doesn't often pan out.
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I read Lee Smolin's book on this debate (The Trouble with Physics). I think what happened in theoretical physics -- to the extent that it's spinning its wheels with untestable theories -- is largely that there are too many theoret
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Assuming you're right that this is a trend, I don't think it should be too hard to heuristically pick out likely examples. Assuming most of them are good quality, there should not be so many that it's impossible to pick throu
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I'm going to speculate that it's less necessary for operating systems, because the equivalent information for OS has found its way into textbooks.
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The trend as you move away from simple sequences, such as binary numbers, to state machines, toward trees and general graphs, is that problems become rapidly less tractable. The situation degrades strikingly fast: numbers have sophisticated
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>> any research into getting away from text editors is positive. Any research at all? I'm curious: what it is that's unworkable about text in your view?
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>> Your HTML just looks like (html (head ...) (body (h1 ...))) or whatever; no "language box for HTML" needed. In your example, the language composition is smooth because there's only one language there: Lisp. HTML has
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
XML is about as good a format as any could be for this kind of application. XML, after all, stands for eXtensible Markup Language, and brackets that provide side-channel data on programming language are nothing if not markup. It would be a
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Yes. It's instructive to look at the examples of the two major autocrats of the 20th century. Hitler died a lonely death surrounded by ruin. Stalin died in his own bed as an old man. Stalin bided his time and played the patient opportu
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That is right. Some patients are quick to see a conspiracy when doctors can't cure them. But some diseases are just outside the capabilities of current medicine. It sounds like you suffer from something like metabolic syndrome. It&#x27
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I would love trying to fix these search problems. The first step would be to make sure you're using decent search software, like SOLR, rather than something constructed ad hoc from the database. That's easy. The next step would be
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I think the reason we're not seeing eye to eye is that we're applying different standards. That quote makes a point PG has made (IIRC). He concluded that great startups don't naturally follow from great ideas. That's bec
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I found some references, including this one[1]: "As far as the philosophy of history is concerned, what is the first trait of the Hegelian vision of the Napoleonic hero ? A famous passage is often quoted. It is an extract from the lett
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I took another look at the wikipedia entry [1], and it's inconclusive. Hitler had tipped his hand in Mein Kampf by describing war with the Soviets, and the Germans needed the oilfields at Baku, so completely avoiding war might have app
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Technophiles have a tendency to fall in love with ideas that no one else cares about and assert that people that dont see what they see are fools. But capitalism enforces a degree of honesty. If you can put a cash value on the productivity
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Here's an example of something that truly works: git. I don't think git was adopted because Linus is a silver-tongued salesman. I think the cost-benefit analysis was just lopsided in git's favor, and everyone adopted it. The
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Just general commentary. If something really, truly works and you can prove it, then everyone will adopt it. If this isn't being adopted by everyone then there can only be two reasons: either it doesn't really, truly work -- becau
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Anomalies like that can be important, I think. Clearly it made sense to the actors, but to us it seems incomprehensibly bizarre; that means our mental model is wrong, or, at least, has a gap. I think we tend to err by confusing cruel govern
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>> Do you think a "Hitler" has to have a funny mustache and behave like in the caricatures? I don't think that mustache will come back into style. Ever.
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It's interesting to speculate on what would have happened if Hitler hadn't betrayed Stalin. Hitler had reasons for doing so (I can't remember what they were), and they probably had some validity -- but the Soviets were certai
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There are and have been plenty of small Hitlers. It depends on where you set the bar for "a Hitler" as far as significance. Hitler was significant because he was leader of one of the world's most powerful countries at the tim
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The name Hitler is still virtually a curseword. People may not know much about history, but they know one thing: don't be Hitler. A lot is made of the fact that people are ignorant of history, but Hitler wasn't: he loved history,
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You said it right here: Now of course, people might have responded to Hitler much earlier if they had taken all his Jew-baiting and so on at face value, and realized that when he talked about exterminating large groups of people he meant e

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