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Teach statistics before calculus(youtube.com)
1 points by neilc 14y ago|0 comments
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by neilc 14y ago
The idea that you can reduce an entire institution to a single number that is at all meaningful is pretty silly. I would hate to think that anyone uses these rankings for anything more important than idle bragging.
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by neilc 14y ago
The methodology of this report is a joke. For example, to come up with the $600 million figure, they say: "We simulated an increase in productivity growth in the exceptions using industries of just one one-hundredth of its otherwise experie
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by neilc 14y ago
Healthcare in the US is expensive because it doesn't follow a normal market economy. The people using healthcare generally aren't paying for the services out of pocket, so they have no incentive to try to keep costs low. I'm just curious
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by neilc 14y ago
there are certain time intervals in a day that you CAN get some sun exposure without worring (too much) about UV rays & skin cancer Note that it is exposure to ultraviolet light (particularly UVB) that causes the production of Vitamin
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by neilc 14y ago
It really involves both: particularly if you want high speed hashing, you need to pay close attention to how your hash function is executed by the hardware.
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by neilc 14y ago
Academia is more concerned with the volume of publications rather than impact and unique ideas. As a generalization, this is false. Certainly there is more emphasis on publication than is warranted, but most of the top places care much
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by neilc 14y ago
Craigslist not only has the right to choose who can consume their data, but how and when. It also, has the right to make it available any which way it likes. That is obvious, follows directly from copyright law, and is not in dispute. Pad
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by neilc 14y ago
Craigslist is free to choose who can consume their data. That much is completely obvious; I don't think anyone is arguing that Craigslist don't have that right. People are annoyed because shutting down PadMapper (without any effort to pro
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by neilc 14y ago
The immediately following text in the CL ToS reads: As a limited exception, general purpose Internet search engines and noncommercial public archives will be entitled to access craigslist without individual written agreements executed with
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by neilc 14y ago
Doing essentially what you seem to suggest: giving people a choice of a new thing and not taking any old things away. You really think Apple will be selling old-style MBPs indefinitely? It seems like the product line is going through a tr
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by neilc 14y ago
I believe the OP is referring to http://www.finextra.com/news/fullstory.aspx?newsitemid=22375
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by neilc 14y ago
Per http://www.macrumors.com/2012/06/11/apple-introduces-next-ge... , "up to 16GB of MacBook Air-like non-upgradable 1600MHz RAM."
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by neilc 14y ago
Well, there's also already (as of today anyway) a thunderbolt to gigabit ethernet adapter for $29. http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD463ZM/A?fnode=MTY1NDA3Ng
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Teaching Kids Code Through Metaphor(cbc.ca)
1 points by neilc 14y ago|0 comments
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by neilc 14y ago
Since (1) US taxes are relatively low on high income earners (right now anyway) (2) you can usually use the US taxes you pay as a credit against any foreign taxes you owe, is this actually a big problem in practice? Perhaps if you are makin
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by neilc 14y ago
I would be surprised to find second order logic discussed in an introductory discrete math curriculum.
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by neilc 14y ago
A cursory glance at Wikipedia also suggests that "Since 2010, Saverin has lived in Singapore."
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by neilc 15y ago
It's America's (crappy) solution to our relatively low number of vacation days. This would suggest that you'd find less conference participation in places with more generous vacation policies, like Western Europe or Australia. Anecdotally
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by neilc 15y ago
Studies on using it on real code written without thought on parallelism always discover that "normal" code simply isn't parallelizable even in theory beyond single-digit factors. If you assume "normal code" is traditional imperative code
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by neilc 15y ago
I wonder what he's doing that csmith doesn't do. The contribution is techniques for reducing the size of test cases, including test cases that might be generated by csmith (you realize the author of the blog post is one of the csmith auth
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by neilc 15y ago
Its singular goal is to be an awesome language for writing next-generation browser engines. Well, per the FAQ: ( https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Doc-project-FAQ ) What is this project's goal, in one sentence? To design and imp
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by neilc 15y ago
Apparently the current svn sources of googlecl work with more recent versions of Python gdata.
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by neilc 15y ago
Because the board members have a fiduciary duty towards their shareholders. Of course, if the board believes that holding the cash maximizes long-term shareholder value (e.g., by enabling acquisitions or capital expenditures down the road
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How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy(theatlantic.com)
12 points by neilc 15y ago|2 comments
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Quitting the Paint Factory(adamantine.wordpress.com)
2 points by neilc 15y ago|0 comments
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by neilc 15y ago
it is illegal (and most would agree immoral) to discriminate on race It is actually not illegal to discriminate based on race in educational admissions -- you just need to meet certain criteria (serve a "compelling interest" and not use q
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by neilc 15y ago
I would've preferred capitalism followed its natural course, and let one or two smaller banks die, than to get in a situation where a handful of huge banks can wipe out the entire economy if they are allowed to fail. I'm curious what make
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by neilc 15y ago
One of things that I have found to be a disappointed with the US education system is lack of statistics courses in High School. Absolutely. Teaching HS students trig but not statistics makes zero sense. That said, the way statistics is ta
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by neilc 15y ago
Your PhD really shouldn't take 6-7 years. Realistically, the Masters should cover all your course requirements so the incremental time should be 1-2 years. At least for a CS PhD in the US, this is not the case: even if you enter with a Ma

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