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by papad 12y ago
This makes total sense. I have also been very careful to not let LinkedIn get access to my email or contacts - precisely cause I don't trust what they will do with that data on my behalf. But they still manage to suggest all these rand
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Does Continuous Deployment Marginalize Product Managers?(blog.mod.it)
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It's no Silicon Valley, but Boston's getting perkier for startups(gigaom.com)
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The Horrible Feeling at Hearing Someone Chewing Is an OCD Called Misophonia(motherboard.vice.com)
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by papad 12y ago
DragonBox is one of my favorites to teach basic algebra to my eight year old nephew: http://www.dragonboxapp.com/ . It came out of a research project at U of Washington. I also love doing Maker projects because I believe th
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by papad 12y ago
You definitely have the right perspective. If I put my kid's hat on, it definitely would be fun. Doing the simplest things with my nieces and nephews are extremely fun :)
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by papad 12y ago
Ha totally agree. The loops and vicious turns are central to a roller coaster (and being tied to the track). Without those, sledding is way better cause you can get some serious airtime on the right hills and have some control over your di
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by papad 12y ago
Yea I thought the most interesting thing was the very brief mention of "Future models might use one of the gecko-inspired materials that let people climb up walls using Van der Waals attractive forces." I think there have been att
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Run to Stay Young(well.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by papad 12y ago
Yea this is great. As an applied math major in college, modeling was my favorite class with so many variations of ABMs with Monte Carlo randomness. Like you, I was focused on social sciences, specifically economics so love these methods t