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by pdm55 8y ago
I don't understand. I used Microsft's Bing when I was living in China. It was very obviously censored. Just type in a "rude" word and you get a message that the search results were blocked. Part of the fun was seeing wha
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For older kids, I like this interactive javascript book https://software-tools-in-javascript.github.io/js-vs-ds/en/ and this simple set out https://software-carpentry.org/lessons/
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Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16464909 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13499626 how to teach kids to code - resources
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Coding 4 Kids https://www.tynker.com/ tynker* https://www.computerscienceforkids.com/beginningvisualstudio... . C# + SmallBasic curriculums* https://www.codingkids.com.au/careers/ codi
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If I put in "understand", female professors outrank males in Physics! But this is for both positive and negative reviews. What the heck does it all mean? Can female professors be both better and worse at explaining Physics concep
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A view of what they had to stop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W667v-zBfNE
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Remote derailment of runaway train(thewest.com.au)
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John Bartholomew is also a co-founder of https://www.chessable.com/courses/ which complements his YouTube and Twitch videos. Chessable has interactive online lessons. My present preference is to spend my time watching
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Game in full https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1gmLPCK3t8
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symbolab is nice https://www.symbolab.com/solver/implicit-derivative-calculat...
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I have found that reading (auto)biographies of persons in the field I am interested in has helped me. These alerted me to the original problems that the mathematicians were trying to solve and the struggles they faced.
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I think the general strategy to fight HIV is to try to disrupt one or two key events of the process. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_of_HIV/AIDS
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The story I remember most vividly was the researcher, Dr Karen Wetterhahn, who despite taking great care spilled one or two drops of dimethylmercury on her latex glove. The glove would prove to be no protection at all - tests later showed t
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by pdm55 8y ago
I was enlightened by the link above to NUMMI. Here is a transcript of that video: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/561/transcript You have seen the same advice from Paul Graham: "Do things that don't scale&q
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by pdm55 8y ago
Just found this simple html + javascript game https://www.w3schools.com/graphics/game_intro.asp
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Coding 4 Kids https://www.tynker.com/ tynker * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16464909 HN coding for kids https://www.computerscienceforkids.com/beginningvisualstudio... C# + Sma
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by pdm55 9y ago
Bill Browder tells the story of his financial dealings in Russia in “Red Notice”. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, Browder saw an opportunity to buy stakes in Russian firms in the 1990s. Then, state ownership of companies was being po
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by pdm55 9y ago
I've just been watching Michael van Biezen, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiGxYawhEp4QyFcX0R60YdQ , and Braden Mann, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFS_EnwXR7m_c1IyePCPhYA , explain how t
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by pdm55 9y ago
some coding sites found by me, a science teacher: https://studio.code.org/s/express I like this - it's easy - if I am required to teach middle-school kids some coding I will probably use this; https:/&#x2F
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by pdm55 9y ago
"wasted supperior" Did you mean "way superior" or, better yet, "far superior"?
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Here in Brisbane, Australia, the FreeCodeCamp guys & gals are helping each other learn React and Vue, https://www.facebook.com/groups/free.code.camp.brisbane/ Maybe reading the Facebook pages of campers will g
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by pdm55 9y ago
I have been doing private tutoring of senior high school students and first-year uni students for the last 2 years. Out of about 30 tutees, I have had 3 top students. Those 3 had one thing in common: they were super-organised. And to make i
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by pdm55 9y ago
Geogebra, https://www.geogebra.org/ , might suit your purpose. See it in action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjPakjpEAXs You can use it to produce docs, such as https://www.geogebra.org/m
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That link was recommended to me as a simple, clear explanation of React. I'm a real minimalist - just plain vanilla Javascript serves my purposes - but I'm glad I read parts of that explanation, as I got familiarity with the term
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https://jrsinclair.com/articles/2018/react-redux-javascript-...
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A key insight, that I got from Barbara Oakley's "A Mind for Numbers", was a way to avoid procrastination. The secret was to trick your mind. Don't think, "I have to do two hours of study." Just say to yourself,
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by pdm55 9y ago
Thanks for the link to https://www.construct.net/au . Others are https://studio.code.org/s/express , https://blockly-games.appspot.com/?lang=en & http://microbit.org/
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Can anyone give a really simple English paraphrase of what Buffett is saying?
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Some figures: I got my "every second month" injection of Eylea this morning, https://www.macular.org/eylea-injection-treatment . It cost $800 Australian dollars. Under our health scheme, I get $600 back. The guy be
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Another use of a modified virus is to deliver an antibody to VEGF, the factor that causes macular degeneration (blindness). Prof. Elizabeth Rakoczy has been recently awarded the 2017 CSL Florey medal for this work. http://www.aip

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