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by pflats 7y ago
Many of us do, but resetting the ROM will also wipe out all of the pre-installed "flash" apps that a colleague might want to use. It's a trade-off. edit: or at least, it used to. Haven't tested in years.
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by pflats 7y ago
This reminds me: A few years ago, Jacques Mattheij accidentally won a lot more bulk lego auctions than he meant to. His story of sorting through them with a homemade hopper/camera/ML/computer vision showed up on HN. It's
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by pflats 7y ago
But Tesla didn't say "we're new at this and we learned from it". They said it was a "supplier-related issue" that has been "addressed for cars in the field" and "resolved [...] with fundamental d
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by pflats 7y ago
I felt the opposite. Tesla's answer came across the worst to me, and reads to me with the over-specificity of a student making excuses for why their paper isn't done on time. > "It was a supplier-related issue". Passi
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by pflats 7y ago
I don't think they're particularly hard arguments to make. Turing is the easiest: What is a computer? What isn't a computer? If you can't answer that question, you don't have a computer. The Church-Turing thesis is
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by pflats 7y ago
I'm not sure what the author's target audience is, but: > But we know from high school physics that a = v' = p'' It would be exceedingly rare to see "p" used as the position variable in high school phys
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by pflats 7y ago
Thanks for asking for it, then! :)
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by pflats 7y ago
Generally, in mathematical publishing, when someone refers to a book by the author's name, the title is (essentially) the topic. Without clicking the link, I'd bet dollars to donuts the book is titled "Hinged Dissections&quot
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by pflats 7y ago
I like your point, but I go back and forth on this. Rules are different for non-profits and volunteers, so let's make sure we're focusing on a for-profit function hall, not a local community center. As far as I can tell, Reddit ex
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by pflats 7y ago
Also, a lot of other languages (Python, Ruby, JS, etc.) can do the same thing with their OR operator: b = list.next.to_s || "Reached end of list." If list.next.to_s is non-nil, then the OR statement is short-circuited and
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by pflats 7y ago
> That sounds like checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy. You are correct. That is because the article is about checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy (specifically yervoy/ipilimumab and opdivo/nivolumab).
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by pflats 7y ago
As the article says, this immunotherapy essentially works by turning off some of the immune system's "don't attack your own body" safeties. This frees the immune system to attack the cancer (provided it can identify it).
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by pflats 7y ago
Go modules is exactly the reference case, but let me expand on that a smidge, because that was when this become crystal-clear to me. There's one exchange in a blog post linked from the article[1] about dep/modules that I think is
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by pflats 8y ago
I think you've got a typo here: points should be 0-dimensional.
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by pflats 8y ago
That's... not true, and not supported by the study you linked. In the study, there was no measured difference in memory between the two note taking styles; the groups' factual scores were not significantly different in any of the
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by pflats 8y ago
The basic times tables are a big sticking point in secondary mathematics. Because polynomial work depends heavily on factorization, students who cannot readily see that 56 = 7 * 8, and then apply their elementary operations skills to say 7
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by pflats 8y ago
In my experience as a math teacher, there's a lot of sources of math anxiety. There are a few I see the most: * Stereotype threat. * High school students thinking "I was good at math in 3rd grade, so I need to be good at math now.
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by pflats 8y ago
Beyond that, I have taught theory of computation in the past, and I think the rest of the article is a solid writeup. The DPA section might need another pass; that felt the most uneven. Things that jumped out at me: - If the audience if pro
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by pflats 8y ago
> Asking someone who hasn’t been recently exposed to computing theory to write a balanced parentheses recognizer is asking them to reinvent the basic research of people like Kleene and von Dyck, extemporaneously. And then write code und
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by pflats 8y ago
I bet dollars to dimes that they will cover it in a podcast and that podcast will be exclusive to Spotify. I would predict they keep doing 'Startup' as-is with its focus on other companies, and launch 'Acquisition' (or w
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by pflats 8y ago
I also worked for a construction union in the northeast, and our employer sent the worst employee's pay check to the job site via same-day courier to ensure that, once duly compensated, he could be immediately dismissed. The rest of th
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by pflats 8y ago
>In the private sector, teachers get paid much better and have the freedom to actually run their classroom in the way they see fit. While this might be true wherever you are from, it is definitely not universal. Every US state I have liv
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by pflats 8y ago
>If there were a unionization effort that focused on 1) a hard 40-50 hour cap on work hours (or with paid overtime) and 2) enforced profit sharing plans, I could support it. >The current main unionization effort basically says "t
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by pflats 8y ago
The New Turing Omnibus has a good chapter on the Incompleteness Theorem; it covers the basics in 5 or 6 pages, if memory serves.
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by pflats 8y ago
NPR One was toxic for NPR (the national company) in their internal politics. Smaller local stations fought back against having to promote the app on their broadcasts out of fear it would drive their local listeners away. http://w
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by pflats 8y ago
>Who considers 55-60k "high paying" especially when the job contains potential life threatening risks and other health issues. These interviews are with apprentices! They're still in training and they're make $55k+ wi
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by pflats 8y ago
Speaking as a CS educator, I agree, with a caveat: In my free time, I took the big Coursera course, and it is (was?) also tied into a proprietary toolset, GraphLab. They have "you can also do this in pandas" instructions on lab as
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by pflats 9y ago
Not bad. The best change in real-world implementation is probably going to be letting high school kids take CS for math or science credit. Opens up a lot of options for students. The next big issue: "Each school district within the sta
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by pflats 9y ago
There's nothing wrong with intuition, but intuition does not write proofs. It can help you write proofs, but you need more than that. To pick an example: Intuition is great for understanding the intermediate value theorem. If the tempe
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by pflats 9y ago
Is it a cultural problem, or is it culture? Is there a minimum empirical success rate you would be comfortable setting for a procedure that could significantly extend a patients life? Personally, I think the best solution is to push large m

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