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by ronaldx 13y ago
If new tiles are inserted randomly, you have to defend adequately against the worst case. Avoid-death always has a very good expected value, relatively. So minimax is probably right in many cases and close enough to being right in most cas
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Do you have a source for this? I've only heard this said on HN and I doubt that it is significantly dangerous to be rich.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
These are not real hurdles. The whole point of education is that kids learn the things you describe. If a kid builds a microscope, takes orange peel, and recognises that they don't see anything because it's opaque, that's gre
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by ronaldx 13y ago
This is actually a good method: by using this method (avoiding up and favouring down), you tend to cluster 2s and 4s towards the top while larger numbers percolate downwards (and towards the middle). If you encourage this natural tendency,
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Hansard, record of the UK Parliament's House of Commons, 6 January 2014 http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/c... Question: "Given that the new primary maths curriculum no lo
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I doubt she has been taught to repeatedly take off 10x8s. I find it more likely she been taught that it doesn't matter what she takes off: as long as she gets to the end without error, her answer will be correct. I imagine that she has
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by ronaldx 13y ago
If you were using this method, it would be more typical to give the remainder as a fraction. Student probably hasn't studied decimal numbers to an extent that this would be relevant at this stage.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Despite claiming you don't understand the gain, you just said it: students gain a more complete understanding of how multiplication and subtraction are related to division, which is the primary goal of this stage of math education.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
The daughter is correctly conceptualising number by following this method (and, although I cannot see the answer, her method is executed correctly up to the point I can see). She doesn't seem confused. Her method is not perfect but is
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> I'd assert that decimal floating point in no way changes the scope of concerns or approach to numeric programming compared to binary floating point. Agree. What problem does this solve? That I can now represent 1/5 precisely?
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I agree with you on this point, but asking a lecturer to provide slides and notes creates a lot of work for them. It's a difficult task to make one set to an adequate standard, so I was assuming you would use one set for both jobs (a
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by ronaldx 13y ago
My suggestion is the same: obfuscating what's in the exam does not benefit the students but makes yourself seem more important to their success.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
If the slides do not convey the material that is being taught, then the slides are useless. Students generally do refer to slides after lectures, and usually end up staring at a load of incomprehensible nonsense. The instructor-expert can a
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I got a bit less far than that. I feel like this lecturer is recognising that lecturers appear to add more value if they deliberately hinder students from accessing resources outside of their lectures. That's not a good thing. All th
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by ronaldx 13y ago
As the parent describes: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wallet-trackr-find-your-wa...
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Yes, the 'reveal' towards the end of the article is a nice surprise and worth reading the whole article for.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> Secondary math education, for me in the UK, didn't deal with anything outside of elementary algebra, Euclidean geometry, some statistics, and relatively simple calculus. I've been a secondary math teacher in the UK and I want
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by ronaldx 13y ago
No, it's claimed they are not aware. Although it's not clear how they avoid timing attacks.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
>I know many colleagues who got into academia and were able to find plenty of funding. If I parse correctly that you're in academia, you should really make more effort to understand potential sources of bias. They got into academia
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by ronaldx 13y ago
If almost all binaries are treated by Windows as suspicious (in general: if there's a whitelist), then a request for an administrator password will be unconsciously and automatically given.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
>The biggest problem in education isn't the curriculum or method of teaching or the teachers, it's how motivated the student is (which is usually a product of their home environment) While I get what you're saying, the mot
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> when you talk to compliance people, they often take a very narrow view of what "identifiable" is. The standard is often that it has to be more or less trivial to do. Frankly, I would expect those compliance people to be disci
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> Freedom of movement and capital has been a giant leap, and something no other region in the world has achieved. I agree that it is a giant leap, but disagree that no other region of the world has achieved this. India and China have l
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Brett Glass's statement of rebuttal here is an amusing addition to the story and worth reading (even if you probably won't be on his side).
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Apologies, I haven't used SAS in so long that I had it confused slightly with SPSS.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
What full-time means is very important here, as the concept of full-time work doesn't necessarily fit well with the movie industry. It seems most common in the movie industry to be employed on a short, fixed-term contract (for the dura
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Yes, I hope and believe this is fully a satirical joke because I read the idea to say: "I want to prevent other talented people from making indie films or working on creative projects and developing their own independence" Awful
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Being a slightly improved Excel has significant advantages as well: It's more accessible to people who are not coders but need to do statistics on real data, i.e. almost all researchers. Although personally, I would use R/Python (
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I understood exactly the same as you. This doesn't exist as a service because it's the default thing that apache does.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
If you are really too uncomfortable to meet in person, there are few other interim options and you probably need a lawyer if you want to take this further. I would suggest that you reconsider meeting in person - this is a good interim step

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