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by seanstickle 12y ago
Also, depending on local and regional laws, asking people to work for free can be illegal.
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by seanstickle 12y ago
This is my difficulty with J as well. APL has a better mental "feeling" for me, more like mathematical symbols. Oftentimes, these are pretty direct. Want to drop the first element of a vector? APL: 1 ↓ 1 2 3 4 5 J: 1 }. 1 2 3 4 5
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by seanstickle 12y ago
Not to be too pedantic, but the profession is "physician assistant", not "physician's assistant." They typically have master's degrees (and all will be required to have master's degrees by 2020), can pract
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by seanstickle 12y ago
This game is very similar to my first year of college mathematics -- studying Euclid's Elements and working through the proofs. I look forward to the game version of my sophomore year -- Apollonius' conic sections and Ptolemy&#x27
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by seanstickle 12y ago
Deontic logic! "Prove that killing Mr. A is incompatible with the categorical imperative. Also supports undo and redo."
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by seanstickle 12y ago
I don't limit characters, but I do limit my emails to 3 sentences per http://three.sentenc.es/ It's proven quite useful in my work, so I can see this product as a useful extension of the idea. That said, the const
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by seanstickle 12y ago
Our college textbook for calculus was Newton's Principia, which I suppose is also somewhat dated. However, I was able to obtain a sound working knowledge of calculus from that. Granted, I updated it a bit with Robinson's 1970s tex
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by seanstickle 12y ago
Not to be too pedantic, but... Felienne Hermans actually implemented a Turing machine in Excel, without using scripting: http://www.felienne.com/archives/2974 There was an HN post about this in September 2013: https:&
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by seanstickle 12y ago
Felienne Hermans has done some very interesting work examining how to refactor spreadsheets. ( http://www.felienne.com/publications ) Her PhD dissertation on the subject "Analyzing and Visualizing Spreadsheets" ( ht
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by seanstickle 12y ago
As a fan of accounting, I hasten to point out that this is only one of a couple of different triple-entry accounting schemes, which include: * [Momentum accounting]( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momentum_accounting_and_t
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by seanstickle 13y ago
Point of clarification: physician assistants are qualified to diagnose, treat, and recommend courses of action related to health care. Per the American Academy of Physician Assistants: "PAs perform physical examinations, diagnose and
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by seanstickle 13y ago
K: APL (and J) is too verbose.
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by seanstickle 13y ago
APL: Errors increase in proportion to the amount of code typed; therefore, decrease amount of code typed while keeping expressiveness and power unchanged. Alternatively: APL: Programming should be more like math.
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by seanstickle 13y ago
These are nice examples of scribal abbreviations in Latin. Q.v. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribal_abbreviation
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by seanstickle 14y ago
And echoing one of the items from W. Edwards Deming's list of deadly diseases (from "Out of the Crisis", 1982): "Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. Such ex
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by seanstickle 14y ago
M => a thousand, as in Roman numerals. MM => a thousand thousands, i.e. a million. Commonly used in accounting and finance.
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by seanstickle 14y ago
"The Man Who Loved Only Numbers": http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Loved-Only-Numbers/dp/07868840... A poignant examination of the mathematician Paul Erdős, and his notion of The Book, "an imaginary book in which God had written down the bes
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by seanstickle 14y ago
Both the article and the interview say that employers "think" that it's cheaper to leave the position unfilled, typically because of lousy cost accounting systems that do not give an accurate picture of the reduced system throughput (and th
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by seanstickle 15y ago
More appropriately titled: The Dangerous Effects of Reading Crap. Should be paired with a companion piece: The Dangerous Effects of Eating Dung.
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by seanstickle 15y ago
Quick work. Thanks.
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by seanstickle 15y ago
Am I to understand that people who live in Washington DC do not, in fact, matter? The state drop down has no provision for DC.
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by seanstickle 15y ago
Does Stripe allow delayed payments? That is, people put in their credit card details, Stripe authorizes the card but doesn't capture the amount charged, then we can approve/decline the transaction, and then Stripe can capture or void the tr
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by seanstickle 15y ago
In the context of COBOL, the natural assumption would be mainframe Assembler of the S/390 variety. Which is a distinct language, not the class of assembly programming.
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by seanstickle 15y ago
I think the canonical response to this comes from Harry Frankfurt: """ Both lies and bullshit can either be true or false but bullshitters aim primarily to impress and persuade their audiences, and in general are unconcerned with the truth
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by seanstickle 15y ago
Just because you can see something is wrong doesn't mean you have a solution, and not having a solution doesn't mean you shouldn't say that something is wrong. I would agree that "here is what you are doing is wrong, and here is why" is alw
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by seanstickle 16y ago
I wholeheartedly agree with the idea of primary sources, and of studying mathematics historically in general. The Elements of Euclid is a model of clear, concise, beautiful mathematics which is easily accessible. Archimedes as well. Follow
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by seanstickle 16y ago
If you have a formal systems bent, as I do, you might enjoy "Algebraic Models for Accounting Systems" ( http://www.amazon.com/Algebraic-Accounting-Systems-Salvador-... ). "This book describes the construction of algebraic models which repre
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by seanstickle 16y ago
There is a very clear checkbox that says "Post to Facebook", which you can uncheck. Doesn't address your other issues about communication needs, but broadcasting to all your friends is a problem with a check-the-checkbox fix.
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by seanstickle 16y ago
I found "A Logical Approach to Discrete Math" by Gries and Schneider to be delightful. It teaches discrete math using formal logic as the basis of the whole system. http://www.amazon.com/Logical-Approach-Discrete-Monographs-C...
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by seanstickle 16y ago
Feels like an auto-generated aphorism. Behold: "The weak regrets his silence more than his words; the strong regrets his words more than his silence; the magnificent regrets nothing." If you'd read that one first, it would be just as meanin

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