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by steve_b 11y ago
I'm just going to compare murder rates between Canada and US. Murder is harder to fudge. Using data from different years. Maybe that invalidates the conclusion, but I'm guessing it holds in general. > Here in Canada, we have hi
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by steve_b 12y ago
Thanks Jonas. Unfortunately I think vog is right. It was be awesome if you FOSSed the original source.
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by steve_b 12y ago
This looks great, have you ever thought about open sourcing it?
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by steve_b 12y ago
What, in your opinion, is the best research/study showing the benefit of competition in a high school classroom? Most of what I'm finding online are essentially opinion pieces.
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by steve_b 13y ago
My friend and I built a thing that alerted me when my dryer was done, called Toasty Knickers. We hooked up the dryer to an Arduino. Our first attempt was Arduino->wifi->email->IFTTT->SMS but it was pretty flaky. We finally g
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by steve_b 13y ago
I don't see the EFF campaigning against mobile telephony or credit cards. The EFF is concerned about privacy matters involving mobile devices. https://ssd.eff.org/tech/mobile
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by steve_b 14y ago
I have a rework station but almost never use it for SMT. I find a good pair of tweezers and chip quik makes working SMT easy and fast. http://www.digikey.ca/product-detail/en/EROPAASA/EROPAASA-ND... http://www.digikey.ca/product-detail/e
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by steve_b 14y ago
I preordered this a while ago and got my pdf copy yesterday. It's the first book about chemistry to make me giddy.
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Sample from book about the periodic table(nostarch.com)
1 points by steve_b 14y ago|1 comments
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by steve_b 15y ago
On my flight last week, I asked for two cans of Coke, and I got them. It was part of my rejection therapy, and I failed.
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by steve_b 15y ago
Gapminder has some good data on this, and it doesn't support your claim. It shows that population growth decreases slightly as income per person increases. Gapminder link: www.bit.ly/AiTWsG
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by steve_b 15y ago
I misread your comment. I thought you said "my three hopes for my kids...". I thought: that sounds like a good strategy for any parents to have.
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by steve_b 15y ago
At the moment only US residents can create projects on Kickstarter. It's going to be awesome when they expand to other countries.
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by steve_b 15y ago
For simple-to-digest stats I usually turn to www.gapminder.org. Always useful when arguing with someone who thinks that everything has gone to hell.
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by steve_b 15y ago
That's pretty harsh. I bet you Huxley's original notes for Doors Of Perception were probably jumbled too. But both DoP and Mark's notes allude to the same thing: without a valve on our consciousness, we'd just sit around all day and be blow
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by steve_b 15y ago
Wealth != income as pg says in http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html . I think wealth is more equal to total free time left on the planet. So total time minus time spent working to provide things for survival minus time spent surviving (li
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by steve_b 15y ago
You will not be disappointed by the Saleae logic. Almost everyday I'm amazed by how beautiful and useful it is. My Logic16's in the mail!
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by steve_b 15y ago
Confessions of an English Opium Eater - Thomas De Quincey Good quick read. http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-English-Opium-Eater-Pengui... For an extra $5 you can pick up this which is fantastic: http://www.amazon.com/Geometry-Relativity
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by steve_b 15y ago
Is there a way to buy a pdf version of the text? From the links at http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/ I got: CourseSmart: eTextbook rental. Amazon: Kindle version. Nook: eTextbook. not sure if I can download pdf cause you have to sign up to fin
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by steve_b 15y ago
I signed up. I'm guessing that we don't have to write the exams in person. Does anyone know?
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by steve_b 15y ago
I recently learned about the A* algorithm from the book Eloquent Javascript. Makes it very easy to understand. http://eloquentjavascript.net/chapter7.html
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by steve_b 15y ago
Damn, that's a good anecdote to counter my argument. So I'm going to have to provide my own. I took electrical engineering. In third year I was doing a lab, and the guy next to me didn't know that capacitors are used in analog filters. I wo
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by steve_b 15y ago
I have a huge bias towards self-learning. Most people I know get a degree/diploma to get a job. The people who self-teach are doing it more because they're curious cats. I'll take the curious cat.
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by steve_b 15y ago
"even if 90 percent of them are "bogus" (which they probably are)" Don't make me send this to unnecessaryquotes.com
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by steve_b 15y ago
I find being able to report right/wrong answers makes flashcard programs much more effective. Once you try a program like Mnemosyne or SuperMemo, you'll never go back to paper flashcards. http://www.supermemo.com/english/ol/sm2.htm
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by steve_b 15y ago
I was confused about the "php" == 0, until I found http://php.net/manual/en/types.comparisons.php . So "php" == 0 is true and "php" == true is true, but 0 == true is false. Yikes! It seems like comparisons in PHP are as bad as they are in
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National Academies Press Puts 4,000 Books Online at No Charge(chronicle.com)
4 points by steve_b 15y ago|1 comments
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by steve_b 15y ago
"When crime rates go up, the police say it is because they are encouraging more victims to come forward, Mr. Silverman said, 'but when crime goes down, it’s the work of the police.'" I find that sentence really confusing. Does Silverman bel
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by steve_b 15y ago
"Never speak ill of the wrong or negative person. It takes you down to their level." If someone is trying to force you into sex, and you stay silent about it, they're probably going to do it again. At some point you have to speak up. But be
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by steve_b 15y ago
I've always wondered why after winning something (or in this case, getting 50k sign ups), people say "I'm humbled." I think the truth would be the opposite: "Wow, looks like I'm pretty awesome after all."

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