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by troupe 4y ago
While most people can't give a name to the key they are hearing, I'm not sure that proves they can hear no difference. A painter may look at a landscape and identify all the individual colors they are seeing where a common person
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by troupe 4y ago
If you use perfect tuning the 5ths are a slightly larger interval than the way modern instruments are tuned. If you were to tune a piano to perfect tuning based on the key of C, the key of G would be slightly higher than what we hear today
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by troupe 4y ago
Some ideas: Take a look at how Grub Hub and similar services reached out to get restaurants to sign up for their service. Read the book Influence: Science and Practice by Cialdini Get some type of CRM system in place so you can keep track o
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by troupe 4y ago
I'm not sure I understand what you are saying about A/B or how hallways fit into online dating.
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by troupe 4y ago
If there is no customer for the software that is being built, then there is no one who would be disappointed if it was not built. :). So the most efficient thing to do is to do nothing. There usually is a customer. It may not be the person
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by troupe 4y ago
I prefer pull systems and most teams I've seen that are more concerned about following Agile than following Scrum eventually evolve from Scrum to something that looks more like Kanban. If you regularly talk about how to make things bet
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by troupe 4y ago
Notepad doesn't really have a way to execute code as far as I know. In this case, Doom is running on the machine, but it has been modified to copy and paste the display to notepad very quickly as ASCII text.
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by troupe 4y ago
The value of a sprint is to help keep everyone focused on how to deliver something of value and usually this means working with the customer to figure out how to make sure you deliver the valuable pieces while deferring the pieces that can
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by troupe 4y ago
Are you getting value from those meetings? Are you willing to try new things if someone has a suggestion that might make it better? If so you are doing it right..regardless of what anyone else says.
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by troupe 4y ago
The opportunity cost is something I've never thought of before. Thank you for that insight because it has made me start thinking about things I'm doing that, while not necessarily harmful, may be coming at the expense of things I&
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by troupe 4y ago
There are going to be people in the world that are capable of reading things like an ML paper and there are going to be people who are not. Calculus (or other advanced mathematics) is part of what you'll need to understand those papers
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by troupe 4y ago
> you aren't even aware of the bottom percentile until the first exam is graded. I've taught some college classes and guest lectured in many others. The bottom 10% is trivial to identify in a matter of minutes.
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by troupe 4y ago
Imagine college A that 100 apply for and all 100 get in vs. college B where 10,000 people applied and only 100 got in. If both colleges are choosing students based off of some measurable criteria, let's say the SAT score. Would you e
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by troupe 4y ago
I'd highly recommend looking at the edX course "How to Code: Simple Data" and "How to Code: Complex Data" as an introduction to computer science. Those two classes were created around a solid pedagogy of how studen
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by troupe 4y ago
Unfortunately some of those technologies haven't been around long enough to fully understand the full lifecycle cost. We are burying wind turbine blades in some places and the total emissions of an EV are sometimes more than a small ef
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by troupe 4y ago
Covid turned out to be much less lethal than originally thought when the only people that were identified as having Covid were the ones sick enough to go to the hospital. The places that "DID take COVID seriously" were places that
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by troupe 4y ago
There have been some experiments of just giving kids cash for getting good grades in public schools. Motivating your children to do things that are good for them in the long run (brushing their teeth, not hitting other people, etc.) is very
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by troupe 4y ago
I would agree that "average parent" is not the same set as "average homeschool parent." If you are saying that the "average homeschool parent I know" is better educated and better off financially than the &quo
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by troupe 4y ago
Khan Academy started out as a way to help his niece...so mentoring others is absolutely a reasonable thing to consider. :)
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by troupe 4y ago
> are now generally recognized as having the biggest impact in reducing racism. Do you have a source for that statement or is it just "common knowledge?" There seems to be at least some evidence that homeschooling produces chi
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by troupe 4y ago
If you are willing to do stuff online, the cost for a math tutor is only a fraction of what you described.
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by troupe 4y ago
There are a number of curriculums designed to help when you have multiple kids. It is challenging, but amazing to see how well it can work. Regarding expertise in particular areas, there are many options for that including taking a few onli
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by troupe 4y ago
While I know some incredible public school teachers, the average homeschool parent I know is going to be much better for their kids than the average public school teacher. Fortunately if you are homeschooling you can seek out specific teach
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by troupe 4y ago
I would argue that it is a lot easier to give a kid who is doing well academically some social interaction much better than they will get at the average public school than to take a child who is doing poorly at the public school and make th
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by troupe 4y ago
It feels like something that might better be decided at the local school district level.
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by troupe 4y ago
Saying that 50% of people live paycheck to paycheck is meaningless unless you are also implying that those same 50% are all excellent at managing their finances. Otherwise you are just saying that it is possible for people to spend every do
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by troupe 4y ago
I'm curious if there is something valuable on this or if you are just doing this for the challenge.
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by troupe 4y ago
Imagine a system where of 500 teachers, 25 that have a track record of doing much worse than average are let go. You then roll the dice to get new teachers. Could you pay more to attract better teachers in that situation and get better over
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by troupe 4y ago
If medicare or social security has more commitments than there is income to fund, 100% enforcement of taxes on tips isn't going to fix the issue.
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by troupe 4y ago
The Ilyse Hogue speech wasn't at some fringe event. It was at the democratic national convention, so not people I'd consider "whack jobs." It just made me realize that my circles may tend to self select to leave out a la

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