wiseleo

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by wiseleo 6y ago
When encountering a seemingly difficult book, I ask myself two questions - is it the right book in the sequence of what I am striving to learn and do I have enough background knowledge to understand it. When watching lectures on YouTube on
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Right. As much as I love Khan, there’s lots of room for improvement. It needs to be interesting. Watch Shadiversity and you’ll love history. :)
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Sounds interesting. Everything on that site is blocked by request a demo. Why do you not have an ungated overview video?
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Domino’s delivery is subsidized by tips.
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I would be delighted if my product turned out to be unnecessary and I am not being sarcastic. Science homework should be able to be done in little more than it takes to copy it from an A student. It should not take hours, which it often doe
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Personal experience with multiple countries. Studied in both USSR and USA. Witnessed many students struggling in USA. You are right though, many parents can’t teach. That’s the problem I am trying to solve - parents shouldn’t have to go to
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Not yet, but I’ll revisit this thread eventually.
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Will look at it, thank you.
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Exactly. Literacy will be the second prong. I want to annotate Strunk & White with background information. Writing the grammar engine will be difficult. While reading S&W, I had to look up many terms that were assumed knowledge.
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Intriguing...
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Yeah, I feel there are a few potential PhDs in that statement. Coding the solver and the problem generator is the easy part, figuring out how to explain something and from multiple perspectives will be tough. The multiple perspectives is ke
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Take your child back to first grade and systematically re-test his knowledge. Identify where he got lost, catch up, and then today's assignments will not be as difficult. The child is likely stuck on something that wasn't thorough
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Sure. My chromebooks were $69 on Woot. They clearly came from a school. My main machine is a 17” $600 Asus gaming laptop with 970M. It was $1500 new and runs like a dream. My iPad 4 was used. My iPhone 8 Plus was used. I pay 50% or less for
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I am optimistic :) The entire curriculum is extremely easy when properly explained at correct pace.
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Education. Schools are functionally no different from part-time prisons. You must attend daily under penalty of law. Many teachers are plain awful. They rely on students being additionally taught by their parents. That forces parents to go
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In related news[1], 13400 immigration workers will be furloughed. He’s good at causing chaos. :( [1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/07/02/poli...
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Algolia's search is pretty good ;) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18424630
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TJ's packaging tends to be smaller for produce. I wouldn't want to shop there. Price per ounce is significantly higher.
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I am confused... Dollar General and Family Dollar are not really dollar stores. They have "dollar" in their name, but the prices are comparable to other supermarkets. I just looked at their weekly ads and it could have been any ot
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Make code easy to read and extend without breaking it. By now, many of us are aware of the importance of writing tests. However, there is a problem in making them readable. Here's one Kevlin Henney's lecture [1] that crystallizes
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California is still not doing enough. The original criteria for phase II were not met and yet the state decided to reopen anyway. Bay Area is thankfully staying stricter. I was at a sit-down restaurant packed at capacity with live music a w
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There are not enough such teachers to teach 1:1. There are not enough people who could be drafted to be such teachers either. It would require a lot of altruism to work as a teacher whereas there are much higher paying positions in the priv
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I always wonder why owners of those RVs are considered part of the problem. They are not on the streets. Most of them do not pollute the streets either. Those who are should be contacted for appropriate enforcement. They likely can afford t
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The biggest change for me was adopting clean code practices. What it meant in practice is writing functions as a collection of calls to other smaller functions. Each function does only one thing. I spend most time on naming objects, functio
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Copy/paste the link to avoid the error after clicking.
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I submitted this story about a KPIX reporter detained despite clearly identifying herself as media. https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/06/01/tear-gas-rubber...
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Actually working on something like that.
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Fixing corrupt data pages in MS SQL. Manually. One record at a time. Using obscure tools. It was a medical records database. Pure nightmare.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFIVZYevfGU - nope... he's fair. That's Louis's list of recommended macbooks.
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I am a warm weather person who loves to play beach volleyball and dance. SF Bay Area beaches are too cold. Miami could be a good start. I once spent a few months in Southeast Florida near Miami and it was fun. You haven't lived until y

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