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by yaks_hairbrush 14y ago
That about sums it up. It's made worse by professors who have been trained to teach things in an unmotivated fashion. I had a graduate probability teacher who said (paraphrased) "one of the beautiful things about math is that you start wit
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by yaks_hairbrush 14y ago
There is some concept of scope in math. At a fairly early level, a student learns sums and integrals. The variable of integration/summation's scope is just within the integral/sum. At a higher level, some things have scope equal to a subf
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by yaks_hairbrush 14y ago
Well, pg didn't found the company that made him a millionaire until he was thirty years old...
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by yaks_hairbrush 14y ago
About the transaction costs issue... how do class action lawsuits rate in terms of transaction costs? I'm with you that the libertarian approach is somewhat worse on the effectiveness scale than what we're capable of doing in our current sy
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by yaks_hairbrush 14y ago
> Your explanation ignores both externalities and transaction costs Well, handling property damages in court is deterring "tragedy of the commons" by making putting the commons-over-user at financial risk. > ... more subtle things l
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by yaks_hairbrush 14y ago
Two ways: first, people do not currently value environmental protection. When the environment deteriorates to a certain point, people will be motivated to do environmental protection in the absence of regulation. Second, allow lawsuits for
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by yaks_hairbrush 14y ago
Here's a take on Ulysses written by a former math professor of mine. http://www.dougshaw.com/Reviews/review1.html I've not read Ulysses myself, having disliked Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
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by yaks_hairbrush 14y ago
So, we're agreed that it's good that she didn't clear her plate on that meal?
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by yaks_hairbrush 14y ago
> If you take in more calories than you need right now, your body will simply store them away for later, and you can eat a little less later on. Given that it's a lot easier to overeat than to undereat in today's USA, the rest of chain
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by yaks_hairbrush 14y ago
The meal was chicken strips and fries from a restaurant kid's meal. Does not do well as leftovers.
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by yaks_hairbrush 14y ago
Recently, one of my in-laws told my kid that she ought to eat everything on her plate. I responded "If she's full, the food is wasted whether she eats it or it goes in the trash." I'll bet that pushes the percentage up to ~60%, since the a
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by yaks_hairbrush 14y ago
I am depressed (clinically diagnosed as major depression) and I am a parent... a stay at home dad, owing to my lack of employment (which is the root of my hopelessness). It's awful. I hate it. Thanks in no small part to the kid, I'm getti
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by yaks_hairbrush 14y ago
Oooh... you're getting into some serious math now. The stable waves on a circle are precisely those waves which oscillate an integer number of times as they traverse. In other words, one for each integer. Further, every function on the ci
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by yaks_hairbrush 14y ago
> signing some rights away. If a "right" can be signed away, it's not really a right. I recall reading about a case where a woman agreed, in writing, to waive her right to maternity leave under FMLA. She then changed her mind, and the
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by yaks_hairbrush 14y ago
You're welcome! > One of the things that can seem almost mystical at times about math to someone who has not studied math heavily, is even just simple things, like how pi and e seem to get into everything, even where you might not naive
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by yaks_hairbrush 14y ago
> Dude, no offense, you are really making stuff up. No. Parent has it essentially correct. Many new results in number theory are obtained by studying automorphic forms, which are the stable waveforms, on various spaces. Things like th
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by yaks_hairbrush 14y ago
Can't speak for OP, but I started learning algebra at 5. It happened that I really liked playing with calculators at age 2-3, and that helped give me an extremely solid mental arithmetic foundation. Essentially, the special thing about me
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by yaks_hairbrush 15y ago
Note: This link goes to a "Page not found". To see the article, make the extension ".html"
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by yaks_hairbrush 15y ago
So funny, and true in a lot of cases. Ultimately, though, I think your naked superman with X-ray vision just has problems with communication, working with people, and most of all adapting efficiently to his environment. The X-ray vision gu
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by yaks_hairbrush 15y ago
First line: > Mathematicians have never been comfortable handling infinities... I stopped reading there, since that is badly false.
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by yaks_hairbrush 15y ago
Wouldn't making a game guide be fair-use, similar to an unauthorized encyclopedia of a fictional universe (like Middle-Earth)? Even so, I suppose you'd have to defend the fair-use in court.
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by yaks_hairbrush 15y ago
I don't like Blizzard much anymore. I liked WarCraft 2 and 3, and Diablo 1 and 2 (liked is a bit of a strong word for Diablo 1 and 2, though... 'twas more addicting than fun). Nice gameplay, good for LAN parties, and a decent hacker cultu
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An Open Letter to Chris Dodd (ESR on tech. agendas)(esr.ibiblio.org)
15 points by yaks_hairbrush 15y ago|0 comments
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by yaks_hairbrush 15y ago
A part of the trouble is that most reddits automatically show thumbnails of linked images and videos. Now it's more than "just a link." Also keep in mind that there are no safe harbor provisions for CP as there are with copyright infring
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by yaks_hairbrush 15y ago
I also don't see Wikipedia. Strange.
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by yaks_hairbrush 15y ago
That's about it. I got my 13" MBA in October because I didn't like all the flux going on with the Linux GUIs, and I've not had very good luck picking Linux-compatible laptops. OS X really fits my role for it well: A UNIX which works (nearl
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by yaks_hairbrush 15y ago
Oops... clicking the "Learn more" link also results in a blacked-out page.
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by yaks_hairbrush 15y ago
One can easily be anti-drug while supporting legalization. I personally support legalization of more drugs, but I'm not going to do them myself and I'm going to do what I can to keep my kid off them.
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by yaks_hairbrush 15y ago
How is the US government debt the problem? I just don't see it. Government debt certainly didn't cause the problem, we can still borrow at a 2% rate, and there's been little evidence of inflation.
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by yaks_hairbrush 15y ago
I'm with you. The system, as it stands, is suboptimal, but it's pretty good. If I want to call my brother in Hawaii, it's easy to subtract 5 or 6 hours (HI does not observe DST) and know immediately whether it's a good time to call. As fa

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