NeilCJames

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by NeilCJames 14y ago
The difference is the word 'unrestricted.'
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by NeilCJames 14y ago
I would add the course: "Reading Code."
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by NeilCJames 14y ago
Reminds me of Louis Benezet's experimental elementary math education system (ca. 1930s), and Sanjoy Mahajan's Street Fighting Mathematics. What a clever idea.
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by NeilCJames 15y ago
saas-class.org is up as well.
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by NeilCJames 15y ago
Much earlier ('91, I think), but a better read for those with a technical mindset (but still accessible) is Thaler's The Winner's Curse.
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by NeilCJames 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosling_Emacs
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by NeilCJames 15y ago
While funny, that is the worst advertisement for learning math I have ever read. If you are of anywhere near normal intelligence, and put in anywhere near normal effort and don't 'get math', your parents, teachers, superintendents, school b
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by NeilCJames 15y ago
Mine has gotten hot once, when I had it in an enclosed space while charging it. If the grandparent had a hot one in his hand, it certainly wasn't from what I've experienced in normal use.
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Occupy Interpreted as an API(theatlantic.com)
4 points by NeilCJames 15y ago|0 comments
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by NeilCJames 15y ago
Just checked for Pennsylvania (2009-10 academic year), and while the biggest spenders are over double the lowest spenders, there are no order-of-magnitude-difference pairs. Also, only two of the top ten spenders (per student) were in the to
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by NeilCJames 15y ago
Better headline: "Google obeys court order" This is nonsense. I'm all for civil disobedience, but the author is demanding that others defy courts on his behalf. The sense of entitlement is at least impressive. Certainly, if anyone is to def
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by NeilCJames 15y ago
I am editing a forthcoming book in the field, written by a teacher who earnestly believes in MI. Evaluating this teacher's data, his approach is clearly working for his students, but I think because of better engagement, more individual att
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by NeilCJames 15y ago
What makes Golub's point so misleading is that he counts consumption taxes, payroll taxes, state taxes, and even future estate taxes when he pays them, but only looks at federal income tax to get the "half the people pay nothing" line.
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by NeilCJames 15y ago
The closest thing in the Android Market terms is this: "You may not use the Market to distribute or make available any Product whose primary purpose is to facilitate the distribution of Products outside of the Market." So, no, there is noth
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by NeilCJames 15y ago
Part of that reaction: Congress limited habeus corpus petitions, extended the time a suspect could be detained without charge, and expanded what electronic communications or data could be retrieved without a wiretap order with the Antiterro
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How Not to Get Snookered by Claims of "Proof" of Copyright Infringement(groklaw.net)
21 points by NeilCJames 16y ago|5 comments
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by NeilCJames 16y ago
I am learning things with moderate success. I double-majored in econ and physics, but want to add CS principles to my toolkit. I've been using open course material to do so, and I've found it very valuable. It isn't so much the lectures--th
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by NeilCJames 16y ago
I read that comment too, but I am not sure 'broken windows' truly applies here. Although I believe there is net public harm from US post-9/11 "security" policies, when you consider that: a.) the spending being done on security is entirely
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by NeilCJames 16y ago
It is more of a continuum than an A or B question, and it would be a bad idea to get religious over the question. From a pragmatic perspective, B should be favored when either production constraints (capital investment, etc) or distribution
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by NeilCJames 16y ago
I was stumped for a second, then remembered. Brass Eye, brilliant!
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by NeilCJames 16y ago
I like this. A lot. If I could add a bit of advice from a domain of personal interest, I highly recommend pulling economics papers from repec.org as well as from individual journals. Right now the best way to stay on top of new papers in ec
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by NeilCJames 16y ago
To get less horoscopey: Kanazawa and Perina found a correlation between "eveningness" or being a "night owl" with higher childhood IQs, in a study of about 15,000 adults. They conclude that the correlation is due to more intelligent people
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by NeilCJames 16y ago
The video lectures and problem sets from the UC Berkeley course (CS 61A) taught by Harvey are very good (and freely available), although you will need to use Berkeley Scheme to get the most out of it. Two months is ambitious, but you can ge
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by NeilCJames 16y ago
What I wrote is not wrong unless, when you wrote: "So given 2 children, there are only 3 possibilities ... boy, boy girl, girl boy, girl" you are asserting that in the absence of any information about the sex of either child, 2 boys
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by NeilCJames 16y ago
Older/younger doesn't exactly enter into it, but some ordering is necessary to properly describe the set of probabilities. This can be arbitrary, but birth order makes the most intuitive sense. The set of probabilities of sex distribution i
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by NeilCJames 16y ago
For an overview of mainstream modern econ, if you read nothing else, read Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan. For a good introduction to the major economic schools of thought check out Economics as Religion by Robert Nelson (he has written
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by NeilCJames 16y ago
FTA: "We've got a lot of work to do," Mehdi said during his presentation. "It's not like people wake up in the morning, and say, 'Dang, I wish I had another search engine.' " This is the problem with Bing, not anything technical. Why start
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by NeilCJames 16y ago
Short answer: yes, ten of the previous twenty years, and fourteen of the last thirty (as a percentage of GDP). http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/us_20th_century_chart.ht...
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by NeilCJames 17y ago
I use 'singular they' because at some point 'one' started to connote pretentiousness. I don't see how Spivak pronouns solve that problem, but this off-topic sub-discussion has convinced me to go back to using 'one' (for disambiguation's sak
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by NeilCJames 17y ago
Count on economists to have the lamest jokes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whats_that_got_to_do_with_the.....

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