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by amha 4mo ago
Recent Deep Springs faculty member here. The article isn't exaggerating---as a teacher, the place really is as great as it seems.
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by amha 6mo ago
There's a simple differential equation often taught in intro calc courses, "Newton's Law of Cooling/Heating," which basically says that the rate of heat loss is proportional to the difference in temperature between
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by amha 9mo ago
Mmmm it's something I've done for a long time; I've been at the same school for seven years; it's a ton of fun but also gets repetitive... I want more challenges!
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by amha 9mo ago
* Get less scared about applying to do stuff! I'm leaving my longtime job---I've taught advanced math to super-smart high schoolers; I'm quitting to be a visiting professor at Deep Springs College for a semester and then ???-
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by amha 10mo ago
I've used Sage for years to run the backend (calculations/computations/graphics/prototyping) for a multivariable calculus class I teach. It's not perfect, but as a lightweight, Python-style CAS to do all sorts of &q
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by amha 2y ago
I teach math to smart nerdy high schoolers. I do this. It's great! Fun for everyone :)
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by amha 3y ago
books, math, and mountains: http://www.andrusia.com
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by amha 3y ago
http://www.andrusia.com
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by amha 3y ago
People also hit cars with their cars.
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by amha 4y ago
http://www.andrusia.com All hand-written HTML and CSS!!!
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by amha 5y ago
Elite private high school in SFBay (not tech, but all of our families are tech/VC). Everyone is getting raises of max(8%, $6700), working out to an average per-employee raise of 8.6%. Inflation is the main stated reason. (FWIW this mea
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Why are meetings so bad?(marginalrevolution.com)
3 points by amha 5y ago|0 comments
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by amha 5y ago
I teach high school math. My kids use it all the time! This isn't entirely a bad thing. It's a very, very useful (and natural language) symbolic integrator for them.
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by amha 5y ago
My direct supervisor has 75 direct reports. (Not a tech company––an elite private school in the Bay––but still...)
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by amha 5y ago
Teacher at an elite SFBay private high school. Can confirm!
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by amha 5y ago
I teach at an elite private school in the Bay. We're a much better place than the school described here, with kids who like learning, and administrators who are well-intentioned. But many of the author's frustrations are, directio
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by amha 6y ago
Thank you for posting this! I also have a 2009-era iPod nano that I've been using for the last decade, and am still using a flipphone, so can't listen to podcasts on that. My iPod still holds a few hours of charge, so it's st
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by amha 6y ago
I've really, really enjoyed pg's tweets on parenting and his kids. It's obvious he loves his kids and he loves being a dad. Given how much of parenting advice/writing is written by and for moms (rather than dads), and gi
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by amha 7y ago
I heard him speak in 2004, when I was 17. Here's what I wrote in my LiveJournal at the time: On Thursday, I saw Freeman Dyson speak at Cornell. He was so amazing I can't even describe it. I didn’t look at my watch once during the
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by amha 7y ago
True, but you can short the stock from elsewhere in your portfolio (i.e., just a standard nonretirement account), and it's economically equivalent (modulo some stuff with taxes).
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by amha 7y ago
You could short FB.
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by amha 8y ago
A thermite infested apartment would be pretty awesome, though.
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by amha 8y ago
It depends on the state. At least here in New York (the state, not the city), school district boundaries have nothing to do with municipal boundaries (which, yeah, adds another layer of confusion!)
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by amha 8y ago
I have family and friends all across the US and across the world. I like them all, and I like hearing about their lives, even in the silly little details. Social networks are the easy way to do that, and Facebook is the network everyone see
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by amha 8y ago
This study doesn't show that "Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook": >Just over half of Facebook users ages 18 and older (54%) say they have adjusted their privacy settings in the past 12 months, accordi
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by amha 8y ago
The ship may have sailed, but we can still turn it around! I like the idea of recapturing "vanilla" as not meaning "plain."
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by amha 8y ago
That blog post is really, really worth reading. "The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics says that when you observe or interact with a problem in any way, you can be blamed for it. At the very least, you are to blame for not doing more
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by amha 8y ago
Here's from a review of it: > Now, this may sound a little silly - if someone wrote a book called "Metal: The First 5,000 Years," and then filled that book with stories of war and bloodshed, never failing to remind us afte
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by amha 8y ago
People have different opinions. There's no homogenous voice of authority that tells people what to do and what not to do.
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by amha 9y ago
Thanks for doing such a wonderful project with your kids, and writing it up so well! I just emailed this post a a bunch of friends who have kids, in the hopes that they'll be inspired :)

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