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by bluenose69 18d ago
Re the title possibilities: some films have multiple titles. "The F Word", a Canadian film, was called "What if" in the USA ... I guess to avoid scaring away people who thought it was porn. (It's not. It is funny
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by bluenose69 19d ago
The Canadian government uses tab-separated values quite a lot.
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by bluenose69 1mo ago
The Nature paper is open-access at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10871-3 in case folks want to read the details.
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Romania explodes rock to get more water flow to nuclear reactor(theguardian.com)
5 points by bluenose69 2mo ago|1 comments
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by bluenose69 2mo ago
I get this sometimes when I ask the agent on GitHub to suggestion improvements to my Julia code. It's kind of fun to watch it struggle to please. I'm reminded of the old "Doctor" mode in Emacs.
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by bluenose69 3mo ago
Yes, that's a great book.
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by bluenose69 3mo ago
Ah, thanks for the information.
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by bluenose69 3mo ago
The curve on your diagram makes me think that you've fitted a normal (Gaussian) curve to the data. By eye, the distribution looks a bit more like log-normal, and so if you're still working on the data, you might want to try that t
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Report on Titan Submarine Destruction(tsb.gc.ca)
4 points by bluenose69 3mo ago|0 comments
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by bluenose69 4mo ago
They are doing this also for the science version, the 15C. I bought a 15C in the 1980s, and have enjoyed it ever since. It is like a rock. Despite being treated roughly over the years, nothing is wrong with it apart from some dents in the
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by bluenose69 5mo ago
I agree with this entirely. I suppose it was partly an issue of limited floor space, but maybe the largest factor was that if a store sold junk mixed with good items, they could get a bad reputation. Another factor of purchasing in "th
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by bluenose69 8mo ago
The article starts out by saying that Notepad++ "is a text editor popular among developers". Really?
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by bluenose69 8mo ago
The cursor changes when you get to resizing corners and edges, so I don't suffer from the problem pointed out in the original article. However, I do find something annoying: sometimes when I'm resizing (or maybe dragging) a window
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by bluenose69 8mo ago
I work in a university environment. The teaching model is much like that proposed by the originator of this thread. Classes are 50 minutes instead of an hour (and similar for 1.5 hour classes). The start time is 5 minutes past the hour an
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by bluenose69 9mo ago
I've been in academia for more decades than I'd like to state, and I have never heard of an institute that covered article processing charges. I work in a natural science. Maybe things are different in computing fields, though.
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by bluenose69 9mo ago
I use a phone app called 'transit' to find out where the buses are at any moment. It's a great app for a lot of reasons, but the reason I was drawn to it at first was their witty release notes. As the author of an R package,
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by bluenose69 9mo ago
I agree 100% with what I think is the key phrase, viz. "the results can change without any modification to your code". I maintain an R package that is quite stable and is widely used. But every month or so, the GHA on one of the
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by bluenose69 10mo ago
The oral discussion does not scale well in large classes. The solution is to stop using essays for evaluation, relying on (supervised) examinations instead. Of course, there will be complaints from many students. However, as a prof for de
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by bluenose69 11mo ago
I just tried the same prompt in chatGPT and it gave 10 errors. Mostly they were because it was using `#` as a comment character, which suggests that it has not been given very much typst code to examine.
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by bluenose69 11mo ago
Yup, that's pretty bad. But, as an old fart with old eyes, I now use Safari and click the 'reader' version on many sites. Frankly, the web in it's early years was preferable to much of what I see nowadays. But, like I
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by bluenose69 1y ago
I've never seen a publisher's template that was hard to work with. The process of writing in latex for journals (and textbooks -- I've written for both things) is really very easy. Publishers almost always provide a sample .t
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by bluenose69 1y ago
I've started using typst for small local documents that I would previously have written in markdown (or R-markdown). Typst offers programming features that are very helpful for small writing tasks that need more customization than mar
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by bluenose69 1y ago
The cleanest one caught my eye, and then I read that it was a restaurant, Cy's, that was in Moncton, NB, about half an hour's drive from where I grew up. Although I never ate there, seeing that brought back fond childhood memorie
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by bluenose69 1y ago
Yes, the noise (which I'd call "the sound") is a big factor. I teach in a classroom that had blackboard that had stood the test of time for decades. When it was replaced with a whiteboard, things went downhill. The markers dr
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by bluenose69 1y ago
I agree. Here are some things that I (a science researcher and professor) like about R and CRAN: 1. There are a lot of build checks for problems involving mismatches between documentation and code, failed test suites, etc. These tests are
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by bluenose69 1y ago
The author is a good writer, able to expand upon (and illustrate) ideas articulately and convincingly. However, quite a lot of this doesn't quite apply to actual practice in education, particularly in science. High-school and undergrad
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by bluenose69 1y ago
Regarding the phrase "imagine how radically math class must have changed when calculators became widely affordable" in the text, I'm old enough to know what has changed. Today, many university students struggle with basic cal
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by bluenose69 1y ago
Here's a quote from the SciAm article: "Technically, that equation was t/log(t), but for the numbers involved log(t) is typically negligibly small." Huh?
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by bluenose69 1y ago
I think written examinations are the only solution, and "distance" is the right word. Also, oral examinations are costly to administer. This work needs to be done with a panel, to avoid complaints. And the panel members cannot in
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by bluenose69 1y ago
The colour choices in the image with caption beginning "Jeffrey Zeldman's homepage, March 1997" are hard on my eyes. However, the point might have been to show folks how to exert control over colours and fonts, as opposed to

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