drauh

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by drauh 10y ago
By that reasoning, we should not teach kids how to spell, or about punctuation, and just aim for them writing essays/stories/novels.
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by drauh 10y ago
I'm afraid I disagree. I programmed in a variety of languages in grad school (physics): C, C++, Fortran 77, Tcl, Perl, Matlab, Maple, Mathematica, IDL, Emacs LISP, etc. Not to mention the stuff I started on in high school. When I switc
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by drauh 10y ago
Because you're an English speaker? In Malay it's "ball red large" Also this has been making the rounds: https://imgur.com/a/tDzy2
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Moonlighting teachers learn hard lessons from Uber(capitalandmain.com)
2 points by drauh 10y ago|0 comments
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by drauh 10y ago
Loren C. Larson; Mathematics Magazine Vol. 50, No. 2 (Mar., 1977), pp. 69-74
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by drauh 10y ago
For some context, here is a map of poverty in Philly: http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2014/01/05/poverty-map/ The hospital is in census tract 016300 with poverty level 58.5%
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by drauh 10y ago
Bristles are brass (alloy of copper and zinc; corrosion resistant, food-safe), and not magnetic.
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The Chinese typewriter(latimes.com)
54 points by drauh 10y ago|14 comments
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by drauh 10y ago
Solution: Uber.
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by drauh 10y ago
From the article: A report this past week from investment firm Sanford C. Bernstein, titled “The Silent Road to Serfdom: Why Passive Investing Is Worse than Marxism,” "serfdom", "Marxism"... Let me guess: Libertarian Par
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Self-driving taxis (Nutonomy) roll out in Singapore – beating Uber to it(theguardian.com)
1 points by drauh 10y ago|0 comments
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by drauh 10y ago
The prevailing attitude is "I want to do biology, not computer science". I find it pretty frustrating. This is probably one of the last fields of science to be seriously computerized.
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by drauh 10y ago
Like all questions, the answer is "depends". :) E.g. number of kids falling and breaking their arm will be larger, but the population is larger and medical care is better, now. So, overall, I think the risks are actually lower tha
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by drauh 10y ago
For scientific work, I find it worth the effort to compile from source using Intel compilers + MKL (or a compiler + math library that can optimize well for your particular hardware platform).
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by drauh 10y ago
Perception: there's a 75% chance my kid will be kidnapped by a pedophile. Reality: there's a 0.01% chance of the pedophile kidnap, but a 75% chance of drowning in the bathtub. Numbers are made up. Perception is not reality. Anothe
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by drauh 10y ago
The climate system on Earth is subject to the butterfly effect, but we frequently have good-enough predictions, e.g. the stuff airline pilots rely on. When confronted with complexity, throwing up hands is not the correct response.
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by drauh 10y ago
You need to split them, first. ;)
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DoNotPay chatbot to help the homeless(theguardian.com)
1 points by drauh 10y ago|0 comments
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by drauh 10y ago
Ditto. I went to grad school for physics, and pretty much all the code there is written by self-taught programmers. I was, too, to some extent, though I did take a grad level algorithms class. A lot of the code was pretty rough. Indicative
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by drauh 10y ago
Sure: you're skillful, and you and your team can produce something of value. However, you are not pushing frontiers in computer science. That's the key issue here: the physics autodidacts all think that they have an idea that can
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by drauh 10y ago
Would people argue over the proper treatment for cancer as prescribed by physicians and oncologists? Don't answer that. Physicists who need a little help with the math become experimentalist. JK. (I was an experimental physicist.) Phys
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by drauh 10y ago
It was a long forum discussion, and well over a dozen engineers, mathematicians, and physicists kept saying the same thing. Some wrong long (>500 word) posts. We were all ignored. This person was invested in the idea that they had an ins
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by drauh 10y ago
Oh god. "Formula for primes" - I was involved in a way too long forum discussion where everyone involved was trying to convince the guy putting forth his idea for generating primes that he was merely going round in circles, provin
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by drauh 10y ago
Yeah, I hear this all the time: "municipal broadband services would be anticompetitive", while ignoring the fact that there is a de facto monopoly in place and municipal broadband would actually introduce competition. I noticed th
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by drauh 10y ago
One can argue that a municipal government is a better representation of the people in the city (who want broadband) than some distant bureaucrat in the state capital. But this allows state to overrule municipal.
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by drauh 10y ago
"Bottoms up" means that municipalities come before states, no? The smallest unit of government first. But it seems like state gov'ts are blocking municipalities. [0] [0] State of N. Carolina blocks municipal broadband: http:
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by drauh 10y ago
QM does not open up any avenues for violating causality. bmeacham.com is crackpot based on my reading the first 2 paragraphs. Usually, misunderstandings about causality come from a naive reading of the terms "advanced" and "
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by drauh 10y ago
I've had my share trying to convince someone that a perpetual motion system they described did not conserve energy or momentum. They refused to believe my assertion that momentum and energy were conserved quantities.
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The Race to Save Hawai'i Sign Language(theguardian.com)
2 points by drauh 10y ago|0 comments
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by drauh 10y ago
The English refer to London as a "town". E.g. Town and Country Magazine (est.1769). [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_and_Country_Magazine

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