hdctambien

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by hdctambien 3mo ago
In highschool, at least, you have to somehow elevate the meaning of your subject to be more interesting than the movie theatre/concert/video game system they have in their pocket. Kids will make eye contact with you and nod along
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by hdctambien 1y ago
To be fair, the applications of geometry that most people might end up using in real life are going to be boring to a 15 year old. How many paving stones do I need to buy for the walkway I'm building in my backyard? How far from the to
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by hdctambien 2y ago
What do you do when both A and B score a 95 and there is only one job? That's what DEI solves for. Not "higher a lesser candidate," but "when both candidates are equal, use diversity of the company when making the final
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by hdctambien 2y ago
If you interview 10 people for one job opening, you have to pick one of them. If 5 of them pass the technical interview you start filtering them on other non-technical things. "Would I like to hang out with this person", "w
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by hdctambien 3y ago
I think you may have missed a bit of their point... a plex server is a video hosting server.. like a personal Netflix. They wouldn't push their code to their Plex server because it's not a server that accepts code pushes.
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by hdctambien 3y ago
I agree. Algebra based Statistics is one of the things that makes people say "Math is a religion". There is a lot of "just trust me" in statistics when you don't know calculus. I suppose you could switch Probability
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by hdctambien 3y ago
I don't think you'll find too many Math teachers that disagree with you. There are a lot of things that schools should do. I'm curious to think through what a second track like this would look like. Assuming the "norma
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by hdctambien 3y ago
I think it all depends on where you went to school and possibly who noticed you while you were there. I took 2 years of Probability and Statistics in Highschool in 1998-99 and 1999-00 at a school with 200 students. At the 4000 students scho
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by hdctambien 3y ago
> select kids (perhaps based on prior performance in math classes, or overall GPA) to opt them into the class. That's how it works now, pretty much everywhere. Your 7th grade teacher recommends you to take the 8th grade algebra clas
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by hdctambien 3y ago
Grades are a score that parents can use to compare their children to other children. It doesn't take too many parent-teacher conferences to figure out that the parents that ask for parent-teacher conferences want to see "the line
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by hdctambien 3y ago
I dropped my wife off downtown in her car and she had the key in her purse. The car did make a weird beeping noise as I drove away, but I had no idea what it meant and I was pulling onto the highway which would have been a bad time for the
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by hdctambien 3y ago
NPR did some reporting on this a couple years ago: https://www.npr.org/2019/07/11/739860400/broken-promises-tea... "By the department's last count, only 1% of the people who think they've
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by hdctambien 3y ago
The funny thing about Learning Styles is that there isn't any data that supports it. But there are lots of studies that debunk it. Here is a Tedx Talk about those studies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=855Now8h5Rs
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by hdctambien 3y ago
I don't know about programming languages, but in mathematics |v| is the notation to get the length of a vector... So maybe Matlab uses that syntax?
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by hdctambien 3y ago
What they didn't anticipate was how many people don't buy fruits or vegetables.
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by hdctambien 3y ago
The iphone was full of killer apps at release. The Maps app was so much better than printing MapQuest maps or trying to use the flip phone version of MapQuest. Being able to access the real internet from anywhere was futuristic. You could
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by hdctambien 3y ago
That's what I did. I'm apparently in the minority. though, because I HATE it. But since I bought it digitally, I can't return it so I'm counting towards those 10M sales. I guess I'll just go back to my Game & Wa
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by hdctambien 3y ago
Kevin is doing NFT stuff these days.
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by hdctambien 4y ago
It's a job like any other, so go to the school's careers page and find the listing for a job you're qualified for, and apply.
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by hdctambien 4y ago
That was Steve Prefontaine's opinion, too. And it got him 4th in the Olympics. Pacer or not, you still have to run the run and that's not nothing.
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by hdctambien 4y ago
It is easier to run behind someone and match their pace than it is to lead a race. It is also easier to run faster for shorter distances. A rabbit is someone that runs a fast pace for less than the full race distance so the real racers can
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by hdctambien 4y ago
I taught in a Texas district that starts high school at 9:05. I appreciated that over the 6:50 start I had in Massachusetts... but it didn't really change much for the students. I would get up at 5am so I could run before school and I
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by hdctambien 4y ago
A 60 year old woman (well, a 65+ yo) doesn't spend 8+ hours a day at work or have kids at home.
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by hdctambien 4y ago
Would you give that money to the abused/neglected kids that social workers protect, or the parents that are abusing/neglecting them? Who would be in charge of identifying who gets that money and managing the systems that distribut
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by hdctambien 4y ago
Because minimum wage is well below what it should be if you want to consider it as the line for what is and isn't exploitive.
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by hdctambien 4y ago
Be careful, it sounds like you're describing Common Core Math and several states made that illegal
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by hdctambien 4y ago
The existence of a calculus class doesn't stop a student from taking music courses or being in the school band. In fact, at the schools I went to/taught at most students that took Calculus were also in the band.
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by hdctambien 4y ago
For the last couple decades, at least, you can take all of those classes as 4 year programs at my local, public high school. In fact, you can take most of them at the same time. As it turns out, students have more than 1 class on their sche
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by hdctambien 4y ago
I wish I could upvote this 100 times. There is a world of difference between tools for learning how to code and tools for producing code. Something students don't always realize is that their teacher doesn't need 30 copies of a pr
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by hdctambien 4y ago
The AP Exam covers Java and you have less than 180 days to cover everything from "what is a variable" to inheritance, recursion, and sorting algorithms. My school has gone back and forth with starting with Python or Java in the Pr

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