jimhefferon

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by jimhefferon 2y ago
Everything is easy once you know how.
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by jimhefferon 2y ago
For those of us who don't walk on cliff edges, though, it is a concern.
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by jimhefferon 2y ago
Hard to see, though, how to do that with hundreds of students in a room, and be reasonably uniform and fair about it. An argument perhaps that there should not be hundreds in a room.
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by jimhefferon 2y ago
Can you say more about the startups stuff?
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by jimhefferon 2y ago
> My major point of friction with LaTeX is that using unicode is not straightforward. Possibly you are describing how it used to be before the input encoding standard for LaTeX switched to UTF-8?
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by jimhefferon 2y ago
At this moment, the error rate seems to be that of a beginning graduate student. Or at least, that's what Terry Tao thinks. That's pretty good.
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by jimhefferon 2y ago
Isn't Gambier the admiral who would not support Cochrane's fireship attack at Basque Roads?
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by jimhefferon 2y ago
Sure, you are welcome.
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by jimhefferon 2y ago
I'm not sure who is the audience for this, but if it is students then it is not going to be very helpful, IMHO. For students to get it the authors must give concrete examples. Let me pick on B, on spaced learning and interleaving. In
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by jimhefferon 2y ago
In its impact on teaching, I'll say that based on teaching since 1979, students take feeling stupid as convincing evidence that their instructor is doing a bad job. No amount of assuring them that it is the gateway to enlightenment or
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by jimhefferon 2y ago
I assume the poster meant how much progress the models have made. Roughly late high school capability to late college-ish. Project forward five years.
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by jimhefferon 2y ago
In the article he says that DBs are now much faster.
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by jimhefferon 2y ago
This post is not about real numbers, though. It's about floating point numbers.
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by jimhefferon 2y ago
I'm concerned about the effects of the staggering amounts of gambling money on the sports themselves. It all quickly gets to where you ask yourself if what you are watching is real, or is it professional wrestling?
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by jimhefferon 2y ago
I have a thing that I do. I would like to be better at it. Insight into how worldwide-recognized experts achieved their expertise is of interest to me.
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by jimhefferon 2y ago
Thanks for the tip.
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by jimhefferon 2y ago
One thing I never understood about dealing with the Devil. When the Devil shows up, it changes the calculus. Now the person knows there is a heaven and hell, etc. What used to be a reasonable decision is now outrageously wrong.
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by jimhefferon 2y ago
Doctors fixed my heart in 2002 and I think that's better performance than I would have gotten from an astrologer.
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by jimhefferon 2y ago
Did this happen on FPF?
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by jimhefferon 2y ago
I think finding such stuff is regarded by the author as cool. I don't remember the author saying so, but personally I would think finding it is cool whether it first landed on my neighbor's tree, or went straight to my roof.
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by jimhefferon 2y ago
Are you saying these did not originate in space? Isn't that what microgravity means?
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by jimhefferon 2y ago
My reading of the news is that in the US (and that I can see, in many places) a lot of people have been convinced not to believe experts.
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by jimhefferon 2y ago
I used to use Sourceforge. They became unacceptable. I switched to Google code. They turned off, as I understand it because people were uploading pdf's (pitated ones, but big tech seems not to want to make a distinction like that). The
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by jimhefferon 2y ago
I agree that there are a lot of people in a certain demographic. But you can have a lot of fun playing with various technologies.
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by jimhefferon 2y ago
I am the author. They are Free.
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by jimhefferon 2y ago
I have a book on the list. I'm lucky enough that at this moment I'm at an institution that will cover the download traffic. But my prior school actually withdrew that support at some point, and in any event I will retire someday.
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by jimhefferon 2y ago
Which books? These folks work hard to get it right, is my experience, but of course stuff happens.
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by jimhefferon 2y ago
What does that mean? They want to use a cheat-discouraging browser?
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by jimhefferon 2y ago
I'm sorry, but you wrote this post. Did you self-teach writing?
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by jimhefferon 2y ago
My Theory of Computation text mentions a lot of unsolved problems. Some are in CS of course, but I was just editing an example about whether for all n there is a prime between n-squared and (n+1)-squared. That seems like a problem a US soph

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