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by kwooding 2y ago
The incoming administration wholesale replaced the contents of whitehouse.gov Web content from previous administrations, is archived by the National Archive. (Eg https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/ ) You can grab the archi
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by kwooding 2y ago
Of course it’s been solved many times before. This is not a great write up and a terrible headline. In fact, the students came up with a trigonometric proof of Pythagoras which was not circular: I.e. did not rely on anything derived from
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Canadian police now need a warrant to get your IP address says Supreme Court(cbc.ca)
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by kwooding 3y ago
Absolutely. Lots of humans live in a post-truth world. They learn not to trust anything they read or hear. Think totalitarian regimes wi try tight controls over media. A more painful and pertinent question might be: Can democracy adapt to a
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by kwooding 3y ago
Hahah. We did, but we were a few years too early for many parts of it. The Global Learning XPRIZE was a $15M challenge to build basically this: tablet software that could let kids without access to schools or teachers teach themselves. We (
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by kwooding 3y ago
That’s a weird comment. Were you trying to be sarcastic? There are 3 major federal parties (Liberals, Conservatives, NDP), who received 33%, 33%, and 18% of the popular vote respectively. There are two minor federal parties (Greens and the
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by kwooding 3y ago
Here’s a book I don’t expect to see on too many lists (and I’m surprised it’s on mine, as I don’t typically like big-property universes like Star Trek): The Final Reflection, John M Ford. It’s an ancient book (by Star Trek standards-1984) s
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by kwooding 3y ago
Ever since my PhD work (where I worked with some pretty obscure computing architectures), the phrase “Von Neumann Architecture” makes think immediately of D H Lehmer’s quote [1] on working with ENIAC: > Can we use the high speed computer
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by kwooding 4y ago
In fact, in many cases, deposits in provincial Credit Unions in Canada (e.g. Alberta and BC) are 100% guaranteed. (As opposed to the big banks, which are only guaranteed to $100,000). Some provinces hve other rules, but in general, deposits
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by kwooding 4y ago
Exactly what I was looking for! A quick suggestion, I’d love to see you add the “cyclic sighing” pattern from [1] as it’s recently gotten some amount of attention for it’s effectiveness, and is potentially less common than the others. [1]:
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by kwooding 4y ago
Not sure what you mean by >20 years to be right. I built and trained a 3-layer back-propagating neural net to do OCR on an Apple 2 in 1989 based on that paper. Admittedly, just the 26 upper case characters. But it clearly worked better t
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by kwooding 4y ago
RocketLab ( https://www.rocketlabusa.com/ ) services a slightly different segment (i.e. not as heavy) but does take things regularly to space (and in the case of Capstone, to the moon!)
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by kwooding 4y ago
Kim Moir has a great blog post on this: https://kimmoir.blog/2021/11/30/my-favourite-books-for-new-m... which includes many of the choices talked about here (and many others)
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by kwooding 4y ago
Kim Moir has a great blog post on this: https://kimmoir.blog/2021/11/30/my-favourite-books-for-new-m... which includes many of the choices talked about below, and a great discussion of why
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by kwooding 4y ago
What is the actual point of a generative text model that emits plausible-sounding scientific technobabble? How this is not just a DDOS against the entire system of peer review? Honest question: how can this be used for any kind of good? Wha
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by kwooding 4y ago
Dr Seuss: One fish Two fish Red fish Blue fish.
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by kwooding 4y ago
I highly recommend Dr. Kelly Starrett for all things mobility. Thereadystate.com (his website) is my daily source of mobility instruction, both for daily mobility work, and for getting me through many an injury. Reading the Supple Leopard (
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by kwooding 4y ago
The way it’s often been quoted to me: “practice makes permanent.” Or, put another way, “perfect practice makes perfect.” It absolutely matters what you practice, or you’re just training your fingers to stumble at the same spot every time, w
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by kwooding 5y ago
Note: 2017 article
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by kwooding 5y ago
In any live event, things go wrong. Tearing in to what went well, what didn’t go well, and suggesting process changes for the next event is an important process not only for making future events easier, but also for improving the mental Hea
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by kwooding 5y ago
Recently, I was a co-organizer for a conference. The event was almost over, and we were in the process of scheduling our event postmortem when one of our fellow organizers suffered the loss of a close family member. As you can imagine, we a
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by kwooding 5y ago
This is, hands down, the greatest HN comment I have ever read.
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by kwooding 5y ago
I was really, really hoping this was about enabling emacs to be scripted via siri shortcuts. (Though this is super useful, too). Honestly, just being able to set emacs full/split screen via a siri shortcut (and hence, any Shortcut
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by kwooding 5y ago
I use mine as the living room computer. Something I can use with the kids to let them learn about computers and xode. And as a MAME box for playing through the history of video games with them. I really love having a computer in a shared sp
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by kwooding 5y ago
Nah. This guy was awesome. Of course he can supersede rules beyond his position. That’s “free speech” and tenure, and exactly what Universities have traditionally been about. He’s making a stand based on what he thinks is right. The stud
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by kwooding 5y ago
Astrazeneca was offered in pharmacies, and that part of the rollout was a total mess, I would certainly agree. It was also only a small fraction of the total doses offered, however, and was primarily aimed at individuals who wanted to get a
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by kwooding 5y ago
Did your province not give you an option to report followup symptoms? In Ontario, at the time of shot, we could opt-in to followup symptom reporting. Doing so got you a mail like this, which was followed by a pair of surveys, several months
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by kwooding 7y ago
This may have been true at the beginning, but nowadays I use “pip install” extensively in conda-created environments. Are there particular packages that you have trouble with?
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by kwooding 7y ago
This is the main reason I use conda to manage python virtual envs. It easily supports multiple python versions.
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by kwooding 7y ago
I'm guessing "instructional design" is referring to how you model the problem domain being learned so that it's amenable to use with adaptive learning systems? Most research in this area is drawn from the domain of “Inte

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