mathteacher1729

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by mathteacher1729 3mo ago
We all knew at least one person in our undergrad years who could do each of those tasks in their head.
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by mathteacher1729 3y ago
Data Is Plural is a weekly newsletter (and seasonal podcast) of useful/curious datasets, published by Jeremy Singer-Vine. There have been 356 editions, dating from October 21, 2015 to December 20, 2023. https://www.data-is-p
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by mathteacher1729 3y ago
"Roku soars past revenue expectations as it bets on streaming devices to boost growth" - Feb 2023[1] [1] https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/15/roku-q4-2023-earnings/
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by mathteacher1729 4y ago
XKCD 1053 is relevant here. You and I knew it, but there are going to be lots of people who learn about it for the first time today, and that's a net positive.
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by mathteacher1729 8y ago
They went to China, made tens of millions of dollars in profit, sold their businesses off at a fair margin, and now return to the USA to live what seems entirely likely to be the rest of their lives in all the comfort of whatever their mill
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by mathteacher1729 8y ago
No link offhand but I recommend mastering 2-in-one-hand juggling (zero in the other) three different ways: columns, clockwise, and anti-clockwise. Learn to do each of those patterns such that you forget which hand was ever dominant to begin
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by mathteacher1729 8y ago
> I find it a bit amusing that the headline uses the term "Extreme Juggling". Not because it's too clickbaity, but I think the juggling community should have invented that name. "I'm going to an extreme juggling
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by mathteacher1729 9y ago
> The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data As I read this I'm sipping clean, drinkable water. Give it a decade or so. If you thought the wars over oil were bad, wait till you see the wars over water.
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by mathteacher1729 12y ago
Truthfully I did not know what to expect with regards to hand written problems. Out of curiosity, I wrote my very neatest and gave it a try and it solved one of them.
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by mathteacher1729 12y ago
I wonder how Magnus Carlsen or Fabiano Caruana would fare against the world's best chess playing computer. Somewhat related article: http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2014/09/sinq.
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by mathteacher1729 12y ago
A colleague at my office gave it a test drive. * http://youtu.be/jDbTKgWoufw Results: As of now, it can only solve some linear equations. It did successfully solve one quadratic but it couldn't decide if the variable w
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by mathteacher1729 12y ago
Probably not exactly the dependency map you are looking for, but perhaps still very useful. http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hph.html
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by mathteacher1729 13y ago
http://1ucasvb.tumblr.com/ mathey http://dvdp.tumblr.com/ artsy
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by mathteacher1729 13y ago
All generalizations are false.
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by mathteacher1729 13y ago
I will be sharing this with my students. A few comments are below. My motivation behind the comments is based on how students who are new to LaTeX tend to misuse or not fully recognize the full power of LaTeX. I realize that this may not b
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by mathteacher1729 13y ago
Hah, thank you for pointing out the spelling error. :) As for the variations in the sleep cycles, I think it would have to do with the length of time between REM cycles in individuals. I'm sure there's individual variance in both the length
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by mathteacher1729 13y ago
There are plenty of variables that influence "productivity" (however that is defined) but I imagine that the amount of sleep required for maximum productivity varies from person to person. In my personal experience I've known people who req
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by mathteacher1729 13y ago
I just wanted to say thank you for sharing this info, I honestly was not expecting such a detailed and thorough reply!
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by mathteacher1729 14y ago
> For anyone that doesn't understand that statement, I recommend taking a few years off work, where you spend your time getting up early every day, doing something all day (hiking, walking, gardening, building, whatever) and go to bed l
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by mathteacher1729 14y ago
This is a nice interactive visualization of the top 50 White House Petitions in tabular, map, and graph form. You can sort by most popular, greatest average signature gain, and male/female ratio. http://roadtolarissa.com/whitehouse/ The
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by mathteacher1729 14y ago
Perhaps it is a silly question, but what advantages does this offer over Gmail's rather robust set of keyboard shortcuts?
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by mathteacher1729 14y ago
> How would you implement this? Include experienced professional educators in on the creation and updating of NCLB, RTTT, or any policy aimed at education. > Would you eleminate all elected officials from education policy, such as l
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by mathteacher1729 14y ago
> Indeed, letting teachers decide what to do on the basis of what's rasiest and most convenient for them is bound to have a 1:1 correspondence with the best way for people to learn. I consider myself a professional educator, so I will t
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by mathteacher1729 14y ago
> What in particular is stopping experienced professional educators from shaping educational policy now? Overwork, bureaucracy, an anti-teacher and anti-intellect culture to name a few. > What are some of the policies that you expec
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by mathteacher1729 14y ago
> how would you go about implementing this in a real life class format? Allow experienced professional educators to shape education policy.
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by mathteacher1729 14y ago
Most people have the problems described in this blog because they try to go from "zero" to "having to write a thesis" in LaTeX. Even for someone who is intelligent enough to write a thesis in a subject requiring the use of LaTeX, that's a