mbateman

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by mbateman 5y ago
Yes I think about it all the time, both presently and historically. It's mainly an intellectual issue. That is: it's a dispute about what is true in development and education. In the early 20th c., when American progressives and i
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by mbateman 5y ago
dusts off HN account I’m part of a now-large-ish Montessori startup and am a sort of Montessori scholar. The biography reviewed here is very good and worth checking out. Overall it’s the best of the biographies available, and is a signifi
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The Edtech Company Formerly Known as AltSchool Sold Its Tech. So What’s Left?(edsurge.com)
1 points by mbateman 6y ago|0 comments
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by mbateman 6y ago
This is very much a “yes and”. I think I can speak for all of us working on the course when I sat that we don’t think that industrial innovation is the only or even the most important part of history. Why does developing a course on one asp
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by mbateman 8y ago
I live in LIC. It’s not at all a transportation desert. It’s one of the most well-connected hubs in NYC. There are general issues with transportation efficacy in NYC right now (subway reliability etc.) but none of them are LIC specific.
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by mbateman 8y ago
Yep. I travel to China frequently and this is a huge pain. There are some moderately useful workarounds you can do, like floating money from a friend in your WeChat Pay. But at the end of the day, you are highly dependent upon people hooked
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by mbateman 8y ago
For what it's worth, what the Maya families are doing is a version of the central principle of Montessori early education (and what my company is trying to scale). That is, build a capacity for deep concentration in early childhood usi
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by mbateman 9y ago
2% of 4B earnings market-wide would be 80M, 10x valuation on 80M is 800M.
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by mbateman 9y ago
I am part of a startup with founding team of 12 previous coworkers. One of our selling points during the seed round was that we're starting off with an aligned team. It was really attractive to some investors. In principle the same sho
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by mbateman 9y ago
I agree. I'm inclined to think the concepts are more subtle, not less. Some traits are shaped by sexual selection because of their deleterious effects. It's an honest signal: if you can survive despite having that crappy trait,
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by mbateman 10y ago
The still-timely passage continues: "The anti-Rockefeller focus of these otherwise incompatible political positions owes much to Populism. 'Populists' believe in conspiracies and one of the most enduring is that a secret grou
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by mbateman 11y ago
I've been looking for software for months that would help facilitate a lot of collaborative document production. I love the simplicity and user interface of this system -- almost every other system I've tried fails in some major
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by mbateman 12y ago
The most surprising thing is that the textbooks haven't been updated. When I was a psych prof this was a commonplace among all my colleagues and even students. It's even common to use this "experiment" as a case study in
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Natural nuclear fission reactor(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by mbateman 12y ago|0 comments
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by mbateman 12y ago
> "Should I focus on clarity or jargon when writing content?" > "Clarity, but also include jargon." Well, that pretty much summarizes my writing strategy.
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by mbateman 12y ago
Yes, there are two questions here. One is whether or not Zidisha is misleading people, and the second is whether whatever they are actually doing is a good thing. I think the article makes a case for the first, but we shouldn't immedia
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by mbateman 12y ago
Please tell me you have photos and documentation for this.
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by mbateman 13y ago
But there's no limit on fixed costs for games. Presumably production could cost as much as a Hollywood blockbuster and be priced accordingly. Marginal costs aren't always everything.
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by mbateman 13y ago
What exactly are those data points? I doubt they are individuals, they wouldn't wrap so tightly around the curve around such a tiny scale (between 1.5 and 1.7 timeline posts per day). This looks like a very small effect but one with a
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by mbateman 13y ago
Holy crap this site is fantastic. Thanks.
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by mbateman 13y ago
Is the slope on those charts really steeper than population growth?
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by mbateman 13y ago
This should really be the top comment. For anyone that thinks there is actually a problem here, what could the motivation or mechanism behind this "blackout" possibly be? Significant parts of the US media have been reporting prett
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by mbateman 13y ago
I do but if you're a senior U of C student (as your profile says), I'm sure you've already been very well-served in this regard by your curriculum. :)
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by mbateman 13y ago
"Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age
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by mbateman 13y ago
I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but I meant "art" to imply a contrast to something more algorithmic or top-down.
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by mbateman 13y ago
I agree, there's some value in that. But two things: (1) For begging the question, I think it's more perspicuous to go up a level of abstraction and talk about circular reasoning. And something analogous is true of most of these f
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by mbateman 13y ago
(I'm a philosophy professor.) Some training in logic -- reflecting on what make good reasons and justified conclusions -- does have value. It has the same sort of value that learning grammar does. It enables you to make certain things
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by mbateman 13y ago
I totally agree. And again I don't want to excuse their behavior. But it being inconsistently easy to find a source and copyright information is also a problem that it would be nice to have solved. That there's a lot of variance i
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by mbateman 13y ago
Di Petta's flip attitude towards copyright is contemptible. But it's true that it is often impractical to get information about creators and rights. I wonder part of the solution isn't some service that decreased the friction
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by mbateman 13y ago
Everything that's wrong with the current intelligence approach in a sentence: "And he trusts himself to use these powers more than he did the Bush administration." This completely vindicates Snowden's point about the cur

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