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by pdm55 16d ago
I have just started reading this Gates Notes about reserving some jobs for humans: https://www.gatesnotes.com/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-c...
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by pdm55 2mo ago
Not my "cup of tea", but certainly a record holder is Agatha Christie whose 66 detective novels and 15 short-story collections have sold over two billion copies, an amount surpassed only by the Bible and the works of William Shake
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by pdm55 1y ago
I used PhET Circuit Simulations in a classroom of 14-year-olds. Luckily, I had: (1) the freedom to space the tasks over a number of hour-long lessons; (2) plenty of equipment to also build the circuits; and (3) a lab assistant to make sure
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by pdm55 2y ago
The development of the lithium-ion battery is an example of how scientific discovery does not have a straight-line trajectory. How We Got the Lithium-ion Battery "One notable thing about the evolution of the lithium-ion battery is how
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by pdm55 2y ago
I don't think LLMs are suitable for chess. Witness the result of a chess game this year between ChatGPT (OpenAI) and Gemini (Google AI). The LLMs had a very poor record at picking legal moves, let alone good moves: "Gemini's
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by pdm55 2y ago
Okay, here goes nothing. My small take on the Excel story. The year was 1986, pre-spreadsheets. Writing up an undergrad physics experiment in 1986, I needed to do a hundred or so similar calculations and present the results in a table. Luck
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Card Games(cardgames.io)
2 points by pdm55 2y ago|1 comments
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by pdm55 2y ago
Wow, this guy has been writing the code for card games for 10+ years. And the number of games has certainly grown. I remember when he had only coded about 3 games. No bridge, of course; it is the most complex of card games. The main differ
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by pdm55 2y ago
There is always more to the story: https://www.scribd.com/document/661270387/My-Work-with-Milli... Fletcher & Millikan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-uWaEvXqbA
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by pdm55 2y ago
When I used NMR scientific instruments that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in the 1990s, the Japanese (Jeol) machines had a far more straightforward interface than the German (Bruker) machines.
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by pdm55 2y ago
Of course, the study of how living cells function is "hard". But that doesn't mean it has to be learnt without joy. We tend to explore things we enjoy. A lot of the writer's essays [1] are about finding some aspect of a
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by pdm55 3y ago
Links re Bill Watterson: http://timhulsizer.com/calvin/index.php/words/
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by pdm55 3y ago
A suggestion: I enjoyed one short online computer course I studied, because we were given other students' submissions to assess. I recall using both my own code and the code of another student to suggest improvements in a third student
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by pdm55 3y ago
Reading the transcript of Bill Gates's (Nov 16) interview with Yejin Choi (University of Washington / Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence), one gets the impression that AI is still in its teething stages: YEJIN CHOI: Usual
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by pdm55 3y ago
I recall reading an interview of a higher-up in the Saudi government. He was asked why he doesn't have multiple wives. He replied that he doesn't have enough free time for that lifestyle. His grandfather was a tribesman: they raid
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by pdm55 3y ago
Team sports require coordination between players. I never really appreciated how important it was to develop this. The sport I want to mention briefly is Rugby. This is a catch, run and pass game. We would practise these three skills: catch
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by pdm55 3y ago
I think the card games here have multi-player options: https://cardgames.io/
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by pdm55 3y ago
I also quickly went through the basic tasks in 17 levels of Hedy in about 20 mins. (I just know a little programming.) Hedy is text-based and introduces ideas such as: print, entering variables, if, else, repeat, ... I really liked the grad
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by pdm55 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/@TheCodingTrain He teaches with infectious enthusiasm https://studio.code.org/s/express-2022 For middle-school kids https://developers.google.com/blockly/
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by pdm55 4y ago
Can it be argued that the cause of the Industrial Revolution was man's insatiable appetite for using our planet's resources? A recurring theme in our history! Great Britain was an island. By about 1500, its residents had denuded m
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To Understand the Fourier Transform, Start from Quantum Mechanics(youtube.com)
2 points by pdm55 4y ago|0 comments
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by pdm55 4y ago
Teaching Chemistry: https://www.chemedx.org/ A number of chemistry investigations, as distinct from experiments, for high school students: http://seniorchem.com/
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by pdm55 4y ago
My wife and I missed out on having kids. We wanted kids but it "didn't happen". Yes, I used to also lie awake at night. My wife went through the demanding IVF schedule a couple of times. I admire her for that. How do we cope?
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by pdm55 4y ago
Walter Mosley made an interesting observation about the writing process. When he rereads his first draft of a novel, he notes the places where the words go awry: where something is amiss; where a character seems shallow, poorly developed. (
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by pdm55 4y ago
Can we tell what collaborations (with Maric, with Grossmann, etc.) were occurring by examining Einstein's notebooks? https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/Zurich_Notebook/ What about the Born-Einstei
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by pdm55 4y ago
My day was made when I discovered "Chance in a Million" on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC7zJP02Pak It's comedy of the absolutely improbable. The female lead is a young Brenda Blethyn, who of rece
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by pdm55 4y ago
The fascinating biology, that is happening right here and now, is to witness COVID evolving to evade the effects of our manufactured vaccines. As quickly as we prime our immune systems with RNA vaccines, coronaviruses, duplicating within hu
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by pdm55 4y ago
Bridge can be played online. I practise my skills there against the robots. It takes constant practise to interpret the bidding and play, aiming to work out the cards that the other players hold. The most unusual aspect of bridge is that af
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by pdm55 4y ago
I'm presently reading, Linda Yeuh, "The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today ". I like reading about economic ideas in a historical context, seeing what situations the economists were seeking to understand.
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by pdm55 4y ago
It was enlightening to learn that to further increase the diversity and functioning of proteins, sugar groups are added (glycosylation) to our proteins at specific organelles within the human cell (think, Golgi apparatus, endoplasmic reticu

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