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CS 50 on Edx is a good introduction to computer science https://www.edx.org/cs50
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Classic racing and flight sims such as Grand Prix Legends, Mig Alley/Battle of Britain and Falcon 4 are available for linux here: https://github.com/sim-museum/esports-for-engineers (this is free, and does not use
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What the climate movement must learn from religion (2015)(theguardian.com)
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Classic sims that build historical worlds, laws of physics strictly enforced(alternativeto.net)
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Ubuntu 20.10 Released(releases.ubuntu.com)
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What's your favorite AI sparring partner (in a computer strategy game)?
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Bill Gates inherited his fierce work ethic from his poverty-stricken grandfather(bookfinder.com)
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What's the best free open source chatbot therapist that runs on Linux?
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It is not the case that free universities are necessarily 2nd tier. QS World Univerity rankings puts ETH Zurich, a free university, as #6 overall. Times Higher Education world ranking lists ETH Zurich as #13 overall. The other Swiss flags
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The interplay between CS innovation and computer games goes all the way back to the days of spacewar and Ken Thompson's chess programs. With this in mind, I put together a free linux compendium of classic PC simulation games: https:
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Need volunteer to add reinforcement learning to free hardcore combat flight sim(benchmarksims.org)
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Citizen's Climate Lobby (CCL) does non-partisan lobbying for carbon fee and dividend in the USA, Canada and the EU. They lobby on the local and federal level, getting endorsements, tabling, getting bills introduced and writing article
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Excellent open source ML sparing partners for Chess and Go are available: https://github.com/bencaddigan/esports-for-engineers But what about Contract Bridge? Is there an open source program that will play the other t
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What's the best open source Contract Bridge software?
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"Average expected contribution" is not precisely defined in the Harvard document you provide, and thus does not commit Harvard to any particular course of action.
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It is not the case that Harvard is free for students whose parents make less than $65K. Read the small print.
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Are there other projects similar to Gemini? Of these projects, which is most likely to still exist 5 years from now?
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Art of Problem Solving is popular with the Math Olympiad types. I see that others on this thread have recommended it already. https://artofproblemsolving.com/
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My subject is award-winning, hardcore strategy games rather than light entertainment. Most of the games are open source. You need to know linux command line to use the game package I've put together. I thought Hacker News was a good
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Where are the best sites to post about free Linux strategy games?
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In my experience Modelica is a good fit for sustainability engineering, as it works well across engineering disciplines. Simulation of hybrid gas/electric engines was one of Modelica's first major applications, power plants was a
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Free, world champion Chess, Go and Bridge were a big find, and were added for version 3. All functionality of Mig Alley's well-known unscripted campaign has been restored. The daily and weekly score mechanism has been added. And last
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The recommended linux distro for eSports for engineers is Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and wine 5.0 or higher. That way you just follow the instructions in the documentation and everything runs with no hassle. Most of the games will probably run out-
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Breaking the rules of video game design with a collection of free strategy games
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There is progress toward Jurassic Park. 1. Gene edits turn a bill into something like a dinosaur snout: https://www.livescience.com/50886-scientific-progress-dino-c... 2. early birds may have been baby dinosaurs that stopp
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I discovered kanboard after several years working as a scrum master. Simple, robust, flexible and free is a good combination. I use kanboard every day for both personal and work.
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The Economy, a free, open access textbook crowdsourced from Econ professors all over the world, along with the Core Covid-19 collection of teaching materials: https://www.core-econ.org/
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A big shout out for "Good Economics for Hard Times", by two MIT profs who recently won the Nobel Prize in Economics. Why did two academic Economists who specialize in the developing world write a book for the general public? Fro
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The book "Deep Learning and the game of Go" from Manning walks you through the process of building an AlphaGo clone using python and standard machine learning libraries. https://github.com/maxpumperla/deep_lea
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To learn auto racing or acrobatic flying, there's the esports for engineers package of classic PC simulation games: https://github.com/bencaddigan/esports-for-engineers

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