wcarey

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by wcarey 12d ago
Oh - this is llm generated. That's disappointing, but not surprising, and explains the bad grammar and style. On the spectrum of classical to vulgar, it lands in the "just plain incorrect" bucket quite frequently. Case usage,
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by wcarey 12d ago
How did you compose the Latin? It seems... not very classical both in word selection and grammar. For example, /* Est c consonans (non vocalis, non spatium, non littera non-Latina)? */ seems a word-by-word translation of
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by wcarey 2y ago
Euclid distinguishes the unit (VII, Def.1) and number -- a multitude composed of units -- (VII, Def.2). His definition of prime and composite numbers (VII, Def.11 and Def.13) clearly exclude one from the group of numbers, otherwise every nu
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by wcarey 3y ago
http://www.combinedfleet.com/economic.htm does a nice job of outlining how hilariously overmatched the IJN was in terms of naval production. In addition to that, the IJN didn't have an effective pilot training pipeline
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by wcarey 3y ago
While that might (or might not) mitigate one perverse incentive, there are lots more. It's important for policy proposals to take unintended consequences into account. What others can you foresee and how would you mitigate them?
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by wcarey 3y ago
Have you thought out the perverse incentives your pay scheme would create?
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by wcarey 4y ago
> A certificate authority (that only verifies surgeons' skills, and doesn't bundle the process with "learning"). It seems like you've just moved the cheating problem from one organization to a different organizat
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by wcarey 4y ago
Samuel Eliot Morison wrote a definitive history of the naval war in the Pacific, so your memory is good! Ian Toll's new series is shorter, but also top notch and benefits from more access to Japanese sources.
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by wcarey 4y ago
The fab I use has a minimum order size of 3. It's a bit more expensive, but double digit monies for three decently complex boards.
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by wcarey 5y ago
It's not exactly equivalent, but I think the TDRS provides communication between different objects in space.
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by wcarey 5y ago
Most households contain at least several poisons (and precursors to hazardous gasses as well) amongst their cleaning supplies.
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by wcarey 5y ago
Fair enough. I suppose what I'm asking is whether it's possible to purchase a more modern CPU independently of a SOC and design my own single board computer built around that. Can you buy a naked Cortex M0 in a PDIP package? Are t
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by wcarey 5y ago
Are there any good sources of documentation for working with Arm chips? Like, a simple single board (or breadboard) computer?
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by wcarey 5y ago
I'd support this if app developers were also required to release their apps on all the available stores and obey the policies of a particular store for users who obtain the app through that store.
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by wcarey 5y ago
Check out the Apollo 10 mission; they in fact did that as a rehearsal for the landing.
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by wcarey 5y ago
Sure! It's good stuff.
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by wcarey 5y ago
#2 you could read, "[He] tells the sailor's story to the mistresses, because mistresses love stories", which does have a possessive genitive.
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by wcarey 5y ago
One way I've done that in the past is asking explicit questions about the syntax, like: > "If filiae is nominative, how would you translate the sentence?" or > What cases could agricolae be here? if you want to introduc
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by wcarey 5y ago
That particular sentence is a really tough knot pedagogically too. As a teacher, you want a short simple sentence that includes a nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and verb to habituate students to thinking about cases. Unfortunatel
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by wcarey 6y ago
To be sure, the normative way of winning kleos was victory, to whit Marathon and Platea. The Greeks also had very different rules awarding time for sea combat and land combat (rooted in Homer). In land combat, the model was Achilles, and
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by wcarey 6y ago
That presumes a modern strategic intent, though, which was often absent from ancient warfare. If the mission of the Spartans was to secure kleos -- the only immortality the the Greeks valued -- then they succeeded beyond their wildest ima
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by wcarey 6y ago
Right - that argument, I'm suggesting, is way beyond most fourth graders even in its modern algebraic form. It relies on lots of algebraic techniques that aren't generally taught until 7th or 8th grade. It's not, like, rocket
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by wcarey 6y ago
The author's take on V.18 is interesting. Clarke has the proposition here: https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/bookV/propV1... It's not three pages long in Clarke (nor in Heath), an
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by wcarey 6y ago
The approach you describe definitely does not work for all children. The vast majority (that I've taught) are better served by a scaffold of increasingly complex metaphors and definitions. The fact that the metaphor of repeated additio
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by wcarey 6y ago
Well, I'd be curious what your first ten sentences to a group of, say, 11th graders would be about Newtonian gravitation, and how those would compare to what you'd say about the same subject to 8th graders. It seems elsewhere in t
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by wcarey 6y ago
How would you teach physics without lying to children?
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by wcarey 6y ago
Truth be told, I've never tried to use a gtk-based editor without a mouse. Which would you recommend? I'll try it out.
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by wcarey 6y ago
The need for precision is such a wonderful thing to teach young people. I start my class with the students typing in exemplar programs and discussing with each other how they think they work. It's amazing how many errors they make in t
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by wcarey 6y ago
The biggest advantage of foregoing a GUI is that the experience of programming is totally modal: you're either in the shell, editing your program, or running your program. That allows students to focus on what they're doing withou
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by wcarey 6y ago
Our computers (intentionally) don't have mice.

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