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by wtrk 13y ago
You've read the linked article, wherein readers are informed that more than two thousand people (not a tiny number given that only 800 students were sitting for the exam at the school in question -- so think parents and family members)
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by wtrk 13y ago
Can I provide evidence to prove to you that my generalization is accurate? Can you prove to me that Antarctica exists? That there were ever dinosaurs? If I'm intent on not being convinced? Come to China for an extended visit. Reside i
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by wtrk 13y ago
Cheating is not endemic within the gaokao system because, as a testing regime, it's excessively vulnerable to cheating. It's not any more cheatable than the SAT, GREs, or other standardized entrance or aptitude exams. Mainland Chi
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by wtrk 14y ago
> Should I, or anyone else, be fined for that? If you had been made aware, in advance, that there was a fine, then sure, you should be fined for being tardy. Are you pattern-matching on "VC", "lateness", "fine", and your own negative fe
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by wtrk 14y ago
Instead of discouraging people from showing their care/regard for you (which, with a generous helping of social obligation, is what gift-giving is about), why not try to find ways to help gift givers give useful/desirable gifts? Children ha
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by wtrk 14y ago
Actually, no. If you give someone a delicious homemade chutney and that inspires them, they could gift you the following year with a marmalade or cherry confit or something else. Your reply suggests that you may be giving homemade gifts an
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by wtrk 14y ago
People tend to be polite, especially when it comes to expressing thanks for a gift. One way to gauge the recipients' true enthusiasm would be to look at how many of them have followed your lead. If you've been doing this for three years, ho
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by wtrk 14y ago
I'm not a Futurama head, so I looked it up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasites_Lost
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by wtrk 14y ago
I have read and enjoyed some of the other books already mentioned and would add: * Paul R. Halmos's "I Want to Be a Mathematician... an automathography: http://www.amazon.com/Want-Be-Mathematician-Automathography-... * Frederick Mosteller
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by wtrk 14y ago
If I look at the sky and it's blue and I tell you that it's blue but you're convinced that it's yellow, should I compromise and agree henceforth to tell people that the sky is green or some shade of yellow? If the cost of winning certain po
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by wtrk 14y ago
If anyone would like a lifelogging camera right now, you can purchase a Vicon Revue (rebadged/locked version of Microsoft's SenseCam): http://www.viconrevue.com/product.html It has a "privacy button" that stops it from taking photos for a
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by wtrk 14y ago
Indeed. But don't expect the sort of person whose battle cry w/re to RS is "But he's so unkempt!" to acknowledge that he tends to be correct.
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by wtrk 14y ago
The article heralds soy as having an uber-low glycemic index ... but doesn't note that soy appears to function as an endocrine disruptor in humans, something of concern for everyone but especially for children/infants.
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by wtrk 14y ago
Indeed. AFAICT from the linked post, there's no proof (e.g. visual sighting of a whale at any of the locations from which the sounds have emanated) that the source of the sounds is even a whale at all.
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by wtrk 14y ago
The (unframed) article: http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/mark-kitto-youll-...
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by wtrk 14y ago
Thanks for posting this. A few seconds before the eight-minute mark, Vinge says that he expects the Singularity to occur before 2030 assuming that (A.) it is technologically possible and (B.) no disasters (e.g. a nuclear war) derails us be
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by wtrk 18y ago
I'm a year or two away from eligibility of permanent resident status here in HK and, while I obviously haven't hated living here enough yet to pull up stakes and move, I can't really agree with your assessment of HK as a great place. The po
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by wtrk 18y ago
"The Real Story of JPG Magazine" http://powazek.com/posts/534
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by wtrk 18y ago
I think that something like the Math Emporium could represent an excellent additional resource ... but using it to replace lectures altogether would seem, to me, to be a missed opportunity and a big mistake. I hope that they at least have
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by wtrk 18y ago
The NSF and NCTM are anti-AP? I googled and didn't turn up anything on this, but it's altogether possible that I didn't search on the right terms. Do you have any links?
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by wtrk 18y ago
Why was this deleted? [Posting as a reply to dangoldin's comment b/c I can't post a top-level reply.]
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by wtrk 18y ago
Sorry! I follow HN primarily through the RSS feed and a lot of posts/threads never show up there. Before posting, I did Google for polls on the subject of version control and didn't turn up anything (oddly enough, this thread seems to be a
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Poll: Version Control
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Git
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Mercurial
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Bazaar
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Darcs
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Subversion
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svk
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CVS

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