Number Munchers was a great game that truly made you better at arithmetic in a practical way. I'd like to see a modern, 3D Number Munchers where you can level up, earn badges for achievements, unlock levels, and compete online.
Alcumus at artofproblemsolving.com is an innovative learning tool that is almost a game.
I'd like to see an RPG where the lead is a hacker, and the player must literally write programs that work in order to pass parts of the game. There is already a website for contest programming with a robot judge that tests the validity of programs students have submitted. This just needs to be incorporated into a game.
Don't water down the educational content. It doesn't have to be as fun as a normal video game. Aim for the students who want to learn. If a teacher makes you play an educational game in school, that is still a lot more fun than most classroom activities.
There is huge potential for educational games to revolutionize education, along with video lectures and other internet content.
Who tagged this "get a life?" You shouldn't even make a joke like that.
To the student--check out the Ross Young Scholars Program and other similar summer math programs. Also, if you haven't already, check out artofproblemsolving.com.
Even when you love something, if that something requires great mental effort and exertion, it can at times be hard to make yourself sit down and do it. Everyone has conflicting desires, and part of you always wants to conserve your energy. I think often there is a large dose of discipline and plain hard work in genius.
"If it's a proof, I'll bet you 10-to-1 that the real business of proving it was done by a computer, not by a human."
This may become true in the future, but for the time being I think this is pretty wrong. It's still rare for pure mathematicians to get help from computers in their proofs.
Libertarianism as taught by Ayn Rand offers clear answers to those questions.
1) Yes. They can offer whatever they want, and customers can purchase or not purchase according to their own judgment.
2) The government should not give money to businesses. A business may take government money, just as a student may take government loans, so long as the business continues to advocate regulation free markets.
3) No. Fraud is illegal under the laws Ayn Rand envisioned.
You may call it a sound bite, but "all human interaction should be strictly voluntary" really does go a long way.
That would be very useful for Android developers if they could use Google's speech recognition in their own apps.
I would like to see a Google phone RPG where one of the characters calls you and has a "conversation" with you, perhaps asking you to perform some task in RL. (GPS and the camera could be used to automatically confirm that the task has been accomplished in RL.)
I'd like to see an RPG that uses the google phone's GPS feature to involve you in quests that blend real life and the video game universe. Perhaps certain tasks can only be achieved from a particular location in RL. Perhaps you are assigned to meet a particular player in RL in a certain location and achieve some goal together.
This is like Hideo Kojima's game Boktai: The Sun is in Your Hand, which comes with a solar sensor for your Gameboy, and certain portions of the game cannot be completed without actual sunlight. However, GPS adds a lot of potential that hasn't been explored.
Why would someone mod this Troll? This was just a good reply to a comment that has been modded up. It's a grave mistake to blame either the Great Depression or the current financial crisis on the free market.
I'm no genius, but I've attended some elite mathematical institutions, and I've never encountered this peer pressure you describe. If anything, there was peer pressure to go into pure math, and not "ugly" applied math.
What is your solution, in practice? Scold the bandwidth hog and tell him he is violating the "social contract"? (At least, what you think the social contract says, which is probably different than what he thinks it says, because nobody actually knows what it says, because it doesn't even exist.) So what then? He doesn't care that you have scolded him---what then?
And what shall we do with all our contracts? Do we adhere to them, or not? If we are bound by this "social contract", then what are the rules? And what if you think the rules are is different than what I think the rules are? What if you get to court, show the judge you have adhered to your written contract, and the judge says, "well, yes, but you haven't obeyed the implicit rules of society, the social contract, so you are guilty anyway."
The "social contract" is the kind of crap philosophers come up with. It is just another old way of saying people should behave the way you think they should behave. It is an attempt to pretend that it is something more than just your personal whims that you are imposing on others.
I want a set of cameras to track my movements (in my living room) and map them onto the movements of a video game character. Eyetoy does this somewhat already, but you need multiple cameras to do it right.
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Number Munchers was a great game that truly made you better at arithmetic in a practical way. I'd like to see a modern, 3D Number Munchers where you can level up, earn badges for achievements, unlock levels, and compete online.
Alcumus at artofproblemsolving.com is an innovative learning tool that is almost a game.
I'd like to see an RPG where the lead is a hacker, and the player must literally write programs that work in order to pass parts of the game. There is already a website for contest programming with a robot judge that tests the validity of programs students have submitted. This just needs to be incorporated into a game.
Don't water down the educational content. It doesn't have to be as fun as a normal video game. Aim for the students who want to learn. If a teacher makes you play an educational game in school, that is still a lot more fun than most classroom activities.
There is huge potential for educational games to revolutionize education, along with video lectures and other internet content.
Shouldn't these camera based controllers have at least two cameras working together, so that they can triangulate 3D positions?
I highly recommend books from www.artofproblemsolving.com.
Also, Relativity Visualized by Epstein is a wonderful book.
Who tagged this "get a life?" You shouldn't even make a joke like that.
To the student--check out the Ross Young Scholars Program and other similar summer math programs. Also, if you haven't already, check out artofproblemsolving.com.
Does anyone here work at Best Buy (corporate)? The Results-Only Work Environment they have implemented sounds ideal.
"We can only escape this by becoming more and more narrow but that might present it's own limitations."
We can also escape this by creating better and better educational materials. With the internet, there is huge untapped potential in this area.
artofproblemsolving.com, and their new tool Alcumus, are a good example of what I have in mind.
Even when you love something, if that something requires great mental effort and exertion, it can at times be hard to make yourself sit down and do it. Everyone has conflicting desires, and part of you always wants to conserve your energy. I think often there is a large dose of discipline and plain hard work in genius.
"If it's a proof, I'll bet you 10-to-1 that the real business of proving it was done by a computer, not by a human."
This may become true in the future, but for the time being I think this is pretty wrong. It's still rare for pure mathematicians to get help from computers in their proofs.
Soon enough people will have robots in their homes, doing chores. Very fast computers will be needed for that.
Libertarianism as taught by Ayn Rand offers clear answers to those questions.
1) Yes. They can offer whatever they want, and customers can purchase or not purchase according to their own judgment.
2) The government should not give money to businesses. A business may take government money, just as a student may take government loans, so long as the business continues to advocate regulation free markets.
3) No. Fraud is illegal under the laws Ayn Rand envisioned.
You may call it a sound bite, but "all human interaction should be strictly voluntary" really does go a long way.
Whatever it is you learned about PDEs as a sophomore undergrad engineering student, that wasn't the hard part.
Have you used GOOG411? I've found that it works very well.
That would be very useful for Android developers if they could use Google's speech recognition in their own apps.
I would like to see a Google phone RPG where one of the characters calls you and has a "conversation" with you, perhaps asking you to perform some task in RL. (GPS and the camera could be used to automatically confirm that the task has been accomplished in RL.)
I'd like to see an RPG that uses the google phone's GPS feature to involve you in quests that blend real life and the video game universe. Perhaps certain tasks can only be achieved from a particular location in RL. Perhaps you are assigned to meet a particular player in RL in a certain location and achieve some goal together.
This is like Hideo Kojima's game Boktai: The Sun is in Your Hand, which comes with a solar sensor for your Gameboy, and certain portions of the game cannot be completed without actual sunlight. However, GPS adds a lot of potential that hasn't been explored.
If nothing else, we can make a rule that if you want to live forever, then you can't have children.
Of course, in the future we will live in virtual worlds, where space is unlimited.
One of the most tragic parts of being human is that we forget the details of the romances of our youth.
Doesn't any implementation of Marxism require systematic and extensive violation of the principle of non-initiation of force? How can that be ideal?
Why would someone mod this Troll? This was just a good reply to a comment that has been modded up. It's a grave mistake to blame either the Great Depression or the current financial crisis on the free market.
I'm no genius, but I've attended some elite mathematical institutions, and I've never encountered this peer pressure you describe. If anything, there was peer pressure to go into pure math, and not "ugly" applied math.
globaljustin, would you point a gun at me yourself and force me to give money to NASA? Please don't.
The internet is the greatest tool of enlightenment mankind has ever known.
Check out www.artofproblemsolving.com and tell me again that the internet makes you stupid.
What is your solution, in practice? Scold the bandwidth hog and tell him he is violating the "social contract"? (At least, what you think the social contract says, which is probably different than what he thinks it says, because nobody actually knows what it says, because it doesn't even exist.) So what then? He doesn't care that you have scolded him---what then?
And what shall we do with all our contracts? Do we adhere to them, or not? If we are bound by this "social contract", then what are the rules? And what if you think the rules are is different than what I think the rules are? What if you get to court, show the judge you have adhered to your written contract, and the judge says, "well, yes, but you haven't obeyed the implicit rules of society, the social contract, so you are guilty anyway."
The "social contract" is the kind of crap philosophers come up with. It is just another old way of saying people should behave the way you think they should behave. It is an attempt to pretend that it is something more than just your personal whims that you are imposing on others.
Every company dies. But not every company truly lives.
The Google motto is "don't be evil", not "do no evil".
"do no evil" sounds lame.
"don't be evil" sounds Googley.
Exactly, that's what's missing from this list.
I want a set of cameras to track my movements (in my living room) and map them onto the movements of a video game character. Eyetoy does this somewhat already, but you need multiple cameras to do it right.