putting drawing in an envelope (packetize it) and pass it along the 8 kids acting like a network
Depending on the number of kids, you could make a pretty darn good game out of multiple envelopes, multiple routes, branches so kids in the middle can try to pass by the fastest route, and assembling the message at the end.
I fit quick linear regressions in Excel. For *anything* else, there is a better choice.
Always remembering that even for the "hardcore", 90% of getting to know your data may be "quick linear regressions" and "pivot tables". I know when to reach for R but I think Excel is nifty.
you can either do science and test if it happens every time you touch it or just coincidence, or you can just be superstitious about not touching fire.
qso science is an improved version of superstition in terms of its value to humankind
Indeed, the example of the lions and rustling grass isn't incorrectly correlating cause and effect, it's just a weak cause/effect relationship with a lot of noise in the data... still beneficial to act on depending on the risk analysis.
When I got iphone it had international roaming turned off by default, with a specific warning along the lines of "if you turn this on, you may get fees." It seems pretty straightforward to me and it would take an informed click-through to activate it (I think?).
For a new father approaching 40, the new range of Lego is abysmal.
As a new father approaching 38, I'm kinda tired of this rant, considering last year I found it trivial to find large boxes of the plain bricks with the same pictures of generic houses, boats, trucks (with genetic wheels) as when I was a kid, in better boxes no less (hard plastic with good lids for permanence) and enough minor specialty parts (e.g axles, rotating blocks) to make things interesting.
The secret (other than online ordering) is to actually go to and support a decent non-chain toystore with good toys, rather than depending on your the Wallmart aisle with a couple boxes from the latest movie.
Because academic texts 400 years ago were mostly written in Latin and modern students don't know Latin?
Actually for many intro. science books, you get lasting value. Halliday and Resnick (Physics), Boyce and Deprima (DEs) are two that come to mind because I use mine all the time, you can use the old editions just fine and find them in used bookstores. In fact, my H&R was my father's, though I had to wait until he retired to pry it from his fingers... pretty cool.
Is it just me, or is there a lot of "well, yeah, duh!" reaction to the approaches this book seems to suggest?
Some of it is also a tautology. When is a product successful? When it is relevant. But how do you know if a product is relevant? You see if it's successful.
But let's not confuse PHBs with words like "tautology."
you may not agree with it, but SCOTUS has ruled numerous times that the only time a person can sue the government, (i believe all the way down to cities and counties, as well as states and the national government) is when the government allows it.
And the government "allows" it fairly often, for example, in the (U.S.) Endangered Species Act, other environmental legislation, Freedom of Information Act, and so on. So the government can respond to public pressure. SCOTUS may interpret the law, but the law (in theory) comes from the people.
Those kits are great (if it still has the instructions it used to, allows one to progress quickly through the basics even easier than a breadboard, with the circuit laid out more neatly. Adding a breadboard for support, as a teenager (not into "kid" learning) I used one of the kits to play with an analog sound chip (
This looks like a modern equivalent maybe) changing the frequencies of those weird sounds with the kit's pots taught me more intuitively about RC oscillations than a scope could have.
While Open Office is close it is still not 100% there. having 99% compatability means 3 days a year where that is a problem.
B.S. It means 3 users out of 100 will find it useless. Or 3 functions out of 100 in your spreadsheet will not work (which 3?) I've tried open office regularly (read, at least once a year) and discarded it every time.
Spielberg in recent interviews repeatedly refers to these movies as "comedies," which I think is the root of the problem.
I'll defend Spielberg on a point here. From DVD interviews, of the three, Temple was Spielberg's least favorite and Lucas's most favorite. That says it all. It's amusing watching Spielberg in those interviews as he keeps tiptoes around calling Lucas's opinion and style a pile of crap (which he clearly wants to say).
See Writ of Assistance [wikipedia.org] in Wikipedia for a pretty decent overview.
Thanks! I stand corrected.
My experience comes from a corner of coastal England where "smuggling caches behind the secret tunnel down th' pub" are just a part of the ancient historical landscape and tourist trade, somewhat blurred in with the romance of Cavaliers, priest-holes, and pirates. Nicely ironic, then, given you chaps were trying to leave that history behind.
further diminishment of democratic values such as the right to privacy.
I'm as libertarian free-rights paranoid as the next slashdotter (while not quite), but a healthy dose of history here. Customs, border crossings, etc. have never had anything to do with democratic values, check out all your local 17th century smuggling legends sometime. There's never been anything there to diminish.
Picking battles, I'd concentrate on what happens internally, domestic flights, internal travel, etc. and not worry about this one so much (cue "thin end of the wedge" argument).
So it comes down to, what does "in His own image" mean? We like much of the creation story in Gensis, I think it is meant to be taken figuratively, not literally.
It's literal, actually. We were created in His Own Image so he could restore from offsite backups. Jesus Saves!
As a scientist working for a US-government research lab, these stories make me die a bit inside.
It's really the few high-profile idiots who give us all a bad name. I'm also a scientist at a lab, we get upgrades "reasonably" (every few years when the laptops fall apart), we buy mid-range machines purchased through standard methods (e.g. order from Dell or someone, same website as everyone in private sector, same prices).
Switch to a european (specifically British) University.
Uh huh. My wife came out of a Brit Uni and came to the States. After 5 years, burned out on her career choice and wanted change... basically had to start from scratch because her UK education was ridiculously overspecialized from the age of 16. Waste of 4+ years of life due to UK's crap "we're putting you in a slot from your O-levels on" system.
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putting drawing in an envelope (packetize it) and pass it along the 8 kids acting like a network
Depending on the number of kids, you could make a pretty darn good game out of multiple envelopes, multiple routes, branches so kids in the middle can try to pass by the fastest route, and assembling the message at the end.
I fit quick linear regressions in Excel. For *anything* else, there is a better choice.
Always remembering that even for the "hardcore", 90% of getting to know your data may be "quick linear regressions" and "pivot tables". I know when to reach for R but I think Excel is nifty.
you can either do science and test if it happens every time you touch it or just coincidence, or you can just be superstitious about not touching fire.
Obligatory xkcd.
qso science is an improved version of superstition in terms of its value to humankind
Indeed, the example of the lions and rustling grass isn't incorrectly correlating cause and effect, it's just a weak cause/effect relationship with a lot of noise in the data... still beneficial to act on depending on the risk analysis.
I blame the fine print.
When I got iphone it had international roaming turned off by default, with a specific warning along the lines of "if you turn this on, you may get fees." It seems pretty straightforward to me and it would take an informed click-through to activate it (I think?).
For a new father approaching 40, the new range of Lego is abysmal.
As a new father approaching 38, I'm kinda tired of this rant, considering last year I found it trivial to find large boxes of the plain bricks with the same pictures of generic houses, boats, trucks (with genetic wheels) as when I was a kid, in better boxes no less (hard plastic with good lids for permanence) and enough minor specialty parts (e.g axles, rotating blocks) to make things interesting.
The secret (other than online ordering) is to actually go to and support a decent non-chain toystore with good toys, rather than depending on your the Wallmart aisle with a couple boxes from the latest movie.
Calculus hasn't changed in like what, 400 years? And yet they keep coming up with new texts all the time.
I'll do you one better: a Dover edition of Euclid was my geometry text, translation issues aside 2000 years old and still fine.
Because academic texts 400 years ago were mostly written in Latin and modern students don't know Latin?
Actually for many intro. science books, you get lasting value. Halliday and Resnick (Physics), Boyce and Deprima (DEs) are two that come to mind because I use mine all the time, you can use the old editions just fine and find them in used bookstores. In fact, my H&R was my father's, though I had to wait until he retired to pry it from his fingers... pretty cool.
That reminds me... They should add insult tennis as a possible competitive event.
Wouldn't you prefer a game of Questions?
Is it just me, or is there a lot of "well, yeah, duh!" reaction to the approaches this book seems to suggest?
Some of it is also a tautology. When is a product successful? When it is relevant. But how do you know if a product is relevant? You see if it's successful.
But let's not confuse PHBs with words like "tautology."
You would think they could have just increased the floating point size to 10.00 instead!
But it goes to 11.
you may not agree with it, but SCOTUS has ruled numerous times that the only time a person can sue the government, (i believe all the way down to cities and counties, as well as states and the national government) is when the government allows it.
And the government "allows" it fairly often, for example, in the (U.S.) Endangered Species Act, other environmental legislation, Freedom of Information Act, and so on. So the government can respond to public pressure. SCOTUS may interpret the law, but the law (in theory) comes from the people.
Well let me tell you something.
Hey! I was just coming in to post the link. I didn't expect some kind of Iberian philosopher's football wombat.
Sometimes.
On target as always.
Those kits are great (if it still has the instructions it used to, allows one to progress quickly through the basics even easier than a breadboard, with the circuit laid out more neatly. Adding a breadboard for support, as a teenager (not into "kid" learning) I used one of the kits to play with an analog sound chip ( This looks like a modern equivalent maybe) changing the frequencies of those weird sounds with the kit's pots taught me more intuitively about RC oscillations than a scope could have.
Yes. On e-slashdot, CowboyNeal has a goatee.
B.S. It means 3 users out of 100 will find it useless. Or 3 functions out of 100 in your spreadsheet will not work (which 3?) I've tried open office regularly (read, at least once a year) and discarded it every time.
Yah, but that missing 15% really fucking hurts the next day.
But with only one button, they couldn't do much.
I'll defend Spielberg on a point here. From DVD interviews, of the three, Temple was Spielberg's least favorite and Lucas's most favorite. That says it all. It's amusing watching Spielberg in those interviews as he keeps tiptoes around calling Lucas's opinion and style a pile of crap (which he clearly wants to say).
Thanks! I stand corrected.
My experience comes from a corner of coastal England where "smuggling caches behind the secret tunnel down th' pub" are just a part of the ancient historical landscape and tourist trade, somewhat blurred in with the romance of Cavaliers, priest-holes, and pirates. Nicely ironic, then, given you chaps were trying to leave that history behind.
I'm as libertarian free-rights paranoid as the next slashdotter (while not quite), but a healthy dose of history here. Customs, border crossings, etc. have never had anything to do with democratic values, check out all your local 17th century smuggling legends sometime. There's never been anything there to diminish.
Picking battles, I'd concentrate on what happens internally, domestic flights, internal travel, etc. and not worry about this one so much (cue "thin end of the wedge" argument).
It's literal, actually. We were created in His Own Image so he could restore from offsite backups. Jesus Saves!
It's really the few high-profile idiots who give us all a bad name. I'm also a scientist at a lab, we get upgrades "reasonably" (every few years when the laptops fall apart), we buy mid-range machines purchased through standard methods (e.g. order from Dell or someone, same website as everyone in private sector, same prices).
Uh huh. My wife came out of a Brit Uni and came to the States. After 5 years, burned out on her career choice and wanted change... basically had to start from scratch because her UK education was ridiculously overspecialized from the age of 16. Waste of 4+ years of life due to UK's crap "we're putting you in a slot from your O-levels on" system.