With your experience I wonder if anybody has implemented a solution that just displaces the repetitive pattern onto numbered arrays of arbitrary length? No need for mod, no tests for equality, just looping the pattern x x fizz x buzz fizz x x buzz fizz x fizz x x fizzbuzz?
I think a large part of the problem is people using proprietary tools and expecting to have universal results.
Education is a prime target for FLOSS as a unifying factor...if the FLOSS people had any motivation towards a standard:) Sure, Apple and Microsoft might come out with one competing implementation each for money and market share. The FLOSS crowd will come out with 100 different implementations just for shit and giggles:)
Well, my solution was to just record with my brain everything that was going on. Well, more like storing diffs of important changes. It takes more time and effort to train your body to do what technology 'might' be able to do. However, your body will always beat tech in terms of integration, cost, and battery life.
I'm just suprised that after so much experience with education nobody has decided that instead of cramming 'facts' down peoples throats maybe we should instead teach them how to feed and digest for themselves. Of course, this is a chicken and egg thing since most teachers do not understand the process of learning themselves.
Most of my work is focused on developing a learning environment for autists, but hopefully it'll have some benefit for people who have the traditional routes of learning open.
Thankfully, i escaped windows for good 20 years ago. Unfortunately, I see the horrible html that almost any app produces. One of the main reasons I'm working on an information browser that get's rid of all the superfluous crap on the web.
Frankly, i would just code a few hundred lines of Lisp to convert my notes to SVG 'slides'....unless of course after all these years there still aren't decent SVG viewers on windows and mac. Anyways, extremely trivial problem for anybody not used to tripping over their own tools.
um, we're talking about tablets and their use in a classroom where we have direct control over the wifi network. We aren't talking about cellphones which regardless of the movement to tablets will always be present. Now if you're one of those anal professors you can do what anal profs have always done and require everybody to drop off their cells at the front of the class.
Oh, I don't know about that. I haven't had any computer science training, frankly my brain starts to bleed just looking at the syntax of most programming languages. However, when implementing sort in Lisp (yes, lisp has sort, just I couldn't understand destructive functions) the implementation I came up with in a short period of time was an in-place quick sort algorithm.
I think it's less about whether you are familiar with an implementation and more about how you think about decomposing problems.
Or, you know, your prof could have been less of a dick and provided photocopies of his overheads, hell, you could have even asked for them. A smart board isn't going to magically make a dumb professor/student smart.
Not really. There are people who are incapable of learning from other humans regardless how good the teacher is. Tech is king here, and there'll hopefully be big developments in this area for autists and others.
But for the most part, totally agree. Most people don't understand that teaching isn't about following a lesson plan, it's about actually understanding your material and being able to see where your students are. Only when you know both can you reliably lead one to the other.
Wow, how dumb are you? If you are that insanely neurotic, you do know you can export powerpoint to html? Or to pdf? Or just leave all your work in powerpoint and use a webviewer so everybody see's your neurotic powerpoint with your bullet points aligned to your desired pixel.
I think the point is, anybody who has made a programming tool or language easy enough for non-programmers to use has foisted a monstrosity on the community. R was slower than the previous Lisp solutions, but then again we all know not many minds can grok Lisp. Even translating, which there are quite a few efforts, R into a Lisp is faster than R. Now the statisticians who recognize all these problems want to move back to a Lisp like solution.
So R didn't replace a slower system in Java, it replaced a more elegant, faster, more accurate system in Lisp, and we've ended up with decades of copy-paste research/programming by noobs who can't even understand the limitations of their tool.
A trivial way of setting it up is having the papertabs being dumb displays, why, sort of exactly how they have them right now. They're just eink so require very little power, easy to setup with wireless power transmission. Some genius will figure out how exactly to send binary encoded data for the display that will combine the receiving of the data with the powering of the unit, each data pulse more energy. Have a hub that communicates to all the displays, keeps track of them, etc...
The base and, lets say, 5-10 papertabs could come in a carrying unit the same size as a regular tablet, but you could pull out individual tabs and use them within a certain distance of the base.
Just imagine having all that precise data available to quantify what you're experiencing on the shooting range. Such accurate feedback will allow your brain to gauge wind speeds, degree changes in direction, distances far more accurately and eventually get a far more efficient synthesis of all that information even without the scope.
I love tech like this, though I would only use it for target practice. Though i'd much rather an HMD that gave the same info and could give measurements of whatever you're focusing on. Some training with those would be excellent for architecture, construction, surveying, etc...
Easy, they just have to learn which way is up in reality. The brain compensates suprisingly quickly after a bit of time with a fixed horizon. I prescribe juggling. Fixed me up.
I didn't say sell. I said, and meant, peddle which has more connotations. Though I guess some people are unaware of what connotations are and the flavour and dimensions they can add.
Have you heard of cognitive dissonance theory and/or rationalization? When we have beliefs that support our failures we tend to peddle them to others, hoping for some sort of agreement or support in return, something that will stave off the truth, that really deep down we are aware of.
BTW, you do know it's bad form to insult somebody just because you were unable to understand their dialogue with someone else, right?
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With your experience I wonder if anybody has implemented a solution that just displaces the repetitive pattern onto numbered arrays of arbitrary length? No need for mod, no tests for equality, just looping the pattern x x fizz x buzz fizz x x buzz fizz x fizz x x fizzbuzz?
Education is a prime target for FLOSS as a unifying factor ...if the FLOSS people had any motivation towards a standard :) Sure, Apple and Microsoft might come out with one competing implementation each for money and market share. The FLOSS crowd will come out with 100 different implementations just for shit and giggles :)
Citation? Article says his family donated his brain after he killed himself.
Nope. It takes an idiot to not understand it, just like any other activity humans participate in.
I'm just suprised that after so much experience with education nobody has decided that instead of cramming 'facts' down peoples throats maybe we should instead teach them how to feed and digest for themselves. Of course, this is a chicken and egg thing since most teachers do not understand the process of learning themselves.
Most of my work is focused on developing a learning environment for autists, but hopefully it'll have some benefit for people who have the traditional routes of learning open.
Frankly, i would just code a few hundred lines of Lisp to convert my notes to SVG 'slides'. ...unless of course after all these years there still aren't decent SVG viewers on windows and mac. Anyways, extremely trivial problem for anybody not used to tripping over their own tools.
um, we're talking about tablets and their use in a classroom where we have direct control over the wifi network. We aren't talking about cellphones which regardless of the movement to tablets will always be present. Now if you're one of those anal professors you can do what anal profs have always done and require everybody to drop off their cells at the front of the class.
Um, maybe you should read all the way to the grandparent post?
Care to elaborate on what this 3 hour programming task was that can be solved in one line?
I think it's less about whether you are familiar with an implementation and more about how you think about decomposing problems.
You obviously aren't a programmer... or not a very good one.
oh noes if only there was a way to control web access in a network that we have total control over.
Or, you know, your prof could have been less of a dick and provided photocopies of his overheads, hell, you could have even asked for them. A smart board isn't going to magically make a dumb professor/student smart.
Now if we can just get students to stop taking notes and actually use their ears, and what's between, the world would be in a better place.
But for the most part, totally agree. Most people don't understand that teaching isn't about following a lesson plan, it's about actually understanding your material and being able to see where your students are. Only when you know both can you reliably lead one to the other.
You can design all you want in powerpoint, you don't have to translate powerpoint slides to display them on websites. Insightful fail.
Wow, how dumb are you? If you are that insanely neurotic, you do know you can export powerpoint to html? Or to pdf? Or just leave all your work in powerpoint and use a webviewer so everybody see's your neurotic powerpoint with your bullet points aligned to your desired pixel.
So R didn't replace a slower system in Java, it replaced a more elegant, faster, more accurate system in Lisp, and we've ended up with decades of copy-paste research/programming by noobs who can't even understand the limitations of their tool.
A trivial way of setting it up is having the papertabs being dumb displays, why, sort of exactly how they have them right now. They're just eink so require very little power, easy to setup with wireless power transmission. Some genius will figure out how exactly to send binary encoded data for the display that will combine the receiving of the data with the powering of the unit, each data pulse more energy. Have a hub that communicates to all the displays, keeps track of them, etc...
The base and, lets say, 5-10 papertabs could come in a carrying unit the same size as a regular tablet, but you could pull out individual tabs and use them within a certain distance of the base.
Come on guys, it's not rocket science.
I love tech like this, though I would only use it for target practice. Though i'd much rather an HMD that gave the same info and could give measurements of whatever you're focusing on. Some training with those would be excellent for architecture, construction, surveying, etc...
Nah, there's my description of the phenomena as well, bonus that it's testable (not easily) and practical enough to have rid me of that horridness.
Easy, they just have to learn which way is up in reality. The brain compensates suprisingly quickly after a bit of time with a fixed horizon. I prescribe juggling. Fixed me up.
oh noes we must use the imagination again
I have a 37" and it bothers me losing all the detail from the OTA broadcast and having to settle for have the bandwidth over fiber.
Have you heard of cognitive dissonance theory and/or rationalization? When we have beliefs that support our failures we tend to peddle them to others, hoping for some sort of agreement or support in return, something that will stave off the truth, that really deep down we are aware of.
BTW, you do know it's bad form to insult somebody just because you were unable to understand their dialogue with someone else, right?