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8,389karma·3,978submissions·October 4, 2010
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LoL that's my wife exactly. Her spatial memory is scary good. She can give turn by turn directions for a place she visited just once 2 years ago. Best wishes for you two.
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Oh nice. I hadn't seen this one before. My favourite has been John Baez's post, especially the discussion in the comments.
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Thanks.
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Thanks, image search is a good idea. Why did I not think of that. It was probably Silvanus' classic. I can't seem to find a picture of the cover from that age. I think for us our first expos…
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Note that for a particle there is no discrepancy.
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Got you.
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> Most studies show that students DO NOT RETAIN limit concepts Is that so ? I would not have guessed. I am not being sarcastic. Going by experiences of my own high school cohort I would have claime…
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I think you are saying something interesting. Could you elaborate a little though because I am not quite getting you yet hooked to understand what you are saying.
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One in the White House ? Coming out stronger, that is. No reset. A more serious example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Cummines …
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If anything can instill a fear of god in me, that would be magnetars.
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Double limits understood visually https://projecteuclid.org/journals/bulletin-of-the-american-... …
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Thanks for the list. I have been on the lookout for a specific book I was suggested as a kid. This was when our high school Physics was traveling a few paces ahead of our mathematics curriculum. All I…
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https://rulebasedintegration.org/
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True. Knuth had a paper where he suggests using (a slightly modified) O notation for teaching calculus. https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/calc From the Arxiv paper: >…
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Good example. Regarding the tragedy , grandiose narcissists usually have very vulnerable egos and cannot bear exposure. Their entire notion of self is held together by their grandiosity. The tragic p…
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Why should someone not be shamed if they do things shameful ? Trying to understand your logic here. By harrassment do you mean public exposure of his lies that earned him his fame ? What is the altern…
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More conversations here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49305250
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Dan despicable Ariely is a good example because he also milked personal tragedies. Ariely et al that you mention weren't questioned or exposed any less though. There was Elizabeth Holmes too. The…
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https://ncofnas.com/p/dei-fraud-and-cover-up-at-cambridge Reams of lifted passages look quite obvious.…
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It seems to have sunk. Sadly the window of opportunity is pretty small on HN.
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That's right. In these missed eclipse the moon is usually a little too high or a little too down. The moon revolves on a plane that is tilted respect the Earth's plane of revolution. These…
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Beautiful. This needs to be an HN post on its own. Please post. I will upvote.
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