kandalf

Very cool. Reminds me of: http://alteredqualia.com/visualization/evolve/ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=392036

Penn's second intro class is indeed in OCaml, mostly due to the effect it has of leveling the playing field. It really turned out quite well, and most of the students enjoy it.

My grandparents have been to Argentina a couple times in the last few years to get their dental work done. They have been extremely happy with the quality service as well as the pricing. Commercializing this is a great idea.

For anyone who is confused about the purpose of this site (in contrast to cstheory, for example), the distinction is that this is for non-research level computer science questions, whereas cstheory tends to frown on such questions.

I very much appreciated the PSD. Definitely learned a couple techniques I wasn't aware of beforehand. Thanks!

It's cool to note that any student can get a digital subscription for free (something that I take advantage of).

It would also be cool if he sold a box set of 2011's issues - or even better a bound compilation.

SAT scores are not a sufficient indicator for bias in college admissions. There are two factors at work here:

1. For elite colleges, specific SAT scores are irrelevant. Essentially, once a certain cut-off is reached, say 2250, it doesn't matter how high you go. In fact, I'm sure admissions officers get a kick out of rejecting the 2400 - I'd rather have a 2380 than a 2400 any day. The variance in SAT scores over a certain cutoff is simply not a good enough indicator for what the colleges are looking for.

2. In my experience, Asian families tend to place a disproportionate emphasis on test scores and grades. This leads to higher than average SAT scores for Asian students, sometimes at the cost of other parts of the application package.

Taken together, I believe these two ideas contribute to a reasonable explanation for the phenomenon discussed in the article.

This is not to say that admissions are not racially biased - I would not be at all surprised if they are.

The keypad should be live by morning. We have it up and running locally. Thanks for the feedback!

Anyone happen to have data for telephone numbers of local representative offices?

Good ideas. Displaying state/zipcode is definitely on the todo list for tonight.

Working on this.

Viewers full at the moment, second stream: http://www.livestream.com/pennappshackathon