Is there a website that would gather different solution to those problems (or other similar problems, like Advent of Code) written in Python preferably sorted by some rating? I don't want to scroll the long list of similar solutions but I would like to see selected interesting attempts. I think it's a good way to learn new tricks and useful libraries, but searching for different solutions on blogs/git repos/long reddit threads is no fun.
Do we really need Samsung for that? I like the idea and I have some spare unlocked phones. It would be nice to have a webpage with ideas and downloadable code. Maybe something like a custom system image that would change an old phone into a simple portable arcade machine or something.
> He got awarded his bachelor by doing a 6 hour exam when he entered University.
I wanted to read more about that (I like such stories) but I couldn't find that story online. On Wikipedia it says that bachelor took him 3 semesters. Does anyone have the source?
I am not joking. When you stand on the mirror the direction from your feet to your head is different than for the guy in the mirror. It shows that the mirror changes only one axe, orthogonal to its surface. It does not rotate anything nor change up/down or left/right. So when I look at the mirror en face only the direction of y axis is changed, x and z is not affected.
But this exact question has no answer or has many different, contradictory answers as this discussion shows. I doubt that such discussion would be interesting for someone who struggles with algebra. Moreover the same questions could be asked about all subjects. The point of the school is to show kids different things even if they cannot see their usefulness right away. One person will enjoy math, other poetry or history. But all will have a chance to try different things and to choose what to study deeper. Of course it's nice to give some motivation and her teachers failed if she cannot see applications of basic algebra.
> If Marcie can't find a useful application on day one of the "theory" she learns in school, what is the point? It's a 19th century curriculum for a 21st century world. Basic accounting and personal finance would probably serve most students better.
Sorry, but following this logic we will end up with a conclusion that almost no school knowledge is "useful". How useful is playing volleyball? Reading poetry? Painting? Studying history? Biology would be reduced to first aid and basic medicine.
I have those discussions with my daughters who learn how to do long multiplication. How is it useful if even I who know how to do it would rather use a calculator on my mobile instead? We would reduce math to basic operations on a calculators, probably nothing more would be considered useful by the majority of the population. The same apply to all other subjects.
According to the article Adobe reader for Android got this feature recently. I tried it and I am disappointed. Maybe OP was talking about reflow mode that indeed was accessible in many pdf readers, but for technical papers (math) it was useless.
But could you propose a better name for the math terms you mentioned? Fermat last theorem for example is famous because of its history and not significance and I don't think any other name would be better. Pythagorus theorem - how to call it with a short and significant name? The only option I can think of is "a squared plus b squared equals c squared" which is hardly a good name :)
Nice, I was doing the same on pages that would allow it, but it was never an easy process.
I cannot test your page now, but it's it possible to add a new book (I would like to practise on Ulisses) and would my progress be stored? I don't want to always retype the first page.
Thanks for sharing, it looks really interesting, too bad I did not know about it earlier (but I will still try to watch the lectures).
Are there more initiatives like that one? I know Terry Tao had open lectures online, so it is probably popular nowadays.
Sure you can drive, but can you explain in details HOW you do it? Probably not and that's why a machine cannot do it yet (until it learns by itself, as we all did).
My phone is black, but looking at individuals atoms where is the color?
You are right that we don't have a good (any?) definition of consciousness therefore it is difficult to properly ask if Chinese room has it.
After reading and talking with people it seems that consciousness is something one can only claim to have (like a subjective feeling), but can't really manifest (I can only assume you are conscious because I believe I am, and you behave similarly enough).
I have a feeling that apl (or j) based calculator app (with buttons for all fancy symbols) could be something. All those nice powerful one liners seem to be suited for such app. I wonder if something like that is available. I know there is j for Android, but having a nice closed interface focused on short clever code would be fun.
Wow, indeed. Lem is my favourite author and I read most of the books on him and his works and I am not sure I saw this. I will check if it is a well known fact but I doubt it is a coincidence.
Lem's books are great but the hero you refer to is Ijon Tichy. Pilot Pirx is also Lem's character but stories on him are classical sf. Pirx is also a main character in Fiasco, Lem's last sf book.
Than you should consider learning this interslavic language. You would be able to communicate in all Slavic countries and you would sound equally funny in all of them.
Very interesting. I've tried to read some texts and I could easily understand them (as a native Polish speaker). I wonder if it is as easy for other Slavic nationalities. If so, it could be a nice intermediary language, if only for written texts. Unfortunately I guess almost nobody would learn to write or speak it but it is still funny to have a passive ability to read and understand and I guess all Slavic languages could be automatically translated to this interslavic version. It could be tried in museums, restaurants, etc.
What do you think about those visual tools, especially in ML? There are some successful ones (like Rapid Miner) and aspiring ones like Luna, but I'm not convinced. I think they want to target a layman for whom they are too difficult to use (because building a model requires a technical mindset) and advanced users prefer to write a script. It is tempting to try to build something similar, and I am trying myself, but I want to avoid this trap. I am thinking about a tool that would take some burden from the advanced user leaving all the power and access to raw code.
Frink is really great as a sophisticated calculator (it is also quite powerful and nice programming language, but I've never used it's full potential). It helped me with cosmology classes assignments (very convenient unit conversions and built-in all physical constants I could wish for) . I just wish it had a better ide. I would love Frink Jupiter kernel with nice latex formula display. I emailed the author about that, but he wasn't interested. Maybe some skilled person from HN would take the challenge? Frink deserves more love, the amount of details included there is amazing and it's one man job. Very impressive.
> There is only one move that doesn't lose by force after 2. ... exf4, and that is the strange-looking 3. Be2. Does that mean this opening is a "mistake"? Well, maybe not, obviously a human wouldn't know the perfect lines, but personally I wouldn't play it :)
It was an April Fools Prank. Apparently a good one.
This article is really funny for somebody living in Poland. It is totally opposite to what you hear in Poland about our educational system. I am really worried about other countries if Poland works as an example in education.
The reform mentioned in the article has a very bad reputation here and most experts, citizens and politicians would like to take back the changes. Education standards declined rapidly as it become more egalitarian. I am laughing at the level of mathematics when I compare it to what I learned at school (in late 80s) and back than it was already a joke comparing to 70s.
The most often repeated argument is that our schools do not teach pupils how to think. I don't really want to go further as it is somehow nice that The Economist, being so wrong, is giving us so much undeserved credit.