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Recent Deep Springs faculty member here. The article isn't exaggerating---as a teacher, the place really is as great as it seems.

There's a simple differential equation often taught in intro calc courses, "Newton's Law of Cooling/Heating," which basically says that the rate of heat loss is proportional to the…

Mmmm it's something I've done for a long time; I've been at the same school for seven years; it's a ton of fun but also gets repetitive... I want more challenges!

* Get less scared about applying to do stuff! I'm leaving my longtime job---I've taught advanced math to super-smart high schoolers; I'm quitting to be a visiting professor at Deep…

I've used Sage for years to run the backend (calculations/computations/graphics/prototyping) for a multivariable calculus class I teach. It's not perfect, but as a lightweight, Pyt…

I teach math to smart nerdy high schoolers. I do this. It's great! Fun for everyone :)

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People also hit cars with their cars.

http://www.andrusia.com All hand-written HTML and CSS!!!

Elite private high school in SFBay (not tech, but all of our families are tech/VC). Everyone is getting raises of max(8%, $6700), working out to an average per-employee raise of 8.…

I teach high school math. My kids use it all the time! This isn't entirely a bad thing. It's a very, very useful (and natural language) symbolic integrator for them.

My direct supervisor has 75 direct reports. (Not a tech company––an elite private school in the Bay––but still...)

Teacher at an elite SFBay private high school. Can confirm!

I teach at an elite private school in the Bay. We're a much better place than the school described here, with kids who like learning, and administrators who are well-intentioned. B…

Thank you for posting this! I also have a 2009-era iPod nano that I've been using for the last decade, and am still using a flipphone, so can't listen to podcasts on that. My iPod …

I've really, really enjoyed pg's tweets on parenting and his kids. It's obvious he loves his kids and he loves being a dad. Given how much of parenting advice/writing is written by…

I heard him speak in 2004, when I was 17. Here's what I wrote in my LiveJournal at the time: On Thursday, I saw Freeman Dyson speak at Cornell. He was so amazing I can't even descr…

True, but you can short the stock from elsewhere in your portfolio (i.e., just a standard nonretirement account), and it's economically equivalent (modulo some stuff with taxes).

You could short FB.

A thermite infested apartment would be pretty awesome, though.

It depends on the state. At least here in New York (the state, not the city), school district boundaries have nothing to do with municipal boundaries (which, yeah, adds another lay…

I have family and friends all across the US and across the world. I like them all, and I like hearing about their lives, even in the silly little details. Social networks are the e…

This study doesn't show that "Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook": >Just over half of Facebook users ages 18 and older (54%) say they have adjusted their priva…