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By that reasoning, we should not teach kids how to spell, or about punctuation, and just aim for them writing essays/stories/novels.

I'm afraid I disagree. I programmed in a variety of languages in grad school (physics): C, C++, Fortran 77, Tcl, Perl, Matlab, Maple, Mathematica, IDL, Emacs LISP, etc. Not to ment…

Because you're an English speaker? In Malay it's "ball red large" Also this has been making the rounds: https://imgur.com/a/tDzy2

Loren C. Larson; Mathematics Magazine Vol. 50, No. 2 (Mar., 1977), pp. 69-74

For some context, here is a map of poverty in Philly: http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2014/01/05/poverty-map/ The hospital is in census tract 016300 with poverty level 58.5%

Bristles are brass (alloy of copper and zinc; corrosion resistant, food-safe), and not magnetic.

Solution: Uber.

From the article: A report this past week from investment firm Sanford C. Bernstein, titled “The Silent Road to Serfdom: Why Passive Investing Is Worse than Marxism,” "serfdom", "M…

The prevailing attitude is "I want to do biology, not computer science". I find it pretty frustrating. This is probably one of the last fields of science to be seriously computeriz…

Like all questions, the answer is "depends". :) E.g. number of kids falling and breaking their arm will be larger, but the population is larger and medical care is better, now. So,…

For scientific work, I find it worth the effort to compile from source using Intel compilers + MKL (or a compiler + math library that can optimize well for your particular hardware…

Perception: there's a 75% chance my kid will be kidnapped by a pedophile. Reality: there's a 0.01% chance of the pedophile kidnap, but a 75% chance of drowning in the bathtub. Numb…

The climate system on Earth is subject to the butterfly effect, but we frequently have good-enough predictions, e.g. the stuff airline pilots rely on. When confronted with complexi…

You need to split them, first. ;)

Ditto. I went to grad school for physics, and pretty much all the code there is written by self-taught programmers. I was, too, to some extent, though I did take a grad level algor…

Sure: you're skillful, and you and your team can produce something of value. However, you are not pushing frontiers in computer science. That's the key issue here: the physics auto…

Would people argue over the proper treatment for cancer as prescribed by physicians and oncologists? Don't answer that. Physicists who need a little help with the math become exper…

It was a long forum discussion, and well over a dozen engineers, mathematicians, and physicists kept saying the same thing. Some wrong long (>500 word) posts. We were all ignored. …

Oh god. "Formula for primes" - I was involved in a way too long forum discussion where everyone involved was trying to convince the guy putting forth his idea for generating primes…

Yeah, I hear this all the time: "municipal broadband services would be anticompetitive", while ignoring the fact that there is a de facto monopoly in place and municipal broadband …