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This is useful, novel, and certainly non-obvious stuff. So you would like to have had eg. any useful non-obvious algorithm or data structure which at some point in history was nove…

Perhaps some of the funds raised for these open classes could and would have been raised for other projects relating to proper Stanford students ?

As a toy example showing that knowing even just basic ideas and techniques from this area can be useful, play around with designing a purely functional algorithm for the Stable Mar…

Linux + Opera here: After one has inputted a fifth line, the window will scroll to the top whenever one presses a key to type a statement. I appreciate the effort by people creatin…

I did not like that quote. For the first part: Beginners absolutely do not play be ear unless he by playing by ear means: Make instrument produce note. Continue by trial and error …

It would be interesting to see an explicit example of "In the area of query planning and optimization, I found that at some point I hit a wall with what I could do in Java. There w…

There is a huge difference between Denmark and Finland both in the quality of the education a coming elementary school teacher goes through and perhaps more important in the level …

He got his phd in 2000, so I assumed he was reasonably young :)

Still a little odd, as the Dutch are generally considered to be the best non-native speakers of English in Europe.

It is more than enough. I am just surprised that this is doable at universities where "proper" students pay serious money for getting a degree.

Is it clear whether these open courses will be repeated in the future or if they are mainly tests before starting to charge ? It is wonderful that they are freely available but can…

Ok. Then I think it is a little sad that a math professor can now nothing about category theory.

Life is fine without Dorkbook. Never used it and hopefully never will, although it is getting harder and harder as my school has started to actively use it for e.g. communication r…

I am not yet able to convince myself that the question actually makes logical sense.

I think category theory is rarely essentially used in a first or second typical course on some topic in math. Once in a while if students can be assumed to have had a course in cat…

Not being a native speaker, I have to ask: Is a "professor" not someone who at least majored in math ?

Are you sure you have enough data to make 1) a fact ? I doubt that anyone but very, very few, writes resumes in TeX. LaTeX, yes some. TeX ? Nah. Someone in command of LaTeX, can ma…

I majored in a different field, but am now in the last part of an education in software design. At my present school, I have come to despise slides for anything but short presentat…

Although Opera started to deteriorate somewhere after version 10, trying to do too much instead of focusing on main browser things, I always scratch my head when I see how few peop…

There is indeed something very wrong with that. You pay your taxes which help fund research and then you are charged exorbitant prices for access to the resulting articles. At the …