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Yeah - to put it another way, ordered, general criteria like these will rarely be fit for the purpose of selecting the best coder for a given job. They place a huge premium on show…

Let me try to crack that nutshell... 1. ...and several other factors, like requiring all students in a class to move at the same pace. 2. We all, including Khan, recognize there is…

R as a language is highly multi-paradigmatic, while remaining essentially a specialized tool for statistical analysis whose users, often scientists, are not first and foremost prog…

> Why not make the problems harder and let students use every possible tool or resource to solve them? In science, we call this a thesis or research project. I don't see the need f…

van Gogh chose paints for their immediacy of color, sometimes without understanding the problems of hue shifting and degradation displayed by certain pigments. This causes a huge h…

For anyone who hasn't seen it, the documentary he talks about is mesmerizing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS7a-OJ7IVw Two standout scenes for me. First, gazing out from the Lond…

You have broadened my thinking on this issue, but I'm not convinced that being "attached" to the result of an intervention is necessarily harmful (let alone something that makes me…

I would like to toss the author of this paean to passivity into the ocean. Yes, sure, clinging on to certain kinds of unrealistic expectations, in certain contexts (particularly pe…

Many of the comments here debate materialism vs. minimalism, in terms of which provides a truer path to happiness. But the author of the post wasn't trying to be happy - his goal i…