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In highschool, at least, you have to somehow elevate the meaning of your subject to be more interesting than the movie theatre/concert/video game system they have in their pocket. …

To be fair, the applications of geometry that most people might end up using in real life are going to be boring to a 15 year old. How many paving stones do I need to buy for the w…

What do you do when both A and B score a 95 and there is only one job? That's what DEI solves for. Not "higher a lesser candidate," but "when both candidates are equal, use diversi…

If you interview 10 people for one job opening, you have to pick one of them. If 5 of them pass the technical interview you start filtering them on other non-technical things. "Wou…

I think you may have missed a bit of their point... a plex server is a video hosting server.. like a personal Netflix. They wouldn't push their code to their Plex server because it…

I agree. Algebra based Statistics is one of the things that makes people say "Math is a religion". There is a lot of "just trust me" in statistics when you don't know calculus. I s…

I don't think you'll find too many Math teachers that disagree with you. There are a lot of things that schools should do. I'm curious to think through what a second track like thi…

I think it all depends on where you went to school and possibly who noticed you while you were there. I took 2 years of Probability and Statistics in Highschool in 1998-99 and 1999…

> select kids (perhaps based on prior performance in math classes, or overall GPA) to opt them into the class. That's how it works now, pretty much everywhere. Your 7th grade teach…

Grades are a score that parents can use to compare their children to other children. It doesn't take too many parent-teacher conferences to figure out that the parents that ask for…

I dropped my wife off downtown in her car and she had the key in her purse. The car did make a weird beeping noise as I drove away, but I had no idea what it meant and I was pullin…

NPR did some reporting on this a couple years ago: https://www.npr.org/2019/07/11/739860400/broken-promises-tea... "By the department's last count, only 1% of the people who think …

The funny thing about Learning Styles is that there isn't any data that supports it. But there are lots of studies that debunk it. Here is a Tedx Talk about those studies: https://…

I don't know about programming languages, but in mathematics |v| is the notation to get the length of a vector... So maybe Matlab uses that syntax?

What they didn't anticipate was how many people don't buy fruits or vegetables.

The iphone was full of killer apps at release. The Maps app was so much better than printing MapQuest maps or trying to use the flip phone version of MapQuest. Being able to access…

That's what I did. I'm apparently in the minority. though, because I HATE it. But since I bought it digitally, I can't return it so I'm counting towards those 10M sales. I guess I'…

Kevin is doing NFT stuff these days.

It's a job like any other, so go to the school's careers page and find the listing for a job you're qualified for, and apply.

That was Steve Prefontaine's opinion, too. And it got him 4th in the Olympics. Pacer or not, you still have to run the run and that's not nothing.

It is easier to run behind someone and match their pace than it is to lead a race. It is also easier to run faster for shorter distances. A rabbit is someone that runs a fast pace …

I taught in a Texas district that starts high school at 9:05. I appreciated that over the 6:50 start I had in Massachusetts... but it didn't really change much for the students. I …

A 60 year old woman (well, a 65+ yo) doesn't spend 8+ hours a day at work or have kids at home.

Would you give that money to the abused/neglected kids that social workers protect, or the parents that are abusing/neglecting them? Who would be in charge of identifying who gets …

Because minimum wage is well below what it should be if you want to consider it as the line for what is and isn't exploitive.