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Everything is easy once you know how.

For those of us who don't walk on cliff edges, though, it is a concern.

Hard to see, though, how to do that with hundreds of students in a room, and be reasonably uniform and fair about it. An argument perhaps that there should not be hundreds in a roo…

Can you say more about the startups stuff?

> My major point of friction with LaTeX is that using unicode is not straightforward. Possibly you are describing how it used to be before the input encoding standard for LaTeX swi…

At this moment, the error rate seems to be that of a beginning graduate student. Or at least, that's what Terry Tao thinks. That's pretty good.

Isn't Gambier the admiral who would not support Cochrane's fireship attack at Basque Roads?

Sure, you are welcome.

I'm not sure who is the audience for this, but if it is students then it is not going to be very helpful, IMHO. For students to get it the authors must give concrete examples. Let …

In its impact on teaching, I'll say that based on teaching since 1979, students take feeling stupid as convincing evidence that their instructor is doing a bad job. No amount of as…

I assume the poster meant how much progress the models have made. Roughly late high school capability to late college-ish. Project forward five years.

In the article he says that DBs are now much faster.

This post is not about real numbers, though. It's about floating point numbers.

I'm concerned about the effects of the staggering amounts of gambling money on the sports themselves. It all quickly gets to where you ask yourself if what you are watching is real…

I have a thing that I do. I would like to be better at it. Insight into how worldwide-recognized experts achieved their expertise is of interest to me.

Thanks for the tip.

One thing I never understood about dealing with the Devil. When the Devil shows up, it changes the calculus. Now the person knows there is a heaven and hell, etc. What used to be a…

Doctors fixed my heart in 2002 and I think that's better performance than I would have gotten from an astrologer.

Did this happen on FPF?

I think finding such stuff is regarded by the author as cool. I don't remember the author saying so, but personally I would think finding it is cool whether it first landed on my n…

Are you saying these did not originate in space? Isn't that what microgravity means?

My reading of the news is that in the US (and that I can see, in many places) a lot of people have been convinced not to believe experts.

I used to use Sourceforge. They became unacceptable. I switched to Google code. They turned off, as I understand it because people were uploading pdf's (pitated ones, but big tech …

I agree that there are a lot of people in a certain demographic. But you can have a lot of fun playing with various technologies.

I am the author. They are Free.