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We all knew at least one person in our undergrad years who could do each of those tasks in their head.

Data Is Plural is a weekly newsletter (and seasonal podcast) of useful/curious datasets, published by Jeremy Singer-Vine. There have been 356 editions, dating from October 21, 2015…

"Roku soars past revenue expectations as it bets on streaming devices to boost growth" - Feb 2023[1] [1] https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/15/roku-q4-2023-earnings/

XKCD 1053 is relevant here. You and I knew it, but there are going to be lots of people who learn about it for the first time today, and that's a net positive.

They went to China, made tens of millions of dollars in profit, sold their businesses off at a fair margin, and now return to the USA to live what seems entirely likely to be the r…

No link offhand but I recommend mastering 2-in-one-hand juggling (zero in the other) three different ways: columns, clockwise, and anti-clockwise. Learn to do each of those pattern…

> I find it a bit amusing that the headline uses the term "Extreme Juggling". Not because it's too clickbaity, but I think the juggling community should have invented that name. "I…

> The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data As I read this I'm sipping clean, drinkable water. Give it a decade or so. If you thought the wars over oil were bad…

Truthfully I did not know what to expect with regards to hand written problems. Out of curiosity, I wrote my very neatest and gave it a try and it solved one of them.

I wonder how Magnus Carlsen or Fabiano Caruana would fare against the world's best chess playing computer. Somewhat related article: http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut…

A colleague at my office gave it a test drive. * http://youtu.be/jDbTKgWoufw Results: As of now, it can only solve some linear equations. It did successfully solve one quadratic bu…

Probably not exactly the dependency map you are looking for, but perhaps still very useful. http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hph.html

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All generalizations are false.

I will be sharing this with my students. A few comments are below. My motivation behind the comments is based on how students who are new to LaTeX tend to misuse or not fully recog…

Hah, thank you for pointing out the spelling error. :) As for the variations in the sleep cycles, I think it would have to do with the length of time between REM cycles in individu…

There are plenty of variables that influence "productivity" (however that is defined) but I imagine that the amount of sleep required for maximum productivity varies from person to…

I just wanted to say thank you for sharing this info, I honestly was not expecting such a detailed and thorough reply!

> For anyone that doesn't understand that statement, I recommend taking a few years off work, where you spend your time getting up early every day, doing something all day (hiking,…

This is a nice interactive visualization of the top 50 White House Petitions in tabular, map, and graph form. You can sort by most popular, greatest average signature gain, and mal…

Perhaps it is a silly question, but what advantages does this offer over Gmail's rather robust set of keyboard shortcuts?

> How would you implement this? Include experienced professional educators in on the creation and updating of NCLB, RTTT, or any policy aimed at education. > Would you eleminate al…

> Indeed, letting teachers decide what to do on the basis of what's rasiest and most convenient for them is bound to have a 1:1 correspondence with the best way for people to learn…

> What in particular is stopping experienced professional educators from shaping educational policy now? Overwork, bureaucracy, an anti-teacher and anti-intellect culture to name a…

> how would you go about implementing this in a real life class format? Allow experienced professional educators to shape education policy.