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Comment #25933166
Tbh any MOOC that "needs only 2-4 hours a week" is, by design, an entry level course and taking more of those won't help you progress. On the other hand, you shouldn't lump togethe…
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Comment #25761091
Regarding that GNOME update, do GNOME developers just don't have any competence in UX design? That screencast is suggesting you need to click the activities button in the top left …
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Comment #19708183
Also there are microorganisms that digest plastic. They could've thrived at some point and then diminished in numbers after much of the plastic from the previous industrial civiliz…
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Comment #18725862
Excel is probably mislabelled, it should say HTML instead. Look at the list above
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Comment #16837354
I had a class that was so easy that most students didn't bother to show up for lectures. Near the end of the semester the profesor got angry that nobody came to his lecture and dec…
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Comment #16779988
You can take the MIT sequence of courses on edX (taught by, I believe the CEO of edX, so, in a sense, this is the original flagship edX course) https://www.edx.org/course/circuits-…
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Comment #16677356
A few months ago I won about $200 worth of Amazon gift card codes. Since nothing from Amazon delivers to my country I decided to give them to an American friend of mine. I remember…
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Comment #16428949
In addition to the Stanford courses mentioned in another comment, there are also two Princeton courses taught by Sedgewick https://www.coursera.org/instructor/~250165 and the MIT c…
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Comment #16159148
Full playlist URL: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeiKm4sgNOk...
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Comment #14811996
Maybe this is a good opportunity for Firefox to abandon its "forced mediocrity" model. The vanilla installation of Firefox lacks basic UI components (mouse gestures for example), l…
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Comment #14250320
Those look more like proofs with pictures, than proofs by picture, but I'm too lazy to get involved into the obscure notation of that book and check whether a random proof from the…
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Comment #14240910
Proofs by picture arent proofs though. And how would you even convey by picture that two line segments are of the same length. Or that if you drew C and D as separate points they t…
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Comment #14240322
It's actually the other way around. Mathematical notation used to be very much language-like and tedious to read. As time went by (and math became more complicated) notation was de…
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Comment #14239788
U, V: vector spaces u, v: elements of vector spaces G, H: groups g, h: elements of groups or g, h: homomorphisms, isomorphisms etc e: group identity K, F: fields I: ideals f: funct…
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Comment #13978521
Wouldn't these two lines of code do the same thing? var addCSS = (css) => { window.document.styleSheets[0].insertRule(css, window.document.styleSheets[0].cssRules.length); }; addCS…
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Comment #13871119
Archive CS294-112 Deep Reinforcement Learning Sp17 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkFD6_40KJIwTmSbCv9OV... It's not on the main UC Berkeley YouTube account so I don't think…
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Comment #13870683
A tangible benefit for a young English-speaking native to learn, for example, German, French or Norwegian would be the ability to obtain university education for free (or near free…
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Comment #13643077
Good point. So maybe browsers should make the full version the default and then add the following options for more tech savvy users (and users can set the permanent default or per …
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Comment #13642932
Random idea: Couldn't browsers have two modes of browsing, one lightweight one where only the most basic of JS features are enabled by default (this is something that 99% of websit…
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Comment #13509733
Or it's a side image and one antler obscures the other
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Comment #13509574
So a Google search tells me this is supposed to be the unicorn http://i.imgur.com/cdbIpEd.jpg Could it simply be some sort of rope/wire wrapped around the animals head with some wo…
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Comment #13147237
I've been learning french on Duolingo for a about a year now. Usually I take one or two 5 minute lessons per day for a week and then spend a week "strengthening skills" (reviewing …
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Comment #13055019
I think tau was used on purpose in that article to avoid confusion with the prime counting function, typically denoted pi (unrelated to the constant pi)
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Comment #13054971
tau = 2*pi