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 Discussion on question by Spailpín: W…

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Džuris
Jun 25, 2024 07:10
This statement about ideas that are both green and colourless is not false. You don't have any counterexample — there are no such ideas that would be green & colourless but not sleep furiously.
 

 Discussion on answer by Sandro: Shoul…

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Džuris
May 27, 2023 11:19
"no voltage above 30V (neither on the supplies, nor that he generates himself)" — sounds like the kid is exactly interested in sparks generated by insane voltages not in circuits where a bulb lights up :D VdGG with a school-level static electricity experiment kit might be fun.
 

 Discussion on answer by Ertai87: How …

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Džuris
May 9, 2023 19:22
Maybe you just don't know a lot about cross-platform development (or even mobile development entirely). Flutter is probably the leader in the space.
 

 Discussion on question by Iam Cleaver…

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Džuris
Apr 7, 2023 16:03
I made a counterpart question: academia.stackexchange.com/q/195057/14144
 

 Discussion on question by Display nam…

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Džuris
Dec 9, 2022 15:57
"I know, I don't really want to change roles/company and start over whatsoever just to have a nice monthly pay but quite possibly a worse role." — that's why they don't need to increase your pay.
 

 Discussion on question by Janos: Deal…

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Džuris
Aug 8, 2022 21:31
— F*** off! That's a waste of time, and the whole team knows it. — Bradley explained. — My job is to have this team excel and make a ****-load of $$ for the company, and to develop my subordinates so they can make more $$... — Impossible at this company, — added the narrator pausing the recording. — They just hire juniors and hope to keep them on junior salary forever. Then he let the recording play out — and develop their own careers and CVs, end of ****ing story.
 

 The h Bar

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Džuris
Jul 20, 2022 10:35
As far as I understand, the logic goes the other way — we know that the decay has a constant half-life and from that we deduce that the process is probabilstic. Without a "why".
Džuris
Jul 20, 2022 10:33
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/719171/why-is-radioactive-half-life-constant
Many great answers explaining why such probabilistic process leads to exponential decay and constant half-lives, but is that really the answer to "why"?
Džuris
May 25, 2021 22:20
I was thinking about circles around the Sun and it seems that the term I was after is "radius excess" :)
Džuris
May 25, 2021 22:18
Thanks @Charlie
Džuris
May 25, 2021 21:35
("space itself" as opposed to "spacetime")
Džuris
May 25, 2021 21:34
Hi, there's so many questions about general relativity so this must be discussed, but I can't find.

Is space itself curved near massive objects and is the curvature positive?
 

 Discussion on answer by user21820: Is…

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Džuris
Jun 8, 2022 19:43
My problem is that these are exactly the features that one has to understand to understand the equivalence. Skipping them over as "obvious" and intimidating with "anyone who actually understands [..]" is not useful as the questions come from people who don't find all of that obvious and probably don't actually understand all that's needed.
Džuris
Jun 8, 2022 19:43
This isn't a good answer. It just restates the halting problem while taking for granted all the details (proofs being countable, V having to exist) that makes the provability equivalent to halting problem. If these details were obvious, this question wouldn't exist. For example, why is this a proof of "not for every program a halting proof exists" instead of "a complete verifier V for a logic system can't exist"?
 

 Discussion on answer by Ben I.: If a …

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Džuris
May 17, 2022 14:15
"The closest analog in another field would be if you were to present an essay in a history class, and the professor reserved a technical score of zero if they found any grammatical errors." It's more like students sending in corrupted or password protected docx files or non-existing links to their "work". Not gradable.
 

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Džuris
Dec 26, 2021 12:06
It will be clear if you rephrase the question: why is chunk_baa followed by chunk_baaa and chunk_baab, and only after chunk_baaz comes chunk_bab?
 

 Discussion on question by Red bel: Ca…

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Džuris
Oct 28, 2021 03:29
The scholary periodicals are usually called "journals" not "magazines" :)
 

 Discussion on answer by YorSubs: Laun…

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Džuris
Sep 30, 2021 19:55
Normally you still want to set up PATH for something like vscode to be able to open something particular, e.g. code ..
 

 Discussion on question by Todd Wilcox…

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Džuris
Sep 8, 2021 17:36
@ToddWilcox not enough for an answer, but have you considered that your demeanor (face, gestures) might make you appear as an overly contemplating, analyzing character? If two teachers got the same wrong impression, it might be something superficial that you can clarify and resolve by "i'm not angry, this is just my face" type of discussion.
 

 Discussion on question by JonathanRee…

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Džuris
Jul 29, 2021 14:06
@CarlWitthoft voters are not voting about correctness of the question or it's assumptions. The question is useful.
 

 Discussion on answer by David Hammen:…

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Džuris
Jul 19, 2021 14:54
The "5 nanometers" term, as explained in the article you linked, is just a marketing term. It bears no relation to actual sizes.
 

 Discussion on question by Eldacar Hya…

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Džuris
Jun 28, 2021 17:47
@Winther in that publication they've also exhausted all the natural numbers as indices for every possible character, hence the question.
 

 Discussion on question by anseltan014…

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Džuris
Jun 16, 2021 15:52
@NoahSnyder simliar issues come up in math, I've come across one when I had to cite an article from Annals of Eugenics. I guess statisticians come across these a lot more as Galton, Pearson and Fisher developed much of their statistical methods as tools for racism and eugenics.
 

 Discussion on question by Alexandru C…

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Džuris
Jun 1, 2021 07:28
@OlegV.Volkov many gamers, e.g. in CSGO wish for a more intrusive anticheat solution instead of having games ruined by cheaters. The problem with server side solutions is performance — online games are not video streams. They send few kB/s of data and it's up to a fair client to only display an elbow instead of the whole player model if the opponent is partially behind a wall. And there's even more issues with automated input which is unfair in games but a non-issue in banking.
 

 Discussion on question by phuclv: Why…

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Džuris
Apr 30, 2021 17:56
Arrays, functions, dictionaries — those are all mappings from input (argument/index/key) to some output. So it's natural to pass the input in the same way. The real question would be why so many languages have a separate syntax for passing arguments to arrays.
 

 Discussion on question by python_user…

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Džuris
Mar 26, 2021 11:13
"a bad code base with not so good support from the original creators" is what I feel when revisiting my old projects.
 

 Discussion on answer by DJClayworth: …

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Džuris
Mar 2, 2021 07:29
Oof, yeah. It's really hard to work with (at least some) Americans. That database example is a perfect impersonation. It's really hard to get used to that they migth never actually tell you they didn't like the proposal at all.
 

 Discussion on question by Nabla: How …

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Džuris
Dec 5, 2020 04:59
Is your issue really that the professor requires you to be at 30% level to take an exam? That sounds pretty low. Do you learn less than 30% of the material on other courses?
 

 Discussion on question by Old_Lamplig…

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Džuris
Nov 12, 2020 14:35
Do you believe that there is some "folk wisdom" that is legit, but no one has put it out on the internet yet? How comes? And why don't you write a blog post or reddit post about it then? And let the community judge. The folk wisdom is a lot more tested and vetted than a folk wisdom of some localized circle. You should always look for well-founded discussions on the internet and consider what they say. People shun and criticize wikipedia, but many articles there are far more reviewed and polished than any book on the subject.
 

 Discussion on question by Panzercrisi…

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Džuris
Nov 11, 2020 11:10
@JyrkiLahtonen We have the same ID card + assigned stations on municipal elections in Latvia, but for the parliament we use passports and can go to whichever polling station. And I find the latter more convenient.
Džuris
Nov 11, 2020 11:10
@MikeScott I think that's the default in Europe. How else would you prevent double voting?
Džuris
Nov 11, 2020 11:10
I don't even think "inherent" risks matter. What matters is observability. Normally you have people coming in with their passports, getting ballots in exchange for a stamp in passport, go into secluded sections or booths alone, come out with a sealed envelope, drop it in the box. The box is afterwards opened, envelopes unsealed, traceable ones are discarded, the rest are counted. Any party can send a layman to observe that every step is fair.
 

 Discussion on answer by Old_Lamplight…

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Džuris
Nov 9, 2020 12:48
You are focusing on the money and opposing it to other issues which would not be solved... but the question states that the other issues would be solved immediately: "the manager told me that I could switch to one of three different teams"
 

 Discussion on question by Davide Toni…

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Džuris
Aug 16, 2020 16:10
Those tags make it more readable, I like that code:)
 

 Computer Science

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Džuris
Jun 7, 2020 16:13
Hey all!
We've gathered some data about PHP package ecosystem. I feel like the data might be useful for other researchers, but I have trouble finding an appropriate journal.
Would it be appropriate to ask a more elaborate "where to publish this?" on this site?
 

 Discussion on question by JustBlossom…

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Džuris
Jun 7, 2020 13:21
I haven't seen anyone sewing but I have seen a couple of fellow students constantly knitting and it was never a problem for anyone.
 

 Discussion on answer by Raffzahn: His…

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Džuris
May 28, 2020 17:06
I am not sure if "reversed" instead of "reverse" is intentional, but surely you did not mean "revesed" instead of "reversed".
 

 Discussion on question by algiogia: M…

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Džuris
Mar 12, 2020 16:42
@Clonkex there are stores that allow rebuys at discounted price: support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=4873-QOSK-5126#s‌​ale
 

 Discussion on answer by JRE: Does a C…

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Džuris
Mar 10, 2020 14:27
Isn't ER free? I mean, we have to pay for redundant visits, but if you actually have an issue, shouldn't everything emergency be free?
 

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Džuris
Feb 21, 2020 15:10
Ben, maybe you can elaborate on a separate thread? matheducators.stackexchange.com/questions/17924/… Ping @GoodDeeds
 

 Discussion on question by Noah: Can a…

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Džuris
Feb 18, 2020 20:42
@towe I don't think this rule is out of incompetence but to ensure monopoly of the wifi service.
 

 Discussion on answer by Azor Ahai: Ar…

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Džuris
Jan 8, 2020 18:55
@AnonymousPhysicist I think one needs more than 1-2 minutes to even understand what is the application for and what customization would be appropriate for that one.
 

 Discussion on answer by Buffy: For in…

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Džuris
Dec 27, 2019 16:10
If I put these two articles together, I get that instruction is necessary and it should be supplied with some active learning.
https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ971752
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/05/08/1319030111

And the active component could be as traditional as homework exercises or problem solving sessions.
Džuris
Dec 27, 2019 00:30
The wikipedia article didn't seem very conclusive and just a few of the sources discussed actual measurable performance results. I made an actual question on this.
https://matheducators.stackexchange.com/questions/17649/what-is-the-quantitative-data-on-effectiveness-of-modern-teaching-methods
Džuris
Dec 27, 2019 00:10
@Buffy it might indeed be the overuse that has ruined it in my country... The leading proponent is an organisation that convinces the participating teachers that the traditional method is outdated. So they have group work, learning stations, discovery learning, self teaching and other methods that seemed to me like bogus because they end up spending all of the time and learning nearly nothing.
If I think about it a little bit... Every method has it's uses. Just like there are seminars, lab work, exercise sessions, for some purposes every other method could be also useful, it's just that mos…
Džuris
Dec 26, 2019 21:31
Can we take this to chat? chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/2496/the-ivory-tower The results mentioned in wikipedia doesn't seem that conclusive.
Džuris
Dec 26, 2019 21:31
chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/2496/the-ivory-tower
Džuris
Dec 26, 2019 21:31
Have you seen any evidence that these methods lead to better results? I live in a country where the education system is being shifted towards more "modern" methods, so I am concerned about these things, they seem like a complete scam to me. All the "research" seems to be surveys and opinions, 0 actual data...
 

 The Ivory Tower

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Džuris
Dec 27, 2019 00:28
@zipirovich thanks for the suggestion. Unfourtunately there is no general teaching SE. I asked in MathEd https://matheducators.stackexchange.com/questions/17649/what-is-the-quantitative-data-on-effectiveness-of-modern-teaching-methods
I would appreciate any suggestions on bettter wording to convey the essence of question in skeptical but non-dismissive manner.
Džuris
Dec 26, 2019 10:55
I am looking for data on performance not satisfaction. It appears that the student enjoyment is often the highest on demonstrations, films and fun facts when the actual knowledge gain is the lowest.
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