Cool idea! The string matching seems a bit brittle on the names I tried -- "Beatles" turns up no results, but "The Beatles" works. Same goes for "Rolling Stones"/"The Rolling Stones".
Link to the Science Magazine article cited: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/greenland-shark-may-... Apparently the researchers collected dead Greenland sharks accidentally caught in fishing nets, and examined…
For anyone who'd like to try out NetLogo without installing it, you can run example models and play with the code online in NetLogo Web: https://www.netlogoweb.org/launch#https://www.netlogoweb.org...
There are several good points in the speech that many of today's companies could benefit from: Help the best employees grow so they don't leave and take your organizational memory with them; build processes for…
Your method (3) is a great way to study, and it's very similar to the "Feynman Technique": https://mattyford.com/blog/2014/1/23/the-feynman-technique-m... The Feynman Technique is basically alternating between writing a…
I read a few Head First books when I was first learning to program (Java, SQL, and Design Patterns), and I know what you mean about the books trying too hard to be funny, with lots of silly stock photos, word search…
The article seems light on explaining the reasoning behind the law. Its proponents clearly want to increase the average female-male ratio on corporate boards. But that doesn't mean that a few boards being nearly…
Your interpretation seems about right. But why does Ray suppose there are 4 time points a day, instead of any other number? Maybe he's correct that "no writer or speaker understands the Time Cube."
It seems like they're doing something similar to how Reddit's "hot" algorithm reportedly works. As of 2015, that was supposedly like: log(upVotes - downVotes) - (hoursOld / 12.5), according to…
Cool idea! The string matching seems a bit brittle on the names I tried -- "Beatles" turns up no results, but "The Beatles" works. Same goes for "Rolling Stones"/"The Rolling Stones".
Link to the Science Magazine article cited: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/greenland-shark-may-... Apparently the researchers collected dead Greenland sharks accidentally caught in fishing nets, and examined…
For anyone who'd like to try out NetLogo without installing it, you can run example models and play with the code online in NetLogo Web: https://www.netlogoweb.org/launch#https://www.netlogoweb.org...
There are several good points in the speech that many of today's companies could benefit from: Help the best employees grow so they don't leave and take your organizational memory with them; build processes for…
Your method (3) is a great way to study, and it's very similar to the "Feynman Technique": https://mattyford.com/blog/2014/1/23/the-feynman-technique-m... The Feynman Technique is basically alternating between writing a…
I read a few Head First books when I was first learning to program (Java, SQL, and Design Patterns), and I know what you mean about the books trying too hard to be funny, with lots of silly stock photos, word search…
The article seems light on explaining the reasoning behind the law. Its proponents clearly want to increase the average female-male ratio on corporate boards. But that doesn't mean that a few boards being nearly…
Your interpretation seems about right. But why does Ray suppose there are 4 time points a day, instead of any other number? Maybe he's correct that "no writer or speaker understands the Time Cube."
It seems like they're doing something similar to how Reddit's "hot" algorithm reportedly works. As of 2015, that was supposedly like: log(upVotes - downVotes) - (hoursOld / 12.5), according to…