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No, a BSc in physics should and can impart actual skills in physics.

It would require the whole process to be lead by a tutor in small groups. And each day you would work through experiments, mathematics related to them, writing reports about them. You would read books together, and work through their practice exercises together.

You would be set to individual practice as often as a piano student is. And tutored as often as a piano student is, or much more often, given the compressed time.

For computing, you would need daily tutored high-skill computer use. You need tutored programming. Your time would be mostly in projects, with seminars where you read through the theoretical things together. The tutor would be guiding your progress individually, dealing with your issues and showing you the skill of programming, etc.

The "lecture" is a spoken textbook delivered to hundreds of students. It isnt giving you any skills. It's not designed to do that. Mistaking it for skill acquisition, which is what most people do, is pathological.

> Maybe lack of education...

You've confused the worst excess of the current educational system (knowledge about a framework!) as what I am arguing for.

That is what we have now.

Skills are modes of thought, imagination, creativity, attention, deliberation, etc. They require a lot of training in each. To be a programmer is to think, imagine, attend to, and deliberate differently.

A framework has nothing to do with it. This is confusing "skills" with whoknowswhat, recalling how to solve a problem.

In your terms, all of education is at the moment, learning the API of a framework.

What it should be is how to think and act like a programmer.

All of education is learning the pattern of notes in beethoven's fifth.

What is should be is how to play the piano, and compose for yourself.
I'm glad they dropped the awful look of the car.
This is ridiculous.

That "useless clock" is actually a significant engineering challenge: how do we design a system that lasts 10.000 years? Are you sure that no valuable insight came from the project? And before you reply, think of how many valuable insights we got from what some could consider the "useless manned mission to the Moon", in hindsight.
I hypothesised the same, remembering the huge difference freshly ground coffee made, and got a flour grinder a little while back. I've only made a few batches, and I'm still tuning the recipe, but I have not been blown away by the flavour. I need to try different kinds of grain, and I guess I need to make a proper side-by-side comparison, but it certainly is nothing like coffee in flavour-difference.
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I'm sure that most people who have studied OO would find many similarities with Plato's forms. The same could be said of Spinoza's attributes, however the latter is much more abstract (to say the least).

Without digressing too much from the topic however, I think OO has it's place. Sometimes it's rather like constructing scaffolding prior to building a small dog house, unnecessarily complex.
In the UK I've never seen a supercharger (though they exist) but lots of car parks at offices, shopping malls, etc, have generic charging points.

BP are adding them on petrol forecourts too.

See this map for example
https://www.zap-map.com/charge-points/
You can use all non-tesla fast-charging stations, charging to 80% in 20 minutes. Do note that tesla supercharger stations also have "normal" fast-charging stations. Tesla is the only company remaining to deploy vendor-specific chargers.
No need to wonder.

The Occitan Wiktionary page https://oc.wiktionary.org/wiki/occitan says “Del latin medieval occitanus, que se tròba dins lingua occitana. Derivat de òc, benlèu sus lo modèl de aquitanus.” – the English Wiktionary page of same says “From Medieval Latin occitanus in the phrase lingua occitana, Latinization of langue d'oc. The ending -itanus perhaps after aquitanus.”

And Occident https://www.etymonline.com/word/occident “late 14c., "western part" (of the heavens or earth), from Old French occident (12c.) or directly from Latin occidentem (nominative occidens) "western sky, sunset, part of the sky in which the sun sets," noun use of adjective meaning "setting," from present participle of occidere "fall down, go down" (see occasion (n.)).”

Somebody would have wondered about the connection before, surely.

Even though I didn't particularly take to the sprinkling of profanity and hip-hop lingo I think "on some Slavic shit" roughly translates to "on some Slavic thing/trip" and isn't intended to be derogatory. Am open to corrections here.

The rest of your post I'm having a hard time disassembling. I don't think you can just free associate from one language to another switching between written and spoken changing alphabets along the way and between past and present. I mean, if you actually did come up with a valid and novel derivation of something that's the kind of thing one could put into a paper get peer reviewed and published.
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This is covered in the blog post:

>With one major exception — iCloud Keychain, which I’ll discuss below — iCloud fails the mud puddle test. That’s because most Apple files are not end-to-end encrypted.

The blog post is saying that iCloud backups are not protect from Apple, except keychain backups. So your files, messages, etc are not protected from Apple. And the video you posted seems to only be about keychain backups.
To 99.99% of people, a rocket to Mars is as about useful a 10,000-year clock. That's not to say both aren't commendable efforts, technological steps forward for humankind, and inspirations to many.
PoS is an idea. There are implementation that reward everyone equally for the amount they put it (like semux)
Tony's Chocolonely are the best, really. The big bars are 6oz and go for about $5.75 at the store where I buy them, which is a great value.
> Most students are oversubscribed with four or five classes.

Perhaps that's part of your problem?

At the school I'm going to (KTH) you always[0] take exactly two courses at a time. That makes scheduling group assignments a lot easier. You also tend to take most classes with the same people, so once you've found a decent group you can stick with them for most project courses.

[0]: Almost, you're allowed to take an extra course if you ask nicely and have kept up with coursework so far
Ubuntu has always confused me. It seemed like such an obvious gag from the very beginning, a theme job on Debian unstable without much engineering teeth. But people went crazy for it. The resources would have been better spent working directly with and on Debian, and offering support/consulting/employment to do so and it made Mark's intentions seem seriously dubious to me (although aside from the ad spying thing he hasn't really done anything egregious as I feared initially). It's water under the bridge now and the two have learned to coexist, but I think the future of Debian is unquestionable while Ubuntu has a SPOF in Canonical. I heard a rumor that Shuttleworth is trying to sell Canonical right now. He approached Red Hat and they weren't interested. I can't substantiate that, just hearsay.
Estimating production volume from serial numbers? Looks like a job for a German tank problem: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/20/german_tank_problem...
Interesting that while we tend to beat on the standards drum in HN, Tesla might get a pass ...
Most people on hacker news have (as far as I've noticed) very much enjoyed their university programs and will defend them quite vehemently. Often these programs were quite high quality, with lots of close contacts with TA's and professors.

Further, for people who did theoretical CS or math programs, it can feel quite frustrated working in a field with so many "self-learned" people and find that these are often ignorant of what they don't know.

Finally, many people here have Ph.D.'s or have worked in academia or teaching in various ways.

This all results in people being somewhat skeptical of advice to "don't do school".
That's true, but PoW currencies have the same opportunity cost -- if you buy Bitcoin you can't invest the same funds else.

Let's say you were forced to invest all your savings in either a PoW or a PoS currency; no other investments are possible. Say they both have the same block reward, which is essentially inflation tax.

Since you'll have to pay inflation tax either way, wouldn't you rather invest in the PoS currency, where the tax is redistributed to stakeholders including yourself? Rather than the PoW currency where the tax goes toward hardware and electricity bills.
> "Fake" is a spectrum as well.

I suppose this is true, very interesting. A piece (real or not or unknown) with history, can become (de)valued in its own right.

> how can physical assets, and their movements, be indisputably registered to a blockchain

For example, I think VeChain and Modum use physical ID chips, but I don't see how they solve this problem. It seems like a tall order to create an injection between physical assets and digital ones. I could see how this would be done if the physical assets were fungible and centrally sourced, which is only going to be the case with certain physical assets.

How would people register those assets to the blockchain? No one in the world should be able to register my laptop, because they don't have it. It would need to be derived from physical measurements, but this is a can of worms because the measurements can change; physical matter is not immutable in the way that digital matter is. Coupling the two seems like a tall order, or maybe I am small minded.
There is probably a fund raising event coming up.
It took away from the whole thing, for me. Almost like the author is not wanting to look like a nerd and, so, over-compensating.
Not if it was done by an intelligence agency that intends to keep it secret.
It certainly does with the Tesla video ad.
I doubt it's any better than vuejs or preact.
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I know electricity is very expensive in Hawaii since it's almost all natural gas. Maybe they charge the batteries off school hours to save on the electricity bill?
If you make it easy for someone to take an inch, they take a mile, even if they only took a foot before.
The article mentions that the himalayas grow by about 1cm per year, and that it has been growing for millions of years. Wikipedia says it is more like 5mm/year.

So I'm assuming a growth rate of 5km/My, while Everest is only about 9km.

I understand what has been limiting height: gravity, rock strength, erosion, sinking into the mantle... But since there is growth now, obviously these processes are not in short term equilibrium. So how does this play out? Are there apocalyptic landslides every million years or so? Or just periods of growth alternated with periods of shrinking?
Learning to learn is an important skill.

But so is the ability to do a job.

Some companies have the resources available to take a fresh grad that knows theory, concepts, and how to learn, and then get them up to speed on how to actually do the job they've been hired for. Some WANT people that only know how to learn and the concepts, so they can teach them how to do it the "X Company Way".

But a whole lot don't. A whole lot of companies need to hire people that can slot into a position and hit the ground running. A whole lot of companies need people that can deliver on the job description.

A strong Computer Science education will probably make you a significantly better programmer in the long run, but if you can't get a job or keep one because you aren't prepared to step in and do the job, it doesn't really matter.
I used limit orders to add liquidity in both countries and so paid no trading fees. There was a 1% “cash withdrawal fee” at the Indonesian exchange which is all I paid in total.

I don’t know how temporary it will be; I’ve been using crypto to transfer money internationally since 2013 when BTC was $800 and it’s always been the cheapest method (although I sometimes had to write bots and wait a few days to get a good deal). I imagine the spreads will continue to trend towards zero so I’ll be paying 0-1.5% total instead of earning 2% which is still much better than banks for three-figure to low four-figure amounts.
You making a good job not saying "emacs" =)
I think it's even more harmful: "there's the comment that code does X, so the code does X" (or in this case, an implicit hint that the code fixes non-X) - in other words, wishful thinking.
This might be a case where public infrastructure makes more sense than private infrastructure; if a large industrial country like China standardizes on a design and builds dozens to hundreds of identical plants, they would enjoy vast economies of scale and probably regain their investment in GDP growth purely from the economic activities made possible through fusion.
I'd like to see the correlation with SF residential rents over the time period.
So do you think Aalborg students are better than DTU's?
I disagree with this article for the most part, it doesn’t make sense to say that just because some group projects are not optimal implies all project based learning is bad. I think doing projects individually is hugely important both from learning theory and also learning software design. In college we had group projects and individual projects going on simultaneously, one of which was building google maps for a US state given only some location data. This project simultaneously taught me about various data structures and algos (Kd-tree, graph search, autocorrect) and we later extended it to use networking in a client server architecture. I think it’s invaluable to have students do many parts of a project individually and then come together to build larger projects and this addresses the concerns of the author.
There is a major difference between the two projects: we can tell whether a manned mission to the moon has succeeded or failed. There is no way to tell whether the effort you put into making a clock last for 10,000 years had any value; you cannot observe the results unless the clock fails incredibly quickly.
Let's be clear here: An academic is writing about project based learning. Of course concepts are important. But then according to Edison Genius and many would argue Innovation is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.

Academic success or conceptual understanding alone are not good indicators of professional success. Perseverance and collaborations are at least as important as is the ability to sell. Also let's not forget: The market is usually buying experience and not conceptual knowledge with unproven track record for application.

Projects may not be the best way to learn in depth about an isolated aspect if the project is end to end. But that is setting up a straw-man to be torched. A proper way to learn about networking e.g. would be measuring TCP performance and experimenting with the ramp-up. Or writing a protocol decoder for something non-trivial.
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Isn't "useless clock guy" also doing space himself, revolutionizing publishing, building the world's best in-home voice AI thing, a reasonably-sized online retailer and marketplace, a healthcare back-end, the world's biggest cloud computing service, and a few other things?
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If you do nothing, than you would do nothing significant with 100% probability. If you do anything, than probability of doing nothing significant would be lower.

There are one more point. This clock is a signal to a future, and this clock will have some meaning for our ancestors. We do not know what meaning it will be exactly, but we can be sure, that there will be some.

It is like the Stonehange. We don't know why ancient people bothered to build Stonehange, but we inspired to think about it.
how many among these 250,000 leafs sale are for new model, for proper comparison ? This seems like total sale of all Leafs ever sold.
Maybe I missed it in the article but how many does Tesla need to make per day to meet it's goals?

They are making 1,000 per week now (52k in a year at current rate) and have 500k reservations in line with $1,000 deposits?

So they need an order of magnitude increase in rate to fulfill the reservations in a year?

I didn't know much about car numbers and it seems about 387k Toyota Camrys were sold in 2017 for reference.
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Debian has a total different philosphy on stableness.
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So, a cryptocoin for folding@home or GIMPS?
> Computer programming is applied analytic philosophy

A program may direct its attention to any sort of digitally represented piece of information–as computer science progresses the things that can be represented expand over time. What in the main analytic philosophers care about are philosophical concepts which are a subset of all knowledge. Therefore by this reckoning computer programming is not applied analytic philosophy.

You are also suggesting that there is some sort of pure/applied distinction within analytic philosophy. That's unorthodox. If there were such a distinction though you're suggesting that software engineering might be the way we take philosophical formalisms and apply them to the world. I think philosophers would argue that philosophy already does that.
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That's funny. I came to the same conclusion as this article after reading The Art of Learning, by Josh Waitzkin, which the writer also mentions.

Project based learning is inefficient because you repeat things you know lots of times. The repetitions are spread out too far to be burned into memory.

I find that even after 6 years of experience, I still have to Google to convert an int array to string array. I've done dozens of projects, but this thing was never optimized for. It works fine to complete a project, but becomes a drag when trying to implement more complex code.

The ideal would be to internalize as a kind of instinct. When something is instinct, the subconscious can calculate it and work out solutions.

I think the best kind of learning would be to a kind of coding dojo, where they repeat similar routines until it becomes a part of their instincts.
I don't think it's a secret that Shuttleworth is looking for outside investment, or at least to put the company on a more stable financial footing. That's why Unity was dropped.

As to you other point, their goal was to make a Linux distro that was easy to install, setup and use for the ordinary person (or ordinary geek at least). They might have lost their way a bit in recent years but they were initially remarkably successful. Sure others had tried to do the same before them but for its time Ubuntu was by far the best of them.

That's more arguable nowadays but that doesn't undermine what they achieved.
They need to hit their immediate goal of 2,500/week by end of Q1 - see the last chart on that page. They didn't move this goal in the Q4 earnings call, which was surprising - but if this tracker is accurate the production curve seems to be on track.

They are also planning to bring in a fully automated assembly line being shipped from Europe, in March. Assuming nothing goes wrong there it is supposed to accelerate production even more.
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I think this comment touches on the idea that, given a few hundred students enrolled in a course, there will be some subsets of students who get more out of one type of teaching/learning methodology vs some others.

Therefore, at random places at random times there will be courses that emphasise some methodology/ies where a majority of the students do well, or not, given some kind of bell curve distribution of student-methodology success.

The outcome of which is that, occasionally, someone can write a convincing argument for or against some particular methodology.

Teaching and learning, at scale, is difficult; outcomes are ill defined and hard to measure; correlation, causation, competing priorities and influences.
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Most limitations are of the form "this was not designed to handle this scenario"; defining a limitation to somehow exclude such is non-sensical.
You can't run air conditioners directly off solar. PV panels natively produce DC. There are units with microinverters built into the back of the panel that produce AC. Even in a sunny climate clouds will pass in front of the sun. Unless you have a massively oversized PV array, you can't just run the DC array's output into a bank of sinewave inverters and then straight into the input of multiple 2 to 5kW load air conditioners.

I'm assuming here that a typical AC unit will look something like a 12000, 18000 or 24000 BTU/H LG, Daikin or Samsung split type, ductless, cooling-only unit.

The cumulative kWh/day and kWh/month produced by your PV is what you should care about. As compared to what your load will consume in the same time period.

For off grid, which now economically makes sense in much of Hawaii because fossil-fuel powered grid power can costs $0.32 to $0.50/kWh.

You need a battery buffer so that your load (the air conditioners) doesn't brown out and fail when the a few clouds pass in front of your PV panels. At a given time when it is a little bit cloudy out you might have 12kW of load but even a very big PV array might only be producing 4kW.

The load is constantly running off the battery and inverter system, while the PV panels and charge controller are constantly doing their best to keep the battery full.
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Pity California did not follow Oregon ...
when the governor wanted to claim the shore for the public, he found his only powers of property sequestration were for building roads, so he made the whole coast a highway:

In 1911, governor Oswald West was elected on the promise to reclaim Oregon's beaches as public land. Though the legislature favored the privatization of these lands, West was able to make an argument for public ownership based on the need for transportation, and in 1913, the Oregon legislature declared the entire length of the ocean shore from the Columbia to California as a state highway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Coast#1860%E2%80%93pres...
Hm, seems to just be part 1 so far...

Edit: This seems to be an earlier, less detailed post on the same subject, but which does mention one or two things this post doesn't: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/undocumented-8086-opcodes/
That's exciting even if we are still far from a real product. There is a place for a new way of manipulating light and giving that to artists. For me, it can le be linked to the demo that Intel is going with drones and light, but on another scale...
I can tell you it is the same for a software engineer in Copenhagen. Salaries peeked in 2000 and have yet to catch up in real terms.