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The NYT article on the same topic has nice graphs that show the change in grade distribution since the 1940's and the shift in the bell curve:

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/14/the-history-of-...

And, Walter Russel Mead of The American Interest offers a nice summary:
"43 percent of all grades given in American colleges are A's. Social science grades are higher than grades in science and math. Humanities grades are higher still. Grades in private colleges are higher than grades at public universities. Northern schools give A's more freely than southern ones, and prestigious colleges have flabbier standards than their less fashionable rivals."
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I really hope they don't break the UX on low-resolution screens. Google Images is not very usable unless you have a > 500px height window.

A SEO company's claims to "first page on Google" won't look so impressive now.
Done... now it always brings the correct/valid link. (I dont know if it updates automatically, so make sure you have installed the version 1.1 and not the 1.0)
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The extention now also fix the problem with "Unknown or Expired Link".
And you know they haven't already done this because...?
There's nothing rent-seeking about it; anyone can start a ratings agency. All Moody's et al have is what we would now call "mindshare" . It's no more rent seeking than say the Met Office having a monopoly on weather forecasting...
No, it's good science. If a theory is supported by both a piece of evidence and its contrary, and it can predict one thing and its contrary, then the theory doesn't explain anything, nor is it falsifiable. Geez, I wish they'd teach kids science in schools today.
The thing that revolutionized my learning was wanting to create computer games. Not only does that motivate me to learn math, but it prompts me to start developing my own theories of reality to test within games.
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Because they announced a 1mo (er, 4 day actually! I forgot it was July) period until the service shuts down and all data is deleted, as per the blog post which is the link in this article.
The date on this post is July 15th, and the email says they're shutting down on the 19th. Giving customers 4 days notice is less than ideal.
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"Critics argue that Khan’s videos and software encourage uncreative, repetitive drilling—and leave kids staring at screens instead of interacting with real live teachers."

I don't know where these critics have been, but that description sums up most of my math instruction in school.
Thanks. I'm really glad to hear you like the blog. So far, it hasn't seen much traffic/gotten much feedback so it's very nice to hear that. (If you have any ideas on how to promote the blog, drop me a line.)
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If they allowed private repos under your google data quota it would be a github killer because UI doesn't matter then and github is overpriced for that unless you throw all your code in one repo.
This comment is a classic example of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law
Absolutely not. The whole nature of twitter is about its spontaneity and real-time nature. Can you imagine if someone had to go through the extra thought step of "which group should I send this to?" every time they sent out a tweet? It would ruin the service.

Also, a primary difference between Facebook (now Google+) and Twitter is that Twitter was assumed to be public by default. It is a public form of communication, and the Google+ style of sorting your messages into specific buckets of people doesn't fit it at all.
Right. Why would you focus on the fact that it's online? That's almost an irrelevant detail to "What do you do?"

You run a marketing company. Just say that.
There's also the separate parallel intelligence warrant system (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellige...

About as close to the Star Chamber as exists in the US judicial system. Basically the rules of FISA warrant include "you cannot talk about FISA warrant."

If a FISA warrant were served, it would kind of excuse DigitalOne's behavior in the whole thing to some extent.
The problem is that OpenID doesn't specify that part of it. I could have one that needs a key-fob token to authenticate there.
Professional mathematicians peak in their 20s, just after they stop solving "shallow" questions, and start poring over "deep" ones. Pianists peak just before their fingers are unable to physically hit the keys at the rate they used to. But then, unlike pianists, professional mathematicians have something of a conceit that playing the same scale a second time is a trivial waste of time.

Of course, intelligent people are drawn to "deep" problems. Being willing and able to solve "deep" problems is practically the definition of academic intelligence. Actually, most people like "deep" problems more than shallow ones, but only intelligent people have the mastery of the basic techniques required to takle the deeper problems.

I'll admit this is all very much [citation needed] stuff, though. I'm not certain.
> downgrades of those led to alternative structures

Proliferation of "credit enhancements" certainly did spark the AAA bubble, but I'm quite certain that participating financial institutions became much more profitable under this new regulatory regime.

Specifically, the deregulation of OTC derivatives[1] in 2000, which allowed issuers to purchase insurance against loss, caused massive growth in AAA ratings for ABS (dark purple section). In fact, there is an excellent Frontline piece on the story[2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_Futures_Modernization...

[2] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warning/
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Maybe they didn't care whether it went to the court or not? Maybe the aim was to scare the bejesus out of the victims, and they achieved that goal?

Anyone else remember the Steve Jackson Games episode? http://www.sjgames.com/SS/
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Hello, i am the author. Just to tell that i just added a new functionality to "Chrombinator"; now you will never get the "Unknown or Expired Link" again.

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Asimov wrote a short story ("The Dead Past" I think it was) that extrapolated this idea into the near-future, where scientific advancement would be so expensive and require such narrow specialization that it could only be done by governments.
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Wow, does Santa Cruz really have that bad a rap?

It likely wasn't, by the way- the school of engineering at Santa Cruz wasn't founded until 1997.
I'm a little confused because none of their website, twitter, or blog says anything about this.
Virtually every site does this already, this just makes it more constant, secure, and convenient.
Although your assertion is mathematically sound, do account for the fact that Da Vinci devoted his entire life to learning. And interdisciplinary learning at that!

While I won't argue that the sheer volume of knowledge swirling today is exponentially greater than 500 years ago, its also very true that the type of education Da Vinci received, mentor-disciple, is almost non-existant today. The kind of personality he had, free-flowing (procrastinating and whimsical) and curious, is not suited to the current society's reward structure; in fact, its discourage by all but the very best of the schools.

Sure, Da Vinci didn't have to learn calculus, but just how do you explain the amount of detail his work shows? He conceptualized SCUBA generations ago. In his design for underwater breathing apparatus, Da Vinci, was very particular about the details. Details that people today use computer simulations to figure out, when not the experience itself.

And finally, Leonardo may have had less to learn because everything was as intuitive as the physical world, but the situation today is not so different. We are now closer to first principles than ever. Tomorrow's Da Vinci won't solve puzzles, he will build them.
Thats true. The article actually covers both.

Under "How do I personalise my message?", theres an example of customising your message on the fly in the interview.

In regards to actually applying for the job, there are 5 examples of customising your message to apply for the job.

The way I define the shotgun method, and why it's a flawed method, is that it's a simple process of copying and pasting your resume and cover letter with only the briefest of changes in the company name and the hiring manager's name (and sometimes people even forget to change these) - without any understanding or interest in the business itself, and the problems that it's trying to solve, both in general and with hiring you.
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see this
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I had to massage a whole bunch of numbers from bls.gov to get this histogram (huge list of annual income per county per occupation group), it's not exactly the kind of data they like to publish :)

Of course this is 2008, mostly before the recession. Would be interesting to see if they got new data and how it changed.

And this is for all occupation groups, computer programmers are of course on the higher end of this graph.

And yeah, depending on where you are in the US, things you'd expect to be cheap in the supermarkets here generally tend to be a bit more expensive. Also because they always list the prices excluding VAT [in most states]. If they list the prices correctly, or at all. And actually charge you the same amount at the checkout. Outside of supermarkets, prices seem reasonable, until you find you need to pay 15-20% in tips because waiting staff doesn't get minimum wage [in most states] and it's up to the customers to make sure they don't starve. So yeah, not very developed after all :-) [also: healthcare. unless you're rich you get none. half the people on the street walk around with visible ailments of some kind. but I'm getting OT]

A bottle of coke, however, is much, much cheaper than over here. Also, bigger.

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You would never expect to find Mercedes ads on BMW's website. Also everybody knows that u don't need to look for Windows advertisments on apple.com. So I think it is also quite normal, that Facebook doesn't want to advertise G+ on their website.
I am not sure if anyone here looked into Zoho Mail. With Multi level Folders, Flags and labels , combined with auto-filters, it is a boon to those who want their emails in an organized manner. www.zoho.com/mail
This is a good trend. The grade is binary (A or not A). It's not possible to evaluate a class of 100 students with 90% of whom you've never spoken.
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by tying all your logins to email, you're left with only one account that you can focus on keeping secure and un-hacked (or a few, as BrowserID allows for multiple emails). The BrowserID is also in talks about support one-off identity generation via the browser, bypassing email on sites which you don't want to identify with.

BrowserID supports password reset requests, which can be built into the browser

email is the single most user-recognized signifier of identity we have on the internet today. tying identity to anything other than email just seems silly
Yup. Faculty don't like you pointing this out and actually complain loudly to the Provost level administration at a University when it is done so. Here's what happened to me a few years ago:

I created a web app at the request of one of the schools & deans at the University I work for. (I do stats/database reporting full time.) It was wildly popular with students for enrollment purposes. After a few days it got shut down by a direct Provost order. The faculty did not like it being so easy to compare their grades with their colleagues on "identical classes" (large foundational courses math and science) and worried that it would damage departmental and eventually school reputation.

Personally I thought it was bullshit to take down (not only because I worked so hard on it and it was fuckin cool.) The data is released to companies (by way of an Open Records Request) that make money by selling "pick the best professor for this class" rankings to naive students.

Our research department devoted resources to making the application because we thought making the data easy to use and public would in fact CORRECT for grade inflation over time. Basically, I feel that the old way has to die off before any changes will be made and there's some pretty big changes looming for higher ed in the future.
I assume you're talking about Andrew Warner, which is an assumed name (I think the original was super obviously Russian Jewish or something); I remember that he went into this on Mixergy with someone else who had also changed his name.
i thought the video demo was pretty clear for the consumer perspective-- to a user, they click sign in, tell a site what email they want to identify with to that site, don't have to make a specific login to that site, and the browser handles everything.
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It is interesting how they provided the identical functionality as new Facebook Groups - they ripped-off Facebook's interface, then Facebook ripped-off their feature. It seems they were also inspired by Paul Adams' circles. I simply don't like that approach as anybody from the group can invite new people and anybody can add me to a group without my approval. Google circles will win.
So, does anyone know what happened?
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I am a Python programmer who leans towards (read: only uses) Django.

I have noticed that there is a dearth of material online to help one-man-shows (I work for a small non-profit in India) like myself get up to speed with the entire design process w/ FOSS tools only (GIMP, Inkscape). The back-end is not really a problem, more the front-end side of things.

Maybe my Googling skills are just bad :)

Your thoughts are appreciated.
facebook, i agree, makes sense for an assertion of your public, real-name identity. there will always be sites and situations where i do not want my real name associated with what i do there.

google auth is just one provider of the same identity as browserID-- an email login. so, imo, browserID is a strict improvement, in that it is more seamless than google auth in regular usage (leveraging the browser as the user agent), and works with more providers.
it's a compromise move-- the reason most sites today rely on email, fb, or twitter is that it's a way to 1) contact the user, and 2) tell/help the user to tell his/her friends about something.

the team is in talks now about cooperation with another mozilla labs project centered around 1-off email generation for quick and easy anonymity with sites
Having endured the public education system as a child, I'm optimistic that there is a lot of room for improvement where child development is concerned. That could be a good path to younger, more competent scientists and maybe lots of other cool stuff.
Those comparisons aren't quite the same. BMW and Apple don't sell generic ad space on their sites.
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I always felt it was a good idea to make sure my teacher knew my name after the first couple sessions. Get to know your teachers everyone, they are cool and they want to see you succeed.
Amen. My math instructors were great---I can't say the same for the methods they had to use.
I felt like every subject I took in school was like this. We started at the beginning of time, then worked through all the important people and discoveries, etc. But, never, did we reach the state-of-the-art. That was very discouraging.

When learning On my own, I simply start with today, the fill in history as necessary. I don't know FORTRAN or COBOL, for example. There are other examples where this is costing me, but I can't give those examples.
I've heard from anthropologists that most hunter-gatherers spend only about two hours per day on getting food, and spend the rest dancing, telling stories and having sex.

I don't know many web designers who achieve that productivity ratio. Then again, hunter-gatherers had less competition, or at least could go and bash in the skulls of competitors.
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If you give me a loan, then as it expires I take out a new loan to pay you back, would you say that you've made money from the arrangement? I would say that you haven't, as if I default the second loan you still take a net loss across all our transactions. However in the case of TARP, many TARP loans were rolled over into non-TARP loans, without the principal being returned at all.

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It is already on Facebook. They are called Friend Lists. You and filter your feed and narrow publishing using them. Just like circles.
I never really used the service, so it's not a big deal for me, but the email subject could also have been a bit more descriptive than "Fridge Updates and Save your Data!".

I saw it about 30min ago and glossed over it since I interpreted that as "Fridge updates w/ new features, one of which is called 'Save Your Data!'".
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And as a little bonus:

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> By pretty much any reasonable metric

Name one.
Indeed. But on the other hand I don't think Google would disallow or block ads for Facebook. Their strategies differ. Google thrives with an open web, Facebook is a walled garden. But yeah, no scandal here.
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No, but even sites that do sell generic ad space have ads they don't want shown (Porn, competitors, things that would reduce the brand name).
There is support for this in skills like Martial arts, Music and many art forms. Repetition has been shown to create abstractions inside the brain that eventually help understand the more "deeper" problems better -- though there is no significant evidence. The fact that many learning forms (mostly eastern) have used it for such a long time suggests that we cannot completely dismiss it outright.
Exactly the approach I'm pitching to CMSs in here: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/decoupling_content_management/
If you're just storing non-personal statistics on grades for courses of professors, how can they actually shut you down? I know there are lots of "Professor Review" sites out there, so is it just the grades aspect? I don't remember signing anything at my college that says I can't give out grade info, but I may be mistaken.
Quite. Case in point - BackType announced they were terminating their API (after being acquired by Twitter) and gave less than 7 days notice.
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> The difference is that the British, instead of killing the "lower races", sought to reform them with what history indicates was a genuine sense of altruism among British Empire-builders.

The Empire understood that collaborative local elites were beneficial for the plundering of the colonies, and where necessary, it invested in them. That's all.