Yes, replace Calculus with Probability and Statistics. Insurance, investments, medical decisions, gambling, etc., are part of everyone's life. I don't understand why we make all Freshman take Calculus instead.
- Jose M Vidal
Second, and this is where the SELinux stuff comes in, make sure the "label" applied to your files permits Apache to access them (you can read up more about SELinux elsewhere): chcon -t httpd_sys_content_t -R $HOME/workspace
- Jose M Vidal
If Harvard offered a PhD in deceit, this would be it. Award-winning magician Brian Brushwood takes viewers on an inside tour of bar tricks, street cons, and scams. If you watch carefully, you'll never have to pay for a drink again!
- Jose M Vidal
Bill Joy, who put TCP/IP into BSD, created vi, NFS, csh and founded Sun is now enjoying his new project. The 400 kWh hybrid superyacht Ethereal. - http://origin.reddit.com/r...
"There is nothing inherently "female" about the app, and yet 90% of users are female." Targeting the female iPhone audience. - http://www.reddit.com/r...
Sorry guys, "Family Photo" is an ad campaign for Mini Cooper. [Series of pics.] (resubmitted due to accidental deletion of original) - http://www.reddit.com/r...
BBN gets $30Mil to parse English into semantic markup so we can search it. Meanwhile, this is the same problem faced by Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. Who will actually develop something that works?
- Jose M Vidal
The study found that students who took all or part of their instruction online performed better, on average, than those taking the same course through face-to-face instruction. Further, those who took "blended" courses -- those that combine elements of online learning and face-to-face instruction -- appeared to do best of all.
- Jose M Vidal
EconTalk: Russ Roberts – Munger on Franchising, Vertical Integration, and the Auto Industry - http://www.last.fm/music...
I can now use google spreadsheets to find the winner in combinatorial auctions, theoretically.
- Jose M Vidal
We had a great talk by Jonathan on the yahoo services: Boss and yql, among others. YQL looks like a great tool for teaching students some JavaScript using real data.
The Yahoo! Query Language is an expressive SQL-like language that lets you query, filter, and join data across Web services. With YQL, apps run faster with fewer lines of code and a smaller network footprint.
- Jose M Vidal