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Comment Re:Celsius: It's for telling temperature (Score 0) 1233

by harblzarbl on Tuesday September 29, 2009 @06:47PM (#29586419) Attached to: At What Temperature (F) Do You Prefer Your Nerd Cave?

1 cubic meter is not 1 liter. It's 1000 litres! this is because 1 millilitre is defined as a cubic centimeter of water at standard temperature/pressure. 100 centimeters cubed = 1 million cubic centimeters

A Mathematician's Lament — an Indictment of US Math Education 677

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday June 19, 2009 @02:05PM from the beating-the-joy-out-of-education dept.

Scott Aaronson recently had "A Mathematician's Lament" [PDF], Paul Lockhardt's indictment of K-12 math education in the US, pointed out to him and takes some time to examine the finer points. "Lockhardt says pretty much everything I've wanted to say about this subject since the age of twelve, and does so with the thunderous rage of an Old Testament prophet. If you like math, and more so if you think you don't like math, I implore you to read his essay with every atom of my being. Which is not to say I don't have a few quibbles [...] In the end, Lockhardt's lament is subversive, angry, and radical ... but if you know anything about math and anything about K-12 'education' (at least in the United States), I defy you to read and find a single sentence that isn't permeated, suffused, soaked, and encrusted with truth."

Comment What qualifies as an application? (Score 0, Redundant) 695

by harblzarbl on Tuesday April 21, 2009 @11:02AM (#27660665) Attached to: Windows 7 Starter Edition — 3 Apps Only

Does explorer.exe count? and if not, then what about, say, msword.exe? Are you really limited to 3 Apps, or is it 3 non-microsoft apps? If it survives, this can only get uglier.

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