I just want to say in general that what we learn on a Wednesday should be on the quiz of the next week as new material just doesn’t sink in right away and we don’t discuss HW questions before the quiz.
have you considered ditching the blog and just using the static content pages? you could just have a page for “code i always use” and people could see which pages have been updated recently.
Paul – I agree that simpler is better, so I thought about this quite a bit. In the end, I felt it was important for students to learn to apply the Chain Rule by pure reflex for those special cases that come up repeatedly – after all, developing the right pavlovian reflexes is also part of learning mathematics. But there are no absolutes in pedagogy, and I certainly acknowledge your point (BTW, for the 2nd Edition currently in progress, I did reduce this slightly).
I saw your presentation on fantasy basketball at the MIT Conference a couple weekends ago. I was wondering if you have a research paper for that presentation, and if so, where I could possibly get a hold of it. If it hasn’t been written up as a formal paper, is there a chance I could get a copy of the presentation that was delivered? I would really appreciate anything you could share with me.
#1 by Katy at June 29th, 2009
I’m still 90% sure that your Raffsanity is not solvable.
#2 by Anoop at July 2nd, 2009
I just want to say in general that what we learn on a Wednesday should be on the quiz of the next week as new material just doesn’t sink in right away and we don’t discuss HW questions before the quiz.
Just a thought : )
#3 by Duke at July 5th, 2009
t-shirt idea: ι <3 µ
#4 by Tom at July 17th, 2009
Welcome to the neighborhood. Looking forward to your new posts.
Hope the class is going well,
Tom :wave:
P.S. I like your wp-theme choice. Very slick!
#5 by Sam at August 25th, 2009
A different kind of crime. A different kind of punishment.
None.
It happens a lot these days! Good you are watching out.
#6 by Sam at September 10th, 2009
Can you give an example of it in action?
#7 by Sam at September 10th, 2009
Also, is there some intentional irony in the fact that your motto is the same as Fujitsu’s?
#8 by samuel Coskey at September 16th, 2009
dude, i check your web site more than you do.
have you considered ditching the blog and just using the static content pages? you could just have a page for “code i always use” and people could see which pages have been updated recently.
#9 by ownbig.ru at September 30th, 2009
karate means empty hand which means to use karate only in self defence.
#10 by samuel Coskey at October 4th, 2009
I dare you to say that to my face.
#11 by Sam at December 26th, 2009
// CODE THAT *I* ALWAYS USE
function add_class_to_item ( class_name, item ) {
var patt = new RegExp( “\\b” + class_name + “\\b” );
if ( ! item.className.match( patt ) ) {
item.className += item.className? ” “+class_name : class_name;
}
}
function remove_class_from_item ( class_name, item ) {
var patt = new RegExp( “\\b” + class_name + “\\b”, ‘g’ );
item.className = item.className.replace( patt, “” )
.replace( /(^\s+)|(\s+$)/g, “” )
.replace( /\s\s+/g, ” ” );
}
#12 by Sam at February 17th, 2010
Well Pete and Tiffany won’t notice the difference!
I was kind of imagining Riff and Tiff or something like that, but I think you made better choices. Congrats again!
#13 by Jon Rogawski at March 16th, 2010
Paul – I agree that simpler is better, so I thought about this quite a bit. In the end, I felt it was important for students to learn to apply the Chain Rule by pure reflex for those special cases that come up repeatedly – after all, developing the right pavlovian reflexes is also part of learning mathematics. But there are no absolutes in pedagogy, and I certainly acknowledge your point (BTW, for the 2nd Edition currently in progress, I did reduce this slightly).
#14 by Alok at March 17th, 2010
Hi Paul,
I saw your presentation on fantasy basketball at the MIT Conference a couple weekends ago. I was wondering if you have a research paper for that presentation, and if so, where I could possibly get a hold of it. If it hasn’t been written up as a formal paper, is there a chance I could get a copy of the presentation that was delivered? I would really appreciate anything you could share with me.
Thanks,
Alok