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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Happy Death Day, Kurt Cobain! |
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Posted: 17 Apr 2009, 4:34 pm
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Replies: 22
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| [quote="KenM"]"Hi, I'm Kurt Cobain. I'm a very successfull musician and have lots of fans and tons of money. Thats a great reason for me to take a shotgun and blow my head off." Definitely talented, but suicide is an as*hole move especially when you leave a daughter behind. There's a movie... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: I just got a call from my son's special ed resource teacher |
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Posted: 17 Apr 2009, 4:24 pm
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Replies: 31
Views: 5,100
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| No, an education system out of control where there are too many special ed students getting meaningless and worthless art, language and history degrees are the real problems. Haha, art history is for future Starbucks employees, I'll give you that. A language degree is not necessary useless, though,... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: I just got a call from my son's special ed resource teacher |
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Posted: 17 Apr 2009, 4:19 pm
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Replies: 31
Views: 5,100
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| I'm pretty sure that math is hard for everyone, in fact I think that the people who seem to have unnatural mathematical talent for the most part have just put that much more work into understanding it. The quality of the teaching makes a dramatic difference, the teacher may not be explaining things ... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: One course at a time would be so much better |
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Posted: 07 Oct 2008, 6:53 pm
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Replies: 22
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| Does anyone else here think that college would be dramatically easier if we only had to take one course at a time? I have a lot of trouble remembering things to begin with, but I'm not stupid- my normal style of learning is to saturate myself in something 14 hours a day until I understand it on a de... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Percent Travel |
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Posted: 25 Aug 2008, 2:27 am
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Replies: 3
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| Have you ever been asked this question in a job interview: "What percentage are you willing to travel?" This question confuses me a lot, because it's asking for a specific numeric answer to a vague question. "Travel" is not a percentage, it's an activity. If they asked, "in what percentage of work d... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: coming to terms with being alone |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2008, 9:27 pm
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Replies: 40
Views: 7,625
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| Don't lose hope too soon. All you need is practice. From what I've seen, women- actually people in general think about others in terms of the social networks they associate with rather than specifically what they do/who they are. So if you just keep to yourself or aren't anyone who is perceived as i... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is this a common, normal symptom of AS and Autism? |
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Posted: 19 Jul 2008, 2:22 am
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Replies: 9
Views: 2,024
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| I can see things off to the side, but I don't recognize them. I can't read words that are more than maybe 2 or 3 degrees off center (a wild guess). I don't recognize faces in my peripheral vision either - somebody standing 45 degrees off to my side is just a figure. On a few occasions I've walked ri... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Boundaries in the mind |
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Posted: 04 Jun 2008, 8:32 am
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Replies: 20
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| The questions are way too vague to answer. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Underlying Cause of Asperger's Syndrome: Existential Dread? |
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Posted: 05 Apr 2008, 7:55 pm
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Replies: 60
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| Yeah, I think I was about 13 or 14 when I realized one day that ultimately any reason or rationale for any kind of behavior is arbitrary, and furthermore that someday, the last human being will die. On a short timescale, of course, I don't see any inevitable threat to mankind, or myself personally- ... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Want to get a degree but can't get into school |
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Posted: 29 Feb 2008, 1:21 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,282
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| Can anybody give me sound advice on this? I am in a depressing situation with regards to education. I want to work in a field dealing with artificial intelligence and robotics and other interesting topics but because I look really bad on paper. I can't get back into college. The last semester I was ... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: It's for school. It's killing me. |
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Posted: 24 Feb 2008, 10:59 pm
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,166
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ah. . and if that is the worst torture you will have to endure in this world, you are doing great!
Merle
It's probably not..
For what it's worth I hope you feel better soon. |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: how to start programming in practice? |
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Posted: 24 Feb 2008, 1:18 pm
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Replies: 8
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| It depends on what the program needs to do. The best approach is to build it in pieces- figure out what the large chunks are, write a separate class for each chunk and as you go, test each piece so when its all put together everything works. Start with the smallest piece that functions on its own an... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Does anyone else think in sounds? |
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Posted: 22 Feb 2008, 6:33 pm
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Replies: 23
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| That is way cool. I'd like to hear what it sounds like. Have you ever tried making some kind of approximation in midi with a sequencer or something? |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: 'Mosquito devices may be banned' |
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Posted: 12 Feb 2008, 12:30 pm
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Replies: 40
Views: 4,770
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| I've never run across one of these, but I'm 28 and I can hear dog whistles, so probably there are a significant number of adults who would find this type of noise irritating. Plus its just an irresponsible tactic. If I ran across one of these as a teenager I would have felt pretty insulted. |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Neural Nets |
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Posted: 30 Aug 2007, 12:54 pm
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Replies: 32
Views: 3,405
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| I don't professes to be the greatest expert on AI (can you tell?). However AI is in it infancy so any so called 'experts' need to be humbled, I think just like anyone. I do know about programming and embedded/mechatronic systems. It seems to me in your concept just going by the interfaces seems way... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Neural Nets |
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Posted: 30 Aug 2007, 9:57 am
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Replies: 32
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| Where do you work at? May be you already have studied a lot of literature but I would like to recommend two books to you: "Machine Learning" by Tom Mitchell "Artificial Intelligence - A modern approach" by Russel and Norvig The second one is a good reference, it quite up-to-date and complete. Thank... |
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