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I would love to see things flipped around: Teach calculus as code, and work in the concepts after. This looks like a conventional approach with code tacked on after. What I see here: concept -> math notation -> code. I'd go: code -> concept -> math notation.

There are nice APL- and J-based math books with this approach. APL's inventor's main goal was improving mathematics instruction.

Why would that be better?

I started taking 5g for cognition. Never any clear signal for that, but it does seem to help a bit with my (more than occasional) sleep deprivation. Mostly with fighting off headaches.


My first impression was that it was something about sales.


I want this but for blue vs. purple.


Twice the voltage == half the amperage for the same wattage. Are UK kettles higher wattage?


US circuits are about 15 amps; UK ones similar - but twice the volts.

So a US kettle is about 1500 watts, a UK one 3000.

You can get commercial water boilers in the US if you need.


or just use an insta-hot tap which is infinitely faster than an electric kettle. or a plain old kettle on an induction cooktop which will also be faster than a single purpose electric kettle.


Actually yes, around double the wattage. It's one of the things English people notice when they move to the US (true!).


3000 glorious watts


Great project. This begs for real-world feedback though. A go kart would be fantastic.


My son has Down Syndrome and is non-verbal. He's clever though and has found ways to wander off from his school and caregivers. As a parent this is terrifying. Eventually we tried AirTags on his shoes. It's an imperfect technology but it works.


Now do Google. A few that immediately come to mind:

* Accounts: Can't use a GSuite address for Youtube, Nest, or any other Alphabet offering. Never explained. 15 years of this.

* Sheets: Hide the sum option in the menu bar. After digging, you find the Summa character and click on it. Oh, it's a menu of functions, not sum.

* Search.


Particularly search on Google drive / gsuite docs. For a search company, it’s just embarrassing.


That you cant jump to the beginning or end of search results in gmail. You can only click page by page and only know the end is near when you know when the results get close to your account creation date. The only work around is to guess ahead with editing the results page number in the URL string. It's been this stupid annoying way since day 1 of gmail.

Also now seeing the stupidest copying of liquid glass in google's web interfaces. Like adding transperancy to some of their pop up info boxes just so ugly and pointless.


Same on Mac FF


This is actually a plot line in Landman, where the cartel occasionally steals the oil company's jet and then returns it.


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