UPDATE: Thank you for this advice. My girlfriend was able to recover her account by telling Oculus support that she wanted to buy a product, but wouldn’t commit to it unless she knew her account would be usable.
Around that age, I read "The Heart of Mathematics", by Edward Burger and Michael Starbird. It's a really fun book which introduces a wide variety of math concepts while being amusing to read.
I've been playing the piano since I was 4. Learn from my mistake: don't "cheat" by skimping on scales and other technical skills! I know it's not as fun as playing actual music, but as with anything, there is no royal road to piano proficiency. Now that I'm at a more advanced level, I really regret that I didn't put better effort into my scales when I was younger.
That is exactly correct, for wind instruments at least: and in fact, some wind instruments have more than 10 holes or keys. But many combinations produce identical sounds, limiting the range of the instrument. The limiting factor on a wind instrument is the fact that it can only play a single note, (yes, with resonant frequencies, of course) and the length of the instrument, which determines the lowest note it can play.
Not misleading and fairly standard practice. There is no value starting at 0 when the lowest device tested is 55, all you'd do is shift everything to the right or make it smaller and harder to see the distribution (which is the whole point showing the distribution from 55 to 123).
As long as the graph goes up in consistent increments (in this case 10) and shows that all these devices could move to the left (i.e. get quicker than 55) I'd say the graph has done its job.
Imagine if the x axis started at 50. The difference between the iPhone 5s and the next one would look massive -- much more than the 2-2.5x it is. That a lot of people do it ("standard practice") does not mean its not slightly misleading.
No, it's misleading and terrible practice that is only used to introduce bias. It is absolutely unacceptable to hide origin point on histograms because it obscures the relative comparison between values.
I just found it ironic -- and possibly suspect? -- that 1 week after this XKCD What If? article (http://what-if.xkcd.com/40/), something like this happened. Could the XKCD article possibly have inspired the method of execution?
No, i think that a) this was planned weeks or months ahead and b) the idea that explosive force is increased by putting your chemicals inside a high-pressure container is explosives 101, so to speak.
I'd love to take risks and have fun, but when you're in college, looking for good, steady, well-paid, full-time summer employment, it's just not very appealing to take risks with your finances. I'm there right now (although an ECE major, not CS) and I wouldn't trade anything for the paid co-op placement I have right now.
I wouldn't ask those questions point-blank, but if you are reasonably personable and chatty, it's usually pretty easy to lead the conversation in that direction.
