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Methodology: How We Calculated The Tax Rates For Our Medicare For All Examples | Common... - 0 views

www.wbur.org/...medicare-for-all-analysis methodology
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  • pjt111 taylor on 17 Oct 19
     
    (What math is needed to analyze these healthcare plans?)
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BioQUEST Notes 2.1: Introduction to BioQUEST for Nautilus - 0 views

www.bioquest.org/note21.html 3Ps science education
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  • Textbooks are dry and static, labs are cookbook, lectures push information to students who have become junkies for mythical "scientific facts."
  • failure of current science instruction to provide students with important integrative thinking skills
  • confirmatory cross, a definitive cross, and a disconfirmatory cross
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  • problem-solving was a vehicle for studying the deep content issues in their discipline
  • a problem's solution is much less difficult if it has been well posed.
  • problem-posing and problem-solving activities are inseparable
  • problem-solving in science education "realistic" when it captures the open-ended essence of science as it is practiced: problems must be both posed and solved by the problem-solver. In contrast, most general biology courses are taught with "unrealistic" problems that: come pre-posed, have unique answers arrived at unambiguously, and are checked for correctness by an authority.
  • without the ability to refer to an authority, teacher and student must collaborate to arrive at a solution with which they are satisfied.
  • criticized realistic laboratory simulations like GCK as "too complex."
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Algorithms | Coursera - 0 views

www.coursera.org/...algorithms T1 searching
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  • pjt111 taylor on 26 Sep 17
     
    A MOOC on searching and other things. Next step is to see how accessible this is (including what preparation is needed).
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First indexing run with 3.0 « full-text diary | Sphinx | Open Source Search S... - 0 views

sphinxsearch.com/...first-indexing-run-with-3-0 searching T1 sphinx
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  • pjt111 taylor on 26 Sep 17
     
    I don't understand the jargon, let alone how Sphinx works, but this page shows that there is a realm in which people address how to make a searching process efficient. Let's see if I can backup and find out what they studied or mastered to get to this conversation. (Perhaps a step offline to talk to a computer scientist would be helpful at this point.)
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Sorting and Searching - 0 views

introcs.cs.princeton.edu/...42sort sorting searching T1
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  • pjt111 taylor on 26 Sep 17
     
    This page--although I don't know java programming-raises and tackles the issue of how long it takes to sort a list of items into some order. This might be relevant to the query about the indexing behind search engines given that classically an index is in alphabetical order -- so it has to be put in that order then later searched.
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s.hswstatic.com/...search-engine-chart.gif search engine T1
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Randomized control trials for development? Three problems - 0 views

www.brookings.edu/...for-development-three-problems RCT
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  • pjt111 taylor on 14 Oct 19
     
    (Criticism of the approach that won the 2018 Nobel for Economics, if I have the gist of things..)
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