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A Better Strategy for Hangman
There's no easy way to say it. You've probably been playing Hangman wrong your entire life. In its purest form, hangman is a word game played between two people.
Comment j'ai pourri le web
Pendant ma première année au lycée, j’ai donné une dissertation à mes élèves à faire à la maison. Avec les vacances scolaires les élèves avaient presque un mois pour la rédiger : c’était leur première dissertation de l’année. Plus tard, en corrigeant chez moi, je me suis aperçu que des expressions syntaxiquement obscures étaient répétées à l’identique dans plusieurs copies. En les recherchant sur Google, j’ai trouvé des corrigés sur un sujet de dissertation voisin vendus à 1,95€.
A contest is underway at data-crunching competition site Kaggle that challenges people to create “an automated scoring algorithm for student-written essays.” This is just the latest chapter in a generations-long conflict over the nature of teaching, and to that end it’s also just one of many inevitable steps along the line. Automated grading is already prevalent in simpler tasks like multiple-choice and math testing, but computers have yet to seriously put a dent in the most time-consuming of grading tasks: essays. Millions of students write dozens of essays every year, and teachers will often take home hundreds to read at a time.
Algorithmic Essay-Grading: Teacher’s Savior Or Bane Of Learning? | TechCrunch
photography urban exploration | Demolition of the Paris Metro
The Paris Metro and the service it provides are deeply intertwined into the fabric of the city.
Human Birdwings | Building a semi human powered flying device
I did it! This weekend I brought out my wings again for a second test. And here it is. Do I need to say more?This film , Report Number 1 Over and Under, Operations at Oxford Circus , describes the route of the new line, the planning and the problems that had to be overcome from 1962-64. Construction began in 1962 on the Walthamstow-Victoria section and continued until 1972, when Pimlico station was opened. Halcrow were joint consulting engineers to the London Transport Board.
Victoria line, London, UK - 1964 - Halcrow Group
Google has run a sting operation that it says proves Bing has been watching what people search for on Google, the sites they select from Google’s results, then uses that information to improve Bing’s own search listings.
Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results
The truth about AKB48’s Eguchi Aimi revealed!
Fans suspicions about AKB48 ’s12.5 generation member Eguchi Aimi being a “CG idol” have been confirmed!