Gyroscopic Investing

This is as fine an example I've ever read against a command & control economy, especially that turgid cesspool of public education!!!

[quote=http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/a ... de/239855/
]Even if you're not a programmer, it's worth solving a Project Euler problem just to see what happens in these forums. What you'll find there is something that educators, technologists and journalists have been talking about for decades. And for nine years it's been quietly thriving on this site. It's the global, distributed classroom, a nurturing community of self-motivated learners -- old, young, from more than two hundred countries -- all sharing in the pleasure of finding things out.[/quote]

That's really cool.  I may have to take it for a spin.  I 100% agree that engaging one's innate desire to solve problems and providing the tools to do it is WAY more effective than forcing process down people's throats.

Simonjester wrote: so true, and yet we have somehow decided that the best way to teach math is to go from "solving interesting problems" to "rote memorization" to "mental gibberish" (aka common core)........ we are headed in the wrong direction

Welcome back MG, I always look forward to your returns from hiatus.  I think it sharpens you.

What a neat site. I just did one of the puzzles--so much fun!

Pointedstick wrote: What a neat site. I just did one of the puzzles--so much fun!

What language did you use?

Perl!

Project Euler forums?  I have never looked at them, but here is my guess.  It is exactly what educators, technologists, and journalists have been talking about for decades, except that it's 95% white men.

Mark Leavy wrote: Welcome back MG, I always look forward to your returns from hiatus.  I think it sharpens you.

My time away is like a meditation...  while I sharpen my fangs.