@ChrisWhite I'm so jealous they don't put attendance sanctions on you, and this is even possible at your place!
And regarding the other:
@ChrisWhite This again is impossible at my place, unless you are dressed as a Ninja :P
I mean, it can be done, but you are only asking to get screwed. For sure.
Lectures being bad is out of question, it is only that "there are things lacking in you" due to which you are unable to grasp how good they are.
OK Sorry. I saw the post and jumped in. Enough of the ranting, I almost forgot that I'm using an anonymous handle and this ranting will only lead you to ask me which place am I ranting about. So, I'm going to chicken out of this now.
Hmm... It still bugs me - even a trade secret would be revealed after a few years. In fact, most people are curious about knowing secrets. Some should've obtained something
And then he died before getting there. Still, our prime minister declared it a "terrorist act", but @KyleKanos I assume that kind of thing happens in the states all the time. So, yeah, that kind of sucks the significance out of it
I live in the worst part of Toronto. I think we had 6 gun related deaths this year. So one shooting might be big news for Canadians, except that we hear about all the American ones. So any time it happens here we say "still better numbers than in America"
In toronto, our largest and most dangerous city, we had 107 cases involving either injury or death due to a firearm last year. Only 18 of those were actual deaths
Hmm..it seems we have ~1k suiciders and about 100 deaths by accident/murder through guns every year with about one fourth of the American population. Now I'm even more glad to not live in America.
We had 1300 gun-related injuries in 2012. Only about 20% of those were due to criminal offenses. The rest were suicide, accident, or something called lawful intervention
But that's only because America is right next door and they keep bringing guns into our country. *Shakes fist*
So I understand that the idea behind hoverboards, is that it has this "special battery" that supplies "negative energy" to help overcome the gravitational pull that it experiences. The design of the hoverboard is located in this link over here.
I also understand that it uses lenz's law and eddy...
In back to the future 2, they travelled forward to october 21st 2015. This kickstarter plans to release the first hovering technology, a hoverboard on October 21st, 2015
Yeah, but they mention multiple time that they're huge nerds - the nerd of their kickstarter coincides with the Star Trek convention
It's...suspicious, granted
Also, they're received 10k$ from 10 people...there'll be hell of a fallout if this is fake, though it would be interesting to see a kickstarter blow up
Look, if they had made real hover technology that was less than a year away from the release of a board capable of supporting a person, they would have had the military and many more people lining up ages ago to apply hover technology to more useful applications
Recently, I read in the journal Nature that Stephen Hawking wrote a paper claiming that black holes do not exist. How is this possible? Please explain it to me because I didn't understand what he said.
References:
Article in Nature News: Stephen Hawking: 'There are no black holes' (Zeeya Mera...
@New_new_newbie It is nice how laid-back higher education is in the US. I don't think I would have made it through college if attendance had been mandatory.
In which countries is it usual to have mandatory attendance? There are some courses in the humanities here that require your presence, but mostly, they don't care whether you show up or not.
@ACuriousMind That's a good point. Though I suspect India and East Asia might be more strict
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@ACuriousMind over here we hear a lot about the formalities legally owed to professors in Germany (like only addressing them with their full title). How much of that is true in practice?
@ChrisWhite Very dependent on their field. Most math and physics prof are very laid back and often ask you to not address them as "Herr Professor", and the younger ones may even ask you to call them by their first names.
The economists and jurists however are, from what I hear, very insistent on being adressed properly
"I see you're an amazing candidate and you have great references from all your previous positions. We just have one important question. Do you prefer to wear sandals or go barefoot most of the time?"
Perhaps these people were never hired. They just show up whenever a phyiscs department is founded/has lost their resident weirdo, and refuse to leave until they're granted tenure
Recently I found this device advertised which uses any mobile phone's built-in camera to solve equations.
What impact will it have on how Algebra will be taught in the future? In particular will maintaining skills in solving equations become a thing of the past?
If you believe math should be about solving equations, then you're wrong. For real math, such a device has exactly zero impact. (See Lockhart's Lament (pdf) for a comprehensive rant on what is wrong with math education)
So I understand that the idea behind hoverboards, is that it has this "special battery" that supplies "negative energy" to help overcome the gravitational pull that it experiences. The design of the hoverboard is located in this link over here.
I also understand that it uses lenz's law and eddy...
Recently, I read in the journal Nature that Stephen Hawking wrote a paper claiming that black holes do not exist. How is this possible? Please explain it to me because I didn't understand what he said.
References:
Article in Nature News: Stephen Hawking: 'There are no black holes' (Zeeya Mera...
Recently I found this device advertised which uses any mobile phone's built-in camera to solve equations.
What impact will it have on how Algebra will be taught in the future? In particular will maintaining skills in solving equations become a thing of the past?
