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@HaraldHanche-Olsen Do you know about the book "Statistikk for universiteter og høgskoler" by Gunnar Løvås? There is a small "scandal" here in Sweden right now about its exercises (in a translated version, don't know if they are the same in the original one). Have they been discussed in Norway as well?
@mickep I don't know about the book or any discussion of it. But then I am not a statistician. Do you have any links to the discussions in Sweden? (Note: I'll be away for a two hour lecture, so no hurry.)
@HaraldHanche-Olsen Oh, I'm sorry you missed it :(. In any case here is a link to one of the newspapers writing about it. One could notice that they claim it is offensive to women. I would also say that it is not fair to men :)
@mickep Ah, I see. I haven't bothered to get behind the paywall, but at least I saw enough to get what the fuzz is about. Not that the problem seems to endorse Leonard's behaviour, but the word “erövra” to describe his exploits is certainly offensive, albeit common.
@HaraldHanche-Olsen Yes, well, the exercise is not good, and it should never have been written in my opinion. On the other hand, there are worse things to be upset about. We'll see if it will be discussed in Norway as well...
@TorbjørnT. @mickep Old news, then. In the Aftenposten article there are indications that a new edition may be forthcoming, and that they might reconsider this problem then. But that seems not to have happened.
@TorbjørnT. Indeed. I might check the university book store here and see if they've got it, and if that exercise is still there. It is of course possible that the latest edition has not been translated to Swedish.
Anybody can use a spare vote for tex.stackexchange.com/a/398308/4427 so the question is removed from the unanswered list? I don't understand why it has been downvoted.
@ChristianHupfer Thank you very much for the nomination! May I ask for the same note as CarLaTeX? I have been elected as representative the past two years and although I would love to continue I would encourage everybody to first vote for new nominees, please.
@ChristianHupfer Do I remember correctly, that you are already a TUG member?
@yo' -- that's pretty neat! my question is, why does it need electronic amplification? (my mother's church had a set of bells, i think just over an octave. it was played from a keyboard in a lower story of the bell tower. the peal could be heard for nearly a mile, more if there was a favorable wind. interestingly, i heard the same peal from a church in cork a few years ago, but rung by hand, not from a keyboard.)
@yo' -- in the introductory paragraph: "The carillon has its own illumination, amplifier with loudspeakers and microphone." hmm. maybe i misinterpreted that -- it could be for announcing what's being played anD by whom, not for the bells. probably my mistake. (but i think you would agree: the bells don't/shouldn't need amplification.)
@yo' -- i can believe that recording them is tricky. i have a recording of the 1812 overture with the bells in the yale university bell tower. (and real cannon.) just the thing to set up to wake someone; better than an alarm clock. and sometimes, for the playing of the 1812 overture by the boston pops on july 4, outdoors, the bells of the boston churches are called into action. impressive! (and tricky timing.)
@UlrikeFischer ;-) ;-) ... and I just wrote in an answer that I don't know French ... what a coincidence ;-)
@PauloCereda I am just a marmot and so I don't know what TUG Boat is. (I always thought this was a boat on which ducks get food and can relax.) Could you please send me the link?
@PauloCereda Because of the time required to reload, the cannon player can't remain annoying for long. The 1812 overture requires several cannons, I think, since there are a number of shots close together with no time to reload. Anyhow, the trombone is louder than the tuba, for sure?
@TorbjørnT. @HaraldHanche-Olsen Oh, so it is old news. I wonder if the editions are synced or not... (but I do not wonder about it so much that I will buy the norwegian version from 2012) :D Thanks for looking it up!
@PauloCereda Thanks for your suggestion. Why is the deadline just one day after the Happy-Marmot-Day (a.k.a. Groundhog Day)? Because of the weather forecast?
Hi all, is someone of the regulars by any chance at the conference electronic displays Conference 2018 in Nuernberg (Germany) end of February? I will give a talk (beamer of course) and it would be interesting to meet people from here in real life.
@AlanMunn Ooops, sorry, I got confused. I'm always very drowsy during hibernation.
@PhelypeOleinik @DavidCarlisle Well, you need to learn these things if you deal with dimensional regularization and advance from natural units to supernatural units ;-)