On the topic of MCAT stuff again... so the MCAT has a section named CARS ("critical analysis and reasoning skills" or something like that), which is basically like the Reading portion of the SAT. The main differences would probably be (1) no "easy"/"obvious" questions, and (2) faster pacing.

9 passages, 90 minutes, 53 questions... per passage you'd have basically 4 minutes to read 500-600 words and then 6 minutes to answer 6 questions about it, where questions are things such as "which of the following statements, if true, would best support the author's claim in the third paragraph?"

So I guess my question is... what is this exam section really measuring and is it actually useful? Ability to speed-read without losing track of what they're talking about?

I scored pretty high in most of my exam sections... but with most of those sections I understand how hard the problems are and was even kinda surprised that I scored so well. With the Reading section, however, I just scored in the 99th percentile on this practice test (raw score 131) and am left thinking: what's the big deal?

OnePlus is doing a sweepstakes right now. They have 10 drawings a day. Today's is for a OP6 phone.

so, if you are remotely interested in a new phone, I'd enter

the odds aren't too bad either: You get 3 tickets, and the current drawing has 7000 entries.

so 3/7000 to get a free phone is pretty good odds IMO

@PhiNotPi The ability to comprehend as you read. Ideally, you wouldn't need a timer for this, but the issue is that if you don't put one, then people can simply read the question, and scan the paragraph for the answer

(whether or not they actually achieve that goal is another matter, but that's at least the motivation)

@NathanMerrill where

Asking for a friend

oneplus.com/6-sweepstakes

@betseg

oooh, apparently there's a referral code :)

if you want to, you can give me more tickets: oneplus.com/6-sweepstakes?referralCode=3gkj754i

oneplus.com/6-sweepstakes?referralCode=76m5mgi0 plz

lol

I don't really care that much, it's just cool that they are giving away free phones

Also: I had previously used Audible's 30 day trial to get a free audiobook (and cancelled before they charged me). However, they just sent me an email offering me another free trial

they're just giving books away

I want to root my 5T but it will wipe internal storage and I'm too lazy to install/set up every app :/

Wish I had an SD card to install the apps into

This picture just absolutely blows my mind. A really cool visual of how fast technology progresses

Well tbf new horizons' technology did exist in 1994

@NathanMerrill not available in my country. actually my country isn't even available on their site :D

Bad camera? Bad connection? Far away picture? idk

(was just a bad joke on the redefinition of planets from 2006:)

Hahahah, took me too long to get the joke

@flawr same but i have a relative in a country that it's available haha

Just did the math: Between the discovery of pluto and its disacknowledgement as a planet it made less than 1/3 of a revolution around the sun!

"Ugh, this makes me so disappointed in humanity!"

i spent almost an hour before i figured out why my phone kept bootlooping...

it was the gapps i was flashing

@Feeds infinite gripes: they talk about the "law of reflection", but none of their +"*%"& visualisations satisfy that law. comon guys, you can do better than that!

@Feeds Noooooo... :'(

@flawr You have a point, but do remember that it's typical for math diagrams to be inaccurate since they're only demonstrating the idea, not any specific case.

@Feeds Man, what a shame that I've never heard of this series until now

The assassin puzzle is cool

I wouldn't even know how to start solving it. First question that comes to mind...

Can one point in a square lattice hit a finite or infinite number of other points in the lattice?

Obviously, it can't hit all points because (0, 0) can hit (1, 1) but that blocks it from hitting (2, 2) or any other (n, n)