not too long ago had to do something like that for the "big corp" working for (which shall remain nameless). just like what you said earlier. "soap opera". quite dramatic! even more drama than some movies/ soap operas!
also online training tool... they had a (fictional) scenario where a man/ woman at work have relationship, breakup, & then (iirc) the woman blogs about it. lol! most excitement at work have heard about in yrs :P
there is a ton of stuff on the net about "trigger warnings". very "PC". eg this
> These texts, wrought with histories and narratives of exclusion and oppression, can be difficult to read and discuss as a survivor, a person of color, or a student from a low-income background.
@0celo7 do you have foreign background? this stuff is new to you for some reason? (did not know you were in US... nobody says anything in their profiles these days)
Well, it was more that some people felt her argument against FTL communication via entanglement was weak & she thought that it meant that people believed it was possible
← coincidentally just did ~90m of (online) corp training a few moments before. different stuff! far less exciting! except maybe ... the "anti money laundering"... o_O
The leader asked what stressors grad students faced, I (being a guy) said Pregnancy. Like 4 girls sitting towards the front just snapped their heads at me. I then said that my wife went through 3 pregnancies to that point
@KyleKanos ooh it seems to be a big no-no sometimes to talk about other's stress even though obviously pregnancy is highly stressful for both sexes... its not a criticism but some take it as something like that...
@KyleKanos was he asking about academic stressors or possible stressors or "other/ all of the above"? maybe that was the misunderstanding... you have 3 kids?
It was a training class for grad students. I don't even remember what it was really about outside of causing that stir--so you can tell how much of an effect it had on me ;)
@KyleKanos file in category "dumb stuff required/ mandatory"... now that is everywhere...! actually had to take a few psych tests as undergrad in psych class.
@KyleKanos Don't know about American girls, but here girls voluntarily put their studies on hold at the advent of pregnancy due to stress and other factors (my cousin as example). That's why I thought it's strange the girls you mention reacted with surprise.
I'm currently crafting an email to a cousin who works in a BI company w/ hopes that he'll be able to direct some work towards me for more experience (probably the biggest thing that's holding me back)
I actually found that question to be very interesting, but I recall being unsatisfied with the first answer he posted. I hadn't noticed the second one til today.
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BTW one of the areas of tension in galaxy astrophysics now is trying to explain growth of supermassive black holes -- they were produced very quickly in the early universe, and we certainly don't need mechanisms around that break them apart during collisions.
@ChrisWhite Why does everyone resort to entropy and thermodynamics when talking about black hole splitting. What is wrong with the non-bifurcation theorem?
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One hopes that BH thermo captures all the relevant physics, in which case it should yield the same results but more intuitively.
@0celo7 My undergrad left all internal justice to a board of undergrads. "Trials" were held in secret, sometimes without the defendant present, always without the defendant able to bring witnesses or cross-examine. This group had complete power up to and including expulsion.
They actually had two groups, one for academic infractions and another for everything else. I forget which was which, but they were the "Conduct Review Committee" and the "Board of Control." It's like a cross between the French Revolution and some near-future dystopia.
Electrodynamics used hand-wavey arguments to derive energy conservation/flux so it mostly turned into looking in the back of the book for PDEs/boundary conditions, QM "covered" things like fermi energy and ladder operators but not in a satisfactory way...
@0celo7 oh the circuitry lab was actually very cool/practical. It covered op amps, FETs, timers, lots of cool stuff at a cursory glance.
@vzn Oh yeah! I just got some trivial multithreading on my gravity-for-fun simulation. So the computation runs on eight threads (resulting in an 8x speedup because it was easy to parallelize) AND the interaction runs on a separate thread, so you can scroll/pan around in real-time while 25,000 particles interact mutually also in real-time :D
@KyleKanos COBOL will never die! once saw estimate that something like ~40% of all code in world was COBOL. yrs ago. some staggering number. it kept a lot of Y2K devs busy.
@Danu I found that question to be curious as well.
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@Danu @0celo7 My curriculum had a single course that went complex analysis -> ODE -> PDE over the course of the year
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The beautiful thing about it was how first you learned how to solve integrals by differentiating (Cauchy Residues and all that), then you learned how to solve ODEs by integrating, then you learned how to solve PDEs by turning them into ODEs.
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(Also, this course was taken by ~70-80% of the student body)
