From around 2012 April (I joined SE around August), I've never lost my internet connectivity (not even once) -- that explains my "visiting each day" part :D
For this recent US holiday (Thanksgiving) I was visiting family in Malibu California. They didn't have an Internet connection or cell phone service at their house. I had to hike a few miles up to the top of of the mountain they live on to get cell service so that I could visit the site.
I'm sure that darn "fanatic" badge has made lots of people do similar stuff.
@hwlau Yeah but it's more than that. It means a lot of the world has integrated physics into the core education. In the US, it's possible for most students to never take a physics class ever, all the way through to a PhD
@hwlau Pretty much no elementary school student (ages 5-12 or so) has to take any sort of "physics-like class". Almost all "middle schools" (ages 13-14) require any sort of physics class. They generally just have generic "science" (or biology) classes and barely cover physics. Most high schools make physics and elective and the bulk of students not planning on going to college for Engineering don't take it.
And then when it comes to college (universities), most colleges don't require physics specifically for non-Enginering, non-Science majors. It's entirely reasonable (probably even common) for people studying biology or humanities or non-engineering fields to have never taken a physics course in their life.
@hwlau At least when I was a kid (I'm 29, almost 30 now), science and math weren't really emphasized as much. Even when science was covered, it was mostly biology and geology and astronomy.
I suppose chemistry is the same. I've only taken one chemistry class in my life (in 10th grade) and that's only because I chose to take it. I'm pretty sure most people never take a chemistry class.
@hwlau His response to you was linked to my message instead of yours (because you deleted yours). The response didn't make sense in relation to my message, making his response a non-sequitur.
@BrandonEnright I took Chem, Bio, Phys, & Comp Sci in 3 years at HS. I was the only one who did all of those in my class, most took just Chem & Bio. No astronomy. Might've helped me out now, seeing how I am an astrophysicist.
@ChrisWhite Chris, that snorkel mask works great for your avatar. I think this may be the first I've looked at your profile in a while. I didn't realize you're so young :-)
@ChrisWhite You're not gonna get a gravatar forever. At least, you can select a cool hat (before winterbash ends), take a snap and wear it as your gravatar :P
@ManishEarth: BTW, What happened to Winterbash page?
Hi everyone, as a project for a course I'm set to create an artificial neural network which will classify human voices according to the gender of the speaker. For this I'll need a fairly large database of men's and women's voices, in particular of them all uttering the same specific vowel. Does anyone know if such a database is freely available online somewhere? Or will I need to record my own?
Because, I thought of making them too... This sem - just like I said, saw two species of professors (and, I'm very much convinced by their supervillain activities). Still 4 more to go -_-
One class was terrible. He brought a bunch of papers (probably carbon copies of a book) - he asks us to write down what he says. And he goes, goes & goes - for about 40 mins
I wrote (with my writing) for 6 pages... O_O
@ManishEarth: I haven't made them before. Are all programs the same?
@ManishEarth Cool, thanks. But if I can't find a database of many people uttering the same vowel, I'll probably want to indeed record my own where I can control the sound people are intending to make. Thanks again for your help though!
@CrazyBuddy Like I said, they're basically the same. They both have spell-check, Latex hot-keys, auto-completion of Latex commands, quick view windows, etc.
I think I had like 40 helpful badges. It'll be a while before I get that one. I was just running on the 500 days thing and mentioned my less than 100 days
@CrazyBuddy Er...hm. The buttons we get for comment flags include "delete" and "dismiss" and I can't remember if there are others. Either I made a mistake pushing the buttons or there was no way to leave the comment and clear the flag.
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Either way, I feel bad about it. Please accept my appologies.
When edit a question in the close queue, it automatically skips to the next question. So I have to open the question in a new tab to VTC.
Is there any direct way to achive this?
Or is there any particular reason why this cannot be done?
@CrazyBuddy I'm impressed you got that badge. I don't think I'll be able to get the badge before I hit 10k unless I really focus on flagging everything including borderline stuff.
I assume that the refrigerator's temperature of 4 degrees has something to do with the fact that water is densest at that temperature. Does that inhibit microbe growth? But what about the freezer, what is special about -18 degrees? Is it a trade off of some type?
What editors/IDEs are available for easing the process of writing TeX/LaTeX documents?
Please state some useful features like code completion, spell checking, building final DVI or PDF files, etc.
This question is undergoing a systematic refurbishment, see Let’s polish the Editors/IDEs questi...
A recent attempt on my part to re-open an estimation question has failed, so I thought it might be worthwhile to continue the discussion on meta. The original question:
Estimate number of hairs on human head
This was marked as off-topic since physicists should not care about the number of hairs...
@KyleKanos when editing question for tags, you should also take the opportunity to fix stuff in the question or remove "thanks" and such. It makes the question cleaner and it also gives you credit for the edit. Tag-only edits don't count as an "edit".
When edit a question in the close queue, it automatically skips to the next question. So I have to open the question in a new tab to VTC.
Is there any direct way to achive this?
Or is there any particular reason why this cannot be done?
A recent attempt on my part to re-open an estimation question has failed, so I thought it might be worthwhile to continue the discussion on meta. The original question:
Estimate number of hairs on human head
This was marked as off-topic since physicists should not care about the number of hairs...
