A lie-to-children is a simplified explanation of technical or complex subjects as a teaching method for children and laypeople, first described by science writers Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart. The word "children" should not be taken literally, but as encompassing anyone in the process of learning about a given topic regardless of age. It is itself a simplification of certain concepts in the philosophy of science.
Because some topics can be extremely difficult to understand without experience, introducing a full level of complexity to a student or child all at once can be overwhelming. Hence elementary...
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong is a 1995 book by James W. Loewen, a sociologist. It critically examines twelve popular American high school history textbooks and concludes that the textbook authors propagate false, Eurocentric and mythologized views of American history. In addition to his critique of the dominant historical themes presented in high school textbooks, Loewen presents themes that he says are ignored by traditional history textbooks.
== Themes ==
In Lies My Teacher Told Me, Loewen criticizes modern American high school history textbooks...
@Akash.B The accurate explanation is that the acceleration is only approximately the same for small variations of distance from the centre of the earth. If you do the math, you can see that it really doesn't change much based on height, especially for regular people doing things on Earth's surface. It's not exactly the same, but often the change is so small that it can be ignored.
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@DanielSank Heyo! I noticed you're a co-author on Google's supremacy paper. Could you answer this if you get time? :D
Is this for next summer? Do you guys have the same May-Aug break as we have in the US?
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This year's summer was mostly spent on doing some Mathematica calculations on the geometry of entanglement stuff (PPT/NPT bound entangled states)
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@danielunderwood Yup, for summer 2020. However, most people who do well in the internships are offered a full-time job. We had folks from Microsoft, Amazon, and Samsung coming in this year and a few of my classmates managed to get internships there. I did relatively badly as I haven't practised competitive programming in a long while. Brushing up on my C++ skills now (STL!!!!) :P
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How're you doing? New job or continuing at the previous data science company?
Oh nice! Though "competitive programming" doesn't sound pleasant to me
Well it's the one that I started in January, but more data engineering and security than data science. I do get the occasional day to do data analysis though, so it's decent!
Context: This question on basic principles of image formation in medical MRI was asked in May 2014, received an accepted answer at the time, and was left unchallenged until August 2019, at which point I decided to attempt to summarize in some detail the topic in an answer that was well received. ...
does anybody know what's the deal with the quantum supremacy paper? It seems it was retracted soon after it appeared, now it's possible to find it on the web but not on official sources