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12:01 AM
@Cerberus In the U S, an undergraduate is likely to be a candidate for a BA or the equivalent, i.e., a BS. As always unusual uses in small enclaves cannot be excluded, any more than one can prove a negative.
12:28 AM
OK, well, it is not the clearest term.
@Cerberus What about graduate students?
Same problem, or is that one known to you?
Do you know what postgrads are?
No idea.
Interesting.
I have probably looked it up several times in my life.
But it is impossible to remember because it is so arbitrary.
A graduate student is one seeking a higher degree than a mere baccalaureate. A postgrad has finished being a graduate student, and so has achieved that degree.
12:33 AM
And I do seem to recall its being used differently at some point from what I had found earlier.
You an skip the -der- in undergraduates.
What makes it arbitrary and impossible to remember is the choice of grade.
Pre-War and post-War: this is easy, because now the big war (not the Great War!) is the Second World War.
It's not simply America. It's English.
> What is an undergraduate degree?
An undergraduate degree is typically the next level of academic qualification that follows high school. They’re usually a student’s first degree, studied at university or another higher education provider. Students either move into employment or further study once they’ve completed an undergraduate degree.
That's from the UK.
12:37 AM
Imagine if someone mentioned post-Republican America. Or post-sack Rome.
Which Republican term?
Which sack?
Well, England.
> If you study in Scotland, you may sometimes be awarded an MA for your undergraduate degree; however the qualification is equivalent to a bachelor’s degree.
@tchrist That is hilarious. An ugly oxymoron.
Pre-English English.
@Cerberus Surely a postgraduate is someone post their graduation.
Undergraduate degree.
Bad language.
This only applies to tertiary not secondary or primary education.
12:41 AM
I'll admit the old Dutch terms were not the clearest either.
doctorando/us?
Candidaatsexamen after three years, then one or two years until your doctoraalexamen, after which you are a doctorandus/a.
You are even a doctorandus if you stop studying.
But you are only a promovendus if you continue.
After four mour years, you become a doctor.
> Argentine higher education system is based on the Spanish higher education system, which is basically a Continental education system (in contrast to the model in the English-speaking world).
So that's the problem. You don't use the English system.
So its terms don't align with your own.
Here's a bunch of baloney:
We have unfortunately switched to the English system.
The Bologna Process is a series of ministerial meetings and agreements between European countries to ensure comparability in the standards and quality of higher-education qualifications. The process has created the European Higher Education Area under the Lisbon Recognition Convention. It is named after the University of Bologna, where the Bologna declaration was signed by education ministers from 29 European countries in 1999. The process was opened to other countries in the European Cultural Convention of the Council of Europe, and government meetings have been held in Prague (2001), Berlin...
12:48 AM
But we only use the words bacherlor's and master's.
All of Gaul? No, one village resisted.
Or one mount, one should say.
Or, no, that is not Montenegro but Kosovo.
> The Italian system has two types of postgraduate degree (called "Master", not to be confused with the master's degree). Laurea Magistrale (120 ECTS) allows access to third-cycle programmes, and Master universitario (at least 60 ECTS) may be divided into first- (second cycle) and second-level master's degrees (third cycle).
> Former degrees were:

Licenciatura or ingeniería, can last four, five or six years.
Diplomatura or ingeniería técnica, degree courses of shorter duration, 3 years.
Under the new European Higher Education Area, these former undergraduate degrees are being replaced by the título de grado (Bachelor's degree) or the título de máster (Master's degree).
That's ugly.
Yes.
1:09 AM
@Cerberus All of the village? No, just Asterix and Obelix
@CowperKettle They protect the village against the Romans, don't they?
LOL
@Cerberus Yes
> “It seems to me that in any area which involves life-and-death possibilities, AI is dangerous, because it doesn’t know what death means.” technologyreview.com/2024/08/28/1096801/…
Hm. I thought that was the reason why teenagers were dangerous, especially behind the wheel and in a drunken condition irrespective of the wheel
> A movie of a cat with a resolution of 45,000 pixels is sharp and clear. A movie generated using a simplified version of a model of 45,000 cortical electrodes, each of which stimulates a single neuron, still has a recognizable cat but most of the details of the scene are lost.
 
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2:47 AM
Who's to say it didn't, and we're all living in denial?
Look at the utter shitshow that is the US presidential election-thing
3:09 AM
Psychologism of the day: episodic future thinking (Considering the outcome of a choice depends on episodic future thinking (EFT), the vivid simulation of personally relevant future scenarios. That EFT can enhance the value of choice options conferring longer term benefit has been most thoroughly demonstrated in the context of monetary choice among healthy controls.[9])
3:42 AM
Michel Suret-Canale is a contemporary French artist and painter.
"Let Me in!". 2024. Acrylic on canvas.
Very cute.
@RyderisnotRude. Yeah I'm sure that is a big part of it.
4:06 AM
Yup.
Do they allow loud laughing in Hawaii?
No, just a low ha
 
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6:28 AM
I should experiment with some ADHD medications, I just don't know how to procure them here in my neck of the woods.
Maybe my lack of concentration will improve, maybe not
6:57 AM
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1:28 PM
@CowperKettle have you tried caffeine sources? (Coffee, red bull, coke, etc). Those are cheap accessible alternatives to highly processed pharmaceutical amphetamine derivatives (metadate, ritalin). Right, @M.A.R.?
1:51 PM
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2:06 PM
@Mitch I'm trying to abstain from coffee, because once I start, I tend to drink it till my head aches
@CowperKettle you wanna stay caffeine-free but you're considering a highly addictive drug?
Ritalin will improve your focus, that's for sure. It does that for normal people, and people with ADHD. That's why it's a favorite drug of college students the night of the exam
But it's addictive, has unpleasant side effects, including behavioral, and is generally not a good idea at all unless you have no other choice
Oh. I'll read up on the side effects
> The findings of this study suggest that mental disorders might be socially transmitted within adolescent peer networks. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2818735
2:54 PM
How do you colonize Mars?
M:A:R:S
3:25 PM
@Cowper (I Am Not A Doctor) I tend to be melancholic, perhaps depressive, as several of my family members also (some of these things are hereditary, I think?) But chemistry fixes don't seem to always completely fix what we want to see fixed.
This is certainly opinion, and it may be unpopular: Sometimes the "problem" is just part of us and we _can't_ "fix" it. I mean, you can modify some of your physical chemistry, but in some cases it never really reaches your target.
I hope this doesn't make folks too uncomfortable, and you won't feel that I'm being too intrusive, and also that M.A.R won't
You got this, kid. Never give up. 🫂
@CowperKettle sure, but 1) caffeine is the least 'difficult' version of everything you're considering.
@CowperKettle You could try caffeine and self control /nod
2) some other second thing that I forgot and must not have been important enough to stick in my memory
4:05 PM
Also, what's to say you won't use methylphenidate (Ritalin) to excess?
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#WhenTaken #202 (16.09.2024)

I scored 817/1000 🎉

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@jlliagre Another one just for you. ;-)
#WhenTaken #202 (16.09.2024)

I scored 847/1000 🎉

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@Robusto Thanks! I was quite off with the years.
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4:49 PM
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@Xanne What if what you have experienced doesn't exist?
5:34 PM
"Most people have a mind that's open by appointment only."
@Robusto wait...is that picture an ad for an antihistamine? You're peddling your caffeine uppers -and- your allergy medicine in the same breath?
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@MetaEd I don't get it. What if there's a no-show? Can you just slip me in then?
@Mitch No. That pic was an accident (I think I've posted it here before). I was discussing something with someone in another venue and tried to link that work, but my focus happened to be here at the time, and so without thinking I posted it here first.
I didn't realize it for a while or I would have deleted it.
@Mitch The quote doesn't apply to me. My mind is so open that my brain fell out.
 
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7:12 PM
@Robusto oh
I can't do anything with that

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