I am sure those uber tiny laptops get as much attention as well. I do not know if it qualifies as an 'uber tiny' laptopn, but my old 10.6" VGN-240P/L (link is a close match) gets a fair bit of attention, but it's usually limited to "That's the smallest laptop I've ever seen!" or at worst, "Start it and show me some programs". The latter happened just once. I think the fact that it looks like a laptop with all the 'standard' features (but no ports on the back) is the saving grace, but it does get them talking.
As someone who recently completed an undergrad at Georgia Tech, and having been the head TA for a 1000 student class for six semesters, I have heard enough complaints from students about their fellow students cheating. From my personal experience, Indians have no statistically significant proclivity towards 'ratting others out' that students from other countries. More importantly, educators generally ignore such complaints unless there is a compelling argument. We aren't all that dense and we do realize students often complain about others as a way to get ahead. Others complain due to their perceived disadvantage when students who are socially capable of working together in study groups do better than loners.
While it is possible you got the rough end of the stick, I think it is unlikely. It seems like the professor thought were cheating and because it was Indian students who complained against you, you left the USA and held a grudge against all Indian students from that point on? Is it only me who thinks it is more likely that you changed universities to give your disciplinary record a new start? I do not want to be making accusations and don't take offense to what I said, but this is what it seems like to me (and I am sure to others too). I hope you'll clarify.
I will say that Indian students are, however, more resourceful when it comes to cheating. Being an Indian who proctored tests, I can say that it sometimes takes one to catch one. The incidence of cheating amongst Indian students seems to be higher than students of other nationalities. I know that is racist, but most of the TAs I've worked with tend to agree with this statement.
might be to show the suit in charge of your budget a 3D representation of what you are planning. If you teach them how to use it, they will learn how to deal with 3D objects and maybe even make 3D models to explain what they're saying instead of using wors like squiggly for tilde and 4-sided solid artifact (for a cube - I misinterpreted this as a tetrahedron).
Non technical people tend to implicitly trust Excel almost as much as they trust Buffet's stock tips and maybe this will allow us to leverage that in our quest for dominance...
The song is titled 'Daughter' FYR. Not sure how much I agree with your comment - especially considering the section where he goes "She holds her hand..." and then shrieks:))
I have one of these and it's brilliant once you've loaded your chosen playlist. Adding/deleting individual songs is not so painful, but en masse, it is very horrible. Other than that, the noise cancelling works great and it's really cool how charging for 3-5 minutes gives you 3-5 hours of play at normal volume. Charge it for an hour and you've got 50 hours:)
I bought it off woot.com for $50 which was a great value.
I wouldn't have pursued graduate school had I not found something that I like doing. Academia is the second best career (next only to Software development) option in today's world. However, it is fairly odd that it pays so little. I am not too worried about that though - I'm pretty sure that teaching is one of the few things I'll be happy doing for the rest of my life. Research work needs to be relevant to keep me motivated, but in a narrow band of subjects I love researching as well.
On the brighter side - you got out of Tech in under 9 years which really is something I am craving for:)
"I personally wanted to continue my education toward a doctorate at Georgia Tech in Electrical Engineering or pursue a second degree in Physics (my boss in the physics dept. encouraged me to obtain an assistantship with the physics dept.) but even with the assistantship I could not afford to pay the out of state tuition."
I am not sure if you are under some sort of misapprehension, but an assistantship pays for your out of state tuition and you pay something ridiculous like under a 100 dollars for a semester. The assistantship also generally pays you a stipend of around $1500 a month which is ample to live as a bachelor in downtown atlanta.
I really hope that you did not put off graduate school because you were misinformed.
FWIW, I go to Georgia Tech and hope to start graduate school in January with an assistantship.
Hmmm... sort of an intensive versus extensive argument. But given that the two masses are in different states (diff velocities/acceleration at different latitudes), there would be a difference wouldn't there?
Ok... so please explain to me why the twin paradox cannot be applied to mass (if the different masses are at different latitudes at the time of measurement). The effect may not explain the 50ug difference, but it happens.
I'd say it would unless all the blocks are measured in Paris... maybe 50 micrograms is too much, but if all the calibration did not take place at the same place as the place of origin of the blocks, there might be a discrepancy unless we used the same measuring equipment in the same place.
If the copies were at different locations, wouldn't they have been travelling at different accelerations and speeds for long enough to have the Paris one be relatively 'losing weight' due to the twin paradox (as applied to mass)?
You know how many nightmares I've had since I was a little kid about this? Ever since I found out about time travel, my first thought is - what if people from the future are amongst us? Maybe a good portion of these scientists and other geniuses are just time travellers who blended into a point in history that they liked best and are helping shape our future into a better one than the one they came from.
to ensure that restrictions imposed (like always tell your REAL age to websites when they ask you if you are 13) don't spike curiosity in the kids to do things they otherwise wouldn't. How about parents make the rules (if they know how to) or they buy software to protect their kids in addition to some kind of summer camp run by private companies or by NPOs. I fear that these teachers will be paid $24000 p.a. and predators might end up with these jobs to game the system. Privatized/non-profit sponsored education will help improve the quality of education.
That's what NASA would like you to think. If everyone knew photons had a mass, then they would find out there's no way those pictures from the moon were real...
Since time travel is still an uncertain phenomenon, unless we scour the entire universe for Einstein, isn't he still in a state of both dead AND alive at the same time? Then again, Einstein was no cat.
Something like this was claimed a while back. Is it like this guy's experiment where although an adge of a light pulse travelled faster than light, information still could not be transmitted faster than light?
Not discrediting the achievement. This will help us clarify current theories regarding speed limits and stuffz
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I can hear it....
"Hey! You wanna get a room?"
I need to try this sometime...
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As someone who recently completed an undergrad at Georgia Tech, and having been the head TA for a 1000 student class for six semesters, I have heard enough complaints from students about their fellow students cheating. From my personal experience, Indians have no statistically significant proclivity towards 'ratting others out' that students from other countries. More importantly, educators generally ignore such complaints unless there is a compelling argument. We aren't all that dense and we do realize students often complain about others as a way to get ahead. Others complain due to their perceived disadvantage when students who are socially capable of working together in study groups do better than loners.
While it is possible you got the rough end of the stick, I think it is unlikely. It seems like the professor thought were cheating and because it was Indian students who complained against you, you left the USA and held a grudge against all Indian students from that point on? Is it only me who thinks it is more likely that you changed universities to give your disciplinary record a new start? I do not want to be making accusations and don't take offense to what I said, but this is what it seems like to me (and I am sure to others too). I hope you'll clarify.
I will say that Indian students are, however, more resourceful when it comes to cheating. Being an Indian who proctored tests, I can say that it sometimes takes one to catch one. The incidence of cheating amongst Indian students seems to be higher than students of other nationalities. I know that is racist, but most of the TAs I've worked with tend to agree with this statement.
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Probably more a case of the professor being in the past :))
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might be to show the suit in charge of your budget a 3D representation of what you are planning. If you teach them how to use it, they will learn how to deal with 3D objects and maybe even make 3D models to explain what they're saying instead of using wors like squiggly for tilde and 4-sided solid artifact (for a cube - I misinterpreted this as a tetrahedron).
Non technical people tend to implicitly trust Excel almost as much as they trust Buffet's stock tips and maybe this will allow us to leverage that in our quest for dominance...
Cheers!
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Vig
The song is titled 'Daughter' FYR. Not sure how much I agree with your comment - especially considering the section where he goes "She holds her hand..." and then shrieks :))
I have one of these and it's brilliant once you've loaded your chosen playlist. Adding/deleting individual songs is not so painful, but en masse, it is very horrible. Other than that, the noise cancelling works great and it's really cool how charging for 3-5 minutes gives you 3-5 hours of play at normal volume. Charge it for an hour and you've got 50 hours :)
I bought it off woot.com for $50 which was a great value.
http://reviews.cnet.com/mp3-players/sony-nw-s705f-noise/4505-6490_7-32111531.html
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P.S. it's Berkeley
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MATLAB
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w.r.t your father, I know exactly how it feels :)
:)
I wouldn't have pursued graduate school had I not found something that I like doing. Academia is the second best career (next only to Software development) option in today's world. However, it is fairly odd that it pays so little. I am not too worried about that though - I'm pretty sure that teaching is one of the few things I'll be happy doing for the rest of my life. Research work needs to be relevant to keep me motivated, but in a narrow band of subjects I love researching as well.
On the brighter side - you got out of Tech in under 9 years which really is something I am craving for
Cheers!
"I personally wanted to continue my education toward a doctorate at Georgia Tech in Electrical Engineering or pursue a second degree in Physics (my boss in the physics dept. encouraged me to obtain an assistantship with the physics dept.) but even with the assistantship I could not afford to pay the out of state tuition."
I am not sure if you are under some sort of misapprehension, but an assistantship pays for your out of state tuition and you pay something ridiculous like under a 100 dollars for a semester. The assistantship also generally pays you a stipend of around $1500 a month which is ample to live as a bachelor in downtown atlanta.
I really hope that you did not put off graduate school because you were misinformed.
FWIW, I go to Georgia Tech and hope to start graduate school in January with an assistantship.
Cheers!
Sorry, not intensive versus extensive; I meant state variables and non-state vars
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Hmmm... sort of an intensive versus extensive argument. But given that the two masses are in different states (diff velocities/acceleration at different latitudes), there would be a difference wouldn't there?
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Vig
Ok... so please explain to me why the twin paradox cannot be applied to mass (if the different masses are at different latitudes at the time of measurement). The effect may not explain the 50ug difference, but it happens.
Cheers!
I'd say it would unless all the blocks are measured in Paris ... maybe 50 micrograms is too much, but if all the calibration did not take place at the same place as the place of origin of the blocks, there might be a discrepancy unless we used the same measuring equipment in the same place.
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Really? Read my other post below for the answer :)
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If the copies were at different locations, wouldn't they have been travelling at different accelerations and speeds for long enough to have the Paris one be relatively 'losing weight' due to the twin paradox (as applied to mass)?
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So that number that familiar looking stranger whispered in my ear in 14 years ago was a bank account number?
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You know how many nightmares I've had since I was a little kid about this? Ever since I found out about time travel, my first thought is - what if people from the future are amongst us? Maybe a good portion of these scientists and other geniuses are just time travellers who blended into a point in history that they liked best and are helping shape our future into a better one than the one they came from.
Damn..I should write a book about this..
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to ensure that restrictions imposed (like always tell your REAL age to websites when they ask you if you are 13) don't spike curiosity in the kids to do things they otherwise wouldn't. How about parents make the rules (if they know how to) or they buy software to protect their kids in addition to some kind of summer camp run by private companies or by NPOs. I fear that these teachers will be paid $24000 p.a. and predators might end up with these jobs to game the system. Privatized/non-profit sponsored education will help improve the quality of education.
Captcha - 'counsels'
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You don't need to measure time to measure speed. Interference patterns, diffraction etc...serve well for the purposes of the experiment.
That's what NASA would like you to think. If everyone knew photons had a mass, then they would find out there's no way those pictures from the moon were real...
Cheers!
Since time travel is still an uncertain phenomenon, unless we scour the entire universe for Einstein, isn't he still in a state of both dead AND alive at the same time? Then again, Einstein was no cat.
Cheers!
Something like this was claimed a while back. Is it like this guy's experiment where although an adge of a light pulse travelled faster than light, information still could not be transmitted faster than light?
Not discrediting the achievement. This will help us clarify current theories regarding speed limits and stuffz
Cheers!