Which predates the others since its from 2006. The wikipedia article for broken heart syndrome also mentions it was referenced as a diagnosis in Grey's Anatomy, but I can't find that episode.
I know you can answer Jedi on a census in some countries apparently the UK is one of them, but I don't know if it is given all of the recognition of other religions. It could I suppose if the wikipedia numbers are accurate than that would count in many countries. Otherwise if it has such protections than this company has probably just ran afoul of the law and this young Jedi will be getting some cash out of it.
Charlie Eppes: Larry, something went wrong, and I don't know what, and now it's like I can't even think.
Larry Fleinhardt: Well, let me guess: you tried to solve a problem involving human behavior, and it blew up in your face.
Charlie Eppes: Yeah, pretty much.
Larry Fleinhardt: Okay, well, Charles, you are a mathematician, you're always looking for the elegant solution. Human behavior is rarely, if ever, elegant. The universe is full of these odd bumps and twists. You know, perhaps you need to make your equation less elegant, more complicated; less precise, more descriptive. It's not going to be as pretty, but it might work a little bit better. Charlie, when you're working on human problems, there's going to be pain and disappointment.You gotta ask yourself, is it worth it?
I think there is a lot of merit for inter-agency cooperation between the world's different space agencies it seems to have done okay with ISS, but ISS has also shown us some of the limits of cooperation. I am hopeful and optimistic that such partnerships might make more manned missions tenable at least between aligned nations.
Stem Cell Scientists still don't have safe waters with the President's executive order, because it lacks the same permanence of a law passed by congress if the next administration changed its mind too we'd be back to where we were without a law backing it up. As a result of this instability fewer and fewer stem cell biologists are sticking around a few in Wisconsin, a few out in California, and a few other places but most are going overseas to safer waters with greater stability.
Its great that this summer with the LHC being damaged particle and high energy physicists came back to the states to work on the Tevatron, but its still going to be shut down soon and LHC will be online eventually. So there go the physicists back to Geneva (again).
Now were talking about dismantling a core part of NASA. Sure some of the scientists will just get shifted to other projects some may try moving to the private sector, but others are going to go to the ESA, Russia, Japan, and other countries with developing space programs. Since it will be their only option aside from retraining.
The major private R&D companies are persistently decreasing their budgets and sizes. There isn't anything to the scale and scope of Lucent and Bell Labs. The MS Research, Google, and IBM all do good work, but its very focused and well they can't hire everyone (or at least they won't hire everyone) which also pushes some with great talent into the financial sector or just anywhere willing to pay them. I mean how many companies are funding basic research in industrial companies? Big Oil used to fund a lot of academic geology, but a lot of that has gone dry in recent years. Does DOW fund anything that isn't just product enhancement research? I haven't heard much if anything about something truly amazing in aerospace either, I mean we're upgrading the Apaches AGAIN these 30+ year old flying machines weren't intended to be the last helicopters we ever developed, but as it stands there still the best we've come up with, but no one is pushing for better, no one has even tried to define what might make the next thing better.
I completely understand that historically R&D and funding of basic science came from all areas of the private sector (from areospace to mining to well I can't think of any clever industry that begins with the last few letters of the alphabet, but you get my point). All of that well seems almost completely dried out and I'm not just talking about due to the current crisis this seemed to have been the case while things were still booming not so long ago.
Not to mention there is still overwhelming draw (fiscal incentive) by financial companies (some domestic, but many foreign at least in ownership if not location) to eat up people with strong computer, mathematical, or statistical skills for some fat paychecks!
I understand that NASA has recently had problems with pet projects that weren't producing or lacked direction, but the answer isn't cutting off manned spaced flight. Manned flight is what made NASA the success it has been and can be a primer to restoring such glory. Manned flight personifies the modern explorer it provides a face to the organization and heroes for a country as a whole people who are alive and well that people can aspire to. All science has its slow and fast phases and NASA (space/rocketry/etc) isn't immune from that, but that doesn't mean the answer is cutting it off, in fact the answer is the opposite it needs more and it needs nurturing. It needs the support of its public.
I don't see how this proposed shift in NASA is in line with the speech the President just made to the school kids, I mean what if those kids want to be astronauts and rocket scientists? I guess maybe they work for Virgin Galactic (not an American company) or they are likely going to have to work for a foreign space agency. I read the statements they made on the campaign in the Science Debate I do believe this President understands what's at stake if we don't push hard to ignite
IANAL either, but I've read parts and wholes of a number of label contracts over the years. You're right it is likely in the details (and outcomes are heavily dependent on them), but in general the details go something like this.
That eighth album Sony intended on releasing is likely in this artist's contract. He may have only been responsible for being involved with the seven, but in his contract Sony probably retained rights to all material recorded by the artist during the duration of his contract (you general release all such copyrights permanently to your label) so all of those songs are Sony's not his (which is an error to his assumption that since his contractual obligations to Sony are met all other copyrights are retained by him extremely unlikely, but hard to say definitively without seeing his contract), further most major labels reserve the right to release a "Greatest Hits" compilation that may contain previously unreleased content. Generally this last album is purely for the labels profit (has a different scheme of royalty mechanisms) and can be released whether you've resigned with the label or not AND whether you consent to the release or not. Its a standard operating procedure for the big four and mimicked by the majority of the industry that will likely be upheld if his contract is scrutinized by a court.
Even if he can get his way in this case all that's going to do is provide disincentive to the major labels in dealing with artists in Mexico. Maybe that's a good though since a vacuum could inspire upstarts and real competition at least in Mexico which is a growing media consumer. I hope this guy can make a bit of a score off of the labels its nice to hear when its even possible that an artist can get his despite the will of the evil empire. Unfortunately all of these trade groups like RIAA ever protect are the label's bottom lines which generally entails anything, but the artists' best interests. Even the music unions in the US are epic fail. I remember not long ago there was a bill that sought to oversee US record label contracts to ensure fairness. I'm sure it probably got blocked by someone deep in MAFIAA's pockets, but could you imagine the possibilities if these contractual provisions had all been brought to light and forced to change. That'd almost be as fair as if radio stations had to pay royalties or if internet radio stations didn't!
The industry has long been broken these titans need to be brought down, economies of scale are no longer an inhibition to entrance in the market only having to have to compete with monoliths is the problem. The sooner the labels go away or get dismantled the sooner the things get better for musicians and for consumers. Why isn't the government investigating consolidation not just of the four labels themselves (and the fledgling indie labels), but their increasing scope into other areas of the musicians income like tour gross and merchandise sales we feared banks too big to fail because they consolidated we should intercede now before something along those lines happens with the labels and we're permanently stuck with them? Has anyone noticed the distinct lack of medium size bands in the industry for the last decade or so? You're either great success or too little to be known (and therefore cared about in the industry's eyes) that isn't the way the market has been and it doesn't have to remain that way.
Star Trek Online was planning (I don't know if they still are) on putting out versions for multiple consoles (PC, 360, PS3) and allowing them all to play on one system of servers (so someone playing from XBL could play someone on PC or PSN). So it is probably EA (and it might be some legacy hold over from PS2 and XB days as oppose to lets try to get them to buy more than one copy) more so than vendor lock-in.
If they truly wanted to stop multitasking behind the wheel there would be a lot more support for removing the human from the equation. We aren't that far off from cars that can accurately and safely drive themselves. Why aren't we funding efforts like the DARPA road challenge more? Lets get that wrapped up and out there. I mean I think its good that people who end up doing bad things, because of their poor behavior choices are being penalized for those choices, but if safety is truly the goal we'd recognize that in one way or another multitasking occurs for most drivers at some point and the only way to truly get rid of it and the risks they represent is to minimize the human role in controlling the vehicle.
The oscillation of the ice cap formation and overall weather cycles are the concerns. If we are changing the rate of global warming, even in just a small way, it is possible that our perturbations break the oscillation pattern of the system. That's what we need to determine.
That also leaves a big question mark as to what happens next. I mean one of the descriptions from the global warning namesake would be resonance leading to ever increasing temperatures. Obviously in the real world these ever increasing temperatures would have be asymptotic to some upper bound based on physical limitations of the system, but we have no way of knowing whether that upper limit is even life supporting let alone something we'd want to get accustom to. Not to mention no idea as to the longer term impacts on all of the planet's physical, bio, and eco systems in such an event.
Who is comcast rolling the change out for and is it in all markets yet? I have a business class account at home, and I am not seeing any symptoms yet. So I'm wondering if there are more details if this only will effect residential customers or what and to what extent exactly?
Bedford's law is used in fraud detection. Its generalization might allow for more abstractive detection tools to comb through more general data and find evidence of other fabricated results.
I wonder what turnitin's report would give if you submitted a bunch of journal articles in the same field. I mean those *HAVE* to be original don't they? I don't believe this tool to be nearly as useful as it pitches itself to be.
Sort of like 10,000 monkeys at 10,000 typewriters writing Shakespeare. Except its millions of students at millions of keyboards. 17 million students in high school and 17 million college students in 2003. That may be some sort of maximum extrema, but clearly there are millions if not tens of millions of each.
Lest not also forget unlike our monkey case that it also isn't just random key slaps and large partitions are writing about similar subjects thus they are in similar frames of critical thought considering similar things. Not just mmmm yummy banana!
How many Lord of the Flies essays do you think have ever been written or an analysis of Hamlet and Laertes as foils? How many of them would have to be written before every possible word combination for phrasing has been exhausted?
I have to imagine if every high school or college student has to write an essay on a similar topic it is a statistical inevitability that some phrase or perhaps even a full sentence or multiples of combinations thereof some where (beyond the citations) ends up being identical or significantly similar. Even more likely and perhaps even frequent when years of compounding occur and yes in the real long term it becomes possible that even two papers are completely identical like the OP mentions.
There are likely to be nuance changes in the overall tone in these papers which makes them unique and original works, but if TurnItIn has its way anyone whose ever had an overlapping sentence in "a statistically significant way" MUST have cheated even when given they didn't. Its insane!
And I don't think its fair use. If I download every journal article I better have damn well paid for them or I've infringed on copyrights. Whether I do something with them to profit or not.
If these clowns want to keep student's hard earned works then those students deserve to be compensated, because these clowns are making a profit on their hard work. And their analysis is clearly a derivative work never mind the fact they store things verbatim in their databases. Its theft on the highest order and the students have no choice, but to submit, because their teacher told them to. Maybe the college students (I know for a fact this service has been used at in the University of Iowa's Biology Department) have some effective recourse, but high school students? Really? How can they enter a contract to release their works if they aren't even adults?!?! The court was wrong to down play this part since the website uses it it must be in their common interpretation of the applicable law that release is a necessary component to use.
How high is the incidence of plagiarism and should we care? There has to be a better method that enables whatever necessary enforcement there "needs to be" versus the fact that if I didn't cheat then my paper is an original work that I created and you don't have a right to profit off of my work.
It is apparently not okay to ripoff record labels and the "hard working" musicians, but millions of high school and college students yeah fuck those kids its easy and right to make money off of their hard work!
So did the Satellite get into orbit? Has anyone seen it as it went up or got into space? I would think a comm satellite would be relatively easy to pick up with radio equipment. Just curious.
With graph theory you can motivate everything from network analysis to topology there are also very interesting modern biological applications (like fragment assembly).
Similarly another idea might be a book like:
A First Course in Mathematical Modeling. You could get any of the older editions online for cheaper than the current one.
This book demonstrates the modeling process and considers a wide array of mathematics with a lot of primers on advanced topics without required previous experience in linear programming, summations, differential equations, and dimensional analysis among others.
Or if you feel like constructing your own based on something else you could couple this book with the episodes from the TV show and perhaps fit some data as examples of the wide applicability of mathematics. The Numbers Behind NUMB3RS: Solving Crime with Mathematics
This is just a small sampling of what could be. It depends on how much you want to fit to their current interests and career aspirations versus your own interest versus what they may see in college or simply later in life. You could show them higher things in statistics, computing, math itself, physics, biology. I mean the sky is the limit so more information would always be helpful. Any of the books I have put forward or many of the ones others have suggested seem to fit your criteria of being rigorous, but approachable.
Poster is referring to "Principia Mathematica" by Russel and Whitehead which is a book on the foundations of mathematics. Looking at creating a sound foundation for the whole of Mathematics from a well defined set of axioms.
Which is why the other poster mentioned the Godel theorem which demonstrated the futility of the larger aim of Principia. It is still however considered a seminal work in the foundations of mathematics.
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Numb3rs has used YouTube, facebook, FPS, MMO's, and even an ARG that used geocaching in various episodes. So there are some people who work on some shows that really do care about these sorts of things providing a degree of technical accuracy as a mechanism for developing a story.
The Greeks studied their mathematics separately from their philosophy as did the Egyptians, Chinese, Japanese, and Persians. India did as well and with a radically different perspective than most.
So with respect to cultural development mathematics has a long standing tradition of being separately developed from philosophy. It wasn't until around Newton's time that it became increasingly necessary to use logic and set theory to justify mathematics' basis.
And from those exercises that were needed to solidify the formal foundation of mathematics (Frege, Peano, Bolzano, Weierstrass, Frenkel, Zermelo, Russel, Whitehead, and Godel [among others]) some of the residual questions in mathematical logic and algebra bore Boole's work and other questions on decidability (Turing, Church, and Von Neumann [among many others]) which are the theoretical foundations for computers and computer science. Then there is that whole physics/engineering perspective to actually building the machines (Ada to Feynman to Moore [among even more others!])
Logic and set theory are philosophy overlaps, but you'd be hard pressed to represent the whole of mathematics that way, despite current efforts to do so like Russel and Whitehead's Principia Mathematica for the computer! I know I know there was even a recent/. article about doing just that with the wealth of mathematical knowledge, but it is anything, but a trivial task!
And even if you can express the theorems that way, that doesn't necessarily give them the same meaning. Equivalent yet different meaning? That must be philosophy!;)
All the symbol pushing in the world doesn't necessarily result in meaningful computation, and there is a necessary degree of applicability, at least intuitively, for many elements of mathematics which is the duality of its power to be wonderfully applicable to the world we live in to express observations yet also a study in the beauty and nature of structure and relation independent of any observation at all!
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As did ER "Heart of the Matter" (Season 6 Episode 273) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ER_episodes
Which predates the others since its from 2006. The wikipedia article for broken heart syndrome also mentions it was referenced as a diagnosis in Grey's Anatomy, but I can't find that episode.
This was the diagnosis in episode 121 of Scrubs "My House"
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Which was a parody of Dr. House by Dr. Cox in general but borrowed the following week's House diagnosis, episode 311 of the House MD "Words and Deeds"
back in good ole January 2007. WSJ is so behind the times.
I know you can answer Jedi on a census in some countries apparently the UK is one of them, but I don't know if it is given all of the recognition of other religions. It could I suppose if the wikipedia numbers are accurate than that would count in many countries. Otherwise if it has such protections than this company has probably just ran afoul of the law and this young Jedi will be getting some cash out of it.
Charlie Eppes: Larry, something went wrong, and I don't know what, and now it's like I can't even think.
Larry Fleinhardt: Well, let me guess: you tried to solve a problem involving human behavior, and it blew up in your face.
Charlie Eppes: Yeah, pretty much.
Larry Fleinhardt: Okay, well, Charles, you are a mathematician, you're always looking for the elegant solution. Human behavior is rarely, if ever, elegant. The universe is full of these odd bumps and twists. You know, perhaps you need to make your equation less elegant, more complicated; less precise, more descriptive. It's not going to be as pretty, but it might work a little bit better. Charlie, when you're working on human problems, there's going to be pain and disappointment.You gotta ask yourself, is it worth it?
I think there is a lot of merit for inter-agency cooperation between the world's different space agencies it seems to have done okay with ISS, but ISS has also shown us some of the limits of cooperation. I am hopeful and optimistic that such partnerships might make more manned missions tenable at least between aligned nations.
Stem Cell Scientists still don't have safe waters with the President's executive order, because it lacks the same permanence of a law passed by congress if the next administration changed its mind too we'd be back to where we were without a law backing it up. As a result of this instability fewer and fewer stem cell biologists are sticking around a few in Wisconsin, a few out in California, and a few other places but most are going overseas to safer waters with greater stability.
Its great that this summer with the LHC being damaged particle and high energy physicists came back to the states to work on the Tevatron, but its still going to be shut down soon and LHC will be online eventually. So there go the physicists back to Geneva (again).
Now were talking about dismantling a core part of NASA. Sure some of the scientists will just get shifted to other projects some may try moving to the private sector, but others are going to go to the ESA, Russia, Japan, and other countries with developing space programs. Since it will be their only option aside from retraining.
The major private R&D companies are persistently decreasing their budgets and sizes. There isn't anything to the scale and scope of Lucent and Bell Labs. The MS Research, Google, and IBM all do good work, but its very focused and well they can't hire everyone (or at least they won't hire everyone) which also pushes some with great talent into the financial sector or just anywhere willing to pay them. I mean how many companies are funding basic research in industrial companies? Big Oil used to fund a lot of academic geology, but a lot of that has gone dry in recent years. Does DOW fund anything that isn't just product enhancement research? I haven't heard much if anything about something truly amazing in aerospace either, I mean we're upgrading the Apaches AGAIN these 30+ year old flying machines weren't intended to be the last helicopters we ever developed, but as it stands there still the best we've come up with, but no one is pushing for better, no one has even tried to define what might make the next thing better.
I completely understand that historically R&D and funding of basic science came from all areas of the private sector (from areospace to mining to well I can't think of any clever industry that begins with the last few letters of the alphabet, but you get my point). All of that well seems almost completely dried out and I'm not just talking about due to the current crisis this seemed to have been the case while things were still booming not so long ago.
Not to mention there is still overwhelming draw (fiscal incentive) by financial companies (some domestic, but many foreign at least in ownership if not location) to eat up people with strong computer, mathematical, or statistical skills for some fat paychecks!
I understand that NASA has recently had problems with pet projects that weren't producing or lacked direction, but the answer isn't cutting off manned spaced flight. Manned flight is what made NASA the success it has been and can be a primer to restoring such glory. Manned flight personifies the modern explorer it provides a face to the organization and heroes for a country as a whole people who are alive and well that people can aspire to. All science has its slow and fast phases and NASA (space/rocketry/etc) isn't immune from that, but that doesn't mean the answer is cutting it off, in fact the answer is the opposite it needs more and it needs nurturing. It needs the support of its public.
I don't see how this proposed shift in NASA is in line with the speech the President just made to the school kids, I mean what if those kids want to be astronauts and rocket scientists? I guess maybe they work for Virgin Galactic (not an American company) or they are likely going to have to work for a foreign space agency. I read the statements they made on the campaign in the Science Debate I do believe this President understands what's at stake if we don't push hard to ignite
IANAL either, but I've read parts and wholes of a number of label contracts over the years. You're right it is likely in the details (and outcomes are heavily dependent on them), but in general the details go something like this.
That eighth album Sony intended on releasing is likely in this artist's contract. He may have only been responsible for being involved with the seven, but in his contract Sony probably retained rights to all material recorded by the artist during the duration of his contract (you general release all such copyrights permanently to your label) so all of those songs are Sony's not his (which is an error to his assumption that since his contractual obligations to Sony are met all other copyrights are retained by him extremely unlikely, but hard to say definitively without seeing his contract), further most major labels reserve the right to release a "Greatest Hits" compilation that may contain previously unreleased content. Generally this last album is purely for the labels profit (has a different scheme of royalty mechanisms) and can be released whether you've resigned with the label or not AND whether you consent to the release or not. Its a standard operating procedure for the big four and mimicked by the majority of the industry that will likely be upheld if his contract is scrutinized by a court.
Even if he can get his way in this case all that's going to do is provide disincentive to the major labels in dealing with artists in Mexico. Maybe that's a good though since a vacuum could inspire upstarts and real competition at least in Mexico which is a growing media consumer. I hope this guy can make a bit of a score off of the labels its nice to hear when its even possible that an artist can get his despite the will of the evil empire. Unfortunately all of these trade groups like RIAA ever protect are the label's bottom lines which generally entails anything, but the artists' best interests. Even the music unions in the US are epic fail. I remember not long ago there was a bill that sought to oversee US record label contracts to ensure fairness. I'm sure it probably got blocked by someone deep in MAFIAA's pockets, but could you imagine the possibilities if these contractual provisions had all been brought to light and forced to change. That'd almost be as fair as if radio stations had to pay royalties or if internet radio stations didn't!
The industry has long been broken these titans need to be brought down, economies of scale are no longer an inhibition to entrance in the market only having to have to compete with monoliths is the problem. The sooner the labels go away or get dismantled the sooner the things get better for musicians and for consumers. Why isn't the government investigating consolidation not just of the four labels themselves (and the fledgling indie labels), but their increasing scope into other areas of the musicians income like tour gross and merchandise sales we feared banks too big to fail because they consolidated we should intercede now before something along those lines happens with the labels and we're permanently stuck with them? Has anyone noticed the distinct lack of medium size bands in the industry for the last decade or so? You're either great success or too little to be known (and therefore cared about in the industry's eyes) that isn't the way the market has been and it doesn't have to remain that way.
Star Trek Online was planning (I don't know if they still are) on putting out versions for multiple consoles (PC, 360, PS3) and allowing them all to play on one system of servers (so someone playing from XBL could play someone on PC or PSN). So it is probably EA (and it might be some legacy hold over from PS2 and XB days as oppose to lets try to get them to buy more than one copy) more so than vendor lock-in.
If they truly wanted to stop multitasking behind the wheel there would be a lot more support for removing the human from the equation. We aren't that far off from cars that can accurately and safely drive themselves. Why aren't we funding efforts like the DARPA road challenge more? Lets get that wrapped up and out there. I mean I think its good that people who end up doing bad things, because of their poor behavior choices are being penalized for those choices, but if safety is truly the goal we'd recognize that in one way or another multitasking occurs for most drivers at some point and the only way to truly get rid of it and the risks they represent is to minimize the human role in controlling the vehicle.
Think about this mathematically.
The oscillation of the ice cap formation and overall weather cycles are the concerns. If we are changing the rate of global warming, even in just a small way, it is possible that our perturbations break the oscillation pattern of the system. That's what we need to determine.
That also leaves a big question mark as to what happens next. I mean one of the descriptions from the global warning namesake would be resonance leading to ever increasing temperatures. Obviously in the real world these ever increasing temperatures would have be asymptotic to some upper bound based on physical limitations of the system, but we have no way of knowing whether that upper limit is even life supporting let alone something we'd want to get accustom to. Not to mention no idea as to the longer term impacts on all of the planet's physical, bio, and eco systems in such an event.
This seems like a detail very much worth knowing!
Who is comcast rolling the change out for and is it in all markets yet? I have a business class account at home, and I am not seeing any symptoms yet. So I'm wondering if there are more details if this only will effect residential customers or what and to what extent exactly?
Maybe its just someone randomly surfing finding it through the garbage files... ;)
See here:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1228259&cid=27897059
Bedford's law is used in fraud detection. Its generalization might allow for more abstractive detection tools to comb through more general data and find evidence of other fabricated results.
I wonder what turnitin's report would give if you submitted a bunch of journal articles in the same field. I mean those *HAVE* to be original don't they? I don't believe this tool to be nearly as useful as it pitches itself to be.
I already gave a word rant in a different part, but I truly agree with your analysis. Thank you for pointing it out!
Sort of like 10,000 monkeys at 10,000 typewriters writing Shakespeare. Except its millions of students at millions of keyboards. 17 million students in high school and 17 million college students in 2003. That may be some sort of maximum extrema, but clearly there are millions if not tens of millions of each.
Lest not also forget unlike our monkey case that it also isn't just random key slaps and large partitions are writing about similar subjects thus they are in similar frames of critical thought considering similar things. Not just mmmm yummy banana!
How many Lord of the Flies essays do you think have ever been written or an analysis of Hamlet and Laertes as foils? How many of them would have to be written before every possible word combination for phrasing has been exhausted?
I have to imagine if every high school or college student has to write an essay on a similar topic it is a statistical inevitability that some phrase or perhaps even a full sentence or multiples of combinations thereof some where (beyond the citations) ends up being identical or significantly similar. Even more likely and perhaps even frequent when years of compounding occur and yes in the real long term it becomes possible that even two papers are completely identical like the OP mentions.
There are likely to be nuance changes in the overall tone in these papers which makes them unique and original works, but if TurnItIn has its way anyone whose ever had an overlapping sentence in "a statistically significant way" MUST have cheated even when given they didn't. Its insane!
And I don't think its fair use. If I download every journal article I better have damn well paid for them or I've infringed on copyrights. Whether I do something with them to profit or not.
If these clowns want to keep student's hard earned works then those students deserve to be compensated, because these clowns are making a profit on their hard work. And their analysis is clearly a derivative work never mind the fact they store things verbatim in their databases. Its theft on the highest order and the students have no choice, but to submit, because their teacher told them to. Maybe the college students (I know for a fact this service has been used at in the University of Iowa's Biology Department) have some effective recourse, but high school students? Really? How can they enter a contract to release their works if they aren't even adults?!?! The court was wrong to down play this part since the website uses it it must be in their common interpretation of the applicable law that release is a necessary component to use.
How high is the incidence of plagiarism and should we care? There has to be a better method that enables whatever necessary enforcement there "needs to be" versus the fact that if I didn't cheat then my paper is an original work that I created and you don't have a right to profit off of my work.
It is apparently not okay to ripoff record labels and the "hard working" musicians, but millions of high school and college students yeah fuck those kids its easy and right to make money off of their hard work!
This article seems to be an English version: http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSSEO88417
So did the Satellite get into orbit? Has anyone seen it as it went up or got into space? I would think a comm satellite would be relatively easy to pick up with radio equipment. Just curious.
Rosalind Franklin is a prime example of the fact that the noble prize is not awarded posthumously.
Also if they have some basic matrix math you might try consider teaching them graph theory. Such as: Discrete Mathematical Models with Applications to Social, Biological, and Environmental Problems.
With graph theory you can motivate everything from network analysis to topology there are also very interesting modern biological applications (like fragment assembly).
Similarly another idea might be a book like: A First Course in Mathematical Modeling. You could get any of the older editions online for cheaper than the current one.
This book demonstrates the modeling process and considers a wide array of mathematics with a lot of primers on advanced topics without required previous experience in linear programming, summations, differential equations, and dimensional analysis among others.
There are a lot of historic texts you can access parts or whole online. Otherwise some other books to consider might be.
The Structure of Proof: With Logic and Set Theory
Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science
Or if you feel like constructing your own based on something else you could couple this book with the episodes from the TV show and perhaps fit some data as examples of the wide applicability of mathematics. The Numbers Behind NUMB3RS: Solving Crime with Mathematics
This is just a small sampling of what could be. It depends on how much you want to fit to their current interests and career aspirations versus your own interest versus what they may see in college or simply later in life. You could show them higher things in statistics, computing, math itself, physics, biology. I mean the sky is the limit so more information would always be helpful. Any of the books I have put forward or many of the ones others have suggested seem to fit your criteria of being rigorous, but approachable.
Poster isn't referring to Newton's "Principia Mathematica Philosophiae Natrualis" which is about his physics and a geometric perspective to his calculus.
Poster is referring to "Principia Mathematica" by Russel and Whitehead which is a book on the foundations of mathematics. Looking at creating a sound foundation for the whole of Mathematics from a well defined set of axioms.
Which is why the other poster mentioned the Godel theorem which demonstrated the futility of the larger aim of Principia. It is still however considered a seminal work in the foundations of mathematics.
Numb3rs has used YouTube, facebook, FPS, MMO's, and even an ARG that used geocaching in various episodes. So there are some people who work on some shows that really do care about these sorts of things providing a degree of technical accuracy as a mechanism for developing a story.
The Greeks studied their mathematics separately from their philosophy as did the Egyptians, Chinese, Japanese, and Persians. India did as well and with a radically different perspective than most.
/. article about doing just that with the wealth of mathematical knowledge, but it is anything, but a trivial task!
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So with respect to cultural development mathematics has a long standing tradition of being separately developed from philosophy. It wasn't until around Newton's time that it became increasingly necessary to use logic and set theory to justify mathematics' basis.
And from those exercises that were needed to solidify the formal foundation of mathematics (Frege, Peano, Bolzano, Weierstrass, Frenkel, Zermelo, Russel, Whitehead, and Godel [among others]) some of the residual questions in mathematical logic and algebra bore Boole's work and other questions on decidability (Turing, Church, and Von Neumann [among many others]) which are the theoretical foundations for computers and computer science. Then there is that whole physics/engineering perspective to actually building the machines (Ada to Feynman to Moore [among even more others!])
Logic and set theory are philosophy overlaps, but you'd be hard pressed to represent the whole of mathematics that way, despite current efforts to do so like Russel and Whitehead's Principia Mathematica for the computer! I know I know there was even a recent
And even if you can express the theorems that way, that doesn't necessarily give them the same meaning. Equivalent yet different meaning? That must be philosophy!
All the symbol pushing in the world doesn't necessarily result in meaningful computation, and there is a necessary degree of applicability, at least intuitively, for many elements of mathematics which is the duality of its power to be wonderfully applicable to the world we live in to express observations yet also a study in the beauty and nature of structure and relation independent of any observation at all!