Oh I forgot to add, just because you didn't enjoy the system that you shared with the group doesn't mean the hobby is out. I can't stand baseball unless my son is playing, but my in-laws just eat and breathe it.
I enjoyed playing D&D during undergrad. My wife wasn't much for it so it has fallen by the wayside. Her family is super into sports and I've picked up enjoying the games of a particular college team. You know what I've found out from her family: enjoying watching sports is almost exactly the same thing as playing a tabletop RPG. You get together with people you know. You learn a lot of statistics and rules. You argue or discuss different decisions with them and complain about the officiant. You snack and probably drink together. You pick up a lot of obscure trivia as you go along. Everyone enjoys themselves enough to do it on a regular basis.
There are lots of ways to play, play as an extension of yourself, play as someone you might wish to be if you weren't constrained in some way, play seriously as someone you would never wish to be, play as a parody of someone you would never wish to be. It is fine to have a mental shortcut to understanding why people might play but understand also it may not be fully representative.
"All this study really shows is that personality types are attracted to certain jobs. It does not advance our knowledge of autism." If this is indeed saying that people with autistic traits are attracted to STEM jobs, and that men are more likely to have autistic traits, then we've at least a partial explanation for the problem of women in STEM. And explaining why men are taking up the higher paying STEM jobs helps partially explain why women aren't paid as well as men. Those things shape all sorts of policy decisions.
A friend of mine who is a manager on some NASA project explained it well to me once: Space exploration is a legacy issue for a president. Your entire first term has to be focusing on solving problems that will influence your reelection. In your second term, you need to service your party's congressional bids, but you have a bit more room to focus on how you will be remembered in American history. Pushing space exploration is one of those ways to shine in American history. But that means that NASA is only politically important at best every other four years.
Of all the nightmare troubles I had with Comcast customer service, this wasn't true the last time I had Comcast. I lost service for a week. It was completely their fault and I called them up and asked for a credit for the service interruption and they said "OK. I've credited it to your bill." No escalation, no hours on hold. Of course, another time they decided to move my billing due date by a week, charge me for a whole month of service, and refused to issue any credit.
Hobby Lobby had been "overpaying" workers for their labor type for some time before this. It isn't necessarily market death to pay better for workers than your competitors.
I heard a segment on America's Test Kitchen who presented a general summary of his research that essentially said that the people with the longest lifespan tend to have the lowest lifetime caloric intake. He noted clearly there is a cut off point to the benefits of eating less, but eating less of everything over a lifetime is indeed a positive as long as you aren't starving your cells of what they need. At this point, I've forgotten the author, so you can take it with a grain of salt if you don't mind risking your heart health with an increase in your sodium intake...
As much as I'd like to live somewhere walkable with decent public transit, whatever drive I have for that is overwhelmed by the repulsiveness of living that close to so many people.
"Think of newspaper headlines when commenting. Don't make somebody read the whole article to know what the article is about." You_won_t_believe_the_three_things_this_method_does(), This_method_just_announced_it_was_running_for_the_GOP_presidential_nomination(unsigned int year), Five_ways_to_make_your_integers_long(),...
When was privacy normal? Coming from an area with a lot of small towns, there has been historically very little privacy and it usually caused a lot of grief for anyone out of "normal." Privacy has never been normal if you choose to participate in a community with any depth, especially not the sort of privacy that you lose by posting to Facebook.
The argument is that computer algorithms are mathematical constructs with a few computation specific constraints. Relativity is just as easily a mathematical construct with a few physics specific constraints (like being connected to observable phenomenon).
The whole point of the term STEM is there is a lot of overlap in the definitions. We shouldn't have to be arguing over the exact placement of something especially if our arguing over the placement of it is delaying learning opportunities or advancement in the field.
After looking at the House summary, it reads like computer science wasn't just left out as an official science, it reads that computer science wasn't officially any of the four. I didn't read the full bill.
I have a computer science degree too. I guess you could say the science part of computer science was math instead, but by the time you've gone down that path I think you've thrown almost all of science into the math category. I think the problem is that we train people in a scientific field and almost all the jobs fall firmly in the engineering definition and we don't have any terminology to distinguish between applied and non-applied computer science. I'd say the folks working in quantum algorithms are doing non-applied computer science. There is also plenty of work in non-applied computer science in graphics and artificial intelligence.
"Most people are lazy, self indulgent and would happily sit on their ass doing nothing if there wasn't a fear of poverty driving them." Presuming were were post-scarcity this really wouldn't be a problem. It isn't like the good workers would be dragging these folks along. If anything it would free up the good workers to do greater things because they wouldn't have to burden themselves with worrying with social or familial support.
My thoughts exactly. Having something this prestigious have a standardized way to get past the first hurdle, I'll bet by second semester you'll have people gaming the system. You probably can slow the phenomenon by randomizing the course choice, but I can't imagine this going on too many years before it is completely worthless as a filtering device.
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Well, they had trouble getting Doctors Ruat, Coelum, Fiat, Justitia, Ecce, Lex, and Rex together to write it. So they had to just go with Dr. Spear.
Oh I forgot to add, just because you didn't enjoy the system that you shared with the group doesn't mean the hobby is out. I can't stand baseball unless my son is playing, but my in-laws just eat and breathe it.
I enjoyed playing D&D during undergrad. My wife wasn't much for it so it has fallen by the wayside. Her family is super into sports and I've picked up enjoying the games of a particular college team. You know what I've found out from her family: enjoying watching sports is almost exactly the same thing as playing a tabletop RPG. You get together with people you know. You learn a lot of statistics and rules. You argue or discuss different decisions with them and complain about the officiant. You snack and probably drink together. You pick up a lot of obscure trivia as you go along. Everyone enjoys themselves enough to do it on a regular basis.
There are lots of ways to play, play as an extension of yourself, play as someone you might wish to be if you weren't constrained in some way, play seriously as someone you would never wish to be, play as a parody of someone you would never wish to be. It is fine to have a mental shortcut to understanding why people might play but understand also it may not be fully representative.
"All this study really shows is that personality types are attracted to certain jobs. It does not advance our knowledge of autism."
If this is indeed saying that people with autistic traits are attracted to STEM jobs, and that men are more likely to have autistic traits, then we've at least a partial explanation for the problem of women in STEM. And explaining why men are taking up the higher paying STEM jobs helps partially explain why women aren't paid as well as men. Those things shape all sorts of policy decisions.
I loved watching various incarnations of Star Trek, but $6/month is a bit steep for 1 show.
A friend of mine who is a manager on some NASA project explained it well to me once: Space exploration is a legacy issue for a president. Your entire first term has to be focusing on solving problems that will influence your reelection. In your second term, you need to service your party's congressional bids, but you have a bit more room to focus on how you will be remembered in American history. Pushing space exploration is one of those ways to shine in American history. But that means that NASA is only politically important at best every other four years.
Definitely a difference, but it was one of the only times Comcast didn't screw me. That is an event worth noting.
Of all the nightmare troubles I had with Comcast customer service, this wasn't true the last time I had Comcast. I lost service for a week. It was completely their fault and I called them up and asked for a credit for the service interruption and they said "OK. I've credited it to your bill." No escalation, no hours on hold. Of course, another time they decided to move my billing due date by a week, charge me for a whole month of service, and refused to issue any credit.
Hobby Lobby had been "overpaying" workers for their labor type for some time before this. It isn't necessarily market death to pay better for workers than your competitors.
I heard a segment on America's Test Kitchen who presented a general summary of his research that essentially said that the people with the longest lifespan tend to have the lowest lifetime caloric intake. He noted clearly there is a cut off point to the benefits of eating less, but eating less of everything over a lifetime is indeed a positive as long as you aren't starving your cells of what they need. At this point, I've forgotten the author, so you can take it with a grain of salt if you don't mind risking your heart health with an increase in your sodium intake...
As much as I'd like to live somewhere walkable with decent public transit, whatever drive I have for that is overwhelmed by the repulsiveness of living that close to so many people.
I'm not all that keen on having a phone in the first place. If I finally get to choose between phone and something else, I'm choosing something else.
"Think of newspaper headlines when commenting. Don't make somebody read the whole article to know what the article is about." You_won_t_believe_the_three_things_this_method_does(), This_method_just_announced_it_was_running_for_the_GOP_presidential_nomination(unsigned int year), Five_ways_to_make_your_integers_long(), ...
My biggest offense is probably Elektra. I actually paid money for the dvd and I do enjoy watching it.
Or just ignore the reviews. I can't count the number of times that I've enjoyed a "terrible" movie.
When was privacy normal? Coming from an area with a lot of small towns, there has been historically very little privacy and it usually caused a lot of grief for anyone out of "normal." Privacy has never been normal if you choose to participate in a community with any depth, especially not the sort of privacy that you lose by posting to Facebook.
Looks like part of the design is solar power. I'm not sure how you CNC a solar panel out of plywood but I'd certainly be interested in knowing.
The argument is that computer algorithms are mathematical constructs with a few computation specific constraints. Relativity is just as easily a mathematical construct with a few physics specific constraints (like being connected to observable phenomenon).
The whole point of the term STEM is there is a lot of overlap in the definitions. We shouldn't have to be arguing over the exact placement of something especially if our arguing over the placement of it is delaying learning opportunities or advancement in the field.
After looking at the House summary, it reads like computer science wasn't just left out as an official science, it reads that computer science wasn't officially any of the four. I didn't read the full bill.
I have a computer science degree too. I guess you could say the science part of computer science was math instead, but by the time you've gone down that path I think you've thrown almost all of science into the math category. I think the problem is that we train people in a scientific field and almost all the jobs fall firmly in the engineering definition and we don't have any terminology to distinguish between applied and non-applied computer science. I'd say the folks working in quantum algorithms are doing non-applied computer science. There is also plenty of work in non-applied computer science in graphics and artificial intelligence.
Of all the inventions of Star Trek, a political or economic system that successfully controls human greed seems the most futuristic.
"Most people are lazy, self indulgent and would happily sit on their ass doing nothing if there wasn't a fear of poverty driving them." Presuming were were post-scarcity this really wouldn't be a problem. It isn't like the good workers would be dragging these folks along. If anything it would free up the good workers to do greater things because they wouldn't have to burden themselves with worrying with social or familial support.
My thoughts exactly. Having something this prestigious have a standardized way to get past the first hurdle, I'll bet by second semester you'll have people gaming the system. You probably can slow the phenomenon by randomizing the course choice, but I can't imagine this going on too many years before it is completely worthless as a filtering device.