I can see some people seem to hate the algebra comparison. Let's try a different comparison. Sculpting. Everyone sculpted in school. Yet most people aren't sculptors. Everyone learned what an endoplasmic reticulum is. Yet very few went on to use that knowledge as a biologist. A lot of school is to give yourself exposure so you can find your passions. That's all I'm trying to say. Don't deny people that exposure.
Maybe I"m naive as to what you are referring to with social engineering. I have a 5 year old. She is able to do algorithms. if this then that etc. I think teaching her this is helpful even if she doesn't end up a programmer. I don't think teaching her programming is harmful and I find it odd that someone would see it as harmful. Could you elaborate?
PS - I don't think programming covers some magical divide. I am not teaching my daughter the dijkstra's algorithm to start, we start with simple sequences (as do all the lessons I've seen in public schools).
On a completely seperate note: Critical thinking vs regurgitation has always been an issue independent of programming.
Teaching someone to do "algebra" does not make them a "mathematician." No, it does not make them a better person. No, it does not make them responsible or moral. What it does do is try to flood the market with cheap labor, and make a zombie force that can't think very well for themselves. We don't want carpenters using this knowledge for square footage estimates. They should go to their local mathematician union to get a qualified calculation./s
I get what you're saying, but I don't think most people are arguing that exposing kids to programming makes them a software engineer. I learned a needle and thread, drilling, painting, etc in school. I ended up a software engineer, but those teachings were useful to me as a person.
Post Columbine, if you wore a black trench-coat into school you would be suspicious and often sent home. Is there anything inherently wrong in a trench-coat?
Three scenarios:
1) I wear the trench-coat and make subtle gestures to those around that I am shooting. 2) I wear the trench-coat and make OVERT gestures of gunning people down ( no actual guns involved) 3) I am ignorent of trench-coat fear and wear it to keep me dry in the rain
Those three scenarios have obviously different consequences. None of which is being arrested. Yet, the kid can still be at fault in the first two scenarios.
We need completely self-driving cars. But we don't need them to drive everywhere. Handling suburban, city, freeway, highway, et al is hard to program in. If we just focused on 100% freeway driving, I think that would be much easier to program. We could have a self driving car that drives on the freeway autonomously, but gives ample warning before an exit ramp where it expects the user to take over at the first stop.
Or maybe you worked for well under the average? The numbers seem to fit with my experience. (I have worked in multiple locations and have been on the hiring end of things)
Are the children and grand children responsible for the crimes their previous family members and 3rd party collaborators committed?
If someone on your family commits a crime are you supposed to go to jail as well to pay for their crimes too?
If your parents built a mansion with that loan, then the mansion is part of the estate at their death and creditors can take that away. If a country built infrastructure with loans, the creditor would have a lean on that infrastructure. If this wasn't the case it would make sense to take huge loans you couldn't pay and build a space elevator for your children.
The article quotes a NASA study from 2007 on the best way to "deflecting NEOs". They found nuclear devices to be "10-100 times more effective than the non-nuclear alternatives analyzed in this study." You are actually saying what the article is saying. The article doesn't say the nukes are to explode the NEO, leave it to Slashdot to have a misleading summary.
The summary is wrong. TFA says the nuke would be for changing the trajectory of the NEO, not destroy the NEO. It also found nukes to be better than other methods of changing trajectories.
I'm not sure these assumptions are correct, but saying that 1.07 to 1.12 is "not as big as many people may think" is a bit disingenuous. Let's look at the numbers
Lets assume 1.07 would be their natural ratio. In India it's 1.12. India has a birth rate of around 25 million people a year. The "natural" ratio would lead that to be:
Female birth number should be assuming a 1.07 ratio = 13,207,547 / 1.07 = 12,343,502 If this imbalance was only due to deaths of females before being reported as births this would lead to 551,050 females being killed in India.
We're talking half a million female babies each year (just in India). That's probably more than most people think.
Another post has already said this, but in case you don't see it. The professor admitted that there were some students that didn't deserve to fail. He asked the university for permission to teach just those students. The university denied his request and he was not willing to teach the class.
Most people that hate on Columbus are using http://theoatmeal.com/comics/c... as their reference. The fact is most historical figures are not saints or devils, but people with complex motivations living in a world very different than ours. (disclaimer: I still think Columbus wasn't a "good" guy.)
If you give an inch, they take a foot. Any time you give an overarching exception to the rule of law, it will be abused. I'm not interested in comparing our freedom losses relative to anything or anyone else. We can do better than we are doing now. For example: --US Gov. can hold you indefinitely without pressing charges. (gitmo) --Big data queries without warrants can cause false positive flags on innocent civilians --Recent choke hold fiasco has shed light on the police force being slapped on the wrist for killing using methods outside their own approval --CIA lies to senate in front of the world (about spying on citizens). Faces no charges or repercussions --Michael Chertoff (got money from US citizens for backscatter machines without the proper vetting and RFPs)
I realize my earlier statement could be construed as an ambiguous "everything effects everything" chaos theory type of statement. But, believe me, it is more than just wild conjecture. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E... . IF this theory is true (and there is certainly a fair amount of evidence) then it would explain how hormones effect motivations for STEM careers. Yes, there is still culture in there. They are not desperate systems, and could even create a feedback loop. So, failing other more compelling explanations, I'll go with the theory I linked.
Your #2 should be responded to as "Yes. While social pressures can make us make choices we would not otherwise, so too can hormones. Motivations are varied by hormones, and hormone levels are influenced greatly by sex." Pump someone full of different hormones and see their actions change.
You are right about that. Objectification of women is rampant across the whole entertainment industry. There is not a "gamer culture" of objectification. It far transcends this. This reporting is the same thing that happened with violence. People see something repulsive, and instead of realizing it's a problem that occurs everywhere and needs to be addressed they blame it on a sub-culture. Violence in video games is.... etc etc... It's one thing to call out entertainment across the board for all the drug, sex, and violence. It's quite another to turn a blind eye to all the content one consumes and blame content that their peers consume as the culprit.
There are problems, but lets not blame "gamers" for the problem. And if one only blames the objectification when it's in something that they don't already like then it becomes obviously hypocritical.
I think this has less to do with Gamer culture than it has to do with Marketing culture. It is not unique to gaming. Beer companies and any other company that markets to men uses the same techniques. This story and many other use the response to topics involving Misogyny as a reflection of gaming culture. I'm not sold. There is no data on this that I am aware of. I imagine if they had done the same video and posts about a book or beer commercials you would have the same sort of response. People that have Misogynistic prejudices are drawn to the types of things that bring them out of the woodwork. Let's see problems and fix them. Let's not construe things. Objectification of women in marketing is an issue. The same goes for art (books, games, tv, movies). We don't see shows like game of Thrones and say "Tv watchers have a culture of Misogyny".
That actually isn't the issue. That exposed the issue. The issue was that admins were fighting over the common.js for the site. They were changing the defaults javascript and having a fight. You can see the fight here: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/inde...
What happened, was instead of the general use of talks to resolve the issue, wikipedia germany said "screw this, lets create a new page lock that only we can edit, not just admins". This new protection status is superprotect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
In my mind the issue is that superprotect was created, not so much that they have a disagreement on the media viewer.
The summary doesn't describe the "flawed system" or what superprotection means. Here it is from the change petition
The "superprotect" page status introduced to keep the Media Viewer enabled is even more extreme: for the first time, a software feature has been designed to take the ability to edit pages away from Wikimedia project communities, giving that ability exclusively to unelected Wikimedia staff members.
My favorite is the following scenario that's happened to me at multiple clinics in some form or another:
Nurse: "Well, I don't think there is anything wrong with you, but lets do an extra scan just in case" Me: "Sounds good. How much does the scan cost?" Nurse: *looks aghast at such a request* "You have insurance, why would you care?" Me: "..." *thinks of explaining how the cost ends up being payed by me in either case*
Another experience calling the Hospital after having a child: Acc = Hospital accounts receivable personnel
Me: "I've received 7 different bills over the last few months. I would really like to pay off any balance so I can budget appropriately" Acc: "You have paid off all balance with the hospital" Me: "So, I shouldn't receive any more bills for the birth?" Acc: "I didn't say that. You will just have to see if more bills arrive." Me: "How will I know when everything has been billed?" Acc: "I can't imagine bills arriving next year."
Turns out the hospital, nurse midwives, doctor, anesthesiologist, etc etc etc. all bill separately and don't all put their bills in any timely manner. Took 12 months for all the bills to arrive from my last child's birth.
My debit card is insured like my credit card. My bank has no ATM fees pays others ATM fees for me (up to a certain amount per month). There are always companies that will screw you, but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
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I can see some people seem to hate the algebra comparison. Let's try a different comparison. Sculpting. Everyone sculpted in school. Yet most people aren't sculptors. Everyone learned what an endoplasmic reticulum is. Yet very few went on to use that knowledge as a biologist. A lot of school is to give yourself exposure so you can find your passions. That's all I'm trying to say. Don't deny people that exposure.
Maybe I"m naive as to what you are referring to with social engineering. I have a 5 year old. She is able to do algorithms. if this then that etc. I think teaching her this is helpful even if she doesn't end up a programmer. I don't think teaching her programming is harmful and I find it odd that someone would see it as harmful. Could you elaborate?
PS - I don't think programming covers some magical divide. I am not teaching my daughter the dijkstra's algorithm to start, we start with simple sequences (as do all the lessons I've seen in public schools).
On a completely seperate note: Critical thinking vs regurgitation has always been an issue independent of programming.
Teaching someone to do "algebra" does not make them a "mathematician." No, it does not make them a better person. No, it does not make them responsible or moral. What it does do is try to flood the market with cheap labor, and make a zombie force that can't think very well for themselves. We don't want carpenters using this knowledge for square footage estimates. They should go to their local mathematician union to get a qualified calculation. /s
I get what you're saying, but I don't think most people are arguing that exposing kids to programming makes them a software engineer. I learned a needle and thread, drilling, painting, etc in school. I ended up a software engineer, but those teachings were useful to me as a person.
Post Columbine, if you wore a black trench-coat into school you would be suspicious and often sent home. Is there anything inherently wrong in a trench-coat?
Three scenarios:
1) I wear the trench-coat and make subtle gestures to those around that I am shooting.
2) I wear the trench-coat and make OVERT gestures of gunning people down ( no actual guns involved)
3) I am ignorent of trench-coat fear and wear it to keep me dry in the rain
Those three scenarios have obviously different consequences. None of which is being arrested. Yet, the kid can still be at fault in the first two scenarios.
We need completely self-driving cars. But we don't need them to drive everywhere. Handling suburban, city, freeway, highway, et al is hard to program in. If we just focused on 100% freeway driving, I think that would be much easier to program. We could have a self driving car that drives on the freeway autonomously, but gives ample warning before an exit ramp where it expects the user to take over at the first stop.
Or maybe you worked for well under the average? The numbers seem to fit with my experience. (I have worked in multiple locations and have been on the hiring end of things)
Are the children and grand children responsible for the crimes their previous family members and 3rd party collaborators committed?
If someone on your family commits a crime are you supposed to go to jail as well to pay for their crimes too?
If your parents built a mansion with that loan, then the mansion is part of the estate at their death and creditors can take that away. If a country built infrastructure with loans, the creditor would have a lean on that infrastructure. If this wasn't the case it would make sense to take huge loans you couldn't pay and build a space elevator for your children.
The article quotes a NASA study from 2007 on the best way to "deflecting NEOs". They found nuclear devices to be "10-100 times more effective than the non-nuclear alternatives analyzed in this study." You are actually saying what the article is saying. The article doesn't say the nukes are to explode the NEO, leave it to Slashdot to have a misleading summary.
The summary is wrong. TFA says the nuke would be for changing the trajectory of the NEO, not destroy the NEO. It also found nukes to be better than other methods of changing trajectories.
Can someone explain this comment to me?
Thanks
I'm not sure these assumptions are correct, but saying that 1.07 to 1.12 is "not as big as many people may think" is a bit disingenuous. Let's look at the numbers
Lets assume 1.07 would be their natural ratio. In India it's 1.12. India has a birth rate of around 25 million people a year. The "natural" ratio would lead that to be:
25m * 1.07/2.07
12,922,705 males
12,077,294 females
Their actual ratio is more like (1.12):
25m * 1.12/2.12
13,207,547 males
11,792,452 females
Female birth number should be assuming a 1.07 ratio = 13,207,547 / 1.07 = 12,343,502
If this imbalance was only due to deaths of females before being reported as births this would lead to 551,050 females being killed in India.
We're talking half a million female babies each year (just in India). That's probably more than most people think.
Another post has already said this, but in case you don't see it. The professor admitted that there were some students that didn't deserve to fail. He asked the university for permission to teach just those students. The university denied his request and he was not willing to teach the class.
misattributed to Socrates.
a paraphrase of a quote from Aristophanes' Clouds, (see w:The Clouds,) a comedic play known for its caricature of Socrates.
From http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Y...
https://xkcd.com/882/
Most people that hate on Columbus are using http://theoatmeal.com/comics/c... as their reference. The fact is most historical figures are not saints or devils, but people with complex motivations living in a world very different than ours. (disclaimer: I still think Columbus wasn't a "good" guy.)
If you give an inch, they take a foot. Any time you give an overarching exception to the rule of law, it will be abused. I'm not interested in comparing our freedom losses relative to anything or anyone else. We can do better than we are doing now. For example:
--US Gov. can hold you indefinitely without pressing charges. (gitmo)
--Big data queries without warrants can cause false positive flags on innocent civilians
--Recent choke hold fiasco has shed light on the police force being slapped on the wrist for killing using methods outside their own approval
--CIA lies to senate in front of the world (about spying on citizens). Faces no charges or repercussions
--Michael Chertoff (got money from US citizens for backscatter machines without the proper vetting and RFPs)
I don't think you're familiar with the patriot act.
I realize my earlier statement could be construed as an ambiguous "everything effects everything" chaos theory type of statement. But, believe me, it is more than just wild conjecture. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E... . IF this theory is true (and there is certainly a fair amount of evidence) then it would explain how hormones effect motivations for STEM careers. Yes, there is still culture in there. They are not desperate systems, and could even create a feedback loop. So, failing other more compelling explanations, I'll go with the theory I linked.
Your #2 should be responded to as "Yes. While social pressures can make us make choices we would not otherwise, so too can hormones. Motivations are varied by hormones, and hormone levels are influenced greatly by sex." Pump someone full of different hormones and see their actions change.
You are right about that. Objectification of women is rampant across the whole entertainment industry. There is not a "gamer culture" of objectification. It far transcends this. This reporting is the same thing that happened with violence. People see something repulsive, and instead of realizing it's a problem that occurs everywhere and needs to be addressed they blame it on a sub-culture. Violence in video games is .... etc etc... It's one thing to call out entertainment across the board for all the drug, sex, and violence. It's quite another to turn a blind eye to all the content one consumes and blame content that their peers consume as the culprit.
There are problems, but lets not blame "gamers" for the problem. And if one only blames the objectification when it's in something that they don't already like then it becomes obviously hypocritical.
I think this has less to do with Gamer culture than it has to do with Marketing culture. It is not unique to gaming. Beer companies and any other company that markets to men uses the same techniques. This story and many other use the response to topics involving Misogyny as a reflection of gaming culture. I'm not sold. There is no data on this that I am aware of. I imagine if they had done the same video and posts about a book or beer commercials you would have the same sort of response. People that have Misogynistic prejudices are drawn to the types of things that bring them out of the woodwork.
Let's see problems and fix them. Let's not construe things. Objectification of women in marketing is an issue. The same goes for art (books, games, tv, movies). We don't see shows like game of Thrones and say "Tv watchers have a culture of Misogyny".
That actually isn't the issue. That exposed the issue. The issue was that admins were fighting over the common.js for the site. They were changing the defaults javascript and having a fight. You can see the fight here:
http://de.wikipedia.org/w/inde...
What happened, was instead of the general use of talks to resolve the issue, wikipedia germany said "screw this, lets create a new page lock that only we can edit, not just admins". This new protection status is superprotect:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
In my mind the issue is that superprotect was created, not so much that they have a disagreement on the media viewer.
The summary doesn't describe the "flawed system" or what superprotection means. Here it is from the change petition
The "superprotect" page status introduced to keep the Media Viewer enabled is even more extreme: for the first time, a software feature has been designed to take the ability to edit pages away from Wikimedia project communities, giving that ability exclusively to unelected Wikimedia staff members.
My favorite is the following scenario that's happened to me at multiple clinics in some form or another:
Nurse: "Well, I don't think there is anything wrong with you, but lets do an extra scan just in case"
Me: "Sounds good. How much does the scan cost?"
Nurse: *looks aghast at such a request* "You have insurance, why would you care?"
Me: "..." *thinks of explaining how the cost ends up being payed by me in either case*
Another experience calling the Hospital after having a child:
Acc = Hospital accounts receivable personnel
Me: "I've received 7 different bills over the last few months. I would really like to pay off any balance so I can budget appropriately"
Acc: "You have paid off all balance with the hospital"
Me: "So, I shouldn't receive any more bills for the birth?"
Acc: "I didn't say that. You will just have to see if more bills arrive."
Me: "How will I know when everything has been billed?"
Acc: "I can't imagine bills arriving next year."
Turns out the hospital, nurse midwives, doctor, anesthesiologist, etc etc etc. all bill separately and don't all put their bills in any timely manner. Took 12 months for all the bills to arrive from my last child's birth.
My debit card is insured like my credit card. My bank has no ATM fees pays others ATM fees for me (up to a certain amount per month). There are always companies that will screw you, but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.