...yes, a hundred times yes. "Active learning" where "you expect the students to learn about the equations before they get there" is always better than a lecture -- where the student comes in knowing nothing and leaves knowing more than nothing.
Good on you. If the student has already learned it, they'll learn more. Congrats.
I believe "active learning" used to be called "home work". I guess George Carlin's right again -- shell shock, battle fatigue, and operational exhaustion, ain't got nothing on post-traumatic stress disorder.
You know, there seem to be a lot of people trying their darndest to make things better, to improve the world, and to improve everything around us.
Am I the only one who's already happy?
I live in a Canadian metropolitan suburb. I've got a house. I'm safe. There's food. There's electricity. There's healthcare. What do I have to complain about?
Look at things thusly: until 100 years ago, there wasn't a man alive in all of history who had things better than I have things right now. Even the wealthiest king in the wealthiest land in the biggest castle didn't have big-screen tvisions, a telephone, the ability to vacation around the world by plane. And that castle of his? Hark, drafty, dang, dusty, quiet. I've got a Swiffer. I've got music in every room. I've got self-cleaning ovens. I've got a gas fireplace, two barbecues, a gas furnace, a superb air conditioner, farm-fresh food, and a fridge -- not to mention a sports car.
And, oh yeah, I've got furniture that's actually called a lazy-boy.
In all truth, I've zero interest in making things any "better". Sure, instantaneous transport would make vacationing a tad-bit easier, but this hyper loop is meant to make people work more. I work enough already, thank you very much.
I'm happy that he's having trouble getting large populations to make large changes.
A long time ago, news was spoken, and you decided to believe, or not to believe, the person telling the tale.
A while ago, news was written, and you decided to believe, or not to believe, the author writing it.
Somewhere along the way, more and more people began to presume that everything is true -- maybe because most of it was, or maybe because they were just that stupid.
Congrats! Those times are over.
Now, once again, you get to spend more time evaluating the source than the content. Enjoy!
"mammal populations are losing 70 percent of their members because of habitat loss"
except I'll bet that there are more mammals today than last year. humans count too. so it's really just that there is less mammal diversity. that's something else altogether.
and what of all of the animal species that prefer the new world climate? lowering the temperature, the pollution, and the acidity would set back the jellyfish population by decades.
So really, this is just an argument of preferring giraffes over jellyfish. So which ones do we eat, which ones clean our dirty oceans, and which ones look prettier?
Personally, I prefer it a little warmer. My country benefits immensely from global warming -- agriculture, tourism, and land. You in Florida have had your time in the sun. Now it's your turn to have the hostile seasons.
And what of solar power? Isn't hotter better? Sorry, that's the hole-in-the-ozone thing. I meant greenhouse effect. Isn't that good for plants? And therefore for agriculture? I like food. And hurricanes? Wind power, soon lightning power.
This planet has many deserts. Between arid-north, snowy south, and sandy middles, plenty of earth is hostile to humans. So isn't this just a shift? If you live at the equator, plan to move north in a generation or two. Florida will become as hot as jamaica. But virginia will become the new florida. And the arctic circle will become the new new york.
For a group of scientists looking to colonize the moon, and mars, global warming ought not seem so hostile by comparison.
I am forced to conclude that you've lost track of the context being discussed. We are NOT discussing how efficient a subway can be.
We are discussing how a subway can reduce road congestion.
I don't need to visit London to know that it's got some of the worst traffic of any first-world city. The news, and even Top Gear, has focused heavily on congestion, smog, regulations, and alternative transportation -- even bicycles are stuck in that traffic.
Think about how many people aren't taking the roads now because they are too congestion. Reduce the congestion, and more people will show up to congest it further.
The problem isn't the roads, it's the city congestion. There is such a thing as too many people in an area. The roads become the bottleneck -- often intentionally because you'd prefer the congestion to be in the roads, rather than elsewhere.
But if we're talking about far-flung transportation solutions, I enjoy the idea of a ballistically-launched bus-sized pod of people fired by canon/catapult over a city.
youths of today are clearly incredibly stupid. They need a "service" to "stream-rip". Back in my day, the dual-tape-deck had a record button. You pushed it. It would record radio, or the other tape, or the cd. Today, windows has a record button too. Hit it in your favourite free audio app. Perfect digital copy.
As for any concept of value/fairness/ethics...
First off, the value of music is the live performance. Pay to see the band and have the experience. I go to two dozen theatrical shows every year.
Second, the "stream", as it were, is being produced by hardware that I own. My speakers, my cables, my computer. So the "performance", as it were, is all mine. My computer is "covering" the original. So the value of the music is already reduced to the licencing cost that a cover-band would pay to perform the say.
Third, I'm performing it for me, myself, and I. Hardly a public for-profit scenario.
It's little more than the sheet-music, since the always-perfect musician is sitting on my desk, owned by me.
Yes I buy CDs, to support to artists that I see live. Do I play them? No. Music through speakers just sucks. But I want them to return to my local theatre. Gotta support the tour.
So, a car-company has manly-men who don't co-mingle with woman in the way that women might want. Is anyone surprised? How about a mechanic? Or a car demolition shop? Or just about any grease-monkey job anywhere throughout history?
Why is it a surprise that men, around other men, working with their muscles, tend to have their blood flooring predominantly through their muscles? It's not diplomacy, and it's not politics. It's auto-repair.
It's dirty, it's hot, it's stinky, it's ugly, it's dangerous, and it's full of tools. Same goes for the language used, the personalities apparent, and the men themselves.
Walk into the mud, and you'll get dirty. I, for one, chose a job out of the mud.
If it's that important to you -- it gets you into banks, you store decades of personal stuff in it -- then you should be owning it, not renting it. Doesn't cost much to own a domain name.
...among IVF patients. Great. So we're talking about men who likely already have some kind of problem.
Rewrite: for men-with-problems, those problems are more significant with age. Again, big surprise.
I'd bet that older men, who want children, and can't seem to have children, experience more stress than younger men. Possibly due to the very simple fact that they've spent more time trying and more time failing.
How about an hour of extreme torture. Who cares? It's just an hour with no lasting effects. Just stand there, for an hour, with nothing to look at, nothing to see, and only one thing to smell. Try standing in your living room for an hour. Lean up against a wall. For an hour. Don't sit. Don't pace. Don't step.
And without peanuts? Are you high? Have we forgotten the purpose of the peanuts? It's the salt. Salt effectively pauses the digestive system, along with a few other biological systems. It's hundreds of people in one place for an hour.
And I don't want to know what happens to standing people in the event of a crash. Or during turbulence. Or holding a baby. Or to your 3' tall daughter when a 300lbs man falls on top of her.
"10 minutes more" is well below the one-late-night-per-week effect. This could be nothing more than men have one restless night each week. Or men stay up late one night each week. Or thunder wakes up men more than women.
Or, of course, the men who use a fitbit don't sleep as much as the men who don't.
...and just look at how many people were killed by bad machine guns. The car needs to be way better than a human before it's kills are acceptable. I can accept another human making a mistake that I would make. I don't accept a machine making a mistake that I would make. I already find it tough enough to accept a human making a mistake that I wouldn't make.
In any event, how's this for an algorithm: look forward. if you see the you expect to see (a road) keep driving. If you see fur, instead of a road, slow down. If it keeps getting bigger, slow down more. If it gets smaller, speed up. Doesn't matter if it's in the air, or on the ground. If a part of it is an eye level, slow down if it's getting bigger.
Who cares what it is, or how it's moving. It's either getting bigger, or getting smaller, as you move forward. That's it.
These are the types of things that just make all of the hype totally obviously completely garbage. No animal on the planet would run into a kangaroo. Perhaps the entire concept of the sensor is just way off.
I have memories of the way machine guns evolved. From large gatling systems to the smallest of springs. These cars are still at the large gatling systems.
I'm 37, and the biggest thing, in terms of time, that I've found myself amassing is hobbies. My sportscar paid-off and therefore pretty close to free to enjoy at pennies per minute. The kayak costs virtually nothing. The theremin, kalimba, and hammock chairs are completely zero cost. Video games, reading, and even tvision are basically pennies per hour. Even home DIY amounts to very little cost per-day. Cooking and gardening and the theatre are cheap too. I already lack the time to master any one of them. I don't look forward to retiring to be with friends. I look forward to retiring to focus on all of the hobbies I've learned to love.
...and the nutrition comes from where exactly?? No sunlight, dense farming, and stale soil. Tell me where the nutrition comes from. No wait, let me guess. They pour a mysterious ooze onto it. Great.
I think I'll choose my plants growing under the sun, under the rain, with worms, and bugs, and rabbits, and, dirt-I-mean-soil-I-mean-what's-that-word-oh-yeah-we-used-it-to-name-our-planet earth.
I think this is way too premature. She was complaining about the bro-culture. It still is a bro-culture. Firing a CEO is a nice consequence, but it is no where near a solution.
If I had to guess, I'd say that in one year, everything will revert back to the same.
You don't know how to read. Step one was surface area. Read step two.
You also don't know how to think. You won't find something to protect against all theorhetical possibilities. That's not a real thing in life. It's like money. They aren't impossible to counterfit -- obviously. If the mint can print them, someone else can print them too. The idea is to make printing them dependent on an easily tracked material'ink/device, so that it's easy to find counterfitters. It's nothing more than a cat-and-mouse game where the mouse is never caught.
Like I said the first time: presume B is always infected, scan in C, wipe C if malware found. Learn to read.
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...yes, a hundred times yes. "Active learning" where "you expect the students to learn about the equations before they get there" is always better than a lecture -- where the student comes in knowing nothing and leaves knowing more than nothing.
Good on you. If the student has already learned it, they'll learn more. Congrats.
I believe "active learning" used to be called "home work". I guess George Carlin's right again -- shell shock, battle fatigue, and operational exhaustion, ain't got nothing on post-traumatic stress disorder.
You know, there seem to be a lot of people trying their darndest to make things better, to improve the world, and to improve everything around us.
Am I the only one who's already happy?
I live in a Canadian metropolitan suburb. I've got a house. I'm safe. There's food. There's electricity. There's healthcare. What do I have to complain about?
Look at things thusly: until 100 years ago, there wasn't a man alive in all of history who had things better than I have things right now. Even the wealthiest king in the wealthiest land in the biggest castle didn't have big-screen tvisions, a telephone, the ability to vacation around the world by plane. And that castle of his? Hark, drafty, dang, dusty, quiet. I've got a Swiffer. I've got music in every room. I've got self-cleaning ovens. I've got a gas fireplace, two barbecues, a gas furnace, a superb air conditioner, farm-fresh food, and a fridge -- not to mention a sports car.
And, oh yeah, I've got furniture that's actually called a lazy-boy.
In all truth, I've zero interest in making things any "better". Sure, instantaneous transport would make vacationing a tad-bit easier, but this hyper loop is meant to make people work more. I work enough already, thank you very much.
I'm happy that he's having trouble getting large populations to make large changes.
I don't really want any changes.
I'm actually happy.
Am I the only one?
Were you just now talking about sexy stuffs?
Brilliant. Spot-on!
Anyone who modded your comment down has never heard of Eliza.
Please mod up.
A long time ago, news was spoken, and you decided to believe, or not to believe, the person telling the tale.
A while ago, news was written, and you decided to believe, or not to believe, the author writing it.
Somewhere along the way, more and more people began to presume that everything is true -- maybe because most of it was, or maybe because they were just that stupid.
Congrats! Those times are over.
Now, once again, you get to spend more time evaluating the source than the content. Enjoy!
Therapists have a lot of work to do.
"mammal populations are losing 70 percent of their members because of habitat loss"
except I'll bet that there are more mammals today than last year. humans count too.
so it's really just that there is less mammal diversity. that's something else altogether.
and what of all of the animal species that prefer the new world climate? lowering the temperature, the pollution, and the acidity would set back the jellyfish population by decades.
So really, this is just an argument of preferring giraffes over jellyfish. So which ones do we eat, which ones clean our dirty oceans, and which ones look prettier?
Personally, I prefer it a little warmer. My country benefits immensely from global warming -- agriculture, tourism, and land. You in Florida have had your time in the sun. Now it's your turn to have the hostile seasons.
And what of solar power? Isn't hotter better? Sorry, that's the hole-in-the-ozone thing. I meant greenhouse effect. Isn't that good for plants? And therefore for agriculture? I like food. And hurricanes? Wind power, soon lightning power.
This planet has many deserts. Between arid-north, snowy south, and sandy middles, plenty of earth is hostile to humans. So isn't this just a shift? If you live at the equator, plan to move north in a generation or two. Florida will become as hot as jamaica. But virginia will become the new florida. And the arctic circle will become the new new york.
For a group of scientists looking to colonize the moon, and mars, global warming ought not seem so hostile by comparison.
I am forced to conclude that you've lost track of the context being discussed. We are NOT discussing how efficient a subway can be.
We are discussing how a subway can reduce road congestion.
I don't need to visit London to know that it's got some of the worst traffic of any first-world city. The news, and even Top Gear, has focused heavily on congestion, smog, regulations, and alternative transportation -- even bicycles are stuck in that traffic.
Nice descent into nothingness:
1: "enables"
2: "reasonably"
3: "as long as"
4: "failed"
So you're saying that it needs infinite money, and has yet to work for anyone.
You guys are doing it again. Does your country have the money for this? Do you intend to throw more of your taxes to your military?
The article mentions China's space-oriented weapons. China has money. China has your money.
Maybe you should, as a country, find some money before opting for what must be the most expensive military faction ever considered?
Think about how many people aren't taking the roads now because they are too congestion. Reduce the congestion, and more people will show up to congest it further.
The problem isn't the roads, it's the city congestion. There is such a thing as too many people in an area. The roads become the bottleneck -- often intentionally because you'd prefer the congestion to be in the roads, rather than elsewhere.
But if we're talking about far-flung transportation solutions, I enjoy the idea of a ballistically-launched bus-sized pod of people fired by canon/catapult over a city.
youths of today are clearly incredibly stupid. They need a "service" to "stream-rip". Back in my day, the dual-tape-deck had a record button. You pushed it. It would record radio, or the other tape, or the cd. Today, windows has a record button too. Hit it in your favourite free audio app. Perfect digital copy.
As for any concept of value/fairness/ethics...
First off, the value of music is the live performance. Pay to see the band and have the experience. I go to two dozen theatrical shows every year.
Second, the "stream", as it were, is being produced by hardware that I own. My speakers, my cables, my computer. So the "performance", as it were, is all mine. My computer is "covering" the original. So the value of the music is already reduced to the licencing cost that a cover-band would pay to perform the say.
Third, I'm performing it for me, myself, and I. Hardly a public for-profit scenario.
It's little more than the sheet-music, since the always-perfect musician is sitting on my desk, owned by me.
Yes I buy CDs, to support to artists that I see live. Do I play them? No. Music through speakers just sucks. But I want them to return to my local theatre. Gotta support the tour.
So, a car-company has manly-men who don't co-mingle with woman in the way that women might want. Is anyone surprised? How about a mechanic? Or a car demolition shop? Or just about any grease-monkey job anywhere throughout history?
Why is it a surprise that men, around other men, working with their muscles, tend to have their blood flooring predominantly through their muscles? It's not diplomacy, and it's not politics. It's auto-repair.
It's dirty, it's hot, it's stinky, it's ugly, it's dangerous, and it's full of tools. Same goes for the language used, the personalities apparent, and the men themselves.
Walk into the mud, and you'll get dirty. I, for one, chose a job out of the mud.
If it's that important to you -- it gets you into banks, you store decades of personal stuff in it -- then you should be owning it, not renting it. Doesn't cost much to own a domain name.
...among IVF patients. Great. So we're talking about men who likely already have some kind of problem.
Rewrite: for men-with-problems, those problems are more significant with age. Again, big surprise.
I'd bet that older men, who want children, and can't seem to have children, experience more stress than younger men. Possibly due to the very simple fact that they've spent more time trying and more time failing.
How about an hour of extreme torture. Who cares? It's just an hour with no lasting effects. Just stand there, for an hour, with nothing to look at, nothing to see, and only one thing to smell. Try standing in your living room for an hour. Lean up against a wall. For an hour. Don't sit. Don't pace. Don't step.
And without peanuts? Are you high? Have we forgotten the purpose of the peanuts? It's the salt. Salt effectively pauses the digestive system, along with a few other biological systems. It's hundreds of people in one place for an hour.
And I don't want to know what happens to standing people in the event of a crash. Or during turbulence. Or holding a baby. Or to your 3' tall daughter when a 300lbs man falls on top of her.
"10 minutes more" is well below the one-late-night-per-week effect. This could be nothing more than men have one restless night each week. Or men stay up late one night each week. Or thunder wakes up men more than women.
Or, of course, the men who use a fitbit don't sleep as much as the men who don't.
Garbage bias, garbage average, meaningless conclusions.
...and just look at how many people were killed by bad machine guns. The car needs to be way better than a human before it's kills are acceptable. I can accept another human making a mistake that I would make. I don't accept a machine making a mistake that I would make. I already find it tough enough to accept a human making a mistake that I wouldn't make.
In any event, how's this for an algorithm: look forward. if you see the you expect to see (a road) keep driving. If you see fur, instead of a road, slow down. If it keeps getting bigger, slow down more. If it gets smaller, speed up. Doesn't matter if it's in the air, or on the ground. If a part of it is an eye level, slow down if it's getting bigger.
Who cares what it is, or how it's moving. It's either getting bigger, or getting smaller, as you move forward. That's it.
These are the types of things that just make all of the hype totally obviously completely garbage. No animal on the planet would run into a kangaroo. Perhaps the entire concept of the sensor is just way off.
I have memories of the way machine guns evolved. From large gatling systems to the smallest of springs. These cars are still at the large gatling systems.
I'm 37, and the biggest thing, in terms of time, that I've found myself amassing is hobbies. My sportscar paid-off and therefore pretty close to free to enjoy at pennies per minute. The kayak costs virtually nothing. The theremin, kalimba, and hammock chairs are completely zero cost. Video games, reading, and even tvision are basically pennies per hour. Even home DIY amounts to very little cost per-day. Cooking and gardening and the theatre are cheap too. I already lack the time to master any one of them. I don't look forward to retiring to be with friends. I look forward to retiring to focus on all of the hobbies I've learned to love.
...and the nutrition comes from where exactly?? No sunlight, dense farming, and stale soil. Tell me where the nutrition comes from. No wait, let me guess. They pour a mysterious ooze onto it. Great.
I think I'll choose my plants growing under the sun, under the rain, with worms, and bugs, and rabbits, and, dirt-I-mean-soil-I-mean-what's-that-word-oh-yeah-we-used-it-to-name-our-planet earth.
I think this is way too premature. She was complaining about the bro-culture. It still is a bro-culture. Firing a CEO is a nice consequence, but it is no where near a solution.
If I had to guess, I'd say that in one year, everything will revert back to the same.
So. . .then you're saying that it's perfect for uni-direction transfers within a closed network? Good point.
You don't know how to read. Step one was surface area. Read step two.
You also don't know how to think. You won't find something to protect against all theorhetical possibilities. That's not a real thing in life. It's like money. They aren't impossible to counterfit -- obviously. If the mint can print them, someone else can print them too. The idea is to make printing them dependent on an easily tracked material'ink/device, so that it's easy to find counterfitters. It's nothing more than a cat-and-mouse game where the mouse is never caught.
Like I said the first time: presume B is always infected, scan in C, wipe C if malware found. Learn to read.
We're not trying to stop ethan hunt here. Set your bar.