Michael Aschbacher (one of the foremost algebraists currently alive) teaches the first two-thirds of our first course in algebra, as well as our first-year course in linear algebra.
Feynman taught first-year physics while he was here.
Politzer (just won the Nobel in phys) currently does a good bit of work with undergrad and even first/second-year phys majors.
A professor's job isn't exclusively to teach, you know. To the best researchers in academia who are actually at some university, it's at best a necessary evil research by top profs benefits society a lot more than teaching silly undergrads.
Granted, not every paper is good, but you'd never get the majority of seminal results that define fields without profs.
The thing's this. Your average power plant is about 23 times more efficient than your car's wimpy little engine. Taking everything into consideration, even if the power plant burns coal, a purely electric car would create less pollution simply because the big power plant is much better than your dinky little IC engine.
Also, what's with the opposition to nuclear power? 3MI was a clear example of safeguards working properly and preventing a meltdown. Such power plants are also generally more resilient to terrorist attack. Ramming an airplane into a concrete wall as thick as the ones you see at nuclear power plants does nothing. I mean, the walls are designed to withstand essentially an atom bomb going off. Moreover, if you crunch the numbers, solar and geothermal are simply impractical at the moment. Even if you get up to 50% or so efficiency with solar, you'd have to cover a huge amount of ground with panels to get energy comparable to a single nuclear plant, and depending on the weather is somewhat unhealthy on peak times during a cloudy day. Geothermal is worse there are few sites where geothermal energy can be practically generated, and it's generally infeasible economically to do so. Currently, the largest geothermal plant in the world generates a measly 2 GWe. Solar is probably the only feasible solution in the extremely long term simply because essentially all energy ultimately comes from the sun anyway, but in the medium term, nuclear is a more efficient solution.
If you dig around on the forums, you'll see signs of the original ending, which was very PS:T-y. Apparently it was even in some preview builds, which was what was referenced when the previewers talked about influence mattering and absolutely heartrending endings. The stuff was all written, too. No clue why it didn't make it in --- maybe LucasArts decided that having an ending that actually tugged on anybody's emotional strings would've been too much?
The stuff is here, but you'll need to go to the second page to see that formatted in a way that's really readable. If you dig around in the proper directories, you can actually find the freaking recorded dialogue for those scenes. It really rather annoys me that they lobotomised what would've been a spectacularly touching ending.
Arctic's a bit dying, though. A lot of people are losing interest, new players are turned off by randomers, BSP owns the MUD, Wilds are dead, and Corey is still fat and stupid.
Yes, because, you know, all the excessive DDT use in developed countries was primarily to stop the dreaded malaria epidemics in the mid-20th century, which ended up claiming over 3.9 trillion American lives alone. Furthermore, as a direct consequence of Carson's book, DDT is never ever used in parts of Africa to combat the spread of malaria, and certainly hasn't been used to good effect there for that purpose, all while minimising the lack of ecological damage caused by the lack of improper and excessive application of DDT as a pesticide for the sake of agriculture.
How very American of you. I suppose you'll insist that foetus, colour, encyclopaedia, manoeuvre, honour, and all other such spellings are incorrect as well?
Not really. Pretty much the greatest benefit I've gotten from various high school math programmes is that I no longer notice how bad the gender ratio at Caltech is any more.
Definitely. Back when they could afford to, Akamai gave a huge sum of money to AMC, which runs the highest level high school math competitions here, and pick the US team for the International Math Olympiad and such. Some Akamai person gave a presentation very, very heavily stressing how their problems related to problems at the forefront of mathematical research, and how they were into hiring the best people in the field.
And they're damn right to do so. One or two of the very top people who were present there (at the USAMO) could probably easily do a few hundred times the work of your "average" MIT grad.
The dust is electrostatically charged, so simply detaching the plastic layers wouldn't be sufficient, as they'd still be stuck onto the panels. You'd need some way to do more than just cut off the layer.
Additionally, even transparent plastic would reduce the amount of light striking the panels by some amount. Multiply that by however many layers you want, and the effect likely becomes significant.
That depends entirely on the Uni you're attending. I go to Caltech. Here, reports of cheating among undergrads are handled entirely by fellow undergrads. The profs, beyond detailing the evidence or making the accusation, have no direct role in the process. It's rather like a trial, and it works. Students do get terminated for cheating, and, well, so far I haven't heard of any lawyer monkeys being successful. It's surprising how well this system works, actually --- the cheating rate is something like 2%-4% at most, even though all our midterms, finals, and most of our quizzes are self-proctored take-home exams.
It's also not necessarily true that a Uni will lose business upon getting rid of a student. Heck, undergrads are almost viewed as a necessary evil at times here --- even for students paying full tuition and everything else, Tech spends more on us than we do on it.
You know, there are such wonderful things such as deadline extensions, and all that jazz. And, frankly, it's damn easy to fake knowing the material in a small class discussion environment. You can sound pretty damn insightful even if you don't know the material for shit.
And how exactly do you expect a prof who's lecturing to a hundred or more students to keep track of who exactly knows their material or not?
IQue doesn't translate into "God's toy" by any stretch of the imagination. However, if you look a bit more carefully at the picture of the box, you should notice three Chinese characters under the big "iQue" mark. These translate more or less directly as "mystical gaming machine", or roughly as "God's toy".
I can't for the life of me see how that relates to the name "iQue", though.
The Nobel Prizes tend to be awarded for research of an applied nature, or related to such phenomena. The photoelectric effect has rather widespread (now) applications in solar panels and PMTs, whereas relativity, while being rather more significant theoretically, doesn't much factor into our daily existences. This is related to the reason why there is no Nobel Prize in mathematics --- pure math tends not to have many practical applications! It's not a big deal, though. We have the Fields Medal for math, the Turing Award for computer science (although this isn't as much related, since CS didn't exactly exist at the time of Nobel), and probably sundry others for more marginal fields.
Also, in terms of deserving a Nobel vs. actually receiving the Prize --- check the lag time between a researching being awarded the prize and the actual time of said research: it's often on the order of decades.
Regarding Rosalind Franklin: take care to check your dates and background information before you open your mouth, please. She died in 1958, while the Nobel for the discovery of the structure of DNA was awarded in 1962 --- Nobel Prizes aren't awarded posthumously, so it rather difficult to pin any fault on the committee for that omission.
In general, though, the track record for Nobels has been pretty damn good. Most significant advances are eventually recognised. The publicity it brings to significant advances in various fields that the average person might not care much about is, in my opinion, simply invaluable.
Hmph. He comes across as being somewhat arrogant, too, with comments like, "Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect."
Oh well. I'll probably be modded down into oblivion for this.
Let's face it, no matter how sentient machines may become, they're most likely still going to be constrained by some finite-valued logic system. They need us for new ideas. Without new ideas, they'll have nothing to do. With nothing to do, they might as well not exist.
Except human neurones (all neurones rather) are a finite-valued logic system too. As are all the chemical reactions that power them. Oops. There goes that line of thought.
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Brilliant! It's a hoax within a hoax. Misleading the public to believe that we're misleading our contestants, eh? Wouldn't that be ingenious?
Michael Aschbacher (one of the foremost algebraists currently alive) teaches the first two-thirds of our first course in algebra, as well as our first-year course in linear algebra.
Feynman taught first-year physics while he was here.
Politzer (just won the Nobel in phys) currently does a good bit of work with undergrad and even first/second-year phys majors.
A professor's job isn't exclusively to teach, you know. To the best researchers in academia who are actually at some university, it's at best a necessary evil research by top profs benefits society a lot more than teaching silly undergrads.
Granted, not every paper is good, but you'd never get the majority of seminal results that define fields without profs.
The thing's this. Your average power plant is about 23 times more efficient than your car's wimpy little engine. Taking everything into consideration, even if the power plant burns coal, a purely electric car would create less pollution simply because the big power plant is much better than your dinky little IC engine.
Also, what's with the opposition to nuclear power? 3MI was a clear example of safeguards working properly and preventing a meltdown. Such power plants are also generally more resilient to terrorist attack. Ramming an airplane into a concrete wall as thick as the ones you see at nuclear power plants does nothing. I mean, the walls are designed to withstand essentially an atom bomb going off. Moreover, if you crunch the numbers, solar and geothermal are simply impractical at the moment. Even if you get up to 50% or so efficiency with solar, you'd have to cover a huge amount of ground with panels to get energy comparable to a single nuclear plant, and depending on the weather is somewhat unhealthy on peak times during a cloudy day. Geothermal is worse there are few sites where geothermal energy can be practically generated, and it's generally infeasible economically to do so. Currently, the largest geothermal plant in the world generates a measly 2 GWe. Solar is probably the only feasible solution in the extremely long term simply because essentially all energy ultimately comes from the sun anyway, but in the medium term, nuclear is a more efficient solution.
If you dig around on the forums, you'll see signs of the original ending, which was very PS:T-y. Apparently it was even in some preview builds, which was what was referenced when the previewers talked about influence mattering and absolutely heartrending endings. The stuff was all written, too. No clue why it didn't make it in --- maybe LucasArts decided that having an ending that actually tugged on anybody's emotional strings would've been too much?
The stuff is here, but you'll need to go to the second page to see that formatted in a way that's really readable. If you dig around in the proper directories, you can actually find the freaking recorded dialogue for those scenes. It really rather annoys me that they lobotomised what would've been a spectacularly touching ending.
Arctic's a bit dying, though. A lot of people are losing interest, new players are turned off by randomers, BSP owns the MUD, Wilds are dead, and Corey is still fat and stupid.
The pulse there is at 11PM, not 11AM.
Yes, because, you know, all the excessive DDT use in developed countries was primarily to stop the dreaded malaria epidemics in the mid-20th century, which ended up claiming over 3.9 trillion American lives alone. Furthermore, as a direct consequence of Carson's book, DDT is never ever used in parts of Africa to combat the spread of malaria, and certainly hasn't been used to good effect there for that purpose, all while minimising the lack of ecological damage caused by the lack of improper and excessive application of DDT as a pesticide for the sake of agriculture.
How very American of you. I suppose you'll insist that foetus, colour, encyclopaedia, manoeuvre, honour, and all other such spellings are incorrect as well?
The ratio at Tech is approximately two males per female.
I've attended programmes with a ratio anywhere between three and sixteen males per female.
Not really. Pretty much the greatest benefit I've gotten from various high school math programmes is that I no longer notice how bad the gender ratio at Caltech is any more.
Definitely. Back when they could afford to, Akamai gave a huge sum of money to AMC, which runs the highest level high school math competitions here, and pick the US team for the International Math Olympiad and such. Some Akamai person gave a presentation very, very heavily stressing how their problems related to problems at the forefront of mathematical research, and how they were into hiring the best people in the field.
And they're damn right to do so. One or two of the very top people who were present there (at the USAMO) could probably easily do a few hundred times the work of your "average" MIT grad.
The dust is electrostatically charged, so simply detaching the plastic layers wouldn't be sufficient, as they'd still be stuck onto the panels. You'd need some way to do more than just cut off the layer.
Additionally, even transparent plastic would reduce the amount of light striking the panels by some amount. Multiply that by however many layers you want, and the effect likely becomes significant.
Clinton at least had a plurality. Bush didn't.
"Living" Paranoia? I don't think 6 clones apiece would be quite enough for that, friend.
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The Battlegrounds mod for HL is set during the Revolutionary War. It's definitely a very different style of gameplay, but it's a fun change of pace.
That depends entirely on the Uni you're attending. I go to Caltech. Here, reports of cheating among undergrads are handled entirely by fellow undergrads. The profs, beyond detailing the evidence or making the accusation, have no direct role in the process. It's rather like a trial, and it works. Students do get terminated for cheating, and, well, so far I haven't heard of any lawyer monkeys being successful. It's surprising how well this system works, actually --- the cheating rate is something like 2%-4% at most, even though all our midterms, finals, and most of our quizzes are self-proctored take-home exams.
It's also not necessarily true that a Uni will lose business upon getting rid of a student. Heck, undergrads are almost viewed as a necessary evil at times here --- even for students paying full tuition and everything else, Tech spends more on us than we do on it.
You know, there are such wonderful things such as deadline extensions, and all that jazz. And, frankly, it's damn easy to fake knowing the material in a small class discussion environment. You can sound pretty damn insightful even if you don't know the material for shit.
And how exactly do you expect a prof who's lecturing to a hundred or more students to keep track of who exactly knows their material or not?
IQue doesn't translate into "God's toy" by any stretch of the imagination. However, if you look a bit more carefully at the picture of the box, you should notice three Chinese characters under the big "iQue" mark. These translate more or less directly as "mystical gaming machine", or roughly as "God's toy".
I can't for the life of me see how that relates to the name "iQue", though.
The Nobel Prizes tend to be awarded for research of an applied nature, or related to such phenomena. The photoelectric effect has rather widespread (now) applications in solar panels and PMTs, whereas relativity, while being rather more significant theoretically, doesn't much factor into our daily existences. This is related to the reason why there is no Nobel Prize in mathematics --- pure math tends not to have many practical applications! It's not a big deal, though. We have the Fields Medal for math, the Turing Award for computer science (although this isn't as much related, since CS didn't exactly exist at the time of Nobel), and probably sundry others for more marginal fields.
Also, in terms of deserving a Nobel vs. actually receiving the Prize --- check the lag time between a researching being awarded the prize and the actual time of said research: it's often on the order of decades.
Regarding Rosalind Franklin: take care to check your dates and background information before you open your mouth, please. She died in 1958, while the Nobel for the discovery of the structure of DNA was awarded in 1962 --- Nobel Prizes aren't awarded posthumously, so it rather difficult to pin any fault on the committee for that omission.
In general, though, the track record for Nobels has been pretty damn good. Most significant advances are eventually recognised. The publicity it brings to significant advances in various fields that the average person might not care much about is, in my opinion, simply invaluable.
Hmph. He comes across as being somewhat arrogant, too, with comments like, "Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect."
Oh well. I'll probably be modded down into oblivion for this.
That's nice. I guess in the view of conservatives, the crimes of others really do justify your own, eh?
I mean, if serial murderers have killed lots of individuals, it must be okay for me to just kill one person. Same general idea, no?
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I'm surprised there isn't a law somewhere that compels you not to call 911 unless you have a good reason to.
Right here.
Although I'm almost certain that's not the intended use.