Forgot to mention directed graphs, undirected graphs, mappings, traversing search trees... It really was a remarkable thing. And he carried it out with extraordinary deftness. The tests were written so that the average students looking for a passing grade had no trouble getting one, but the honors students looking for an A got a solid intellectual workout to earn it.
I took a class my senior year of high school just for fun. It was called "Finite and Discrete Mathematics", taught by a Case grad (from before the merger with WRU, and don't screw that distinction up). There were two groups of people in the class - about half were filling a math requirement, about half were also taking calculus at the time and thought of it as an interesting elective.
We covered probability, statistics, formal logic, set theory... it was absolutely glorious. And almost none of it really needed anything beyond Algebra I and an inquisitive mind. My mom called me once when I was in college and asked how to take a square root in a spreadsheet... and I asked "ah, finding standard deviations, are we?" Instant "how-the-hell-did-you-know-that" moment. Probably the best class I have ever taken at any level of education. Made doing all of those things in college a thousand times simpler because I already knew the basics and didn't have to climb a big learning curve.
It was really good for two use cases: where your photograph was documentation rather than art and you needed to be able to confirm that it had accurately documented what you wanted to show right away, and homemade porn.
The former has been thoroughly eclipsed by digital. The latter, well, people just learned not to shoot pictures involving faces.
The exit signs on freeways and the destination/distance signs on smaller routes are a pretty good indication. You'd have to be trying pretty hard not to notice. And it's pretty hard to drive for more than sixteen hours without stopping to rest, at which point you'd have to be a complete moron not to notice.
It's your car. If a tire has a blowout and your car runs into something, it's your problem - just as it's your problem if your tree falls on your neighbor's house. Failure to properly maintain it creates the liability. If you don't want the risk, pay someone else (e.g., Uber) to take it. And you'll still have to insure against accidental or malicious damage (e.g., hail, tree limbs, graffiti/keying) on a car you've borrowed money to buy.
There's also the complication that people who are unfamiliar with a UI tend to prefer simpler ones, while those who use it all the time prefer dense presentations and are perfectly happy to learn complex command strings in order to speed their work. I would like a very different UI for my bank account than, say, an accountant would.
Exercise doesn't do much for losing weight. It's great for building muscle.
Have to interrupt hunger signals. A ketogenic diet worked for me, it might for you. Starving all the time is not a viable life strategy. Low calorie intake because all you eat are proteins that sate and fats that keep you full is plausible. Isn't sustainable for everyone, but if you're fat and haven't tried it, give it a shot.
There aren't even enough letters to describe the phonemes present in English, and English orthography doesn't always follow current pronunciation.
From what little I know of the subject, the writing systems that really excite linguists are syllabaries. Both Hangul (for Korean) and Sequoyah's Cherokee syllabary are widely admired for their elegance, although you have to have the right kind of language to have a syllabary. English would not do well with one.
As much as I'd like to tell you, it would be unwise for me to do so. Let us simply say that I work in a job where my labor is completely interchangeable with my co-workers' (someone has to show up to do the work, but it doesn't matter who; we don't hire people that can't pull their weight), and where we have all chosen to be paid substantially less in order to have free time.
Again, I don't know why you guys do this shit for megacorps. Some startup where you might become a billionaire? Hey, I can see killing yourself for a couple of those in your early 20s in hopes you hit the jackpot. But Microsoft? Hell, Google? They're already huge. They've already made their billionaires, and you weren't one of them. Get a job at a company that will pay you for working tolerable hours at a fair rate.
This also goes a long way to explaining the difference in pay between flyover country and the coasts. "Oh, yeah, I pay more for the apartment, but I have a lot more disposable income"... and no time in which to spend it. I get nine weeks of paid vacation a year. You can have that when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
There is nothing wrong with HF as long as you know what you're buying: cheap stuff that will cut it for light work. It's like my approach to kitchen equipment: if I think I might want something, I buy the $30 version at Walmart. If it works, great. If I use it twice and it spends ten years in a drawer, I haven't lost much. And if I wear it out, I now have a list of things that I wish it did, so when I buy a decent one, I know what to look for.
Cities have a financial incentive to increase red-light tickets, so they shorten the yellows. Doing this with actual police is expensive, you have to pay them to sit there and write tickets, but cameras don't get overtime and benefits.
Full faith and credit applies to one state accepting the judgment of another. California can't reject Nevada marriages or divorces.
But it doesn't apply to the feds, and it doesn't even apply to all state actions. I have a driver's license and a concealed carry permit. By compact, the states all recognize each other's driver licenses. They don't all recognize each other's concealed carry permits, because there is no all-state compact to do so. And within a state, my permit means nothing the moment I walk onto federal property (like the post office), unless the feds have carved out an exception (like they did for, say, the Blue Ridge Parkway - if you can carry a gun in the state in which you're located, it's okay to have one on the BRP, though not necessarily in all associated parks and facilities).
The states have no influence over their DC representation and haven't since the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment. In the original design of the Constitution, the people were represented by the House, and the states by the Senate, but an obsession with tearing down a reasonably well-designed republic (not that it was perfect, but a remarkably good outcome given the real-world constraints they had to work with) in the name of greater democracy killed that.
Well, pay more, and get fingerprinted and background-checked. I signed up because I figured, why not? I'm already in the fingerprint database for working in healthcare, so I might as well enjoy the benefits of it. Got a concealed carry license, too. Don't carry concealed much, but it lets me keep a gun in the car if I'm traveling in sketchy areas.
Haha. When I was in college, there was a guy who was ex-Air Force on the GI Bill. His next-dorm-room-over neighbors kept him up for a few nights running with loud music late at night (after 11 pm) during the week. His solution was to turn on his stereo to max volume on Saturday morning at 5:00 AM with the speakers pushed up against the adjoining wall and play the opening scene of Top Gun... all weekend long. On repeat. With jet whine.
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Forgot to mention directed graphs, undirected graphs, mappings, traversing search trees... It really was a remarkable thing. And he carried it out with extraordinary deftness. The tests were written so that the average students looking for a passing grade had no trouble getting one, but the honors students looking for an A got a solid intellectual workout to earn it.
You'd probably enjoy this. If you don't know of it already.
Exponentiation isn't Algebra 2.
I took a class my senior year of high school just for fun. It was called "Finite and Discrete Mathematics", taught by a Case grad (from before the merger with WRU, and don't screw that distinction up). There were two groups of people in the class - about half were filling a math requirement, about half were also taking calculus at the time and thought of it as an interesting elective.
We covered probability, statistics, formal logic, set theory... it was absolutely glorious. And almost none of it really needed anything beyond Algebra I and an inquisitive mind. My mom called me once when I was in college and asked how to take a square root in a spreadsheet... and I asked "ah, finding standard deviations, are we?" Instant "how-the-hell-did-you-know-that" moment. Probably the best class I have ever taken at any level of education. Made doing all of those things in college a thousand times simpler because I already knew the basics and didn't have to climb a big learning curve.
It was really good for two use cases: where your photograph was documentation rather than art and you needed to be able to confirm that it had accurately documented what you wanted to show right away, and homemade porn.
The former has been thoroughly eclipsed by digital. The latter, well, people just learned not to shoot pictures involving faces.
And that, folks, is what modern progressivism has devolved to: refusing to make a goatse cake is equivalent to violating fire codes.
The alumni money, for those wondering, comes from those who want better seats. Want one near the field, on the fifty yard line? Better give big money.
The exit signs on freeways and the destination/distance signs on smaller routes are a pretty good indication. You'd have to be trying pretty hard not to notice. And it's pretty hard to drive for more than sixteen hours without stopping to rest, at which point you'd have to be a complete moron not to notice.
It's your car. If a tire has a blowout and your car runs into something, it's your problem - just as it's your problem if your tree falls on your neighbor's house. Failure to properly maintain it creates the liability. If you don't want the risk, pay someone else (e.g., Uber) to take it. And you'll still have to insure against accidental or malicious damage (e.g., hail, tree limbs, graffiti/keying) on a car you've borrowed money to buy.
Given the nature of wireless communications, it's a lot less abusive of the commerce clause than almost anything else coming out of Washington.
There's also the complication that people who are unfamiliar with a UI tend to prefer simpler ones, while those who use it all the time prefer dense presentations and are perfectly happy to learn complex command strings in order to speed their work. I would like a very different UI for my bank account than, say, an accountant would.
"Chaise longue" - it is a long chair, not a lounge chair. "Chaise lounge" is a 19th century American misspelling.
Exercise doesn't do much for losing weight. It's great for building muscle. Have to interrupt hunger signals. A ketogenic diet worked for me, it might for you. Starving all the time is not a viable life strategy. Low calorie intake because all you eat are proteins that sate and fats that keep you full is plausible. Isn't sustainable for everyone, but if you're fat and haven't tried it, give it a shot.
There aren't even enough letters to describe the phonemes present in English, and English orthography doesn't always follow current pronunciation.
From what little I know of the subject, the writing systems that really excite linguists are syllabaries. Both Hangul (for Korean) and Sequoyah's Cherokee syllabary are widely admired for their elegance, although you have to have the right kind of language to have a syllabary. English would not do well with one.
As much as I'd like to tell you, it would be unwise for me to do so. Let us simply say that I work in a job where my labor is completely interchangeable with my co-workers' (someone has to show up to do the work, but it doesn't matter who; we don't hire people that can't pull their weight), and where we have all chosen to be paid substantially less in order to have free time.
Again, I don't know why you guys do this shit for megacorps. Some startup where you might become a billionaire? Hey, I can see killing yourself for a couple of those in your early 20s in hopes you hit the jackpot. But Microsoft? Hell, Google? They're already huge. They've already made their billionaires, and you weren't one of them. Get a job at a company that will pay you for working tolerable hours at a fair rate.
This also goes a long way to explaining the difference in pay between flyover country and the coasts. "Oh, yeah, I pay more for the apartment, but I have a lot more disposable income"... and no time in which to spend it. I get nine weeks of paid vacation a year. You can have that when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
Food processor.
There is nothing wrong with HF as long as you know what you're buying: cheap stuff that will cut it for light work. It's like my approach to kitchen equipment: if I think I might want something, I buy the $30 version at Walmart. If it works, great. If I use it twice and it spends ten years in a drawer, I haven't lost much. And if I wear it out, I now have a list of things that I wish it did, so when I buy a decent one, I know what to look for.
Cities have a financial incentive to increase red-light tickets, so they shorten the yellows. Doing this with actual police is expensive, you have to pay them to sit there and write tickets, but cameras don't get overtime and benefits.
Full faith and credit applies to one state accepting the judgment of another. California can't reject Nevada marriages or divorces.
But it doesn't apply to the feds, and it doesn't even apply to all state actions. I have a driver's license and a concealed carry permit. By compact, the states all recognize each other's driver licenses. They don't all recognize each other's concealed carry permits, because there is no all-state compact to do so. And within a state, my permit means nothing the moment I walk onto federal property (like the post office), unless the feds have carved out an exception (like they did for, say, the Blue Ridge Parkway - if you can carry a gun in the state in which you're located, it's okay to have one on the BRP, though not necessarily in all associated parks and facilities).
The states have no influence over their DC representation and haven't since the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment. In the original design of the Constitution, the people were represented by the House, and the states by the Senate, but an obsession with tearing down a reasonably well-designed republic (not that it was perfect, but a remarkably good outcome given the real-world constraints they had to work with) in the name of greater democracy killed that.
Well, pay more, and get fingerprinted and background-checked. I signed up because I figured, why not? I'm already in the fingerprint database for working in healthcare, so I might as well enjoy the benefits of it. Got a concealed carry license, too. Don't carry concealed much, but it lets me keep a gun in the car if I'm traveling in sketchy areas.
Haha. When I was in college, there was a guy who was ex-Air Force on the GI Bill. His next-dorm-room-over neighbors kept him up for a few nights running with loud music late at night (after 11 pm) during the week. His solution was to turn on his stereo to max volume on Saturday morning at 5:00 AM with the speakers pushed up against the adjoining wall and play the opening scene of Top Gun... all weekend long. On repeat. With jet whine.
And that's when doctors stop taking new Medicare patients.
Medicaid is an awful payer, but Medicare isn't that bad.