So in other words, they have no solution to accelerate the initial process of learning the material, so they just shovel that responsibility entirely onto the student.
Learning is, and always has been, entirely the student's responsibility: a professor cannot learn the material for you! The responsibility of a university is to provide the best possible environment and resources to enable and encourage students to learn as well as to assess what they have learnt.
The idea with these techniques is that students learn the simple concepts by themselves because they can and this allows instructors to spend their time teaching the harder concepts which students need help understanding. The other benefit is that these techniques force students into thinking about concepts they may find very challenging whereas in a lecture format students can "write-off" challenging topics as too hard by tuning out and just accept they will take a hit on exams for these topics.
That's the theory. Where we have to be careful is that a lot (but not all) of these new techniques are also far less "dense" i.e. you end up spending a lot more time on each topic so you cover less. Even a traditional lecture format should show an improvement in understanding if you go through things more slowly and demand less of students. So while I think that these techniques are better when adapting courses you have to be careful not to also dumb-down the course by removing material.
For basic personal documents, I think this would be worth it (think life insurance, social security, etc)
Agreed but both the local and remote copies need to be encrypted and require password access. My current solution for this is an encrypted disk image on Dropbox which works fine as long as the image can be kept reasonably small (few 100 MB).
At some point, it must be easier to upgrade everyone to fibre and just stream the content natively.
Unlikely. What both you and the OP has forgotten about is that the increased cost of the servers needed to encode the video once is going to be offset by the reduced storage and bandwidth requirements. The video will be streamed thousands, if not millions, of times which not only requires huge amount of bandwidth but also means the file will be stored in multiple locations on multiple disks. This means that the savings in bandwidth and storage are magnified by the number of uses and will almost certainly offset the increase in cost of one encoding.
The ability to track and monitor you to generate valuable data for the company running it is pretty much part of the definition of any rewards scheme. You didn't think the reward referred to what you got, did you?
Actually we did use an amplifier. Since the cables all ran to the basement where the main cable feed came it I added it there so the signal cam down from the upstairs room to the basement, through the amplifier, and then back to the lounge with the TV. The reception was basically perfect.
Actually the data show that society does indeed get a choice. Have a look at the the data. The murder rate in the US is about 10 times the rate in most other western nations which implement gun controls. The accidental death rate shows rates of 10-100 times increase over Western European states. So while you cannot eliminate the murder and accidental death rates from firearms you can enormously reduce them with gun control.
I agree. In fact, I'm not even entirely sure that Brexit will actually happen anymore. With no idea what they want from the negotiations, it is hard to see how these will succeed and, without that, Northern Ireland will suddenly get a hard border. The DUP is supposedly vehemently against this so I expect that once it becomes clear that this will happen the government will fall and whoever takes over will then have no time left to negotiate and will have to choose between the hardest possible hard Brexit or revoking article 50 (which is legally unclear but the EU has said it would be happy to allow). Either way the UK is in for a hell of a rough ride for the next few years either ending up back where it started or in economically uncharted waters.
A two second Google search shows that your stated facts are wrong for 2015. According to the Independent which is quoting the Office for National Statistics which is an official government department and so vastly more reliable than some random website you picked Muhammad was the 14th most popular boys in 2015.
If you go direct to the ONS website you will see that they do not have statistics yet for 2016 but you can also see that 'Oliver' was the top boys name in 2014. So please stop peddling lies and fake news. Mohammad is a boys name which has increased in popularity and in some regions, like London, where there is a large concentration of Muslims it is the top name but overall in the UK it is certainly not number one or even in the top ten!
Taxi companies have Leafs with over 200k miles and >80% remaining. Some Tesla owners are over 400k with the same.
This depends on the usage history of the battery. One of the things I would worry about as a purchaser is how do you determine the performance of the battery? It's not like a mechanical engine where wear-and-tear is visible to a trained mechanic. Is there are way to determine the "wear" on a battery short of discharging and recharging it - which takes time and adds wear- to measure capacity?
You can use them to have an aerial in an upstairs room connected to your TV downstairs to get good reception for over-the-air channels. We did that when the last Olympics were on so we could watch because, a least in Canada at the time there were no good, cheap/free internet options which worked with an AppleTV.
Generally I still find live coverage of events hard to find online in a TV-compatible way although the BBC put coverage of the recent UK election on YouTube but they'd never be allowed to do that for the Olympics.
The key to safety is knowledge and a healthy respect for the dangers involved. One without the other leads to mistakes and, since we are humans, mistakes will always happen. This is one of the many reasons why most countries strictly control firearms. It's not fear of them but a healthy respect for the dangers they pose in the hands of random humans who are sometimes drunk, forgetful, distracted, insane etc. While it's fine for you to suffer from your own mistakes and actions when firearms are involved it is usually others who do the suffering.
So you get a choice: either to restrict access to firearms or you learn to live with mass shootings, a high murder rate and toddlers accidentally killing themselves. "Smart" guns are just one way to restrict access so if you prefer the deaths to restrictions on personal freedoms you should be opposed to them. Just don't fool yourself that guns are perfectly safe and pose no risks to anyone. They are designed to be lethal and are only safe when handled correctly which is never going to happen 100% of the time.
I was referring to the EU which currently has a larger economy than the US. Brexit doesn't just weaken the UK, it weakens the EU as well and without the UK the EU's economy will be smaller than the US's.
My guess is that we'll transition to an "author pays" model.
Which is arguably just as bad as paywalled research for exactly the same reason. Now those without financial resources will be unable to publish their research for others to find.
What we need is to revert back to the original scheme from whence the current journals grew. Scientific societies published collections of papers but as the task of collating, refereeing, assembling into volumes and then publishing grew to be a major task publishing companies took over.
However, modern technology makes all of this far easier and now societies could well afford to setup websites which operate like arXiv but with refereeing. This would be free to read, free to publish in and paid for by scientific societies whose goals are to promote the field they are associated with. That's about as ideal a situation for the promotion of scientific ideas as I can think of.
You hate democracy, what a surprise. Being ruled from abroad...
How is it democracy when as a British citizen, I was not allowed to vote because I live outside the UK? I would also disagree that it is being ruled from "abroad" any more than, as a Yorkshireman, I would regard Yorkshire as being ruled from abroad by Westminster. This is the problem with such a narrow-minded perspective: where do you draw the boundary? Once you start to contract your horizons from Europe what is to stop them contracting further inside the UK causing the UK to break up?
I agree: unelected bureaucrats with too much power certainly is an issue with the EU. The reason it is that way though is that national governments are very reluctant to give up their control. This leads to the EU commission, whose members are bureaucrats appointed by national governments, having far more power and control than the democratically elected European Parliament. What it needs is a sea change to decide what powers the EU will have and what powers member states will retain. Then you setup a properly elected upper and lower house for the European government. Once you do that though the EU government gains a huge amount of legitimacy and hence authority. The really sad thing is that Brexit might actually be the kick up the rear that the EU needs to make this happen but it will be too late for the UK.
Of course you did, and were I American I probably would have done so too because it weakens one of your strongest economic rivals and pretty soon the UK will be turning up cap-in-hand to beg/negotiate a trade deal with the US which will be extremely favourable to the US because the UK will have very little leverage.
From the UK point of view it is going to be a complete disaster though. If you really believe that argument about freedom then are you also an advocate for states in the US all becoming free nations so they can choose their own course rather than being an economic engine attached to Washington's butt? Some of us prefer to think of the EU as our free nation where we enjoyed self-determination along with Germans, French, Poles, Danes etc. in exactly the same way that Californians, Iowans, Virginians etc. all enjoy self-determination together as a single free nation. The UK leaving the EU will be as big an upheaval as say California leaving the US.
There are certainly problems with the EU but show me a nation that does not have problems. The adult response to challenges like this is to work together to solve them, not to get in a hissy fit and take your ball home. I have always felt far more European than just British and now, having being denied the right to vote in the referendum, my EU citizenship is still going to be stripped from me. If this is the sort of "democracy" that a "free" Britain will have then I want none of it thanks.
Nice try but you are forgetting the "hundredweight" which was 112 pounds in the UK and is 100 pounds in the US which also affects the definition of the ton. The only reason there is consistency for length is because the UK, US, Canada etc. all agreed in 1959 to adopt a common standard founded on the SI system - before that the US and UK systems had slightly different definitions. So the only places where there is consistency is for length and forces of a pound or less. Everything else is not generally going to be the same.
They teach both. The SI system is what is used mainly but, particularly when it comes to simple fluid dynamics, you have to be careful because they have quite a few questions with gallons, pounds per square inch etc.
While what you say is true but there is considerable evidence showing that the correlation is due to causation. It only occurs in sports where there is repetitive head injury and the effect is apparently similar to those produced when a head is subject to a "blast" and has not been immobilized first according to the Wikipedia page.
I agree it's antiquated and quaint to continue to use imperial units, but having to do something _other_ than shift a decimal point around is very useful in teaching dimensional analysis.
It's worse than you realize because the American's don't use Imperial units, they use the same units with different definitions. If you order a pint of beer in the US you will be sorely disappointed. It is only about 80% of a UK pint because they have a different number of fluid ounces in a pint and a (slightly) different definition of a fluid ounce. If this is not bad enough for dimensional analysis on top of this Imperial units use pounds for both mass and force resulting in further confusion.
Technically I believe a pound is supposed to be force and the slug is the Imperial/US unit of mass but mention 'slug' to someone in the US and they will think you are talking about gardening problems, not units of mass. The US physics textbooks which we also get up here in Canada talk about "pound-force" and "pound-mass" so the dimensions of just a pound is somewhat ambiguous e.g. I have seen density in 'lb/ft^3' and pressure as "lb/in^2" where one is used as a mass and the other as a force! Using Imperial/US units for anything serious is a terrible idea. The Imperial and US unit systems are inconsistent and ill-defined which makes them absolutely terrible for doing dimensional analysis let alone teaching it!
If I only have to cram myself into a tiny seat and sit there with blood flow below my knees cut off by pressure from the seat in front for 4 hours instead of 8 hours I'd call that a more comfortable flight.
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So in other words, they have no solution to accelerate the initial process of learning the material, so they just shovel that responsibility entirely onto the student.
Learning is, and always has been, entirely the student's responsibility: a professor cannot learn the material for you! The responsibility of a university is to provide the best possible environment and resources to enable and encourage students to learn as well as to assess what they have learnt.
The idea with these techniques is that students learn the simple concepts by themselves because they can and this allows instructors to spend their time teaching the harder concepts which students need help understanding. The other benefit is that these techniques force students into thinking about concepts they may find very challenging whereas in a lecture format students can "write-off" challenging topics as too hard by tuning out and just accept they will take a hit on exams for these topics.
That's the theory. Where we have to be careful is that a lot (but not all) of these new techniques are also far less "dense" i.e. you end up spending a lot more time on each topic so you cover less. Even a traditional lecture format should show an improvement in understanding if you go through things more slowly and demand less of students. So while I think that these techniques are better when adapting courses you have to be careful not to also dumb-down the course by removing material.
For basic personal documents, I think this would be worth it (think life insurance, social security, etc)
Agreed but both the local and remote copies need to be encrypted and require password access. My current solution for this is an encrypted disk image on Dropbox which works fine as long as the image can be kept reasonably small (few 100 MB).
At some point, it must be easier to upgrade everyone to fibre and just stream the content natively.
Unlikely. What both you and the OP has forgotten about is that the increased cost of the servers needed to encode the video once is going to be offset by the reduced storage and bandwidth requirements. The video will be streamed thousands, if not millions, of times which not only requires huge amount of bandwidth but also means the file will be stored in multiple locations on multiple disks. This means that the savings in bandwidth and storage are magnified by the number of uses and will almost certainly offset the increase in cost of one encoding.
The ability to track and monitor you to generate valuable data for the company running it is pretty much part of the definition of any rewards scheme. You didn't think the reward referred to what you got, did you?
Actually we did use an amplifier. Since the cables all ran to the basement where the main cable feed came it I added it there so the signal cam down from the upstairs room to the basement, through the amplifier, and then back to the lounge with the TV. The reception was basically perfect.
No, you don't get a choice.
Actually the data show that society does indeed get a choice. Have a look at the the data. The murder rate in the US is about 10 times the rate in most other western nations which implement gun controls. The accidental death rate shows rates of 10-100 times increase over Western European states. So while you cannot eliminate the murder and accidental death rates from firearms you can enormously reduce them with gun control.
Your assertion is blatantly false. The countries with the greatest gun control have higher rates of mass shootings and murder rates.
Sorry but that's not what the data say.
I agree. In fact, I'm not even entirely sure that Brexit will actually happen anymore. With no idea what they want from the negotiations, it is hard to see how these will succeed and, without that, Northern Ireland will suddenly get a hard border. The DUP is supposedly vehemently against this so I expect that once it becomes clear that this will happen the government will fall and whoever takes over will then have no time left to negotiate and will have to choose between the hardest possible hard Brexit or revoking article 50 (which is legally unclear but the EU has said it would be happy to allow). Either way the UK is in for a hell of a rough ride for the next few years either ending up back where it started or in economically uncharted waters.
A two second Google search shows that your stated facts are wrong for 2015. According to the Independent which is quoting the Office for National Statistics which is an official government department and so vastly more reliable than some random website you picked Muhammad was the 14th most popular boys in 2015.
If you go direct to the ONS website you will see that they do not have statistics yet for 2016 but you can also see that 'Oliver' was the top boys name in 2014. So please stop peddling lies and fake news. Mohammad is a boys name which has increased in popularity and in some regions, like London, where there is a large concentration of Muslims it is the top name but overall in the UK it is certainly not number one or even in the top ten!
Taxi companies have Leafs with over 200k miles and >80% remaining. Some Tesla owners are over 400k with the same.
This depends on the usage history of the battery. One of the things I would worry about as a purchaser is how do you determine the performance of the battery? It's not like a mechanical engine where wear-and-tear is visible to a trained mechanic. Is there are way to determine the "wear" on a battery short of discharging and recharging it - which takes time and adds wear- to measure capacity?
You can use them to have an aerial in an upstairs room connected to your TV downstairs to get good reception for over-the-air channels. We did that when the last Olympics were on so we could watch because, a least in Canada at the time there were no good, cheap/free internet options which worked with an AppleTV.
Generally I still find live coverage of events hard to find online in a TV-compatible way although the BBC put coverage of the recent UK election on YouTube but they'd never be allowed to do that for the Olympics.
The key to safety is knowledge, not fear.
The key to safety is knowledge and a healthy respect for the dangers involved. One without the other leads to mistakes and, since we are humans, mistakes will always happen. This is one of the many reasons why most countries strictly control firearms. It's not fear of them but a healthy respect for the dangers they pose in the hands of random humans who are sometimes drunk, forgetful, distracted, insane etc. While it's fine for you to suffer from your own mistakes and actions when firearms are involved it is usually others who do the suffering.
So you get a choice: either to restrict access to firearms or you learn to live with mass shootings, a high murder rate and toddlers accidentally killing themselves. "Smart" guns are just one way to restrict access so if you prefer the deaths to restrictions on personal freedoms you should be opposed to them. Just don't fool yourself that guns are perfectly safe and pose no risks to anyone. They are designed to be lethal and are only safe when handled correctly which is never going to happen 100% of the time.
So, if you did not like it, would you call it a Comic Sans?
I was referring to the EU which currently has a larger economy than the US. Brexit doesn't just weaken the UK, it weakens the EU as well and without the UK the EU's economy will be smaller than the US's.
My guess is that we'll transition to an "author pays" model.
Which is arguably just as bad as paywalled research for exactly the same reason. Now those without financial resources will be unable to publish their research for others to find.
What we need is to revert back to the original scheme from whence the current journals grew. Scientific societies published collections of papers but as the task of collating, refereeing, assembling into volumes and then publishing grew to be a major task publishing companies took over.
However, modern technology makes all of this far easier and now societies could well afford to setup websites which operate like arXiv but with refereeing. This would be free to read, free to publish in and paid for by scientific societies whose goals are to promote the field they are associated with. That's about as ideal a situation for the promotion of scientific ideas as I can think of.
You hate democracy, what a surprise. Being ruled from abroad...
How is it democracy when as a British citizen, I was not allowed to vote because I live outside the UK? I would also disagree that it is being ruled from "abroad" any more than, as a Yorkshireman, I would regard Yorkshire as being ruled from abroad by Westminster. This is the problem with such a narrow-minded perspective: where do you draw the boundary? Once you start to contract your horizons from Europe what is to stop them contracting further inside the UK causing the UK to break up?
I agree: unelected bureaucrats with too much power certainly is an issue with the EU. The reason it is that way though is that national governments are very reluctant to give up their control. This leads to the EU commission, whose members are bureaucrats appointed by national governments, having far more power and control than the democratically elected European Parliament. What it needs is a sea change to decide what powers the EU will have and what powers member states will retain. Then you setup a properly elected upper and lower house for the European government. Once you do that though the EU government gains a huge amount of legitimacy and hence authority. The really sad thing is that Brexit might actually be the kick up the rear that the EU needs to make this happen but it will be too late for the UK.
...but as a cashier, you can have a till all year round!
American. Cheered for Brexit. A lot of us did
Of course you did, and were I American I probably would have done so too because it weakens one of your strongest economic rivals and pretty soon the UK will be turning up cap-in-hand to beg/negotiate a trade deal with the US which will be extremely favourable to the US because the UK will have very little leverage.
From the UK point of view it is going to be a complete disaster though. If you really believe that argument about freedom then are you also an advocate for states in the US all becoming free nations so they can choose their own course rather than being an economic engine attached to Washington's butt? Some of us prefer to think of the EU as our free nation where we enjoyed self-determination along with Germans, French, Poles, Danes etc. in exactly the same way that Californians, Iowans, Virginians etc. all enjoy self-determination together as a single free nation. The UK leaving the EU will be as big an upheaval as say California leaving the US.
There are certainly problems with the EU but show me a nation that does not have problems. The adult response to challenges like this is to work together to solve them, not to get in a hissy fit and take your ball home. I have always felt far more European than just British and now, having being denied the right to vote in the referendum, my EU citizenship is still going to be stripped from me. If this is the sort of "democracy" that a "free" Britain will have then I want none of it thanks.
Oxford lost all credibility years ago.
808 years ago ;-)
Nice try but you are forgetting the "hundredweight" which was 112 pounds in the UK and is 100 pounds in the US which also affects the definition of the ton. The only reason there is consistency for length is because the UK, US, Canada etc. all agreed in 1959 to adopt a common standard founded on the SI system - before that the US and UK systems had slightly different definitions. So the only places where there is consistency is for length and forces of a pound or less. Everything else is not generally going to be the same.
They teach both. The SI system is what is used mainly but, particularly when it comes to simple fluid dynamics, you have to be careful because they have quite a few questions with gallons, pounds per square inch etc.
While what you say is true but there is considerable evidence showing that the correlation is due to causation. It only occurs in sports where there is repetitive head injury and the effect is apparently similar to those produced when a head is subject to a "blast" and has not been immobilized first according to the Wikipedia page.
I agree it's antiquated and quaint to continue to use imperial units, but having to do something _other_ than shift a decimal point around is very useful in teaching dimensional analysis.
It's worse than you realize because the American's don't use Imperial units, they use the same units with different definitions. If you order a pint of beer in the US you will be sorely disappointed. It is only about 80% of a UK pint because they have a different number of fluid ounces in a pint and a (slightly) different definition of a fluid ounce. If this is not bad enough for dimensional analysis on top of this Imperial units use pounds for both mass and force resulting in further confusion.
Technically I believe a pound is supposed to be force and the slug is the Imperial/US unit of mass but mention 'slug' to someone in the US and they will think you are talking about gardening problems, not units of mass. The US physics textbooks which we also get up here in Canada talk about "pound-force" and "pound-mass" so the dimensions of just a pound is somewhat ambiguous e.g. I have seen density in 'lb/ft^3' and pressure as "lb/in^2" where one is used as a mass and the other as a force! Using Imperial/US units for anything serious is a terrible idea. The Imperial and US unit systems are inconsistent and ill-defined which makes them absolutely terrible for doing dimensional analysis let alone teaching it!
If I only have to cram myself into a tiny seat and sit there with blood flow below my knees cut off by pressure from the seat in front for 4 hours instead of 8 hours I'd call that a more comfortable flight.