It's basically some manga nerd remaking the classic 80s graphical adventure games. Instead of calling it what it is, they decided to run it as some kind of revolutionary, radical new approach to video games.
Whatever, man. I'm just happy that hand-drawn games are back... and at a higher resolution than ever. Gonna play some Quest For Glory now, seeya in a few weeks.
Underlying your entire argument is a base assumption that wrongful convictions never happen. They do happen; they happen alot; they happen most frequently to already-disadvantaged people. If somebody says "I didn't do it" under oath and the court finds otherwise, they're "guilty" of perjury whether or not the court discovers the truth.
Without the 5th ammendment, accused criminal might have the following discussion with their lawyer: "This prosecutor has a 95% conviction rate with black people who plead not guilty. You'll do 6 months if you admit to the crime, or 3 years otherwise. Do you want to just take the 6 months?" That isn't justice.
You're the second person to point this out. Duh. I said "that's a clue", not "that's a clear and direct implication". Most often, more general statements are harder to prove.
Worse than 'a generalization': if this conjecture is true, FLT is a trivial consequence. That's a clue that Beal's conjecture is likely significantly harder than Fermat's.
Basic numeracy is a necessary skill. One does not learn a subject until it is applied to something greater. Calculus is that application that cements basic numeracy in your sofware engineers. The skill they use to figure out how big their array has to be, feasibility of their algorithms to run in reasonable time, and more and more and more. Do not fuck with this.
The complement of your experience is exactly the opposite of 'all but a tiny fraction'. Have you numeracy? I guess basic set theory is too advanced -- so... you're a 'software engineer' who uses SQL, and you don't know what the complement of a set is. Super. Yeah. I guess universities who teach computer science, a(n academic, hence borderline useless) theory of computation and its miriad applications and implementations have really dropped the ball 'cause a wet-behind-the-ears kid, slumming it with an IT job, didn't know how to configure a router because his senior project was an asynchronous processor design and not taking "IP Tables for Dummies 403". University does not train for every job. It doesn't train for jobs. We do it for knowledge. It's not to be useful.
You go and start your "ICANTUSEMATH ONLY-USEFUL SCHOOL OF COMPUTER ENG1NEER" and see how well your students do in the work force. I guarantee they'll need training at every new job they get. But will they have the basics?
Just out of curiosity: was this coworker you refer to new, perhaps sent to you for training?
As I began this thread: calculus is not "advanced". Data structures, algorithms, graph theory, etc., are more advanced math courses that I think are quite applicable for software engineers. And, for whatever it's worth, many software engineers do need calculus in their day to day job -- universities are nominally in the business of providing general education, not just training for one specific job.
But more to the point: those employers and students can agree to whatever the hell they want, but it doesn't change the fact that a diploma says nothing but "I Navigated a Level Two Maze of Bureaucracy" with some gilding and fancy lettering. Anybody who thinks anything more of it is a damned fool.
lol, what kind of crack are you smoking? I think all science and engineering students should be subject to much more advanced math than they already are. Except math majors: they should be forced to do more programming. The point that I've been trying to make is that you need to pull your head out of your ass and stop complaining about diplomas not being something they are not.
The vast majority of University students are there to drink and fuck off the final years of their childhood and just learn enough to score a job with it.
FTFY. I'm beginning to think that you don't know what a 'university education' means. It does not, for example, imply that an individual can find their ass with both hands, much less posess a shred of knowledge you find useful as an employer / coworker. The way that people react to a $50k sheet of paper is entirely up to them.
tl;dr: I am a master of logic. I looked at not the book that you said was good, and only spent one minute thinking about what it said, and I didn't learn any logic. Therefore, the book I didn't look at isn't a good introduction to logic.
College grads are naive, unprepared for the real world, and diverse in their skills and deficiencies? Alert the press!
Seriously, though. We're talking about a university education, not a certificate from a trade school. It sounds like you want the latter. Many programmers *do* need to know about differential equations, calculus, and the like (again, not 'advanced', but whatever). A university is an environment in which one can learn, the 'real world' is an environment in which one must learn.
Mathematician here. You're learning differential equations to prepare you for lifetime of abstraction, to sharpen your skills in symbolic manipulation. Those differential equations probably won't really enter into the game... but who knows, you might end up doing game physics which is nothing but a massive differential equation solver.
But I'm here to tell you that differential equations are not advanced math. Take a discrete math class to get a taste of what 'real' math is for a programmer. Take data structures. You'll find yourself doing formal proofs (real math), and it will be extremely applicable to the rest of your programming career. That DE class is there just to make sure you can manipulate symbols.
No you don't need to allow all ever. I allow all for my school's domain, and nothing else. Those social media buttons don't even show up for me on most pages 'cause they use a third-party javascript loader. On the very rare occasion that I can't get a site to work, I switch to private mode (ctrl-shift-p) and allow all there.
I like to use half-broken websites. I break the half that tracks me / loads cpu-intensive flash ads / makes the page take 10 seconds to load. If they still manage to annoy me, up comes firebug and *whoops*! There go the page elements I didn't like. Grayed-out content? I think not!
The lesson that I learn from this is that I should fire up my CNC mill, make a gun out of HDPE, and tell the world about it. Ban CNC mills! Then, I'll carve pieces out of wax, and cast them. Ban wax! Ban casting sand! BAN ALL THE METALS!!!
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The majority of theft in grocery stores is committed by employees, after all.
It's basically some manga nerd remaking the classic 80s graphical adventure games. Instead of calling it what it is, they decided to run it as some kind of revolutionary, radical new approach to video games.
Whatever, man. I'm just happy that hand-drawn games are back... and at a higher resolution than ever. Gonna play some Quest For Glory now, seeya in a few weeks.
Underlying your entire argument is a base assumption that wrongful convictions never happen. They do happen; they happen alot; they happen most frequently to already-disadvantaged people. If somebody says "I didn't do it" under oath and the court finds otherwise, they're "guilty" of perjury whether or not the court discovers the truth.
Without the 5th ammendment, accused criminal might have the following discussion with their lawyer: "This prosecutor has a 95% conviction rate with black people who plead not guilty. You'll do 6 months if you admit to the crime, or 3 years otherwise. Do you want to just take the 6 months?" That isn't justice.
You're the second person to point this out. Duh. I said "that's a clue", not "that's a clear and direct implication". Most often, more general statements are harder to prove.
Unless 'hit wikipedia' is your immediate intuition, I agree; that isn't immediately intuitive.
Sorry - I meant harder to prove. It's certainly harder to prove a non-theorem.
Worse than 'a generalization': if this conjecture is true, FLT is a trivial consequence. That's a clue that Beal's conjecture is likely significantly harder than Fermat's.
For some reason, the researchers couldn't seem to remember the answer to that question when asked.
Basic numeracy is a necessary skill. One does not learn a subject until it is applied to something greater. Calculus is that application that cements basic numeracy in your sofware engineers. The skill they use to figure out how big their array has to be, feasibility of their algorithms to run in reasonable time, and more and more and more. Do not fuck with this.
The complement of your experience is exactly the opposite of 'all but a tiny fraction'. Have you numeracy? I guess basic set theory is too advanced -- so... you're a 'software engineer' who uses SQL, and you don't know what the complement of a set is. Super. Yeah. I guess universities who teach computer science, a(n academic, hence borderline useless) theory of computation and its miriad applications and implementations have really dropped the ball 'cause a wet-behind-the-ears kid, slumming it with an IT job, didn't know how to configure a router because his senior project was an asynchronous processor design and not taking "IP Tables for Dummies 403". University does not train for every job. It doesn't train for jobs. We do it for knowledge. It's not to be useful.
You go and start your "ICANTUSEMATH ONLY-USEFUL SCHOOL OF COMPUTER ENG1NEER" and see how well your students do in the work force. I guarantee they'll need training at every new job they get. But will they have the basics?
Just out of curiosity: was this coworker you refer to new, perhaps sent to you for training?
As I began this thread: calculus is not "advanced". Data structures, algorithms, graph theory, etc., are more advanced math courses that I think are quite applicable for software engineers. And, for whatever it's worth, many software engineers do need calculus in their day to day job -- universities are nominally in the business of providing general education, not just training for one specific job.
But more to the point: those employers and students can agree to whatever the hell they want, but it doesn't change the fact that a diploma says nothing but "I Navigated a Level Two Maze of Bureaucracy" with some gilding and fancy lettering. Anybody who thinks anything more of it is a damned fool.
lol, what kind of crack are you smoking? I think all science and engineering students should be subject to much more advanced math than they already are. Except math majors: they should be forced to do more programming. The point that I've been trying to make is that you need to pull your head out of your ass and stop complaining about diplomas not being something they are not.
The vast majority of University students are there to drink and fuck off the final years of their childhood and just learn enough to score a job with it.
FTFY. I'm beginning to think that you don't know what a 'university education' means. It does not, for example, imply that an individual can find their ass with both hands, much less posess a shred of knowledge you find useful as an employer / coworker. The way that people react to a $50k sheet of paper is entirely up to them.
tl;dr: I am a master of logic. I looked at not the book that you said was good, and only spent one minute thinking about what it said, and I didn't learn any logic. Therefore, the book I didn't look at isn't a good introduction to logic.
College grads are naive, unprepared for the real world, and diverse in their skills and deficiencies? Alert the press!
Seriously, though. We're talking about a university education, not a certificate from a trade school. It sounds like you want the latter. Many programmers *do* need to know about differential equations, calculus, and the like (again, not 'advanced', but whatever). A university is an environment in which one can learn, the 'real world' is an environment in which one must learn.
Meh. I'm not motivated by either of those things.
There is no dichotomy here.
Mathematician here. You're learning differential equations to prepare you for lifetime of abstraction, to sharpen your skills in symbolic manipulation. Those differential equations probably won't really enter into the game... but who knows, you might end up doing game physics which is nothing but a massive differential equation solver.
But I'm here to tell you that differential equations are not advanced math. Take a discrete math class to get a taste of what 'real' math is for a programmer. Take data structures. You'll find yourself doing formal proofs (real math), and it will be extremely applicable to the rest of your programming career. That DE class is there just to make sure you can manipulate symbols.
Same reason you do -- for hookups on craigslist. Duh.
No you don't need to allow all ever. I allow all for my school's domain, and nothing else. Those social media buttons don't even show up for me on most pages 'cause they use a third-party javascript loader. On the very rare occasion that I can't get a site to work, I switch to private mode (ctrl-shift-p) and allow all there. I like to use half-broken websites. I break the half that tracks me / loads cpu-intensive flash ads / makes the page take 10 seconds to load. If they still manage to annoy me, up comes firebug and *whoops*! There go the page elements I didn't like. Grayed-out content? I think not!
You missed the obvious FireFork.
You miss the point. "Bronies" making headlines at slashdot is awful.
The lesson that I learn from this is that I should fire up my CNC mill, make a gun out of HDPE, and tell the world about it. Ban CNC mills! Then, I'll carve pieces out of wax, and cast them. Ban wax! Ban casting sand! BAN ALL THE METALS!!!
A nanogreencloudsourced videomographier? I'll take two! Who do I give these crazillion balonies to?
Wait, what? Why shouldn't children play with knives? The earlier, the better. Goddamn helecopter parenting...
Something done 1000 years ago isn't necessarily easy today. As shown on mythbusters, making good gunpowder takes quite a bit of skill and car.