Brown doesn't *give* A+'s. They don't exist. Neither do A-'s, B+'s or anything else +/-. So I assume you're talking about your friend at Stanford on that front. I make no claims about stanford having a lack of grade inflation...
Out of curiosity, is your friend at brown in the sciences or humanities? And which are you at UCB? Makes a big difference.
Except that I also GSI'd a couple of classes at brown; in fact some of the same classes that I've taught at cal. There really is a noticable difference.
At brown, i had about 2 students/class ask me how well they had to do on the final to get an A, or begging me to raise their grade. At cal, it's more like half the class typically.
Maybe I was just really lucky in the past, who knows. I'm not going to speculate too much about any underlying causes.
Not a chance, when we're talking about undergrad. Cal and Stanford have long had great graduate programs (better then those at many ivies), but the quality of undergraduate education will not be comparable for quite a while to come (if ever).
Oh, you meant Reed college. Yeah, they do have a great undergrad program.
It's not associated with ivy leaguers. Eastern Massachusetts != Ivy League. There's 1/8 ivies there, and most of it's students ain't from there. There are 0/8 ivies in southern Maine, where the accent is also heard.
Rhode Island has 1/8 ivies, but also a completely different (and more rediculous) accent.
the high percentage of jews *surely* can't be attributed to the fact that jews overwhelmingly live in the areas of the country where students are most likely to apply to ivies (new york, LA, southwestern new england, new jersey), or are much more likely as a group to have parents who place a high value on education and encourage them to apply to the best schools in the country.
no, clearly, such considerations are preposterous. the admissions officers must be racist.
rinse, repeat argument for asians in the UC system.
considering how grade inflation is a University Policy in Ivy League, 'competitive' is quite a blanket statement. it's true in some cases, but hardly when the professor still has to grade acording to a Gaussian distribution around A-, regardless of the the true average level of the class.
Did you actually go to an Ivy? If so, which one, becuase I want to make fun of you.
At the ivy I went to, there are only three grades: A,B,C, and the distribution in my classes was about 30/45/25. That's considerably less generous then the public school that I'm a grad student at now.
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In case you didn't notice, a lot of grade inflation happens at all schools these days. I'd actually say that it's worse at UC Berkeley, where I'm a grad student, then it was at Brown, where I did my undergrad. Most students at Brown were there to learn, and the grade was secondary. At Cal Berkeley, my experience is just the opposite.
On the other hand, I'd also note that grade inflation at both schools isn't nearly as bad as a at other schools where my friends went, public and private.
depends. does this hypothetical dual core G4 still have the horribly small G4 front-side bus? 'cause if so, the G5 is gonna pants it for all but a few apps.
too bad the niners are a joke these days. this week's game is gonna be hilarious. on the other hand, MIT is probably the only school that Stanford *can* beat at football these days...
There's something wrong if you get an A for doing what's expected. Meeting expectations should be a B. Exceeding expectations gets you an A. Damn grade inflation!
get a minolta dimage scan elite 5400. it'll run you about $580, but you won't get better quality from anything else under about $1500 in my experience. wonderful little scanner that even an ameteur can afford.
even assuming that the 2/100 sec figure from the article was for the shutter speed (it isn't), 1/60 sec is a pretty lame guideline for when you need a tripod. 1/$FOCAL_LENGTH is more typical for the limits of handholding on a 35mm camera; you can easily get a good hand-held shot at 1/20 sec with a 15mm lens, but you'd be lucky to get a good hand-held shot at 1/250 sec with a 400mm.
People who are really good at hand-holding, like pros who work at it, people who shoot in situations where they can't carry a tripod (my dad who used to be a navy photographer and did stuff for special ops), biathletes, etc can hand hold comfortably at something more like 3/$FOCAL_LENGTH sec. For the less talented, there's lots of nice image-stabilized lenses that get you a similar improvement.
Parent might want to look into a better university for taking his photography class.
the euler equations you have in mind are:
rho * (dU/dt) = - grad p + rho*B
(d rho/dt) = 0
div U = 0
with the flux of U across the boundary equal to zero (U.n = 0).
U denotes the velocity field of the fluid, p is the pressure, rho the mass density.
what they do is say that you can't distribute a product that contains certain bits of Matlab or provides access to the Matlab command line unless you're distributing it to someone who already has a license agreement with Mathworks.
This is more evidence of why we still use "inefficient" heavy vehicles. It's not just the efficiency of the vehicle that counts, but survivability in a crash.
Maybe you were talking only about solar vs. ordinary cars, but it could easily be read (and was, by many people) as claiming that big SUVs are somehow safer than lighter, smaller cars. Which is basically just false.
The energy required to get up to some speed is proportional to the mass of the vehicle, or the "cube of the size", roughly. The energy generated is proportional to the surface area, or the "square of the size".
So, if you want one of these suckers to go fast, you build it as small as possible, then make it really light.
You do realize that the average SUV has a better chance of killing you in a head on collision with a stationary object than, say, a a honda accord, right?
Not to mention that driving the accord, you're less likely to have that accident to start with, because it responds better and faster to the driver.
Except that a smaller car is more responsive to driver control, making it easier for the driver to avoid hitting the telephone pole to start with. Does this eliminate all accidents? Clearly not. Still, it's a substantial factor, and (well designed) small cars actually aren't appreciably less safe in terms of collisions with stationary objects.
There's no question in my mind that a world in which everyone drove honda civics would have fewer traffic fatalities than a world in which everyone drove cadillac escalades.
They're focusing on cache because cache sucks. Half the transistors on a modern processor are devoted to cache; get the cache off the chip, and you can shrink your die size, increase yield, and do everything much cheaper.
A modern graphics processor, for example, has about the same transistor count as a modern CPU, but no cache at all; as a result, it's raw processing power is greater (but it spends more time on data access).
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Brown doesn't *give* A+'s. They don't exist. Neither do A-'s, B+'s or anything else +/-. So I assume you're talking about your friend at Stanford on that front. I make no claims about stanford having a lack of grade inflation... Out of curiosity, is your friend at brown in the sciences or humanities? And which are you at UCB? Makes a big difference.
Except that I also GSI'd a couple of classes at brown; in fact some of the same classes that I've taught at cal. There really is a noticable difference.
At brown, i had about 2 students/class ask me how well they had to do on the final to get an A, or begging me to raise their grade. At cal, it's more like half the class typically.
Maybe I was just really lucky in the past, who knows. I'm not going to speculate too much about any underlying causes.
Not a chance, when we're talking about undergrad. Cal and Stanford have long had great graduate programs (better then those at many ivies), but the quality of undergraduate education will not be comparable for quite a while to come (if ever).
Oh, you meant Reed college. Yeah, they do have a great undergrad program.
It's not associated with ivy leaguers. Eastern Massachusetts != Ivy League. There's 1/8 ivies there, and most of it's students ain't from there. There are 0/8 ivies in southern Maine, where the accent is also heard.
Rhode Island has 1/8 ivies, but also a completely different (and more rediculous) accent.
Must have been a state school. At the ivy I went to, it was assumed that we already knew the difference.
joke! joke!
the high percentage of jews *surely* can't be attributed to the fact that jews overwhelmingly live in the areas of the country where students are most likely to apply to ivies (new york, LA, southwestern new england, new jersey), or are much more likely as a group to have parents who place a high value on education and encourage them to apply to the best schools in the country.
no, clearly, such considerations are preposterous. the admissions officers must be racist.
rinse, repeat argument for asians in the UC system.
At the ivy I went to, there are only three grades: A,B,C, and the distribution in my classes was about 30/45/25. That's considerably less generous then the public school that I'm a grad student at now.
In case you didn't notice, a lot of grade inflation happens at all schools these days. I'd actually say that it's worse at UC Berkeley, where I'm a grad student, then it was at Brown, where I did my undergrad. Most students at Brown were there to learn, and the grade was secondary. At Cal Berkeley, my experience is just the opposite.
On the other hand, I'd also note that grade inflation at both schools isn't nearly as bad as a at other schools where my friends went, public and private.
depends. does this hypothetical dual core G4 still have the horribly small G4 front-side bus? 'cause if so, the G5 is gonna pants it for all but a few apps.
too bad the niners are a joke these days. this week's game is gonna be hilarious. on the other hand, MIT is probably the only school that Stanford *can* beat at football these days...
That depends on which daughter it is.
There's something wrong if you get an A for doing what's expected. Meeting expectations should be a B. Exceeding expectations gets you an A. Damn grade inflation!
god, i hope not. stupidest. automobile. ever.
get a minolta dimage scan elite 5400. it'll run you about $580, but you won't get better quality from anything else under about $1500 in my experience. wonderful little scanner that even an ameteur can afford.
even assuming that the 2/100 sec figure from the article was for the shutter speed (it isn't), 1/60 sec is a pretty lame guideline for when you need a tripod. 1/$FOCAL_LENGTH is more typical for the limits of handholding on a 35mm camera; you can easily get a good hand-held shot at 1/20 sec with a 15mm lens, but you'd be lucky to get a good hand-held shot at 1/250 sec with a 400mm. People who are really good at hand-holding, like pros who work at it, people who shoot in situations where they can't carry a tripod (my dad who used to be a navy photographer and did stuff for special ops), biathletes, etc can hand hold comfortably at something more like 3/$FOCAL_LENGTH sec. For the less talented, there's lots of nice image-stabilized lenses that get you a similar improvement. Parent might want to look into a better university for taking his photography class.
because "shipment will commence in December 2004." did you read the article you linked to?
if you read the parent comment, he was referring specifically to the euler equations for incompressible fluids.
you're correct in noting that there is the more general set, but that's not what the parent was talking about.
oops. preview before posting; silly me. that should have been:
the euler equations you have in mind are:
rho * (dU/dt) = - grad p + rho*B
(d rho/dt) = 0
div U = 0
with the flux of U across the boundary equal to zero (U.n = 0).
U denotes the velocity field of the fluid, p is the pressure, rho the mass density.
the euler equations you have in mind are: rho * (dU/dt) = - grad p + rho*B (d rho/dt) = 0 div U = 0 with the flux of U across the boundary equal to zero (U.n = 0). U denotes the velocity field of the fluid, p is the pressure, rho the mass density.
what they do is say that you can't distribute a product that contains certain bits of Matlab or provides access to the Matlab command line unless you're distributing it to someone who already has a license agreement with Mathworks.
The energy required to get up to some speed is proportional to the mass of the vehicle, or the "cube of the size", roughly. The energy generated is proportional to the surface area, or the "square of the size". So, if you want one of these suckers to go fast, you build it as small as possible, then make it really light.
You do realize that the average SUV has a better chance of killing you in a head on collision with a stationary object than, say, a a honda accord, right?
Not to mention that driving the accord, you're less likely to have that accident to start with, because it responds better and faster to the driver.
Except that a smaller car is more responsive to driver control, making it easier for the driver to avoid hitting the telephone pole to start with. Does this eliminate all accidents? Clearly not. Still, it's a substantial factor, and (well designed) small cars actually aren't appreciably less safe in terms of collisions with stationary objects.
There's no question in my mind that a world in which everyone drove honda civics would have fewer traffic fatalities than a world in which everyone drove cadillac escalades.
They're focusing on cache because cache sucks. Half the transistors on a modern processor are devoted to cache; get the cache off the chip, and you can shrink your die size, increase yield, and do everything much cheaper. A modern graphics processor, for example, has about the same transistor count as a modern CPU, but no cache at all; as a result, it's raw processing power is greater (but it spends more time on data access).