You may want to append that to "If you can drink a beer and still do it reasonably well..."
Last year I made the mistake of drinking heavily while working on a take home exam... for the life of me after a while I couldn't figure out what any of the problems were even asking.
I remember the anxiousness before a competition. So many of us were nervous. We felt lucky to get choosen for the top four spot, to be able to compete in the team competition.
We'd yell, shout, cheer when we got problems to work on. Inevitably one of us had a dissenting opinion based on some calculator response.
The invidual competitions were just as gruling, and yet harder because there was no one but yourself to rely on for the answer.
In the end the winners got trophies, the losers went home upset. Back in my Mu Alpha Theta days I most definitly would consider math a sport.
Now years later in a graduate program for math, I can say that it's an even more cutthroat sport than I once thought. To have the skill to prove things no one else has done, or to understand the proofs for things considered "basic" or "easy" takes more than training, it takes finess.
So I would agree with those that think math is a sport. I'd also agree with those saying math is an art. But mostly I'd say math is the foundation of everything, so of course it is a sport and an art.
Well one counter-example doesn't discredit what he said. A correlation just means that the likelyhood the two things are linked is high.
It doesn't mean that there are no outliers.
That's partially true. However you can teach a person how to access their potential creativity. And give them ways to express themselves they may not have had otherwise.
Perhaps that's what he was hoping computers would help do.
I agree with you to a point. I believe a person who grew up being able to use email, who has the simple ability to cut and paste, and who has experienced some of the revolutions of the computer era first hand would be slightly more knowledgeable about technology in general.
Implicit in what I'm saying and I'd like desperately to believe is that while those in Congress can't have knowledge about everything, they should have a thorough understand of basic ideas. And maybe nowadays we're still a little bit off from computers being a "basic idea", I'm confident that it will be for the subsequent generations.
The more I see these things that representatives try to do in Congress the more I hope that we start to see a younger generation of politicians. I am convinced they just have no idea about technology at all and can easily be swayed by lobbiest. (more so than normal)
I just hope that noone in the House or Senate does anything too stupid before we manage to get some technocrats in office.
Originally, the Induce Act was scheduled to be introduced Thursday by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, but the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmed at the end of the day that the bill had been delayed. A representative of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a probable co-sponsor of the legislation, said the Induce Act would be introduced "sometime next week," a delay that one technology lobbyist attributed to opposition to the measure.
Does anyone know who opposes this in the Senate? They deserve a cookie.
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You may want to append that to "If you can drink a beer and still do it reasonably well..."
Last year I made the mistake of drinking heavily while working on a take home exam... for the life of me after a while I couldn't figure out what any of the problems were even asking.
I remember the anxiousness before a competition. So many of us were nervous. We felt lucky to get choosen for the top four spot, to be able to compete in the team competition. We'd yell, shout, cheer when we got problems to work on. Inevitably one of us had a dissenting opinion based on some calculator response. The invidual competitions were just as gruling, and yet harder because there was no one but yourself to rely on for the answer.
In the end the winners got trophies, the losers went home upset. Back in my Mu Alpha Theta days I most definitly would consider math a sport.
Now years later in a graduate program for math, I can say that it's an even more cutthroat sport than I once thought. To have the skill to prove things no one else has done, or to understand the proofs for things considered "basic" or "easy" takes more than training, it takes finess.
So I would agree with those that think math is a sport. I'd also agree with those saying math is an art. But mostly I'd say math is the foundation of everything, so of course it is a sport and an art.
Well one counter-example doesn't discredit what he said. A correlation just means that the likelyhood the two things are linked is high.
It doesn't mean that there are no outliers.
That's partially true. However you can teach a person how to access their potential creativity. And give them ways to express themselves they may not have had otherwise.
Perhaps that's what he was hoping computers would help do.
If you want to find out about New Math look up the song by Tom Lehrer.
It explains everything!
I agree with you to a point. I believe a person who grew up being able to use email, who has the simple ability to cut and paste, and who has experienced some of the revolutions of the computer era first hand would be slightly more knowledgeable about technology in general.
Implicit in what I'm saying and I'd like desperately to believe is that while those in Congress can't have knowledge about everything, they should have a thorough understand of basic ideas. And maybe nowadays we're still a little bit off from computers being a "basic idea", I'm confident that it will be for the subsequent generations.
The more I see these things that representatives try to do in Congress the more I hope that we start to see a younger generation of politicians. I am convinced they just have no idea about technology at all and can easily be swayed by lobbiest. (more so than normal)
I just hope that noone in the House or Senate does anything too stupid before we manage to get some technocrats in office.
Originally, the Induce Act was scheduled to be introduced Thursday by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, but the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmed at the end of the day that the bill had been delayed. A representative of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a probable co-sponsor of the legislation, said the Induce Act would be introduced "sometime next week," a delay that one technology lobbyist attributed to opposition to the measure.
Does anyone know who opposes this in the Senate? They deserve a cookie.