And yet despite those trillions of dollars students are learning in overcrowded decaying buildings with fuck all for music, science, arts, and other important electives while teachers are buying basic supplies out of their own pocket.
The question is where the fuck are those trillions of dollars GOING, and the answer is probably straight into the administration's pockets and the football program.
Rote is "Here copy this 500 times even though you have no idea what it is, how it works, or why, and the moment you hit a problem that's slightly different you'll never be able to solve it". It is, by definition, NOT learning.
No it's fucking not. We don't pay thousands upon thousands of dollars for an infrequently consulted FAQ. A professor's job is to teach undergraduates a significant and deep understanding of the material, and a graduate professor's job is to expand on that to the point that their students become *producers* of knowledge rather than consumers.
You forgot the worst part. Teachers that work through the exact three examples in the start of the chapter which are absolutely nothing like the other sixty you'll have to finish in the next 40 minutes and the *HUNDRED* you'll be assigned for homework. My highschool used to, and probably still does, assert that students should expect a MINIMUM of three hours of homework per course.
Apparently they flunked their own math classes because with six classes a day that worked out to 18 hours of homework for a school day that let out at 3 and started at 5... if you weren't in 9th grade. If you were you got to enjoy the privilege of getting up at 4am to catch your bus.
I can BELIEVE in the validity of the scientific method and its demonstrable tendency to iterate towards a more correct and complete understanding of the universe.
And then halfway through they completely fake the snowmobile failing and spend the rest of the episode poo pooing it over something that never actually happened.
Except you're forgetting the whole part about using the same thing which causes the symptoms you want to cure. If someone can't sleep you use caffiene but you "intend" to make a cure, basically believe really hard. If your idea of "plausible mechanism" is to go back to magic and superstition then you've essentially moved the goalposts to such a degree that there's not one thing which can be considered implausible.
Homeopathy's mechanism is that you cure something by putting a drop of what *causes* the symptoms you want to cure into water, shake it in a bunch of directions while "intending" to make a cure, and then repeat the dilution and shaking process about 30 more times. That's neither plausible nor scientific. You've got a better chance of finding a single grain of rice in a ball of water the size of the moon than you do an atom of anything but water in a homeopathic remedy.
Profit does. When your bottom line depends on keeping schools convinced that you're indispensable in the War On Plagiarism you damn well find plagiarism everywhere you can, whether or not it's actually there. There are approximately 80 MILLION students in the US, with our education system being as repetitive and formulaic as it is it becomes a virtual certainty that out of 80,000,000 students a significant number will say the same thing the same way.
And that very slippery slope of "you're hiding something ergo you MUST be up to no good" is exactly why strong encryption should be the default state of everything. Maybe I'm using tor because I'm on sketchy wifi and want to check my bank, maybe I'm using it because I want to arrange a surprise party, maybe I just think encryption is cool.
The only joke is how many people have drowned in the "OMG WIDESCREEN FLATPANEL HD" kool-aid that's set us back so far we're only now getting flatpanels with a vertical resolution equal to what a 10+ year old trinitron could do effortlessly. That and ever shorter and wider monitors, I see some modern laptops and it's like reading off a postage envelope.
You're claiming response times that aren't physically possible. Even the 2ms claimed response times are either flat out lies or achieved through inventing some arbitrary test procedure that gets the number they want.
You're not going to get the response times you want until we go back to electron/phosphor tech instead of physically moving pixels. I get a new trinitron off ebay periodically because even the fastest "gaming" screens these days are still so slow compared to a CRT that I can see the blur just from moving around ingame like a smeared oilpainting.
They weren't jacking off, they were raking in billions of dollars in "campaign contributions" from the corporations that have been getting all of the contracts these agencies need.
You're talking about a world where prescience is real and mutated humans teleport ships around with their brains because of a magic "spice" made of dead giant sandworms, which one of the main characters eventually *becomes* over thousands of years, and that's your nitpick?
Part of the disingenuity that drove Martin Luther King Jr to refer to "Right to Work" as one of the greatest frauds perpetrated against the american people.
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And yet despite those trillions of dollars students are learning in overcrowded decaying buildings with fuck all for music, science, arts, and other important electives while teachers are buying basic supplies out of their own pocket.
The question is where the fuck are those trillions of dollars GOING, and the answer is probably straight into the administration's pockets and the football program.
Rote is "Here copy this 500 times even though you have no idea what it is, how it works, or why, and the moment you hit a problem that's slightly different you'll never be able to solve it". It is, by definition, NOT learning.
No it's fucking not. We don't pay thousands upon thousands of dollars for an infrequently consulted FAQ. A professor's job is to teach undergraduates a significant and deep understanding of the material, and a graduate professor's job is to expand on that to the point that their students become *producers* of knowledge rather than consumers.
You forgot the worst part. Teachers that work through the exact three examples in the start of the chapter which are absolutely nothing like the other sixty you'll have to finish in the next 40 minutes and the *HUNDRED* you'll be assigned for homework. My highschool used to, and probably still does, assert that students should expect a MINIMUM of three hours of homework per course.
Apparently they flunked their own math classes because with six classes a day that worked out to 18 hours of homework for a school day that let out at 3 and started at 5... if you weren't in 9th grade. If you were you got to enjoy the privilege of getting up at 4am to catch your bus.
I can BELIEVE in the validity of the scientific method and its demonstrable tendency to iterate towards a more correct and complete understanding of the universe.
Feel free to demonstrate this under repeatable rigorous conditions and the Randi foundation will give you a million bucks.
And then halfway through they completely fake the snowmobile failing and spend the rest of the episode poo pooing it over something that never actually happened.
Except you're forgetting the whole part about using the same thing which causes the symptoms you want to cure. If someone can't sleep you use caffiene but you "intend" to make a cure, basically believe really hard. If your idea of "plausible mechanism" is to go back to magic and superstition then you've essentially moved the goalposts to such a degree that there's not one thing which can be considered implausible.
Homeopathy's mechanism is that you cure something by putting a drop of what *causes* the symptoms you want to cure into water, shake it in a bunch of directions while "intending" to make a cure, and then repeat the dilution and shaking process about 30 more times. That's neither plausible nor scientific. You've got a better chance of finding a single grain of rice in a ball of water the size of the moon than you do an atom of anything but water in a homeopathic remedy.
And where I live whenever they call something a "brownout" it's actually the power completely cutting out for a brief period
You underestimate how poor our infrastructure is. A "Brownout" in the US isn't minor dimming, it's near or total loss of power for a second or two.
pupil dilation is more akin to peristalsis than blinking.
afaik a lot of those systems work based on tying in to moving an arm or something.
Profit does. When your bottom line depends on keeping schools convinced that you're indispensable in the War On Plagiarism you damn well find plagiarism everywhere you can, whether or not it's actually there. There are approximately 80 MILLION students in the US, with our education system being as repetitive and formulaic as it is it becomes a virtual certainty that out of 80,000,000 students a significant number will say the same thing the same way.
And that very slippery slope of "you're hiding something ergo you MUST be up to no good" is exactly why strong encryption should be the default state of everything. Maybe I'm using tor because I'm on sketchy wifi and want to check my bank, maybe I'm using it because I want to arrange a surprise party, maybe I just think encryption is cool.
The only joke is how many people have drowned in the "OMG WIDESCREEN FLATPANEL HD" kool-aid that's set us back so far we're only now getting flatpanels with a vertical resolution equal to what a 10+ year old trinitron could do effortlessly. That and ever shorter and wider monitors, I see some modern laptops and it's like reading off a postage envelope.
120hz LCD != changing a pixel 120 times a second like a CRT would.
You're claiming response times that aren't physically possible. Even the 2ms claimed response times are either flat out lies or achieved through inventing some arbitrary test procedure that gets the number they want.
You're not going to get the response times you want until we go back to electron/phosphor tech instead of physically moving pixels. I get a new trinitron off ebay periodically because even the fastest "gaming" screens these days are still so slow compared to a CRT that I can see the blur just from moving around ingame like a smeared oilpainting.
We had something like that for a while, the truth is people don't give a damn and nobody is willing (or able, these days) to run against them.
They weren't jacking off, they were raking in billions of dollars in "campaign contributions" from the corporations that have been getting all of the contracts these agencies need.
You mean sue the people with hundreds of millions of dollars who can just pay congressmen to vote "yes" on something they wrote?
Nanotech heatsink with fractal surface area.
You're talking about a world where prescience is real and mutated humans teleport ships around with their brains because of a magic "spice" made of dead giant sandworms, which one of the main characters eventually *becomes* over thousands of years, and that's your nitpick?
Part of the disingenuity that drove Martin Luther King Jr to refer to "Right to Work" as one of the greatest frauds perpetrated against the american people.