And just like all other science which sounds like a bullshit waste of time when it is done it may also yield some new understandings of how interacting radio signals can be used for practical purposes.
Bullshit.
What this article claims is that complex calculations (like fourier transformations) can be computed, and their results captured, based on carefully controlling the interaction of WiFi (or other RF) signals. I suppose it could be argued that this could create a form of analog computer, but the article implies that any calculation might be fair game, up to (I assume) mining crypto currency.
Bottom line, they seem to be proposing that we take several small processors, use them to carefully modulate/regulate the RF emissions of several routers to perform otherwise trivial calculations?
Are we contemplating a National Museum of English Art? French Art? Spanish Art? Chinese Art?
For the same reason an "American Art Museum" in Africa would seem out of place, an "African Art Museum" sounds out of place in America. As a private museum I have no issue, I encourage all manner of private investments, but this is a US taxpayer-funded museum, why must we have one specific for the art of one foreign continent - Where's the National Museum of European Art? Museum of Asian Art?
African American History and Culture Museum sounds fine, as does the National Museum of the American Indian, as they are focused on things that actually happened "around here," but "African Art" by definition occurred elsewhere.
For example, at the National Museum of African Art, Pepper can translate phrases in the Kiswahili (Swahili) language. At the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Pepper robots guide visitors to the Rosa Parks VR experience.
We have a National Museum of African Art AND a National Museum of African American History and Culture?
Nancy Pelosi was speaker of the house, third in line to the President, when she burped out that little pearl of wisdom.
Then, after we passed the bill, we found out what was in it and Democrats lost the House in the very next mid-term, and Nancy found herself the Minority Leader.
Also taking place on May 9, net neutrality activists and websites like Etsy, Tumblr, Postmates, Foursquare and Twilio will post "red alerts" to protest the FCC's effort to roll back net neutrality protections.
The school budget that used to fund teachers and 'instructional materials' are now diverted to teacher pensions and chasing technological fads.
When I was in school, the entire school had 4 TVs, now every child needs their own device with a 10" or greater screen so they can download activity pages from websites.
I do not buy the argument that teacher salaries are going down, and low pensions are a result of lower salaries before.
If you want to counter that teacher salaries are going down, please be prepared to point to an actual district where teachers are making less this year than they did last year. I'm not interested in the effect increased school loan payments have on slower-increasing salaries.
The district I taught in had starting salaries for first year teachers of $60K for a teacher with a BA. The salary for teachers with a PHd capped out at $100K, if you only had a BA the salary cap was $89K.
Pensions are a fraction of final year's salary, so if $25K is 65% of final year's salary, that means they probably made about $40K. That's a wage some non-union districts pay. The vast majority of teachers are union members and do much better financially.
So it's not in the article, it's not in the excerpt printed on slashdot, but the bit some random slashdot submitter made up when they submitted the article - that part proved Comcast won't offer customers the ability to buy faster internet service?
You have to work real hard to see how wrong you are.
Except this is more like going to Carl's Jr. and wanting to buy a large coke, and being told that you can only have that if you buy a burger and fries that you don't want.
It says that NO WHERE in the article, you literally made that upbecause you refuse to understand how bundling works and your setting passionate hatred for Comcast clouds your ability to see clearly what is in front of you.
Yes. - this is a chart made famous in "Waiting for Superman" when the same documentary producer that filmed "An Inconvenient Truth" turned his critical eye on public education.
I have no idea what Maryland is doing about it, but I can bet you their answer won't be to hold back seniors that can't read and write at grade level - they'll hand the poor children papers that say they are a high school graduate, but they won't be able to take that to a college without spending half their freshman year taking remedial classes trying to bring them up to the level their classmates are at who were able to go to schools where children earned their high school diplomas.
Parents, community, and teachers all contribute to the education of a child. The stresses todays kids face aren't that different than the ones their parents faced, poverty, hunger, drug addiction aren't new.
Teachers (in my experience, and I worked in public education for 5 years in NJ, then taught for 6 montsh in TX in a charter school) today aren't like the teachers I had growing up (I worked 5 years in the district I grew up in) - Every teacher from 7th to 12th grade feels it is their responsibility to inject "current events" into their classroom, no matter the subject. While it's OK if one or two teachers in the school do it, when every teacher wants to "discuss" BLM, Gun Control, #METOO, et al, it takes away from the education process. In addition, taking out Practical Arts classes (Wood shop, metal shop, auto shop, etc.) forces kids that wouldn't have been on a college track into one, slowing down the process because they can't keep up - but, they are there because "everyone needs to go to college" (true story, in my district in central jersey we had 97% of graduating seniors going off to college, and a handful were going in various military branches - there were more than a few parents that argued the district had failed them because 100% of the seniors weren't going off to 4 year colleges!) Then we get to Learning Disabilities, I grew up with siblings that had learning disabilities, and their differences were managed outside the classroom one-on-one and in small groups. The current trend is to try and "mainstream" children with differences, again, dragging down the class average as the teacher and aide(s) try and steer the class though the material. It wasn't that long ago that programs like "No Child Left Behind" quickly morphed into "No Child Gets Ahead" when Honors, AP, and other "gifted and talented" classes were cut to bring up the lower-performing students.
But, you bring up parenting, and I agree it is a major component, but many of todays parents are simply disconnected from their education, continuing the neglect and lack of concern about their children's education their parents showed them. When I taught at the charter school they had an interesting program - when a child was at risk for failing two or more classes, they were required to attend evening study halls with a parent until their grades improved to passing in all grades. The parents would get mad at the school for this policy, not their children for not doing their class/homework, but they were forced to put up with it because they chose the school, they agreed to the terms - the alternative was a public school that spent the bulk of the day trying to keep the children safe from each other.
Teachers burnout, and tenure and unions keep them on the payroll, hurting student's chances of getting an education, and for that I hold them responsible - to the unions public schools exist to hire teachers, to parents schools serve a different purpose. What could the NYC public schools do if they didn't have hundreds of teachers collecting full salary & benefits, sitting idly in the so-called "rubber rooms" while their performance and offenses are slowly, meticulously debated by lawyers?
I'm not sure what country you live in but that seems like a bizarrely inefficient system.
The less-bizarrely inefficient US system has school districts changing textbooks on the whim of department heads to include the latest changes in the SJW world.
In the US schools are leasing/subscribing to on-line textbooks, then buying laptops/chrome books to read them on - how marvelously efficient that is, that means you can change textbooks year after year as suits your fancy, and never have to inventory the books. Of course, broken laptops/chromebooks and supporting an adequate WIFI network in each school to access textbook servers is another matter...
In America, it is illegal to require students (or their families) to purchase anything for their education - public education is free and provided equally to all.
Let's offer striking teachers a deal - forgo next-year's pre negotiated raise and ask your district to direct the money that would have gone towards that raise and spend it on instructional material. I-mate not saying a pay cut, their 2018-2019 paychecks wi!l be the same as their 2017-2018 paychecks (except for their "peanuts" in tax cuts), and that $1-2K will be available for instructional materials every year into the futhre. Think your striking teachers would take that one-time freeze 'for the children'? No, they simply expect the parents to keep paying ever more one for their schools.
Schools in 39 of 50 states have seen decreases in funding for instructional materials for their students, according to data from the Urban Institute.
Curious to note if there has been a corresponding drop in property taxes? I suspect not, instead teacher salaries to up and property taxes can't keep up with wage and benefit increases, so instructional material spending gets cut.
The next time a teacher complains about their salary, compare their paycheck to the median income in your state - more often than not they are in the top-half of wage earners in the stae, meaning most taxpayers funding their school San less than them.
Too many kids are graduating illiterate, Baltimore has entire high schools where not one child is performing at grade level in either math or reading - not one in the entire school, but those teachers get the same salary and benefits as the teachers whose students perform at grade level.
Since establishing a federal department of education, student achievement has stagnated while spending has exploded - aside from teachers having better retirement packages, what's improved?
No, vouchers are a fraction of the per-student spending in district. A typical voucher is $5k, the average student costs $13k.
Charter schools typically receive less per-child funding than public schools. Around 80-90% is typical.
Parents that pay to send their children to private school sti!l pay the exact same school taxes as their neighbors that go to public school, then they pay the tuition for the private school and can not even deduct the expense.
Add in that most voucher programs are privately funded and are STILL attacked by teachers unions, and you can see why parents dislike teachers unions.
People like to argue that charter schools, on average, perform about the same level as the a stage public school - fine, but they do so at lower cost and represent a choice and a chance for a parent that lives in a district with value-added schools.
Common core is a set of goals, not a specific curriculum - it defines what children should be taught, not HOW it should be taught.
To be honest, it sounds like you've never had a chi!d go through this...
For example, children are taught to approximate things like 4 + 5, and are expected to say "4 is almost 5, and 5 + 5 is 10, so the answer is "about 10" answering " 9" earns your child a failure on that question. Children are taught this approximation lesson AFTER being taught addition, so they are confused when getting the right answer is wrong.
The issue with common core is it has three components and people are rarely discussing the same component when they discuss common core.
Common core is a set of loosely defined goals, not a defined list of facts and concepts children need to learn.
To adopt Common core a district has to redesign their curriculum, to save time, districts will buy textbooks with common core 'baked in'.
To teach common core, the teacher needs to turn the pre-fab curriculum into actual class work.
Most supporters defend the first part, the loosely defined goals, most critics attack the ham-fisted attempts individual teachers have trying to teach the material they were given. Don't believe me, watch politicians argue That common core raises standards, and that's a good thing while parents wave incomprehensible worksheets in the air and attack common core.
Hillary was promised the White House just as soon as Barack Obama was done with it, problem was, her supporters are too clustered in too few states, hence she won the popular but lost the electoral vote. Too bad all her supporters like to cluster in the same few states.
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And just like all other science which sounds like a bullshit waste of time when it is done it may also yield some new understandings of how interacting radio signals can be used for practical purposes.
Bullshit.
What this article claims is that complex calculations (like fourier transformations) can be computed, and their results captured, based on carefully controlling the interaction of WiFi (or other RF) signals. I suppose it could be argued that this could create a form of analog computer, but the article implies that any calculation might be fair game, up to (I assume) mining crypto currency.
Bottom line, they seem to be proposing that we take several small processors, use them to carefully modulate/regulate the RF emissions of several routers to perform otherwise trivial calculations?
Bullshit.
Are we contemplating a National Museum of English Art? French Art? Spanish Art? Chinese Art?
For the same reason an "American Art Museum" in Africa would seem out of place, an "African Art Museum" sounds out of place in America. As a private museum I have no issue, I encourage all manner of private investments, but this is a US taxpayer-funded museum, why must we have one specific for the art of one foreign continent - Where's the National Museum of European Art? Museum of Asian Art?
African American History and Culture Museum sounds fine, as does the National Museum of the American Indian, as they are focused on things that actually happened "around here," but "African Art" by definition occurred elsewhere.
The actual bus Rosa Parks staged her protest is in the Henry Ford Museum in Grenfield, MI.
For example, at the National Museum of African Art, Pepper can translate phrases in the Kiswahili (Swahili) language. At the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Pepper robots guide visitors to the Rosa Parks VR experience.
We have a National Museum of African Art AND a National Museum of African American History and Culture?
Nancy Pelosi was speaker of the house, third in line to the President, when she burped out that little pearl of wisdom.
Then, after we passed the bill, we found out what was in it and Democrats lost the House in the very next mid-term, and Nancy found herself the Minority Leader.
80% of voters support NN
I doubt even 20% of voters know what Net Neutrality is - they simply support it because they heard the trump administration was against it.
Remind me how many times democrats mocked the republicans for symbolic votes...
Doing that which you used to mock doesn't inoculate you from being mocked when you do it!
Also taking place on May 9, net neutrality activists and websites like Etsy, Tumblr, Postmates, Foursquare and Twilio will post "red alerts" to protest the FCC's effort to roll back net neutrality protections.
Those "red alerts" will really make a difference!
The school budget that used to fund teachers and 'instructional materials' are now diverted to teacher pensions and chasing technological fads.
When I was in school, the entire school had 4 TVs, now every child needs their own device with a 10" or greater screen so they can download activity pages from websites.
I do not buy the argument that teacher salaries are going down, and low pensions are a result of lower salaries before.
If you want to counter that teacher salaries are going down, please be prepared to point to an actual district where teachers are making less this year than they did last year. I'm not interested in the effect increased school loan payments have on slower-increasing salaries.
The district I taught in had starting salaries for first year teachers of $60K for a teacher with a BA. The salary for teachers with a PHd capped out at $100K, if you only had a BA the salary cap was $89K.
Pensions are a fraction of final year's salary, so if $25K is 65% of final year's salary, that means they probably made about $40K. That's a wage some non-union districts pay. The vast majority of teachers are union members and do much better financially.
So it's not in the article, it's not in the excerpt printed on slashdot, but the bit some random slashdot submitter made up when they submitted the article - that part proved Comcast won't offer customers the ability to buy faster internet service?
You have to work real hard to see how wrong you are.
Except this is more like going to Carl's Jr. and wanting to buy a large coke, and being told that you can only have that if you buy a burger and fries that you don't want.
It says that NO WHERE in the article, you literally made that upbecause you refuse to understand how bundling works and your setting passionate hatred for Comcast clouds your ability to see clearly what is in front of you.
It's more like McDonalds will supersize your fries for free, but you have to also buy a beverage.
Wow, when you put it like that, they are a bunch of evil SOBs! /sarcasm
A year ago, 6 schools in Baltimore had no students that were proficient in state tests... Recently that number grew to 13 without even one student proficient in math, but they did somehow find $100K to bus students to an anti-gun protest...
Yes. - this is a chart made famous in "Waiting for Superman" when the same documentary producer that filmed "An Inconvenient Truth" turned his critical eye on public education.
I have no idea what Maryland is doing about it, but I can bet you their answer won't be to hold back seniors that can't read and write at grade level - they'll hand the poor children papers that say they are a high school graduate, but they won't be able to take that to a college without spending half their freshman year taking remedial classes trying to bring them up to the level their classmates are at who were able to go to schools where children earned their high school diplomas.
Parents, community, and teachers all contribute to the education of a child. The stresses todays kids face aren't that different than the ones their parents faced, poverty, hunger, drug addiction aren't new.
Teachers (in my experience, and I worked in public education for 5 years in NJ, then taught for 6 montsh in TX in a charter school) today aren't like the teachers I had growing up (I worked 5 years in the district I grew up in) - Every teacher from 7th to 12th grade feels it is their responsibility to inject "current events" into their classroom, no matter the subject. While it's OK if one or two teachers in the school do it, when every teacher wants to "discuss" BLM, Gun Control, #METOO, et al, it takes away from the education process. In addition, taking out Practical Arts classes (Wood shop, metal shop, auto shop, etc.) forces kids that wouldn't have been on a college track into one, slowing down the process because they can't keep up - but, they are there because "everyone needs to go to college" (true story, in my district in central jersey we had 97% of graduating seniors going off to college, and a handful were going in various military branches - there were more than a few parents that argued the district had failed them because 100% of the seniors weren't going off to 4 year colleges!) Then we get to Learning Disabilities, I grew up with siblings that had learning disabilities, and their differences were managed outside the classroom one-on-one and in small groups. The current trend is to try and "mainstream" children with differences, again, dragging down the class average as the teacher and aide(s) try and steer the class though the material. It wasn't that long ago that programs like "No Child Left Behind" quickly morphed into "No Child Gets Ahead" when Honors, AP, and other "gifted and talented" classes were cut to bring up the lower-performing students.
But, you bring up parenting, and I agree it is a major component, but many of todays parents are simply disconnected from their education, continuing the neglect and lack of concern about their children's education their parents showed them. When I taught at the charter school they had an interesting program - when a child was at risk for failing two or more classes, they were required to attend evening study halls with a parent until their grades improved to passing in all grades. The parents would get mad at the school for this policy, not their children for not doing their class/homework, but they were forced to put up with it because they chose the school, they agreed to the terms - the alternative was a public school that spent the bulk of the day trying to keep the children safe from each other.
Teachers burnout, and tenure and unions keep them on the payroll, hurting student's chances of getting an education, and for that I hold them responsible - to the unions public schools exist to hire teachers, to parents schools serve a different purpose. What could the NYC public schools do if they didn't have hundreds of teachers collecting full salary & benefits, sitting idly in the so-called "rubber rooms" while their performance and offenses are slowly, meticulously debated by lawyers?
I'm not sure what country you live in but that seems like a bizarrely inefficient system.
The less-bizarrely inefficient US system has school districts changing textbooks on the whim of department heads to include the latest changes in the SJW world.
In the US schools are leasing/subscribing to on-line textbooks, then buying laptops/chrome books to read them on - how marvelously efficient that is, that means you can change textbooks year after year as suits your fancy, and never have to inventory the books. Of course, broken laptops/chromebooks and supporting an adequate WIFI network in each school to access textbook servers is another matter...
In America, it is illegal to require students (or their families) to purchase anything for their education - public education is free and provided equally to all.
What if two-thirds of your workforce are warehouse pickers? What does that do to your median salary?
Let's offer striking teachers a deal - forgo next-year's pre negotiated raise and ask your district to direct the money that would have gone towards that raise and spend it on instructional material. I-mate not saying a pay cut, their 2018-2019 paychecks wi!l be the same as their 2017-2018 paychecks (except for their "peanuts" in tax cuts), and that $1-2K will be available for instructional materials every year into the futhre. Think your striking teachers would take that one-time freeze 'for the children'? No, they simply expect the parents to keep paying ever more one for their schools.
Schools in 39 of 50 states have seen decreases in funding for instructional materials for their students, according to data from the Urban Institute.
Curious to note if there has been a corresponding drop in property taxes? I suspect not, instead teacher salaries to up and property taxes can't keep up with wage and benefit increases, so instructional material spending gets cut.
The next time a teacher complains about their salary, compare their paycheck to the median income in your state - more often than not they are in the top-half of wage earners in the stae, meaning most taxpayers funding their school San less than them.
Too many kids are graduating illiterate, Baltimore has entire high schools where not one child is performing at grade level in either math or reading - not one in the entire school, but those teachers get the same salary and benefits as the teachers whose students perform at grade level.
Since establishing a federal department of education, student achievement has stagnated while spending has exploded - aside from teachers having better retirement packages, what's improved?
No, vouchers are a fraction of the per-student spending in district. A typical voucher is $5k, the average student costs $13k.
Charter schools typically receive less per-child funding than public schools. Around 80-90% is typical.
Parents that pay to send their children to private school sti!l pay the exact same school taxes as their neighbors that go to public school, then they pay the tuition for the private school and can not even deduct the expense.
Add in that most voucher programs are privately funded and are STILL attacked by teachers unions, and you can see why parents dislike teachers unions.
People like to argue that charter schools, on average, perform about the same level as the a stage public school - fine, but they do so at lower cost and represent a choice and a chance for a parent that lives in a district with value-added schools.
Common core is a set of goals, not a specific curriculum - it defines what children should be taught, not HOW it should be taught.
To be honest, it sounds like you've never had a chi!d go through this...
For example, children are taught to approximate things like 4 + 5, and are expected to say "4 is almost 5, and 5 + 5 is 10, so the answer is "about 10" answering " 9" earns your child a failure on that question. Children are taught this approximation lesson AFTER being taught addition, so they are confused when getting the right answer is wrong.
The issue with common core is it has three components and people are rarely discussing the same component when they discuss common core.
Common core is a set of loosely defined goals, not a defined list of facts and concepts children need to learn.
To adopt Common core a district has to redesign their curriculum, to save time, districts will buy textbooks with common core 'baked in'.
To teach common core, the teacher needs to turn the pre-fab curriculum into actual class work.
Most supporters defend the first part, the loosely defined goals, most critics attack the ham-fisted attempts individual teachers have trying to teach the material they were given. Don't believe me, watch politicians argue That common core raises standards, and that's a good thing while parents wave incomprehensible worksheets in the air and attack common core.
Oh, did I forget my /sarcasm tag?
Hillary was promised the White House just as soon as Barack Obama was done with it, problem was, her supporters are too clustered in too few states, hence she won the popular but lost the electoral vote. Too bad all her supporters like to cluster in the same few states.