Shouldn't teachers ability follow the normal distribution like everyone else? At most there are 67% adequate to good teachers which may or may not inspire their students and probably 5% great teachers who can get the best out of most students. It comes down to students caring about their education like was said before. If their parents and their culture don't think it's as important as some people singing on TV then why should they?
The student can be self-motivated, the parents can motivate the child, the teacher can motivate the students. If you are going to say that 5% of teachers are 'great', then lets say that 5% of parents are great motivators and 5% of students are great self-starters. A great parent effects 1 child (or 2 or 3 or 4). A great student effects 1 person. A great teacher can motivate dozens, year after year.
Anyone of these positions could be taught/incented to be great, but great teachers have the longest effective life span and the widest reach. I don't want to say that a great teacher is a prerequisite for learning/enjoyment of learning, but to say that you shouldn't cultivate/nurture greatness in teachers is missing a huge opportunity to make a difference.
I think the reason college textbooks are prone to frequent updates is that there is a thriving used book market. New book publishers can scuttle that market by coming out with a new edition (and hopefully rendering the old, used editions worthless).
High schools (and high schoolers) don't buy books used (right?) so there is not as much of an incentive to make new editions.
The simplest combination of carbon and hydrogen atoms are called alkanes.
One carbon gives you CH4, methane. Two carbons, C2H6, ethane. Three carbons, C3H8, propane.
After that, they can start to branch. There are two ways to make C4H10, butane. Three ways to make C5H12, butane.
You can see that as the number of carbons increases, the number of combinations increases pretty quickly.
The original post is not dealing with alkanes (you lose a couple of hydrogens every time you add a double bond. See alkenes (like ethylene) and alkynes (like acetylene)) and I am not sure what they meant by saying how long his computer took to permute the possibilities. Nonetheless, I think your nine-year old might get the point now.
Using phrases like "Darwinian selection" or "Darwinian evolution" implies there must be another kind of evolution at work, a process that can be described with another adjective. For instance, "Newtonian physics" distinguishes the mechanical physics Newton explored from subatomic quantum physics. So "Darwinian evolution" raises a question: What's the other evolution?
Into the breach: intelligent design. I am not quite saying Darwinism gave rise to creationism, though the "isms" imply equivalence. But the term "Darwinian" built a stage upon which "intelligent" could share the spotlight.
The problem is that it only takes 1 app that won't work in Linux to put someone off. I can't watch netflix instant view under Linux, so I use Windows. My wireless card doesn't work under Linux, so I run Windows. I can't play this one game under Linux, so I run Windows. etc.
Does helping folding@home make that portion of your power bill tax deductible? Otherwise.. who cares? Donate to a non-profit science foundation.
You are also kind of donating the hardware, which is a much bigger cost than the power. $10 worth of electricity will do more of these calcs than a $10 donation would enable.
McCain stayed within public financing limits. Obama exceeded them.
Not quite true. McCain and Obama both said, during the primaries before either was nominated (or the front-runner), that they would limit themselves to public financing, $85 million each, if their opponent did as well. When McCain sewed up the nomination, he pressed Obama, who had begun his inch towards the nomination. His campaign had also become a cash cow. Obama reneged. So, McCain declined the public limits, too. MSNBC story from Feb. about this.
I agree. The grandparent needs to be modded down. Ellora's Saga is legendary because the guy tried so hard to not be spoiled. Saying someone should try their hardest to beat Nethack without spoilers is just plain mean.
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The student can be self-motivated, the parents can motivate the child, the teacher can motivate the students. If you are going to say that 5% of teachers are 'great', then lets say that 5% of parents are great motivators and 5% of students are great self-starters. A great parent effects 1 child (or 2 or 3 or 4). A great student effects 1 person. A great teacher can motivate dozens, year after year.
Anyone of these positions could be taught/incented to be great, but great teachers have the longest effective life span and the widest reach. I don't want to say that a great teacher is a prerequisite for learning/enjoyment of learning, but to say that you shouldn't cultivate/nurture greatness in teachers is missing a huge opportunity to make a difference.
If you don't think a teacher can inspire students, you've never had a good teacher, let alone a great one.
How is the parent modded 0 and the grandparent 4, insightful? Maybe I'll be informative if I mention that I think Facebook is being ported to ARM...
I think the reason college textbooks are prone to frequent updates is that there is a thriving used book market. New book publishers can scuttle that market by coming out with a new edition (and hopefully rendering the old, used editions worthless).
High schools (and high schoolers) don't buy books used (right?) so there is not as much of an incentive to make new editions.
If you like Tipping Point, read Influence by Robert Cialdini.
It covers similar topics and (I think) does a better job.
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The first (non obvious) big site that pops to mind is IMDB. Other than that I just remember IRC and BBSes.
Congratulations on living in Europe. Youtube and Hulu do not have much in common.
The simplest combination of carbon and hydrogen atoms are called alkanes.
One carbon gives you CH4, methane. Two carbons, C2H6, ethane. Three carbons, C3H8, propane.
After that, they can start to branch. There are two ways to make C4H10, butane. Three ways to make C5H12, butane.
You can see that as the number of carbons increases, the number of combinations increases pretty quickly.
The original post is not dealing with alkanes (you lose a couple of hydrogens every time you add a double bond. See alkenes (like ethylene) and alkynes (like acetylene)) and I am not sure what they meant by saying how long his computer took to permute the possibilities. Nonetheless, I think your nine-year old might get the point now.
Economist chart on thinking evolution is true/correct.
Didn't you RTFA?!
The problem is that it only takes 1 app that won't work in Linux to put someone off. I can't watch netflix instant view under Linux, so I use Windows. My wireless card doesn't work under Linux, so I run Windows. I can't play this one game under Linux, so I run Windows. etc.
And bank account for the next big anniversary when the auction things off.
At first I thought you did not use base ten. Unfortunately, no base can keep you from being a mutant.
How many different products are for sale at an Apple store?
Your tone seems too glib seeing that the vending machine mowed down a Little League team with a salvo of soda cans...
What about appliances (fridges, laundry machines, etc)?
You are also kind of donating the hardware, which is a much bigger cost than the power. $10 worth of electricity will do more of these calcs than a $10 donation would enable.
In this ($1000s/TB) case, the I stands for independent.
Not quite true. McCain and Obama both said, during the primaries before either was nominated (or the front-runner), that they would limit themselves to public financing, $85 million each, if their opponent did as well. When McCain sewed up the nomination, he pressed Obama, who had begun his inch towards the nomination. His campaign had also become a cash cow. Obama reneged. So, McCain declined the public limits, too.
MSNBC story from Feb. about this.
End result, instead of $170 million spent between the two, it was more like $1000 million ($630 million for Obama, $360 for McCain).
Source for the spending totals, they were tough to find.
I agree. The grandparent needs to be modded down. Ellora's Saga is legendary because the guy tried so hard to not be spoiled. Saying someone should try their hardest to beat Nethack without spoilers is just plain mean.
Oh, please don't click on the Bearforce link with your speakers turned on/up. Sorry!