The Official Status Thread
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Status: Wondering why my Arduino project keeps freaking out, then I noticed I have the habit of using unsigned integers everywhere while also having a few
while (val >= 0)
loops.
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If you yelled it in lojban,
That is the most hypothetical of all possible hypothetical situations.
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Who calls his car jiji? That is like calling it youyo
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Yesterday the car sat on my cat's bonnet. Now I have dirty cat.
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@Luhmann said:
car
I drove* to work* today in my cat*.
* I don't have one of these
You don't have a "drove"?
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I don't have a drover's license.
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I didn't knew you got a job already. Congratulations!
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Status: sitting in parking lot at Lowes, watching a couple try to load two 4x8 sheets of drywall into the interior of a Honda CRV.
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TIL: ES6 is now called ES2015. ES7 will be called ES2016.
Reason? To shame browser vendors into implementing them quickly.
Actually, kind of makes sense.
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browser vendors into implementing them quickly
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Status: sitting in parking lot at Lowes, watching a couple try to load two 4x8 sheets of drywall into the interior of a Honda CRV.
Does the phrase "Looks like two monkeys trying to fuck a football" come to mind?
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Strangely that GIS only returned
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Safe Search
Wat? I know not of such option.
Select -> Search took along the quotes
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Jeff in 1 meme:
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TOASTER_NOT_FOUND
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Status: Here's episode 2. May contain trace amounts of MURDER.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37UofGmW3g8
Also, here's a poll:
How do I get back something that was stolen from
mea locked chest that I don't know about yet but that will play into the story later on?[poll]
- by force
- negotiate
[/poll]
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Status: Starting a book for which the very first blurb encountered is this:
“The Nathan book is brilliant—you’ll love it. Publishers, take note: I’d sure be buying a heck of a lot more technical books if more of them were like this one.” —Jeff Atwood, codinghorror.com, cofounder of Stack Overflow
[poll type=multiple]
- Be afraid
- Be very afraid
- Don't worry, it's just a blurb
- A stopped clock is occasionally right
- That's actually a pretty good book
- I know a better book on the topic (reply with title or link)
- Stop picking on Jeff!
[/poll]
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Status: Watching the #demdebate. Summary for anyone who isn't watching:
Benghazi.
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Status: father unit's open heart surgery went well even with some complications (swap out a replacement valve, oh wait another seems damaged by replacement's failure). Pie & cigar time it is.
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Pie & cigar time it is.
Seems like an odd choice to celebrate with, considering the circumstances. Regardless, I am glad all went well.
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Seems like an odd choice to celebrate with
Hey things went well. How is that not celebration. I mean I'm probably going to need it too based on shitty genetics so any plus sounds good to me.
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I mean I'm probably going to need it too based on shitty genetics
and the copious amounts of pie and cigars
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Status: It seems to be a bit wet today. Hmm, yes: I'm in an area that's got a warning out that we could get anywhere from 50mm to 250mm of rain today. And with heavy winds too, but just this morning. Now, 2" isn't too bad, but 10"…
Guess I'd better check that there aren't any cherry leaves blocking the drain. Again.
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Status: Will have to talk to my pupils about what exactly they think a "linear relationship" actually is.
I defined Ohm's Resistance as the linear coefficient between voltage and current. We had a nice graph and a not-Ohm resistor as a comparison.
Then I had a short test the next week where quite a few pupils wrote just that: An Ohm's Resistor needed a linear relationship.
The test also included the question if an unknown component was such a resistor; attached to it was a table with voltages over and the resulting currents through the component. Merely by looking at the table you could easily see that I had chosen an exponential relationship - the current quadrupled every single-voltage step.
According to all of them, that is called "linear".
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2n is O(n) apparently.
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We saw my mistake simultaneously.
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Guess I'd better check that there aren't any cherry leaves blocking the drain. Again.
Wonder of wonders, the drain wasn't blocked. I'd fully anticipated having to go out in the rain to clear it. And we probably only got rainfall at the low end of projections. I'm glad of that; it was wet enough without having the best part of a whole foot of rain in one storm…
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Heh.
However, this incident (not the first of its kind) now raises the question:
How in the nine circles of hell am I supposed to teach them advanced level physics when they keep stumbling over basic math?
I mean, this is the easy stuff.
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Are the physics and math curricula properly matched where you teach?
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How in the nine circles of hell am I supposed to teach them advanced level physics when they keep stumbling over basic math?
Maybe say that to their faces? Let them know that if they don't get their shit together and actually start applying what they're supposed to be learning, they will fail. School is forgiving by comparison with university, and that's usually way more easy on students than the world of work will be.
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Are the physics and math curricula properly matched where you teach?
They are. The problem stems from the fact that mine is a school which only begins at grade 10 - all our pupils originally were at other schools.
Maybe say that to their faces? Let them know that if they don't get their shit together and actually start applying what they're supposed to be learning, they will fail. School is forgiving by comparison with university, and that's usually way more easy on students than the world of work will be.
I already told them as much. But I can't exactly repeat a doom and gloom speech every week
Well, maybe this test will serve as a wake-up call. For some it's a definite shot across the bow.
I think I'll also stress the importance of looking at the units. All the experiments they did so far resulted in the current being measured in mA (milliAmps) which they then had to recalculate to A (Ampere). This test also had the current given in mA. Almost none of them thought to convert it back to A which, of course, resulted in the wrong resistance values.
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Status: Watching the #demdebate. Summary for anyone who isn't watching:
Benghazi.Idiocy.
FTFY.Seriously, did you expect anything meaningful in a Presidential debate? Silly Fucker.
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Math has to be thought starting in a rigorous way. Teaching by example is bad and confusing. Teaching by example using actual numbers is even worse. You should define the linear system with its properties first: L(ax)=aL(x) and L(x+y)=L(x)+L(y)=>L(0)=0 (strict definition of linear).
Graphs might help, but its specifics should be vague not to give anyone any idea, e.g. the axis should have no numbers. After students are comfortable , only then can show them tables and some numbers to play with. Tables are horrible.
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You are confusing things a bit: I'm not teaching maths.
I'm teaching physics. I don't have time to teach them math in addition to physics, hence the problems.
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I am sorry for you, it should be frustrating. Maybe you can start your syllabus by some basics in linear algebra first.
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I defined Ohm's Resistance as the linear coefficient between voltage and current. We had a nice graph and a not-Ohm resistor as a comparison.
Then I had a short test the next week where quite a few pupils wrote just that: An Ohm's Resistor needed a linear relationship.
I'm guessing they thought you were talking about it's love life.
@dicksores: how the fuck is this post "too similar to what you recently posted"? SIMILARITY, MUTHAFUCKA, DO YOU UNDERSTAND IT?
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I am sorry for you, it should be frustrating. Maybe you can start your syllabus by some basic
arithmetic.
FTFYFiled Under: Wait, 'should'? You mean he's supposed to get frustrated by his students? That explains so much...
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You mean he's supposed to get frustrated by his students? That explains so much...
should be meaning I guess,
but you are right ...
- students must be frustrating by definition :)
- math must be tiring or it is not math.[1]
[1] The word math in Arabic means something like the subject that is is tiresome.
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I'm not really that accustomed to the big-O notation. But it just occured to me: Does that mean that they solved the N=NP problem?
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Does that mean that they solved the N=NP problem?
No. I'd have heard about that, as there's a standing major award for anyone who succeeds. (FWIW, it's pretty widely believed that they're not the same complexity class, but actually proving it is an Unsolved Challenge.)