Septimaeus

Accidentally fall back into your system because you don’t actually have another, or really any backup plan whatsoever. Play it off like it was discipline. Share system with other NDs as if you have answers.

In Celsius? Le frésinat!

(112 is EU’s 911 for any Americans wondering.)

I know it may be difficult for some to believe, especially from the outside looking in, but the sea change in the US is in progress.

With the ongoing suppression of our media and the limited means of the average household to reach an audience beyond their local government, it may be hard to see the trees for the forest in a nation that’s so spread out, but we currently have at least one national general strike scheduled, and with every public protest the resistance seems to grow exponentially.

Progressive campaigns like Mamdani’s are spreading and succeeding in many districts once considered solidly MAGA territory. It may take many more months for all of these efforts to reach the national scale and even longer to make it into the international headlines, but it appears Americans haven’t yet given up or fully taken to glassy-eyed complacency.

Whether it’s enough has yet to be seen. I would just offer that perhaps they’re not yet done fighting for their democracy.

Dear colleague,

By qualification I meant explanation. My doctorate is irrelevant to the truth.

Since you asked, my larger point was about the unhelpful nature of this content, which makes students of math feel inordinately inferior or superior hinged entirely on a single point of familiarity. I don’t handle early math education, but many of my students arrive with baggage from it that hinders their progress, leading me to suspect that early math education sometimes discourages students unnecessarily. In particular, these gotcha-style math memes IMO deepen students’ belief that they’re just bad at math. Hence my dislike of them.

Re: Dave Peterson, I’ll need to read more about this debate regarding the history of notation and I’ll search for the “proven rules” you mentioned (proofs mean something very specific to me and I can’t yet imagine what that looks like WRT order of operations).

If what riled you up was my use of the word “conventions” I can use another, but note that conventions aren’t necessarily “optional” when being understood is essential. Where one places a comma in writing can radically change the meaning of a sentence, for example. My greater point however has nothing to do with that. Here I am only concerned about the next generation of maths student and how viral content like this can discourage them unnecessarily.

Dear Mr Rules,

I’m not sure what motivates you to so generously offer your various dyadic tokens of knowledge on this subject without qualification while ignoring my larger point, but will assume in good faith that your thirst for knowledge rivals that of your devotion to The Rules.

First, a question: what are conventions if not agreed upon rules? Second, here is a history of how we actually came to agree upon the aforementioned rules which you may find interesting:

https://www.themathdoctors.org/order-of-operations-historical-caveats/

Happy ruling to you.

Really respect when people publicize their private learning moments this way. Well-delivered too.

To anyone reading, “destroyed permanently” refers to the murders and suicides, not the survivors. That is never the language we use for survivors, no matter how atrocious the particulars, because it reinforces the same purity culture that purveys (1) a great deal of the associated suffering, trauma, and stigma, and (2) the obsession with defilement that many rapists share.

Tell me about this Trump class! Is it couth? Is it debonair? I must know more.

In that case my guess is wrong, or at least off, because that sounds like an orphaned component, or perhaps a logic misfire corrupting the state with the effect of partially activating a notification tray or something of the sort.

In the worst case, it could be a viewport dim calculation bug that has nothing to do with Voyager. IME those can persist for a long time, forcing developers to work around it.

If the behavior can be reproduced in a browser, you could use the built in devtools to narrow it down quickly.

I suspect it’s the container for the comment textarea getting left behind after submission, where the vertical misalignment is the top+bottom padding of the container, because Android uses a different rendering engine for PWAs which follows slightly different rules in its box model, especially WRT flexbox.

It can be an interesting dilemma in practice. I supervised an honor group selection committee where the few male candidates who applied weren’t competitive enough in metrics to make the cut, potentially leading to a cohort of only women, our first.

The concern among faculty in the selection committee was that the freshmen community offered by the group would no longer be coed and the social dynamic would suffer from the lack of diversity. These concerns were raised primarily by women and NB faculty. The male faculty tended to prefer strict meritocracy. (I’m NB but didn’t have a vote unless there was a tie.)

Ultimately, the vote to alter our base metric weighting to allow a few men into the community failed. It did alter the community significantly, since the honor group gradually become a women’s club with occasional token men. Most of the honors students now seek out more diverse communities of other clubs by the end of their first semester.

I suspect this article makes two mistakes.

The first is treating GPA as the one true proxy of merit. The paradigm in admissions has shifted from simple GPA and standardized testing calculus to comparing like-with-like whenever possible. For example, the CV of an applicant who is a first generation college student is usually not easy to compare to that of an applicant whose parents are doctors, so admissions teams will often attempt to factor this into evaluation. The point isn’t discriminating against legacy students. It’s to recognize potential and ensure access and diversity of perspective.

The second is conflating different arguments for diversity. Affirmative action was established to help correct a long history of systemic inequality. And that’s why “affirmative action for men” sounds absurd. But inequality is not the only motivation for diversity.

Just wants to change his definition

I’m not sure what you mean. My definition has remained constant.

Both dictionaries use the same meaning

The top definition in your link directly above describes leadership as exhibiting the qualities and characteristics of a leader. It’s not an authority-oriented definition at all. In fact it sounds like a virtue-oriented one.

We already have better vernaculars for his desired “laymen” diction.

I said “layperson.” But re: said “vernaculars” versus my “desired diction“ maybe you’re right. Maybe the word leadership is just too damn confusing for the commoner to use responsibly. Perhaps they need smarter people like you to tell them which words are correct and which are forbidden. Let me know how it goes.