Ex-professor, physicist, dad, gamer. I used to teach and do experimental particle physics; now I work on robotics software and deal with corporate culture shock. #exac #exacademic
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@blogdiva
Uh...
In American English, it is generally accepted that
million = 10^6
billion = 10^9
trillion = 10^12
I believe this is used everywhere, talking about rich people, budgets, or other numbers.
I dont' think the reason billionares are evil is because we have wrong order of magnitude on their name.
Help me, please! This is my Reddit thread. This is a crisis.
If you cannot provide me tech support, then please share this post for signal boosting.
Thank you.
@graeme
Education is not a transfer of information.
Education fosters thinking, and in higher ed it trains disciplinary thinking. Ideas are given less than facts. Most people learn ideas inductively, not deductively, especially when being introduced to a discipline. Skills and thinking are learned by iteration and practice and feedback.
Office hours were of course collaberative: which means the student talks to the teacher, which is not in your model.
Wow is that not how education works….
A "House of Cards" is a wonderful English phrase that it seems is now primarily associated with a Netflix political drama. However, its original meaning is of a system that is fundamentally unstable. It's also the term Sarah Thiele, originally a Ph.D. student at the University of British Columbia, and now at Princeton, and her co-authors used to describe our current satellite mega-constellation system in a new paper available in pre-print on arXiv.
Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉
Yvan Dutil