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That happened to me in high school. I was in "advanced" freshman bio. Teacher gave me a B. When my parents inquired during a parent-teacher conference, she said I looked like I was…

Maybe that’s true but I don’t think it is. Star Wars was before my time but I still enjoyed those movies. I was a little too young for the Matrix when it came out, and when I saw i…

There’s a picture book of Greek myths my dad would read to me from when I was a kid. It toned down the gore and rape stuff (it was still there just implied so a kid won’t get it), …

On Achilles, wasn’t he told he a god / oracle that he can choose between going and having his name remembered as a hero for all time at the cost of dying young or staying home, liv…

I’ve given that as a review to friends about movies before. The ultimate sin is not being bad but being boring.

Nonlinear things start looking like linear things again in very high dimensions

I used Android for a long time before switching back to an iPhone. While mostly I’m happy with my iPhone, I do miss some of the UI customization features like being able to switch …

They shouldn’t. It makes papers less accessible which means they’re less impactful. That said, a lot of academics are good at their discipline and bad at writing.

The issue is it turns player wages into a zero sum game. In the NFL, quarterbacks have been taking up a bigger and bigger percentage of the cap, while players in positions that don…

I moved into an apartment and kept the plan the previous resident had. They also sold us the non-xfinity router they had st a discount. My roommate and I had spotty internet at var…

I have no experience with this but my understanding is that they don’t go straight to wage garnishes (which I’ve heard the bureaucracy is slow to handle in situations where the gar…

Your personal one is the correct one from my perspective (as someone that knows a lot of math and is familiar with statistical mechanics as math and not physics). The ODEs that we …

Is the mania with this game really just that people are hungry for anything pokemon-like? I tried the game the other day and played it for 4 hours. I knew nothing coming into it be…

I find it interesting that you dislike the combat in the originals but like Pokemon Stadium which only features combat (and horrid mini games). Also I’m not really sure what explor…

I like this tutorial because it doesn’t get too bogged down in abstractions and has numerous examples. When I’ve tried to learn differential geometry in the past, standard texts ge…

It turns out that PhD holders are a diverse group of people with many different personality types!

We don’t do that with all compounds though. It’s really more a cultural thing. At a certain point a pair becomes so common place that it becomes one word. Beehive, for example, isn…

Oh I’ll say beefs when referring to cows as a joke. TIL it’s an actual word!

It’s probably like a harmonica. You won’t sound that bad with it because it prohibits you from playing off key, but a good harmonica player knows what they’re doing.

He makes some sick beats. The overlay is just for the vibes

I used to hang out in an IRC channel, and the big CL proponent there was a Norwegian that would disappear for long periods and go boat / hang out in the woods on his own. Apparentl…

Normal is just the first one you learn. Hell, in math, normal even has multiple meanings. You have the normal distribution and surface normals for example

Kernel is an overloaded term outside of software engineering. In linear algebra it means the null space, but that has no connection I’ve ever found to kernel methods or kernels mor…

I’ve been seeing a lot of D stuff lately. Is there a reason for it, or is it just the cycle of someone posts a D article, which causes someone else to get interested in D, which le…