Turkey's 'Mathematics Village': Changing education one equation at a time • Hacker News Board

Re: Turkey's 'Mathematics Village': Changing education one equation at a time

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Post by arisAlexis » Fri, Jun 22, 2018, 11:15 AM UTC

gkya wrote: post #45

arisAlexis wrote: post #35

this is until Sultan Erdogan closes it down. Probably you also get expelled if you don't believe in the Quran. Sad but true. Article tries hard to make Turkey appear like a good place to innovate and it's probably the worst oppression for academia in this century with a huge amount of professors in jail since 2016.

BS. Why do we chop time up in random 100 year periods? Oh because it helps us distance ourselves from the original fascism and it's Aryan bastard! But it doesn't work, it's recent even if you append an I to the XX. Turkey is in a moment of crisis. Hopefully we're near the end. Also, this organisation is not a governmental one already. It is a mathematical rebellion. Ali Nesin is one of the most dissenting intellectua…

your comment is a general rant. you disagree that many academics are in jail or that erdogan is taking your country backwards to authoritarian state that obviously hinders innovation?

Re: Turkey's 'Mathematics Village': Changing education one equation at a time

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Post by nurettin » Fri, Jun 22, 2018, 2:17 PM UTC

mda wrote: post #41

gkya wrote: post #11

I have wrote a bit about the situation of Turkish education system here, in the form of three big consecutive comments. Here is a link for anybody interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15373653 [Edit: rereading this series of comments I linked above, I note some mistakes in there. E.g. the wealth tax was collected from Muslims too, albeit at a wildly lower rate compared to non-Muslims. Apart from this sort…

I am from same generation with you but I think your assertions in your long comment very hand wavy and super simplified. Needless to say I disagree with many of them.

Don't forget to roll your eyes.

Re: Turkey's 'Mathematics Village': Changing education one equation at a time

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Post by tugberkk » Fri, Jun 22, 2018, 8:37 PM UTC

nurettin wrote: post #31

tugberkk wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Turkey definitely doesn't deserve them." This is a very wrong thing to say. Ali took his education elsewhere, yes; but Aziz Nesin grew in that country.

And he succeeded as a human being despite that. Amazing feat.

Yes, great feat indeed. This country exactly deserves these kind of people in order to grow.

Re: Turkey's 'Mathematics Village': Changing education one equation at a time

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Post by afsina » Sun, Jun 24, 2018, 12:02 PM UTC

nurettin wrote: post #52

mda wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am from same generation with you but I think your assertions in your long comment very hand wavy and super simplified. Needless to say I disagree with many of them.

Don't forget to roll your eyes.

yawn.

Re: Turkey's 'Mathematics Village': Changing education one equation at a time

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Post by roadbeats » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 2:03 PM UTC

jfim wrote: post #38

Cenk wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, really good photos. My family once visited close to there and I remember everyone telling us the wine is a scam too.

What's the issue with the wine? A cursory Google search did not turn up anything.

Just saw this. Mr. Nisanyan's book "Aslanli Yol" has a section claiming all the wine in Sirince is made outside Sirince, but they're just branded as Sirince wine for marketin purposes.