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2020-10-21 at 9 AM UTC in Lol who keeps trying to ban people?
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Btw, Denise, A/S/L and cup size plz. -
2020-10-21 at 8:48 AM UTC in New AI experiment seems pretty cool
Originally posted by gadzooks Come to think of it, someone actually did exactly that already but actually got it published in a journal.
Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity
Actually, I don't think it was computer generated.
Still hilarious though. -
2020-10-21 at 8:44 AM UTC in New AI experiment seems pretty coolI would love to use this to generate an entire paper for an undergraduate course and just submit it and see what happens.
Come to think of it, someone actually did exactly that already but actually got it published in a journal.
Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity -
2020-10-21 at 8:21 AM UTC in hippy guy absolutely destroys racistMaybe I need this mask...
Mufuckas won't know what hit em. -
2020-10-21 at 8:20 AM UTC in hippy guy absolutely destroys racist
Originally posted by I Live In Your Crawlspace Secretly4 Yok have to wear a mask to protect the scamdemic. The mask is you're credential
But everyone's rocking a mask these days.
I need a way to signal that I'm woker than all the fakers out there.
I want to be so woke that people cower in fear when I walk down the streets.
I want to be so woke that when whites look at me, they turn black. And when straights look at me they turn gay. -
2020-10-21 at 8:13 AM UTC in Why are conservatives so uneducated?
Originally posted by Bill Krozby *rams a fake gay dildo inside of titlesses shit hole pussy and briskly walks away*
I love how a dildo can apparantly not only have a sexual orientation, but it can have a fake sexual orientation.
My fleshlight claims to be a lesbian, but I'm starting to think it's lying just to get out of sex. -
2020-10-21 at 8:06 AM UTC in Donald wanted to buy the world trade centers in 1980. is he the one who sold them to SilversteinThat would have been a pretty lousy investment in the long run.
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2020-10-21 at 8:05 AM UTC in hippy guy absolutely destroys racistOk I watched it and definitely feel more woke now, but where do I go to get my official credential in Wokology?
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2020-10-21 at 8 AM UTC in Eugenically desirable traits in a woman
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2020-10-20 at 12:36 PM UTC in You dont know shitPosting in a schizo thread.
Honestly, though, they have some pretty effective meds for that nowadays.
I have one particular friend who swears by his Seroquel or Olanzapine dosage.
I like you, Bugz. That's why I care enough to tell you that you can benefit from some antipsychotics. -
2020-10-20 at 1:27 AM UTC in Are you ready for the FACTCHECKING?I agree with the majority of your points.
I have take minor issue with your use of the word "faith" to describe what you're describing, but I'll concede in the interest of not splitting too fine a hair.
Originally posted by Meikai If one study fails to replicate something that is accepted as dogma within a given field, it's going to take more than that for shit to hit the proverbial fan. At that point you've got 1 point for and 1 point against.
I'm also not super comfortable with the term dogma here, but I'll concede this point too because it's probably still trivial difference in our terms.
Originally posted by Meikai To distrust something is not the same as positing a completely alternate, unfounded theory. Simply saying "I don't trust that" is not equivalent to saying "actually this is true instead, it was revealed to me in a dream sent by fucking liserd men".
I did not mean to insinuate that you believe in any crazy theories.
I just used the examples that I did to illustrate a point. -
2020-10-20 at 1:21 AM UTC in Are you ready for the FACTCHECKING?
Originally posted by aldra yeah?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
***@gadzooks
I know all about the replication crisis. In fact, I had that in mind while I was saying what I was saying.
Science is not 100% perfect, but it's self-adjusting.
You will occasionally see bad studies pop up, but they are always the exception and never the typical case.
The big, politically charged questions, like vaccinations and climate change for example (and probably COVID too), are replicated with scrutiny to explicitly deal with the replication crisis.
To be fair, though, I do not claim the scientific knowledge base to be 100% correct, just damn near that number. Enough to instill confidence, at least. -
2020-10-20 at 1:17 AM UTC in Are you ready for the FACTCHECKING?
Originally posted by Meikai It's also ironic that America decided to adopt a system of teaching math which essentially turns every equation into the metric system, but they still insist on using imperial.
Don't even get me started on the imperial system.
I'm an impcuck myself, though, to be honest (I kinda just made up that term).
I measure everything in metric, except for body height, body weight, and likely penis length (if I were to ever bother measuring that). -
2020-10-20 at 1:08 AM UTC in Are you ready for the FACTCHECKING?
Originally posted by Meikai Trust in the scientific method, sure. Trusting the results other people claim to have gotten whilst following the tenets of the scientific method isn't very skeptical of you though, bro.
It's still reasonable to put a certain degree of trust into the scientific knowledge base just on the face of it.
It's about putting trust in the integrity of other scientists within the community who act as peer review or in some other relevant capacity.
There's a reason that false science is always ultimately uprooted.
Once somebody publishes a research study, the entire community of that particular field will be scrutinizing it (first during peer review, and then afterwards by others).
Then other scientists try to replicate the study.
If they can't replicate the same results, shit hits the fan.
Pseudoscientific studies are rescinded all the time. A particularly famous example is the first vaccines==>autism study.
To distrust scientific knowledge is equivalent to positing a conspiracy theory. -
2020-10-20 at 12:55 AM UTC in Are you ready for the FACTCHECKING?
Originally posted by Meikai It's literally just a different system for handling remainders.
Like if we were adding
0008
+ 05
We'd get a 3 in the first column and add a 1 to the "ten" column. With common core you're just adding a 1 to the 10 column and then adding the remainder (3).
It's literally just common core math. It's a whole system and not unique to this one teacher. The kid just didn't really understand the question or the underlying principle, which is probably the teacher's fault. But the teacher is right - to make 10 when adding 8+5, you add 2 from the 5.
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I get what you're saying, and in turn, I guess I now get what that teacher was trying to say...
But, that explanation he gives is just plain shitty.
At least use an analogy, like pieces of a pie or something, if you want to explain remainders.
The way he explains it is incredibly confusing.
I actually used to tutor kids in math way back when, and I can think of so many better ways to explain it over that trainwreck the teacher gave.
Also, note that he adds 3 to the 10 at the end.
As if it wasn't confusing enough. -
2020-10-20 at 12:47 AM UTC in Are you ready for the FACTCHECKING?
Originally posted by Meikai The point of teaching math like this is to make it easier to solve more complicated equations later in life. This is clearly being taught to young children to help them form a basis for doing this with larger numbers. 113 x 57 is a bitch to solve in your head but if you break it down into smaller chunks, it becomes manageable. Maybe you just do (113 x 50) + (113 x 5) + (113 x 2). That's the kind of math common core is all about.
You're giving that teacher WAY too much benefit of the doubt. -
2020-10-20 at 12:44 AM UTC in Are you ready for the FACTCHECKING?
Originally posted by aldra They essentially say they're trying to make math more 'accessible' for 'nonwhites' (ie. blacks and mexans) who typically don't perform well - as above this seems to be an attempt to make it more subjective so that students can be credited for the attempt rather than the correct method/answer.
Math is not subjective though - I'm guessing educators are gambling that most public school students will never really need to use math in the real world because teaching these methods will simply lead to confusion and the need to re-learn math properly when they graduate and go to university or work in a field where it's required.
They're sacrificing the nation's future workforce so that they can give black kids higher relative marks (the students that previously did well in math are often confused by the roundabout way CC does things).
I agree 100% with all of this.
The only thing I'm still not entirely convinced of, though, is precisely how extensive this problem is.
If teachers like that become the majority, I would consider it an indisputable sign of the decline of Western civilization. -
2020-10-20 at 12:37 AM UTC in Are you ready for the FACTCHECKING?Wait, its the same teacher from the video who wrote that so called math "solution"?
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2020-10-20 at 12:36 AM UTC in Are you ready for the FACTCHECKING?
Originally posted by aldra I dunno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ8Nr3_2724
I feel like I'd need to see exactly what he modified about the curriculum before I decide whether he's a politically brainwashed dummy who should lose his job ASAP, or a well meaning person who made the most trivial of modifications like introducing black characters into a math word problem.
He sounds like an asshat in that video, but unless he's altering known facts or trying to actively trying to turn kids gay or some such thing, I don't want to jump the gun.
And also, judging by the reaction in that room, he may just be a lone actor in his cause. -
2020-10-20 at 12:25 AM UTC in Are you ready for the FACTCHECKING?
