Bazza Posted January 31 Report Share Posted January 31 better question: why are we listening to Bertrand Russell? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 31 Report Share Posted January 31 It's better than listening to Russell Wilson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 31 Author Report Share Posted January 31 I expect there are lower bars to clear, but I can't think of any at the moment. Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 1 Report Share Posted February 1 I can. Easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted February 1 Report Share Posted February 1 Some schools have all the fun. Old Man and Pariah 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 1 Author Report Share Posted February 1 17 hours ago, Pariah said: I expect there are lower bars to clear, but I can't think of any at the moment. 13 hours ago, Bazza said: I can. Easy. Well, to be clear, so can I. But doing so outside of the Politics thread is likely to arouse the Wrath of Simon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 1 Report Share Posted February 1 True. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 1 Report Share Posted February 1 The wrath of Simon, like his benevolence is known throughout the threads and forums... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted February 3 Report Share Posted February 3 Teacher: Use "I" in a sentence. Me: I is… Teacher: No, you should say "I am" not "I is". Me: I am the 9th letter of the alphabet. Tom Cowan and Pariah 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 8 Author Report Share Posted February 8 "Using appropriate numbers from a reliable source (e.g., not Wikipedia), calculate the gravitational potential energy of the Moon." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Pariah Posted February 8 Author Report Share Posted February 8 Parent-Teacher Conferences today after school. Five hours down, only seven hours to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted February 8 Report Share Posted February 8 10 minutes ago, Pariah said: Parent-Teacher Conferences today after school. Five hours down, only seven hours to go. Ugh. Isn't it a bit early in the year for that? Or is this pre-emptive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 8 Report Share Posted February 8 The concept of a pre-emptive nuclear strike to eliminate parent-teacher conferences seems quite attractive, especially if it involves nuking administrators rather than parents or teachers. Logan D. Hurricanes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Logan D. Hurricanes Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 #goals @Pariah Pariah, Old Man, Hermit and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 Excel Destroys Science Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 I would generalize that to Microsoft, but you should ALWAYS turn off autocorrect, AND go back and turn it off AGAIN when an update is rammed down your throat because M$ tends to override your personal settings whenever it wants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 Even so the point about spreadsheets not being auditable still stands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 20 Report Share Posted February 20 No argument there. Don't think I ever used Excel for my astronomy research, or even used it at all until after I bailed out of academia and into my job with the insurance company in 2000. Even then, it was clear to me that it had fatal shortcomings. The most spectacular of them was when I was surprised to see that Excel at the time claimed to be able to do Fourier transforms. Since I was dealing with some internal messaging issues that might have been time-dependent, and I had been a user of Fourier analysis using FORTRAN libraries for about 20 years at that point, I fed some data to Excel and let it do its thing. And I found ... it could not read its own output. Intrinsically, if you Fourier transform a set of data into the frequency domain, and then transform it back, a correctly-functioning transform code will give you back the original data. That is The First Test you do with a new Fourier analysis library, always, because it is so simple and easy to perform the check, and errors are really obvious. But when Excel's transform code could not read what it had output, all you can do make the Pauliesque dismissal that it can't even get to the point of letting you see if it fails. The next version of Excel silently lost the Fourier stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted February 22 Report Share Posted February 22 rravenwood, Old Man, Pariah and 3 others 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted February 26 Report Share Posted February 26 I always hated February. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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