Cancer Posted April 25, 2020 Report Share Posted April 25, 2020 THe student didn't want the usual oral exam, so it was a rectal exam instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted April 26, 2020 Report Share Posted April 26, 2020 More thorough that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 26, 2020 Report Share Posted April 26, 2020 Well, it takes care of the problem of students who sit there staring at their papers until time's expired in hope of answers materializing on their paper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 26, 2020 Report Share Posted April 26, 2020 “I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.” ― H. P. Lovecraft Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted April 26, 2020 Report Share Posted April 26, 2020 The 21st century: I have this feeling I am not going to make it through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 26, 2020 Report Share Posted April 26, 2020 L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted April 26, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2020 37 minutes ago, Badger said: The 21st century: I have this feeling I am not going to make it through. To make it through the 21st Century, I'd have to live to be almost 133 years old. Yeah, that ain't happening. Nor would I want it to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 26, 2020 Report Share Posted April 26, 2020 I will, or die trying. Grailknight, Old Man, Pariah and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted April 26, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2020 Baz: TV Tropes: A Million Is a Statistic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted April 26, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2020 Just now, Bazza said: I will, or die trying. I believe you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 26, 2020 Report Share Posted April 26, 2020 1 hour ago, Pariah said: Baz: TV Tropes: A Million Is a Statistic Quote: Lies, damned lies, and statistics Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 26, 2020 Report Share Posted April 26, 2020 For The First Time, Physicists Have Observed a Giant Magnetic 'Bridge' Between Galaxies https://www.sciencealert.com/for-the-first-time-physicists-have-observed-the-giant-magnetic-bridget-that-connects-the-milky-way-to-other-galaxies Grailknight 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 26, 2020 Report Share Posted April 26, 2020 There’s Growing Evidence That the Universe Is Connected by Giant Structures https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmj7pw/theres-growing-evidence-that-the-universe-is-connected-by-giant-structures Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 26, 2020 Report Share Posted April 26, 2020 A New Theory On Time Indicates Present And Future Exist Simultaneously https://sciencephiles.com/a-new-theory-on-time-indicates-present-and-future-exist-simultaneously-2/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted April 26, 2020 Report Share Posted April 26, 2020 I just know time doesn't flow consistently. My lunch "hour"=18 seconds The last "hour" at work=4 years Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted April 26, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2020 “When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it’s only a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it’s two hours. That’s relativity.” -Albert Einstein (or his secretary) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted April 26, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2020 8 hours ago, Bazza said: Quote: Lies, damned lies, and statistics I have an uncle who was an accounting professor (and an accountant, naturally) who is quite fond of this one. He also frequently says, "Not all statisticians are liars, but all liars use statistics." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted April 26, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2020 Logan D. Hurricanes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 1, 2020 Report Share Posted May 1, 2020 OK, after way too long and difficult a labor, the second virtual lab has been delivered. Biggest worry: it's too much work. Overview: measuring orbital periods and orbit sizes for three of the Galilean moons of Jupiter, and applying Kepler's 3rd Law to those to get a mass. Timing from a video (time interval between successive eclipses); size from measuring pixels off still frames with GIMP. If you have time on your hands and wanna see it, PM me and I'll see if I can email it to you. I mean, we're all bored enough with shelter in place that you can think of it as Jupiter Pr0n. Or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted May 1, 2020 Report Share Posted May 1, 2020 On 4/26/2020 at 9:39 AM, Pariah said: “When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it’s only a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it’s two hours. That’s relativity.” -Albert Einstein (or his secretary) And when I nice girl sits with me for a minute she thinks it is 2 hours. Wait Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 4, 2020 Report Share Posted May 4, 2020 I am repeatedly amazed at how many students don't realize that 2d6 and 1d12 (ignore all 1's on the latter) do NOT give the same distribution functions until they are forced to do the experiment and histogram the outcomes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted May 4, 2020 Report Share Posted May 4, 2020 11 options on the former, 12 on the latter. the latter theoretically would have even distribution. whereas the former would be weighted more towards the middle numbers like 6 and 7 with 2 and 12 only having one chance in 36 (too lazy to give number crunching) Me am smart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 4, 2020 Report Share Posted May 4, 2020 No, I said ignore the 1,'s, so there's only 11 options in the latter. But the rest you're right. And you're ahead of some 20% of my students in that class. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted May 4, 2020 Report Share Posted May 4, 2020 9 minutes ago, Cancer said: I am repeatedly amazed at how many students don't realize that 2d6 and 1d12 (ignore all 1's on the latter) do NOT give the same distribution functions until they are forced to do the experiment and histogram the outcomes. Just now, Badger said: 11 options on the former, 12 on the latter. the latter theoretically would have even distribution. whereas the former would be weighted more towards the middle numbers (too lazy to give number crunching) Me am smart. Bell curve vs linear distribution. Rolling a 12 on a d12 is 3 times more likely than on 2d6, and rolling a 7 is twice as likely on 2d6 than on a d12. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 4, 2020 Report Share Posted May 4, 2020 Well, if you're on these boards, you're a gamer, and gamers understand these things intuitively. My takeaway is that about 20% of my students have never played a dice-based RPG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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