Got the last one, blanked on the second, and the first one I'm counting because he didn't say the line had to be straight, so I drew one curvy line that crossed out both plusses, one five and the 0 making the equation 55=55 (his solution is slightly better).

I recently got a nifty new towel that stays cool for a while when damp. Good thing as it appears somebody has pushed the don't panic button.

Sometimes my body just seems to crave milk. Seriously, and I don't know why. Might be some mammalian primal urge that suddenly gets triggered in the brain. Like wanting to have sex at 5:30 in the morning with a 16-year old slut.

Duke University students refuse to read an assigned graphic novel.


http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Educati...novel-Fun-Home

Now I have not read this graphic novel but surmise that it is probably not too bad (I could be wrong) and put on the list of readings at least partially because it is fashionable and progressive and enlightening etc., to do so. I’m somewhat familiar with these things having undergone the purgatory of college myself for many years. But that is not the main point of the post. See below from above link:


“Fun Home” may be a critically acclaimed graphic novel, but some students at Duke University don't find it very impressive at all.

A number of incoming students at the elite North Carolina institution have refused to read the book, sent to all members of the Class of 2019, because they say its sexual themes and images conflict with their moral standards and religious beliefs.

Their decision echoes similar sentiments in colleges and universities across the country as issues of free speech come into conflict with some students’ expectations “that they have a right not to read or hear ideas that differ from their worldview or make them uncomfortable,” The Christian Science Monitor's Kevin Truong reported.



Academic observers describe it as a shift in student concerns from political correctness to “empathetic correctness.” The first is a desire not to offend; the second a desire not to be offended.


“A movement is arising, undirected and driven largely by students, to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense,” free speech lawyer Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt co-wrote for The Atlantic. “This new climate is slowly being institutionalized, and is affecting what can be said in the classroom, even as a basis for discussion.”

Terms like “microaggression” – which refers to unintended discrimination – and “trigger warnings” – which alert a reader, listener, or viewer of potentially offensive content – have also grown ubiquitous in colleges, as some students struggle against material, actions, and discussions that may offend them or cause them discomfort, Mr. Lukianoff and Mr. Haidt wrote.

And despite what the incident at Duke suggests, it’s not usually a debate that divides students along lines of conservative/liberal, either: “I'm a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me,” wrote one college professor, protecting himself behind a pseudonym, in Vox in June.

Behind the shift, experts say, are myriad factors that include the mainstream media’s focus on political correctness; the ever-present nature of social media; and, above all, a university culture that increasingly treats students like consumers to be satisfied instead of pupils to be educated.

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Not surprising. I laughed. This sort of thing is actually not new at all, but perhaps somewhat new to an "elite" modern American University. I wonder what the reaction would be to an assigned reading of Pudd'nhead Wilson or Huckleberry Finn* or some random essays by Montaigne. Let along The Revelations of St. John the Divine**. Or writers like H.L. Mencken or Ambrose Bierce. I assume David Hume and Spinoza are on some enemies list of those who offend, somewhere.



*actually that book has been banned many times by various organizations.

**one of my favorite reads.

I WANT BEER NOW!!!!!

There you go, cheers




This parrot loves beer apparently;

Augustus was my hero because he could pick things up with his toes. I still practice this skill. A popular series for years until the books were deemed offensive to the barefooted like me, and removed from our library.


PairTheBoard

Masque provided a solid solution, and now another mutual friend has chipped in:

"3047 + 1 = 3040 if the addition is modulo 8. On Motorola DSPs, if we want a circular buffer of length 8, it would start at an address that's a multiple of 2^3 = 8 like 3040. Then we put 7 (binary 0111) in the m register so the hardware knows to only increment the least significant 3 bits of the address pointer. So if r0 = 3047 and n0 = 1, then r0+n0 would become 3040."

I may not know much, but I know people who have all the answers

An age old hymn.

The Hymn to Ninkasi, The Goddess of Beer

Apparently a remake of Big Trouble in Little China (1986) is in the works. One of my favorite movies. Don't know how it could be improved upon but we'll see. I have this on DVD. I think I'll drink some beers and watch it tonight.

I just want to butcher the phrase "empathetic correctness" like a Frankenstein of word meaning which needs to be disassembled.

Really it's a bastard child of that other phrase "PC" Same old 'bad words' wedge, same old conflict appeal, fancy new terminology.

The series by Le Grand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Grand_Henderson


PairTheBoard

What's offensive about picking things up with feet besides, perhaps smell?

I should try that. Maybe I could make a decent bridge if I used my big toe.


PairTheBoard

The Las Vegas radar seems to break every time it rains. I think it might have ombrophobia.

It is just a clever ruse. What fool would spend the money on a working radar when 99+% of the time you can just put a picture up showing no rain?

Y'all should put trigger warnings up before making micro-aggressions about the weather.

I'm almost offended by the nice weather we are having here. That's how serious it is! I can't even be responsible for my own emotions I'm so offended by the nice weather here and hearing about crappy weather elsewhere. Have some empathetic correctness of crying out loud!

That's groovy.

It is possible someone has or will post here with their toes. Not that I would know anything about that.

Hi,
not sure if this belongs here or if I can open a new thread. I have recently taken a number of machine learning classes and would like to take on some practical problems on kaggle.com. If anyone is interested to start a Skype discussion/study group, please let me know - I really believe the learning rate is a lot higher in a group setting.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/rweb/i...e8a_story.html

There is a student life forum (under Other topics tab, left side of page) that is more appropriate for this topic plus you will have a much better chance of getting responses.

Unless he is teaching a machine to bring him beer.

What must it be like to be both neurotic and unconscientious?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Fi...onality_traits

Ask the nearest angry alcoholic or non-jolly obese slob.