crwth

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you do if you lose an argument, but it turns out that you were actually right?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I just wait. They’ll eventually understand and present my “losing” position as their own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$1$⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed, and would have earned full marks had he said that, or even showed any awareness that his intermediate results were somehow nonstandard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$1$⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a student tasked with summing a finite geometric sequence with |r|>1, let’s say 1+2+4+8+16. He had apparently forgotten the formula for that, but knew the formula for the infinite series a/(1-r). Good enough he thinks, and sums 1+2+4+… = -1, then subtracts off the excess terms 32+64+128+… = -32, and gets the correct answer of 31.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a puzzle with missing pieces be considered complete?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If she’s used all the pieces and solved enough to reverse engineer the shape of all the missing pieces, then it is fully solved. If the missing pieces cannot be individually identified due to shared edges, then it is still solved, but is no longer a 1000 piece puzzle and she should only claim to have solved the 999 or 998 piece subpuzzle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you actually tax the ultra wealthy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So someone with an income of $1M (20A) has a tax liability of $2M, and earning $10M means you owe $200M? At least with traditional tax brackets, it’s hard (but not impossible) to accidently get marginal rates over 100%.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The college I graduated from required a year of foreign language for graduation – actually take it and pass, not just test out of it.

  OK, that’s not quite true. For some reason, the mathematics department was grouped with the languages for purposes of this requirement, so you could take a year of calculus in lieu of a foreign language if you preferred.

  Unless you were a math major. Classes in your major didn’t count, so all math majors absolutely had to take a foreign language.

  Unless you were a dual major like math-physics. Dual majors could apply classes from both majors towards distribution requirements. I knew several “math” majors who took just enough physics classes to qualify as a dual major for the express purpose of not having to study a language.