Fellow professors:
we're in the midst of a fucking pandemic.
If you're increasing the amount of work your students are doing "to ensure rigour and maintain high standards of quality" I think you're doing it mightily wrong.
Priorities have shifted, as has the global order.
I put Windows 95 into an Electron app that now runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux. It's a terrible idea that works shockingly well. I'm so sorry.
Go grab it here: https://t.co/MIoFpezuFi
Is video better than reading for learning? Not according to an MIT study: "The following differences were not found to be statistically different based on the number of study participants tested." https://t.co/4qrCNVhaVC @WillWorkLearn
Prof: How would you solve y” + y = x^2
Student: Method of Undetermined Coefficients
Prof: How would you solve y” + y = sec x
Student: Variation of Parameters
Prof: How would you solve y” + y^2 = 0
Student: Wolframalpha
A male US officer falsely told a 10-year-old she could see her mother for an hour at 6:00p. The child was held in a windowless, constantly lit facility where she couldn’t determine the time of day. When she asked the officer for the time, he said he wasn’t permitted to tell her.
If you don't know anything about the Monte Carlo method, here is a very nice, easy to understand introduction by the Russian/Lithuanian mathematician/engineer Ilya Sobel. https://t.co/aQnJYs9d05
my film Technology vs Humanity - The Future is already here. A film by Futurist Gerd Leonhard https://t.co/vprVH1gtEs great background footage from #barcelona#techvshuman
https://t.co/MWd2PbgHv7
Вот тут набрали на целый сайт с тоннами инфы по истории отечественных информационных технологий и вычислительной техники. А в универах это даже не преподают