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« Reply #4368 on: January 29, 2025, 09:31:13 AM »
I got really pissed when I learned about LaPlace and Fourier transforms and realized that all of that tedious calculus and diffeq problem-solving in the time domain, could be easily transformed into frequency domain and solved via basic algebra.  They had really wasted my time, time I would have much preferred spending drinking beer and chasing girls.


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« Reply #4369 on: January 29, 2025, 10:15:18 AM »

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« Reply #4370 on: January 29, 2025, 10:37:41 AM »
There was no ap classes when I was in high school.  I finished all the advanced math that my school had by my junior year and ohio state had a concurrent enrollment program.  So I took all my calculus classes as a senior in high school at Ohio State.

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« Reply #4371 on: January 29, 2025, 10:41:51 AM »
There was no ap classes when I was in high school.  I finished all the advanced math that my school had by my junior year and ohio state had a concurrent enrollment program.  So I took all my calculus classes as a senior in high school at Ohio State.
That would have been ideal.  Our school district has a deal with the local community college, for free tuition on co-enrollment classes, and calculus is included.  I want my daughter to do that next year, but it most likely won't work out with her schedule due to her extracurriculars.  We'll just have to settle for getting credit through the AP exam which I'm sure she'll do fine on, she's aced all of her others so far.

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« Reply #4372 on: January 29, 2025, 12:54:16 PM »

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« Reply #4373 on: January 29, 2025, 06:22:26 PM »
Seems reasonable. 
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« Reply #4374 on: January 29, 2025, 09:40:01 PM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
Liliuokalani Becomes Hawaii's Last Monarch (1891)
Liliuokalani ascended the throne in 1891 upon the death of her brother, King Kalakaua. Her refusal to recognize the constitutional changes inaugurated in 1887 precipitated a revolt, fostered largely by sugar planters—mostly American residents of Hawaii—that led to her dethronement early in 1893 and the establishment of a provisional government. Failing in an attempt to regain the throne in 1895, she formally renounced her royal claims.
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« Reply #4375 on: January 30, 2025, 06:33:30 AM »
I got really pissed when I learned about LaPlace and Fourier transforms and realized that all of that tedious calculus and diffeq problem-solving in the time domain, could be easily transformed into frequency domain and solved via basic algebra.  They had really wasted my time, time I would have much preferred spending drinking beer and chasing girls.
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« Reply #4376 on: January 30, 2025, 06:58:54 AM »
I got really pissed when I learned about LaPlace and Fourier transforms and realized that all of that tedious calculus and diffeq problem-solving in the time domain, could be easily transformed into frequency domain and solved via basic algebra.  They had really wasted my time, time I would have much preferred spending drinking beer and chasing girls.
We had a similar week in chemistry, spending time leaning about "forbidden transitions", followed by a few days of learning how they aren't quite really forbidden and some transitions do occur even though they are called "forbidden".  And a lot of what is taught early on is, well, simplified to the point of being wrong in many cases.

Pedagogy, or something.


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« Reply #4377 on: January 30, 2025, 02:59:57 PM »
In September of 1922 plans were announced to build a $400K, Georgian-style 50-unit apartment house on Peachtree Street.
Designed by the firm of Hentz, Reid & Adler, it was developed by Robert Gregg, president of Atlantic Steel. The soundproof units were almost all in the corners, allowing for maximum light. The ground floor had a café that sat 80 people.
For two decades it housed upper class Atlantans, but in 1947, all leases were terminated and plans were announced for a medical professional building. That soon morphed into the Peachtree Manor Hotel. It was home to the Flamingo Room club, which caught fire in 1949 (reportedly set by the owner for an insurance payout).
By 1979, this section of Peachtree Street is known as “The Strip”, and the Peachtree Manor Motor Hotel was the center of prostitution, with 20 of 100 rooms rented by pimps or prostitutes. The club was called El Morocco. 






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« Reply #4378 on: January 30, 2025, 11:49:22 PM »
Rent hasn't been raised here since 1521,doesn't look bad either

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« Reply #4379 on: January 31, 2025, 08:05:08 AM »


The first rocket launch from Cape Canaveral in 1950

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« Reply #4380 on: January 31, 2025, 03:18:54 PM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

United States Launches Explorer I (1958)
Explorer I was the first American satellite. It was launched four months after the first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, was put into orbit by the Soviet Union, beginning the so-called space race. Although it carried a number of instruments, Explorer I was relatively small, weighing just 30 lbs (13 kg). It stopped transmission of data later in 1958, when its batteries died, but remained in orbit for more than 12 years.
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« Reply #4381 on: January 31, 2025, 06:57:49 PM »
Harkening to the discussion about college admissions season on the other thread, I'm not a fan of the AP class; I much prefer the concurrent enrollment at a JC. I have many thoughts, but they can be distilled to this: give college credit for college courses. (My primary concern here is for the kids.)
One thing that I'm trying to drill into the boy's head before he leaves for college in the fall: yes, college is fun, but the classes are also substantially more demanding than high school.

 

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