Students Admit to Cell Phone Cheating
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One of my clients makes custom hardware solutions for adult dance clubs (I do the software... ah. sooffftttware). So, you know those new cellphones with cameras in them? Need I say more? Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
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Chris Austin wrote: I wonder how people with this menatlity would handle a Calc or Physics class where calculators or electronic stuff are explicitly dis-allowed The only time I ever used a calculator at Uni was in physics labs where we had to process actual, real (yuk!) data readings. Everything else in quantum mechanics, general relativity, set theory, topology etc was all theory (mainly involving horrendous surface integrals - but at least I no longer wake up screaming). cheers, Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote: mainly involving horrendous surface integrals That's what I'm gonna be going through for the next few years... X| Anyways, in the university where I'm studying, for most exams, laptops and other such devices are allowed (with whatever software you want). However, network cards must be removed (many classrooms are equipped with wireless network access to the internet) and IR ports covered with opaque tape :)
Cheers,
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Chris Maunder wrote: mainly involving horrendous surface integrals That's what I'm gonna be going through for the next few years... X| Anyways, in the university where I'm studying, for most exams, laptops and other such devices are allowed (with whatever software you want). However, network cards must be removed (many classrooms are equipped with wireless network access to the internet) and IR ports covered with opaque tape :)
Cheers,
Marc:beer: Click to see my *real* signature :beer:
Marc Richarme wrote: for most exams, laptops and other such devices are allowed (with whatever software you want). I remember my maths lecturers happily telling us that we could bring in whatever we wanted to the exams but that it wouldn't help us. Talk about demoralising! I also has a lecturer who would routinely insert unsolved questions into exams. He always defended this practice by saying that how we tackled problems was more important than the solution, and besides: maybe one day someone would actually solve one of them. cheers, Chris Maunder
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Chris Austin wrote: I wonder how people with this menatlity would handle a Calc or Physics class where calculators or electronic stuff are explicitly dis-allowed. I wouldn't have passed Calculas 1 and 2 :) I asked my teacher when I was in college if I was allowed to bring my laptop. She said "Fine". I told her my calculator-like program was MathCad and she said that was a good program, and I was allowed to use it during exams, quizes, and finals. She said as long as I showed the work I was fine?!?!?!?! I guess she didn't know, being my calculus teacher, that MathCad actually shows the work for you... go figure! To say the least I aced the class, but I can't find the area under a curve any longer :) I should've done the work. Code4Food ---- "There is no try; only do or do not" -Yoda
Code4Food wrote: To say the least I aced the class, but I can't find the area under a curve any longer I still remember this, however I am just finishing college this year; not sure if that makes me biased or not. It's called the Reimann Sum, http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/wrightj/MA64/Unit4/NumIntRightReim.pdf[^] Move mouse below to see the equation:
Nick Parker
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. - Theodore Roosevelt
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Code4Food wrote: To say the least I aced the class, but I can't find the area under a curve any longer I still remember this, however I am just finishing college this year; not sure if that makes me biased or not. It's called the Reimann Sum, http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/wrightj/MA64/Unit4/NumIntRightReim.pdf[^] Move mouse below to see the equation:
Nick Parker
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. - Theodore Roosevelt
Nick Parker wrote: I still remember this dude, forget it now! don't waste brain cells. I mean that's what's CP's for isn't it? :rolleyes: I deal with that stuff every day, and AFAIK there's no equation for an airplane ;P - Nitron
"Those that say a task is impossible shouldn't interrupt the ones who are doing it." - Chinese Proverb
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Nick Parker wrote: I still remember this dude, forget it now! don't waste brain cells. I mean that's what's CP's for isn't it? :rolleyes: I deal with that stuff every day, and AFAIK there's no equation for an airplane ;P - Nitron
"Those that say a task is impossible shouldn't interrupt the ones who are doing it." - Chinese Proverb
Nitron wrote: dude, forget it now! don't waste brain cells. I mean that's what's CP's for isn't it? If I only had more control over those little things I seem to remember for no reason. ;) In all reality, its a pretty interesting (and rather simple) method for find the area.
Nick Parker
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. - Theodore Roosevelt
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Marc Richarme wrote: for most exams, laptops and other such devices are allowed (with whatever software you want). I remember my maths lecturers happily telling us that we could bring in whatever we wanted to the exams but that it wouldn't help us. Talk about demoralising! I also has a lecturer who would routinely insert unsolved questions into exams. He always defended this practice by saying that how we tackled problems was more important than the solution, and besides: maybe one day someone would actually solve one of them. cheers, Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote: a lecturer who would routinely insert unsolved questions into exams. That sounds perfectly reasonable. A part of learning is knowing when to stop beating your head against a wall and move on. My Control Systems teacher gave us problems from his day job that he hadn't been able to solve. Exams were open book, and we were welcome to work together on the final. He, too, said it wouldn't help - not a comforting thought. I wouldn't care to think too long on just how many parts of the US Phalanx gun system were really designed by Cal Poly undergrads...:omg: Nobody wants to read a diary by someone who has not seen the shadow of Bubba on the prison shower wall in front of them!
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Nitron wrote: dude, forget it now! don't waste brain cells. I mean that's what's CP's for isn't it? If I only had more control over those little things I seem to remember for no reason. ;) In all reality, its a pretty interesting (and rather simple) method for find the area.
Nick Parker
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. - Theodore Roosevelt
Nick Parker wrote: In all reality, its a pretty interesting (and rather simple) method for find the area. true, especially when you start dealing with mass quantities of numerical data! (what the world really runs on ;P ) - Nitron
"Those that say a task is impossible shouldn't interrupt the ones who are doing it." - Chinese Proverb
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Code4Food wrote: To say the least I aced the class, but I can't find the area under a curve any longer I still remember this, however I am just finishing college this year; not sure if that makes me biased or not. It's called the Reimann Sum, http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/wrightj/MA64/Unit4/NumIntRightReim.pdf[^] Move mouse below to see the equation:
Nick Parker
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. - Theodore Roosevelt
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Nick Parker wrote: I still remember this dude, forget it now! don't waste brain cells. I mean that's what's CP's for isn't it? :rolleyes: I deal with that stuff every day, and AFAIK there's no equation for an airplane ;P - Nitron
"Those that say a task is impossible shouldn't interrupt the ones who are doing it." - Chinese Proverb
Nitron wrote: and AFAIK there's no equation for an airplane Yes there is, it's called Bernoulli's Equation ;) Gary Kirkham A working Program is one that has only unobserved bugs I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks
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Nitron wrote: and AFAIK there's no equation for an airplane Yes there is, it's called Bernoulli's Equation ;) Gary Kirkham A working Program is one that has only unobserved bugs I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks
Gary Kirkham wrote: Yes there is, it's called Bernoulli's Equation Only up to about Mach 0.30. From then on, air is compressable. Bernoulli is only applicable to incompressable flow, like H2O or hydraulic fluid and air at slow speed, like in an HVAC system. ;P - Nitron
"Those that say a task is impossible shouldn't interrupt the ones who are doing it." - Chinese Proverb