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by impendia 7y ago
When I click on Course Tools on Blackboard, I get a bewilderingly long list including: Basic LTI Tools, Blackboard Collaborate Ultra, Brainfuse HelpNow, Cengage Learning MindLinks (TM), Content Market Tools, .... what are all of these thi
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I'm a university professor, and I served on the Faculty Senate for several years. Our meetings were conducted by Robert's Rules. I share the negative views expressed here by others. Following the rules amounted to a form of bikesh
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I think the answer will differ wildly for different people. What I wish I had done: - Pay at least a little attention to nutrition. - Be more willing to do things by myself; there were certain activities, for which I had a vague impressio
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> When you’re in college... Your time is less valuable This really jumped out at me. As a college student, I've never had so many opportunities available to me at once -- nor so little maturity with which to take advantage of them.
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One further thought. I am in mathematics, which is not the same as psychology or sociology, so take this with a grain of salt. That said --- I think your pricing plan is wrong. Don't price based on a subscription model. Instead, sell y
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You might try to contact William Stein. He is a former academic (tenured professor at the University of Washington) that was the lead developer for SageMath, an open source product which he's tried to commercialize along vaguely simila
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Math professor here, at a large public US university. I think that academia presents a large, but challenging, market. My university has recently purchased huge amounts of software, not all of it of high quality. Two questions for you: (1)
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To my surprise I have heard, of Princeton in particular, that football is very important to alumni. When I visited, there was certainly no shortage of athletic swag sold across the street from campus. They are in the Ivy League, which means
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> I think we will look back on this period of American universities as a great aberration. I hope so. Athletics are only the tip of the iceberg. Tuition at universities like Harvard, Princeton, etc. runs around $45,000 a year. Even at pu
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Intramural, participatory sports are a wonderful thing. I have never heard anyone argue against them. They don't require stadiums with amenities that would make royalty blush, nor seven-figure salaries paid to coaches.
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> Why can't the American football industry run itself more like the American baseball industry? I am a very strong opponent of the overwhelming sports culture at American universities, and of the absurd sums of money spent to sustai
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When I lived in San Francisco, there were several ballot propositions roughly along these lines: various corporations or special interests advocating for some measure that was designed to sound reasonable, but whose explicit purpose was to
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Having experienced insomnia, I am curious what you believe this means in practice? Imagine that you got a poor night of sleep last night, and that this is a fairly common occurrence. You then slogged through a workday where you felt terribl
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The other answers have suggested a lot of particular references, many of which are excellent. I'd add, speaking as a math professor: don't worry too much about holes and lack of intuition. The more you learn, the bigger you will f
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> so does the administration have the right to moderate a campus newspaper. Nobody disputes that. At the end of the day, the university has the right to do as it wishes with its college newspaper. It can discipline or threaten student re
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> I think this is missing the big picture. I'm not disputing the threat and intimidation factor, I'm just saying there is also a countervailing force. In particular, any "media relations officer" who tries to pull thi
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I got curious and googled Rebecca Liebson's name. Seems like she's off to an extremely promising start in her journalism career. It seems like an interesting variant of the Streisand effect is at work here: nowadays, if you piss o
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> This problem could be readily solved if they turned their anger against the school administration Not exactly. I'm an academic (mathematics), and I don't care much about what my bosses think of me. From what I've observe
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> I hate how soulless the journals feel. I certainly sympathize with you! That said, personally I'm happy about this development. Journals don't really fill a practical need anymore, and (as you point out) they increasingly don
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by impendia 7y ago
I've read some Pollan, In Defense of Food I believe. Certainly enough to convince me that nutrition matters. I just don't get all that excited about food. For example, I'm currently visiting a research collaborator and frie
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> Teach people to cook and value the experience. I'm not so sure about this. I very much value healthy eating, but I'm not so sure how effective I am at doing so, and I've never been a "foodie". Some people deepl
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> it's the only way to make the problem go away. You could be right. I would like to think that there is some option which would make everyone more-or-less happy, but it could be that I'm being too optimistic.
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> Are you implying that tourists/visitors/non-locals should have as much say in local rules/policies/etc as the people that actually own property and live in those locations? As much? No. (However, I do strongly belie
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> How do I get a noise ordinance enforced You don't of course. Anyone shouting at 4am is being exceedingly rude; if there's any social contract in place, then they certainly aren't honoring their end of it. Under these c
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I certainly believe you have the right to want those things. And moreover, there are noise ordinances and related laws, and I do believe those should be enforced. But, I also believe that new people coming into that kind of environment shou
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Personally, I find the "social contract" to be too biased in favor of homeowners. They control municipal governments and hence zoning laws. If these homeowners decide that they don't want to see visitors in their neighborhood
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I did call them. They said they would be able to lower the rate from 2.5x the insurance rate (which is what they billed me for) to 1.7x. I was all set to settle my bill actually, but the woman in billing (at the doctor's office) urged
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I've gotten into a long, annoying fight with my insurance company about whether they would cover a certain procedure. The dumb thing is, the bill won't hit my deductible cap for the year! (The procedure was done in 2018.) So, in a
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Yes. For example, 7! is already divisible by 8. The smallest integer that 8! is divisible by, and that 7! isn't, is 32 -- much less small.
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Not a coincidence. sigma(n) is largest when n has lots of large factors. Since d is a factor if n/d is, it's easiest to guarantee this by making sure that n has lots of small factors. Factorials, by construction, are good examples

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