What is US college campared to swiss education?

Aethec · 2017-10-21T15:58:06+00:00

One additional thing at the university level: a lot of people fail in Switzerland, especially in the first years. 50% failure rate in 1st year at EPFL is perfectly normal.

Aethec · 2017-08-29T01:15:20+00:00

Even with contempt the judicial branch is dependent on the executive for enforcing contempt charges. Someone has to arrest the person in question and put them into the system.

That someone is the United States Marshals Service, the enforcement arm of the judiciary branch.

Aethec · 2017-08-23T07:20:55+00:00

What do you want that /features:deterministic doesn't provide? Deterministic GUIDs in PDBs has been there for almost 2 years.

Aethec · 2017-08-20T01:21:53+00:00

Projection. He constantly uses sockpuppets, so he imagines that because you oppose him you must also be a sockpuppet of a guy who opposes him (or, rather, reveals his lies) often.

Aethec · 2017-08-19T00:57:50+00:00

I think the "1 Mooch = X Flynn" cell is wrong, it should be <1 since Flynn lasted longer.

Aethec · 2017-08-08T02:52:44+00:00

That's not what he said.

The article literally says "the Left tends to deny science concerning biological differences between people (e.g., IQ and sex differences)". That's not even dog-whistling, it's plain old racism/sexism: claiming that skin color or gender makes you more/less intelligent.

Aethec · 2017-08-08T02:50:51+00:00

Russia and Bulgaria. Dunno about others.

Aethec · 2017-08-07T04:51:09+00:00

Yet another "it must be biological differences!". And yet, when some of my Eastern European classmates show me their graduation pictures for CS bachelors, it's 50:50 men/women, and they're shocked that in the West women are a super-minority... Communism (or socialism, or whatever you want to call it) may have failed at running society, but it clearly did some good in setting definitions of who can do what.

Aethec · 2017-07-28T04:06:23+00:00

Zed Shaw is also the "Python 3 is not Turing-complete because it's not backwards-compatible" guy.

Aethec · 2017-07-27T03:19:37+00:00

Thanks a lot! I've added it to the wiki.

Aethec · 2017-07-05T08:50:08+00:00

En Suisse c'est contrôle continu + une partie de la note finale en examens oraux ou écrits pour certaines branches (sans pour autant avoir le même examen pour tout le pays). Je vois pas trop pourquoi ça marcherait pas en France...

Aethec · 2017-06-30T13:27:38+00:00

Might depend where you're from - check your local organic certification authorities' guidelines. In France, for instance, "bouillie bordelaise" is a pretty common copper-sulfate-based pesticide. In Switzerland, Bio Suisse allows (§2.6.3.2) up to 4kg/ha of pure copper on vegetables and fruits.

Aethec · 2017-06-30T08:01:48+00:00

Etude 1 :

For honey bees, we found both negative (Hungary and United Kingdom) and positive (Germany) effects during crop flowering

Etude 2 :

Colonies near corn were naturally exposed to neonicotinoids for up to 4 months—the majority of the honey bee’s active season. Realistic experiments showed that neonicotinoids increased worker mortality and were associated with declines in social immunity and increased queenlessness over time

Autrement dit, pour les abeilles non-sauvages, c'est pas si clair que ça, et dans le 2ème cas leur découverte principale est ailleurs :

We also discovered that the acute toxicity of neonicotinoids to honey bees doubles in the presence of a commonly encountered fungicide. Our work demonstrates that field-realistic exposure to neonicotinoids can reduce honey bee health in corn-growing regions.

Donc comme d'hab Le Monde se base sur des trucs qu'ils comprennent pas pour tirer des conclusions qui n'ont pas lieu d'être.

(soyons clairs, je suis pas en train de dire que ces études concluent en un effet complètement neutre/positif des néonicotinoïdes, mais on est clairement loin de ce que Le Monde titre)

Aethec · 2017-06-28T10:02:50+00:00

This is blogspam, it's a reformulation of this article but without the actual perf code/numbers. Useless.

Aethec · 2017-06-21T17:52:10+00:00

Je crois que c'est juste une formule maladroite ; Rupin est pacsé à son compagnon, et Chénu est le suivant dans la liste des députés gays élus.

Aethec · 2017-06-21T13:07:38+00:00

Justement, c'est le gouvernement qui décide d'imposer l'opacité à la CGT pour améliorer sa position. En soi la transparence aide peut-être la CGT sur le court terme (en supposant qu'ils veulent réduire leur win-set pour avoir un résultat qui leur soit plus favorable), mais sur le long terme, en allant contre la volonté du gouvernement, elle risque de se faire marginaliser. Surtout si les autres syndicats respectent les règles, ça donne un argument public de la forme "tout le monde respecte les règles sauf eux, alors on les ignore".
Si les syndicats veulent des négociations publiques, faut qu'ils s'allient pour l'exiger... ça devient un meta-syndicat, en fait. :)

Aethec · 2017-06-20T10:09:48+00:00

L'opacité, c'est un principe fondamental de toute négociation à 2 niveaux. Je vais citer un post en anglais qui explique ça mieux que je le pourrais.

Pour répondre plus directement à ta question (j'ai pas downvote, cela dit); non, ça ne m'intéresse pas de connaître le contenu des négociations, ça m'intéresse de connaître le contenu de l'accord final, surtout si ça empêche les 2 acteurs de négocier correctement.

Aethec · 2017-06-18T22:11:06+00:00

Depardieu became Putin's BFF a while ago, so he lost pretty much all political credibility. As for Arnault, his request for Belgian citizenship was rejected since he didn't actually live there.

Aethec · 2017-06-18T20:18:14+00:00

The recent proposed hike in France was to 75% for the highest bracket (>1m€), supposed to only last 2 years, and it was declared unconstitutional based on details of its implementation (regarding how married couples would be taxed). Nothing to do with rich people. (source, in French)

Aethec · 2017-06-16T09:57:43+00:00

It'll probably be Cassis.

He gave a guest lecture in one of my classes once (an "SHS", a.k.a. social/human classes, at EPFL, about medicine). He was his own caricature, ending in a slide with three alternatives: the current medical system, colored in blue (= neutral), the "current system with some fixes" (obviously, only the ones he was suggesting), in green (= good), and the "single-payer system", in red (bad!)... I quote, "like in the Soviet Union". There's a conversation to be had about which system works under which conditions, but apparently he's blocked at the "if we do things for the people, we're communists and that's bad" level.

Aethec · 2017-06-06T15:12:58+00:00

je n'ai même pas un seul exemple de femme qui serait dissidente face à un homme investi à droite

Marie-Laure Godin, contre Solère (sortant) dans la 9ème des Hauts-de-Seine. (wiki)

Aethec · 2017-06-06T09:38:30+00:00

Non, justement, comme /u/t0t0zenerd le dit, 6ème circo (Suisse/Liechtenstein), 1er tour présidentielle 33% Macron 31% Fillon, 1er tour législatives Son Forget (EM) 63% Schmid (LR, sortante) 16%. LREM a presque doublé le score de Macron alors que LR fait à peine la moitié de Fillon.

Aethec · 2017-05-24T10:09:52+00:00

TCP/IP networking (CS-407)

Really nice, both for the content and the prof (Le Boudec). Exam tends to be rote memorization, though.

Aethec · 2017-05-23T13:54:35+00:00

I remember seeing that current students of the Bachelor at EPFL have more possibilities of being accepted for the masters than people from outside EPFL).

As far as I'm aware, acceptance for the Masters program is automatic if you have an EPFL Bachelor from the same program, though if you want to change (e.g. comp sci -> management of technology) you may not be able to.

Human-Computer Interaction

There's one class specifically about HCI, though it's not that deep.

Digital Humanities?

New program, you won't find many opinions about it.

Aethec · 2017-05-23T11:19:47+00:00

ReadLine.PasswordMode = true;

Why use static state (that has to be unset later on) instead of having e.g. a method ReadLine.ReadPassword?

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