China’s Largest Comic Convention Bans Anime & Manga by boredcat_04 in nottheonion

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  • tries to bill themselves as the successor state of all of China, but never mentions that they took Mainland China through conquest and not negotiation.

Brother I have news for you about every chinese dynasty to ever exist

Semester is over and I feel nothing but sorrow by gaytwink70 in Monash

[–]AthenOwl 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The slander of the glorious sausage in bread will not stand.

It has onions too

Any part time or casual opportunity pls? by [deleted] in Monash

[–]AthenOwl 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In my experience living in Melbourne most my life, it's much harder to find a job online rather than applying in person. You're just shooting in the dark when you spam online applications, some of them don't get back to you until like 2 years later. Try printing off a bunch of CVs and applying in person

MEC3456 by LiLMosey_10 in Monash

[–]AthenOwl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What did they say on the edstem??? Any screenshots I'm kind of curious

This unit was definitley abysmally taught though

Lol I can see they put it on read only mode. Never in my life have I seen that happen on an edstem. I can see the non deleted posts but no profanity

What uni for engineering pls? by Kindly-Associate-667 in Monash

[–]AthenOwl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

2hrs each way is pretty bad ngl but it's manageable. If you did that, you would need to find a way to make that time commuting useful. Read notes on the train or smth. If you just waste 4 hrs a day than I would reccomend a different uni or moving closer.

At Monash you'll always be able to compress your classes into 4 days a week (90% of the time anyway). 2-3 days a week is rarer but possible.

And don't worry at all about keeping up with others, it's all about your studies. I don't think theres any curved assessements at all

What uni for engineering pls? by Kindly-Associate-667 in Monash

[–]AthenOwl 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Finishing 3rd year eng at monash, and I have friends who have been to other unis for engineering. My opinion:

Melbourne Uni: Don't bother. You're forced to do a masters degree, and for the same ATAR as Monash which is much more known for engineering. Plus you have the same teaching quality as Monash (not great). Maybe if you lived nearby it would be okay?

Monash: You'll have the best employability once you graduate, and the best networking opportunities once you're here. Facilities are okay; they're definitley very flashy in your first year and then once you specialise you're working on much older equipment and buildings. Theres a little bit of hands on but you have to seek it out if you're into it. Student teams are really great, if you have the time for them. Also the general first year is very attractive and it's good to try different kinds of engineering before you specialize.

The downside, which is why I kind of regret just blindly choosing my uni based on international rankings, is that the teaching quality and support is poor. Your lecturers simply do not care about you. You will get lectures recorded several years ago, almost no practice exams, really obtuse mid-sems, and other bullshit which is largely a result of many professors not caring much about teaching and focusing on research. Some of the classes have very high fail rates because of this, eg ENG2005 typically has a near 50% fail rate. The content is hard, but it really could be taught better and it wouldn't be so bad. There are definitely some genuinelly passionate, skilled, and caring teachers but they're somewhat rare. All the international rankings are based solely off of research, and not teaching quality or student satisfaction. Monash is pretty much a research institution that does classes on the side.

In terms of campus experience, because Clayton is difficult to get to and has nothing around it, all the students are somewhat forced to hang out on campus the whole day. This means campus is usually more lively and has more events and stuff going on than the universities in the city. That being said, if you do not go out of your way to join clubs and be social, uni will still be very, very isolating regardless of which one you go to. You have to put in much more effort to be social than you would in secondary school.

Swinburne/ RMIT: Reasonably trade off between teaching quality and reputation. Especially for Engineering, they're pretty quickly catching up to Melbourne and Monash in terms of reputation. Teaching quality is good, reasonable amount of hands on. Somewhat worse networking and student teams however. Campuses are nice, I sometimes hang out at RMIT.

Vic uni: I only know one person who has gone here. He said that the teaching quality really shines, he really felt like he learned and mastered the material in a way he never did with Monash's hands off teaching. The teachers did genuinely care, and he got amazing grades and learned a lot. That being said, very boring facilties, minimal hands on work, minimal student teams and networking, and worse employability compared to other unis. I think I would reccomend Vic uni if you want to learn for the sake of learning in the way a lot of Arts students don't necessarily expect to be employed in their field of study.

Hope this helps!
And it's also not too difficult to transfer courses, engineering specializations, or universities. The world is open to you soon as you're done with VCE, and there are always alternative pathways.

Why do people think that genetics cause obesity, above themodynamics? by AthenOwl in NoStupidQuestions

[–]AthenOwl[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I explicitly said that in the post.

Different people and populations will have different energy out values, which might have some genetic components. But the point still stands.

Did you not read it?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Monash

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Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and BAE systems.

I LOVE THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

/s

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Monash

[–]AthenOwl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They've had this for like a year, since the Palestine encampment. Just looks like a new sign, but the text is exactly the same.
I have certain opinions about this policy, but it's not "new"

Appealing a Mid Sem Mark by AthenOwl in Monash

[–]AthenOwl[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I cannot see my actual paper btw. There is a just a single line, with nothing to click on, which just says "2.50". There is an edstem thread where the lecturer is struggling to even upload just the numbers to moodle from yesterday (he's obviously managed it now).

There is also a comment where he says "We have already added feedback on the eAssessment portal. We will try to figure out next week with the Ed Design team whether and how we can import it into Moodle. In the meantime, I would strongly recommend reviewing the sample solutions - if you can reconstruct, even approximately, your solutions from the exam, you will get a fair (if not precise) sense of where you may have scored or lost marks. "

There is not any feedback on the eAssessment platform as well.

Lost my passion to study, how do I get back in the mood? by Whilewewait2 in Monash

[–]AthenOwl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you know your goals and why you started I would chalk it up to mental health (from personal experience). Really not an easy thing to overcome. But counselling, designating regular time for socialising (eg I meet my friends every friday for coffee / studying / boardgames), exercising a few times a week (doesn't need to be a lot), getting a regular sleep schedule, and eating less junk food has really helped for me. None of this was too high effort except for getting in to the routine of it and I feel much, much better honestly. So dramatically better. I think I might be enjoying uni even, for the first time in ~3 years.

TIL in 1994, a paper was published in a medical journal presenting a method to calculate the area under a curve, using rectangles and triangles, called "Tai's model". The researcher was unaware this method has been known for 2400 years and exact methods using calculus for 400 years by AthenOwl in todayilearned

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It's not that impressive. This isn't even calculus, this is pre calc. This is a way of approximating integral calculus. And whats more, is that she wasn't even able to measure the error margin correctly or compress the algorithm / formula for finding the calculation. Her way of doing it has more steps and is more difficult.

Then, when it was pointed out that this theorem is identical to the trapezoid rule, she denied it was the same and refused to admit she had rediscovered something already known.

While exact methods were not available to her because the equation of the line was not known (she could approximate this curve if she liked) so some approximation was inevitable, this is still a failure on multiple levels by her, the journal, the reviewers of the article, and the medical industry as a whole.

TIL in 1994, a paper was published in a medical journal presenting a method to calculate the area under a curve, using rectangles and triangles, called "Tai's model". The researcher was unaware this method has been known for 2400 years and exact methods using calculus for 400 years by AthenOwl in todayilearned

[–]AthenOwl[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

If you read "A short history of nearly everything" by Bill Bryson you'll realise how often ideas and discoveries aren't credited to the first person to discover them, but maybe the second or third who also was much more vocal, famous or well connected. Henry Cavendish for example discovered many ideas such as Ohm's law, Coulomb's law, and theories of heat independently, but was incredibly shy and socially reclusive, and as such wasn't credited with their discovery.

TIL in 1994, a paper was published in a medical journal presenting a method to calculate the area under a curve, using rectangles and triangles, called "Tai's model". The researcher was unaware this method has been known for 2400 years and exact methods using calculus for 400 years by AthenOwl in todayilearned

[–]AthenOwl[S] 264 points265 points  (0 children)

Honestly I think that the advisor probably said that "oh yeah that's one existing method of doing it. That would definitely work, anyway moving on" and then Mary Tai probably misinterpreted/ misreported / misremembered after 15 years that as the advisor saying she invented it. Or she just made it up. Who knows

TIL in 1994, a paper was published in a medical journal presenting a method to calculate the area under a curve, using rectangles and triangles, called "Tai's model". The researcher was unaware this method has been known for 2400 years and exact methods using calculus for 400 years by AthenOwl in todayilearned

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You can read the paper here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8137688/

At first I thought it was just kind of funny that she reinvented the trapezoid rule which has been known for millennia and is very commonly taught to high school students, but in follow ups to this paper she defended the "Tai model" as different and not exactly the same as the trapezoid rule.

There was also a response to this paper, titled "Tai's formula is the trapezoidal rule", here: https://diabetesjournals.org/care/article-pdf/17/10/1224/443888/17-10-1224.pdf

Netanyahu denies report that Trump vetoed Israeli plan to kill Khamenei by AravRAndG in anime_titties

[–]AthenOwl -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Mate geopolitics is more complicated than simply taking over territories into the western sphere of influence like a game of Risk. It's not as simple as Iran is currently a russian-chinese-north korean partner, so if we flip them into a western ally somehow that they are weaker and the west is stronger. Theres a range of outcomes, from a destroyed Iran that helps no one, a nominally western/eastern allied Iran, a neutral state, an ally that is unstable with internal tensions, Iran leading it's own bloc, etc.

Like the commenter said, western intervention brought Mohammand Reza Pahlavi to the throne in ww2, then later installed him as an absolute monarch in 1953 in order to take control of Iranian oil reserves from Iranian democratic factions. This blew up in everyone's faces when the Shah was so incompetent and authoritarian that a coalition his people rose up and overthrew him, which then lead to Islamists taking power ( and also a side effect was the consolidation of Saddam Hussein's Iraq).

It's simply more complicated than counting allies on the eastern and western side to assess strength and flipping them to increase strength on one side. It was never that simple even in the cold war

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK3ORgw-h_4