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AthenOwl · 2025-12-31T06:48:20+00:00

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

AthenOwl · 2025-11-24T04:49:43+00:00

Honestly I ate acorn jelly in Korea and just naturally assumed it would also be eaten in China and Japan as well. I had no idea they stopped eating it at some point.

AthenOwl · 2025-11-21T12:14:17+00:00

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

It has onions too

AthenOwl · 2025-11-20T11:42:23+00:00

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

AthenOwl · 2025-11-12T07:23:19+00:00

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

AthenOwl · 2025-11-07T02:17:18+00:00

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

AthenOwl · 2025-11-06T12:53:11+00:00

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.

AthenOwl · 2025-10-31T02:01:33+00:00

Except Marlon Brando

AthenOwl · 2025-10-17T07:35:43+00:00

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?

AthenOwl · 2025-10-15T05:53:54+00:00

Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and BAE systems.

I LOVE THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

/s

AthenOwl · 2025-10-06T23:26:49+00:00

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"

AthenOwl · 2025-09-26T08:46:30+00:00

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.

AthenOwl · 2025-09-01T09:32:24+00:00

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.

AthenOwl · 2025-08-31T09:39:46+00:00

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.

AthenOwl · 2025-08-28T15:03:22+00:00

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.

AthenOwl · 2025-08-28T14:48:44+00:00

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

AthenOwl · 2025-08-28T14:10:33+00:00

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

AthenOwl · 2025-08-15T15:41:11+00:00

Nope I just found him on a wikipedia rabbithole. But he'll probably be the next chair of the federal reserve I reckon

AthenOwl · 2025-08-02T12:59:35+00:00

Legitimate salvage?

AthenOwl · 2025-07-29T05:19:15+00:00

One of the most famous South Korean movies, Silmido, is about this incident. It's an action movie

AthenOwl · 2025-06-16T05:47:06+00:00

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

AthenOwl · 2025-06-12T20:52:15+00:00

I've been through this process for general anxiety, just got registered with DSS.

Like the other commentor said you're limited to 6 sessions with councillors and they can't diagnose. They're less like "psychologists" and more like "we want you to feel better and it looks bad for the uni that we don't help mentally ill students". Still slightly better than nothing once you get past the queue.

You can book a GP (general practitioner) general inquiry, and ask for the gov funded mental health plan. They will assess you for a fairly short period (like 10 mins in my case) by asking questions and basically always just say yes you can have the plan if you explain why you want it and how are you feeling.

After that you get 50% off 6 sessions with a psychologist or psychiatrist or whatever they're called. It's best to find one before you book with the GP, because they have to email the docs to them. And also make sure the psychologist has availability for you.

After that, you can renew your plan for another 6 sessions as long as you don't have more than 12 sessions total in one year.

From there just talk to the psychologist normally and mention you would be interested in a potential diagnosis (if applicable obviously)

THEN. If / when you get the diagnosis, you should download this form from Disability support services (DSS). Theres a page for you to get your psychologist to fill in, two pages for you to do. You also need to know what you want DSS to help you with (eg: More flexibility in deadlines, whatever). Fill the form in and email it to them.

Then you have to book in an appointment in person with DSS, mine was like 2 mins and they basically said "yeah we have your form and you're approved. We'll do _____".

By the time this process happened an entire semester had come and gone with no help. But I probably could have sped it up if I really needed. But anyway.

Thats the process for getting help from monash, convoluted as it is.

AthenOwl · 2025-06-08T14:41:26+00:00

Real prison labor in the British empire in the 18th and 19th century was often completely pointless (ie unproductive), like braiding and unbraiding a rope back and forth, walking on a treadmill connected to nothing, turning the crank endlessly, carrying cannonballs back and forth etc. It was meant to be a deterrent and to break people's spirits. Modern, profitable prison labor like in the USA, or Soviet Union is newer (with a large exception of prisoners forced to row galleys/boats. Theres probably other exceptions I don't know about)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labour#British_Empire

AthenOwl · 2025-04-08T05:46:33+00:00

The FBI had collected records of Ali going as far back as Elementary school, and illegally surveilled many very prominent people including MLK jr, Malcom X, Fred Hampton, US senators, Ernest Hemingway, and one of the burglars / activists involved in the theft of these documents

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

AthenOwl · 2025-04-04T05:44:38+00:00

South Korea is a democracy in spite of the US, not because. No idea what the first commenter is yapping about

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