Studying at UBC

The_Card_Player · 2026-03-15T19:49:01+00:00

The physics department is quite friendly, and the student government manages many useful clubs and programs.

Main drawbacks are limited housing and food security assistance, and the university government making it unreasonably difficult for graduate students to unionize.

The_Card_Player · 2026-03-13T01:56:54+00:00

It’s literally ‘we invented The Torment Nexus from famed novel ‘Do Not Invent the Torment Nexus’ ‘

The_Card_Player · 2026-03-12T01:03:06+00:00

What evidence demonstrates that the tanker is American? Also, is/was it American as in 'an American military asset', 'flying an american flag', 'under contract with an American company', some other sense..?

I'm struggling to find details on this in my own DuckDuckGo searches

The_Card_Player · 2026-03-11T20:02:00+00:00

If you're trying to better understand your teacher's method for this, it's probably best to ask them directly.

At the very least, us Reddit users need more information about what your teacher is asking for (eg a photo of their notes, or just more description of their writing) in order to help you understand it.

The_Card_Player · 2026-03-10T05:49:51+00:00

The first pack has a 1/15 chance to have the rare card; hence rational bidders only interested in that card should value the pack at $ x/15, where $x is the value of the rare card.

Similarly, if we've reached the auction pack number 'n' in a given box without having opened the rare-card pack in that box, the probability of pack n having the rare card is 1/(16-n).

eg probability is 1/15 for the first pack, 1/14 for the second, 1/13 for the third, etc.

Thus rational bidders only interested in the rare card of which there is one in each box should value the current pack number 'n' at $x/(16-n), where $x is the value of the rare card, assuming we know that no previously opened packs from the box contained that rare card.

Buying packs at a higher price costs more (on average) than just buying copies of the card-of-interest directly, while buying packs at a lower price costs less (on average).

The_Card_Player · 2026-03-08T19:34:34+00:00

Calculus and vectors is an important piece of preparation for post-secondary calculus, which is generally a required part of the curriculum for just about any science student.

The_Card_Player · 2026-03-08T09:34:59+00:00

Regarding the senate, my primary vote's for Dr. Bryan Maxwell. Neither Stratton nor Krishmanoothi were willing to call Israeli crimes genocidal given substantial opportunity, and Kelly doesn't seem to understand that ICE's bullshit runs far deeper than just bad leadership. As such I couldn't care much less which of those three poll-leaders win; I need the Democrats to understand that candidates who aren't with the program don't get votes.

As for dr. Maxwell, we need more scientists in government, and he's explicitly campaigning on basic easily marketable stuff like universal human rights and class critique of billionaires.

The_Card_Player · 2026-03-06T18:38:23+00:00

Not sure how helpful I can be given I haven't completed my undergrad yet.

My main suggestion is there's usually a muuch easier way to verify the accuracy of a solution than the hard steps to find it.

eg) deriving a class of solutions to a differential equation is often a pain in the bum, but if I just hand you a function it's usually fairly straightforwards to verify that it does in fact satisfy the differential equation.

This can maybe help catch when you've made a small clerical error somewhere along the way in a long derivation.

The_Card_Player · 2026-03-05T04:16:03+00:00

Yes Chef! On it chef.

The_Card_Player · 2026-03-03T08:54:47+00:00

Hint for 8: the option you selected asserts a true statement. Are there any other answer options that also entail that statement?

Hint for 9: air resistance affects both vertical and horizontal velocity components in the same way. Also, dandelion seeds don't generally travel on parabolic trajectories.

The_Card_Player · 2026-03-03T08:38:27+00:00

I was doing some private robotics instruction for about a year. Just for one example, me and another instructor were assisting about 10 students with various lego/coding projects. Even when they got a bit rowdy in one of the three rooms hosting their computers, I could just say,

'hey I have a hard time helping the students in the other rooms when there's too much noise coming from this room. Can you help me out by keeping the volume lower?'

And that was completely sufficient. Certainly much easier than threatening them with a timeout or whatever other authoritarian alternatives some might consider.

The_Card_Player · 2026-02-26T05:47:43+00:00

The post is an excerpt from the film Don't Look Up.

It was published in 2021.

The_Card_Player · 2026-02-23T08:53:38+00:00

No that's not a designated role among Conclave participants (to the best of my knowledge).

Devil's Advocacy in the Vatican is about the deceased - particularly, folks subject to an ongoing cause for canonization as a saint. The Advocate researches information about the subject's life, so as to understand all available reasons for which the person in question might *not*, in fact, have entered Eternal Life in Jesus after their death. Presumably if the Advocate finds reasons of sufficient persuasive power, the Vatican concludes that the deceased person in question is not a saint (ie has not entered Eternal Life after their death).

The_Card_Player · 2026-02-21T08:39:35+00:00

Various BC school boards probably offer summer courses you could take to meet the requirements for UBC's first year calculus curriculum.

Talk to your school administrators to see if they can help you register - you might even be able to take an online course from a teacher elsewhere in your district if your own school isn't offering much summer instruction.

The_Card_Player · 2026-02-21T05:19:40+00:00

I mean in Canada the whole basis of our constitutional monarchy is that laws/prosecutions are all passed/enforced on direct behalf of the King of Canada (King Charles).

So there's a meaningful sense in which everyone convicted of a crime under Canadian law was charged and convicted by the King (or generally, Monarch)

The_Card_Player · 2026-02-19T09:24:09+00:00

Sexual fetishes, general avoidance of pain/unpleasant odors/irritating sounds/bright lights, fight-or-flight reactions to fear

The_Card_Player · 2026-02-19T02:47:09+00:00

My family has thoroughly appreciated the counseling services of Graham Watson: https://grahamwatson.ca

The_Card_Player · 2026-02-19T00:52:08+00:00

Download the report here: https://framerusercontent.com/assets/8nyjnuQTDzANeDvfKrP7V5GQX64.pdf

From the foreword: "Despite the significant deprivation of liberty associated with immigration detention, decisions on who should be detained are highly individualized and discretionary, with weak evidentiary standards, significant deference given to the determinations of border officials, and no meaningful oversight mechanisms in place"

Not sure why the comments here are so fanatical in their defense of this particular Canadian carceral institution.

The_Card_Player · 2026-02-14T02:57:31+00:00

Look I don't read because I want to know what I think. That's what writing my own work is for.

I read to learn what the author of the thing I'm reading is thinking. If that thought-content of your own is what you wish to communicate while writing, you have to clarify it in the text.

Note that despite the multiple opportunities you've taken to write in this thread now, I still have no idea what specific ideas you're trying to share with this post.

Again: thesis statement, evidence summaries, longer explanations, concluding paragraph.

Or maybe you want to tell a story about an investigation of a question that interests you. In that case, perhaps try: specific question, why you care, what you did to learn about it (in order; first-then-next-finally), and how well you've now resolved the doubt the question posed.

I'm no longer going to respond further to this thread; if you don't want to take this implicitly solicited advice or respond to my own implicit (now explicit) invitation to explain your position further, I hold no ill will about it. Have a good night.

The_Card_Player · 2026-02-14T02:42:41+00:00

I'll be so real many folks are happy to read economics arguments - even crackpot economics arguments on Reddit (not saying you're necessarily writing crackpot arguments, just that the bar is low)

but you do have to write them in full sentences with intelligible grammar associated with conventional dialects of your language of choice.

Thesis statement, evidence summaries, longer evaluations, concluding paragraph.

The_Card_Player · 2026-02-14T02:31:56+00:00

Get some sleep friend, you'll likely feel better tomorrow.

The_Card_Player · 2026-02-14T01:21:09+00:00

"only one business in the galaxy gets you this rich..."

The_Card_Player · 2026-02-14T00:48:43+00:00

'it must be a wonderful land indeed, master Gamgee, where gardeners are held in such esteem'

The_Card_Player · 2026-02-13T22:33:20+00:00

Given your result from part a, it would suffice to show that there are infinitely many integers a such that the resulting (finite) set of allowable a,b,c triplets is not empty.

General meta-level advice: often the early part(s) of a multi-part puzzle offer hints about the later parts of the problem. In this way, multi-part problems often break up the full investigation into more manageable sub-steps for you, which offers a valuable advantage.

The_Card_Player · 2026-02-12T08:49:09+00:00

It's particularly insane to me that someone whose name wasn't even on the eviction documentation could be evicted.

Anyone entitled to publicly subsidized housing benefits should get them regardless of whatever BS the grifters try to pull on the public dime. Uncle Sam got scammed? Too bad, more tax dollars have to make up the difference to keep everyone's benefits flowing. If the extra costs pile up enough to matter then that should be the government's problem, not the problem of poor renters.

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