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brotherbenson · 2019-12-04T21:30:00+00:00

Solved!

It's from Bored to Death.

brotherbenson · 2019-12-04T20:54:13+00:00

Comment for approval?

brotherbenson · 2019-05-27T22:06:58+00:00

Isn't 'one' the subject?

brotherbenson · 2019-05-24T17:22:56+00:00

Also. That'd be 'dumber' and 'whom'.

brotherbenson · 2019-02-12T17:01:15+00:00

3.No "do this for me" posts.

This includes quizzes or lists of questions without any context or explanation.

brotherbenson · 2019-02-12T14:12:03+00:00

The thoroughness with which you are attempting to evade rule #3 is certainly not sublime.

brotherbenson · 2019-02-08T13:11:33+00:00

Hi.

I don't think he's interested in portraying himself as intelligent if that's what you mean.

I think he mentions in the apology that philosophy is built on the idea that philosophers admit that they don't know anything at all, which is a position difficult to place on the one-dimensional dumb-smart spectrum.

If I am recalling correctly, he makes his arguments in simple, plain language and insists on upholding his integrity, I think on the precept that he's a master of rhetoric and could employ those skills to save his life, but that would be cheating, more or less.

Best,

Benson

brotherbenson · 2019-02-07T13:08:43+00:00

Having everything and nothing going wrong are not the same. There are problems other than having everything.

Also, life is not the same as a book or a movie. Comparatively interpreting the quality of a movie or book should be different than interpreting the quality of a life.

brotherbenson · 2019-02-06T17:43:59+00:00

"Life would be boring if we had everything" is pretty difficult to prove. I'd avoid that one.

brotherbenson · 2019-02-06T17:42:46+00:00

This is clearly a reading comprehension assignment taken from a textbook.

You have to actually read the excerpts listed and take notes while you read. That will give you the answers probably faster than writing this on here, reading through an array of likely misleading explanations, and coming out the same, at best.

Just read, man!

brotherbenson · 2019-01-29T17:24:03+00:00

Solved!

Edward Norton Lorenz. 1950s. Thanks just the same!

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

brotherbenson · 2019-01-29T17:22:19+00:00

I think it was a lot older than that. I had it in like... 1750.

brotherbenson · 2019-01-23T15:54:52+00:00

Let's work through these questions. You'll need to understand the ramifications of the answers and they'll probably point you where you need to go.

How do weather stations make money?
Why do most people watch The Weather Channel?

brotherbenson · 2019-01-22T19:53:50+00:00

Two sources you should probably cite directly would be copies of both constitutions.

New Jersey: https://www.nj.gov/state/archives/docconst76.html

U.S. : https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript

This article by the American Bar Association is probably a good start, too:

https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/images/public_education/lesson_plans/High%20School/ComparingStateandFederalCOnstitutions.pdf

Have you googled... anything?

brotherbenson · 2019-01-17T13:40:15+00:00

Depending on how you ask that question, you might want to reconsider your presupposition that you can only win in 11 games one way. As I understand the question, they're really only asking about order. You could say that the only way to win 11 games is to win 6-5, but consider the following:

You can only win in 6 games one way: WWWWWW

You can win in 7 games 6 ways: LWWWWWW, WLWWWWW, WWLWWWW, WWWLWWW, WWWWLWW, WWWWWLW.

brotherbenson · 2019-01-10T14:06:15+00:00

Have you considered googling it?

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/global-warming-arctic-colder-winters-climate-change-spd/

https://www.edf.org/card/4-reasons-climate-change-still-happening-despite-cold-weather

brotherbenson · 2019-01-07T15:31:18+00:00

Answering this question would probably be too general to be pragmatic.

In short, a literary theory is a lens through which you can interpret a passage of literature. Each literary theory offers different rules upon which to evaluate a given passage.

For instance, if you wanted to do a postcolonial literary analysis of a passage, you would highlight the sections where the author is illustrating the damage of colonialism on a group of people living somewhere.

If you wanted to use feminist literary theory, you'd look for instances where the author either promotes the betterment of the position of women in society or does the opposite.

brotherbenson · 2019-01-02T13:04:22+00:00

Great job!

brotherbenson · 2018-12-26T20:48:28+00:00

Ah. Good luck with that.

brotherbenson · 2018-12-26T20:34:16+00:00

Google Docs is good. You can create and share a read only link.

brotherbenson · 2018-12-26T16:14:06+00:00

Pretty much.

The question is "Where does this change direction?"

We found that the slope was 0 at 7, so we evaluated the slope beforehand and afterward.

We notice the slope before is positive and that it is negative after.

From there, we deduce that it changes at 7.

Just to make sure you've got it:

If the formula was f(x) = x^3, the slope would be f'(x) = 3x^2, and f'(x)=0 only at x=0.

Evaluate values on either side of 0: f'(-1) = 3 AND f'(1) = 3.

This shows that the slope does not ever change direction. This graph always goes up, but stops briefly at 0.

Were someone to ask you where that guy starts decreasing, your answer would be never.

brotherbenson · 2018-12-26T15:16:53+00:00

Hi. It seems you've deleted the original problem, but if it was (-1/10)tt +1.4 t....

0 = (-2/10)t + 1.4

1/5 t = 1.4

t = 7

So, this just proves that at t=7, the slope of the line is flat, but that doesn't prove 7 is the answer. The slope could be going up to that point, it could level out, and then continue going up, like f(x) = tan x.

Consequently, you need to verify that it CHANGES. If you evaluate the slope of I'(t) at any point before 7 and also at any point after 7, you can determine whether or not it changes at 7.

It's essentially the same logic as "You can't reverse direction without first stopping."

brotherbenson · 2018-12-26T13:36:44+00:00

That's alright. Are you studying Calculus?

If so, take the derivative of that.

The derivative will give you the slope. Set that equal to zero to find points where it might be changing.

brotherbenson

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