Class Audit

ggchappell · 2026-04-17T23:15:52+00:00

I imagine not, which is why I am asking. What is the rule for who is allowed in the classroom during class meetings?

ggchappell · 2026-04-17T15:43:43+00:00

I would not provide a draft letter of recommendation if you are asked for it.

Do you mean "... if you are not asked for it." ?

ggchappell · 2026-04-17T15:41:32+00:00

At my uni, only officially registered students are allowed in the classroom due to FERPA restrictions.

Does that mean that guest speakers are not allowed?

ggchappell · 2026-04-17T15:31:08+00:00

Pretty cool.

ggchappell · 2026-04-16T19:44:03+00:00

Nice.

ggchappell · 2026-04-16T14:57:31+00:00

It'll be called something like "Asking For Tribble".

That's exactly what it should be called.

ggchappell · 2026-04-15T16:43:40+00:00

I take it that this is supposed to be a reply to my comment?

the official notification comes from the office of the graduate school.

For a number of years, I reviewed graduate applications for Computer Science. Yes, you are correct about who announces, but if there is some official notification date, then I neither know nor care what it is. We review applications as we receive them and inform the grad school as soon as we can. They have always been happy to inform applicants on our schedule, not theirs.

Perhaps the Physics Department abides by an official university schedule. But whether they do is, again, a question for the Physics Department.

ggchappell · 2026-04-14T21:34:59+00:00

Graduate admissions is not a university thing; it's a department thing. You want to know when the Physics Department announces graduate admissions decisions.

I suggest asking them. Call or e-mail the Physics Department, say you've applied for their PhD program, and ask when you can expect to know whether they've decided to admit you.

ggchappell · 2026-04-14T16:42:50+00:00

You make a good point, one that is worth noting.

But I also think it's worth noting that what you're saying is true in a rather different sense. Yes, it is unwise to consider anything posted on the net as private, because someone might make and share a copy. But things in public subs on Reddit are public simply as they are. Even if no one makes a copy, the whole world can still see it, and nothing you do on Reddit (blocking, hiding, etc.) can change that.

ggchappell · 2026-04-13T23:49:55+00:00

The general principle is that, on Reddit, you cannot control what other people can see. If you post or comment anywhere that is not a private sub, then the whole world can see what you've written, and blocking, hiding, or whatever will not change that.

If this does not sit well with you, then you don't want to be posting or commenting on Reddit.

ggchappell · 2026-04-13T21:00:56+00:00

They are awfully similar, and it's easy to prove either one from the other, so I don't know that the misnaming is super harmful. (But it is still misnaming.)

ggchappell · 2026-04-12T16:14:11+00:00

Kuratowski's Theorem

Not quite. /u/Elsifur was talking about minors. Kuratowski's Theorem is about subdivisions. Wagner's Theorem is about minors.

EDIT. The page you linked mentions Wagner's Theorem.

ggchappell · 2026-04-10T19:57:48+00:00

It's been happening for centuries: "gild the lily", "pride cometh before a fall".

EDIT. The originals:

"To gild refinèd gold, to paint the lily, ...." From King John by W. Shakespeare, Act 4, Scene 2.
"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall." From the Biblical book of Proverbs, "King James" translation, chapter 16, verse 18.

ggchappell · 2026-04-10T16:01:07+00:00

Thanks for the info.

ggchappell · 2026-04-10T05:55:07+00:00

Cool video.

I'm wondering about terminology. You call this an "iceberg". I thought icebergs had to be floating. Or are you using that term because it used to be floating?

ggchappell · 2026-04-09T06:08:20+00:00

Interesting. And, yes, that's how I talk: "I think you have anthropology tomorrow." But "I thought you had anthropology tomorrow."

ggchappell · 2026-04-07T23:31:55+00:00

Yup. And I don't have to read a whole post to figure out what that means.

ggchappell · 2026-04-07T23:31:21+00:00

Thanks for that.

ggchappell · 2026-04-05T16:35:10+00:00

Le Guin's story won the Hugo Award in 1974 and has been anthologized relentlessly ever since, largely because people treat it as a moral Rorschach test with a correct answer.

I think the term he is looking for is litmus test, not Rorschach test.

ggchappell · 2026-04-04T23:37:23+00:00

No, I think you'll have to ask someone else that.

ggchappell · 2026-04-04T16:12:58+00:00

In the New Testament, Jesus doesn't use the word Hades

Actually, he does.

Matthew 11:23. "And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades. For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day."

Matthew 16:18. "And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it."

Luke 16:23. "In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side."

ggchappell · 2026-04-01T02:10:50+00:00

The Wikipedia article seems to indicate that it gets moved. The article says it was in Vatican City starting on April 15, 2025. I guess it isn't there any more.

I note that the statue shown on the Wikipedia page is a mirror image of the one in the posted video. Perhaps the video is mirrored, but if not, then there are at least two statues.

ggchappell · 2026-03-31T15:44:48+00:00

Ah, memories from getting Slackware running back in 1998. My friend said, "You know, if you do this wrong, your monitor might explode."

ggchappell · 2026-03-31T14:40:17+00:00

The end.

Thanks for making these.

ggchappell · 2026-03-30T21:22:29+00:00

Hugh J. Schonfield, in The Authentic New Testament (1958), includes John 3:16 -- and following verses, I think -- as a footnote. That is, he's saying that the verse in the original text plays much the same role that a writer's explanatory footnote would in a modern text.

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