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Comment · 10 days ago
I recently attended a "flipped classroom" for an anatomy course. Lectures were recorded and done prior to class as (not-for-credit) homework, and the traditional homework was ungraded, done in groups in place of lecture. Labs were essentially just mini practicals with multiple stations.

I had never taken an anatomy course prior, and thought that the flipped classroom worked very well for the younger students. People who hadn't quite developed the knack for studying were now forced into preparing before class, and active recall was embedded into the lab practicals so that the cumulative exam wasn't testing things they'd memorized and forgotten.

For me personally, as a student, homework has only ever been for grade-padding.

Comment · 15 days ago
But how is this different from students in 2007, who had no access to Khan Academy, and were also unaware they needed to prepare?

That also did not prepare even though they were aware?

That never even had access to self directed programs like Khan Academy?

I got to see the SAT go from 1600 to 2400 back to 1600 and now it's not required? It has to be something fundamental given it's a recurring nationwide pattern.

Comment · 16 days ago
I remember Khan Academy coming out in 2008 and it was able to invigorate a love in Math that I had lost many years prior. I understand COVID, and the difficulties these kids have faced with remote learning, but I'm struggling to understand how a summer before school spent on Khan Academy preparing you for "everything you missed" is somehow not possible for 1/5 kids to accomplish?
Comment · 16 days ago
Cheers! Best of luck to you as well!
Comment · 16 days ago
Oh interesting. I was looking at bio-informatics briefly but never even considered medical physics. It's crazy just how big healthcare is and how ignorant I was to it prior to making the transition. Would agree that shadowing has a huge impact on determining what you want to do in the future. My cousin went the PA route over med school and honestly I think it's the best from an ROI and free-time perspective. In her early 30's now and every other weekend she's in a different country.

Understand completely. I'm a little older than you but the high chance of giving up a family was the first thing on the negative column when I was deciding paths.

Comment · 16 days ago
Good luck! I took the plunge last year and am just finishing up med school pre-requisites. I'd say at least 6/30 of my O Chem II class are former software engineers.
Comment · 16 days ago
I'd say that these networks are a lot smaller than they were back in the days of Friends, and they're only getting smaller.
Comment · 20 days ago
It's really more of a dated manual on social etiquette. The negativity is mainly that it seems every salesperson is gifted a copy and implements the same techniques. Similar to how Chick Fil A has ruined the phrase "My Pleasure". The author himself states that it's genuine interest that forms connections, but ultimately the goal is to get something like a deal closed, the employee complying or the customer buying. Just depends on how you frame it.
Comment · 1 month ago
If we're arguing semantics it would be incorrect to say that it was simply renamed. Nothing was literally renamed. The part of the Patriot Act that lapsed in 2020 was Section 215. This was already gutted by https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/2048... 5 years prior. We also had FISA in 2008 https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48592. 702 also expired, except it was recertified through 2027 so who the fuck knows what's going on there. EO12333 https://www.nsa.gov/Signals-Intelligence/EO-12333/ is a few decades prior, but nobody likes it when the younger generation grumbles about its elders so I'm sticking to stuff in my lifetime.
Comment · 1 month ago
All the fun stuff just got repackaged under another name. Regardless, privacy has been eroding for decades at this point.
Comment · 1 month ago
The Patriot Act was passed 25 years ago...
Comment · 2 months ago
Thank you. Felt like I was stuck in a time loop.
Comment · 3 months ago
I'm not upset, nor did you show proof the parent was trying to "white was(sic) the RIAA". You made no claims directly about suing people who don't even own computers. You also seem ignorant of the fact that in the US, you can sue anyone at anytime for any reason. You're confusing the parent with a child commentator and replying to a post 10 days after the fact without addressing a single claim. I have no desire to continue communicating with you. Have a good one.
Comment · 3 months ago
Right but higher sale price homes aren't the ones that happen most frequently, which is why we have television shows around them. Completely agree with your last point, 1031 exchanges discounted even higher.
Comment · 3 months ago
Then it should be nationwide cab drivers, or better yet, cab drivers from every market that Waymo are located to be compared in the study.

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