Whether or not an irregular verb retains its irregularity depends largely on how much it is used in everyday life. If it’s a common word, it’s more likely to stay irregular, because we’re frequently reminded of the “correct” form. If it’s a rare word, the irregularity tends to disappear over time because we simply forget. That why “to be” couldn’t be more irregular (it’s used enough to retain its forms) and the past participle of “to prove” is slowly becoming regular “proved” (it’s rare enough to be forgotten).
yes i like language very much
It’s also interesting how the past-tense of “to dive” has changed over recent generations. “Dived” is supposed to be standard, yet people turn it into “dove” so frequently, it’s becoming the new normal.
Wait, what’s the other option for past tense ‘to prove’?
OP has just proven their point.
“I have proven”
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Yeah, that’s what I said earlier.
Ah, duh. Interesting that it’s moving to the more typical “ed” ending
Exactly, that’s the expected path: the irregular form disappears as more and more speakers forget it and instead, “on the fly”, apply the general rules of word formation in their language. Over time the “regularised” form becomes the accepted, “correct” one.
That I spent years developing proficiency in my language and expanding my vocabulary to get accepted, only to be told to write simplified English in journalism school. Then they doubled down in my business classes to write for a 6th grade education and those who don’t speak natively.
Ya I was surprised that that became the style they liked in my university history classes. None of that rhetoric bullshit.
That the diesel engine wasn’t originally ran on diesel fuel. (In college I was led to believe that it was hemp oil). It was actually peanut oil and later they tried hemp oil.
I’m not trying to be a smartass, but wouldn’t the name “diesel fuel” be assigned after a certain substance was found to be the optimal fuel for a diesel engine?
Honestly, good question and I actually don’t know
You can calculate how long a pencil can stand on its tip before falling using quantum physics.
Basically a version of this was on our freshman accelerated physics final, and no one got it right so our professor happily explained it to us the next day.
It was pretty much the same as is described here.
https://thephysicsvirtuosi.com/posts/old/how-long-can-you-balance-a-quantum-pencil/
Nothing mind blowing? Only mind blowing course was Sociology. My professor worshipped Bernie Sanders and I appreciated he engaging his students to do better.
But also, That succeeding in college/university just shows that someone can learn, follow instructions, work in a group, etc. It really is to prepare someone to show up and do the work. I mean everyone is different and there’s just more likelihood of someone being a better person to work with than someone who doesn’t have that structure or ability to absorb info and think.
I don’t think necessarily that people need higher education but it helps. I tell people I think careerwise it helps to have at least two of the three:
- skills
- networking/network
- higher education
Know college isn’t for some people and the people I know that are successful are often very skilled or/and have connections, can make connections to get employed where they are.
Oh and STEM though, I think people 100% need college/university for more specialized fields and STEM like medical professionals, physicists, etc.
It really depends on the line of work if you need higher education or not.
In my work, where we create software in the automobile industry, Only 1% or so don’t have higher education, and even if they can work around it, it shows pretty fast once you look at how they organize their work, code, documentation, etc.
My polisci teacher day 1 really hammered in that literally everything is political, that it is unavoidable, and all you do by avoiding politics is giving up your own agency when it comes to the things that you care about. It was 2017, so a lot of political apathy at the time, idk it reallly made it click that every single thing is poltical, based on it or decided by it.
Like not caring about politics is just not caring about how you live your life and giving up any control you have to others. People only realize when they lose something they care about like porn games lol
Making a counter which scoud count up to 10 and loop back just with soma cables and electricity.
Ah you mentioned STEM now I see it ^^
One of the most accurate and successful theories in physics contains the single worst prediction and isn’t mathematically rigorous at all.
Doing calculations with it feels like doing vibes based maths, and you spend a lot of time doing things like: “oops divided by zero guess I’ll cancel it out by multiplying by zero” and it works.
In engineering we have a simmillar thing for some cases where we replace 0 with a variable that is 0 at the limit but not 0 itself then continue on like nothing happened. It all cancels out at the end but feels so wrong.
π=√10
π=√10=√g=3=e=c*10^-8
It’s truly the universal constant
Can you give an example?
In control dynamics u have a transfer function and need to determine the Routh-Hurwitz criterion it will sometimes give u division by 0 errors so u sub in a variable and say its almost zero but not quite and continue on like nothing happened.
Eg determining the stability of a system with characteristic eq of A(s) = 3s4+6s3+2s^2+4s+5=0
If u do a RH array u will end up with a zero which then will give u (4*0−30)/0 so u sub in 𝜀 for 0 giving (4𝜀−30)/𝜀 and continue on. That eq obviously evaluates to negative infinity. U are essentially just saying 𝜀 is an infinity small positive number ie it is the number next to 0 on the positive side.
EDIT: If the markdown is messed up the eq should be
A(s) = 3s**4+6s**3+2s**2+4s+5=0When using ** as super notation
control dynamics
Well, that’s a relief! That’s a completely different kind of engineering than I studied, so I can stop being worried that there was something I was supposed to have learned but didn’t.
Its general mechanical background stuff
My degree is in civil.
Ahh. Mechanical before shit starts to move.
Physics in general has not caught up to the fact that locality isn’t a thing. Nobel prizes were handed out for this in I think 22… And people still think the notion of spacetime can be taken seriously. It can’t.
What does that mean?
You know how you get COVID from being in the same room as someone who sneezes on you or something? It’s that.
Non locality is when you get COVID from someone the next state over.
Which part
locality. what was it supposed to be? and why doesn’t it actually exist? what model “replaces” it, if any?
maybe the meaning of spacetime isn’t obvious either, and I just misunderstand what it means
In short locality states that things are only directly affected by their immediate surroundings. This is provably untrue in quantum mechanics.
Thanks!
If you were to put a big fan on a sailboat and point it at the sail, it would move the sailboat in a similar way as if the wind was pushing the sail.
Which actually makes sense if you understand it’s not the wind pushing but the generated updraft at the sail.
(also not point at, but sideways)
😁
Even if you are sailing directly downwind, it works. That was actually the professor’s demonstration. He said that at the time it was accepted as a physical phenomenon, there were many physicists who said it wasn’t possible, but it was being actively used by some engineers to make jets go in reverse.
Cool stuff!
(I am not in aerospace or sailing, so I was guesstimating)
That although there are many wonderful professors, the average professor does not know their ass from a hole in the ground.
But almost all professors know an incredible amount about some ass and/or some hole, just not the specific ass and hole that it would be practical to know about.
Bit too busy with the ole undiagnosed adhd and a hankering for world of Warcraft
You can tell from my transcript the exact week Elder Scrolls Oblivion came out.
For me it was might and magic III, yes I’m very old…
My roommate, RA for the dorm, and I played for 3 months straight on my computer. It was never turned off 24/7 …
That I had to study.
That Earth was in fact way older than 6000 years.
Did you believe otherwise growing up?
Not the person you asked, but it’s commonly taught as science in a lot of Christian themed curriculums, including a lot of homeschool programs. Source: friends who believed it, and seeing the homeschool program of my step-kids. We had to teach facts on the side and introduce them age appropriately to real science.
“It” being Creationism.
Here’s something fun to learn more: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_MuseumSome religious people do.
I was a jehova witness an I believed science class was all wrong and that my job was to just get through it without believing it.
Yes. I grew up in the Dutch Bible Belt, with very strict evangelical parents. They sent me to a Christian school that taught a literal interpretation of the Bible. So I was taught at home, in church, and in school that Earth was created about 6000 years ago.
We are all pretty much screwed
High School is just busy work to keep you off the streets until you’re ready for a job or college.
For real? A lot of high school subjects were pre requisites for enrolling in my degree here and it’d be quite tough to get through the degree without the foundation laid in those subjects. At the very least they’d have to extend the university course by probably a year or so.
Probably varies largely on where you’re talking about, and even then, which university program you’re looking at enrolling in. If you go and look at universities in the UK, for example, a BA studying a foreign language generally seems to assume that this is a language you’ve already been studying for several years in secondary education. You’re meant to be entering the program with roughly a B1 level in the language, and allegedly develop up to C1 over the course of 3 years of study. Meanwhile, in the US, you can rock up to a university and be a Japanese language major with nothing more than “Well, he says he likes anime and his grades are okay.” and the degree program will start you off in a 100-level class that expects negligible prior knowledge, if any.
Then again, having attempted university in the US, and now doing it at a UK school, university education is pretty drastically different. The US schools take 4 years to grant the same degree, and you spend almost the whole of the first year and a good chunk of the second just doing general education requirements that are, at best, only tangentially relevant to your chosen field of study. If I were doing my current degree program for a BA in French and Spanish as a first time student in the US, unless I did a bunch of AP courses or took night classes at a community college on the side, I’d need to do a general English composition class, a few math classes, probably get to pick between a biology or chemistry course, something to do with world cultures or music and the arts, and a handful of other electives I’m forgetting about. For that degree in the UK, from start to finish over the course of 3 years, I exactly 2 modules that aren’t either French or Spanish, with one being the “Hey, we need to make sure you can actually write in English competently, too” module, and the other being a free choice of an introductory language module for something else.
I’d also assume the US’ lack of a national curriculum also plays into how things work out with universities here, as well. Since things can be so variable at a regional and local level, not only in terms of the established curriculum, but what courses your particular secondary school has the funding to offer, universities can’t really assume much of incoming students’ education. You can have a kid from one state whose school was a Spanish language immersion school offering bilingual education from day 1 of Kindergarten, and later offering French, German, Japanese and Arabic as a third language for the final 4 years of compulsory education sat side-by-side with another from a different part of the country who only had the chance to take 2 years of Spanish classes. Even for subjects with a better baseline, someone whose studies covered all the available math classes up to geometry and algebra is going to have a totally different starting point from another whose school partnered with a local college to offer college level courses in calculus and statistics in high school.
And the first thing they teach you in college is “High School was bullshit, here’s the real way to do it…”
That’s really interesting. It must be very much dependent on where you are because my first class at uni they literally said the opposite. “Everyone who didn’t take xyz class in high school take this sheet with a bunch of extra shit you need to learn before next week. Good luck.”
@jordanlund apparently didn’t take xyz class.
Yeah not seeing how you could go into any form of STEM and lesson 1 is matrix math, but you flunked math 300 and don’t know what a quadratic equation is.
Honestly a lot of work is just busy work to keep people off the streets.
Unfortunately, that’s becoming more and more true, and the quality of college classes has to adapt to a student population that is more and more divided depending on the quality of their high schools.
Students coming from good high schools have already internalized effective studying mechanisms, and often the basics of many topics in the first years of college, while others coming from worst high schools have no clue how to organize themselves to be successful. Often, they lock themselves up and spend unreasonable amount of time trying to make sense of things they don’t have the perquisite for. A good read in this direction is Whistling Vivaldi. Obviously, high school quality is very connected with the whiteness and affluence of their location, putting poorer and minority students at a disadvantage even before the starting block.
Shale tastes like mud, yes, but it has the consistency of a chocolate bar if you eat a little.
Honestly not bad. Great experience.
