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@ailing@g0v.social
@ailing@g0v.social 東部真美
也對台北的生活太方便
夏天我一定要抽時間往東北角跑一趟去潛水
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cpkimber
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Graduate student and part-time teacher in Taipei, Taiwan. Like #physics #math #sciencefiction and a lot of other stuff. Researching #darkenergy and #cosmology.
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Hungry Caterpillar
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TTRPGs, learning to draw
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@donlamb_1@mastodon.online
@donlamb_1@mastodon.online @ThreeSigma@mastodon.online The classical mechanics book by John Taylor has a great cover too. Man's got a sense of humor
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@HeyeBodo@rollenspiel.social
@HeyeBodo@rollenspiel.social Ex greasy Pathfinder nerd discovers the OSR and solo gaming.
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@freyablekman@fediscience.org
@freyablekman @association @DPGPhysik I once told my advisor, that ol greybeard I felt like I had tricked everyone into believing I was supposed to be there and one day all the plates I’m spinning would fall and everyone would laugh at me for being a fraud.
He took me with him on a walk, knocking on the door of every professor in the department, “David, do you ever feel like the dumbest kid in the building? Yes? And you still come to work? Thanks” shuffle to the next office. “Lisa, do you ever feel like the dumbest kid in the building?” And so on
He told me it doesn’t go away, you just learn it means you’re doing work that’s just at the edge of your reach.
Love that guy
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@ThreeSigma@mastodon.online
@ThreeSigma@mastodon.online very little reflection going on after erring, let me tell you. Not one for error analysis
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@Quantensalat@scicomm.xyz
@Quantensalat@scicomm.xyz oh yes we do a lot of falling on the ol’ coconut around here
My eight month old is tall enough to pull my textbooks off the bookshelf- Peskin and Schroeder, Mike and Ike, Jackson. I’ve got to swap these books out for stuff that’s more his speed. Griffiths, Taylor and the like.
Some parents say hey eight months is too early to introduce the Lagrangian framework, but nobody knows your child’s body better than they do. If they say they’re ready, all we can do is trust them.
#physics #parenting
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@futurebird@sauropods.win
@futurebird@sauropods.win I only have about 20 or 30 students per semester, but I have all the time in the world for the ones that give me their time and truly try to understand what I am teaching.
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@warandpeas@mastodon.social
@warandpeas@mastodon.social The planet will be fine, it will shake us off like a bad case of fleas said George Carlin
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@saustrup@mstdn.dk
@saustrup welcome back to NPR, you’re listening to jazz plus jazz equals jazz
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@TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social
@TarkabarkaHolgy every day is jaw day down at t rex fitness.
Hey girl, you into fitness? How bout fitness whole brontosaurus in yer mouth?
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@michael_w_busch@mastodon.online
@michael_w_busch I'm a simple man, I see Le Guin mentioned, I boost
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@Daojoan@mastodon.social
@Daojoan@mastodon.social you made a really good point, but I’m afraid now everyone is posting in a laundromat thread
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@theorangetheme@en.osm.town
@theorangetheme@en.osm.town @Daojoan@mastodon.social That's brilliant
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@Daojoan@mastodon.social
@Daojoan@mastodon.social there’s a laundromat near my house called “More than a laundromat”, but it really is simply a laundromat. It makes me chuckle to think about.
Like, c’mon laundromat it’s really ok, just be yourself no one said you have to be anything else.
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@http_error_418@hachyderm.io
@http_error_418 @futurebird
It is odd, and if I stay a teacher for much longer, I will spend a good portion of that time figuring out how to motivate different learners.
My strategy the past few years is to just deliver the syllabus, give them enough practice and feedback, but actually try to get them to like it. If I can get them to like math, then teaching and the grades are all secondary.
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@futurebird@sauropods.win
@futurebird Grades, deadlines, test and pressure. It works for some, but not all I mean
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@futurebird__dup_2485@sauropods.win
@futurebird I worked at a private international school doing a similar curriculum, but not long enough to get to see the younger kids come through to my calc/ physics classes.
Now I do IB, and I have lots of good to say about it when speaking about THE STUDENTS IT WORKS FOR
and not as much good to say for those it doesn't work for.
Obviously, school just isn't for making educated/ capable/ thinking/ empathetic individuals, and as educators we have to secretly do that part on the side.