It's the opposite. One may reject the formalism of Cauchy and Weierstrass in favor of the intuitive interpretation of the infinitesimal as a change that is too small to be measured, and still arrive at the conclusion that differential equations written in algebraic form are precise and extremely helpful. Instead, this is the graphical approach, also largely adopted by economics courses, which mostly rejects quantitative analysis. I have no doubt that an applied course in vector fields could potentially help biomed student performance more than a calculus class, but it is not a substitute for single-variable calculus, which does not treat vector fields. These nerds are talking past each other.

The idea that differential equations are vague and unhelpful sounds like the type of propaganda that lost the cold war for the Russians.

Or maybe Gresham's law won't have an effect until Russians have transitioned from $ to CNY/RMB for international transactions

Maybe I missed a claim that the provided search results have ever been related to truth in any way. DDG uses words like relevant and intelligent to describe the results. Russian information is selectively un-intelligent or irrelevant, and therefore disinformation. The purpose of most journalism, and by extension most websites that operate within the us, is economic, and it is necessarily correlated with the advancement of the state, if not stated outright a la Pulitzer. It is well within their stated objectives to amplify the information that is relevant to their organizational success, and down-rank information that is not. This doesn't seem to be an issue of honesty for anyone involved, except for the critics who naively expect it.

That reasoning would be consistent with longstanding US automotive policy, no hypotheticals necessary. The Jeep I drive has a shutoff switch for the engine that can't be turned off without a $300 Tazer. It makes sense for city driving where the average stopping time is more than 7-8 seconds if you ignore the extra wear on the starter, but not for me. Speaking of wear, they recommend a lighter weight oil than sensible mechanics recommend, again because it helps conform to fuel economy standards. The stereo volume can't be turned down when the engine starts until the warning screen goes away, and of course I expect further abuse down the line. Sorry for tolerating it, I'd rather not, but I am an American and my perception is that I am in the small minority. Most people prefer the economic benefit that comes from companies that influence consumer decisions, and a system which includes a legally codified long-term relationship between producers and consumers for things like auto recalls. They don't want things to be outlawed or clamped down upon like when the meth heads started buying all the sudafed.

I, for one, will only believe it when the Brazilian academic fake news detection platform confirms my suspicion that it is genuine, valid and true. Surely it's no coincidence that these two two articles appeared merely minutes apart... https://news.slashdot.org/stor...

Laugh all you want but I am SO going to encourage my kids to do this.

That's what the Wordle bot guy thought, and he got kicked off.

Speed up the moon base Pace in the space race, come on editor...

Yeah you have to imagine negative numbers, inasmuch as positive numbers correspond to some quantity of objects in your mind. Imagining a sequence of negative square numbers shouldn't be too much extra trouble.

Yes, this is the entire business model of companies like Naviance. College apps pass through Naviance to CommonApp to all the colleges, and the only reason not to just use CommonApp directly is the extra surveillance suite that Naviance provides for admins. They freely admit that their business model is selling student information, and while this information is legally protected as private, at many schools students must 'willingly' give up this privacy if they desire the assistance of school officials with their college applications, or even if they just don't want to be treated like prison garbage.

So ba it. May his noodly appendages reach down and mod +5 Troll.

Thank god this misinformation is intended to produce good, and will displace other politically motivated conspiracy theories whose intentions are much less pure. I'm just glad they're not targeting religion, which is the only acceptable form of misinformation besides the heroic 'birds arent real' campaign

Portrayals need to be coded because the diagnosis of autism is imprecise, arbitrary and subject to change. If a character is identified with Asperger's, for example, the movie quickly becomes outdated whenever the APA decides it's no longer a thing, and now it's all part of a 'spectrum.' Now, there's little scientific basis for this, just pattern recognition on the part of 'experts' that depends on shared stereotypical symptoms, not shared biophysical mechanisms. The identification of relevant symptoms is based upon the problems that they create for individuals functioning in society. Surely this is a disorder, or a set of disorders, and something must be done to address the problems that it can create, but the diagnosis is pure guesswork, and this is reflected in portrayals. Why identify a set of symptoms, or personality traits, with a named disease, when the diagnosis for the disease is fundamentally flawed? Even still, it's not hard to find a good portrayal, Rain Man for example. The Accountant is also very good unless you find Affleck's acting unbearable. The Autism Research Institute even publishes a list, but maybe suspect because asdfMovie isn't on it...

After the outbreak, the Chinese government shut down the WIV, scrubbed the internet of the scientific papers that described their gain-of-function research into bat viruses, wouldn't let WHO in for more than a month, and claimed that Wuhan was back up and running several weeks after the outbreak even though NASA satellite images showed otherwise. Two possible explanations for this behavior are (1) to contain an outbreak of natural origin for the good of the world; (2) to cover up its release from a lab. Assuming a natural origin, we might have expected the Chinese government to use their level 4 bio safety facility in Wuhan (that was already studying these viruses) to develop methods to contain it. Instead, they destroyed the facility. The simplest explanation for a hypothesis is not always the correct one, but it does suggest circumstantial evidence. Moreover, the WHO and other world governments want to maintain peace with China, and this likely requires that they not assign blame for the pandemic to the government, as this might open them up to economic penalties under international law, or have other negative economic consequences. And then if direct evidence did exist, the consequences of publishing it could be disastrous for any respectable scientific journal. I'm not saying the lab hypothesis is correct, just that there is some circumstantial evidenced based on the actions of the Chinese government to support it.