Great one-liners from PF members

[sysprog]

The surest indicator of the quality of a human is how they treat those with less power. $-$ @hutchphd

 

[Infrared]

For what it's worth, I had determinants years before knowing anything about cross-products.

I would guess that this is unusual. My expectation was that most of my students had seen cross products before in vector calculus or physics classes and I thought it worthwhile to give a linear algebra perspective. I taught them about determinants a couple of weeks prior, so they better had known about them...

The surest indicator of the quality of a human is how they treat those with less power. $-$ @hutchphd

Related (and hopefully not too well known to be worth posting): "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." -Dostoevsky

 

[sysprog]

I would guess that this is unusual. My expectation was that most of my students had seen cross products before in vector calculus or physics classes and I thought it worthwhile to a linear algebra perspective. I taught them about determinants a couple of weeks prior, so they better had known about them...

Related (and hopefully not too well known to be worth posting): "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." -Dostoevsky

Maybe my first calc teacher was a baseball, but maybe I didn't know that then $-$ my calc teacher was great $-$ I started operations research before linear algebra, so what do I know $\dots$

 

[sysprog]

Why use that as an excuse to bring in photons? $-$ @sophiecentaur

 

[sysprog]

You could approach your problem like any other project: write a functional specification document, classify the duties, estimate the necessary time to achieve each of the goals, prioritize, and make a project schedule. $-$ @fresh_42

 

[PhDeezNutz]

“One does not simply read a textbook, one works through a textbook” - @Vanadium 50

 

[Vanadium 50]

Is this better?

 

[fresh_42]

Is this better?

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More like this:

 

[Vanadium 50]

"Problems worthy of attack, prove their worth by hitting back." - Piet Hein

 

[PeroK]

“One does not simply read a textbook, one works through a textbook” - @Vanadium 50

I just look at the pictures!

 

[sysprog]

I just look at the pictures!

You also at least read the captions, too, right?

 

[PeroK]

You also at least read the captions, too, right?

Yes, but sometimes I just skip to the end to see what happens.

 

[fresh_42]

I just look at the pictures!

That is you who @BillTre wants to write a book for?

What do people use for drawing molecules (in a digital manner)?

I would like to make space filling type models as well as letters representing the atoms connected by lines at different angles.
The second kind I could make with ad drawing program, but there's got to be a better way.

 

[Keith_McClary]

I just look at the pictures!

For some subjects that works better than for others.

 

[sysprog]

You're not going to make this easy, are you? $-$ @Vanadium 50

 

[sysprog]

It's like using a piano keyboard as 'proof' that only certain frequencies of sound exist. Then talk to a violinist. $-$ @sophiecentaur

 

[timmeister37]

I worked with a guy for over thirty years before he told me he was an accordion player. "I just don't talk about it," he said.

Just out of curiosity, what is funny or witty or interesting about this one ?

 

[phinds]

Just out of curiosity, what is funny or witty or interesting about this one ?

The accordian is the Rodney Dangerfield of musical instruments.

 

[sysprog]

I worked with a guy for over thirty years before he told me he was an accordion player. "I just don't talk about it," he said.

Just out of curiosity, what is funny or witty or interesting about this one ?

Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty,
playing "Rogers & Clarke" in the movie "Ishtar"
in the song "Dangerous Business":

Telling the truth can be dangerous business​

Honest and popular don't go hand in hand​

If you admit that you can play the accordion​

no-one will hire you in a rock & roll band​

In the mid-'80s I was a not-so-great accordionist $-$ only a little bit better on guitar $-$ my girlfriend could sing very well and was very good on piano $-$ we got a good laugh $\dots$

 

[BillTre]

The accordian is the Rodney Dangerfield of musical instruments.

Its also Weird Al's favorite instrument!

 

[PeroK]

The accordian is the Rodney Dangerfield of musical instruments.

If you play the accordion, then musically you are on the road to nowhere:

 

[sysprog]

@PeroK, isn't the road to nowhere better than the highway to hell?



and yeah Steve Vai is a lot better at guitar than I am $\dots$

 

[gmax137]

Just out of curiosity, what is funny or witty or interesting about this one ?

As I recall, @Vanadium 50 had posted something about gentlemen not playing trombones, I just followed up with accordions in a similar vein.

BTW, when I lived in New Orleans I saw a guy in the Quarter playing Jimi Hendix's "Voodoo Chile" on an accordion. That's something you don't forget.

 

[Vanadium 50]

BTW, when I lived in New Orleans I saw a guy in the Quarter playing Jimi Hendix's "Voodoo Chile" on an accordion. That's something you don't forget

As much as you might want to.

 

[sysprog]

I thought of doing the Alan Parsons Project "I, Robot" song as an accordion piece $-$ bass on the left hand, chords on the right $-$ I wasn't good enough $\dots$

 

[sysprog]

If you want to learn QFT, you should be looking at textbooks, not Wikipedia. $-$ @PeterDonis

 

[strangerep]

[Boromir: "...one works through a textbook..."]

... but not the way Boromir would do it, i.e., slashing it into a zillion pieces with his trusty broadsword...

 

[Rive]

... but not the way Boromir would do it, i.e. ...

... and then dying halfway

 

[sysprog]

Proof by personal incredulity does not count. $-$ @jbriggs444

 

[Borg]

Proof by personal incredulity does not count. $-$ @jbriggs444

I think that could apply to a lot these days.