What is the school semester without a test rant!! Yes, even on this very last semester of mine, even though only 3 out of my 5 classes actually have midterms/finals, even though all 3 of those classes only has ONE midterm the ENTIRE SEMESTER... we still can't have a school semester without a rant about midterms!!! But HEY!! It's the LAST SEMESTER SO THAT MEANS THE LAST RANT ON (school) TESTS!!! REJOICE (until I start complaining about GREs and graduate applications)!!!!
Understandably there have been rants in this blog that have dealt with errors, confidence, and other extraneous material relating to reasons why a test score would be lower than it appeared to have been. In particular the mere concept of arithmetic errors seems to be one of the most influential and annoying reasons a test score may be lowered. At first, this seems trivial. After all, why mark a student down when he forgets to put a minus sign instead of a plus sign in the very last equation of his problem, making him off by only a small amount? It would seem unfair...
However, if relating to the problems addressed in real life, perfection, in all sorts, is desperately needed to avoid serious errors. Relating to experiences in lab, perhaps one small miscalculation doesn't seem much in one part of the experiment, but if in the end it causes a large variation in your data, rendering it unusable, that "small" calculation isn't looking so small either. There are other stories people have constantly noted, such as the collapse of a bridge because of a misestimation, computer programs misfunctioning, etc... the list goes on. Therefore getting marked down is quite an accurate representation of the types of problems one can encounter in real life.
It's always particularly difficult,though, when you have so many lines and lines of equations to calculate and you err in one line. In general one always feels that for the most part it seems alright and doesn't need to be redone. Even if one tries to redo it, they will likely just follow their own equations and say "yes that makes sense" although if they truly look into it, it doesn't make sense. Its a sense of confidence that is unneeded. And I believe I had in the past mentioned something on confidence and how it makes people err more (well, actually maybe that's just me). And I think if I continue talking like this I'll be getting nowhere so I'm going to cut this short now.
GRE'S ARE NEXT, PREPARE YOURSELVESSSSS
29.10.08
21.10.08
Credit
People will often treat ideas like things they own. And like things they own, if other people use those ideas people often accuse them of "stealing".
In general, from any reasonable perspective, this is complete BS.
Ideas or even discoveries that are patented just because someone submitted it to the patent office is the stupidest concept I've ever seen before. Ideas are just concepts floating around that can be used and thought up by anyone and everyone; there's no such thing as "I thought this up first" or "this is my idea", because ideas take little more than a few burning mitochondrias in your head think up. Its the people who happened to put their ideas into practicality and make some sort of invention or publication... that end result is what ends up getting any profit, if at all. But the idea behind that creation... anyone can take that and make something else from it. Even if its rather similar to your new invention, as long as it isn't blatantly copied that you can actually SUE them for copyright issues, there's nothing stopping them from using any idea and not giving you any credit for it.
(Although people try to sue others for stealing their ideas...)
Credit would be nice, but its a privledge, not a right. It would be nice if people said "Thanks ____ for the idea!" But that rarely happens. No, people will usually just take the idea as their own, implement it, and display it blatantly even in front of the original person who may have thought it up. But wait, maybe that person who originally thought it up might have built his ideas off of other people's ideas. Still, maybe he'll get angry about it and try to complain to the person who made the idea. For a person who came up with this great idea, this is pretty stupid.
All people may see an idea and think "that's awesome! I wonder what I can do with it." Credit or not, this is quite fine; in fact, its people's desire to mix and match and come up with new things that keeps this world going, whether it be in science, technology, or in arts. But maybe it's human nature that people will get angry if they see their idea being used and doing well, but they don't get any credit for it. Its too bad, people (especially those intelligent enough to come up with these ideas) should realize that they should just be grateful that their ideas are being put to good use, and don't think much else about it.
I'm not here to attack all the complainers of those who had their ideas stolen.
I just felt that, sometimes, I have things I came up with, and people wouldn't say much about it and use it. Even though its not important and not really significant to me, I can't help feeling a bit bothered by it. I think I still need some time to mature. (Many people would agree.)
By the way I'm not saying that if you have an idea that revolutionizes the world that if someone else plucks it off you and gets all the credit, you should be happy about it. But it should be enough motivation to work as fast as you can to make your own creation from your own idea before someone else does, and take whatever credit you want from it. Money, fame, your name on a company.
It also tells you that keeping quiet can be beneficial at times.
Well, my issue at hand has more to do with the actual concept coming into being but the others taking it anyway, and I didn't really put a name on it (or rather, don't know how to) so it really IS a situation I can't do much about.
Hmmm. I have a feeling that my rants have this "trying to be objective and apathetic but sort of showing more emotion than desired" type of voice. But at least stating this out is good for general relief. Now I can get back to doing my work. Maybe. :V
In general, from any reasonable perspective, this is complete BS.
Ideas or even discoveries that are patented just because someone submitted it to the patent office is the stupidest concept I've ever seen before. Ideas are just concepts floating around that can be used and thought up by anyone and everyone; there's no such thing as "I thought this up first" or "this is my idea", because ideas take little more than a few burning mitochondrias in your head think up. Its the people who happened to put their ideas into practicality and make some sort of invention or publication... that end result is what ends up getting any profit, if at all. But the idea behind that creation... anyone can take that and make something else from it. Even if its rather similar to your new invention, as long as it isn't blatantly copied that you can actually SUE them for copyright issues, there's nothing stopping them from using any idea and not giving you any credit for it.
(Although people try to sue others for stealing their ideas...)
Credit would be nice, but its a privledge, not a right. It would be nice if people said "Thanks ____ for the idea!" But that rarely happens. No, people will usually just take the idea as their own, implement it, and display it blatantly even in front of the original person who may have thought it up. But wait, maybe that person who originally thought it up might have built his ideas off of other people's ideas. Still, maybe he'll get angry about it and try to complain to the person who made the idea. For a person who came up with this great idea, this is pretty stupid.
All people may see an idea and think "that's awesome! I wonder what I can do with it." Credit or not, this is quite fine; in fact, its people's desire to mix and match and come up with new things that keeps this world going, whether it be in science, technology, or in arts. But maybe it's human nature that people will get angry if they see their idea being used and doing well, but they don't get any credit for it. Its too bad, people (especially those intelligent enough to come up with these ideas) should realize that they should just be grateful that their ideas are being put to good use, and don't think much else about it.
I'm not here to attack all the complainers of those who had their ideas stolen.
I just felt that, sometimes, I have things I came up with, and people wouldn't say much about it and use it. Even though its not important and not really significant to me, I can't help feeling a bit bothered by it. I think I still need some time to mature. (Many people would agree.)
By the way I'm not saying that if you have an idea that revolutionizes the world that if someone else plucks it off you and gets all the credit, you should be happy about it. But it should be enough motivation to work as fast as you can to make your own creation from your own idea before someone else does, and take whatever credit you want from it. Money, fame, your name on a company.
It also tells you that keeping quiet can be beneficial at times.
Well, my issue at hand has more to do with the actual concept coming into being but the others taking it anyway, and I didn't really put a name on it (or rather, don't know how to) so it really IS a situation I can't do much about.
Hmmm. I have a feeling that my rants have this "trying to be objective and apathetic but sort of showing more emotion than desired" type of voice. But at least stating this out is good for general relief. Now I can get back to doing my work. Maybe. :V
17.10.08
Lucky Star OVA
Actually the OVA was so AWESO^H^H^H^H^H similar to the regular Lucky Star series that it doesn't really need another full review. Instead, have a 15 minute Lucky Star music video I've been addicted to for the last 2 weeks.
EDIT: FOR THOSE WITHOUT A NICO ACCOUNT, ENJOY... NIPON ＼(≧∇≦)／
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtVhKHgruSU
EDIT: FOR THOSE WITHOUT A NICO ACCOUNT, ENJOY... NIPON ＼(≧∇≦)／
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtVhKHgruSU
3.10.08
Raven and his overheads
ARG if tenken only did overheads like Raven does I wouldn't be able to beat him.
ARG ARG GARG Raven and his damn unpredictable overheads ARG. I can only be consulted by the fact that I beat him in some games. sure, 1 in 10 games, but still. :V
ARG ARG GARG Raven and his damn unpredictable overheads ARG. I can only be consulted by the fact that I beat him in some games. sure, 1 in 10 games, but still. :V
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