UmbralRaptor changed the topic of #kspacademia to: https://gist.github.com/pdn4kd/164b9b85435d87afbec0c3a7e69d3e6d | Dogs are cats. Spiders are cat interferometers. | Космизм сегодня! | Document well, for tomorrow you may get mauled by a ネコバス. | <UmbralRaptor> … one of the other grad students just compared me to nomal O_o | <ferram4> I shall beat my problems to death with an engineer.
<UmbralRaptor>
egg|zzz|egg: Galaxies!
<egg|zzz|egg>
UmbralRaptor: galaxies \o/
<egg|zzz|egg>
UmbralRaptor: well, they're the same galaxy :-p
<SnoopJeDi>
"force concepts inventory," it's the gold standard for Physics I conceptual assessment in the physics education research (PER) field
<UmbralRaptor>
hrm
<SnoopJeDi>
for...a long time.
<UmbralRaptor>
What counts as advanced?
<SnoopJeDi>
Developed in 1985, and I think I might've taken it in my PER-savvy course
<SnoopJeDi>
UmbralRaptor, if you plot the question difficulty against the fraction correct, there's a noticeable bump in the "hardest" questions. It's basically a bimodal distribution and the second clump is "advanced"
<SnoopJeDi>
(the work we saw today actually splits the population into "at risk", "novice" and "advanced")
<SnoopJeDi>
The prof was pretty actively trying to recruit me and a grad student I sat next to, but I don't think it'd happen unless I could get fractional support out of it
<egg|afk|egg>
!wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid
gives UmbralRaptor a radioactive pogonip
<egg|afk|egg>
!cat UmbralRaptor
* UmbralRaptor
meows at egg|afk|egg
<UmbralRaptor>
SnoopJeDi: er, as in I don't know what questions count as hard, etc. And correct answer rates.
<SnoopJeDi>
you have a parameter θ that captures personal knowledge/ability, and a parameter β that captures the difficulty of a question, and the probability p that you answer correctly is expressed as p/(1-p) = exp(θ)/exp(β)
<SnoopJeDi>
which leads to a happy logit expression: log(p/(1-p)) = θ-β (which means you can plot probability on one axis, and the combined contribution of θ, β on another)
<SnoopJeDi>
everything gets subscripts for each question, but you can put some pretty formal dressing on the process
* Qboid
gives UmbralRaptor a supersaturated variety
Thomas is now known as Thomas|AWAY
<egg|afk|egg>
!wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid
gives UmbralRaptor a plutonium semimetal
<SnoopJeDi>
!wpn egg|afk|egg
* Qboid
gives egg|afk|egg a continuous LED with a ? attachment
<egg|afk|egg>
UmbralRaptor: it's halfway between Helium and the rest of the periodic table? >_>
egg|afk|egg is now known as egg
* egg
writes unit tests
<egg>
!seen nomal
<Qboid>
egg: I haven't seen the user nomal yet.
<egg>
!seen nomal*
<Qboid>
egg: I last saw NomalRaptor on [05.05.2017 16:31:30] in #kspacademia saying: "≡ 0"
<SnoopJeDi>
egg, do you happen to know of any English-language biographies of Galois?
* egg
stares at the sign of NaNs
<SnoopJeDi>
strange question I'm sure, since you'd just read it in the French I assume :P
<egg>
I don't think I've actually read a biography of him
<SnoopJeDi>
He's always been one of those historical figures I'd like to learn a bit more about
<SnoopJeDi>
In no small part due to how romantic a figure he is, particularly posthumously
<egg>
the wikipedia page has quite a bit of detail already, have you poked at its references?
<SnoopJeDi>
A bit, I just figured I'd ask
<SnoopJeDi>
Wikipedia is very well and good for quick broad-strokes information but I've never been fond of biographical content there
<SnoopJeDi>
to properly contextualize anything you have to click through to so many other things :/
* egg
pokes a NaN in the sign bit
<SnoopJeDi>
...huh. Apparently Alexandre Astruc (who appears to have authored one of the definitive French biographies), wrote and directed a short film about Galois
<kmath>
<whitequark> small brain: blocking HN via /etc/hosts large brain: blocking twitter expanding brain: blocking wikipedia cosmic brain: blocking pubmed․com
<egg>
!wpn whitequark
* Qboid
gives whitequark a graded adjective
<egg>
UmbralRaptor: the "in the era of JWST" stuff sounds like DF book titles
<UmbralRaptor>
^_^
<egg>
UmbralRaptor: have you tried galfitting a cat
<egg>
UmbralRaptor: have you tried galfitting Ellied
<UmbralRaptor>
I think we'd need a multicomponent fit.
<kmath>
<DRMacIver> PSA: If a function accepts a string then it's a parser. Parsers are hard to get right and dangerous to get wrong. Write fewer of them.
<egg>
UmbralRaptor: retreat into the amphiteater of starwatch of oxen?
<egg>
UmbralRaptor: ... makeup labs?
<UmbralRaptor>
egg: but are there clowns in the amphitheater?
<egg>
nah
<egg>
I haven't mined anything of value
<egg>
just gold
<egg>
I don't know what to do with all that gold
<UmbralRaptor>
egg: students missed some classes, but showed up at the extra one.
<egg>
well the tables in the amphitheater are gold
<UmbralRaptor>
So, more lab to grade
<whitequark>
"I haven't mined anything of value, just bitcoin"
<whitequark>
is what I was expecting to read
<egg>
UmbralRaptor: nothing about wearing makeup?
<egg>
whitequark: I'm not sure how I'd get my dwarves to mine that
<UmbralRaptor>
egg: Afraid that none of my labs involve Ellied.
<egg>
but I'm pretty sure I can't smelt it into something with which to stab goblins
<egg>
UmbralRaptor: for instance TT used to be its own time (time at the geoid) whereas now it's scaled geocentric time (in a sense we defined the geoid)