Schools are removing analogue clocks from exam halls as teenagers 'cannot tell the time'

Isn't teaching children to read clocks one of the things that schools are meant to do? Perhaps if they spent less time on social engineering...

Sylvia.

In the second case the physical circuit is the analog computer you're "simulating." The first analog computer that's simulating it is you soldering resistors and capacitors and stuff in and out. It's you. You're the analog computer

I have fingers so can also do digital

NT

No, I'm a quantum computer. With billions of millisecond-response analog or digital elements, nothing else could do what we do.

That's more or less the Rodger Penrose argument

It isn't universally accepted, but John Larkin is definitely the kind of person who could swallowing this kind of hand-waving argument.

And the actual number of neurons in a human brain seems to be 86 billions, actually 86.1 +\- 8.1 billion neurons.

John Larkin can be excused from not knowing the current best estimate - it isn't listed on denialist web-sites, where he gets all his scientific information.

Fried chicken every day ain't good.

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I suspect like most people here I was taught how to tell the time with an analogue clock by my parents years before being sent to first school. If we have reached the point where the kids have to learn this in school we are in big trouble.

I wish! Not likely to happen though with people like Bill Sloman infesting all the school governing boards.

Schools have ALWAYS been about social engineering.

Join the herd, do not rock the boat, pledge allegiance to, and so on.

Why would you expect today to be any different?

John ;-#)#

Well, math classes used to be about math. Now they are about social justice and stuff.

One of the reasons I stay in this area isn't because I'm so enamored of Massachusetts particularly, I'm not. Freezing winters with huge snowfalls, blisteringly hot and humid summers, higher-than-even-"leftist-reasonable" taxes, everything costs a shitload because millionaires are common and Boston is the kind of place where residents lease a parking spot for $37,000 a year and then park a $500

New England and NYC aren't bad places for a bachelor to be tho on average because while it's not great either most places in the US are significantly worse, there's a serious demographics problem in most US cities in the 20-40 year old segment - there are about 1.5 single dudes for every single woman. And many places it's a lot worse than that like Los Angeles, San Fran, Seattle, Washington DC, Toronto, anywhere in the Midwest, etc. Don't move to any of those places if you like girls

I don't think there's much convincing evidence that humans are anything but a classical-physics phenomena.

I must admit I've never thought of San Fransisco as the best place in the world for picking up girls.

Nobody has a clue how the brain works; there is no convincing evidence anywhere. Neural network models are ludicrous. The nervous system works millions of times faster than a classic model would suggest; look at a table tennis match.

Nature uses almost any physical or chemical process that it can. Why would it ignore quantum superposition?

But given that, it's a great tool. I even design resistive voltage dividers with Spice.

I wrote a program that does l-c-f-omega calcs for various unknowns. It accepts units too like C 12.3n

It also displays reactances.

Better than using a slide rule.

I don't have a slide rule any more (I think) and sure don't want one.

I like my dial calipers.

More important, 2*pi = 6.

vernier calipers oughtn't be inaccessible because of ignorance. Dial clocks, likewise. "

Yup, what would they do without batteries ? Let's say you're camping out, and I mean in real wilderness. what kind of clock works ? A windup clock. your old windup watch.

People were smarter in the past. They figured out the circumference of the Earth with 2 sticks. I bet they could do a longhand square root.

Pretty much agreed.

I'd prefer "unconvincing".

Then choose a different classical model.

I've always hated the Sherlock Holmes statement "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."

That's the kind of limited imagination that lead to British scientific experts in WW2 confidently declaring that there was no large supersonic German missile because of the impossibility of the solid fuel propulsion system. When confronted with the reality of the V2, they said "Ah. Liquid fuel rocket. That's possible".

Ah. The old "There must be an explanation. This is an explanation. Therefore this must be the explanation" fallacy.

meant to do? "

I thought it was the Parents' job. Of ocurse ...

The hell you say. Next thing they'll be thinking for themselves and maybe e ven desire a skill other than shooting bad (or good) guys on a TV screen. t hey could become useful member of society and you know what that leads to.. . Not voting democrat. No way. ot as long as they control the schools.

You want your kids to have an education pay a private school. We are babysi tters and not working above our ridiculous pay grade. And we gots a labor u nion just like them thar teamsters. God them guys is smart. Wishin I could do some real work so I wouldn't have to put up with these dumb kids. How th ey git so dumb ? I didn't do nuffin' !