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richwicks says

I am beginning to think that graduating from college is a mark of stupidity, not of intelligence

Totally disagree. At least as far as STEM goes. A classic liberal education is also useful.

Graduating from college shows that you have the discipline to jump through hoops, the skill to pass tests, and the ability to make it to the end. That was my experience last century but it still holds true today.

At the very least a credential is the gateway to better employment.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Patrick says

https://twitter.com/toobaffled/status/1679075828632793090

People are still taking boosters? Really?

Stupidity.

richwicks says

"I am beginning to think that graduating from college is a mark of stupidity, not of intelligence... I do understand Euler's formula now, but when I was in university, I had to just accept it - it was never fully explained to me:
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I don't need to know this... How is any of this shit applicable to a job?... Most of what I learned was "interesting", and useless..."

Rick, You must be a Physics major! Are you?

Onvacation says

Graduating from college shows that you have the discipline to jump through hoops, the skill to pass tests, and the ability to make it to the end.

Yes, you can jump through hoops, repeat what you are told, and put up with all the bullshit to the end.

But what do you learn?

The_Deplorable says

Rick, You must be a Physics major! Are you?

No, I'm EE.

Most of my education was desperately outdated by the time I entered the work force. I have never seen an application for circuit analysis. The first actually interesting (and perhaps useful) thing I was taught was in my 3rd year that explained radio modulation. We never covered QAM or QPSK which is what is the most used today. FM and AM are the basis of that but that's analog.

I had to learn how fucking tubes worked - who gives a shit? They were obsolete before I was born. They are basically the same as transistors, they just work differently, and much more inefficiently. They are more linear.

Lot of wasted time at university. I wasn't taught how an FFT was calculated, and that's EASILY understandable to even a high school student that knows basic calculus, and it's simplified because it's a discrete transform. That's fundamental in video and audio compression systems. I swear to god, 1/2 the shit I learned in college, I should have learned in public school. There was so much wasted time.

The only thing I think was really useful that I learned was VLSI design, which I'm technically a designer in, but that just reduces to code. With verilog and VHDL, it's just a programming language at the end. I can do manual circuit layout, and even build a chip by setting down poly-silicon and metal layers.

Too much time is wasted on abstractions, it's taught backwards. I wanted to see the application, and then see how we got to that point. Show the result, show the tools to make it.

Most of actual practical knowledge I have, I picked up at work or on my own. I'm going through this series:

https://www.youtube.com/@introductiontocryptography4223

For cryptography. It's painful because there's a lot I already know, and he spends too much time on the trivial. That's a great thing about video, you can skip through it. Stream ciphers don't work, period in my opinion, they can always be broken if it's a linear pseudo random number generator, no matter how many there are to obscure the data. Block ciphers are possibly secure.

Diffie Hellman I think gives a false sense of security. Basically both sides have the key, why generate it twice? It only prevents a man in the middle attack PROVIDED one of the sources has been cracked. I guess it doesn't hurt.

richwicks says

But what do you learn?

Skills!

richwicks says

EASILY understandable to even a high school student that knows basic calculus

College really is advanced high school. Few students actually learn calculus in high school.

Even boy geniuses have to jump through the hoops and earn a degree in order to get a job where they still need to learn new stuff to be effective.

Was your EE degree easy? My CS degree was not easy and I had to work real hard to pass all of the classes.

How many people do you know that learned to code on their own and then went on to do well without a degree? I know of someone who did it.

GNL says

How many people do you know that learned to code on their own and then went on to do well without a degree?

Bill Gates for one.

I have worked with a lot of brilliant programmers without degrees. I have also worked with self taught DB admins who didn't understand the concept of normalization. The advantage of education is that you learn a lot from people who have already made mistakes so you don't have to.

richwicks says

Most of what I learned was "interesting", and useless. Almost none of it was applicable. Instead of teaching rules of nature, THEN explaining the math, they should show math and then explain why it's important to know the math to explain nature. Drove me crazy, because I learned physics before I learned calculus, and calculus is heavily used in physics, basically knowledge of calculus makes physics trivial. It's all backwards. Physics is a snap if you understand the math behind it, at least up to Relativity. Math is what was discovered first, THEN the physics. You can see the progression.

If they really wanted to teach, they would teach calculus and show how that LED to physics. Instead I was forced to memorize a shitload of equations only to realize all the equations were easy to derive, if you knew calculus.

Agree, and will add that knowledge of basic linear algebra is essential. All the HS bullshit about solving 2 equations with 2 unknowns, etc. All you need is the matrix algebra framework and how to determine if a matrix is full rank (i.e., n equations with n unknowns). As far as physics equations, once I learned ordinary differential equations (ODE) I had the same revelation - why not just teach how to integrate acceleration over time to derive velocity, then once again to derive distance? It would take at most one hour to teach given the proper mathematical background.

Similarly, the ODE solution to compound interest should convince anyone that finance is bullshit (e.g., continuously compounding interest becomes unbounded and hence impossible in the real world).

Later I learned that the difference between financial data/models and data/models used in the real sciences was that the latter obeyed the Ergodic Theorem; namely, that a cross-sectional snapshot sample of a population can be equivalently modeled by a representative longitudinal cohort observed over multiple subsequent time periods. Since finance/money is essentially a human delusion and not grounded in physical reality, any attempt to model it (hello FED?) is a crock of shit and can never be consistent.

Onvacation says

I have also worked with self taught DB admins who didn't understand the concept of normalization.

That is like a mathematician that does not understand addition.

Onvacation says

richwicks says

But what do you learn?

Skills!

No. I don't think you learn much skills in college. You learn them at work.Onvacation says

Was your EE degree easy?

NO.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/it-is-over-tuesday-july-18-2023-c

💉 MMA feathweight star Cris Lencioni, 28, suffered a sudden and unexpected cardiac arrest while training at a new gym on June 8th. The other athletes immediately called 911 and did their best to administer heart-attack care until paramedics arrived. Cris then spent several weeks in intensive care.

On July 4th, he took his first tentative post-accident steps. The fighter suffered profound brain damage after his heart suddenly stopped. In other words, it wasn’t just a random heart attack.

A 28 year-old-athlete who suddenly needs a defibrillator. Happens all the time, right?

And … wait for it … his doctors are baffled! They confidently knew everything there was to know about the new virus and the experimental shots, but now… One article said Cris’s physicians think he might have something called Long QT Syndrome, a potentially deadly heart rhythm disorder, that “allegedly wasn’t flagged until his health scare.”

That word “allegedly” appeared in the original MMA Fighting article on Cris’s recovery. Was the reporter expressing doubt? I am.

💉 Even though Israel is a pretty small country, Pfizer’s CEO Albert Bourla previously dubbed it “the world’s laboratory” for mRNA covid jabs. That’s because Israel rashly volunteered to be Pfizer’s test country, which let it get the jabs before anyone else, but required its unfortunate citizens to join in the world’s only country-wide “herd immunity” trial. As a result, Israel imposed strict mandates with few exceptions including a vaccine passport.

Israel and Pfizer signed “The Real World Epidemiological Evidence Collaboration Agreement” on January 6th, 2021. Its declared purpose was to collect and analyze epidemiological data from vaccination of Israel’s entire population, and to determine whether herd immunity could be achieved from the vaccine. Safety was not a data point, and only a rapid “catastrophic” event justified terminating the contract.

It’s not working out too well. It was a total failure. The shots do NOT create herd immunity.

Ironically, the prophet Isaiah, whose writings are a key part of Jewish (and Christian) canon, predicted thousands of years ago that Israel would make a “covenant with death” based on “lies and falsehoods” to escape “an overwhelming flood” ...

This week, Israel’s largest healthcare organization, representing over half of the country’s population, Clalit Health Services, reported alarming new diagnosis data. ‘Cardiac arrest’ diagnoses per million more than doubled, increasing an unbelievable +225% in one year from 2021 to 2022. Even more astounding, the use of the diagnosis code in Israel is up a chart-bursting +431% from 2020:




... And finally, from yesterday’s Jerusalem Post:




The JPost stressed over and over that the Prime Minister only suffered from a little dehydration, caused by climate change, after a day of frolicking on the Sea of Galilee beach. But they gave him “extensive” heart tests anyway, and now, although Netanyahu’s heart was reported in “excellent condition,” they “implanted” a heart-tracking device for “the sake of routine monitoring.”

It’s probably just to track his proper hydration. But I noted they didn’t give the Prime Minister an implanted kidney monitor. Weird.

... The low-cost handheld device, combined with an AI-fueled tablet, is designed to help non-doctors quickly diagnose cardiac problems. The story was keen to point out that it isn’t intended to REPLACE doctors, just to help out overwhelmed cardiologists. Why the Israeli cardiologists are so overwhelmed is anyone’s guess, because the article didn’t say.

Go ahead and guess.

💉 Good news! Good news for Pharma, that is:




Incredible growth! Incredible growth in the cancer-drug market necessarily requires incredible growth in something else. Speaking of guessing, can you guess what?

https://www.dailyfetched.com/cbs-new-york-meteorologist-51-dies-suddenly-after-appearing-on-air/

CBS New York Meteorologist, 51, Dies Suddenly after Appearing on Air
By: Jason Walsh
July 17, 2023

Finch’s final weather forecast was last Friday, two days before WCBS announced her death.

Announcing her unexpected death, the station said:

“It is with profound sadness that we share news of the passing of our beloved Elise Dione Finch Henriques.”

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/known-facts-monday-july-17-2023-c

💉 World-famous championship bodybuilder “The Freakin Rican,” Gustavo Badell, 50, died suddenly and mysteriously on Thursday.

The celebrated bodybuilder retired in 2012, but is said to have kept up a demanding workout schedule and has stayed in great shape. According to the Daily Mail, “The cause of Gustavo Badell’s death has not yet been revealed publicly.”

Nor will it.

💉 Legendary former Brazilian player and soccer coach Daniel Frasson, 56, died suddenly and mysteriously on Saturday. No cause of death or any details whatsoever have yet been released.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/the-israel-model-friday-july-14-2023?publication_id=463409&post_id=134844726&isFreemail=true

💉 New Mexico State soccer player Thalia Chaverria, 20, died suddenly, mysteriously, and unexpectedly right after her 20th birthday early Monday morning. In bed. At home. Never even made it to the hospital.

Twenty years old.




Las Cruces police responded around 7am Monday morning to a report of an “unresponsive woman.” Once they got to the scene, they found Thalia dead as a doornail. The official cause of death was “unknown.” They’re baffled. Police said there were no signs of foul play or criminal activity.

Aggies soccer coach Rob Baarts said in a statement released by the school on Tuesday, “The sudden loss of Thalia has completely rocked our Aggie soccer families’ world. T was an inspiration and rock to this team. She will be missed but not forgotten. Her spirit will be with us every day, on and off the pitch.”

The college just ended its vaccine mandate a few months ago in March: “New Mexico State University will no longer require staff and students to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination as of March 1, 2023.”

💉 Romanian bodybuilding champion Catalin Stefanescu, 30, died mysteriously, unexpectedly, and suddenly on Sunday after drowning in a shallow lake. By “shallow,” I mean the lake was reported to be three feet deep.

Catalin’s lifeless body was discovered submerged in three feet of water in a lake in Lazuri, Romania, where he had gone fishing with a friend. Emergency services were promptly called to the scene, but despite their rapid response, the bodybuilder was pronounced dead on the scene.

No cause of death has been released, but Romanian police say they are on the case, so don’t worry.

💉 ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ Executive Producer Manny Coto, 62, died Sunday at his home in Pasadena after what was called a 13-month battle with pancreatic cancer.

💉 Brazilian singer, songwriter, and television personality Joelma Mendes, 49, is having a bad year.

Joelma made news recently during a show in Palmas, Tocantins, when her face suddenly and unexpectedly swelled up, terrifying fans.

Yikes. Later, the band’s spokesman said Joelma is suffering from Long Covid symptoms. She’s had covid FIVE TIMES in the last year. According to one Brazilian news report, Joelma said it’s not just her face, either.

“It’s not just the face, the whole body that swells. This sequel is when I ride a plane, I think because of the pressure, and when I start dancing and the blood starts to heat up. I found out that it was my blood that was clotting,” lamented Joelma.

Blood clots. You’d think they might have mentioned that in the headline.

Anyway, the good news is Joelma’s had her shots...

Prayers for Joelma’s quick recovery from her Long Vaxx, I mean Long Covid.

If it hard to believe those passed though a heart.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/discretionary-thursday-july-20-2023

💉 This SADS story is a little different. Florida oncologist and marathon runner Dr. Cynthia Boyer, 59, died suddenly and mysteriously in Louisiana on May 19th. No cause of death was released.

Oddly, Cynthia’s husband, Louisiana radiologist and marathon runner Dr. Dwayne Anderson, 64, also died suddenly and mysteriously two months earlier on February 17th “after a brief illness.”

As with his wife’s untimely passing, no other cause of death was released for Dwayne. For no particular reason, one wonders whether the two married healthcare workers got their jabs at the same time. As always, prayers for their family.

💉 Another young athlete died suddenly. Fox Sports ran an article Tuesday headlined, “Former Iowa Hawkeyes offensive lineman Cody Ince dead at 23.”

Former Iowa offensive lineman Cody Ince, 23, mysteriously, suddenly, and "unexpectedly" died over the weekend at home in Wisconsin. Never even made it to the hospital.

Cody is survived by his fiancée, Olivia Tucker.

No further details about the sudden and unexpected death of a young athlete were released, because what difference does that make? Why would anyone be interested in the reason a healthy young person suddenly drops dead?

💉 Atlanta YouTube star Annabelle Ham, 22, died last week after a sudden, unexpected, and mysterious ‘epileptic event' after attending a bachelorette party in Fairhope, Alabama.

No official cause of death has been released. Initially, following speculation about Annabelle's death, her family asked for privacy. "Please don’t post or spread speculation or details that are unfounded. There will be a time to share more details and to go deeper into her life," they wrote on Instagram.

Shortly afterwards, for some unexplained reason, they changed their mind and posted a followup stating that Annabelle died from an “epileptic event.”

An “epileptic event” could also be described as a seizure.

If you dig a little more, you find earlier reports that Anabelle’s body was recovered by local law enforcement — from the water. The Baldwin County coroner’s report stated the YouTube sensation was reported missing by her sister just hours before her body was discovered in the waters of Mobile Bay - a few miles from the pier where she was last seen.

While the coroner did not identify an official cause of death, the report said there was no evidence of foul play. According to the family’s wishes, I will not spread speculation or any unfounded details.

Patrick says

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Rich

Wikipedia's "unpaid volunteers" are running interference on his article. It says he died of a fentanyl overdose but the CNN reference article says that they released no cause of death.

Adam Rich survived the gauntlet of adrenochrome pushers and Hollywood pedophile laps, just to die ignominiously of the Globalist Terror Vaccine. Such is fate. We are all just wildebeests being pulled into a Serengeti water hole.

My neighbor in tri valley has had endless terrible problems with her eyes since she was vaccinated.

Ceffer says

My neighbor in tri valley has had endless terrible problems with her eyes since she was vaccinated.

That is horrible. But on the bright side, she no longer has to look at you.

(Just a joke, but he already has me on ignore anyway)

CLEVELAND BROWNS WR MARQUISE GOODWIN HAS ‘ALARMING’ BLOOD CLOTS IN LEGS AND LUNGS



Marquise Goodwin has blood clots in his legs and lungs, the Cleveland Browns announced Friday.

The veteran wide receiver said he began feeling discomfort in his legs and shortness of breath during team workouts this spring. A check-up revealed the clots.

“It was really alarming at first because I’ve experienced injury throughout my career, but it’s never been anything like this that could turn into something detrimental if it’s not taken care of,” he said.

In the end, The Truth Hurts

Ted Nugent ... "The Greatest 27 Seconds In TV Broadcast History..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4QCcfD84dQ

Personally I wouldn't say stupid but definitely misguided. Bottom line: Many people who got the jab wish they didn't.

"A little known Federal law says that you cannot give an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to a vaccine if there is medication that is shown effective against the target disease... if Fauci had admitted that Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin were effective against Covid."

https://twitter.com/leslibless/status/1682824375056187393

The_Deplorable says

"A little known Federal law says that you cannot give an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to a vaccine if there is medication that is shown effective against the target disease... if Fauci had admitted that Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin were effective against Covid."

Fauci is a well known liar who does not understand science and enjoys torturing puppies but does not want to hear them squeal.

He should be prosecuted for mass murder.

https://thecovidblog.com/2023/07/22/kelsey-morand-10-year-old-daughter-of-johnson-johnson-covid-vaccine-marketing-director-dies-unexpectedly-from-cardiac-arrest-severe-brain-damage/

Kelsey Morand: 10-year-old daughter of Johnson & Johnson COVID “vaccine” marketing director dies unexpectedly from cardiac arrest, severe brain damage

Patrick says

Asked about a woman who died instantly after her "vaccination" in that very drug store, pharmacist replies, "We're not commenting on that"
Pharmacists all over the "democracies" today are like the lower SS men at Auschwitz, with "safe and effective" serving the same purpose as "Arbeit macht frei" ("Work will make you free")

https://transcriberb.dreamwidth.org/92759.html

September 17, 2022
https://twitter.com/Heart4Truth/status/1571176990694313984

Text of Tweet: "On Wednesday, a woman dropped dead at this Saskatoon Shoppers Drug Mart after her booster. A friend of mine witnessed it. Two days later, they are refusing to be honest with people about the potential harms. Please share, it could save someone's life."

TRANSCRIPT OF ATTACHED VIDEO

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:
Heart was apparently wearing a body camera. Briefly, at an angle, video shows the pharmacist, a young Asian woman in a blue mask, standing behind a computer monitor.

HEART: Yeah, um, do you guys do covid shots here?

PHARMACIST: We do. We—

HEART: OK.

PHARMACIST: —don't do walk-ins.

HEART: Oh.

PHARMACIST: Just appointment.

HEART: Yeah, OK.

PHARMACIST: If you want, I can give you, um, our QR code and you can sign up for an appointment online.

HEART: Um, I have a question.

PHARMACIST: Yes.

HEART: Regarding the safety of it. Have you had any issues, um, recently with anybody?

PHARMACIST: Um, yeah, I mean, like, there is a possibility for side effects.

HEART: Like what kind of side effects?

PHARMACIST: Um, sore arm, yeah, fever, that kind of thing.

HEART: OK, um. I heard that somebody died here, two days ago.

PHARMACIST: Oh—

HEART: Right after—

PHARMACIST: —we're not commenting on that. Yeah.

HEART: Why? Like, if if I want to get a shot, shouldn't I know these things first?

PHARMACIST: We're, we're not commenting on that, that's what my manager told us. So.

HEART: But don't we, when you have to get a medicine, isn't, don't you have to let people know the— [inaudible]

PHARMACIST: That's a patient privacy issue, I'm not allowed to inform you on that issue.

HEART: OK. I'm going to hold off, because I heard somebody died. So.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/zlochevskys-dog-saturday-july-22

Even more than I would like to know what put Jamie in the hospital, I would like to know where they have stashed all the paparazzi. Three years ago, intrepid tabloid reporters would have microscopically covered every single rumor, fact, and innuendo about Jamie’s health journey. They would have disguised themselves as nurses’ assistants and taken candid photos using fake stethoscopes with embedded cameras. They would have hidden in dumpsters behind the hospital and leapt out, photos blazing, just as Jamie was loaded into his physical therapy van. They would have rented cloud-colored hot air balloons and hovered over the Foxx estate for days, peeing into milk cartons, eyes glued to long-distance telescoping lenses.

But these days … nothing. Especially nothing about celebrity mystery illnesses.

It’s not surprising the celebrity news hounds haven’t been more missed. And I’m not saying we need to mount a rescue mission to get them back or anything. I’d just like to know who had the juice to make all the paparazzi suddenly and unexpectedly disappear.

You can’t find much about it, but you can find it if you look for it:




... Anyway, it seems somebody doesn’t want them poking around and taking pictures of disabled celebrities. So buh bye.