Better to stop for a week than conduct inspiring new research into the combination of mild covid and low oxygen levels while needing to staff an underway watchbill.
I'm part of the unit and the strike, although I'm not currently a TA. Happy to answer any questions if anyone has any. We're on strike for 42k for 12 month appointments, 37k for 9 months, as well as dental/vision and third party arbitration for non discrimination and harassment cases.
From teaching a little CS and numerical computing in college and now teaching programming, I agree with you. Too many students come out of high school without the ability to manipulate mysterious symbols without any real understanding of what they mean. Some students only know how to follow scripts to solve a problem from a template. Others need a concrete understanding before engaging with the abstraction, so they can't explore the math in order to gain an understanding. Maybe that's what he was trying to get at with "following obscure steps".
High school teachers, please make your students manipulate mysterious symbols more.
Have you ever been to Israel? Israeli style screening would mean interviews for every person flying to the USA. It would be more inconvenient and expensive than even the current TSA.
I find biking in NYC pretty calm as long as I'm not running red lights. To me it feels safer than biking in San Francisco did. There is a significant set of protected bike lanes and there are a fair amount of bikers on the road. Drivers not signaling is certainly a problem and it is important to not follow traffic laws when it's safer.
You are very wrong that no one objects to people using alcohol as a date rape drug, and I don't hesitate to condemn anyone who pressures someone else into drinking in order to control them.
Another reason the attitude you display here is alarming is that it may be difficult to tell the difference between a drunk person and a drugged person. It's not like the victim falls unconscious and the attacker carries them away. Someone who has been slipped GHB might be perceived by the people around them as having gotten drunk deliberately, for example.
I just wish that making an error in the debugging context didn't destroy my state. If it weren't for that, I might have used Lush again after Professor LeCun's Machine Learning class.
"After all, hundreds of thousands of cattle are fattening in a 100-mile radius around Garden City and such incidents could turn into a food security issue - especially in an era where agri-terrorism is a threat."
The only agri-terrorist incident I've heard of was The Breeders in the 80s. The California government surrendered to them and the conflict was resolved [1]. Is this era of agri-terrorism the years since 1989 or is it a brand new fantasy threat?