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That's a great question. Soon™

Going to be totally honest: some things like that may not be fixable, but we would definitely look into it!

Hello, thank you for the Merry Christmas wishes! I am moving this topic to 17S discussion

You are correct and we posted briefly about this on the Bands Chapter 4 thread. Don't read these. Trust me. You'll thank me later. Once Tor gets back to their office they will bug Amazon presumably...

I don't mean to scare you: I'm just sharing WoBs. I don't know what else you want me to do We should get a recorded confirmation on it, sure. This has come up enough that it is relevant. EDIT: I also want to say that the reason why WeiryWriter and Moogle were promoted is largely in part of their extreme knowledge of Brandon quotes (in addition to other reasons). I should hope that you aren't scared of mod interaction on the theory boards--I would be very sad to not be able to post!--but I just wanted to come at it at an angle of relative expertise, as I heard it myself. It's not really all that different than if I had posted a topic of a report saying this and then it getting into the database. Anyway, sorry for scaring! Not to be the intent, of course, just to inform!

Might be impractical to do. We will see in the new version. The way it checks if certain things are unread is strange and I don't like to break things I don't understand. (This is a good reason as to why I try to avoid giving new subforums.)

This is not accurate. (It is also not a logical conclusion from the Tears, either.) Before this site existed and we had the power of interview databases, and before Brandon even finished Gathering Storm, Mi'chelle forced me to meet Brandon. Mi'chelle was taking Brandon's class. I didn't want to bother him after class but Brandon really didn't mind. In this conversation we asked him a lot of things. One such thing is that--to my surprise--color is NOT the focus for Awakening. It is the Commands. This is unequivocal. You'll need to take my word for it, as I don't have the exact wording. This was a very long time ago. Of course, this should come as no surprise if you've looked closely. Focuses are not fuels. A focus is what gives the power a defined effect. It is a filter. Metal is a key which grants an effect. The particular Aon shapes the Dor to a specific effect. And so, it should be obvious that color is not like these other things. Instead, it is the Command that filters the power into a particular form. So, this really does make sense. Now, of course Roshar throws a wrench into this model of a focus, but that is a topic that has been well discussed elsewhere (and a topic that I discuss in my Realmatic Attributes theory). It is also less clear how important and necessary a focus is for a system. But, from Brandon himself, Commands are the focus.

Yeah, it is very much a tradition that is British in origin.

This thread may be helpful for this purpose: http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/7084-new-reputation-levels/page-1

See here: http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/49942-temporary-hiatus/#entry362938

Totally agree. I do not really approve of the teaching philosophy of "oh make it hard and curve it like crazy at the end." That's just stressful. Clear expectations, teachers! They help! Ugh.

This is depressing to read. If there's an error in anything, I make sure that stuff is up-to-date, and generally post a news item telling them of an error, where it is, and the new version of the document. As an instructor, it's generally pretty easy to tell if an exam is too hard or easy, at least for me. I look and see if the average was like in the 70s. That's generally a good exam. If the average is in the 80s, it might be too easy. If the average is in the 60s... I consider cutting a problem. At least in the exams I've written that hasn't happened. At my university exams go through a lot of drafts. I think that is because we have a lot of instructors for the same course, so there's more exam drafting. Other classes, though, there might just be the Physics 201 teacher, and that's the person. They write the exam, and there's no one to really look it over. And Young Bard, I totally agree, that teacher sounds awful. I think a good solution is to make sure, as a professor, that your expectations are reasonably clear. If you set out clear expectations on what difficulty of problems you expect students to do, they will rise up to the occasion, and generally be really thankful you were clear rather than mysterious. Your examples of teachers do sound particularly bad. Though, as I'm sure you know, there are definitely students who don't do the work and then always complain about there not being enough help. (This is a consistent thing on evaluations, despite at my University there being more resources than ever before.)

That is an accurate account of Precalculus. The equations work though, haha

They do work, but may not have been relevant for the given problem? Good luck on physics! I promise, math does work! Precalculus, however, is harder than calculus in my opinion. Calculus has a distinct direction to it. Precalculus often feels like a lot of random stuff thrown in together.

"Linear Algebra Done Right" was in fact the exact book my grad class had used. It is a nice book.

Just tipsy with power right now, if at all.

I'm practicing so that when I'm an author my RAFOs will be so sweet.

Somehow, I don't feel like an apology that is followed with "come on! It was funny" is particularly sincere. Anyway, case closed on that. Let's get this random topic back on track.

You are testing my patience and you should admit that it was in poor taste and apologize. There's a word for doing something like that, and as you can see, people were pissed. That word you were for doing that is "jerk." Apologize.

That is not funny, and you should still feel bad for that being in extremely poor taste. I'm sure you find it hilarious, but come on. Shame on you.

Attention: if you post spoilers in other threads than dedicated Star Wars threads, I am going to be furious with you, and you do not want my ire.

Should have fixed it, but seriously Kipper that was not @#%#&@$ cool. I've just removed the spoiler entirely. Spoilers should go in a particular spoiler topic not in the random stuff thread. And yes Kipper, I am pissed off at you. You should feel like crap.

Linear transformations are where its at. Makes eigenvalue proofs much easier; no determinants required.

It's almost as if the old rep system has an upper bound!