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  • Maybe it’s not universal but in school literal equation basically meant there were letters instead of numbers.

    It’s the term we use for instance when going from the equation of a line like y=3x+2 to lines in general y=ax+b (a and b in ℝ)

    And i agree it’s a lot better to specify to solve for x (because you can solve for anything or have multiple variables).

    Although x being a variable, and solving for it would be the most logical assumption.




  • For distance and mass, zero means no distance and no mass.

    For temperature though having none means no kinetic energy of atoms/molecules. It’s absolute zero, the zero Kelvin. So the other units are the weird ones.

    But since zero Kelvin isn’t a phenomenon you’ll ever encounter in nature, it makes Kelvin a pretty unappealing scale for everyday life.

    And thus we started making shit up…

    P.S. My bad Rankine also shakes hands with Kelvin about absolute zero, very demure, very mindful.







  • In what cafes and sandwich shop do you go to? I’ve never seen one that was closed during launch hours.

    It’s getting rarer but their is some that only open in launch hours instead of the whole afternoon, restaurant can have some specific services hours. (And some cafes stop serving drinks while serving food.)

    French culture is to eat at specific hours, so it would be almost impossible to serve food only outside those.





  • Listening to the teacher is the willingness i’m speaking about, and taking it in require effort. That effort can technically be lessen by intelligence.

    However having a bad education system will drive intelligent people to drop it and be unwilling to learn in the first place. I guess that’s really what you meant.

    I didn’t go to school in the US so I can’t say if they are that terrible. Where I live they were always some teachers to raise the bar.

    That said if the richest didn’t finish school, those who haven’t finished school aren’t all rich. Plenty of them dropped for the wrong reasons.

    Furthermore getting rich isn’t always the goal, some smart people are passionate about subject that doesn’t pay as well but does require extensive study. For instance sciences are such fields.

    Unfortunately deciding if school is or isn’t for you isn’t much a matter of intelligence rather than wisdom.


  • That too, in some careers you have a chunk of memorizing like med school, but in school it’s just shouldn’t be an important part.

    Memorizing is an effort too, but usually smart kids memorize easier when there is interesting topic linked to it, like dates in history, authors etc…

    Honestly as a kid I wouldn’t have bothered to learn from just memorizing an exam.

    And yes, even though it wasn’t like that for me, internet has taught me a great deal still, what a time to be alive! (That’s the catch phrase of two minutes paper, great YouTuber to learn about computer sim / AI)


  • For good grades you need to be willing to learn and either put in some work or be intelligent.

    The kids with bad grades are often unwilling, few unintelligent.

    Intelligence can lead to be uninterested if the teacher is a bad one, but if the teacher is interesting the intelligent kid will do great without that much of an effort.

    Rewarding effort would be valuable for intelligent kid actually, since they often develop bad working habits because of it. But grades can never truly reflect it, and so no teacher is grading based on it.

    (except on high level studies were you need both intelligence and effort…)


  • It is good, but i also like some commas too.

    For less important propositions, or to have some propositions closer together. Just like paragraphs link some sentences together when having the same point.

    I think having that registery and doing it right is really what’s important. Short sentences is great advice because it breaks the habit of long ones, which we get from speaking.


  • The implication is that you know the next part of the sentence but keep it unwritten. The best exemple is when making a list, a, b c …

    Sometimes it’s even just a indicator there’s gonna be a next part, like the “We need to talk…”

    Although the more degenerate use is to imply the “you know what i mean/imply”, a bit like the english innit in some sens.