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pmchem: Jan 22, 2010

PokeJoe posted:

It's not and I'm tired of pretending it is

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pmchem: Jan 22, 2010

so what is his solution for the end listener, hang a bunch of rugs on your walls?

# ¿ Mar 7, 2023 23:16

pmchem: Jan 22, 2010

well, the college is delivering what it advertises:
https://www.thomasaquinas.edu/a-liberating-education/program-objectives
https://www.thomasaquinas.edu/a-liberating-education/syllabus

quote:

Moral

The successful graduate of Thomas Aquinas College will have:

- A deeply rooted love for the intellectual life borne from wonder about marvels of the world, both natural and supernatural.
- Confidence that progress can be made on the difficult road to wisdom, especially under the light of the Magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church and in the company of friends pursuing wisdom.
- The humility to acknowledge 1) that he is measured by reality; 2) that he needs to attend carefully to the great thinkers and to seek guidance from the wise, especially from the patron saint of the College, St. Thomas Aquinas; and 3) that his estimation of his own achievement and that of the larger intellectual community must be proportioned to the level of those achievements.
- A love for the common good, which motivates and governs an appropriate participation in political and ecclesial communities.

Intellectual

To the degree appropriate for the beginner, the successful graduate of Thomas Aquinas College will:

- Understand the distinction of disciplines: in their subject matter, in their modes of procedure, in their principles, and in their level of precision and certitude.
- Understand the unity and order of the disciplines, recognizing how one discipline sheds light on another and how Sacred Theology is the Queen of the sciences to which all others are ordered.
- Grasp something of the order of the universe from prime matter to spiritual being to God, both in its natural perfection and in its perfection in grace.
- Have the skills to converse with others fruitfully and in the spirit of friendship, both in speech and in the written word.

I'll be contrarian and say that while the syllabus would not prepare you AT ALL for most jobs (and certainly not YOSPOS jobs lol), it'd be pretty good as a pre-seminary school or pre-law or getting into a philosophy phd program. It's vaguely like a liberal arts degree in classics with other stuff thrown in; https://classics.dartmouth.edu/menufeature/curriculum/classical-studies-courses

some of those freshman texts, like Plato's Apology and Republic, are heavy-duty reading for 18-year-olds. in general the world would probably be a better place if people go through their lives even reading 1/10 of the texts listed just for development of critical thinking skills. Locke's second treatise on civil government more or less underpinned the prime ideas in the US declaration of independence, but people have largely forgotten about it these days

# ¿ Apr 7, 2023 01:36

pmchem: Jan 22, 2010

FalseNegative posted:

Incredible content, absolutely worth the time.

as soon has he said IEEE-754 I saw where this was going and I laughed out loud

pmchem posted:

IEEE-754 more like IEEE-7.54 am i right

# ¿ May 3, 2023 00:37

pmchem: Jan 22, 2010

namlosh posted:

cant watch more than a few seconds right now� but is it the Gaussian copula?
there was a wired(?) article right after 2008 that did an awesome job of explaining the significance of it and how it played a part in the crisis.

I�ll have to check it out later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%E2%80%93Scholes_equation

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