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#12269

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Oct. 6, 2023, 4:10 p.m.

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Rose: Imagine there are only two people in the entire world -- Rose: and you and your friend are stranded together on a desert island -- Rose: and your name is A, and your friend's name is B.

comparing a rule in predicate logic to de Morgan's law

logic, rose

#12268

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Oct. 6, 2023, 4:08 p.m.

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Rose: I am just like Socrates. Madeline: Soc-Rose-tes

#12267

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Oct. 6, 2023, 4:07 p.m.

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Rose: You all are normal people, so you will interpret my words in normal ways.

#12266

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Oct. 6, 2023, 4 p.m.

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Rose: I gave you 35 minutes of Happy Time, last class, to just do the Fitch-style proof packet. Stein: You have an unusual definition of "Happy Time".

#12250

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Oct. 4, 2023, 6:25 p.m.

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Rose, to Chikara: Sometimes, you'll just want to put on headphones, and get really focused, and do the entire packet [of Fitch-style proofs] all over again, listening to some heavy metal, maybe.

#12233

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Oct. 2, 2023, 4:04 p.m.

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//drawing triangles-in-square proof of Pythagorean theorem Rose: I'm not even putting in much effort, and it's coming out kinda well. Rose: This has been a lesson on effort. //Rose proceeds to absent-mindedly walk backwards and knock over a stack of boxes

#12232

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Oct. 2, 2023, 4:02 p.m.

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Rose, drawing a terrible square and getting criticised: Sometimes, teachers need some positivity, such as by lying. //students compliment Rose's continued drawing, which is still terrible Rose: See, I know you're lying, but it still makes me happy. Positivity's just like that.

#12205

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Sept. 26, 2023, 4:31 p.m.

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Rose: Laziness is a great intellectual motivation.

#12187

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Sept. 21, 2023, 4:37 p.m.

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//chaotic rose anthology, september 21 "But I am not an 8th-grade Geometry teacher. I am Euclid." "This is why I don't let juniors take this class. Things get crazy. We're going to the Absurd World." "Now, Fitch-style proofs to the rescue!" "Fitch-style proofs aren't just for this class. You can do them for the rest of your life." "This is a proof-by-cases, inside a proof-by-contradiction, inside a conditional proof. There's no reason to be scared. This is just what's going on." "Angela saved me there. I'll remember that forever." "His name is Viktor Blasjo. I love him. He and I are Twitter friends." "[Ancient Greece] was like unending argument at a school board meeting."

#12161

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Sept. 19, 2023, 6:39 p.m.

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//chaotic rose anthology, september 19 "'Do not touch your students.' 'Do not drink with your students.'" "Cross-Country is the closest sport we have at Blair to soccer for four-year-olds." "You'll just have to surrender to Fitch-style proofs." "Yes, you have to do this, just because I said so, sorry, not sorry." "Just a few days ago, or a few weeks ago, when we were all mere children ..." "You all will need to be savants of propositional logic -- which is actually not that hard."