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#12138

1111

Sept. 15, 2023, 4:08 p.m.

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//chaotic rose anthology, september 15 "I saw, in my peripheral vision, you weird people being weird, and I've decided to ignore it." "How are you doing? Say 'good'." "Even if you teleported here three weeks ago ..." "When I first came to this job, they had me teach Magnet Geometry. So I figured the students should learn logic first, as part of Geometry. But I wouldn't use the book, because the way the book does it is terrible. So I taught them Fitch-style proofs -- the 9th-graders. Their brains swelled to enormous size, and they were really smart, and when they did proofs later in Geometry, they thought they were easy. The packet you're doing now -- I had 9th-graders do it." "There's only a handful of rules [of Fitch-style proofs], or maybe two handfuls." "[Fitch-style proofs] are a great thing to do when you're bored, like on the bus, or when they take your phone away." "You should go to Sra Cuadrado's class and do these. If you don't have her class, just go to her classroom and do it there anyway." "I will assume, because you all are great students, that you all read -- at least twice -- my write-ups of class, which are often better than class itself." "[The logical law of explosion] is like if I have two halves of a hand grenade." "Are there more slides? I don't want there to be."

#1: certain students were holding raw spaghetti from their mouths, #3: cf 11278, #7: cf 8702

logic, rose, cuadrado

#12116

35

Sept. 13, 2023, 6:08 p.m.

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//chaotic rose anthology, september 13 "If you want to understand the axiomatic method, you must live the axiomatic method." "Someone who hasn't talked yet -- this table, share your thoughts! ... You don't get it? Me too." "Do you want a more normal question? Here's a more normal question. It's also a harder one." "Little kids would learn words like this. Within some milliseconds of each other, they hear people saying the word 'milk', and they see the milk, and they drink the milk, and they say 'mmm, milk'." "Now, you all are 21st-century citizens, so you've drank the infinity Kool-Aid." "The whole is greater than the part. That'd be a great yearbook quote."

#12098

55

Sept. 11, 2023, 5:30 p.m.

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//chaotic rose anthology, september 11 "Now, I am an intellectual, so I have a copy of the complete works of Plato." "At first, I thought I just didn't understand the theory of Forms. Later, I realised that no one gets it. Plato doesn't get it." "If we had infinite time and resources, I could have you answer all the questions, but that would be too much." "Imagine you're with your 50 friends, and you're in a cult. This is great." "Okay, yeah, you guys know too much." "This is really important, so I want you to feel it, emotionally. They found out that the square root of two is irrational." "This was back from the days when Twitter was fun and good. Now it's miserable."

#12075

68

Sept. 7, 2023, 4:19 p.m.

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//theory of Forms: real things crudely partake in the Forms of their category in an alternate world Will Klees: So you're telling me that Plato invented object-oriented programming.

#12073

66

Sept. 7, 2023, 3:12 p.m.

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Rose: You can look at a campfire for hours, and it's really interesting.

#12054

99

Sept. 5, 2023, 5:10 p.m.

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Rose: I'm getting everything I want today. This never happens. Rose: Should I keep asking for things, or should I quit while I'm ahead?

#12032

88

Aug. 31, 2023, 4:10 p.m.

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Rose: "If you wash the dishes, I'll give you a cookie." This is what a parent might say -- I'm a parent. Rose, later: This is a good way of parenting -- bribery. Rose, later: What if he doesn't wash the dishes, but I give him a cookie anyway? This is 21st-century parenting.

#12031

44

Aug. 31, 2023, 4:09 p.m.

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Rose: I am not an expert at anything

"i should get a sign that says that" no context needed, cf 11589, 11781, 11374

logic, rose

#11434

1717

Jan. 17, 2023, 2 p.m.

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Patrick: That's cringe! Rose: No, it's not cringe, what's the opposite of that? Caleb: It's based Rose: Yeah, that Rose, under his breath: I don't say that stuff out loud

#11374

1515

Jan. 4, 2023, 1:26 p.m.

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Rose: I’m like in the top 0.1% of math teachers and I’m still kinda dumb. Patrick: Mr. Rose I believe you’re in the top 0.1% of humblest teachers too