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on Sunday May 08 2016, @11:49PM
from the I-can't-solve-DiffEq-with-a-computer dept.
from the I-can't-solve-DiffEq-with-a-computer dept.
This just in from the front lines of the War on the Unusual:
University of Pennsylvania economics professor Guido Menzio was solving a set of differential equations on a plane departing the Philadelphia airport when the woman next to him surreptitiously passed a note to a flight attendant telling them she thought he was a terrorist because of the strange things he was writing on a pad of paper. The plane returned to the gate where he was questioned. At least this time the pilot had enough sense not to kick him off the flight.
Remember folks, if you see something say something!
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UPenn Professor Solving DiffEQ on Scratchpad Causes Plane to Return to Gate
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(Score: 2) by captain_nifty on Monday May 09 2016, @02:58PM
The big problem is that we have as a society lost the concept of personal responsibility.
It's not seen as cowardice it's seen as just doing your job or following procedure, with the assumption that whoever wrote the procedure knew better, and the human cog in the machine cannot be responsible for making a decision.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 09 2016, @05:28PM
That started happening the moment "personal responsibility" lost all meaning except for victim-blaming. The only time I've heard anyone make any mention of "personal responsibility" in the past decade is when they were blaming a victim for being a victim.