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https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/sydney-university-abandons-hsc-prerequisites-in-diversity-push-20240301-p5f918.html Sydney uni are removing advanced maths prerequisites But more bums on seats just leads to more failing students. Also, it sends the wrong message, eg., it doesn’t matter if...

https://www.msn.com/en-au/money/markets/a-13-year-old-has-managed-to-beat-tetris-up-until-recently-the-feat-was-thought-impossible-for-a-human/ar-AA1mqCvl good explanatory video here: actual video by blue scuti: which you might want to start at the last few minutes to watch him get the kill...

The BBC 4 showed the last of the RICL The Truth About AI 2023 lectures today. They are on BBC iplayer at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001tv7s (1st lecture) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001tv98 (2nd lecture) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001tv91 (3rd lecture) If you have an...

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/i-was-quite-sick-about-the-situation-fury-as-biological-male-wins-womens-croquet-world-title-20231214-p5erhq.html They guy won by entering as a woman! The women complained he had unfair advantages.

iOS 17.2 introduces a bug where the sync with computer stalls at Step 2 of 4: Preparing to sync On a mac you can force it to resume the sync by killing MDCrashReportTool either in Activity Monitor or in Terminal. If you choose to do it in Terminal, run this after starting the sync: ps aux|grep...

What do you think of the new Loki Season 2? So far I don't think it is as good as Season 1 was.

NESA have a new website placeholder for 2023 HSC exams at https://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au/wps/portal/nesa/resource-finder/hsc-exam-papers/2023 Nothing there yet obviously but as papers are uploaded later they will gradually go there

bilibili is like a Chinese youtube. There are obviously a lot of Chinese videos there. But they have heaps of good videos from outside China too. Like the Discrete Mathematics videos: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Eb411G724/ you can see on the side there is a video selection section and...

No doubt there will be an HSC Exam Thoughts 2023 subforum created later. In there, no doubt will appear some solutions to the 2023 HSC Maths exams. In anticipation of this, rather than simply write up one solution per question it would be better to not necessarily write them as if you are doing...

Here we finally get to see Thrawn and he totally looks like a blue Hitler! He just needs a darker outfit and a small mo. He's scarier than Darth Vader!

In the Independent Physics 2023 trial there was a question 22c about change in gravitational potential energy and the marking guidelies put the solution 0.5x600000x(9.8 - 8.22)x288=1.37x108J but this was amended to 0.5x600000x(9.8 + 8.22)x288=1.56x109J It wouldn't be a problem if all the...

I am watching Star Trek Lower Decks S04E02 now. Are you going to watch Star Trek Lower Decks S04 which started today?

Wagner was Hitler's favourite composer and the Queensland Performing Arts Centre is doing Der Ring des Nibelungen in December. Futhermore Wagner's music was used extensively by the Nazi's Do you think it is appropriate that the Queensland Performing Arts Centre put on this Nazi musical...

Boomerang lightsaber in Ahsoka s01e02 was so cool! Too bad the enemy had it and not Ahsoka. Did you see it? What did you think?

Mxyzptlk made a comeback in the latest episode of My Adventures with Superman s01e07. Mxyzptlk has a long history in Superman and related shows. Mxyzptlk's appearance in this episode made it the most fun episode yet. He is a very mischievous character.

Oh my goodness what is star trek coming to? Spock singing? etc. Really? Strange new world indeed!

If you watched the coronation on TV you may not have noticed that Prince William and his family were delayed at the beginning forcing the king and queen to be stranded waiting in their carriage for several minutes before proceeding to enter the abbey. The king was visibly upset: Prince George...

US shoots down Chinese balloon This video looks better than the ones on youtube

I recently posted a series of questions which lead to the identification of every member of the Examination Committee in the 1916 Leaving Certificate examination for Mathematics Honours at https://community.boredofstudies.org/threads/1916-hsc-leaving-honours-mx2-qn.402538/#post-7450320 Some...

Some of you may have seen that the Standard 2 paper was in this post: https://community.boredofstudies.org/threads/advanced-maths-predictions.401530/#post-7440329 But now there are solutions as well. They are attached here. They are by "teacher".