Hi Shivam

Great to hear from you again!

Hello Bob, Bobbym and Stefy. Been faring fairly well I suppose. The midterm exam is coming soon, so preparing as begun!

Last edited by Shivamcoder3013 (2013-02-11 06:56:20)

Unless you have an absentminded professor allowing you to cheat.

I seem to think that you are somewhat in proximity of 92 years of age. Considering that, with the fact that you have near 50000 posts related to advanced mathematical, scientific and humanities-related concepts, (plus about 5000 other communicative posts) in merely the time span from 2010-2013, you do not seem to have been at any point of time a lazy and/or bad student. As for resembling a human being, I cannot comment on physical appearance alone.

Last edited by Shivamcoder3013 (2013-02-11 07:18:23)

I do not believe that you can be active on this forum, while gaining the respect of being an intelligent man, without receiving a proper education from school (I would imply that in your youth, the sheer length of technological advancement would be fairly low, hence leaving no chance for being self-educated through the Internet (Moreover, Tim Berners Lee was probably not alive at that point). Books could have been a source of intelligence, however it would not fully equip you with the maturity received through school.

The generation is what I would be most dependent upon. Currently, I would pick self-taught. That is because there are ~15 hours in a day where we are inactive, if we had no educational establishment to visit. 15 hours a day reading educational books, productive online articles et would most definitely make you more intelligent then school. In the past however, schools were more rigorous, there were fewer educational resources etc. However of course, combining both 4 hours of school and ~8 hours of self-teaching would make you an intelligent person of likes not seen by anyone. And as you know, if there were fewer officially educated persons (being educated from schools), we would have become extinct a long, long time ago, at a galaxy close, close at hand.

Shivamcoder3013 wrote:

The generation is what I would be most dependent upon. Currently, I would pick self-taught. That is because there are ~15 hours in a day where we are inactive, if we had no educational establishment to visit. 15 hours a day reading educational books, productive online articles et would most definitely make you more intelligent then school. In the past however, schools were more rigorous, there were fewer educational resources etc. However of course, combining both 4 hours of school and ~8 hours of self-teaching would make you an intelligent person of likes not seen by anyone. And as you know, if there were fewer officially educated persons (being educated from schools), we would have become extinct a long, long time ago, at a galaxy close, close at hand.

First of all, studying 15 hours a day, online or not, would most surely make your head explode.

Second, I do not agree that the combination is surely going to produce a more capable (intentionally not using the word intelligent) person. Look at bobby. He is self-taught and he turned out very good mathematics-wise.

Third, I am not sure what you mean by an educated person. We managed to survive as cavemen, so eventually, even if we did have less educated persons than we do now, that would eventually change.

Fourth, I must say that I am getting very existential as of late. From time to time, I wonder if anything anyone does makes any sense, knowing that in a billion years (a long time, indeed, but real) the Sun will "explode", bringing the existence of life, and humans with it, to an end. Even if we do survive that, somehow, eventually we will die out and all we did will be lost. Nothing is forever.

Sorry for the morbid thoughts, but I've had that thought for a short while now.

Well, I think him and I have different views. He wants to justify any action. I am thinking more that any action is just insignificant, but not justifiable.

I am sure you will meet bobby. Maybe if you heat up some sand...

Shivamcoder3013 wrote:

The generation is what I would be most dependent upon. Currently, I would pick self-taught. That is because there are ~15 hours in a day where we are inactive, if we had no educational establishment to visit. 15 hours a day reading educational books, productive online articles et would most definitely make you more intelligent then school. In the past however, schools were more rigorous, there were fewer educational resources etc. However of course, combining both 4 hours of school and ~8 hours of self-teaching would make you an intelligent person of likes not seen by anyone. And as you know, if there were fewer officially educated persons (being educated from schools), we would have become extinct a long, long time ago, at a galaxy close, close at hand.

sad..