Comedy Sketch on Genius -> Plan Act Reflect

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Comedy Sketch on Genius

The Transcript I wrote:

How do you tell a big idea is really a genius idea? Hint, it involves eyebrows.

Genius is solving a problem that others don’t think is a problem. Jeff Anderson’s Conquering College project is genius because not many people in his community wanna invest in cooperative learning, modeling and demonstrating what study skills & learning habits yield for students at large. Geniuses are 1s that are willing to be daring, and surely this involves some pushback since they’re going against the grain, the grain that is the dominant rhetoric & narrative, aka iphone 20 or the next tesla in the lab.

Now you might be thinking how do I go against the grain and become a genius? this is difficult to do when we’re stuck in this efficient vs. urgent limbo known as college education. Most students have been conditioned to do the least they have to, to "get grades", so you might think of this as efficient. but when courses get tougher, and life gives you lemons of more responsibilities and freedoms, that efficiency becomes overwhelmed by urgency. The urgent feeling of doing what we need to do to actually learn in our courses.

Seth Godin wrote: 1 difference between science and art: If you can NOT replicate the work and get the same outcome, then it’s not science.

If you can replicate the work and get the same outcome, it’s not art.

ENGINEERing is real when Alan Turing Machines actually compute bits accurately, it does not do digital computations just by talking about binary 1s and 0s like I do.

Jeff has said in many robust ways to his students: when we teach theory so abstractly, only the most interested and advanced students can understand it, this is inequity…

Let me explain: Whoever said art was abstract, has never taken a course on theory of computation … I feel the need for psychological services just by looking at this turing machine represented in this way!

machine states are annotated in yellow with bidirectional transitions of 0s or 1s denoted w lines and arrows.

you know how you can get a longer silence than you would ever want? when a professor asks "do you have any questions" again the answer is in the eye brows, sir madam… I appreciate the generosity of my professor to ask us, but where and which question do I begin with? This diagram feels more like art that I can’t comprehend, than science…

for all my friends who are trying to understand the concepts being delivered to you, just remember 1 thing. Professional major league baseball players whose average annual salary is $4.4 M dollars, get to be a professional by hitting the baseball 3 times in every 10 throws. so give yourself a chance by plan act and reflecting each class and module you complete, and move those eyebrows with conviction that you can learn anything you want to. Whether that be art or science, you are genius.

you can tell by how genius someone is by what they laugh at, so if you didn’t laugh at anything here, check yoself before you wreck yoself, boiiiiii

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