I think the most I experienced at the physics department in Aarhus was 70ish students. 200 sounds like a big undertaking.

As an aside, I'm surprised oral exams aren't possible at 36 students. I feel like I've taken plenty of courses with more participants and oral exams. But the break even point is probably very different from country to country.

dy/dx = g(x)h(y)

You separate the variables by some quick manipulations

dy/h(y) = g(x) dx

And then you have a small step in some coordinate on both sides. So by integrating both sides

\int 1/h(y) dy = \int g(x) dx

you find a solution to your differential equation. Obviously there's a real formal procedure underneath it with also some safeguards. For example you're supposed to check that h(y) doesn't equal 0 at any point. But the happy path in physics is often done without worrying about all that.

Anyways looking forward to checking this the next couple of days

It can be found on the internet[0], and is only 13 pages. Alternatively I think the wikipedia article outlines her three main arguments quite well[1], and is a quicker read. The most known part is her violinist thought experiment, which can be read to only allow abortion in cases of rape. However, the subsequent parts convinced me that, abortion is moral in general. So long as reasonable steps have been taken to avoid pregnancy.

[0] https://rintintin.colorado.edu/~vancecd/phil215/Thomson.pdf

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Defense_of_Abortion

Thanks for pointing it out, will fix.

This tweet[0] was the kickoff point as I recall. I don't really think that getting banned pending deleting the tweet is that egregious. It's one thing to have non-woke opinions and argue for them. I don't follow Jordan Peterson, but I imagine he had posted many times on transgender issues, before he posted the offending tweet.

The issue seems more to have been specifically calling out specific persons, "criminal physician", Elliot Page, in a way that could be construed as inciting to violence

[0] https://nypost.com/2022/06/30/twitter-suspends-jordan-peters...

Obviously god has no such restriction, but he's probably outside French jurisdiction, and i don't think they have an extradition deal in place.

As for the spy novel, i think the outlining is actually quite similar to how Sylvester Stallone described his writing process[0]. You wouldn't fill the outline with generic beats, you would put in your basic plan for the story.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_xqfkVNwEU

Here's a figure showing the quite stark difference. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/SEM-image-of-the-substra...

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/SEM-image-of-the-substra...

> A farmer stands on the side of a river with a sheep. There is a boat on the riverbank that has room for exactly one person and one sheep. How can the farmer get across with the sheep in the fewest number of trips?

It's obviously riffing on the classic wolf sheep lettuce riddle, but I don't think that's gonna fool any humans into answering anything but the obvious. ChatGPT-4o on the other hand thinks it'll take three trips.

They perform a good approximation of intelligence most of the time but the fact that their error pattern is so distinct from humans in some ways, suggests that we probably shouldn't attribute intelligence to them. At least in a human sense of the word.

Additionally I think you're understating the similarity to the Midler v Ford case. It has a similar pattern where they first contacted the "original", then hired an impersonator. The song wasn't at issue, they had a license to that part.

I think this part of some of the court documents[0] is especially relevant. Hedwig was the sound alike hired.

> Hedwig was told by Young & Rubicam that "they wanted someone who could sound like Bette Midler's recording of [Do You Want To Dance]." She was asked to make a "demo" tape of the song if she was interested. She made an a capella demo and got the job.

> At the direction of Young & Rubicam, Hedwig then made a record for the commercial. The Midler record of "Do You Want To Dance" was first played to her. She was told to "sound as much as possible like the Bette Midler record," leaving out only a few "aahs" unsuitable for the commercial. Hedwig imitated Midler to the best of her ability.

> After the commercial was aired Midler was told by "a number of people" that it "sounded exactly" like her record of "Do You Want To Dance." Hedwig was told by "many personal friends" that they thought it was Midler singing the commercial. Ken Fritz, a personal manager in the entertainment business not associated with Midler, declares by affidavit that he heard the commercial on more than one occasion and thought Midler was doing the singing.

> Neither the name nor the picture of Midler was used in the commercial; Young & Rubicam had a license from the copyright holder to use the song. At issue in this case is only the protection of Midler's voice.

So the fact that us random internet commentors did not recognize her voice doesn't seem to matter in cases like these. It's enough that the sound alike had been told to mimic the original voice, and that people familiar with the voice be fooled.

[0] https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/849...

In the example from matplotlib I linked in the earlier comment they call out that the symlog transform has a discontinous gradient at the a's, and that the asinh transform can be used instead if that's a problem.

Edit: On reflection it's probably not entirely correct to talk about it as choosing an appropriate c. Since that transform seems to kinda break apart around a=1. Simpler to consider it a matter of plotting on a logarithmic scale down to some value. Then continuing the plot on a linear scale until you reach the negative value on the other side and then plotting on a negative logarithmic scale (-log(|x|)).