Wim 🅾 @wim_v12e@octodon.social
Functional programmer, Perl hacker, compiler writer, FPGA researcher, Reader at Glasgow Univ.
I mainly post pictures and occasionally drawings
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A visit to the Botanical Gardens in Leuven, Belgium (2)
A visit to the Botanical Gardens in Leuven, Belgium (1)
This flower has the delightfully Tolkienian name of "asphodel".
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This is the view inside the actual pass. "Lairig" means "pass" in Gaelic. The "Ghru" part is apparently derived from the name of the burn in the picture, the Druie.
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This is the approach to the Lairig Ghru, probably the best known hill-pass in Scotland. What I like in particular is that it is 10 km from the nearest road.
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(3/3)
And some of them objected strongly to his giving everyone the same mark. How could the diligent students be distinguished from the dull ones? What was the good in working hard? If no competitive distinctions were to be made, one might as well do nothing.
“Well, of course,” Shevek said, troubled. “If you do not want to do the work, you should not do it.”
(2/3)
He asked his students to write a paper on any problem in physics that interested them, and told them that he would give them all the highest mark, so that the bureaucrats would have something to write on their forms and lists.
To his surprise a good many students came to him to complain. They wanted him to set the problems, to ask the right questions; they did not want to think about questions, but to write down the answers they had learned.
This is a great observation on education and assessment from Urusula Le Guin in "The Dispossessed" (1/3)
"He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him; he could not imagine a greater deterrent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it at demand.
At first he refused to give any tests or grades, but this upset the University administrators so badly that, not wishing to be discouneous to his hosts, he gave in."
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I've a proposition to paint a portrait for a feminist exhibition. I'm very excited about it, I've never really exhibited my stuff.
And now I realize that I never dared to call myself an artist, never considered or called my "drawings", "paintings", "stuff" art. I'm a bit angry at myself now, because who is the judge here? Who is holding me back?
Just me and my fear, and I'm SO over it!
I've just lost patience with my fear.
Himegi Castle
Shinkansen
Current status of Plume and Pleroma federation https://baptiste.gelez.xyz/~/KaniiniTestBlog/current-status-of-plume-and-pleroma-federation/
Maybe they are "dark green fritillary", I can't really tell the difference.
The flowers on which the butterflies were sitting in my previous post. It's called cat's ear.
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There are not all that many varieties of butterflies in the Scottish Highlands. I think this one is called "pearl-bordered fritillary".
You can see that the left one has some damage on its wings. Life as a butterfly has its dangers.
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