Re: Tom's demons are strong today! Re: RE: Re: Higher Education Is Overrated

On Fri, 27 Dec 2024 15:53:31 -0500, Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
wrote:

On 12/27/2024 3:19 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

On Tue, 24 Dec 2024 16:57:32 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
wrote:
 

It really pains you for me to have a long resume and recommendations from PhD's and all you have is a lousy PE that isn't worth the paper it's printed on. Engineers engineer things. Fools believe that assigning things to a class from textbooks written by real engineers makes them engineers.

 
I seem to recall the you "read out" 4 libraries in order to gain the
knowledge that allows you to call yourself an engineer.
 
06/07/2022
<https://groups.google.com/g/rec.bicycles.tech/c/QNPNSofg064/m/Xaamy15iBQAJ>
"I would warrant that I've read more than 20 times more books than you
have. I read out three public libraries, the military library and all
of the books I used to gain the knowledge to become an engineer."
 
Obviously, someone told you which books to read or you would be
reading engineering books forever.  You would never finish reading
because new books arrive faster than you can read them.  Or, you could
claim that you knew which library books to read because they came to
you in a dream.

>
I recall he modified that later on to claim to have read all of the
"non-fiction" volumes

OK.  That means Tom should limit his reading to sections 500 and 600
of the Dewey Decimal System and not include periodicals and
professional publications (science and technical papers) which are
huge:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dewey_Decimal_classes#Class_500_%E2%80%93_Science>
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dewey_Decimal_classes#Class_600_%E2%80%93_Technology>
In the West Los Angeles public library of the 1960's, each would have
filled maybe 2 book cases each section.  That's based on:
12 books per ft of shelf space,  8 shelves per book case, and maybe 5
book cases for a total of:
  12 books/ft * 8 ft/shelf * 8 shelves per case * 5 cases per section
  =  3,840 books in science and tech each for a total of
  =  3,840 * 2 = 7,680 books
total for Tom to read.  If Tom reads 1 book per week (which is
optimistic for reading an technical entire book), it would take:
  7,680 weeks = 147.7 years
to read all the books.  I don't think that's going to happen.

Oh, I almost forgot.  He "read-out" the books in 4 libraries, which
would take 4 times as long.  I really don't think that's going to
happen.

In the 1960's, the average public library had about 50,000 books on
the shelves.  Today, my guess would be about 250,000 books.

A library doesn't have enough space to handle every technical and
scientific book published at the time.  So, they have to be selective
and only put on the shelves what the patrons want to read.  There may
also be multiple copies of popular books.

Anyway, Tom fails the sanity check and the lie detector test.




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