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Fall 2019 New England Banter and Disco


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5 hours ago, dryslot said:

Improper training?

It’s a tough job. It very well may be just bad luck. If meteorology did not work, being a FF would have been next for me. My grandfather was a fire chief in Boston. I watched him do his job, and I watched some bad things happen too. Feel For that dept.

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9 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

It’s a tough job. It very well may be just bad luck. If meteorology did not work, being a FF would have been next for me. My grandfather was a fire chief in Boston. I watched him do his job, and I watched some bad things happen too. Feel For that dept.

A lot of my friends are firefighters here, I know they do a lot of training on a regular basis, They visit buildings on a regular basis to get some familiarity on what they may face, Sometimes risks are taken especially when its a life threatening situation on saving lives in a building they are unfamiliar with, But that's where you have to rely on your training to keep the right frame of mind on judgement.

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I've been thinking of re-taking math classes...starting from algebra and then working all the way back up to differential equations...anyone else ever consider this? I'm just not certain it's worth it though. I think math is one of those things that you either just get or you don't. But I'm extremely weak (and continue to get worse) with math and feel like I don't remember even basic algebra anymore b/c I just don't use it. Maybe do some online classes? 

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4 hours ago, weatherwiz said:

I've been thinking of re-taking math classes...starting from algebra and then working all the way back up to differential equations...anyone else ever consider this? I'm just not certain it's worth it though. I think math is one of those things that you either just get or you don't. But I'm extremely weak (and continue to get worse) with math and feel like I don't remember even basic algebra anymore b/c I just don't use it. Maybe do some online classes? 

It's also definitely a use it or lose it type skill.  I took a lot of calculus courses at Lyndon but after 30 years I look at a lot of it and don't remember the rules or what certain things were called LOL.  I just had no need for it when I got out of school and especially when I moved away from meteorology in the early 90s.  Even then I didn't use it a whole lot but it's needed to understand concepts and for research/advanced degrees.

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On 11/14/2019 at 2:19 PM, weatherwiz said:

I've been thinking of re-taking math classes...starting from algebra and then working all the way back up to differential equations...anyone else ever consider this? I'm just not certain it's worth it though. I think math is one of those things that you either just get or you don't. But I'm extremely weak (and continue to get worse) with math and feel like I don't remember even basic algebra anymore b/c I just don't use it. Maybe do some online classes? 

HLM and other regression heavy stats then Bayesian for the win! Accounting for variance and predictive power is where it is at. I was weak in math (barely survived trig in high school) but stats is different than algebra, calc, etc. imo. Any much more useful - at least in research and predictions.

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