https://www.alexandrehefren.com/posts/Recent content in Posts on Learn While LiveHugoen-GBMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.alexandrehefren.com/posts/the-tradition-of-teaching-to-test/Mon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.alexandrehefren.com/posts/the-tradition-of-teaching-to-test/<p>Traditions hold great importance in the history of human life, supporting our continuing existence and serving as a solid base for progress. Yet, they can also perpetuate harmful practices and hinder human progress if we are not aware of them and ready to carefully question each one, one by one.</p> <p>Social traditions are perhaps the most common and well-known. Everyone is influenced by them, even if the individual is not consciously aware of it. Take, for example, celebrations of significant events such as New Year&rsquo;s Eve, birthdays, local festivals, weddings, and religious holidays, as well as greetings (which vary across different societies and historical periods), superstitions, wearing a watch on the left (right) wrist, wearing underwear, and many more.</p>https://www.alexandrehefren.com/posts/data-speaks-for-itself/Tue, 31 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.alexandrehefren.com/posts/data-speaks-for-itself/<p>Especially now, the phrase &ldquo;data speaks for itself&rdquo; is a well-known sentence found all over the internet and specifically on social media platforms such as LinkedIn or Medium publications. Because of the popularity of that sentence, it is also not difficult to come across articles attempting to negate that or, at least, to improve upon it. I think, however, that many of such attempts - the ones I have encountered thus far - are equally mistaken in at least one important aspect.</p>https://www.alexandrehefren.com/posts/personal-website/Sun, 29 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.alexandrehefren.com/posts/personal-website/<p>During my first year as an undergraduate student, the most experienced professor of the Department of Physics was my lecturer in the &ldquo;Introduction to Physics&rdquo; module. He was an experimental physicist, but he had a passion for teaching theory to freshers.</p> <p>I remember he was talking about the importance of publishing papers as a scientist during one of his lectures when I asked him a question that made him pause for a few seconds. The question was: Would Newton, one of the greatest scientists in history, be classified as a scientist if he had never published any of his discoveries?</p>