Tag: Equal

5 Points on The Brutal Truth of “We Are Not Born Equal”

“Yes, we are not born equal! And yes, this world is unfair because we are not born into a perfect world.” I don’t have to walk the miles to prove the above statement. Just take a look around, and you’ll realize that we are still fighting for our rights to equality. Mayb...

IDEO equal pay commitments are very little, very late

I joined IDEO in 2001 right after graduating from Harvey Mudd College with a bachelor’s degree in engineering. To celebrate my first week at IDEO, all forty-ish members of my location gathered outside on a hot and humid Friday afternoon in a suburban office park. As each person scooped their f...

Not All Rights Are Created Equal

Someone I care about recently said she didn’t think legislation or policy change could address the gun violence issue. I could not disagree more. While my child’s life matters more to me than any other life in the world, I do not see his life as objectively more valuable than that of ...

A Most Equal Government

To begin, the basis of the American Constitution is inherently flawed, particularly surrounding democratic government. A constitution designed by the elite of their time was designed with one obvious purpose, to maintain that power, that elitism. While there is no question that the Founding Fathers ...

What does it mean to have a determinant equal to zero?

it is possible to find another way to solve the system of equations when the determinant is zero without using the inverse of the matrix directly. Why can’t we find the inverse of a matrix when the determinant is equal to zero? Let’s remind that the determinant of a matrix&nbs...