What are some tips to win a debate competition?
There are two main differences between a debate and a debate competition. In a debate, at the end, you can concede to your opponent’s points if you feel they make sense. In a debate competition, don’t even think about it, unless you feel he deserves that trophy on a silver platter hand-delivered by you.So here are some points that I think are important for a debate competition:Make a quick list of your points. Express each one concisely. Some speakers are very expressive, some are cool-headed and in control. Find your style.Personal experiences strengthen arguments. Statistics in your favor strengthen arguments even more. Find the stats.BELIEVE in your side of the topic. When you are preparing for a debate competition, you need to believe in the very depths of your soul that you are right, and that your opponent IS WRONG. Be careful. More often than not, he will launch several very powerful counterarguments. The ability to find flaws in those arguments, or convince the audience of those flaws, is what separates a good speaker from a good debater.If you can’t find a good reply to his counterargument, attack another point of his and focus the attention on that. You need to divert the crowd’s attention from where he’s strong, and give yourself time to think.Never EVER EVER choke. Even if you’re asked a really hard question. In the worst case scenario, say you’ll get back to it, and keep talking. You choke, you lose.Never agree or even half-agree with an opponent. Your speech should not reflect any form of support, This is tricky sometimes. It’s all about how you phrase your sentences. “The fact that eating mushrooms may help the environment may be true, but cooking them robs the Yippee people of their food.’ Nope. Try, ‘And as for eating mushrooms saving the environment, well, is that more important than ensuring that the Yippee people have food?’Always be confident in yourself and your points. Even if you can’t be, never let your audience see that. No stutters, no stammers, no visible knee-knocking. Personally, in my first few debates, I would alternate my gaze between the judges (out of necessity, it lends an air of confidence to your speech, though honestly I was freaking out inside) and the wall behind the audience (it gave the appearance that I was looking right into the crowd.
Need to melt ice with my body to win a competition....help?
Heat transfer through conduction occurs where two bodies are in contact. So you need to maximize the area of contact between yourself and the block of ice. Most of the body is at about the same temperature (assuming your endowment is natural), so it doesn't particularly matter what parts of your body you use. Assuming you are clothed during the competition, you should use parts of your body that are exposed, since clothing only slows down the heat transfer. It may be useful to rub your body across the surface of the ice, because friction will increase the amount of heat going into the ice. You can also try breathing directly onto the part of the ice nearest the quarter, since your breath is very warm. And continually wipe away the water as the ice melts; that water is still as cold as the ice, and it is pulling away some of the heat that you want to send directly into the ice.
How to say thank after a competition?
Usually, in Asia, there is a norm for the winner to say after a contest that perhaps "thank you for letting me win the competition" or "thank you for giving me the opportunity to win".(you could see it in the kungfu or martial art movies, lol) it's that because we don't want to be arrogant, we want to polite to the ones who lose. However, I can't find a proper word to say that in English. In Western culture, saying thing like "thank you for losing" would be considered an insult. So what would be the right way to say thank to somebody who is better/stronger/older than you and concedes you an possibility to win in a contest?
I want that my class win the bulloton board competition. The topic for that is global warming. Please help me
how about having in the center, an illustration of a huge earth with thermometer in its mouth and ice bag on top of its head. then on the left side space, put poems or pictures of the effects of global warming. on the right side space, put pics or list of ways to prevent global warming...
Do I have to win a competition to get accepted into MIT, Stanford, or Harvard? I am an international student and there isn't anything like IMO or USAMO in my country. What are my chances? Will the admissions office take this into consideration?
Relax. All the top schools in this country launch a diverse and interesting group of students for each year of admission. Given that, they will look at your background and how you fit into that. If you come from a tiny high school in the middle of North Dakota, where there is no international baccalaureate program (IB), they will judge you according to how well you did in that school. If you go to a school that has an IB program, they are concerned with how well you did in the IB classes you took.Do they care about how well you doing all sorts of competitions? To some degree, winning awards and prizes certainly shows that you’re good at whatever it is you do. But that’s the main thing for which they look — how well do you do, and how hard you work, at whatever it is that interest you. If your parents are well enough off that you don’t have a job or need a job, they’ll look at that and see what it is you’ve chosen to do with your extra time outside of school. On the other hand if you live with a single mother who is incapacitated, and you need to work just to support your family, that’s a very important thing at which college Will look, and believe me, if you’ve been supporting your own family as a teenager, they will give you a whole whole whole lot of credit for that.The main thing you need to do to get into a good college is get excellent grades and whatever hard courses you take in high school, have something that shows them that you work hard and are committed and dedicated to what you do. And sure, and MIT, where I went, there were people with perfect SAT scores, who had never seen a B in their life, and who line their three Nobel prizes up on the wall as medals of honor. But not too many of those people. Most of us And MIT were just students who are done very well in high school and had something to show that made us different from the other 10,000 or 20,000 applications they got.Good luck, and remember, the schools that except you will be schools were you can do well and were you can fit in!
Will DataCamp help me compete in Kaggle competitions? I am a beginner.
Datacamp has a nice list of course. I would recommend them.If you already know either python or R then go ahead and pick up the first titanic survival an ongoing kaggle competition course on datacamp.You will learn the basic algorithms like Decision Tree Classifier, Linear Regression , KNeighbours.This will also introduce you to basic data exploration ,data cleaning and feature extraction techniques.There are further courses for algorithmic optimization, learning other algorithms and neural networks . Some of them are paid.Here are some resources:Analytics Community | Analytics Discussions | Big Data DiscussionMachine Learning MasteryRitchie Ng
Me and my friend are having a bleach chugging competition?
$500 won't be enough to pay for the funerals. People don't respect stupidity, and most ladies prefer live men, not corpses. No, don't do it.
Can winning or getting ranked in a Kaggle competition get you a job?
No, and it shouldn't. I won a competition and ranked as high as 12th in Kaggle rankings. I did 4th in a recruiting competition. But I never, ever got attention from employers because of my Kaggle results. And neither would I have ever (ever) offered a job to someone only because of their Kaggle results.Kaggle is a niche. Competitive machine learning. In order to do well you do things you'd never do in a business setting. And in order to do well, you do not need to do any of the things that usually make a real life machine learning project successful (extract data, engineer features, talk to the business before during and after a project, write performing code to run in production, decide what good enough is,...).The only thing Kaggle will do for you is give you exposure to solid modelling and validation skills. You'll use those for 10% of the time in a real project. Don't get me wrong, those are important skills, in particular being able to validate your models correctly. But those skills alone will not and should not get you a job. But will definitely give you a leg up in your interviews. Whether you'll get interviews in the first place will depend largely from your business experience, do not count on Kaggle alone to get you interviews in top tier companies.