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On May 18 2015 23:49 Numy wrote:Show nested quote +On May 18 2015 23:45 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:On May 18 2015 23:19 Fildun wrote:On May 18 2015 23:17 Scip wrote:On May 18 2015 23:08 Fildun wrote:On May 18 2015 22:52 Scip wrote:On May 18 2015 22:45 Fildun wrote:On May 18 2015 17:30 Doctorbeat wrote:So uh if you don't like to be angered by a tv show, don't watch Game of Thrones. Spoilers S5E6 inside, beware. + Show Spoiler +They ruined my waifu, ruined I say. Brienne better get to rescue her ;..; And bland snakes/Dorne were horrible. + Show Spoiler +It started off really well, with the Arya and Tyrion scenes, but it just went downhill from there.
Also, Varys whar? Tyrion just got kidnapped from under his nose, isn't he supposed to do some sort of rescue mission? On May 18 2015 22:45 Scip wrote:
Got the results from the written part of my finals! Got 90% from the math test, which puts me in the top 5% of the students who took the test. I'm probably a lot happier about this than I should be. Got 99%, get on my level. :p Still, congratz! WEOW I bet your test was easier probably not holy shit well done Idk, I was really good at highschool math, had a 9.5-10 on most of those tests, but I sucked at the rest lol. Like, I had a fuckin 5 for Dutch. That was kinda embarrassing. who needs dutch when you can speak english? Actually, were the tests you took published online? I'd be interested in the math test, to see what it was like. It's all in Dutch, so not sure if you can read it, but here is a link: static.examenblad.nl Looks approximately equivalent to Calc BC in the US + geometry, which is nice. I wish US schools kept up with geometry instead of just ditching it after like...9th grade or something. I liked geometry ;; What is geometry even used for? I could never understand the purpose of it. It doesn't really teach any logical thinking or process as it just follows it's own little rules then when you get to university level stuff I haven't seen it around either. You just use vector calc to deal with basically any shape.
I wholeheartedly disagree.
I thought the same thing back in high school when I struggled with it in 9th grade. But after learning real proofs in Abstract, coming back to Geometry with that understanding helped a lot.
On May 18 2015 23:50 Alaric wrote:
Re: Wave
Timings are super important.
Case in point - messing up the timing of my Daisy Pusher is the difference between me getting a combo or you getting a combo.
On May 18 2015 23:40 Alaric wrote:Show nested quote +On May 18 2015 23:37 Frudgey wrote:
That, and I really struggled with the dragon punch input motion. I couldn't do it if my life depended on it. One of the reasons I'm more comfortable with the keyboard too. That motion is much smoother because on a pad you have to release it to neutral position before you move it down. On the keyboard where you can use several fingers on the directional keys it's just a matter of key release timing (but for the same reason, half-circles are easier with a pad because it gets cramped on a keyboard  ).
False. At least for SG, you do not have to reset to neutral for dragon punch motion. I just go forward-down-forward.
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On May 18 2015 23:52 Scip wrote:Show nested quote +On May 18 2015 23:45 Slayer91 wrote:On May 18 2015 23:40 Scip wrote:On May 18 2015 23:34 Fildun wrote:On May 18 2015 23:29 Scip wrote:
There's only 1 level in czech republic, absolutely same for everyone
wait, at the figuur 2, 3rd question, do they actually want you to calculate the area of the V area? They want you to calculate the volume of the thing that is created when V is rotated around the x-axis. @Prog, what is A level? LOL in that case I seriously need to get on your level it sounds hard but all you have to do is like calculate cross sectional area or just integrate from the topfunction-bottom function from 1/2 to 0 and multiply by 2pi or something. yeah, looking it up right now, doesn't look too too hard, but it's not something we've ever done in school if the second question is where the f(x)=sqrt(1-x) and x=y intersect I could do that, so I guess yay 6 points for me?
The second question is for which p does the grey rectangle assume its maximum value :p
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Soniv can you go into detail? As I said geometry isn't something that I've done or between around in tertiary education so I have no idea what it's application post schooling is.
It just seems it either teaches you the same thinking as you would do in other maths but has a deadend in usefulness to me.
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Doesn't it register as something like "quarter-circle downard, then diagonal" (or 6323) or something in that case, Soniv? That's what messed up my inputs usually with the dragon punches. I can do the motion fine if I apply myself to it but it'll go slower because I want to avoid that (and in some games it's not tight enough) on the pad.
Eppa, that means assuming I won't get 9 out of 10 of my launchers blocked, that's a mindset unknown to me! D:
(On the other hand if a launcher gets blocked you know you're the one getting combo'd because of frame advantage anyway so zzz shouldn't ever try a launcher outside of an hit-confirm.)
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On May 19 2015 00:04 Alaric wrote:
Doesn't it register as something like "quarter-circle downard, then diagonal" (or 6323) or something in that case, Soniv? That's what messed up my inputs usually with the dragon punches. I can do the motion fine if I apply myself to it but it'll go slower because I want to avoid that (and in some games it's not tight enough) on the pad.
No, it does not. From what I understand, this is fairly unique to SG, though.
Eppa, that means assuming I won't get 9 out of 10 of my launchers blocked, that's a mindset unknown to me! D:
(On the other hand if a launcher gets blocked you know you're the one getting combo'd because of frame advantage anyway so zzz shouldn't ever try a launcher outside of an hit-confirm.)
Don't use a launcher if you don't have a hit confirm...
edit - didn't read your full comment (as per usual), but yeah, don't do that
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On May 18 2015 23:56 Fildun wrote:Show nested quote +On May 18 2015 23:52 Scip wrote:On May 18 2015 23:45 Slayer91 wrote:On May 18 2015 23:40 Scip wrote:On May 18 2015 23:34 Fildun wrote:On May 18 2015 23:29 Scip wrote:
There's only 1 level in czech republic, absolutely same for everyone
wait, at the figuur 2, 3rd question, do they actually want you to calculate the area of the V area? They want you to calculate the volume of the thing that is created when V is rotated around the x-axis. @Prog, what is A level? LOL in that case I seriously need to get on your level it sounds hard but all you have to do is like calculate cross sectional area or just integrate from the topfunction-bottom function from 1/2 to 0 and multiply by 2pi or something. yeah, looking it up right now, doesn't look too too hard, but it's not something we've ever done in school if the second question is where the f(x)=sqrt(1-x) and x=y intersect I could do that, so I guess yay 6 points for me? The second question is for which p does the grey rectangle assume its maximum value :p
reading comprehension 0/10
holy shit dude, I suck at math.
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Damnit Numy, your embassy's air conditioning broke.
Everyone's sweating like a goddamn water park.
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On May 19 2015 00:15 Lord Tolkien wrote:
Damnit Numy, your embassy's air conditioning broke.
Everyone's sweating like a goddamn water park.
We need to get water here somehow.
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On May 19 2015 00:13 Scip wrote:Show nested quote +On May 18 2015 23:56 Fildun wrote:On May 18 2015 23:52 Scip wrote:On May 18 2015 23:45 Slayer91 wrote:On May 18 2015 23:40 Scip wrote:On May 18 2015 23:34 Fildun wrote:On May 18 2015 23:29 Scip wrote:
There's only 1 level in czech republic, absolutely same for everyone
wait, at the figuur 2, 3rd question, do they actually want you to calculate the area of the V area? They want you to calculate the volume of the thing that is created when V is rotated around the x-axis. @Prog, what is A level? LOL in that case I seriously need to get on your level it sounds hard but all you have to do is like calculate cross sectional area or just integrate from the topfunction-bottom function from 1/2 to 0 and multiply by 2pi or something. yeah, looking it up right now, doesn't look too too hard, but it's not something we've ever done in school if the second question is where the f(x)=sqrt(1-x) and x=y intersect I could do that, so I guess yay 6 points for me? The second question is for which p does the grey rectangle assume its maximum value :p reading comprehension 0/10 holy shit dude, I suck at math.
Like my reading comprehension in Czech would be any better though :p
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Math sucks ass. I'm 17 and I can barely scrape a B+ in PreCalc.
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I like Math.
To elaborate, I really enjoy being able to accurately math out stuff like probabilities, break-even points, etc.
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On May 19 2015 00:23 GhandiEAGLE wrote:
Math sucks ass. I'm 17 and I can barely scrape a B+ in PreCalc.
Why are you not in calc already
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On May 19 2015 00:23 GhandiEAGLE wrote:
Math sucks ass. I'm 17 and I can barely scrape a B+ in PreCalc.
But you can compose a mean poem, amirite?
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On May 19 2015 00:24 Lord Tolkien wrote:Show nested quote +On May 19 2015 00:23 GhandiEAGLE wrote:
Math sucks ass. I'm 17 and I can barely scrape a B+ in PreCalc. Why are you not in calc already
I'm a happy little dunce.
On May 19 2015 00:24 mordek wrote:Show nested quote +On May 19 2015 00:23 GhandiEAGLE wrote:
Math sucks ass. I'm 17 and I can barely scrape a B+ in PreCalc. But you can compose a mean poem, amirite?
Heck yeah. But English is a free A even if I wasn't good at it. Bad allocation of skills >.>
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On May 18 2015 23:59 Numy wrote:
Soniv can you go into detail? As I said geometry isn't something that I've done or between around in tertiary education so I have no idea what it's application post schooling is.
It just seems it either teaches you the same thinking as you would do in other maths but has a deadend in usefulness to me.
Much like any of the math you learn in school, the "practical" application of the examples you do through repetition is fairly nonexistent. However, it is entirely logic and process driven. Geometry is no exception.
I'll be pointing to Abstract Algebra because that is when it really clicked for me. (It's also been close to 4 years holy shit, so I'm not going to be able to delve into great examples)
I think a big part of why Geometry seems kind of pointless in high school is because you're given a whole set of rules to follow, and then you follow them. I know for me, we had to memorize all of these rules and then use them on exams, and it felt really daunting and tedious to have to stuff everything in your brain and remember them for the process.
But in Abstract Algebra, we were given no such large set of rules/axioms/corollaries/etc. We started with a very basic assumption (or a few assumptions, I honestly can't remember too well). This was necessary to start with because you have to understand that the math you're looking at is predicated on certain conditions. We then had to use these to build out very basic proofs of abstract concepts (one of the first things I remember was having to prove how a*b was commutative, where * is an undefined operation).
From then, we were only ever allowed to reference an axiom/law/what have you if we had proven it in the past. This meant that we built an understanding of logic and process based on things we've already proven to be true in the past, rather than referencing a huge library of rules we were given at the start and told to memorize.
Having this understanding when I actually took college Geometry my senior year (I did my classes in a really weird order) helped me understand why the process really matters.
I know this was kind of a...high level look at it. But hopefully it at least conveys my thoughts coherently.
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On May 19 2015 00:21 Fildun wrote:Show nested quote +On May 19 2015 00:13 Scip wrote:On May 18 2015 23:56 Fildun wrote:On May 18 2015 23:52 Scip wrote:On May 18 2015 23:45 Slayer91 wrote:On May 18 2015 23:40 Scip wrote:On May 18 2015 23:34 Fildun wrote:On May 18 2015 23:29 Scip wrote:
There's only 1 level in czech republic, absolutely same for everyone
wait, at the figuur 2, 3rd question, do they actually want you to calculate the area of the V area? They want you to calculate the volume of the thing that is created when V is rotated around the x-axis. @Prog, what is A level? LOL in that case I seriously need to get on your level it sounds hard but all you have to do is like calculate cross sectional area or just integrate from the topfunction-bottom function from 1/2 to 0 and multiply by 2pi or something. yeah, looking it up right now, doesn't look too too hard, but it's not something we've ever done in school if the second question is where the f(x)=sqrt(1-x) and x=y intersect I could do that, so I guess yay 6 points for me? The second question is for which p does the grey rectangle assume its maximum value :p reading comprehension 0/10 holy shit dude, I suck at math. Like my reading comprehension in Czech would be any better though :p
I think I can solve it with wolframalpha?
I haven't been taught how to take maximums of expressions either.
Or I could just be completely wrong at everything.
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On May 19 2015 00:25 GhandiEAGLE wrote:
Heck yeah. But English is a free A even if I wasn't good at it. Bad allocation of skills >.>
High school English is the devil. Probably the closest thing to a crapshoot in terms of grading out of all high school courses.
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On May 19 2015 00:32 Scip wrote:Show nested quote +On May 19 2015 00:21 Fildun wrote:On May 19 2015 00:13 Scip wrote:On May 18 2015 23:56 Fildun wrote:On May 18 2015 23:52 Scip wrote:On May 18 2015 23:45 Slayer91 wrote:On May 18 2015 23:40 Scip wrote:On May 18 2015 23:34 Fildun wrote:On May 18 2015 23:29 Scip wrote:
There's only 1 level in czech republic, absolutely same for everyone
wait, at the figuur 2, 3rd question, do they actually want you to calculate the area of the V area? They want you to calculate the volume of the thing that is created when V is rotated around the x-axis. @Prog, what is A level? LOL in that case I seriously need to get on your level it sounds hard but all you have to do is like calculate cross sectional area or just integrate from the topfunction-bottom function from 1/2 to 0 and multiply by 2pi or something. yeah, looking it up right now, doesn't look too too hard, but it's not something we've ever done in school if the second question is where the f(x)=sqrt(1-x) and x=y intersect I could do that, so I guess yay 6 points for me? The second question is for which p does the grey rectangle assume its maximum value :p reading comprehension 0/10 holy shit dude, I suck at math. Like my reading comprehension in Czech would be any better though :p I think I can solve it with wolframalpha? I haven't been taught how to take maximums of expressions either. Or I could just be completely wrong at everything.
Just take the derivative and equal that to 0?
I guess now I know why you have so much free time :p
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generally to find the maximum you just find the function that describes the size of it and differentiate it set it to zero ggwp
I never got the stigma about calc to me it felt like a magic wand that solves everything with a very simple calculation
i mean obviously if you're talking partial differential equations or vector calc but thats not highschool level lol
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wtf why are czech school so much easier than your schools
zzz I guess I'll be grinding math over the holidays
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