On May 19 2015 01:12 TheYango wrote: Seeing these kinds of exams years later makes you realize how much shit you learned once and never used again.
and how much shit I've forgotten =(
I've forgotten how to do straight computation holy shit like all of those questions I remember doing once upon a time (ie a year ago) but now I don't remember any of it
Meh. Personally find the effect used to make it pretty then integrate just becomes a waste. If you write neatly and keep mind of your units(When dealing with real properties) it's not that bad having a whole bunch of shit. Often times you can simplify absurd expressions when integrating due to certain properties being static in reality. When everything changes over your integration space then it gets a bit tricky but even then typically you can break up the system to manageable parts.
Polynomial long division is just boring annoying tedious stuff.
I know some people were criticizing Brawlhalla last night (and I'm not saying those criticisms are unwarranted), but I was having fun playing it. I'll probably stream some more of it tonight.
Atm we're doing Laplace transforms and convolution together.
It's pretty tough but I think I'll make it. I do like how we can combine it with the Signals course where you learn all continuous repeating signals can be summed by a series of sinusoids.
Also Euler is a bamf.
edit: In the end engineering just boils down to linearize the shit out of everything as much as you can whilst staying within the boundaries of the accuracy you need.
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.
Tell me about it. The only concrete grading we have is a series of vocabulary quizzes, in which I already know all the words, and in which my previous knowledge is nevertheless irrelevant because I have to know the definitions entirely verbatim from an obscure dictionary I'd never heard of before. And there are 300 of these words on any given test.
For instance, I know what Capitalism is. What I'm less likely to know that, on this test, to get it correct I have to write
Capitalism (n): an economic system in which businesses are owned by private citizens (not by the government) and in which the resulting products and services are sold with relatively little government control
It has to be exactly the same as that, down to the last comma, semicolon, and space.
It's honestly a fuck all nightmare.
That's terrible....
I'm pretty sure my Brit Lit teacher stopped reading papers after the first 2, by then he'd already made up his mind. Fortunately, despite neglecting my summer reading assignments I was able to bs two book reviews on day 1 with no prep using The Hobbit which I had read like 8 years prior and Beowulf which I really made up just using clues from stuff around the classroom and what I had heard which wasn't much. That was a stressful period.
This really speaks to how terrible English education is, when people can get high marks without without even reading the book. Pretty much happens everywhere zz.
And people wonder why English isn't a respected field of study ~_~
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 23:37 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.
Not the same thing at all. You blind supering is not the same thing as trying to hit a 1-2 frame timing in order to continue a combo.
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.
Tell me about it. The only concrete grading we have is a series of vocabulary quizzes, in which I already know all the words, and in which my previous knowledge is nevertheless irrelevant because I have to know the definitions entirely verbatim from an obscure dictionary I'd never heard of before. And there are 300 of these words on any given test.
For instance, I know what Capitalism is. What I'm less likely to know that, on this test, to get it correct I have to write
Capitalism (n): an economic system in which businesses are owned by private citizens (not by the government) and in which the resulting products and services are sold with relatively little government control
It has to be exactly the same as that, down to the last comma, semicolon, and space.
It's honestly a fuck all nightmare.
That's terrible....
I'm pretty sure my Brit Lit teacher stopped reading papers after the first 2, by then he'd already made up his mind. Fortunately, despite neglecting my summer reading assignments I was able to bs two book reviews on day 1 with no prep using The Hobbit which I had read like 8 years prior and Beowulf which I really made up just using clues from stuff around the classroom and what I had heard which wasn't much. That was a stressful period.
This really speaks to how terrible English education is, when people can get high marks without without even reading the book. Pretty much happens everywhere zz.
And people wonder why English isn't a respected field of study ~_~
To be fair I put out quality work on each assignment after that. I'm just amazed I didn't get relegated to poop-tier instantly in his mind. I was more getting at how it felt incredibly subjective whether you got a good grade or not. Some people you can tell either don't get the concept or are just terrible at correct grammar etc which will affect your grade appropriately. But for example, there was a girl in my class who I knew was bright but I remember in a particular class she brought up a point and the teacher was like "ehhhhh, yeah no that's dumb" which I didn't really agree with. I raise my hand and rephrase what she said and he's all "exactly, this guy gets it" and I'm like wth and she's glaring at me. I cleared it up with her and it was cool but that's pretty douchey on the instructor's part. All this stuff reminds me of personality types, you guys really neeed to do some reading on it it's fascinating (to me )
On May 19 2015 01:46 Doctorbeat wrote: Atm we're doing Laplace transforms and convolution together.
It's pretty tough but I think I'll make it. I do like how we can combine it with the Signals course where you learn all continuous repeating signals can be summed by a series of sinusoids.
Also Euler is a bamf.
edit: In the end engineering just boils down to linearize the shit out of everything as much as you can whilst staying within the boundaries of the accuracy you need.
Just make enough assumptions until it becomes easy to solve! :D I think half the marks for my mass transfer course was just drawing the system and making reasonable assumptions. I hated Euler and Laplace. Only until my brother(Comp eng) told me how much his stuff overlapped and made sense due to them did I kind of appreciate it. It still has zero application to my field :<.
On May 19 2015 01:44 jcarlsoniv wrote: meh, today's draggin a bit...
I know some people were criticizing Brawlhalla last night (and I'm not saying those criticisms are unwarranted), but I was having fun playing it. I'll probably stream some more of it tonight.
Criticisms were nullified after your cat made an appearance on stream.
In all seriousness, I think it's much better for you to play something that you enjoy instead of catering to the audience. People are much more enjoyable to watch if they're having a good time.
Basically I'm telling you to put less stock in what the audience thinks and do what you think is fun.
So for anyone interested in SG at all, dekillsage (#1 player for a while, can't remember if he still is currently) is streaming, answering questions, playing viewer matches. Extremely informative and he's amazing to watch.
Good to know I'm not the only one that has trouble with this restand bullshit. :D
He uses silver chord after standing HP I think btw
On May 19 2015 00:44 jcarlsoniv wrote: A lot of it boils down, I think, to the fact that for the majority of our tenure in school, the focus is on results and getting the correct answer. So we didn't care about learning how to get the answer, just that we got the right answer. But understanding the "back end" of things really does increase your understanding of the whole.
Admittedly, after working for a few years, you come to realize that as it turns out, most people don't actually give a fuck about anything other than the result, and not how you got there.
Well most of the time at least in my fields you have systems in place that can get you to the answer easily. The issue is understanding what's fundamentally going on so you can adjust this system to match whatever is going on in reality. Other times the process to get the answer is the answer itself.
I don't know. Maybe our whole education system just needs to change. When I told my folks that you guys in the States do standardized testing since Junior school they wouldn't believe me. Had to go bring proof to convince them. Crazy stuff
On May 19 2015 01:44 jcarlsoniv wrote: meh, today's draggin a bit...
I know some people were criticizing Brawlhalla last night (and I'm not saying those criticisms are unwarranted), but I was having fun playing it. I'll probably stream some more of it tonight.
I mean, it IS in beta. Criticisms can just become future features!
On May 19 2015 02:48 wei2coolman wrote: I still don't see the problem with standardized testing, it's just implemented pretty poorly.
I mean, that's pretty much what Oliver says: great idea in theory, no one EVER does it right.
imo SAT/ACT/MCAT/GRE/DAT/AP testing etc etc. all do a good job.
The problem people have about standardized testing is because standardized testing is always based on curves, and because of the nature of how percentiles, and natural curves work. Majority of people feel screwed over by standardized tests.