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Ten Equations that Changed the World
Posted on 8/9/17 at 10:29 pm
Posted on 8/9/17 at 10:29 pm
Saw this online today. Pretty cool.
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Posted on 8/9/17 at 10:33 pm to L.A.
Very Nice.
My brain just got some exercise.
My brain just got some exercise.
Posted on 8/9/17 at 10:52 pm to L.A.
Posted on 8/9/17 at 10:55 pm to L.A.
This is odd, but for some reason I find logarithm's fascinating since I had to use it them so much in a probability theory course. I like to mess around with them on my calculator, and I think I have some illusion that I'm going to make some novel discovery to represent some phenomenon.
Posted on 8/9/17 at 11:04 pm to L.A.
I fricking hate math.
Posted on 8/9/17 at 11:05 pm to L.A.
yep...I've studied each and every one of them. tons of fun.
Posted on 8/9/17 at 11:06 pm to buckeye_vol
Yeah, you'd have better prospects exploring the studio space with a cowbell than looking for new results in logarithms. If you want to read a good book on Napier, logarithms, and what they led to, try, "e: The Story of a Number" by Eli Maor.
Posted on 8/9/17 at 11:08 pm to RebelVol
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fricking hate math.
I fricking hate the way lsu handles math classes now. Oh here's your one day a week class where the teacher tells you how to solve the problem. Now go online and do homework. Online shows you a completely different way to do the work. Go spend 5 hours in math lab! Have Asians look at you like your retarded, speak broken English, and every one of them tells you a different way to solve the problem.
Ugh. Give me a book and a class taught by one teacher 3 days a week plz.
Posted on 8/9/17 at 11:12 pm to L.A.
NERD ALERT!!!!!!
Posted on 8/9/17 at 11:13 pm to beerJeep
quote:bro are you me?? holy shite
I fricking hate the way lsu handles math classes now. Oh here's your one day a week class where the teacher tells you how to solve the problem. Now go online and do homework. Online shows you a completely different way to do the work. Go spend 5 hours in math lab! Have Asians look at you like your retarded, speak broken English, and every one of them tells you a different way to solve the problem.
Ugh. Give me a book and a class taught by one teacher 3 days a week plz.
Posted on 8/9/17 at 11:17 pm to beerJeep
LSU has one of the fastest rising astronomy departments in the country. They operate one of the two LIGO experiments in the country that recently discovered gravitational waves. Also, Tabitha Boyajian is now in the faculty at LSU. She is credited with discovering KIC 8462852, the weird star that dims periodically and has captured so much interest.
Buck up, Bengals. Math is the future.
Buck up, Bengals. Math is the future.
Posted on 8/9/17 at 11:20 pm to beerJeep
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Ugh. Give me a book and a class taught by one teacher 3 days a week plz.
I had some online homework but my math classes had at least three days a week in the classroom with the professor.
This post was edited on 8/9/17 at 11:20 pm
Posted on 8/9/17 at 11:21 pm to Spock's Eyebrow
quote:Well I like to mess around with basketball data, and when I don't have a full dataset to run a statistical model based on the formulas of people far smarter than myself, I like to just play around with it on my calculator hoping for some serendipity that obviously never occurs.
Yeah, you'd have better prospects exploring the studio space with a cowbell than looking for new results in logarithms.
quote:Look it up. Actually looks interesting. Usually when I read those types of books, I am amazed at other's savant-level mathematical reasoning, but it also makes me frustrated that I don't posses it.
If you want to read a good book on Napier, logarithms, and what they led to, try, "e: The Story of a Number" by Eli Maor.
Posted on 8/9/17 at 11:37 pm to beerJeep
Never had math lab, started at calc 1 went through calc 3 and diff eq+lin algebra
Early math i found was boring compared to calc 1 and above, where you actually use all of it and can use processes given to you to come up with logical conclusions, it was like solving puzzles
Early math i found was boring compared to calc 1 and above, where you actually use all of it and can use processes given to you to come up with logical conclusions, it was like solving puzzles
This post was edited on 8/9/17 at 11:39 pm
Posted on 8/9/17 at 11:40 pm to buckeye_vol
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I am amazed at other's savant-level mathematical reasoning, but it also makes me frustrated that I don't posses it.
this was me in theoretical stats one and two. I hated it, but appreciated people that could do it.
It's alright though because I'm better at more allied stuff than them because I'm a people person and can get people to come to me for consulting!
Posted on 8/9/17 at 11:50 pm to L.A.
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This post was edited on 1/10/21 at 6:38 pm
Posted on 8/10/17 at 12:00 am to The Baker
Chaos theory based on the form?
It's the equation that makes your inkblot shape in your avatar right?
It's the equation that makes your inkblot shape in your avatar right?
Posted on 8/10/17 at 12:03 am to L.A.
Too bad I suck arse at math or I would've understood at least half of that.
It's like a damn alien language to me.
Whenever I got done with a math class in college, I already forgot the most advanced stuff from it inside of two months. I only remember the basics now.
It's like a damn alien language to me.
Whenever I got done with a math class in college, I already forgot the most advanced stuff from it inside of two months. I only remember the basics now.
Posted on 8/10/17 at 12:09 am to RebelVol
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I fricking hate math.
Me too and I'm terrible at it. Thankfully my kids got my husband's math skills.
Little cones are having a conversation about something mathy.
Youngest cone: "Isn't that right,mom? Oh, never mind."
Thumbs up for the people who can math!
This post was edited on 8/10/17 at 12:10 am
Posted on 8/10/17 at 12:20 am to Pinecone Repair
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Thumbs up for the people who can math!
I remember when I took statistics and calculus with the same professor.
It was beyond brutal for me and the only reason I passed was because on every test, he put 50 points into defining 10-12 terms with precise and complete definitions. But of course he didn't make that very easy because he gave us well over 60 definitions to study from and that was just a bitch to do and even more so when every definition was damn near the same.
And that's having to deal with problems that take anywhere from 10 to 15 minutes to solve and each of them are completely different. Like Chi square tests, Z scores, Anova tests, figuring out the significance or alpha level or total sum of squares, or observed frequencies, a tukey test, or lambda test.
And there was 12 problems so I had to work fast.
They were the hardest Cs I've ever worked for in my life.
This post was edited on 8/10/17 at 12:24 am
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