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A rather nerdy post
Jul. 9th, 2016 03:33 pmTried the "Finding Dory" cereal since it's new and I can eat it. It's ok, but I was thinking "It's missing something" and decided it needed little sugary flavoured things. So I looked it up and sure enough the US made original has marshsmallows they took out for the Australian market. Explained this to a US based friend who thought a country with no confectionary in it's cereal sounded no fun. I did the numbers and the US one has 2.3 times the sugar of ours lol. But possibly not once I added some tasty pieces of leftover vanilla turkish delight ;)
For fun I subscribed to an online calculus course, since I found myself missing maths and wanted something familiar and easy. It's the first time I've gone through some of this stuff again methodically since I learned it the first time, so it's nice to have time to stop and think about it without any BUT WILL THIS BE ON THE EXAM worries. I'm going to keep going through courses until I run out of maths or run out of brain.
But ohhhhh he is so LACKING IN MATHEMATICAL RIGOUR. "You haven't defined all the edge cases in your proof!" I think grumpily. "WHERE ARE THE EPSILONS? WHY ARE YOU 'PROVING' THE INTERMEDIATE VALUE THEOREM WITHOUT EPSILONS??". Too many gimmicks not enough precise definitions for my tastes, but it is entertaining background noise and the homework makes for fun puzzles.
I am more deeply annoyed that the example questions are always 1000%(*) easier than the practice questions or assignments. (I can do them but I have a PHD, so) The practice questions give you the worked solution when you get them wrong, but it's still going to make people feel stupid and set off their maths anxiety. And it's stuff like remembering how to factorise quadratics that anyone doing this course has probably learned at some point but may have forgotten, and he could totally link to a simple tutorial or something.
Had a moment of sad when I realised the lecturer's a little younger than me, esp since I actually visited the University of Ohio maths department during my Phd (it has a freaky Maths Tower!) But there's no point dwelling on might have beens.
(*)within a few orders of magnitude ;P
For fun I subscribed to an online calculus course, since I found myself missing maths and wanted something familiar and easy. It's the first time I've gone through some of this stuff again methodically since I learned it the first time, so it's nice to have time to stop and think about it without any BUT WILL THIS BE ON THE EXAM worries. I'm going to keep going through courses until I run out of maths or run out of brain.
But ohhhhh he is so LACKING IN MATHEMATICAL RIGOUR. "You haven't defined all the edge cases in your proof!" I think grumpily. "WHERE ARE THE EPSILONS? WHY ARE YOU 'PROVING' THE INTERMEDIATE VALUE THEOREM WITHOUT EPSILONS??". Too many gimmicks not enough precise definitions for my tastes, but it is entertaining background noise and the homework makes for fun puzzles.
I am more deeply annoyed that the example questions are always 1000%(*) easier than the practice questions or assignments. (I can do them but I have a PHD, so) The practice questions give you the worked solution when you get them wrong, but it's still going to make people feel stupid and set off their maths anxiety. And it's stuff like remembering how to factorise quadratics that anyone doing this course has probably learned at some point but may have forgotten, and he could totally link to a simple tutorial or something.
Had a moment of sad when I realised the lecturer's a little younger than me, esp since I actually visited the University of Ohio maths department during my Phd (it has a freaky Maths Tower!) But there's no point dwelling on might have beens.
(*)within a few orders of magnitude ;P
