FakeGAF 6: Fear the Walking Thirst

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Jobbs said:
Randomly playing some random ass NES or SNES game is MY thing though :(

And what's the problem? You doing the swinger thing tonight?



the military has this part nailed
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Yeah, my curiosity will kill me if I don't. We're going at 21, may God help me.
 
Ceallach said:
Yeah, my curiosity will kill me if I don't. We're going at 21, may God help me.
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jesus

you better have some depraved stories later

Granadier said:
All of them are at that perfect stage wh
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I overplayed my hand when it came to telling them dumb shit and they became very wise to me very early. At this point when I tell dumb stories they either jokingly go along with it or ignore it because I'm the immature one (yep).

Pau said:
If it's a fair coin (probability of heads is .5) the chance is (.5)^10 which is 0.00098. Not very likely!

Your second question is actually a very good question! What you're referring to is a concept called the gambler's ruin. So as you saw, it's very unlikely to get 10 heads in a row. But once you've actually flipped the coin, whatever happens can't affect the next flip. (It's not like the coin "remembers.") So no matter how many heads you got before in the actual act, your next flip will always have heads with probability .5. But if we were do an experiment where we flipped a coin 10 times, wrote down what we got, and repeated the process say 10000 times, only about 9.8 (so about 10) of those individual trials would have 10 flips that all landed on heads. That's what probability means. Not exactly what will happen next, but what would happen over time.
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intellectually I know any coin flip is 50/50.. it when I start thinking that the trouble begins (as usual).
 
zeemumu said:
That's because you know you're being irrational and dumb when that thought comes into your head so it never gets translated into speech. The strength of the filter and what it filters changes with society but it's always been there.
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True. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I would never let myself think that way in the first place.

I get what you mean though about having a filter. There are plenty of times where I feel compelled to call people on their shit and I have to stop myself because it isn't polite. I've been guilty of not doing that here a couple of times and it's led to some bad feelings sadly
 
FloatOn said:
True. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I would never let myself think that way in the first place.

I get what you mean though about having a filter. There are plenty of times where I feel compelled to call people on their shit and I have to stop myself because it isn't polite. I've been guilty of not doing that here a couple of times and it's led to some bad feelings sadly
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Sometimes shit thoughts just pop into your head. As long as you recognize that they are crappy thoughts and they don't influence your speech or decisions then it's probably fine.
 
It's easy to get jaded about love. Sometimes people take it too far.

Mental filters are good, though. Not just to filter thoughts you know you shouldn't say, but thoughts you shouldn't think.
 
SolVanderlyn said:
It's easy to get jaded about love. Sometimes people take it too far.

Mental filters are good, though. Not just to filter thoughts you know you shouldn't say, but thoughts you shouldn't think.
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It's easy to get frustrated about something that's apparently common enough to be something that most humans are supposed to do but for some reason is lost on you. If understanding algebra was something that people did throughout history, but it didn't have a solid set of rules so you were never really able to get the hang of it, you'd probably find your mind shitting on algebra all the time in an effort to devalue the concept of algebra so you don't tear yourself apart for not understanding it. The more external forces show you how great algebra is the harder your mind will work to discredit it until you become a monster. It would be better for you not to stake your happiness on algebra and to instead balance it throughout the other subjects so brooding over algebra doesn't take up all of your time because it's pretty inevitable that you'll get the hang of algebra, but dwelling on it is going to make the wait unbearable.
 
zeemumu said:
It's easy to get frustrated about something that's apparently common enough to be something that most humans are supposed to do but for some reason is lost on you. If understanding algebra was something that people did throughout history, but it didn't have a solid set of rules so you were never really able to get the hang of it, you'd probably find your mind shitting on algebra all the time in an effort to devalue the concept of algebra so you don't tear yourself apart for not understanding it. The more external forces show you how great algebra is the harder your mind will work to discredit it until you become a monster. It would be better for you not to stake your happiness on algebra and to instead balance it throughout the other subjects so brooding over algebra doesn't take up all of your time because it's pretty inevitable that you'll get the hang of algebra, but dwelling on it is going to make the wait unbearable.
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This is a pretty good analogy. Incidentally appropriate as I suck at algebra, although nobody is telling me how great it is, so there's that. I totally understand what you mean, though.

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SolVanderlyn said:
This is a pretty good analogy. Incidentally appropriate as I suck at algebra, although nobody is telling me how great it is, so there's that. I totally understand what you mean, though.

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A less solid example would be the song Jack's Obsession from Nightmare Before Christmas. You can read about Christmas all you want but it's no 100% guarantee that you'll understand it.
 
I'm having a super lazy Saturday.
Played a ton of co-op Dark Souls 3 and Rocket League. :D

Don't have to work til the 31st.
Gonna get up to the Sunshine Coast on Monday, never been there. :P
 
I struggled with algebra intensely in HS.

I remember getting isaac azimov's book about it and it helping somewhat

but still I just barely made it through algebra 2
 
Jobbs said:
I struggled with algebra intensely in HS.

I remember getting isaac azimov's book about it and it helping somewhat

but still I just barely made it through algebra 2
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I did up through college calc 2 in high school. I have no idea how people are expected to have any idea what's going on by lectures and homework. Would have been stuck on algebra 2 if I didn't reteach everything to myself.

The common core stuff actually seem to have the right idea. Only problem is that every example I've seen is poorly written
 
smokeandmirrors said:
got me one of them mechanical keyboards and my typing immediately improves lol. this thing is great

clackity clackity clack
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I type fastest on a cheap piece of shit $10 logitech :O 125wpm all day

I only use mechanical because it's "cooler" but my WPM easily goes down by like 5

Misha said:
I did up through college calc 2 in high school. I have no idea how people are expected to have any idea what's going on by lectures and homework. Would have been stuck on algebra 2 if I didn't reteach everything to myself.

The common core stuff actually seem to have the right idea. Only problem is that every example I've seen is poorly written
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I attribute at least some of my difficulty with some subjects to my reallllllyyyyyyyyyy possibly clinically bad attention span. Sometimes I still tihnk about going to get diagonsed, but I've been told the drugs are a compromise
 
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Jobbs said:
I attribute at least some of my difficulty with some subjects to my reallllllyyyyyyyyyy possibly clinically bad attention span. Sometimes I still tihnk about going to get diagonsed, but I've been told the drugs are a compromise
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math definitely does seem even worse for people with ADD and such. still I think the way most teachers teach math contributes to people losing their attention. they teach mythical symbols through formulas and expect people to figure out what they mean rather than working through the practicality of it. I think actually that games programming is a great way to teach them.
 
Misha said:
math definitely does seem even worse for people with ADD and such. still I think the way most teachers teach math contributes to people losing their attention. they teach mythical symbols through formulas and expect people to figure out what they mean rather than working through the practicality of it. I think actually that games programming is a great way to teach them.
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I have a lot of trouble with programming too :o

that I even do what I do is a miracle
 
Jobbs said:
I have a lot of trouble with programming too :o

that I even do what I do is a miracle
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I don't mean actually having kids program :P

I mean having the program there and then just manipulating the values.


actual programming has been taught poorly from my experience too and a lot of the skill requires knowledge of math.
 
Misha said:
math definitely does seem even worse for people with ADD and such. still I think the way most teachers teach math contributes to people losing their attention. they teach mythical symbols through formulas and expect people to figure out what they mean rather than working through the practicality of it. I think actually that games programming is a great way to teach them.
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I think I might have ADD (honestly my brain is a mess >_>) but I've always really liked and been good at maths. Much better than at anything with extensive reading or writing, I cannot concentrate on that shit to save my life.
 
I was terrible in school. (Didn't even go to school for the field I'm in)
Have no idea how I have my current job.

PC gaming taught me what I needed I guess... :P
 
I tutor a lot of students who struggle with math: from elementary to college, with ADHD, etc. I'm a firm believer that pretty much everyone can learn the basics of algebra, geometry, probability, calculus, and statistics. You just need a good teacher.

Will everyone be able to solve theoretical math questions? Probably not without a huge amount of effort that's better spend elsewhere, but I think being able to understand up until say Calc I is very doable.
 
Pau said:
I tutor a lot of students who struggle with math: from elementary to college, with ADHD, etc. I'm a firm believer that pretty much everyone can learn the basics of algebra, geometry, probability, calculus, and statistics. You just need a good teacher.

Will everyone be able to solve theoretical math questions? Probably not without a huge amount of effort that's better spend elsewhere, but I think being able to understand up until say Calc I is very doable.
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Yeah a lot of my views on math teachers(and other teacher to a lesser extent) came from when I had to tutor students. Most of the students who are doing poorly are just convinced that they can't understand it and can't do well. All it takes is simplifying the concept down and starting at the beginning and building on that till they get to the point where the class is. Professors are often 10 times worse since a lot of them have trouble thinking from the perspective of someone who doesn't understand it. I always assume those professors are the ones hired just for research

like you said though theres definitely a ceiling to it but for pretty much everything that you don't have to choose on your own, its natural to understand and completely possible
 
Misha said:
Yeah a lot of my views on math teachers(and other teacher to a lesser extent) came from when I had to tutor students. Most of the students who are doing poorly are just convinced that they can't understand it and can't do well. All it takes is simplifying the concept down and starting at the beginning and building on that till they get to the point where the class is. Professors are often 10 times worse since a lot of them have trouble thinking from the perspective of someone who doesn't understand it. I always assume those professors are the ones hired just for research

like you said though theres definitely a ceiling to it but for pretty much everything that you don't have to choose on your own, its natural to understand and completely possible
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It usually takes me a few tries to get calculator right. Muktivariable Calc is kicking my ass.
 
zeemumu said:
It usually takes me a few tries to get calculator right. Muktivariable Calc is kicking my ass.
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multivariable calculus is pretty much the point where I started struggling. not that the concept is hard but theres just too much to keep track of at that point. you have to have a pretty organized brain to see it mostly through
 
Misha said:
multivariable calculus is pretty much the point where I started struggling. not that the concept is hard but theres just too much to keep track of at that point. you have to have a pretty organized brain to see it mostly through
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I hope I did well on that last midterm :/
 
Calculus 1 is where I started running into problems. I failed twice. Admittedly I could have put more focus on the class over my CS courses, but ¯_(ツ)_/¯
For me, anything that I can't mentally visualize I struggle with. My memory is very picture oriented. I would do well on my Calc quizzes because they were the same problems as the homework, and I could mentally look at my homework and just copy the answer down.

Misha said:
should have went to my school. calc 2 is the last required math for CS :D
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My program was heavy on math.
Calc 1/2, Stats, Linear Algebra, Discrete 1/2
 
zeemumu said:
Stats will be the last math that I take
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I'm pretty sure I took it and it was super easy. I don't remember it at all though
Granadier said:
Calculus 1 is where I started running into problems. I failed twice. Admittedly I could have put more focus on the class over my CS courses, but ¯_(ツ)_/¯
For me, anything that I can't mentally visualize I struggle with. My memory is very picture oriented. I would do well on my Calc quizzes because they were the same problems as the homework, and I could mentally look at my homework and just copy the answer down.



My program was heavy on math.
Calc 1/2, Stats, Linear Algebra, Discrete 1/2
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mine had the same but no linear. I don't consider states or discrete past calc tho
 
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