Literal Odds and Ends

[TheReal_ND]

http://nypost.com/2017/08/25/man-gets-t ... ethepeople

A man in France was sentenced to three months behind bars this week — for liking a photo on Facebook, a report says.

The 32-year-old was found guilty Monday of supporting a terrorist group after he gave a “thumbs up” to a grotesque image of an ISIS fighter decapitating a woman, according to Le Parisien.

He deserves it for still using facebook.

[Okeefenokee]

I did not need to haul ass to Austin this morning to make it to class just in the nick of time to be taught an intro to vectors. I've taken five engineering courses that focused primarily on vectors, and a third year course that begins with conics (a high school level subject) and then vectors (a college freshman level subject) has given me serious misgivings about the claimed esteem of this engineering program.

At a community college level, my first true engineering professor said we should already know vectors, so he wasn't going to teach us, and if we needed to learn them, we had to do it on our own. He was very proud of me for getting into UT, and praised me for doing so, or maybe he hated me and wanted the mexicans to knife me in the parking lot. I don't know.

I stopped taking notes about five minutes into class today with only a note on where the class ended. I sent him the picture.

[Speaker to Animals]

Mechanical engineers don't have to take linear algebra, do they?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenvalu ... genvectors




For most of my career and academics, I used mostly discrete mathematics and linear algebra. I forgot so much calculus. Now I am really into some particular deep learning methods, and I have to go back re-study a little bit of calculus and most of differential equations. When I took the courses on computer graphics, I did a lot of differential equations to build that ray tracer from scratch, but that's about it except for a tiny bit in neural networks. I suspect for you it will be the opposite, where everything is calculus and differential equations, but you will easily forget things like linear algebra, probability, etc.

My advice to you is to take mathematics very seriously. Do not use expensive calculators unless it is part of the assignment. Do that shit by hand with a little cheap calculator from Target at most. Pick up a few books on mental math tricks to speed up the process. Certainly check your homework with something like Wolfram alpha or Mathematica (Which you might want to pick up since you can get an academic license). But do not under any circumstances brush off mathematics. Easy professors like you will find in a community college will absolutely sabotage you longterm.

[Speaker to Animals]

I just realized that, if my boxer could talk, she'd sound like Ozzy Man Reviews if Ozzy Man Reviews were a Sheila.

[Okeefenokee]

If you make a homework assignment due at two in the morning on a Saturday, you're an asshole.

[SuburbanFarmer]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nati ... story.html

'Fatberg' clogging London sewer is longer than two football fields and weighs more than 10 buses

[Speaker to Animals]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nati ... story.html

'Fatberg' clogging London sewer is longer than two football fields and weighs more than 10 buses

I sure hope they have equal gender representation on the disposal team.

[Montegriffo]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nati ... story.html

'Fatberg' clogging London sewer is longer than two football fields and weighs more than 10 buses

We're not allowed to say fatberg, the politically correct term is big boned. That's shape-ist hate speech and the authorities have been informed.

[Speaker to Animals]

The PC term in America is obeast.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Fucking WHAT?