About the Rules & Moderation category (Part 1)

[Atlas]

i tried to record this just so i can see the sound in video but it just sounds infinitely spooker for some reason

[Zugzwang]

@benguinedparbecue

the only complex exponents i know is with e as the base, in which case they’re awesome

nyaaaaaa this is what we had
we used the taylor series expansion for e^x to get the formula for e^i*theta

[Zugzwang]

@benguinedparbecue

well yeah ODEs classes don’t really care about proofs

thtbthbthtbhtb we’re shown a few proofs
only the easy ones though and usually any messy details are handwaved away

[May]

We had this too and it was a moment of this type:

[May]

Every time he mentions a derivation we all try to convince ihm tha twe very badly want to see the derivation and it’s just so very interesting to us (he delays the homework if his lectures take too long)

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@May

Every time he mentions a derivation we all try to convince ihm tha twe very badly want to see the derivation and it’s just so very interesting to us (he delays the homework if his lectures take too long)

NYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ask him to prove everything real analysis style thbthbthtbhtbthb
say the class feels too hand-wavy!!

[May]

I finally spoke up in his class recently and it was to say “you spent a long time doing algebra there but you could’ve done way faster since it was a difference of squares, is there a reason for that?” and the answer was No difference of squares works. And he thanked me for saying this instead of killing me on the spot

[Zugzwang]

@May

I finally spoke up in his class recently and it was to say “you spent a long time doing algebra there but you could’ve done way faster since it was a difference of squares, is there a reason for that?” and the answer was No difference of squares works. And he thanked me for saying this instead of killing me on the spot

nyaaaaaaa are your classes all in lecture halls

[May]

This is in aclassroom instead of a lecture hall. The split is:

1. Organic chemistry - large and very noisy lecture hall everybody is always talking
2. Chemistry major lab for chemistry majors - there’s like ten of us it’s a classroom then a lab
3. ODEs - classroom, people odn’t come to lecture because the professor isnt’ very good at teaching so he’s always begging us to ask questions
4. Physical chemistry - classroom
5. ACalc - in one of those in-between classrooms that’s kind of like a lecture hall. The professor teaches from a pit like a lectur ehall. But there’s a lot of desk space and the occupancy numbers are more like a classroom

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@Zugzwang

nyaaaaaaa are your classes all in lecture halls

all my classes are in, like, normal-ish rooms
so there’s 30 people max per section

this means that it’s easy to ask questions (and some professors will cycle through the class and every student will get asked something)

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@Zugzwang

so there’s 30 people max per section

many sections have way less
my real analysis class is only 15 people

[May]

I searched all of tumblr for posts tagged fake analysis and there was a Goncharov post and this

[May]

It’s a small class but he’s not that good at noticing you have questions and I’m not ver good at asking quesinos

[benguinedparbecue]

my real analysis class has 7 people

[May]

Fake analysis.

[benguinedparbecue]

there’s a 3blue1brown video about this it’s actually kinda interesting

[benguinedparbecue]

one of my classes last semester had 4 people

[Zugzwang]

TRUE
researchers thought this was a bug… borwein integrals
or something like that

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@benguinedparbecue

one of my classes last semester had 4 people

NYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ok that’s kinda crazy thbthbthtbhtb
was the professor really hard? or was it a super niche class

[benguinedparbecue]

my uni is small. and also the class was kinda niche