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Killing Babies
Cross posted at Agricola In this morning’s statistics class, when Professor J*#^% asked someone for a value, a student answered with “.4″ The response prompted the professor to note … more →
The Gates of Academe
Killing Babies
Agricola wrote 1 year ago: Cross posted at Agricola In this morning’s statistics class, when Professor J*#^% asked someon … more →
Killing Babies
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Agricola wrote 1 year ago: In this morning’s statistics class, when Professor J*#^% asked someone for a value, a student … more →
Math Wars...Resumed
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Agricola wrote 1 year ago: Before I resumed my education and began this journey in Discovery Informatics, I did as much researc … more →
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Agricola wrote 1 year ago: I spent some time last night reviewing some math fundamentals in an attempt to get my brain moved fr … more →
XKCD
Agricola wrote 1 year ago: Because this says what happens to me in so many of my math classes: … more →
He's Rooting For The Machines
Agricola wrote 1 year ago: As I cram down information on Boolean Functions (where 1 + 1 = 1, always), my textbook informs that … more →
Commutativity and Life
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Agricola wrote 1 year ago: (Cross posted at the other site) Sitting in a math class, and the professor announces that the next … more →
David Gale
Agricola wrote 1 year ago: My favorite math professor has, over the course of two semesters, introduced his classes to many pro … more →
Work Math
Agricola wrote 1 year ago: We haven’t covered this is any of my math classes, yet, but experience teaches that the proof … more →
The Big-O
Agricola wrote 1 year ago: Here I am, a man of middle-age, thinking that I know what the Big O is……… Little d … more →
Silence The Thoughts
Agricola wrote 1 year ago: In calculus class today, while the professor was explaining yet another step in the process of under … more →
The Spy Among Us
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Agricola wrote 1 year ago: Everybody (at least those about my age) can remember stories of espionage that involved some daredev … more →
Happy Pi Day
Agricola wrote 1 year ago: For those in the know, today is a big day for Pi, the source of most of my difficulties in calculus. … more →
The Devil Himself
Agricola wrote 1 year ago: From Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications, Sixth Edition, by Kenneth Rosen: Abu Ja’Far Mo … more →
Golly Gee!
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Agricola wrote 1 year ago: The end of the worst week of my (new) college life is near. All that is required of me tomorrow is t … more →
DeMorgan's Laws
Agricola wrote 1 year ago: Not (A or B) is the logical equivalent of Not A and Not B. Trust me when I tell you that the differe … more →
Time & Logic
Agricola wrote 1 year ago: My Discrete Math professor is the same gentleman who shepherded (if that is the right word) me throu … more →
Why I Love Mathematics...
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Agricola wrote 1 year ago: One of the few endearing characteristics of my Calculus textbook is the sidebars sprinkled randomly … more →
