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Post by Zoom on Feb 27, 2013 20:28:28 GMT -6
Oh no, Calc! I only ever took pre-calc and that gave me trouble; I can't imagine real and actual calculus. Have you named your graphing calculator yet? My math teacher was all about the calculators.
Good luck on your test!
I just looked up "obscure Batman facts" and it turns out that a) Batman has used guns before, I know right, and b) Wayne Manor would cost $32.1 million if it were an actual house.
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Post by oracle on Feb 28, 2013 18:45:08 GMT -6
Hmm... I don't think I can easily relate to that complaint. My math class this semester is called Differential Geometry (It's like taking derivatives of shapes!). I'm a math and physics major in case you guys forgot.
Horay for being the science guy on a writing forum!
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Post by Jade on Feb 28, 2013 20:34:06 GMT -6
Hmm... I don't think I can easily relate to that complaint. My math class this semester is called Differential Geometry (It's like taking derivatives of shapes!). I'm a math and physics major in case you guys forgot. Horay for being the science guy on a writing forum! I wish I had the brain for math and science, but I've only got a 6th grade education, really--at least for math. I love science, but math is my foible. So, I was going through old journal entries and oh, man I wanted to smash my own face in. I hate the way I acted at 14. There was one entry, though, about how I was on an RPG forum and I liked playing in the off-topic. The site members literally hated me because my post count was 5,000+ because that's where I wasted my time--in the off-topic board; games; etc. Sure, I was an immature teenager, wasting my life on the internet, but it baffles me that these people made such a big deal about it. I was having fun playing in the games, whoop-dee-doo. Now that I'm older I see how pointless and stupid I was, but then I'm like, 'why did these people care what I was doing?'. For some reason gaining post counts made me happy. I was quite happy and had a lot of fun. If they didn't want me making off-topic posts, why have an off-topic board? Seemed awfully petty for the members to get angry about, no? I behaved stupidly, of course, swearing and calling them losers (wow, me). So, I hate how stupid I was, but then I'm like--what was the big deal again? Did I make an mole-hill into a mountain? I'm glad I'm an adult now. ------ Okay, this has been bothering me. I have to modify my post. A certain person whom I'm acquainted with in the past made pro-abstinence talk. They went on the whole, 'I saw this happen to my sister because she had sex before marriage' and 'I saw my friend go through this because she went ahead with it'. Well, today, we were talking about abstinence again and I was saying how I hate how people can't just wait, get married, and then proceed with tying the knot in the relationship. This person then said, 'Well, I didn't wait 'til marriage because I knew they were who I wanted to be with for the rest of my life.' And they weren't engaged yet, either. I felt like all this time this person was playing some holy, little angel. Wise and proper, but no, they were a hypocrite. I'm not going on a whole debate about sexual abstinence, but it irked the living daylights out of me that here this person is, preaching abstinence, agreeing with all the things I think and feel on abstinence, and then confesses that they did it before time. Completely hypocritical! |
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Post by Raphael on Feb 28, 2013 21:15:21 GMT -6
Man is quite a hypocrital creature. We all are at some point. The really annoying thing though with a hypocrite who speaks the truth is they still speak the truth
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Post by Endovia on Feb 28, 2013 22:38:48 GMT -6
Oh no, my calculator and I are not best friends. It's my slave and that's where the relationship ends.  (Plus, we have parts that are designated no calculator.) Thanks! I think it went well, except for the AP problem, but eh. Yeah, very early Batman now he's got his grapple gun.  And that's not that much considering that he's a billionaire, but in standard money terms that's insane. I liked geometry, Oracle, but I am getting tired of derivatives and integrals. There's just too much. Isn't this what computers were built for? Hypocrites are fascinating creatures. I quite like the idea of opposites, even though it can be annoying. |
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Post by Genesis on Feb 28, 2013 23:06:51 GMT -6
Batman used to blow shit up ;D I told math to solve itself after I finished trig... what bugs me is that i just got an email from the WPM (world poetry movement) saying they hadn't received my poem that I submitted, even though my paypal account says I paid for my author's note and such  The email asks me to contact them if there's a problem, but it's a no-reply message... frustrated. |
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Post by sapphire on Mar 1, 2013 0:14:10 GMT -6
Ugh, calculus. I'm so glad I choose a college that doesn't require math classes. AP Calc was enough math to last me a lifetime. Science is okay - at least, the sciences that don't deal with too many numbers. I liked ecology. And I took a class on natural disasters last year. Hypocrisy is one of the most frustrating and fascinating aspects of the human psyche. It's great for a character, not so great for a person. Genesis, do they have a phone number you could call? They probably get a million and one emails every day... Or send a follow-up email. I can imagine how irritating that is, though. Okay, rant: Why is the publishing industry so freaking hard to break into? I found out today that Tor Books (part of Macmillan, huge fantasy publisher) never responded to my queries about an internship with them because they don't accept resumes from people they don't know. At all. Every person they hire, they find through word of mouth. No wonder they just talked in circles whenever I tried to call to find out if they'd gotten my email. But that does lead to a little blessing: +I have an awesome boss who is passing on my resume to people he knows (including someone at Tor) because I told him that I'm job searching (I'm an intern at the moment). |
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Post by Raphael on Mar 1, 2013 6:45:02 GMT -6
I'm going into computer science so i have to take physics, calc, and possobly something like statistics  And it is really annoting with publishing because you HAVE to know someone to get it done. |
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Post by Zoom on Mar 1, 2013 6:58:39 GMT -6
Tori - I think we've all been there :/ It seems like every year, I read back through my journals, and every year, I'm horrified by what I found in there. Part of growing up I guess.
At least you're not that person anymore. Besides, it could have been worse: I knew a girl who dressed in teeny tiny clothes and talked about sex all the time for the attention. I have a friend who got pissed at a party's host and poured beer all over their speakers. I knew a girl who made a Youtube video about how much she hated preps...while wearing an Abercrombie sweater.
Hello everyone. I'm Zoom...and I'm a hypocrite.
Science fascinates me but I goofed off in high school - grades are too low to get into anywhere really interesting. There's always Wikipedia.
Sapphire - I'm constantly disgusted and amazed by how much of the world runs based on Who You Know instead of Who You Are. Yay for knowing your boss!
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Post by oracle on Mar 1, 2013 9:28:41 GMT -6
Endovia, computers may be necessary to solve a lot of calculus problems but it is just like any math problem. If you want to do anything novel or interesting you kind of have to leave the computer, because it is only as smart as the person programming it. (Which in the case of calculus programs is you). Plus someone good at calculus is faster and more accurate than a computer for many problems. Also plus there are some problems that computers can't handle. I have blown up the "kernal" on our math software before. Basically the numbers I wanted it to handle were too big to store on one hard disk. Yes, I have in fact had homework that was not possible to do by computer.
Honestly among my biggest gripes is that nobody seems able to do statistics. It never struck me as something particularly complicated, I don't understand why it is so difficult. I swear, every news source will put up graphics where the numbers don't match the picture or they will announce a blatantly correlation study as proof of cause and effect. Heck there are university professors who have told me statistics that literally meant the null case was in effect. For instance, here's one that drove me crazy:
"Did you know that 20% of the world's obese population lives in China? That country is getting to be a very obese nation and we need to help!" ~ Basically every professor in the nursing department.
News Flash: 20% of the world's population lives in China! Assuming obesity were completely evenly distributed, about 20% of the world's obese population would live in China.
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Post by Jade on Mar 1, 2013 11:49:27 GMT -6
Why is the publishing industry so freaking hard to break into? I found out today that Tor Books (part of Macmillan, huge fantasy publisher) never responded to my queries about an internship with them because they don't accept resumes from people they don't know. At all. Every person they hire, they find through word of mouth. No wonder they just talked in circles whenever I tried to call to find out if they'd gotten my email. But that does lead to a little blessing: +I have an awesome boss who is passing on my resume to people he knows (including someone at Tor) because I told him that I'm job searching (I'm an intern at the moment). What do you intend to do in a publishing company? Be an agent or editor? Where do you work now? I'd love to work for a publishing company, but alas, the only way I'll be able to is by getting books published through them--hopefully. Isn't Tor the publishing company Elantris is through? |
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Post by sapphire on Mar 1, 2013 23:05:03 GMT -6
Editor, preferably. I think I would start as an editorial assistant and work my way up. Though I'm not thrilled with the idea of doing that forever (I want to write my own stuff, too) - it's a job. At the moment, I'm working on Lightspeed and Nightmare Magazines, though I do some miscellaneous projects for my boss, as well (he's the editor of both magazines).
Tor did publish Elantris, yes, as well as several of Brandon Sanderson's other books. He goes through Scholastic for his children's series, I think, and another publisher for his novellas, but most of his stuff is published by Tor.
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Post by Endovia on Mar 2, 2013 16:52:07 GMT -6
Yeah, Oracle, I'm just not that interested in doing anything interesting with math. Now, I don't think I should have taken calculus. I just like the teacher. She's nice. Some of my friends are in statistics and they think it's really easy. They just hate the teacher. Have you seen this guy/doctor/professor (I don't know who exactly he is and I don't remember his name) talk about exponential problems? That was incredibly vague. Let me try to find him. Yeah, here he is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=umFnrvcS6AQIt's really long, but I liked it. He talks about the news stuff, too. Media's not reliable when it comes to anything with math. You're never given the entire picture, just whatever makes the quickest headline. |
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Post by Zoom on Mar 4, 2013 14:05:17 GMT -6
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Post by Endovia on Mar 4, 2013 18:38:34 GMT -6
I didn't know that specifically, but that's nifty knowledge. Really cool graphic. I think illusion is a big thing in business and products. Like with drinks, food, cars, it could be applied to every product really you think you're buying from someone else but it's just another branch owned by the same company. In a marketing class we went to a grocery store and looked for products by the same company such as Coca-Cola and it was insane how many different items we found all produced by one company.
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(Plus, we have parts that are designated no calculator.) Thanks! I think it went well, except for the AP problem, but eh.
And that's not that much considering that he's a billionaire, but in standard money terms that's insane.
The email asks me to contact them if there's a problem, but it's a no-reply message... frustrated.
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