/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.11347919]

Fucking Undergrads

[Anonymous No.11347922]

>>11347919
we were all undergrads once.

[Anonymous No.11348151]

>>11347922
but I'm not retarded

[Anonymous No.11348173]

>>11347919
who's this slut

[Anonymous No.11348206]

>>11348151
>the absolute state of american math education

[Anonymous No.11348210]

>>11347919
What's wrong with me?

[Anonymous No.11348229]

What do you have against us?

[Anonymous No.11348240]

>>11348151
0.999... Is a shorthamd for a representation of an infinite series that converges to 1. But as any undergrad fucking knows, and infinite series is not an infinite sum, its a representation of the limiting value.

[Anonymous No.11348243]

>>11348210
>>11348229
>Oh it's office hours now right? No? Oh can I just talk about why I got 1 point off on this question?
>b-but I did show my work!
>b-but even though I screwed up my units by 1000 i fixed it at the end!
>b-but b-but IM GONNA TALK TO THE PROFESSOR NOW! RIGHT NOW
>oh hey you're in my class too, let's chat in the TA's office instead of going in the hall
>oh yeah, AdS/CFT is so cool. The holographic principle is so deep. Have you heard of black hole firewalls? My math professor was showing us super advanced math called Bessel functions and he said it's related to black holes, and yeah I just found them soooo easy, I'm gonna do my research project on the string theory of black hole firewalls because I mastered a Bessel function. Oh yeah also did you hear about quantum machine learning.....

[Anonymous No.11348293]

>>11348243
kek, this.

We usually give students points on exams if they get a wrong result, but use it in a correct and sensible way afterwards.
There was one student who literally fucked up at everything, including copying values from the exam to his paper. I gave him zero points at a problem where he could have made 10. First, he complained to me, arguing I should give him points for continuing to work on the problem with incorrect results.
>no
Then, he went to the professor with the same demand.
>no
Then he sued us.

[Anonymous No.11348295]

>>11348243
>did you hear about quantum machine learning
That's high school tier. Everyone in college either knows about it or just doesn't care
I'll give you that you're right about most of the rest, although not every undegrad does it

[Anonymous No.11348328]

>>11348243
This one time I got a question wrong on a test and went to ask the professor about my grade because I was genuinely confused what the fuck did he mean.
Turns out the man was actually balls to the wall insane.

[Anonymous No.11348660]

>>11348243
Most TA’s are midwits with poor people skills which explains why their grading is trumped even by middle school teachers

[Anonymous No.11348669]

>>11348173
Orihime, I think.

[Anonymous No.11348776]

>>11348328
This happens often.
I have an dif. eq. professor who wants us to be verbose about the answer, not symbols, just being retard tier clear.
>*solves y*
>y=... explicitly in terms of x
>Wrong. You didn't say y was the answer.
and like that he gave me 5 in that. homework when literally everything is right.
Or the calculus 2 teacher last semester.
>I'm using this theorem because I showed P.3 holds...
>Wrong, you didn't say that P.1 is true, even if it's part of the hypothesis, and you didn't say it was because of P.2 that you already showed
Basically they want us to write retard tier proofs, in a limited amount of time.
Even when they clearly can't solve the same problem in the same time in the same verbosity level.

[Anonymous No.11348783]

>>11348776
That's because midwits often leave gaps in their proof due to an inability to fill in the gaps, and then try to justify it by saying it's obvious. Your professors only allow the smart students to get away with gaps, because they know the smart ones could fill them in if necessary.

[Anonymous No.11348817]

>>11348776
>do a test
>get a 6
>do another test
>after finishing it in half the timr, literally walk up to the professor and ask if he can flip through it to see if it's formal enough or if he wants me to fill in some gap
>he tells me to fuck off
>I later get a 10
This one still confuses me.

[Anonymous No.11348820]

>>11348669
You think correctly

[Anonymous No.11348826]

>>11348173
Orihime standing at a distance while crying and deluding herself that she was the who is suffering as Ichigo is wrecking some edgelord faggot.

[Anonymous No.11348830]

>>11348783
>Your professors only allow the smart students to get away with gaps
>implying professors have IQ detectors
This happens at most in high school when you skip algebra steps and the professor knows you're smart to not have copied the answers.
In college they mark them as wrong when there is actual gaps.
>That's because midwits often leave gaps in their proof due to an inability to fill in the gaps, and then try to justify it by saying it's obvious
That's different, I'm saying it was a proof where the premises to use the theorem were in different places, there is no gap there. It's just the professor being a lazy fuck.
But yes, I heard a lot of people doing that when I was in 1st year. Fighting a circular proof is infuriating to hear.
So giving all halfs and waiting for students to come and correct their test is more efficient.
>>11348817
>>after finishing it in half the timr, literally walk up to the professor and ask if he can flip through it to see if it's formal enough or if he wants me to fill in some gap
>>he tells me to fuck off
You offended your prof. intelligence forcing him to read your test rather than skim through it and give you halfs.
As I said, it's a method lazy profs use since they know more than half just give wrong answers.

[Anonymous No.11348835]

>>11347919
iktf
>organize seminar, 40 min presentation per student
>give handouts with most common mistakes, like not watching the fucking time
>half of them talks less than 25 min
>none of them talks more than 30 min
>some have the audacity to complain why they got a worse grade

[Anonymous No.11348847]

>>11348240
sequence: 0.9, 0.99, 0.999 ...
sum: 0.9 + 0.09 + 0.009 ...

[Anonymous No.11348864]

>>11348835
>40 min presentation per student
Was it a seminar on smalltalk and stalling time?

[Anonymous No.11349004]

>>11348243
so what's the problem?

[Anonymous No.11349008]

>>11348293
fucking based, i hope he won and the prof got fired

[Anonymous No.11349019]

>>11348835
why should they take more time than needed to communicate their ideas? fucking retard

[Anonymous No.11349388]

>>11349019
For the same reason you don't charge an hour for 30 minutes work or why you have to fill your presentation slot. Fucking idiot I do not give a shit how fast they can present the main ideas I want them to find out the right level of detail for a given time frame

[Anonymous No.11349396]

>>11347919
Imagine unironically being a weeb and falling for the PhD meme

[Anonymous No.11349401]

>>11349388
well too bad, your requirements are idiotic and you're a shit instructor. change your methods or die.

[Anonymous No.11349424]

>>11349388
The other guy is right its fucking retarded to require a time frame for a presentation. In real life you would never do that. Have a meeting where you have to talk for exactly 45 minutes. You finish whenever you are done. The level of detail should reflect the audience and what they need to know.

[Anonymous No.11349432]

>>11349388
Instructors like you are hated by students for a reason. You’re an arrogant fuck and you will not do well in a professional working environment, hence the reason you are an academia nigger

[Anonymous No.11349642]

>>11348293
I did this. I wrote down wrong answers and did everything right but the brainlet tier retard that was my professor was like "guuuuh you're wrong anon" and gave me no points

[Anonymous No.11349652]

>>11347919
>Fucking Undergrads
It's fun, but I only ever meet them at cafe's.
Working life sucks.

[Anonymous No.11349653]

>>11349642
Example: problem said "2a" but I have ADHD and wrote down "a". Also I miscopied previous results for other problems. I am ADHD as fuck but that professor legit was a fucking retard. Couldn't even understand what a six dimensional divergence was to show 0 net flow in a 6d stationary phase space. Fucking moron.

[Anonymous No.11349659]

>>11348826
Accurate

[Anonymous No.11349854]

How do I not be an undergrad?

[Anonymous No.11349874]

>>11348293

and then everybody clapped

[Anonymous No.11349878]

>>11347919
>fucking cute undergrads
Yes

[Anonymous No.11349881]

>>11349854
>1 don't complain
>2 don't act like you're the smartest hottest shit of all time
>3 if your elders tell you something, fucking listen and don't be a little angsty mental 16 year old

[Anonymous No.11349882]

>>11347919
Sure.

[Anonymous No.11349901]

>>11349881
Some people dont deserve respect. Fuck the "elders"

[Anonymous No.11350406]

>>11348243
How should I approach professors with questions? Like afterclass I try to always ask I they have time and whatever but I am not sure if they feel pressured to say yes or something. Should I just always go to office hours or asking questions after class is reasonable?

[Anonymous No.11350415]

>>11349388
You shouldn't be a prof, you should be one of those retarded paper pushing bureaucrats.

[Anonymous No.11351192]

>>11349388

[Anonymous No.11351334]

>>11349881
>don't complain
big lol

[Anonymous No.11351429]

>>11349881
>agree to whatever frustrasted low-tier academic slaves spit
>be a whiny bitch with impostor syndrome (like us)
>don't stand up against our mid 20's retardation

[Anonymous No.11351467]

>>11348243
>Oh it's office hours now right? No? Oh can I just talk about
He is right. I pay those motherfuckers 20k a year so they should suck my dick every time i feel like it no matter how i dumb i am. And they always act like they are doing me a favor. It is their fucking job. They owe.

[Anonymous No.11351476]

>>11348293
given a chance i'd sue your ass just out of spite cause college education is fucking expensive and you fucks don't give a shit and don't teach us shit, we are supposed to learn everything on our own by watching youtube videos. why the fuck should i pay for this "education"

[Anonymous No.11351494]

>>11351476
move out of us
problem solved, country sucks

[Anonymous No.11351530]

>fucking children who finance my research with their parents money
fix'd OP's statement

[Anonymous No.11352804]

>>11350406
>Like afterclass I try to always ask I they have time
Unless it's a massive class they do to at least answer something. They like when you ask questions, it shows that you care. I did all the time with my econ professor and he wrote me the GOAT recommendation letter.

[Anonymous No.11352833]

>>11348243
TA’s are invariably subhuman faggot retards who couldn’t be research assistants and enable a large amount of the mediocrity and poor quality of stem education we’re suffering through. I have never once learned anything from talking to them, the fact that they’re almost always ugly dimwits that fail to flirt successfully when they waste time hitting on the idiot girls in the lab and then fail spectacularly at conveying basic logistical information related to technical details of the lab is why I hate them. Their stupidity is forgivable, most stemfags are smart stupid people, the gross incompetence and physical, psychological ugliness of TA’s warrants actual hatred. Fuck you faggots

[Anonymous No.11352932]

>>11351530
>fucking children who finance my research with their governments money
fix'd OP's statement

[Anonymous No.11352952]

>>11349388
I haven't had to deal with that kind of mind numbing bull shit since highschool. Fuck you and fuck your pretentious teaching techniques.

[Anonymous No.11353066]

>>11347919
hey I'm a tutor, why'd you post my job description

[Anonymous No.11353646]

bump

[Anonymous No.11353687]

>>11349388
>>11349401
>>11349424
>>11349432
>>11350415
>>11352952
>>11351192
He's not wrong. When asked to give a talk you are not given an outline of what the contents should be, but a give time frame in which to explore a subject. If someone is tasked to provide a talk in a given time slot, then it is up to the presenter to adjust and find the right level detail that roughly takes up the appropriate time. Maybe 45 mins is a lot for any single student, but asking for a 15-30min presentation on work done, research project etc is absolutely reasonable and critical. Any capable, smart and well informed student will be able to do this without too much issues.

[Anonymous No.11353753]

Fucking undergrads is against the rules. :(

[Anonymous No.11353762]

I wish i can fug my qt blonde ta, bros..

[Anonymous No.11353768]

this is why I dropped out after 2 years of having almost perfect GPA when i was just taking acid and poppy all day long

FUCK undergrads
FUCK TAs
FUCK College
But most importantly
FUCK Boomers dude

[Anonymous No.11353945]

>>11353762
Believe it, anon! Go follow your dreams!

[Anonymous No.11353953]

>>11349008
lol, no. He was the only one who got zero points in that question btw.

>>11349642
That's sometimes institute policy. As said, we do give points when wrong results are used correctly.

>>11349874
Wrong situation.

>>11351476
It's not at all expensive here. Don't you think it's a bit insulting when we give our best to teach stuff and then somebody doesn't sit down at all and produces a load of horseshit we have to dog through for every songle point?

Many of you have a weird understanding of university. It's not a school, where you're spoonfed everything. It's supposed to enable you to do stuff yourself. That's the most important thing to learn at university.

[Anonymous No.11353957]

>>11351530
>paying for college
i shiggy diggy

[Anonymous No.11354180]

>>11353687
nope, he's wrong.

[Anonymous No.11354183]

>>11349642
then you didn't do everything right.

[Anonymous No.11354185]

>>11353953
lol, yes. don't reply to me again.

[Anonymous No.11354320]

>>11349642
>I wrote down wrong answers and did everything right
Peak undergrad posting

[Anonymous No.11354350]

>>11349901
>ask for advice
>get advice
>defiantly reject advice and do the (wrong) thing you were going to do anyway
yup, it’s undergrad time

[Anonymous No.11354354]

>>11352833
t. mad that his TA didn’t just do the lab for him

[Anonymous No.11354435]

>>11348835
40 min presentation, wtf kys

[Anonymous No.11354443]

why can't undergrads stop cheating?

[Anonymous No.11354486]

>>11354185
Ok.

[Anonymous No.11354510]

>>11354443
They want to make sure that debt is the only thing they get out of their degree. The zoomer fears knowledge and ability.

[Anonymous No.11354635]

>so many seethy undergrads in this thread
fucking pathetic lol

[Anonymous No.11354697]

>>11354443
What do you consider cheating?

[Anonymous No.11354720]

>>11354443
Cuz the exams themselve are stupid, in real life you do not have to remember all this shit but you have constant access to equations, notes and cigarette breaks.

[Anonymous No.11354729]

>>11354720
t. will complain about failing FizzBuzz in a few years

[Anonymous No.11354913]

>>11354729
>FizzBuzz
what the hell is that

[Anonymous No.11354920]

>>11354913
never gonna make it

[Anonymous No.11355078]

>>11354720
undergrad here
honestly i dont really see the issue. all the math we are being taught is babby tier and shouldn't take more than a year to learn it all if you were actually intelligent. to give perspective, riemann allegedly mastered a 900 page number theory book in a week. i remember last year or so seeing this pdf and it really opened my eyes: https://cr.yp.to/papers/calculus.pdf

this is a subject that most learn in 8 months when really you could learn all of it in an hour or so if you have sufficient mathematical maturity. it seems as though we are learning lots of information, but in reality we are only made to remember the most essential and elementary parts of whatever subject. most of the studying you actually need to do is have an understanding of common argument structures and also how different theorems, propositions, and lemmas combinatorially fit together into a cohesive view of this slice of the subject. this stuff however isn't quite memorization. you say that it is pointless because in real life you have constant access to equations but this is muddle headed. often times what you take away from this isn't just the statements of all the propositions and equations. if it was just this, you could learn everything in a week at least. rather what you acquire in studying this is really a know-how with regards to the body of information. not all bits of information are created equally. the axiom of completeness is one of the most fundamental things to analysis (it is precisely the thing that separates what we are doing from number theory), and a lot of the beginning proofs tend to make use of supremums and infimums. you should have intuition for when you need to evoke this axiom, and this can't be earned by mere memorization. it also won't be obvious to you unless you have internalized many proofs/proof attempts, unless you've creates a copious number of examples to test stuff out, etc.

[Anonymous No.11355085]

>>11355078
with that said, while it may sound like a lot of *gasp* work, when you actually work to understanding the inner-workings of what you are being tested on, it is way more straight forward

[Anonymous No.11355128]

>>11354486
seething lol

[Anonymous No.11355131]

>>11354635
nah it's seething boomers lmao

[Anonymous No.11355141]

>>11348847
And series?

[Anonymous No.11355146]

>>11355128
>>11355131
Cope^3

[Anonymous No.11355320]

>>11354443
It's un-ironically okay to cheat on exams when it's some meme class: (sociology, african american studies or some other stupid GE class for your degree)

[Anonymous No.11355412]

>>11354729
>FizzBuzz
As someone who has never been interviewed as a developer but spends most of my time writing code and scripts, are there seriously potential hires that come out with CS/programming degrees that can't do FizzBuzz or something similar to it in an interview?

Hiring committees that I've been on are usually focused on stats and bio, and while we have some weedout question that I'm surprised people fail it's usually not something quite as simple as FizzBuzz. Especially if you've been "coding" for 4+ years by the point you're going for the job.

[Anonymous No.11355431]

>>11354913
It's a programming challenge that's allegedly used by employers (though I doubt it really is, a student in the second month of an intro to programming class could do it in 5 minutes.)
Basically you need the output to count upwards from 1, but display "fizz" for every number divisible by 3, "buzz" for every one divisible by 5, and "fizzbuzz" for every one divisible by both 3 and 5

[Anonymous No.11355442]

>>11348243
>>Oh it's office hours now right? No? Oh can I just talk about why I got 1 point off on this question?
Lock the door jackass

[Anonymous No.11355480]

>>11355431
i think i could probably do that and i took 1 computer programming class in highschool

[Anonymous No.11355557]

>>11355480
exactly, I did it on a graphing calculator in highschool when I was bored, I refuse to believe anybody with any qualifications whatsoever gets filtered by it

[Anonymous No.11355612]

>>11354920
answer me faggot

[Anonymous No.11355673]

>>11355480
I could be a billionaire

[Anonymous No.11355740]

>>11355673
no you couldnt

[Anonymous No.11355744]

>>11355612
stop impersonating me faggot

[Anonymous No.11355754]

>>11349424
>its fucking retarded to require a time frame for a presentation. In real life you would never do that.
>a presentation would never have a time frame
>in real life
I used to think biz was the dumbest board

[Anonymous No.11355902]

>>11347919
am undergrad
i fear everyone older than me without exclusion, including other undergrads
i do not speak, i just work
i generally assume if i did poorly that it's my fault and that i am a disappointment to my parents and to the professor
life is hell, i'm literally the poorest person on this campus

[Anonymous No.11355905]

>>11355902
you sound like you have negative testosterone levels

[Anonymous No.11355920]

>>11355905
nah just raging anxiety and depression
similar effect to be honest

[Anonymous No.11355933]

>>11355920
well, time flies and pretty soon you'll be dead and no one, least of all yourself, will be bothered by the trials and tribulations of your life during this time. far greater minds than you or your perceived superiors on campus have been forgotten, their significant experiences and passionate strivings relegated to dust, swept away into history's trashbin. it's very serious at the moment but eventually has to be taken lightly, maybe develop a sense of humor. apparently jacking off to anime catgirls can help too

[Anonymous No.11355940]

>>11355902
Was undergrad
Spoke to everyone regardless of ranking
Didn't work unless it was justified
Life was great, until I flunked out of basic grad classes (who gives a fuck about inorganic chem lmao)

[Anonymous No.11356087]

>>11348243
hahaahha

[Anonymous No.11356099]

>>11349401
>>11349424
>>11349432
>>11350415
>>11351192
>>11351476
>t. community college
>t. "I pay money but don't want to do the work"
>t. "I don't have results because I'm a shitty researcher"
>t. Calc I lecture hall
>t. soft scientist
All of you are embarrassments if you genuinely believe the shit you typed. I see why OP made this thread. Bunch of asian pissbabies who don't want to work.

[Anonymous No.11356107]

>>11349901
Found the undergrad

[Anonymous No.11356112]

>>11354443
They're Asian.

[Anonymous No.11356121]

>>11356099
based and checked

[Anonymous No.11356237]

>>11347919
KUROSAKI KUN

[Anonymous No.11356294]

>>11355085
>>11355078

Less than .5% of the population has Riemann IQ, anon. Believe it or not, most people weren't lucky enough in the genetic lottery to be able sit down for a few hours and master a subject like analysis. They get bogged down by the details for a long, long time. Of course in an ideal world only the 0.5% capable of quickly learning and applying abstract mathematics would be given the time of day in a respectable math department, but degrees are inflated and in the U.S every smoothbrain gets a shot. Trust me, they're working hard, you're just smarter than them, and that is a cold, genetically encoded fact that you should be aware of before calling brainlets lazy.

[Anonymous No.11356381]

>>11356294
>sit down for a few hours and master a subject like analysis
spoken like a true brainlet

[Anonymous No.11356452]

>>11355754
nah he's right retard

[Anonymous No.11356455]

>>11356099
nah you're wrong suck my dick lol

[Anonymous No.11356628]

>>11347919
>Fucking Undergrads

This thread is misleading there were no Undergrads fucking!

[Anonymous No.11356650]

>>11347922
Unless you don't participate in the extra 4+ years of tutorial that is a bachelor's degree.

[Anonymous No.11356734]

>>11356455
>>11356452
You must be 18+ to post on this board. Either log off or grow up.

[Anonymous No.11356746]

>>11348835
you're a fucking retard bro.

40 min presentation, nobody's gonna listen to a beta bitch for that long (which most students are, let's be real)

It's also irresponsible to subject students to 40 minutes of potential garbage without doing any QA first. It's a literal waste of everybody's time

[Anonymous No.11356748]

>>11356734
ligma

[Anonymous No.11356749]

>>11356746
>40 min presentation, nobody's gonna listen to a beta bitch for that long (which most students are, let's be real)
participation in the question sessions afterwards is part of the final grade :^)

[Anonymous No.11356751]

>>11356748
Who's Steve Jobs?

[Anonymous No.11356777]

>>11356749
and after that we can all go play in the ball pit :^)

[Anonymous No.11356778]

>>11356777
some cranky boomer apple farmer redneck hippie

[Anonymous No.11356781]

i mean he's not wrong

[Anonymous No.11356843]

Mature student undergrad here and they are morons, it's because they're kids though

[Anonymous No.11358052]

>>11354697
looking at their neighbors exam to copy their answers.

[Anonymous No.11358229]

>>11356734
make me bitch lmao

[Anonymous No.11358245]

>>11351476
have you tried going to a non-shit school? probably not because if you're this fucking stupid your only choices are trump university and university of phoenix.

[Anonymous No.11358316]

>>11348293
I had a TA give me partial credit for an answer I did completely right and he even put a check on the problem indicating I did it right. I had another TA take points off because I didn't draw a graph to scale when we were free hand drawing graphs. I had a TA give partial credit for a problem that was either you got it, or you didn't get it (I didn't get it).

[Anonymous No.11358323]

>>11349388
Wwwhhhhaaaaaatttt iiiiiifffffff tthhhheeeyyyyyyyy jjjuuuuuuuuuusssttt ttaaaaaallllllkkkkeedddd llliiiiiiiiiikkeeee tthiisssssssss tthhheeee eeeeenttttiiiiireee ttimmmmeee????????

[Anonymous No.11358911]

>>11347919
fucking weeaboos

[Anonymous No.11359048]

>>11347919
I can only be me

[Anonymous No.11359052]

>>11348293
If he sued you I guarantee the college fucked him over several steps along the way, lying about fees or college life on your campus or something else, and you were just the last straw

[Anonymous No.11359057]

>>11349388
College honestly should not be about those sort of skills.
Soft skill classes I am forced to take are such a waste of time

[Anonymous No.11359066]

>>11354443
Becuase of these guys
>>11355320
Let me explain. The way people (especially Asians) take 18-21 units in a semester is they cheat on half the classes, (not saying they don’t study in the others.) the problem with this is it blows all the college tracking statistics into the fire. So the colleges think it’s possible to be honest and graduate in 4 years with all the extra classes they keep adding and all the extra busy work they keep adding, It’s not.

[Anonymous No.11359085]

>>11355480
Someone post the Indian solution so this poster will understand, It’s like a page long.
Btw you can do it in one line of code if you know your stuff, middleweights do it in 3 lines

[Anonymous No.11359095]

>>11359085
>one line of code
You need a really autistic language to do this in one line.
>include #iostream

[Anonymous No.11359191]

>>11359052
Pretty sure that's not what happened. He just genuinely wanted to be spoonfed everything. He also cited his father (who is basically a professor) as a reason for why we should give him points.
Also, education here is cheap.

[Anonymous No.11359432]

>>11355480
Go on then

[Anonymous No.11359474]

>>11359085
How would you do it in one line?

[Anonymous No.11359929]

>>11347919
Someone piss you off?

[Anonymous No.11360041]

>>11348151
We are all retarded.
Even as post-grads.
Even as Ph.Ds.
Even as professors.

Maybe less retarded by some (arbitrary) measure of yours, but still retarded.

[Anonymous No.11360499]

>>11358911
this

[Anonymous No.11360541]

>>11360041
I've lately come to understand that I am actually not very intelligent but also that dumb people can find their way into positions that carry significant intellectual prestige.

I don't even know how to feel about all this anymore. The only solution is to not have any ego and somehow do that without being a massive fucking doormat.

[Anonymous No.11361092]

>>11348835
>40 min presentation

are you diseased?

what student can stay coherent for 40 min straight? how can you even hope to balance an entire semester worth of presentations like that?

[Anonymous No.11361094]

>>11354443
because the only thing that will stop the chinese students from plagiarizing is currently sweeping their home country

[Anonymous No.11361106]

>>11361092
>what student can stay coherent for 40 min straight?
A non-retarded one?

[Anonymous No.11361183]

>>11348240
>0.999... Is a shorthamd for a representation of an infinite series
Close, it's a representation of the number that that infinite series converges to.

[Anonymous No.11361373]

>>11360541

Just try to be a good person who does good works, regardless of your autism quotient

[Anonymous No.11361452]

>>11349388
>>11348835
You're a fucking retard I would punch your face into your skull.
>DUUUUUUUDE
>If I make my students do my job they will learn better trust me
No, you stand your fucking ass and let the students seat.
It's not even a matter or being a shit teaching method, the professor doesn't sit in to listen retarded student's bullshit, period.

[Anonymous No.11361563]

These seething undergrads in here who don't know shit fill up my motivation meter. So good.

[Anonymous No.11361939]

>>11348243
>Oh yeah also did you hear about quantum machine learning.....
every fucking time and you just know its a cs major who's gonna graduate with 1 semester of statistics/probability

[Anonymous No.11362098]

>>11355078
fucking good PDF that, thanks anon
i never thought i'd be bothered with gauge integrals, but that was short n sweet.

i will say though, regular math textbooks are so long-winded precisely because they try to fit enough examples in to get you some intuition.
only if you're personally interested in the subject enough to think of examples on your own do those really get in the way.

[Anonymous No.11362468]

>>11360541
As long as you are capable, there is nothing wrong with being in a "position that carries significant intellectual prestige" despite being "dumb".
Probably even the universe itself is dumb. There is nothing wrong with that, though, since it was capable of producing us.

[Anonymous No.11362779]

>graduate
>work
>superior is not even an undergraduate
How is this fucking possible? My masters, worthless.

[Anonymous No.11363426]

>>11362779
This.
At some point you get the hang of it and just work your portafolio with things that matter

[Anonymous No.11364736]

>>11347919
>turned in a worksheet with a proof I wasn't sure about
>prof calls me into her office and alleges that the proof was "non-intuitive" before showing me she found a similar one online
>assert that I did not cheat, email her a scan of my scratchwork and a couple of references I used
>mfw she still proceeds with the hearing, perhaps on a power trip from being assigned department chair last semester

Be thankful y'all aren't taking math at a liberal arts college.

[Anonymous No.11364910]

What fucking shitty schools do you people go to where the undergrads act like this? Here everyone just keeps to themselves, asks questions graciously, etc. At least that's what I observe, but then again I avoid people in general.

[Anonymous No.11364979]

>>11364736
Proceed with the hearing, present your evidence.
Finish her course, then file a formal complaint against her and give her a really bad review on ratemyprof.
Make sure your complaint and review are sane and well-written. Spouting an incoherent rant will work against you.

[Anonymous No.11365109]

>>11359057
>Soft skill classes I am forced to take are such a waste of time
Soft skills will be more imporant than your actual work at some point

[Anonymous No.11365146]

>>11364979
This but nobody takes ratemyprof seriously, and she might identify you from your review, which cannot possibly lead to anything good

[Anonymous No.11365165]

>>11361183
Same thing. A convergent infinite series is defined to equal the value it converges to.

[Anonymous No.11365419]

>>11364736
>arts college
Found your mistake.
Yeah, I'm thankful, I'm not (You).

[Anonymous No.11366050]

>>11350406
I don't mind when students ask questions after class, but a lot of times another class is trying to enter, so I feel rushed to leave. A good thing could be to try to walk a bit with the professor as he leaves the classroom, and then excuse yourself when you think its about to get awkward (nothing left to say).

[Anonymous No.11367239]

>>11365109
No. you didn’t follow the thread. My point is I don’t learn anything in those soft skill classes, not saying soft skills are useless, just college can’t teach them. You learn them on the job and in life

[Anonymous No.11367246]

>>11359474
for i in range(1, 101): print('Fizz'*(i%3==0)+'Buzz'*(i%5==0) or str(i))

[Anonymous No.11367257]

>>11359095
See
>>11367246
Python, 72 characters. There are lots of solutions online so I doubt it is used any more in interviews

[Anonymous No.11367292]

>>11367246
Should be "xor", right?

[Anonymous No.11368270]

Sorry for the retarded question, but when you go to office hours are you supposed to knock the door first or do you just enter your professor's office? What if there is other student already there?

[Anonymous No.11368323]

>>11368270
I always knock unless otherwise advised. Smart proffs leaves the door open during office hours, and might close it when with a student, but woo to them if they are too stupid to put a note about this on the door or in syubus

[Anonymous No.11368332]

>>11348835
>40 min presentation
That's a pretty big thing to ask of anyone.

[Anonymous No.11369463]

>>11367292
No, xor in pretty much every programming language is bitwise. Putting the bitwise operator ^ there would lead to a TypeError in comparing two strings with it

[Anonymous No.11369479]

>>11368323
Thanks anon, I want to be more proactive and start going to office hours and my physics prof seems to be cool always saying stuff like "I can show how this is derived in office hours if anyone is interested". I am just worried about being an awkward sperg who lacks basic etiquette, since I've never been there.

[Anonymous No.11369486]

Being a millennial graduate TA is a great vantage point from which to watch the absolute state of zoomer gender relations in all of their dysfunction.

[Anonymous No.11369987]

>>11348293
Damn, right for the lawsuit, I usually get the empty "I'm reporting you" threat. Kek

[Anonymous No.11371417]

>>11356650
Don't be American

[Anonymous No.11371440]

>>11348776
Being extraordinarily specific is very important in mathematics. I had a Prof that would penalize you for not making the distinction between saying negative and the opposite of. It seemed annoying at the time but I later appreciated how much he made us pay attention to detail.

[Anonymous No.11371570]

As a graduate TA in a top uni, I genuinely don't know what you're moaning about. Most of my undergrads are great.

[Anonymous No.11372007]

>>11369463
Ah, I see. Thanks. Still, a simple "or" would result in both fizz and the number being printed, right?

[Anonymous No.11373260]

>>11353687
It's retarded because sometimes a paper is shortly described but involved a lot of work. There really isn't any justification behind this except for a big fuck you.

[Anonymous No.11373269]

>>11347919
Fucking postgrads.

[Anonymous No.11373325]

>>11347919
Multiple undergrad degrees in unrelated disciplines is better than a masters of PhD
Prove me wrong

[Anonymous No.11373336]

>>11349388
What do you teach, fucking communications

[Anonymous No.11373735]

>>11371570
Thank you

[Anonymous No.11373793]

>>11355078
do a Riemann sum right now and post your work faggot

[Anonymous No.11373834]

>>11373325
In engineering and similar fields, yes. In hard science, no.

[Anonymous No.11373910]

>>11373793
But Riemann sums are trivial, they are just tedious.

[Anonymous No.11374031]

>all those triggered undergrads getting mad because somebody demands that they fill up their time slot
>all those "adults" that do not know that you knock before entering an office

[Anonymous No.11374838]

>>11373793
you just need to know a few identities dude. you can even derive them yourself

[Anonymous No.11374992]

>>11348243
>he doesn't have an open door policy
It's like you don't even want to foster academic discourse with your students

[Anonymous No.11375167]

>>11348835
why do people think 40 min is too much? at my university seminar presentations are always 90 min

[Anonymous No.11375177]

>>11347919
Hey, I mean if you're into that, no shame.

[Anonymous No.11375200]

>>11349652
Based

[Anonymous No.11375416]

Fucking hell, this whole thread is cringe. The way you teachers and students treat each other is deplorable. No wonder humanity is fucked

[Anonymous No.11375476]

>>11354443
Why shouldn’t I cheat? Nothing I learn matters anyways and the degree is only useful as a gatekeeping device.
t. engineering meme degree