Thufir's Thupremely Thatithfying Thecond Random Banter With a Lithp #170

[Eon]

Pfft. Pfft I say. Derivatives of trig functions are easy.

Doesn't mean they are fun...

[Mutant Sheep]

Doesn't mean they are fun...

Oh yeah. "Easy" doesn't mean "fun".

[AsteriskAmp]

'Cause most people I know don't like math and think it is hard.

If math is hard mode, then reality is hardcore mode.

[Eon]

Oh yeah. "Easy" doesn't mean "fun".

Well....

IRN: Curses, the teacher remembered to tell us "Assume no variable is equals to 0".

Otherwise my job would be much easier.

[Ranger Mattos]

Why would that be a problem? It comes to the same feeling essentially, not a good school.

I guess it just felt wrong that I felt glad for myself (for not having to go there) rather than feeling sorry for you.

Why wouldn't it be fun?

Well it wasn't too bad for most of them, but for one of the problems I had to use the definition of the derivative* and it's very long and drawn out.

*For those of you who don't know differential calculus, the definition of the derivative is

f'(x) = lim...f(x+h) - f(x)
........h->0........h

It's must easier just to know that d/dx cos(x) = -sin(x)

[Tragic_Comedian]

If math is hard mode, then reality is hardcore mode.

Reality is super easy. You just do stuff, man.

You guys are all so much smarter than me.

[Eon]

Reality is super easy. You just do stuff, man.

You guys are all so much smarter than me.

Eh, I feel like that whenever people discuss math. I am so clueless on the subject.

[Mutant Sheep]

You guys are all so much smarter than me.

Thanks for the compliment.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

I'm good at Math. I just don't like it. Life is so much more interesting. I mean, sure, the derivative of x^5=5x^4, but did you know that the Russian metalworking industry in the 18th and 19th centuries totally depending on Britain going through their Industrial Revolution, and once it became more profitable to process iron in Britain, the Russian mining industry almost completely moved from the Urals, to the Ukraine?

I find this interesting enough to write a 4 000 word essay on. How 'bout you?

[Eon]

I'm good at Math. I just don't like it. Life is so much more interesting. I mean, sure, the derivative of x^5=5x^4, but did you know that the Russian metalworking industry in the 18th and 19th centuries totally depending on Britain going through their Industrial Revolution, and once it became more profitable to process iron in Britain, the Russian mining industry almost completely moved from the Urals, to the Ukraine?

I find this interesting enough to write a 4 000 word essay on. How 'bout you?

I'd rather write the essay

[Mutant Sheep]

Essays are hard, but can be fun. Math is very hard, and almost never fun. Essay wins.

[AsteriskAmp]

I'm good at Math. I just don't like it. Life is so much more interesting. I mean, sure, the derivative of x^5=5x^4, but did you know that the Russian metalworking industry in the 18th and 19th centuries totally depending on Britain going through their Industrial Revolution, and once it became more profitable to process iron in Britain, the Russian mining industry almost completely moved from the Urals, to the Ukraine?

I find this interesting enough to write a 4 000 word essay on. How 'bout you?

Math is practically everything, why write a 4000 word essay when you can say it all in 5 steps, 10 properties and drawing the trigonometric circle, math is the language of the universe, everything is math. It's not a jazz solo, it's a sinusoidal wave pattern arrangement of eighth notes. It's not our planet, it's a (aproximately) sphere. It's not a game, it's a collection of ones and zeros arranged for your enjoyment. It's not a business card but the golden proportion made paper.

Life is less interesting them math, things happen, with or without you, in math, only you are tasked with making things go forward, while a life problem can solve itself by external factors, the value of "x" in the triangle won't find itself.

[Eon]

Essays are hard, but can be fun. Math is very hard, and almost never fun. Essay wins.

Essays are fun!

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

... No, I'm pretty sure that's my business card. Sorry. It has my name on it and everything...

[Ranger Mattos]

Essays are hard, but can be fun. Math is very hard, and almost never fun. Essay wins.

This statement is the opposite of how I feel. I hate essays, but love math (except proofs. I repeat: Fun )

[Mutant Sheep]

This statement is the opposite of how I feel. I hate essays, but love math (except proofs. I repeat: Fun )

You live in Wisconsin. Your argument is invalid.

[Ranger Mattos]

You live in Wisconsin. Your argument is invalid.

*smacks with foam cheese-head hat*

[Eruantion]

I'm good at Math. I just don't like it. Life is so much more interesting. I mean, sure, the derivative of x^5=5x^4, but did you know that the Russian metalworking industry in the 18th and 19th centuries totally depending on Britain going through their Industrial Revolution, and once it became more profitable to process iron in Britain, the Russian mining industry almost completely moved from the Urals, to the Ukraine?

I find this interesting enough to write a 4 000 word essay on. How 'bout you?

That is, to me, very interesting. I can make words do my bidding. Numbers... not so much.

[Rawhide]

Maths...

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[AtlanteanTroll]

Math is far easier then Essay Writing. You just have to sit down and due it. You have to be a blowhard to write a good Essay.

Take Pokemon. One of my most favorite things ever. I could maybe write 4 pages. Maybe.

[AsteriskAmp]

Maths...

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Math is easy

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x=5cm

Math is far easier then Essay Writing. You just have to sit down and due it. You have to be a blowhard to write a good Essay.

Take Pokemon. One of my most favorite things ever. I could maybe write 4 pages. Maybe.

Simply talking about IVs and EVs will net you at least 6 pages, get into the design philosophy of breeding, how it works, the items that factor into it, the competitive aspect of it, and you'll have your doctoral thesis.

[Ranger Mattos]

Simply talking about IVs and EVs will net you at least 6 pages, get into the design philosophy of breeding, how it works, the items that factor into it, the competitive aspect of it, and you'll have your doctoral thesis.

A Ph. D. in... Pokemon.

I need to find out what colleges offer that, right now.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Simply talking about IVs and EVs will net you at least 6 pages, get into the design philosophy of breeding, how it works, the items that factor into it, the competitive aspect of it, and you'll have your doctoral thesis.

I do IVs and EVs. I do them well.

Salamence Specs (for anyone that cares)

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Adamant @ Life Orb, Lv. 100
EVs: 2 HP, 252 Atk, 252 Spd
IVs: 31 Atk, 29 Spd, everything else 21+
Moves: Outrage, Dragon Dance, Earthquake, Flamethrower

Really, IVs and EVs that would be a page. Maybe 1.5 max ... 1 Page on IVs and EVs, 1 Page on Combat, 1 Page on the (various) Manga, 1 Page on the Anime, 1 page on other spin off (TCG, etc., etc.) ... I could write a Doctoral Thesis on IVs and EVs, but it'd be very boring. Let me rephrase what I said earlier. Hard, factual essays are easy. Soft, opinionated ones are not. And the American system, for some reason or another, places more emphasis on "soft" essays earlier along.

A Ph. D. in... Pokemon.

I need to find out what colleges offer that, right now.

Heh. I've seen a Major in Harry Potter.

[Eruantion]

A Ph. D. in... Pokemon.

I need to find out what colleges offer that, right now.

More importantly, what career that would send you into. Real life Pokemon professor?

I do IVs and EVs. I do them well.

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Adamant @ Life Orb, Lv. 100
EVs: 2 HP, 252 Atk, 252 Spd
IVs: 31 Atk, 29 Spd, everything else 21+
Moves: Outrage, Dragon Dance, Earthquake, Flamethrower

I would love to have any sort of clue how to EV train. But I don't Oh well.

[AsteriskAmp]

A Ph. D. in... Pokemon.

I need to find out what colleges offer that, right now.

IRC Berkley had a course in Batman, so I suspect the University of Tokyo may have doctorates on pokemon.

[HalfTangible]

I am going to stop Headbitch if it is the last thing I do

So, beloved Humanities teacher from FDS? You all know him, he was the one who did the BlueBrowneyes experiment, and the one who I got my picture taken with at that poetry thing I went to. Let us call him Bear from now on. A quick recap, he's the one who wasn't getting his contract made by Headbitch after the whole year of schooling had been planned and books had been ordered. On the first day back, it still wasn't made, so he said he wasn't coming back until he had his contract, and then he'd show up on the same day it was signed and start teaching. That was back at the beginning of the school year for FDS, and Bear says that there have been no Humanities classes all year, according to the few students who talk to him. FDS had been saying that Bear is off down south spending time with his family because his sister is ill (his sister died over the summer irl), something that was disproved every time he went outside. Last I heard of him, he had to move in with his girlfriend, and was applying for unemployment money. Well, my family just got BCCed on an email of his to the board and Headbitch. It seems their lie has changed since last time.

THEY'VE BEEN TELLING EVERYONE THAT HE QUIT SO HE CAN'T GET THE UNEMPLOYMENT MONEY.

I hate Headbitch. She ruined my school, she hurt me, and now she's doing horrible, horrible things to my friend.

...There is no way IN HELL this can be legal. There... there just can't. If this is a decent world that DOESN'T deserve to be nuked back to the stone age by the aliens from Battlefield Earth, THIS. CAN'T. BE. LEGAL.

Please tell me you have a local newspaper to submit these stories to. Because that's step one.

[AtlanteanTroll]

*smacks with foam cheese-head hat*

*joins Mattos*

Yeah, Beloit is in Wisconsin! *currently want to go to Beloit*

I would love to have any sort of clue how to EV train. But I don't Oh well.

It's pretty easy. There isn't much to say. All you need are the Power Items. I'd check the Pokemon Thread OP, it does a pretty good job explaining this stuff.

[Tragic_Comedian]

I wish I had some baked goods.

[AsteriskAmp]

I do IVs and EVs. I do them well.

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Adamant @ Life Orb, Lv. 100
EVs: 2 HP, 252 Atk, 252 Spd
IVs: 31 Atk, 29 Spd, everything else 21+
Moves: Outrage, Dragon Dance, Earthquake, Flamethrower

Really, IVs and EVs that would be a page. Maybe 1.5 max ... 1 Page on IVs and EVs, 1 Page on Combat, 1 Page on the (various) Manga, 1 Page on the Anime, 1 page on other spin off (TCG, etc., etc.) ... I could write a Doctoral Thesis on IVs and EVs, but it'd be very boring. Let me rephrase what I said earlier. Hard, factual essays are easy. Soft, opinionated ones are not. And the American system, for some reason or another, places more emphasis on "soft" essays earlier along.

Page 1 and 2, explaining EV and IV, what they are, how they work, how you raise them, explain what each represents and how they are raised, all of course heavily simplified, it's a soft essay after all. Page 3 and 4, talk about the nature vs. nurture debate on real psychology. Page 5, 6 and 7, make a parallelism between both, EV/IV and Nurture/Nature, and explain the philosophical and psychological transcendence of what seems like a child's game.

Also, wouldn't, 251, 251, 4, have been better, or 248, 248, 8?

[Ranger Mattos]

Heh. I've seen a Major in Harry Potter.

Also very interesting.

More importantly, what career that would send you into. Real life Pokemon professor?

That would be extremely cool.

IRC Berkley had a course in Batman, so I suspect the University of Tokyo may have doctorates on pokemon.

Doesn't look like it, from their website.

*joins Mattos*

Yeah, Beloit is in Wisconsin! *currently want to go to Beloit*

Why?

I wish I had some baked goods.

Any situation can be improved with baked goods.