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I got 81%, but it marked me wrong for putting n=p+5 instead of just p+5, and I don't see how is wrong. |
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so whats the answer? im rubbish at sums. |
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According to the website it is "between 28.5 and 29.5", which I'm guessing is just poor programming, as that was the answer to another question on the same page. |
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ok you lost me at the first . |
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I got 58%... Maths is for stoopids, anyway... |
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i guess shoddy marking makes it more realistic |
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because it asks "after" 4 seconds instead of "at" 4 seconds? (i dunno, i'm with stupid on this one) |
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4 seconds after what CASE CLOSED |
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4 SECONDS AFTER THE SHODDY MARKING |
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I got a 96% on that... |
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ive attempted to add up all the words on this thread so far and the total number is not 4 and not 8 also. |
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mathematics strikes back |
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still have that book somewhere.. |
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i did not type that ^ who the heck types in my account? |
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welcome to the club |
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so i retrieved these three books 'Genesi e forma - Origine e sviluppo dell'estetica musicale elettronica' by Gottfried Micheal Koening 'Godel, Escher, Bach: un'eterna ghirlanda brillante' by Douglas R. Hofstadter 'Musicmathics - the mathematical foundations of music' by Gareth Loy |
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i chose the first, but i gave up after a few pages of the introduction.. interesting to read that someone has theorized what actually happens when you sit in front of your computer. the book, says that the goal is not to make some rules to arrive to a strict model of music, but rather to find the musicality in those rules, and that the whole process in a marginal subject like music is in fact a form of anthropology. this is awesome. |
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i really need to re-learn calculus |
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Godel, Escher, Bach is one of those books everyone has on their shelves, but no one has ever read. i have it on my shelf. i haven't read it |
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i'd say the brain is a consistant/incomplete system suspended inside of an inconsistant/complete system. or possibly vice-vera, or perhaps both, in thousands or millions of alternating layers. i also have the sequel to GEB called "i am a strange loop." hof and i clearly share some views about delay lines |
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maths is my weak point unfortunate, i seem to have a poor altitude for it. makes me wonder about genetics because my brother is bloody brilliant at it |
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it really depends on which math you're talking about. calculus drove me crazy, but i might have had a better attitude if it weren't thrown in along with three or four other (extremely difficult) classes at the same time, every time i took it. i love linear algebra, though. you know matrix multiplication? how you have to rotate one matrix to the side, then multiply; add up the columns? for some reason, i absolutely loved that. usually i find that sort of thing incredibly tedious. maths i do not find tedious includes: algebra, linear algebra, combinatorics, probability, graph theory... is graph theory maths or comp sci? i figure it's the latter, since i don't find it tedious |
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i know how important maths is to do anything remotely interesting in science and programming, i just tend to forget things if im not using them constantly, its not that i dont have the capacity to learn stuff and concepts, i just forget them really quickly its weird, maybe ive had too many head injuries as a child |
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puberty had an odd effect on my mind, before i was in top class for math and everything else, after puberty i went very weird |
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i definitely lost all impetus for learning new stuff, im lost in my own dreamland too much |
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how can you be a programmer without being good at math? |
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i've been reading flatland |
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i didnt say i was a good programmer i know just enough to get along |
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also i can usually find a method or someone elses piece of code to get something to function |
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how can you be a programmer without being good at math? given how he's conflating compression, compilation, and coding in the space of a post or three i'm not sure he is one but, to answer your question: most of what i like falls under "discrete math" and it's no accident that this is about all the math you need if you're a programmer |
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what is discrete math, math that minds its business? |
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i didnt mean compression in the computational sense, i meant in physically reduction the amount of paper that was in the stack, and no im not a programmer in a professional capacity, |
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a shredder and a hydraulic press would compress your whole stack most effectively |
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what blows my mind is that fourier series and stuff like that was in the 18th century, |
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circa early 00's, i walked into a BJ's Wholesale Club and hap'd upon an LED Ghettoblaster. it was blasting. it was generating superbly cheesy animated bar-graphs of the music's frequency content in realtime. it clearly employed a sixteen-band FFT, at least. for $75 or something. i remember thinking: "i wonder if anyone else realizes how amazing that is, or the crazy math that stupid flashy crap wouldn't work without." it was a lot of DSP power to throw away on a cheesy gag in a $75 ghettoblaster in 2002 or someth |
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I wonder if ET knew about it when he made he communicator |
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no idea, but he was clearly a reed ghazala fan |
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you know too much esoteric knowledge for your own good you know |
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you know too much esoteric knowledge for your own good you know i have this argument out with myself from time to time. like, when i'm making kanish jokes that reference a 45-second second segment from some dumbass 00's MTV show that i haven't watched in years. i say: "self, why the fuck do i remember this shit?" my brain immediately fires off a dozen answers from weasels to emotional dynamics to flip comebacks like "why not?" why not? let's go with that one, yes... why not? because i'm fucking drowning in this shit, giggling over ungettable jokes i can never use, and it makes it impossible for me to concentrate unless i spend at least two hours a day working out, even then my life is still a mess because it's like putting a cranky four-year-old in charge of your taxes and accounts... why would any one want this? why would they? let's gone with that one, yes... oh! being dumb would be worse |
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do you have a mechanical keyboard? where do you find the energy to type so voluminously |
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das keyboard (blank keycaps, clacky) and remember when i was beating the piss out of the roland SP-303 in the burial thread? you better believe i take my choice of keyboard and mouse even more seriously than i do my choice of sampler |
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i couldn't find a footswitch on the market that satisfied my requirements so i as fast as i can type, my brain moves faster. it actually frustrates me how slow my fingers are |
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i think ive used the same optical mouse for a decade now |
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u are all cunts |
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eat a hairy bollock |
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he's not wrong |
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im more of a dickhead than an out and out cunt |
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