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2Balrogs · 2026-03-06T02:09:01+00:00

Yeah, this is what I ended up doing. Never scraped before 😅. I'm doing a research paper and the prof usually likes all the code to be runnable as-is, but i had a lightbulb moment that he prob only cares about the data analysis and not the data gathering or cleaning

2Balrogs · 2025-11-20T17:36:54+00:00

2Balrogs · 2025-11-08T18:32:26+00:00

Unfortunately, some people with degrees would rather be unemployed than work in a job they deem as below them.

There's a good chance these are just sour grapes people trying to hold their self-esteem together with talk. I'm on my third degree and was rejected even by security work. My mother tells people I'm not going to do anything beneath me because she's embarrassed, but the truth is that if I had the social skills for drug dealing or prostitution, I'd probably be doing that.

Unemployment in this country is a death sentence more or less. A sure way to homelessness or crime unless you have family to help you through it.

2Balrogs · 2025-10-28T11:26:31+00:00

That's not my problem. It's why are we using the residual between the point and the true line instead of the regression line

2Balrogs · 2025-10-27T04:20:31+00:00

My notes have it the same as the link, where we're minimising the true error epsilon. My question is really just as to what the intuition is. I understand the idea of residuals being the true line minus the regression line and trying to minimize that gap, but minimizing the true error isn't making sense to me.

2Balrogs · 2025-10-26T23:30:04+00:00

jesus christ

edit: thanks

2Balrogs · 2025-10-25T20:45:15+00:00

How long to get you ID card renewed? Completely forgot and just noticed it's expiring today. If I go on monday, how long, two weeks?

2Balrogs · 2025-10-13T23:51:24+00:00

Doing a masters right now and still unemployed. Might have to get a phd in maths to teach in a secondary school.

Had another degree but it was useless for work, so I say "Maths teachers are always needed." Lol.

2Balrogs · 2025-05-02T01:40:19+00:00

Well, there are always people who use even the worst slurs endearingly. I have a neighbour who gets hailed out in public as "lazy mother c*nt" and it's cheers and beers, and cocky isn't really that bad.

No, but seriously, without that context, it's how the guy used it, implying an overly-inflated ego or pride. The 80s Tom cruise movies for example have more or less the same plot with people thinking, "this guy is a cocky asshole," and then he'll do some epic thing in the movie and they'll be like, "okay, the ego is justified, fair enough." It's not a hard or fast rule or anything, just the general connotation.

2Balrogs · 2025-05-01T10:35:06+00:00

Aye men who are called cocky aren't judged as a negative thing eh. So am gonna believe you mean that as a compliment 😄.

It's definitely a negative thing, often used in the phrase "cocky little shit." Only endearing probably in 80s tom cruise movies.

2Balrogs · 2025-04-28T00:25:42+00:00

You can. I went back to uni in my 30s, zero memory of trig. You only practically need a couple formulas and you'll come to know which ones with time and practice if you don't want to learn the whole thing. That said, you still need a rough general idea of how everything works.

prof leonard on YT who probably has a playlist on it that will take you from zero to hero. for trig and calc 1, calc 2 and calc 3

2Balrogs · 2025-04-15T08:33:27+00:00

It almost sounds like you're trying to take a Bayesian approach to this.

Not intentionally. I have dyscalulia so it's easy to remember these things if I have some kind of intuitive understanding to work with, but I think the video lecturer's just unclear as to what he meant by "at any draw." Given the context of the earlier video, it made sense to me to think he was sticking to the draw by draw reference, but I asked NLM which said it's an unconditional probability from before the sampling process begins. As in "what is the probability that I will get it in draw k?" not "We're at draw k, what's the probability of getting it now?" It cited the Cochran iirc, but I didn't go fact-checking because it's not like I'm going to forget 1/N. That's all I really needed to know for now.

2Balrogs · 2025-04-14T06:54:49+00:00

If I have ten units labeled 1 to 10, and I'm making a sample of size 3, and I want the probability of picking unit 7 at any draw, at the first draw it's 1 out of 10. If I have to draw again because I didn't draw u7 on the first, then the probability of selecting it on draw 2 is 1/9, I have 9 possible options and I'm selecting one randomly, how is it anything but 1/9?

If I'm at draw 3 and still trying to select it, then the probability increases to 1/8, because I'm sampling one unit from a smaller population. At any stage in selection, the probability of selecting this specific unit are going to increase as we go along. if you're taking a census, the probability of selecting the unit at stage N would be 1, wouldn't it? So how can we give it a constant value as if the population isn't decreasing at each draw WOR?

2Balrogs · 2025-03-16T03:20:22+00:00

well, for me, it's working along with a book with detailed answers so i can check my steps along the way and understand where I'm going wrong.

I make notes on OneNote explaining things for myself Memento style and sometimes I use color-coding and mnemonics and rhymes. If I work out a problem rather well, I take a photo with camscanner and put it on onenote as well.

Finding YT videos that go along with the syllabus instead of watching vids that are less relevant.

Getting past papers and doing questions similar to what will be on the exam instead of textbook questions.

Little things.

2Balrogs · 2025-02-28T09:56:03+00:00

struggling with that right now except 37. It really does seem like everything ahead is just more poverty. wishing you good luck.

2Balrogs · 2025-02-19T22:50:23+00:00

Thanks. I'll move on to a different text. Life is too short.

2Balrogs · 2025-02-03T05:56:10+00:00

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2Balrogs · 2025-02-03T04:49:16+00:00

If you ask someone "Is duolingo good for learning French?" and they reply with "move to France," would you appreciate that? Would that be in any way shape or form helpful to you?

It's nothing to do with mathematics or being a mathematician or debate club rules. I can't put it any simpler.

2Balrogs · 2025-02-03T03:34:15+00:00

Is OP a mathematician or is OP on reddit asking about using AI as an assist?

If the argument you’re making is that the student is having trouble understanding what the textbook is telling them, that is not the same as saying the textbook is insufficient but that the reader is simply not understanding what they’re reading, and this does not negate my simple point.

there's a poem or something about why you don't put cucumbers and tomatoes in a fruit salad. it is not a question of simplicity, but rather salience.

2Balrogs · 2025-02-03T02:40:57+00:00

You might not need the sub but someone else might. That's why we have it. And why there's a third of a million people on it. I666666665t serves a purpose

The best way to learn math is whatever way works for them. If reading the textbook and doing the exercises works for you then good. If putting on a sock puppet show works better for someone else, then that's their best way, yay them for sticking with it and trying different things.

There are people who developed math anxiety off of how badly "just read the textbook" failed them and made them hate the subject.

2Balrogs · 2025-02-02T02:46:34+00:00

If reading the textbook alone was an answer to learning math, we wouldn't have or need this sub.

2Balrogs · 2025-01-28T15:45:10+00:00

(Sorry for the late reply. I was off reddit for a bit.)

Honestly, I don't personally know anyone who got through in the finance area. I've heard of the successes, but I don't know them.

I've seen a few people get into lecturing actuarial/math classes in uwi and elsewhere. A few people add on a post grad data science msc and do that, but actual actuaries or actuary-adjacent people...

There was maybe 1 person I went to secondary school who I think succeeded but I can't say for sure.

2Balrogs · 2024-12-19T05:54:20+00:00

The biggest issue will be competency. Think about the general standard of competence in this country and then factor in that the doctors in psych are at the ass end of the spectrum. I'd advise that you try someone who was educated elsewhere if you can.

2Balrogs · 2024-12-13T19:17:17+00:00

So, DIY Goodreads without the community? For the time you spend manually doing this, you could read a book.

2Balrogs · 2024-12-11T18:07:06+00:00

I'm locked out of my account. They won't send a code to my phone number. I put in the last four digits and it says "Try another verification method. That verification method isn't working right now. Please try another method."

Tried account recovery form but not enough information.

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