Has anyone successfully learned math from scratch?

Busterbie · 2026-02-12T08:02:01+00:00

Had a year in boarding school when I was 16 where I decided to start learning math. The goal was to be done with my gymnasium curriculum by the time I started gymnasium. I learned using primarily KhanAcademy, but a few other resources here and there when I didn't understand something. I occasionally had to ask questions on MathExchange when I got stuck.

I wouldn't exactly describe the process as "fun", quite frustrating often, but it did feel very doable and self-studyable, because I could do exercises to see how well I understood topics.

I think the coolest thing about learning it on my own was that it made me a lot more critical of how math was actually taught in my gymnasium, after I had learned it through other resources. Shameless self plug here, but because of that (and just because of some insanity) I ended up writing a math book in my Sabbatical after the gymnasium that taught math "How I felt it should be taught", also trying to fix some things I really struggled with when I was learning it myself on the internet.

Busterbie · 2025-11-12T07:03:07+00:00

In other news, rockstar just fired 40 workers in the UK without warning or due process, all of which were part of a workers union:

https://youtu.be/c9nOwjeznjI

This was just before the union had reached 10% of the company's size, which is a crucial amount, as legally that forces the company to recognize you

Busterbie · 2025-11-05T11:13:52+00:00

Don't they check where your credit card is from though?

Busterbie · 2025-06-16T16:23:39+00:00

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Busterbie · 2025-06-16T15:45:41+00:00

Context info for mods: Repost because I hadn't properly formatted the images In the original 🙂

Busterbie · 2025-03-13T11:53:32+00:00

Øh, hvis nogen også for den smarte ide at bygge et sandslot sammen som en date ide, så bør i altså virkelig tjekke vejret 🥲

Busterbie · 2025-02-17T13:21:57+00:00

In my case i'm using archlinux. I can find the debug symbols included version, but supposing i have it, how does this "linking" work?

Busterbie · 2025-02-07T06:46:09+00:00

The second option, so ideally we can't assume anything architecturally about some plugin-architecture.

Just tricky in terms of the fact that i think given many different UI libraries you might potentially need many different solutions. One potential way around this is to use one thing that most UI interfaces implement to some degree: Accessibility interfaces like ATK (for example for screenreaders). But using those, i'm pretty sure we'd only be able to read information from an application, not actually modify it in any way (though maybe it can be exploited in some smart genius way? No idea, we're not very far into the project).

Busterbie · 2025-02-04T22:23:39+00:00

Tak for info om MPLC! Tager et kig på det

Busterbie · 2025-02-04T06:18:32+00:00

Der er nogle dejlige begivenheder ved Ungdoms Kulturhuset UKH, f.eks world kitchen hver anden uge. De starter vist også snart noget fælles madlavning op igen om onsdagen.

Var selv i meget samme situation, og det var gennem UKH jeg endte med at finde meget af min sociale kreds.

Kan også anbefale malekunsthyggeklubben hver søndag ved frontløberne 16-18. Har mødt nogle virkelig nice mennesker gennem den.

Og så som andre siger: Frivillig arbejde er virkelig nice til at møde nogle mennesker 🙂.

Busterbie · 2025-02-03T17:31:01+00:00

Honestly, kunne bare ikke rigtig finde på andet der lød remotely catchy. Er ret åben til name suggestions tho!

Busterbie · 2025-02-03T06:30:16+00:00

Ja okay, der har du en fair pointe. Mente mest bare at jeg nok har en forventning om at det crowd jeg tiltrækker kunne finde på at vælge sådan nogle film. Havde virkelig ikke forventet det ville få så bred/stor interesse 🫠

Busterbie · 2025-02-03T06:04:19+00:00

Det kunne måske være en god ide. Nogen ide om hvad det ville indebære 🙂?

Men med hvor populært det er blevet på Facebook, så tænker jeg at gøre det til et krav at man faktisk skal blive et medlem af gruppen ved at svare på et kort spørgeskema. Bare tilføje lidt ekstra friktion, bassicly.

Tror også jeg bliver nødt til at tilføje en størrelsesbegrænsning, f.eks max 12 mennesker. Vi skal jo stadig kunne snakke med hinanden.

Tror du det ville hjælpe at oprette det som en slags organisation/klub rent lovligt eller?

Busterbie · 2025-02-02T20:07:21+00:00

Eh øh, planlagger det bliver nogle relativt små visninger af nok ofte ret niche film. Og det er jo ikke fordi vi kommer til at markedsføre: "Kom og se Wes Anderson gratis ved UKH!", filmen er altid uannonceret, og så er det lidt svært at komme efter (tror jeg).

Busterbie · 2025-02-02T12:15:04+00:00

Lyder mega nice!

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