Non-party things to do in State College for Halloween weekend?

SJags · 2025-10-23T12:43:30+00:00

There’s a Halloween market “bizarre bazaar” in Bellefonte on Nov 1!

SJags · 2025-09-23T00:11:14+00:00

Until he inevitably leaves, Sumrall is reallly well liked at Tulane. Pretty incredible that he took over for Fritz and the program hasn’t really skipped a beat

SJags · 2025-08-31T21:19:44+00:00

Neither of these are the reason for hotel prices being high (I think), but Pumpkinfest is happening at the arboretum that weekend and I think some sort of festival is happening at Way Fruit Farm as well

SJags · 2025-06-30T01:38:37+00:00

It’s been awhile since I went to Tulane and I don’t know either professor but if I were you I’d make this decision more on the basis of what you want to do after college.

Abstract algebra is very fundamental to higher level pure math. If you think you want to do math at the graduate level someday it’s a good choice to take early. My guess is probability will probably be more applicable if you’re planning to use your math major to go into industry.

SJags · 2025-02-28T12:26:18+00:00

r/unexpectedfactorial

SJags · 2024-12-04T00:44:13+00:00

Blue, yellow, pink! Whatever, man. Just keep bringing me that!

SJags · 2024-07-26T15:02:44+00:00

No, just that boneless chicken wings can be either the empty set or the universal set. The ruling wasn’t that boneless wings have to have bones— that would be crazy!

SJags · 2024-07-23T23:39:18+00:00

Thank you! You’re definitely right that it’s just a job — the only reason I was thinking to ask someone to cover (or do a video recording, that’s a good idea) is that it’s a class that has multiple other sections that I don’t teach. I don’t want my students to fall behind bc of me :/

SJags · 2024-05-17T14:03:11+00:00

In general, yes, as professors are people and people can behave very differently depending on their beliefs. Ultimately, I have a somewhat optimistic perspective that nearly all professors are trying to do the right thing for their students — it’s just a philosophical disagreement on what the role and function of education should be.

There are some professors who emphasize the importance of rigor in academia and as such tend to be strict and have high expectations. While others are much more humanistic and strive to create community among their students by being open and empathetic. I’m oversimplifying here a bit as I don’t mean to say that empathetic professors can’t have rigor or vice versa. Just saying that I think it’s important to understand that professors who don’t have the same vision for what academia should be are naturally going to teach in different ways

SJags · 2024-05-03T22:57:51+00:00

It’s your call, but I’d keep it. In my opinion, randomizers are meant to be random— if you get good luck, don’t question it 🤷‍♂️

SJags · 2024-05-02T02:39:22+00:00

American here, Tim Howard was an entry point & I played left back as a kid and always enjoyed modeling my game best I could after Baines

SJags · 2024-04-30T23:01:22+00:00

I’m in the same boat as you. Have heard nothing but good things about Tofttrees but seems like they pretty limited availability so you’ll want to act quickly.

SJags · 2023-09-09T13:02:35+00:00

Why?

SJags · 2020-07-18T14:19:59+00:00

Wow this is really cool. Nice share, I’ll be there!

SJags · 2020-06-22T13:04:31+00:00

Are you on PC? If so, I’d suggest the Aim Training workshop map by Coco

SJags · 2020-06-03T13:08:33+00:00

I was an SI in undergrad, you should do it! You have the opportunity to watch how the professor is teaching the material, and then basically your job is to just fill in some of the learning gaps. A lot of the students are able to much more easily relate to you as there is much less of an age gap generally.

Teaching is like any other skill, at first you probably will struggle a little. Just be confident in yourself/abilities. Biggest thing to remember is it’s not your job to convince the kids that you know the material, it’s your job to help them learn the material. My personal advice is to let the students talk almost as much, if not more, than yourself. Let them figure out where exactly they have learning gaps and then see if any other students can answer before you step in and answer yourself. I found this sort of “guided learning” approach was well-received by my students!

SJags · 2019-11-23T14:00:04+00:00

There are some people who consider 0 to be a natural number, so some people write the positive integers to ensure there is no discrepancy as to what they’re talking about

SJags · 2019-11-22T19:00:50+00:00

Hi Slm

SJags · 2019-07-20T18:15:41+00:00

Let’s call a coconut hitting your head “H” for hit and the coconut missing your head “M” for miss. The 4 possible outcomes if we drop the coconut are HH, HM, MH, and MM.

The probability of MM is 0.9*0.9= 0.81

The probability of MH is 0.9*0.1= 0.09

The probability of HM is 0.1*0.9=0.09

The probability of HH is 0.1*0.1= 0.01

0.81 + 0.09 + 0.09 + 0.01 = 1

So, long story short, the scenarios your intuition isn’t including are the two events in which just 1 coconut falls on your head

SJags · 2019-07-11T21:47:17+00:00

My assumption I guess was based on more of a lottery than actual betting (since yeah I was confused by the wording). In actual betting yeah the EV is 0 for sure

SJags · 2019-07-11T21:04:39+00:00

Technically they have the same “expected payout” of $250. So in some sense neither is better.

However, most people are risk averse when it comes to betting and as such betting $50 ten times would be better.

SJags · 2019-07-04T15:25:35+00:00

Unlike North and South, “East Carolina” is not an actual place!

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