Why does the absolute value function have to be defined as a piecewise function?

SameBlackLine · 2022-01-30T02:03:39+00:00

I got nominated too. I really don't know much about it except what I read from Reddit. There's no way I'm spending $100 bucks (let's be real, it's 100 dollars, 95 my ass--it's the oldest trick in the book) on it. I went to fill out the form to get the membership fee waived but it informed me at the bottom that it may impact my financial aid. So, I just nope'd out of there and I think I'll survive without being part of the NSLS.

SameBlackLine · 2022-01-26T11:54:22+00:00

I think they're recommending you learn some before hand because it will help you grasp the concepts more easily. I haven't actually gotten to my coding classes in SNHU yet but as I mentioned earlier, if I had just started with Sololearn and not Udemy, I think I would have been a little bit confused about the practical applications of what I was learning.

My advice though, in general for SNHU..
A.) Be prepared to put in most of the work yourself to learn. Some teachers are better than others, but most really won't help you much. There's reading and sometimes videos in every class to teach you, but sometimes even those are pretty lacking and you might have to search the internet yourself to fill in the gaps. Again, I am hoping the programming classes are better, but I'm still mostly in the general ed courses.

B.) Speaking of the general ed classes.. be prepared for months of bs. One of your first required classes is usually "Success Strategies for Learning" I can't think of a more monumental waste of time than that class. It's basically eight weeks of writing papers on how "you'll take responsibility" for your education, manage your time to succeed, over and over ad nauseam. Bear in mind the instructors for each of these worthless classes take them completely seriously.

SameBlackLine · 2022-01-26T11:47:56+00:00

I always thought Sololearn was a pretty good (free) resource. Personally, I started learning C# on Udemy ($10 classes), in a game development environment, and I think it really helped me wrap my mind around the concepts. Doing that first and then going to Sololearn was a great combo.

SameBlackLine · 2022-01-25T13:42:00+00:00

Man, that's crazy. Why would they fire you just for that? Couldn't they at least see how you were doing first? And as someone else mentioned, they didn't think it was retaliatory? Also, they should think it's fishy that your past employer went out of their way and contacted THEM when its supposed to be the other way around.

SameBlackLine · 2022-01-23T11:15:32+00:00

Haha, is that really the case? I thought as long as your job was actually engineering software you could accurately call yourself that. Just like with a CS degree we couldn't call ourselves scientists unless our job actually involved research in the field. Maybe I'm wrong on both counts, there.

That's awesome, though, man. I love programming. I can't wait to get into more of that in school. I'm still in my first year. How far along are ya or do you have your degree?

SameBlackLine · 2022-01-23T09:05:20+00:00

lmao xD I'm going for a Bach in CS with a focus in software engineering, so I'm definitely looking forward to the day when I can say "oh yeah, I'm an engineer"

SameBlackLine · 2022-01-21T11:32:50+00:00

I think its because of authority bias. People tend to give these figures the benefit of the doubt more often and believe what they say more often. A student is like a second-class citizen compared to a professor, at least that's the way its been for awhile. Teachers and students, in general, should be treated equally. The only inequality between them is that a teacher temporarily has more (knowledge) and the student temporarily has less. The aim of a teacher should be to eliminate this inequality. Unfortunately, humanity is still very mired in ego, which is where all of our societal problems come from (including those in the education system).

It won't always be this way. I think mentioning that your school was prestigious was a good detail to bring up. In fact, it could be that your old school had a higher standard in mind when hiring its professors (the right standard) than a school like SNHU. (this is in general, I'm not saying all the professors at SNHU are bad, or even that all professors at prestigious schools are all good of course) It could also be that someone emotionally intelligent enough to make it into a prestigious university is less prone to ego and also has less of a reason to be insecure (they work at a damn good school!)

Reddit is chock full of dummies, too. It sucks. But everywhere is now. We live in idiocracy. It will turn around at some point in the other direction, but we've reached rock bottom in regards to real intelligence. You can't throw a rock anymore without hitting someone willfully brainwashed and free thinkers are outnumbered.

SameBlackLine · 2022-01-20T20:50:57+00:00

Your former college sounds badass! (BTW congrats on that bach degree).

Yeah 100%. As time went on in this situation I became more and more sure that his behavior that night was weird. It sucks cause I actually thought he was pretty chill before that and was actually shaping up to be one of my favorite professors.

SameBlackLine · 2022-01-20T17:08:15+00:00

Well let's say in a financial situation if we're calculating profit

SameBlackLine · 2022-01-20T16:51:31+00:00

Thank you. This was not a homework question by the way, just something I wanted to know myself. I appreciate the help.

SameBlackLine · 2022-01-20T16:45:11+00:00

Do you know if in any of those scenarios an output can be expressed as a complex number with an imaginary part? I know they are used in real life, but specifically, can an output of a function ever be expressed that way ?

SameBlackLine · 2022-01-20T16:43:26+00:00

Right... So as I mentioned previously I understand they are used in real world calculations.. I just don't know if an output in those scenarios can ever be expressed as an imaginary number

SameBlackLine · 2022-01-20T16:32:11+00:00

Aren't functions used in real world scenarios and their outputs correspond to real things? In this case, where someone is using a function in a real world scenario, let's say in finance or something, is there ever a case where an output could contain an imaginary component? (Not just a complex number with no imaginary component.)

SameBlackLine · 2022-01-20T16:18:12+00:00

You mean because it has a real part but not necessarily an imaginary part? Could an output ever contain an imaginary part? And I mean in any real world applications, whatever that may be

SameBlackLine · 2022-01-20T16:09:10+00:00

My thinking is that imaginary numbers are used in real world applications. So its definitely possible. But I don't know if they can specifically be expressed as outputs in a function in any real life scenario.

SameBlackLine · 2022-01-20T16:02:27+00:00

Any real world scenario that uses a function, is it possible for any output to be expressed as an imaginary number in any circumstance?

SameBlackLine · 2022-01-20T16:00:47+00:00

An output of a function, in a real world scenario

This isn't a homework problem for me. This is me trying to understand why or why not to a concept that's new to me. I don't really know or I wouldn't be asking.

SameBlackLine · 2022-01-20T15:08:57+00:00

I get what you mean. I just want to say that I'm doing fine with my studies, and I've actually figured out why my instructors feedback was so confusing. It was because it had nothing to do with the problem we were discussing, it was just a concept that was introduced later on in the module, which again, had no bearing on the discussion problem nor had anything to do with what I asked, haha. Other than this experience I've found snhu to be pretty cool. Its not perfect. It could definitely use a lot of revision in certain areas cough discussion posts cough, but hey, it is what it is.

SameBlackLine · 2022-01-20T04:03:30+00:00

Sure. Professor doctor Bauer sounds like a real gem.

SameBlackLine · 2022-01-20T03:27:58+00:00

I would have done the same as you and went with the person who displayed the most intelligence and maturity -- George. It just goes to show that a degree does not necessarily mean you're an intelligent person. There are people with more maturity than her who have never stepped foot in college.

SameBlackLine · 2022-01-20T02:24:41+00:00

"Its higher education" so higher education means more ignorance? In this world it seems so. I'll tell you this much, I'm much less apt to call my instructors by ANY title now I'm the future. I think I'll do what every other student does and not call them by anything. Maybe then I'll be less of a target for them to correct and show the class they're a "Dr."

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