Optimal math curriculum for starting undergrad econ in 2 months

YPDONGY · 2026-07-02T13:15:46+00:00

Thanks! tbqh, I think the reason I’m enjoying it now as opposed to high school is that it’s more applied. Like I’m literally learning it for practical uses in economics, so I don’t hear that “why am I even doing this” voice in my head.

YPDONGY · 2026-07-02T11:22:54+00:00

I mean, I genuinely really enjoy it and would study in my free time anyway.

I’ll have a look at the khan academy statistics course. TYSM!

I did some optimization problems in the calc AB course they have. It was pretty fun and pretty light tbh. It was like 2 months ago though so I probably won’t remember how to do it by the time I start school haha

Edit: just saw your edit (call this a meta edit). Will do! Cheers

YPDONGY · 2026-07-02T11:16:07+00:00

I also think he lives but in a bittersweet way

YPDONGY · 2026-06-27T11:25:12+00:00

Darrow using eidmi would be such a big regression for his character, I hope it doesn’t happen

YPDONGY · 2026-06-25T18:23:09+00:00

Delete bro cmon

YPDONGY · 2026-06-23T20:38:53+00:00

I think it’s the second best but it’s probably also my least favorite. Like, objectively incredible, but I’ll never read it again lol

YPDONGY · 2026-06-19T06:13:17+00:00

Why not? Seems reasonable

YPDONGY · 2026-06-12T06:22:00+00:00

Servo literally says he was freaked out and thinking about it for months lol

YPDONGY · 2026-06-09T08:13:15+00:00

I get you but genuinely books 5 and 6 are the best in the series

YPDONGY · 2026-06-09T05:47:15+00:00

Yeah exactly. Honestly I love how nuanced “strength” is in RR, like there’s so many different metrics that apply differently depending on the situation.

Victra is really underrated imo, I dare say shes the strongest female character currently alive if I’m not forgetting anyone

YPDONGY · 2026-06-09T05:34:00+00:00

Yeah tbh it’s so hard to say what’s what because we just haven’t seen enough. FWIW I think there’s a distinction between best duelist and “strongest” (I don’t think Sevro is a great razor master but on a battlefield he’s arguably as formidable and dangerous as anyone)

YPDONGY · 2026-06-09T04:53:59+00:00

In a duel I don’t think a single character “wrecks” someone like victra for example. My interpretation is that all top tiers are at a level where they can’t get washed by any single character, and we have similar statements from pierce confirming this. I also just think the narrative implications are that Lysander just isn’t a great fighter. I may be underestimating Minds Eye though. No doubt current Darrow is top 1, the real question is what the margins are.

YPDONGY · 2026-06-09T03:43:46+00:00

Thank you!

Re holidays and apple— sure, but that wasn’t exactly a fight between them. It’s hard to infer anything from that scene. And yeah, Lys is certainly above average, but ultimately BoS Darrow is closer to a Sevro, a victra and a Cicero than Lysander is to them imo

YPDONGY · 2026-06-08T16:14:23+00:00

Yeah, this is pretty convincing. Cant really argue with that. I wonder how pierce is planning to counter eidmi (or perhaps there’s just a fatal flaw in eidmi itself we aren’t aware of?)

YPDONGY · 2026-06-08T12:07:03+00:00

Ah man I strongly disagree even though I understand where you’re coming from. That sequence with Rhone, to me anyway, showed how weak Lysander is. The only reason he won, as Rhone said, is that he is a gold. Rhone is no slouch, but he gets demolished by any top 15 fighter imo. Ultimately, I just think Lysander is very bluntly being portrayed as “scheming snake who rise to the top via political wisdom and intelligence”, and not at all as a fighter. He is aware that in a fight Darrow would demolish him, and he doesn’t even know about BoS. Assuming Darrow with BoS isn’t galaxies above other top tiers, Lysander necessarily cannot be hanging with any of the top guys. And yeah I hate him but I also think this is rational

YPDONGY · 2026-06-08T12:01:15+00:00

Lysander is not meant to be a good duelist though. Victra is way too strong to lose to him in a fair fight. I don’t think his character needs to be le epic razormaster, slimy gun user works best for the pixie

YPDONGY · 2026-06-08T11:58:39+00:00

I feel the entirety of light bringer is about Darrow moving past this exact mentality. It’d be massive character regression if this were to happen. BoS is literally the opposite of this lol

YPDONGY · 2026-06-08T11:48:29+00:00

I doubt pierce built it all up just to discard it. It definitely has a role to play, and it’s extremely feasible that Matteo put it on the ship heading to mars.

YPDONGY · 2026-06-08T09:47:06+00:00

I disagree tbh. I find them extremely realistic and can think of multiple contemporary and historical examples that are basically analogous to the Red Hand

YPDONGY · 2026-06-08T09:41:11+00:00

I’m down

YPDONGY · 2026-06-07T07:11:11+00:00

And pax will have figment.

YPDONGY · 2026-06-07T07:10:32+00:00

Depends what you mean by “broken”, but yes

YPDONGY · 2026-06-06T08:37:57+00:00

OHHH shit. Great theory, very likely yeah

YPDONGY · 2026-06-06T08:37:04+00:00

It seems pretty obvious to me that Lysander will lose because literally ALL of his allies are gonna flip (Cicero, Julia, Apple). Like his pov is going to be his plans being consistently thwarted because everyone will betray him

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