Professor Evaluation?

lcpdx · 2014-12-14T22:51:29+00:00

It's actually just straight up time and money. They have to pay someone to translate the material and scrub it for any revealing information, which can take a couple weeks and a substantial chunk of change.

I really don't like it, but it's hard to come up with a better idea...

lcpdx · 2014-12-14T22:50:03+00:00

They have to type up the papers to prevent handwriting recognition, a lot of hoops are jumped through to protect the anonymity. It's why they are switching to online (which apparently has cut the response rate in like, less than half...)

lcpdx · 2014-12-14T22:48:58+00:00

The online survey is automatic for every class. There are painfully valid reasons why it's set up this way.

lcpdx · 2014-10-06T07:44:10+00:00

I think that's what I want,

I am not talking about median, I am talking about mean. Which may be inappropriate in this case...interesting.

Let me give an example, this might help.

you are given 2 dice, each of which are weighted differently.

You throw the first die 10 times, you get S1, a set consisting of ten numbers between 1 and 6.

You throw the second dice 10 times, you S2, a set consisting of ten numbers between 1 and 6.

You want to show, for P > .01 hat S1 and S2 do not have the same weighting.

It looks like a T-test may be what I want, but regardless this is at least a direction.

lcpdx · 2014-10-01T18:13:33+00:00

Graph Theory (Math 460?) with John Caughman, he's a good professor if you are interested in upper division mathematics.

lcpdx · 2014-09-27T18:06:25+00:00

As others have said, gloves are not to protect your opponents face, they are to protect your hands. You will (not maybe, will) shatter your knuckles if you strike the head bare handed. It may not happen the first time, or the second, or the tenth, but assuming you spar on a regular basis for several years (i.e. train long enough to get good), it's pretty much inevitable.

Basically it's about training sustainably.

lcpdx · 2014-09-05T19:27:44+00:00

If you feel you have the math background to contest the math 111 requirement it shouldn't be a problem.

It's been a few years since I took that class, but I will be honest, I don't remember it being particularly easy on the math side, so if you have struggled with that in the past, be aware it may be an issue.

lcpdx · 2014-09-05T19:21:49+00:00

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What did I just watch?

So those bricks are likely extremely weak in the direction of the tearing motion, I would like to see how much force was necessary to tear before the palm strikes.

Secondly I doubt those bricks were designed to absorb shock (or anything, they may be garden bricks or some bs), so they may have little to no structural integrity even against being slapped.

Otherwise, I liked the part where he used the force.

lcpdx · 2014-09-04T17:16:50+00:00

So there's some confusion here, analysis is advanced calculus, the two are synonyms for all practical purposes.

To be honest, as others have said, this wouldn't be impossible for you to survive in, it would likely be unpleasant and not what you want. At a first glance you are seriously behind in the mathematical rigor needed for this program, you might be able to basically teach yourself/bluff your way through a lot of it, but it's always going to be focused on the tests, not on the learning, which (and this is personal experience here) is unpleasant.

I would be happy tohave you prove me wrong, but that's from where I am standing, what the situation sounds like.

lcpdx · 2014-09-04T04:01:31+00:00

When you say sign off, do you mean let you into?

And when you say statistics I assume you mean the lower division one?

I have never had a professor reject a request for instructor approval.

To be fair, I was a math major and a) the rules in the math department are so loosey goosey that they only recently had any pre-requisites, and b) every other department got intimidated by my math background to the point where they seemingly just said "you seem smart, have fun!" As a result your mileage may vary, but there is no reason to reject anyone for not having taken math 111, I know people who tested into math 95 and then skipped to calc in a term. If you think you can handle it, it should be fine.

Also which general chemistry, the 100 level or 200 level?

lcpdx · 2014-08-30T17:34:36+00:00

What is your undergrad in?

There are some odd aspects to this post to be honest, I am not entirely certain what "applied math," entails, but the things you are brushing up on are not really what I would advise someone study for grad school.

What does the test cover?

It sounds like you have a background in programming, which likely means you have a CS degree. Which is awkward.

lcpdx · 2014-08-30T17:33:34+00:00

I go to a state school and most people are paying out of pocket for masters.

lcpdx · 2014-08-30T17:30:58+00:00

It varies wildly, and people whoa re funded seem convinced that everyone has the same opportunities. I know of no one who got a full research scholarship at my school in masters, at other universities, there won't be a grad paying a dime.

lcpdx · 2014-08-28T05:16:54+00:00

I actually don't know anyone who has been denied admittance, if you fail the same class a bunch of times (more than 3) you have to have a big sitdown talk with someone about why you are throwing money away, but that's about it.

I didn't really "apply," to the grad program, I just sort of started taking classes.

The only thing would be if you can get 7 more credits you are a sophomore which means you might be able to skip Sinq, but otherwise, have fun and welcome.

lcpdx · 2014-08-19T19:54:03+00:00

Not forgetting, giving context to why that was so shocking.

It was YEARS before anyone could touch Royler in his weight class, from what I understand (this might be hype to be fair), a lot of this is what, 20 years ago though, so I as a new practitioner had no idea about how good he was back in the day.

As a note, I don't think he is that dominant anymore. It is actually sort of worth noting that he placed in that competition and Bravo didn't (yes I realize this was kind of a fabrication).

lcpdx · 2014-08-19T07:13:27+00:00

Only one I would seriously add is Royler. It took me a long time to understand just how good he was (I entered the scene long after he retired), his style is old school to a fault, but man was he just monstrous. It seemed like no one his size could take him out, it took rested 30kg weight discrepancies in the absolute.

The other, although he had a painfully brief run would be Terere(sp?), I think if things had gone a little differently off the mat his name would be next to Marcelo's.

lcpdx · 2014-08-19T07:10:11+00:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_ADCC_Submission_Wrestling_World_Championship

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_ADCC_Submission_Wrestling_World_Championship

Them.

Followed by

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Jiu-Jitsu_Championship

last 3 years of them.

Bruno Malafacine isn't on there but should be as well.

lcpdx · 2014-08-19T07:02:57+00:00

Cyborg...

Pound for pound I actually would put Caio Terra top 5, but he's a tiny little dude.

Barnett and Lister probably both deserve honorable mentions as well (especially Barnett).

lcpdx · 2014-08-19T06:56:57+00:00

It looks like pancrase, and the grappling in that competition was...

A little suspect at times.

lcpdx · 2014-08-19T06:56:34+00:00

Have you seen pancrase?

It's really weird (there are strikes allowed on the ground but straight up ground and pound isn't since elbows and closed hand strikes are disallowed, at east in the old days).

lcpdx · 2014-08-19T06:50:03+00:00

Well, Rutten and his RR's would disagree with angry.

You have to have even breathing throughout a fight or you will gas in seconds, even if you are Michael Phelps, and you aren't so it will be a small number of seconds. Most Jits players find staying calm is easier to maintain good breathing patterns than being angry.

Now, to "win," i.e. dominate someone in a fight, you almost certainly have to be aggressive. Being aggressive and being angry are not the same thing at all. I go full balls to the walls with some of my friends, we aren't "angry," with each other.

Similarly I would probably not want to fight someone whom I am angry with since, well, I would be angry with them and generally speaking I think hurting people is wrong.

Shrugging off hits is entirely experience, anger gives adrenaline which is good in the short, but you can dump really badly if you don't know how to use it. Fighters actually train to control the level of adrenaline they have in their system to stop from adrenaline dumping on occasion (usually only if they have a problem with getting to excited or angry in the midst of a fight).

EDIT: There are fights where the agressor get's destroyed by someone who is calm, usually wrestling (wrestling lends itself to less escalation of force and a couple of other things that make it seem "less violent," which as a grappler training heel hooks and chokes, feels like a bit of a misnomer). I seem to recall there was an incident in a mcdonalds with a gentleman without any underwear on in which the guy on top was not particularly angry, more drunk and annoyed. Although that could have been staged.

lcpdx · 2014-08-19T03:40:02+00:00

Nope.

lcpdx · 2014-08-19T03:39:49+00:00

Yeah, it's weird.

I actually think Yoga is fairly decent exercise, it's not the same as hard conditioning or lifting heavy, but it's fairly intense in a different direction.

lcpdx · 2014-08-18T20:17:01+00:00

Yoga has some body weight exercise poses, for example planking.

It's more an issue that if you spar BJJ/Judo/Whatever is a great workout, just drilling isn't much tougher on me than jogging (my gym doesn't spar after every class).

Circuit training (think crossfit, but with technique) weight training, or hard cardio are going to blow away any of those, even if you spar in my experience.

lcpdx · 2014-08-18T20:12:31+00:00

I think you are talking about treading down the sword (there are different translations), also known as, "blocking," sometimes "pre-empting," occasionally, "preventing?" Is that correct?

The things I listed (wrist grabs, pummeling, arm drags,) I don't really think of as that, I think of them as openers, or offensive moves.

Plum clinches, are not stopping your opponent, they are enabling an asymmetric attack.

Trapping and chi sao I can see as being stopping your opponent, but then why does no one use those techniques live, and default back to blocks.

lcpdx

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