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Author Topic: Things that made you RRRRRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Trust-o-nomics Edition  (Read 3382275 times)

Rolan7

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Re: Things that made you RRRRRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Decimals of Wrath Edition
« Reply #49500 on: January 22, 2015, 12:08:11 pm »

Fucking maths man.
+(1/3)*3

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Re: Things that made you RRRRRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Decimals of Wrath Edition
« Reply #49501 on: January 22, 2015, 12:37:24 pm »

I miss math. Best part of High School. I probably couldn't even do first derivatives anymore, sadness.
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Re: Things that made you RRRRRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Decimals of Wrath Edition
« Reply #49502 on: January 22, 2015, 12:48:19 pm »

Fucking maths man.
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Re: Things that made you RRRRRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Decimals of Wrath Edition
« Reply #49503 on: January 22, 2015, 12:59:11 pm »

I miss math. Best part of High School. I probably couldn't even do first derivatives anymore, sadness.
Multiply by the power then decrease the power by one. Or do it from first principles with (x, f(x)) and (x+h, f(x+h)) if you hate speed.
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Re: Things that made you RRRRRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Decimals of Wrath Edition
« Reply #49504 on: January 22, 2015, 01:14:03 pm »

I miss math. Best part of High School. I probably couldn't even do first derivatives anymore, sadness.
Multiply by the power then decrease the power by one. Or do it from first principles with (x, f(x)) and (x+h, f(x+h)) if you hate speed.
Man, I remember being amusingly annoyed at my math teacher when, after a week of learning and mastering the disgusting nearly page long equation to solve it, they then matter-of-factly wrote a tiny equation on the board and said "now here's how to do it in 3 lines".
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Re: Things that made you RRRRRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Decimals of Wrath Edition
« Reply #49505 on: January 22, 2015, 01:33:41 pm »

It wasn't until I took AP physics that the reason of why its so important to know why an equation works as opposed to just knowing the equation itself really sunk into me.
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Re: Things that made you RRRRRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Decimals of Wrath Edition
« Reply #49506 on: January 22, 2015, 01:35:01 pm »

It wasn't until I took AP physics that the reason of why its so important to know why an equation works as opposed to just knowing the equation itself really sunk into me.
And yet physics is probably the field with the most times where the answer to the question of "why?" is "because we did experiments and that is the way it works!" :P
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Re: Things that made you RRRRRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Decimals of Wrath Edition
« Reply #49507 on: January 22, 2015, 01:39:40 pm »

It wasn't until I took AP physics that the reason of why its so important to know why an equation works as opposed to just knowing the equation itself really sunk into me.
And yet physics is probably the field with the most times where the answer to the question of "why?" is "because we did experiments and that is the way it works!" :P

Except, as I'm painfully aware right about right now, obtaining the results of these experiments requires mathematical tinkering like calculus to obtain results.
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Re: Things that made you RRRRRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Decimals of Wrath Edition
« Reply #49508 on: January 22, 2015, 02:10:43 pm »

It wasn't until I took AP physics that the reason of why its so important to know why an equation works as opposed to just knowing the equation itself really sunk into me.
And yet physics is probably the field with the most times where the answer to the question of "why?" is "because we did experiments and that is the way it works!" :P
Physicists try to reverse-engineer the universe as best as possible, while mathematicians are free to build their own.

Physicists see some phenomenon, try to explain it with some mechanism and experiments involving math and epic Correlation=/=Causation dodging (Thanks Hume!). Said explanation can be turned to shit or "not accurate enough" any moment.

Mathematicians set up some axioms and poof! New world! Let's go wild! Mathgods, 'tis what these guys are.
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Re: Things that made you RRRRRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Decimals of Wrath Edition
« Reply #49509 on: January 22, 2015, 03:04:49 pm »

Swallowing is another way of trying to get rid of it, so drinking fluids might help with that too.

Not sure if inhaling instead of exhaling when you hold your nose will do anything useful. Last resort idea though.
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Re: Things that made you RRRRRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Decimals of Wrath Edition
« Reply #49510 on: January 22, 2015, 03:08:14 pm »

The little tube that connects the ear to the throat is horribly blocked and has been all day. I tried unclogging it with the whole 'Cover nose and blow hard' but all that did was make the pressure higher without any unclogging. The air's slowly leaked out and stopped at the point where it's JUST uncomfortable.

Fuckin' cold.
Blowing hard is a dumb way of solving it. At least, it's massively less effective than yawning (which opens up the connector to your throat to equalise pressure) is.
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Re: Things that made you RRRRRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Decimals of Wrath Edition
« Reply #49511 on: January 22, 2015, 03:11:51 pm »

Tried drinking some of that cough medicine that you mix with hot water? That tends to loosen up mucus to the point where you might be able to cough a lot of it off the sides of your throat.
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Re: Things that made you RRRRRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Decimals of Wrath Edition
« Reply #49512 on: January 22, 2015, 04:18:18 pm »

Oh no not lemsip. That's like a peashooter compared to the veritable Howitzer of a medicine I'm talking about. I'll go and list off some choice ingredients:
Creosote
Tincture of chloroform and morphene
Liquorice extract (for flavour I guess? It doesn't succeed at covering up the rest of it)
Oxymel of squillae(mixture of honey and vinegar (of squill I guess? Fuck knows this stuff is from a chemist that I am reasonably certain hasn't changed their anything since going on a century ago))
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Re: Things that made you RRRRRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Decimals of Wrath Edition
« Reply #49513 on: January 22, 2015, 04:58:56 pm »

Monday: You know, I want to buy some Bionicles! But I don't really know the bus system and I'm lazy and if I get to the store and they don't have the ones I want I'll be pissed. I know, I'll order them through lego.com!
2 hours later: I have nothing better to do, I'll check my order status and see if I can figure anything out about shipping. Wait what? My order is cancelled? Fucking hell, lego.com, I ain't buying through you again. Oh hai they're in stock on Amazon now, why didn't I check Amazon first. I know Amazon doesn't cancel your orders without even notifying you.
Today: Let's check my credit card statement, FUCKING HELL lego why do you still have a pending charge for that order on my credit card? I've only got $600 of credit limit.
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Re: Things that made you RRRRRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Decimals of Wrath Edition
« Reply #49514 on: January 22, 2015, 05:40:35 pm »

It wasn't until I took AP physics that the reason of why its so important to know why an equation works as opposed to just knowing the equation itself really sunk into me.
And yet physics is probably the field with the most times where the answer to the question of "why?" is "because we did experiments and that is the way it works!" :P
"Why does gravity happen," was a nice question that got me and my philosophy instructor on a very nice discussion about Physics, relating the movement to truth in math and the holistic consolidation of the sciences as a whole.

T'was very fun. Also Zeno's paradoxes were brought up--I didn't know that the example given (tortoise and Achilles) was a paradox when I 'answered' it right >_<

On a related/rerailing note: This made me recall my calculus teacher in college a year or so ago. His attitude was...not comfortable.  ._. A primary factor to why my grades were lower. <_<
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