Geek humor
-
The utility of the rote mechanics was that anybody could memorize them, and then everybody "knew math". I wonder if you run up against intellectual ability barriers in attempts to teach the ideas.
wrote on 22 Apr 2022, 18:17 last edited by@Horace said in Geek humor:
The utility of the rote mechanics was that anybody could memorize them, and then everybody "knew math".
I once taught a set-7 math class. Forget long-division, half of them could barely use a ruler.
-
The utility of the rote mechanics was that anybody could memorize them, and then everybody "knew math". I wonder if you run up against intellectual ability barriers in attempts to teach the ideas.
wrote on 22 Apr 2022, 18:26 last edited by@Horace said in Geek humor:
The utility of the rote mechanics was that anybody could memorize them, and then everybody "knew math". I wonder if you run up against intellectual ability barriers in attempts to teach the ideas.
I think they very much do. They teach multiple methods to arrive at solutions really admiring the problem in many ways. My son has flourished with it, I’ve always thought it was a special kind of torture for the mathphobic.
-
wrote on 22 Apr 2022, 21:22 last edited by
My rote learning of multiplication tables has served me well over the last 60 years.
-
wrote on 22 Apr 2022, 21:31 last edited by
@Copper said in Geek humor:
My rote learning of multiplication tables has served me well over the last 60 years.
So has my memorization of the Nicene Creed.
-
wrote on 22 Apr 2022, 21:57 last edited by
And the Pater Noster
-
wrote on 23 Apr 2022, 02:38 last edited by
Re: “rote learning of multiplication tables”
It’s really just caching for some frequently used information. Some information is more frequently needed than others, so it’s worthwhile to commit them to memory for quick access rather than to recompute or re-lookup every time the information is needed.
-
wrote on 27 Apr 2022, 17:41 last edited by
-
wrote on 27 Apr 2022, 18:17 last edited by
@jon-nyc said in Geek humor:
Would be cool to live in a time when caricaturists were indistinguishable from portraitists.
-
wrote on 9 May 2022, 15:19 last edited by
Not one, but two Sisyphus jokes.
-
wrote on 10 May 2022, 01:53 last edited by
I wanted to add a third but it was an uphill climb.
"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
-Cormac McCarthy -
wrote on 10 May 2022, 04:10 last edited by
@jon-nyc said in Geek humor:
I wanted to add a third but it was an uphill climb.
Please. I can't bear the burden of another bad pun.
-
wrote on 10 May 2022, 05:18 last edited by
@jon-nyc said in Geek humor:
I wanted to add a third but it was an uphill climb.
You just need to be boulder,
-
wrote on 10 May 2022, 08:14 last edited by
This thread is going downhill fast…
-
wrote on 11 May 2022, 03:10 last edited by
-
-
wrote on 13 May 2022, 16:26 last edited by
Time for some CT jokes.
Once I was thinking what the category of my ex-girlfriends should be. Then I realized I was treating women as objects.
-
wrote on 13 May 2022, 16:27 last edited by
Let C be a category. Let X,Y∈C be objects. Assume that the induced representable presheaves Hom(⋅,X) and Hom(⋅,Y) are naturally isomorphic. Then how do you prove that X and Y are themselves isomorphic? Yo ned a lemma for that.
-
wrote on 15 May 2022, 19:50 last edited by Klaus
Just stumbled upon this part of a movie plot description:
This first encounter, which ends with Jerôme casually leaving her to fix his moped, leaves her disappointed, while Seligman observes that the combination of the number of times Jerôme penetrated her, three times vaginally and five times anally, resembles the Fibonacci sequence.
