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[davv]

Hello there,

apparently there has been renewed interest in DW, at least from a certain group! Unfortunately, the real world has been too time-intensive and I have been too busy to write much of interest. Much of my time has been occupied by assignments (programming, stats, linear algebra, oh my), and I've used much of the time that was left to think about very special-purpose things that probably wouldn't be of much interest to others here (e.g. application of statistics to certain types of voting algorithm design).

So instead... let me just meep again. Hello everybody! I have some ideas of what I could write about, but I just haven't had the time yet. Because of that, it's probably easier for me to just encourage those who are reading this to start: ask me something or just meep back, and then I'll try to reply in turn :) Particularly those of you who may have started reading this recently, because I'm curious as to who you are.

Comments

[lhexa]

*meeps*

Has your opinion towards higher education softened, now that you're a fair ways in?

[davv]

I don't remember what I said about it, but if it was from ten years ago or so, it was probably nothing nice at all. After all, the local HS equivalent where I used to live was really bad, and I thought that was how all education would be from that point on.

But mathematics is a lot more about logic now. It's tough, but it isn't mindless. It isn't the arithmetic I referred to when I was young and when forced on a long walk, said "I'd rather be doing mathematics than this".

I've used some of what I've learned in statistics for purposes quite unrelated to the context I learned it in, too. So that's nice.

It is a lot of work, though, and I'd say that they're moving a bit too quickly on the current linalg. It does sometimes feel like drinking from a fire hose: keep up or you'll be lost.

(Of course, one shouldn't discount that I've also become older and thus better at using my mind in general. Or so I think.)