2014-11-01, 08:19 | Link #7581 | |
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Finally, what on earth do you want to record lectures for, in undergrad at that? |
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2014-11-01, 23:22 | Link #7582 |
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Can anyone tell me how should approach the Monogatari series? considering what is said and what is actually done on screen, it is somewhat easy to misinterpret the series. There also appears to be the wrong way to interpret the story. Is there a right to interpret this series?
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2014-11-03, 00:29 | Link #7583 | |
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What do you mean?? My brother and many of my friends who started college last year tell me that they record lectures instead of taking traditional notes in classes. |
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2014-11-03, 00:34 | Link #7584 | |
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Wow for some reason I didn't think to include the coding and programming I'd be doing for assignments, lol. And yes windows is needed.
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2014-11-03, 13:32 | Link #7586 | |
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This isn't a discussion we can really get into here but, as far as my reasoning goes; if you go to the lecture, writing down what the professor says while the class is going on helps me remember better, and have a good idea of whether I'm understanding something or not. I'm not sure why, but maybe it has something to do with writing things down, along with hearing them spoken, and reading them from slides. Apart from that when it comes to revision time, recorded lectures are extremely time-intensive for studying vs. reading them from notes IMHO. When the time comes (it may or may not depending on how regular you are, how smart you are, and what classes you take) to cram for an exam all night, notes are generally way faster. To put this in perspective, I covered the syllabus for a class in game theory within 15-20 hours; I had recorded lectures covering the same syllabus (the book was the same) from a different university which would have taken 20 hours to watch alone, without any revision. I have however used recorded videos when I'm stuck banging my head on, say, a mathematical proof, and a video spells it out step by step. Basically, (personally), video lectures are an extra resource which can be useful but which I don't need, whereas my notes are the bread and butter of my study material In any case, it's not something I've seen, but if it works for you and helps you study better, go for it. At the same time I would say that don't knock traditional note taking, its generally a pretty solid way to go about things |
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2014-11-04, 04:47 | Link #7588 | |
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However, if you want to be a bit more thorough there are a lot of companies that will give you a spray, or a gel or some sort to cover your item that will last a while |
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2014-11-04, 18:04 | Link #7589 | |
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2014-11-04, 18:15 | Link #7590 |
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I'm pretty sure all such sprays will advertise that they're transparent, but, I suppose you'll have to find a good company and try it out, I've never used it. I'm sure there are also reviews for the product online as well, and you could probably ask whoever/wherever you're buying it from
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2014-11-04, 18:28 | Link #7591 | |
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And besides, I'll be using it for a while.
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2014-11-05, 13:28 | Link #7593 | |
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Hm well I would never opt out of traditional note taking. I just assumed that recording lectures was a new method of note taking since I know so many people who do so - but I actually don't know anyone else who is or will be studying computer science.
This is random, but as far as mathematics go what type of math do you believe is most important in Computer Science? Math is my strongest area and I have a general idea from looking up this question but I'd just like to know what you think. Also what do you do for work with your degree? (if you don't mind me asking) Quote:
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2014-11-05, 14:23 | Link #7594 | |
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There are people on this board who have a lot more experience with comp sci than I do, so I'll let them answer that question Having said that, I can definitely say that computer science helped me out with math quite a bit. Apart from subtle things like the way you think, in a lot of the more advanced courses, there's a good deal of computer work, I had to learn mathematica and a bit of matlab, and in my masters right now I do a lot of work on python and R; Learning those languages is a breeze if you're familiar with say, C++ or Java. Finally, I'm not working right now, I'm doing my masters in economics, after which I will no doubt have a boring job in a bank or consulting company, if I'm lucky in a good think tank type organization.. that is if I get a job at all. Last edited by oompa loompa; 2014-11-05 at 14:42. |
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2014-11-08, 18:24 | Link #7596 |
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It's possible that this belongs in the medical thread, but I'll ask it here anyways because I'm more interested in the methods, and sorry for the scatalogical question:
Coffee makes people poop a lot (and poop.. badly), at least it does for me. Does this happen to you, and if it does is there anything you do to make it not happen? While we're on the topic, what do you guys do to stay up late studying/work? It doesn't even need to be late, what do you guys do when you need to put a serious shift of work in apart from girding the proverbial loins? Adderall or speed is not an option (unfortunately ) |
2014-11-08, 23:56 | Link #7597 | |
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For math classes, you should take a look at the requisites listed at your departmental website. It'll also be a good idea to talk to a professor/TA once you get started, as they will steer you in the right direction. Some popular choices I've seen CS students take have been classes like Discrete Math, Combinatorics, Cryptography, Algorithms, etc., but math departments with less money might not offer these courses. As an end note, I'm not sure what math classes you have taken, but college level mathematics is a lot more difficult and involved than grade-school level math. Many students who get 4's and 5's on their Calc AB/BC exams end up failing college calculus when they retake it because they get cocky, so I wouldn't take 'being good at math' for granted. |
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2014-12-03, 21:45 | Link #7598 |
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Some basic questions about statistics and standard deviation if anyone know it....
Like for example study from a 20 samples (please don't mind the sample size) found that, for example an average American play 3+/-2 hours of gaming a day. But if we want to find out how much hours the whole US (let say 300 millions in population) spent in gaming per year (let say 300 days for easy calculation). Of course the statistics won't be 270+/-180 billions hours per year. Because firstly the standard deviation will be too large for the study to be much meaningful. And secondly, we expect that if you add that many samples together, the standard deviation should cancel each other out, and we will get closer to the 270 billions hour rather than the large range 90-450 hours billions hour like the standard deviation implied... So my question is: is there a name or a rule in statistics, pointing out that if you want to use a smaller sample to predict a much larger one, it's better to not take the standard deviation into account (whether it just involves average, or another method). Because it's misleading and useless if you do? Also what is the differences between, let say pick a study sample and monitor for a much longer time (for example pick 5 random person, then see how much games they play every day for a month), in comparison with picking 150 people, and ask how many hours of games they were playing today. I know the first is skewed if you don't pick a correct study candidates (that can present the whole population). While the later data is skewed if you pick the wrong time and location (when Call of Duty, or Dragon Age just released for example, or during weekend, which show a much higher average gaming time). But is there a more academic answer to show the difference between the two?
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2014-12-06, 11:22 | Link #7600 | |
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2.) both confidence intervals and margin of error depend a lot on sample size, and will not make your SD any more or less important. they are tools for describing how likely your results are true, not how your distribution looks. Also the margin of error is a 95% confidence interval, so they are affected by exactly the same things and convey the same information. I can't see how scaling has anything to do with this either. Finally there is no such thing as a 'poor confidence interval' @ Risingstar : Sorry to say this, but small sample size generally means bad results. As for your question, why don't you aggregate over each of your 20 samples and compare them with each other, instead of trying to use your estimate of one person to estimate 300 million. you probably won't get a good result with only 20 data points though. Last edited by oompa loompa; 2014-12-06 at 13:54. |
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