Apr 29, 2015
Today(?) in Mod/Sim
My prof just put up a Piazza post saying “Good luck!” to all the groups still committing code. Dude. It’s 2am. Our presentation in this class is at 9am. Prof man why are you awake??
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Today(?) in Mod/Sim
My prof just put up a Piazza post saying “Good luck!” to all the groups still committing code. Dude. It’s 2am. Our presentation in this class is at 9am. Prof man why are you awake??
Today in Mod/Sim
A philosophical debate about why grades exist, and why our teacher is fundamentally against them. Even though there is an entire system built on grades and the results of them. (Though in the case of jobs, then there is a technical interview which is just a second check of knowledge, which implicitly suggests that the grades were not trusted to begin with. Which brings it back to “why grade things?”) (Actual quote “I dunno, you’re adults, you can decide if you want to learn this shit or not.” “Oh wait, excuse my language...”) And then we went back to “how to increase the humans survival in a simulated zombie apocolypse”. And what algorithms can accurately simulate this stuff. We added in a location dynamic and population densities today. Mostly so that we could let humans run away (expeditious retreat!)
Today in Mod/Sim
Today we are modeling zombies vs humans. We are describing if there is some predator/prey dynamic and modeling it via differential equations. Weeeeeee. This is the most seriously a class has taken the zombie apocalypse. I love this class when it isn’t trying to kill me.
Today in Mod/Sim: The Simon - Mandelbrot fight about modeling power law distributions. There were like, 8-10 ish papers, all replies to eachother saying that the other person’s opinion was wrong or invalid. It was beautiful.
I regret every decision that has led me to being friends with the trifecta. Help. Help me.
"On the other hand if the question is whether the body eventually reaches the destination ball, the problem is PSPACE-hard. These bounds are based on similar complexity bounds obtained for Ray tracing (graphics)."
- from the wikipedia page on the time complexity of an N-body simulation
I'm sitting in mod sim and he's going over confidence intervals and student t distributions and ALL OF THESE THINGS THAT I DID IN STAT.
I REMEMBER MEMORIZING THIS FORMULA FOR MY STAT FINAL HELP ME IM IN A DARK PLACE AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
In which I hate group papers:
"This can also by which be seen that ...." "This sort of makes the model almost become ...."