jennegatron

The Fear Underwear Selfie is the one that's actually horrifying.

http://www.polygon.com/2015/2/9/8006693/the-truth-behind-those-mysteriously-cheap-gray-market-game-codes Polygon did a super interesting piece on those grey market second-hand key sellers.

Black Market Brewing Co makes a Sour Ale with Blackberries and I'm luvin' it.

I got to use my very elementary German skills to communicate to others that I only speak a little German, and I mostly just read signs and maps to get us from our hotel to the train station and back. It was pretty great.

Ah. Yeah, they didn't bring the new non-XL to the States, so there's only 1 New Nintendo 3DS and it is the XL version, but because there's only 1 version no one calls it The "NN3DS XL"

This is from that time I got stuck in Munich on a layover flying back to the States and wound up getting v drunk at Oktoberfest.

The XL has no amiibo compatibility, at least until they start selling an adapter. It also has way worse 3D. I have the XL and like it a lot, but I don't know that the size makes up for the worse battery life & no amiibo/terrible 3D.

After seeing a post of "10 things Differential Equations teaches you about Problem Solving" I decided to follow this guy's blog, and this is a fun exercise in logic: http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2015/07/06/multiple-choice/

Trig equality proofs in pre-calc were my jam and my favorite part of my math class that year. Like I said, some people have a knack for reading math textbooks, I am not one of those people.

Yeah, I mean reading mathematical texts requires "active reading" styles that most other subjects don't require. You can't sit back and read a math book, you have to actively participate. I always got way more out of my math lectures than text books, as a result. I actively engaged with listening to a lecture in a way that is draining with a textbook. If I could just take one advanced math class a semester, just for funsies I would. If I lived near my alma mater, I would definitely think about taking them up on their 1 free audit per semester where alums are allowed to attend lectures. I get wistful when I look at my abstract algebra or numerical analysis books.

Mine isn't a level, instead it's a boss fight in WoW. The 4 ponies (horsemen) fight in Naxxramas. (I never played it when in eastern plaguelands,only in WotLK) It is such a gratifying experience completing this fight, especially as a healer.

<3 it's gonna be okay Twig. You don't have to do anymore inductive proofs.

Ahhh yeah, I can see why that would be confusing. I tried to distinguish by doing the German spelling & capitalizing since it's a noun, but yeah. It's a non-silent p in German and a silent p in english, which is why it's a cognate that's harder as a non-native German speaker. English is like 20% randomly silent letters : P

I meant bing rewards being available to those outside the US.

I know that I'm a total shill for Microsoft products, but by switching from google to bing I haven't paid for my Hulu+ subscription in over a year through their bing rewards program. I don't know if it's open to people outside the US, but I like it.

Some people have a knack for reading math books, but they can be really hard. The main reason, I think, for this is that the person who wrote the book by necessity needed to know more math than the book is teaching. So when you read a high school calculus book, you're learning something for the first time whereas a team of people with PhDs and years of experience teaching wrote this book to be mathematically rigorous in a way that obscure meanings to the lay person. The authors knew how to write a mathematically rigorous proof, they knew set notation, etc. I think it's easy to see written math and want to skim and skip over equations. It's something I have to actively fight against whenever I go back to look over a text book.

That's induction! You're just using an inductive proof structure (show that it's true for a trivial case, and show that nothing changes when you add in more) I think that proofs are more interesting when you show something that you might not expect to be true is true. Like the difference between the infinite integers and the infinite real numbers.

Thus my "Psychologie" reference above!

I know what you mean, but they don't like complain about having to read a menu or something. They may give up reading literature critically, but they don't flat out refuse to read street signs or something. (The difference between doing a thing for the love/enjoyment of it and the utility of it)

If I were playin' as a fella I would probably go with Iris or Agate, but I like that they roll out more and more characters as time goes on.

The most dastardly of all crimes! (There was a math thread in the game development section for people to ask for help when vectors made no sense to them)

Truuuuth. Except for a couple sounds (like the umlauted vowels and the slight roll to the r that some Germans do) it's super easy to know how to pronounce German words because if there's a letter there, pronounce it, and if it's not, don't. It makes some words harder that have things like silent p's in them like psychology (Psychologie for example) but on the whole, it's a very straightforward language in regards to pronunciation. Grammar and cases is harder as a native speaker of a language without gendered nouns. I loved studying German.

Proofs are all about doing 2 things: following a set structure and finding an insight that lets you crack it open. This is what makes proofs by contradiction so satisfying. LETS ALL TALK ABOUT MATH ALL THE TIME EVERYONE! @SBM - I just move the decimal over 1 place, halve it and add it to the 10%, and that works best for me. 12.99 -> 13.00 -> 1.30 + .65 because I know that half of 13 is 6.5 -> 1.95

It's not just you who said this! There are a couple other people in this thread who expressed similar sentiments. I think about this a lot, in part because when I tell people I have a math degree they do 2 things. 1 is that they expect me to be able to mental multiply all the time, and 2 is that they tell me they're bad at math because they didn't understand algebra when they were 14 or something. (If you didn't understand algebra at 14 that's okay! You're not necessarily bad at math! You may not have done enough memorization of times tables, or you may have had a bad teacher, there are so many explanations that aren't that you are innately bad at math!)

https://twitter.com/jennegatron/status/625863150420819968 That should be Tayne, not Tane, but I stand by my previous statement. (I got Klaus to marry me yesterday and I'm so pumped on this game still) If I was playing again I'd probably go for Raeger, as Klaus's obsession with our age difference is starting to grate on me. Also he weirdly negs me sometimes if I'm wearing the wrong outfit???