Rust wgpu now has a
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@r what alternative organization/progression of topics would make more sense to you?
@nyanpasu64 i mean, i'm not a policymaker, so i can just make up whatever i want, right?
* push basic single-variable equations throughout the integrated pre-middle-school curriculum. use empty boxes or something if "x" looks too scary (e.g. the UK does this)
* put all of elementary algebra involving polynomials, up to the fundamental theorem of algebra into just a single "algebra"
* make sure "euclidean geometry" is *actually* doing proofs and formalisms and the "real math" way of thinking. maybe throw some more discrete math ideas into here too, and spend less time on specific well-known euclidean geometry theorems (i certainly don't remember many of them)
* make trigonometry and all the haphazardly scattered bits of analytic geometry be its own actual thing. maybe even combine it with drafting (very oldschool), CAD, and/or gamedev
* "just" shove pre-calculus into either algebra or calculus
* do Something
️ more coherent with statistics (i'm not very experienced here, "probability and random processes" is somehow totally-different-yet-the-same in a way that doesn't actually transfer over)* maybe offer linear algebra for the tryhards
* Somehow
️ fit in a "how to _actually_ use computers (mostly for math)" thing? (spreadsheets, computer algebra systems, UI automation?, the rest of the "the difference in gen Z computer literacy is whether they had to install minecraft mods before the modern launchers" computer skills) -
@nyanpasu64 i mean, i'm not a policymaker, so i can just make up whatever i want, right?
* push basic single-variable equations throughout the integrated pre-middle-school curriculum. use empty boxes or something if "x" looks too scary (e.g. the UK does this)
* put all of elementary algebra involving polynomials, up to the fundamental theorem of algebra into just a single "algebra"
* make sure "euclidean geometry" is *actually* doing proofs and formalisms and the "real math" way of thinking. maybe throw some more discrete math ideas into here too, and spend less time on specific well-known euclidean geometry theorems (i certainly don't remember many of them)
* make trigonometry and all the haphazardly scattered bits of analytic geometry be its own actual thing. maybe even combine it with drafting (very oldschool), CAD, and/or gamedev
* "just" shove pre-calculus into either algebra or calculus
* do Something
️ more coherent with statistics (i'm not very experienced here, "probability and random processes" is somehow totally-different-yet-the-same in a way that doesn't actually transfer over)* maybe offer linear algebra for the tryhards
* Somehow
️ fit in a "how to _actually_ use computers (mostly for math)" thing? (spreadsheets, computer algebra systems, UI automation?, the rest of the "the difference in gen Z computer literacy is whether they had to install minecraft mods before the modern launchers" computer skills)@r ~~trigonometry is computational geometry~~ it's not completely wrong i think -
Anyway, I spent the last week writing documentation for Redox. The Redox project seems to be happy for my documentation patches. One thimble full of water, out of the sinking boat.
(Clarification on degree to which Servo relies on wgpu. I may update this post later once I've read more.)
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This thread is probably meandering and maybe solipsistic. My point is this: My weird background means I can look at this staircase full of missing stairs, identify one step, and go, "I can fix that". But I don't know if there's enough of me to fix multiple steps. I haven't decided what to do from here. Pick a step and fix it anyway? Pick a "fun" project, like the GPU [which face it, even if I finished it chances are not high more than 3 people would ever use it]? Give up and learn electric bass?
@mcc Music is unironically a great hobby for someone in your position
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@r ~~trigonometry is computational geometry~~ it's not completely wrong i think
@nyanpasu64 ehhhh not really?
i'm not sure why trigonometry gets _such_ a strong emphasis in the US either? or why it's done in such a toil-filled way (protip, instead of doing so many exercises with totally *useless* identities, just do them all in euler complex-exponential form?)
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@nyanpasu64 ehhhh not really?
i'm not sure why trigonometry gets _such_ a strong emphasis in the US either? or why it's done in such a toil-filled way (protip, instead of doing so many exercises with totally *useless* identities, just do them all in euler complex-exponential form?)
@nyanpasu64 all of the "but trigonometry has so many practical applications!" scenarios would be covered so much better if the US actually did a principled "analytic geometry" rather than spreading these ideas into all sorts of random places
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@nyanpasu64 ehhhh not really?
i'm not sure why trigonometry gets _such_ a strong emphasis in the US either? or why it's done in such a toil-filled way (protip, instead of doing so many exercises with totally *useless* identities, just do them all in euler complex-exponential form?)
@r complex exponentials yum
iirc they're a lot more obvious than memorized identities (largely went in one ear and out the other)... but i tried doing that in college once, messed up cancelling the duplicated terms, and confused myself -
@nyanpasu64 all of the "but trigonometry has so many practical applications!" scenarios would be covered so much better if the US actually did a principled "analytic geometry" rather than spreading these ideas into all sorts of random places
@r TIL analytic geometry
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@r TIL analytic geometry
probably the concept i meant by "computational"@nyanpasu64 ah, that would make sense!
this stackexchange user claims that the US *used to* actually have this: https://matheducators.stackexchange.com/a/28454
but apparently got rid of it in the usual "oh shit we need to Do Something" way the US tends to
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@nyanpasu64 ah, that would make sense!
this stackexchange user claims that the US *used to* actually have this: https://matheducators.stackexchange.com/a/28454
but apparently got rid of it in the usual "oh shit we need to Do Something" way the US tends to
@nyanpasu64 fucking everything old is new again
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@nyanpasu64 fucking everything old is new again
@nyanpasu64 gods, just imagine if it were actually structurally _possible_ to offer a "analytic geometry, drafting, CAD, gamedev, 3d-printing, textile arts" class in a school
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@mcc Music is unironically a great hobby for someone in your position
Get an upright bass. It's a PITA to move, but you'll always have a place in a session
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@nyanpasu64 gods, just imagine if it were actually structurally _possible_ to offer a "analytic geometry, drafting, CAD, gamedev, 3d-printing, textile arts" class in a school
@nyanpasu64 you can _even_ satisfy the "retvrn to tradition" nonsense and integrate "wood shop" and "home ec" (even though everyone knows that nowadays the teens are probably going to be making ttrpg and cosplay articles rather than whatever these boomers are expecting)
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@r @MaddieM4 @mcc @decay @amarioguy the entire fucking country would collapse if not for people who made that choice at a young age, to learn despite being punished for it
and it's too much to put on children. it's completely unfair.
@ireneista it's not just the US. I barely graduated highschool and got tracked into mediocre kid math (my math is still mediocre) but I have actually-computer-scientist mentors who've told me I am a natural at this. Sigh. On a personal side note, I am thinking about taking the UC Boulder online CS graduate program in my free time. Has anyone ever heard at it? There's no admissions as such, only a few classes to pass and you're admitted into the program, and it sounds like a phenomenal opportunity to get the education I never had access to—if the program is any good. I can link to it if any of you would be willing to take a look.
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Get an upright bass. It's a PITA to move, but you'll always have a place in a session
@johntimaeus once you've played with a good bassist, especially an upright bassist, it's really hard to go back
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@johntimaeus once you've played with a good bassist, especially an upright bassist, it's really hard to go back
@mccI'm mid at best. But I can pull harmonics with a bow. Which apparently makes me good.
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This thread is probably meandering and maybe solipsistic. My point is this: My weird background means I can look at this staircase full of missing stairs, identify one step, and go, "I can fix that". But I don't know if there's enough of me to fix multiple steps. I haven't decided what to do from here. Pick a step and fix it anyway? Pick a "fun" project, like the GPU [which face it, even if I finished it chances are not high more than 3 people would ever use it]? Give up and learn electric bass?
@mcc I went the electric bass route. It hasn't helped my social life much, as hoped, but when I fire-up the Ampeg, I can annoy neighbors 2 or more doors down the road.
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@mcc I went the electric bass route. It hasn't helped my social life much, as hoped, but when I fire-up the Ampeg, I can annoy neighbors 2 or more doors down the road.
@mcc Instead of implementing my own instruction set architecture inspired by certain late 1970s minicomputers, that is.
Computing-wise, I settled for an Amiga 500 with a TerribleFire '030 accelerator and JForth, a pre-SecureBoot x86-64 box running OpenBSD with Gambit for the occasional compulsion to write code, and an old Thinkpad running 9Front with S9fES.
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I am not the only person who wants what I want: Software by humans for humans, the ability to "use a computer" without participating in this horrible thing that AI companies are trying to build out of what used to be society. Everybody's grabbed the task closest to them. I know of a slopfree book ereader. I know of a slopfree password manager. We're all dependent on stuff further down the stack, and the stack became tall at some point, and only a few items in the stack have a slopfree principle.
@mcc i wonder how we can arrange to make that stack shorter. in some languages, of course, the problem is worse than others.
i think folks have lost the habit of using the standard library, sometimes.
and standard libraries should be extended. ruby is actually moving in the opposite direction; removing parts of stdlib and making them external 🤬
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