They hand you a novel and a highlighter. “Mark every sentence that starts with ‘The’.” So you skim.Eyes half-open.Page after page.Mechanical. Mindless.It doesn’t matter what the story’s about—you’re not here for meaning, just patterns. It’s easy. You feel fast. Efficient.Certain. Then they say: “Now mark every line spoken by the main character—but only in Chapter …
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Newtons’ Method
Squaring is a lossy process. That is, when a number is squared the root is lost. The search for roots is further complicated because many whole numbers have irrational roots. Even intuition is misleading, take a guess that the square root of 4 might be half (and you’d be right), but geometric growth would indicate …
Holding off on evaluating variables
There is a difference between performing a calculation and solving a problem. I’ve been considering the equation of a circle, . Except, you see, that’s not the entire thing. There’s a bit that we’ve dropped because it’s zeroes (and therefore doesn’t affect our equation): . This equation contains the full information–everything that is necessary to draw and position …
Switching Wireless, a Soap Opera
Now that I’ve gotten my Wireless Perceptions guide out of the way, I can mention one of my favorite misconceptions. Myth: “Switch to MUSTANG, it’s faster than MORNINGSIDE.” The observant reader will note that this myth is contradictory to my previous assertions. No right-thinking person would possibly believe that something is slower when it is faster. One wrinkle …