U-can-tell-BOLIVIA-that-i-am-taking-calc-3-this-summer-for-credit--its-online-but-exams-in-person

no yapping from me when my timer to study is on

i just woke up after my bros wedding earlier this month and decided, u know, lets do it, lets take calc 3 over the summer

make dua for me, i want a really good grade

i took out like 6 calc books from the public library to review etc.

8 weeks of class & studying, inshaAllah i will get a good grade

its just a huge secret

im just obsessed, i want to know more math

in the end, i can read papers about backpropagation, im so excited

i was telling my brother and SIL, like u owe it to urself in ur life to attack and work on ur insecurities, whatever they are, that are holding u back from ur best self, then we went to a comedy show and somebody asked a question about aliens from the audience and im like WTF ppl are so dumb, im def registering for that class so i did

im busy this week ttyl just on vacation leaving in a few hrs

me to myself a couple of days ago "ehhhh u know what there's a small chance, like 1% chance i wont be able to log in to my student account if im out of the country, prolly not gonna happen" -> literally 100% thats what happened, i asked my brother if he has a pc i can remote in to & he does but vpn from buffalo worked :|

"HW=30%, Quizzes=10% Exams=60%""; no quiz/exam this week, 1st hw is due 7/6 @ midnight & i cant see it yet its not open but i'll just feed the syllabus into claude and do things with it

i have to email the help desk apparently and tell them im out of the country so they can allow me to log into canvas for a week, OK I WILL DO THAT -_-

yo claude/chatgpt are like calc 3 office hours 24/7, unbiased, UNBIASED, no question is too small or too big, i want to learn how to plot things in 3D in jupyter or julia w/e for my own knowledge

apparently i can incorporate notebooklm into things via claude into my server and then i read something where when u upload ur notes, theres a way to make claude summarize them etc, i dunno, i just need to do problems

my brother gave me a umd windows pc to remote into :))

ok first week is medium-difficult-ish but do-able, dot & cross products, stuff from linear algebra i have (or get to) to review, i thought we would start at double integrals but not yet. the textbook uses examples from physics which is good i like physics.

calc 3, even tho the first week is linear algebra-ish review, its like the text/words in the book -> my immediate imagination i dunno, once its there then it makes sense, but i can keep asking claude to explain it to be simplier so i dont have to memorize really i dunno, rn i feel like my frustration/embarrassment is like, holy sht i forgot some of this stuff but its like duh, i havent taken linear algebra since 2012, maybe i should make voice notes too for myself

claude: "is just the boring edge case" me: EXACTLY!! lol

claude: "The textbook actually calls this out directly on page xx — it warns you to distinguish ## from ##, because they look almost identical but mean different things." its so crazy it can do this. ok i have to study then we're going out to dinner

i have to keep saying this, for myself, but like if ure insecure about anything, like u have to attack it and overcome it, its not worth it bc theres so much on the other side. ive worked with ppl with adv degrees who have like poor programming skills and they cant help themselves and its like, u can fix that and be better. not worth it to not be ur best if u can.

i love that the examples in this book are from physics. the order of things i love/i get: 1. physics 2. chemistry ... later on lol biology, i dunno, it just is like that. u immediately know how much physics someone has taken based on how they drive, ive been judging ppl since hs about this lol, physics is the most useful STEM class from hs/undergrad imo. like oh you're tailing me during an absolute downpour at night, and ure a man, ure an idiot who has never taken physics, happens, use to happen when i use to drive to my apt at night in philly, its like, ure really dumb for doing this

"its just a dumb MAN who has never taken physics" - me to myself since hs when im driving, when i took drivers education in hs, the teacher said they're like that bc they have daddy issues. "its all psychology" - marc andreessen (like what 2 yrs ago) everyday i think about this.

its not just when they're DRIVING, when i was in bethesda, oh man, it's when they're on a bicycle too, they would ride their bicycle in the center of the lane and not move to the side when i was behind them. putting these men on bicycles doesnt solve the issue either, theyre still annoying. ok bye.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sal_Khan this guy is an amazing person for what he started, but it didnt exist (yet) when i was taking my undergrad classes (and i didnt really go to office hrs), i havent used it for calc 3 yet but i will next week when its more intense stuff

ok going to dinner soon then gotta finish the section

https://lelouch.dev/blog/august-2024/documenting-your-grind/ ok interesting