If you could "skill trade", what would you trade? (sh.itjust.works)

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I'd trade my car repair skill for house repair, and my musical ability for math ability. Both of those are far more useful in life. Maybe also trade my computer ability for welding or woodworking.

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[-] stoly@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I just finished a course called Statistical Process Control. In brief, create two normal distributions and hope that the means of your customer specification and your manufacturing tolerances match up. If they don't fix it.

I put together a study guide of just equations. No information on how to use them or interpret their results, just the equations and it came to 14 pages. This professor provided an equation sheet for the final exam that listed 2 of them, suggesting that we should be able to derive the remainder. This seemed like a big ask and requiring additional cognitive load when not necessary, but, apparently, I am the exception in this course because I scored below the fourth quartile (66%) with a median of 82%. Guess the others could, indeed, do the derivations...

Fortunately my homework, course project, and course paper are much better and helped raise final grade. I found it frustrating because I believe that he is teaching towards those who need a guide rather than those who need to learn.

[-] polotype@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

Good luck with that. It must be difficult in a field where everybody's got a head start on you. But i believe you can do it [insert never give up japanese man here] as you get more comfortable, pathways should start to form in your mind which will truly help to cut down on the cognitive load of memoryzing all the different variations of formulas ;)

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Thanks, I appreciate the support.

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

3b1b, the gray cuber, 2swap, lines that connect etc…

I just went and subscribed to these channels. Their videos will pop up in my feed over time.

I have spent the last few months watching Mind Your Decisions and AndyMath. I can follow what they are doing but do not feel that I could always/necessarily reproduce what they do if given a novel problem. I am hopeful that continuing to go through these will help me build up a solid repertoire of thinking skills.

If you have other channel suggestions, please share!

[-] polotype@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'll look up the rest once i'm on wifi

[-] polotype@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

Found a few others you might want to look into : -stand up math. The videos are a bit more shallow in and of themselves, but they do touch on some quite obscure and deep math subjects. -numberphile. Great one offs, a bit less entertaining... Took me some time to get into it but there's a huge backlog

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I was just thinking about you. Thanks so much for coming back here for this. I’ll check these out.

[-] polotype@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

Oh and, there also zye. Almost forgot... He's very new but very fun and intersting to watch.

Have fun conquering math

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

In a bizarre way, I can feel myself developing statistical intuitions. I’m becoming more confident but not necessarily competent haha.

[-] polotype@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Either way you are doing good ദ്ദി√(^^^ᗜ^^^ ),>

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

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