2011-05-14, 12:41 AM
Saw Scott Pilgrim tonight. Awesome movie.
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2011-05-14, 01:57 AM
NinjaKitties Wrote:Eagle Project was finished and signed off. If I wasn't so goddamn tired I'd be in tears right now over your cat. How are you doing? Tay Wrote:Nothing but bull pomegranate about gay people and how they all have HIV and therefore can't donate blood. Ontop of that I get to hear a massive generalization of me is circulating around school. On top of that I come home and it's now been 2 weeks since my father purchased new groceries. 1. Welcome to another ridiculous law against gays. I laugh since I have O negative blood, aka the super universal donor. Bitches can't have my pomegranate cause they're afraid of a virus I don't have. ffs. 2. COLLEGE, brah. 3. Blech. See #2. For me today: so goddamn pissed at myself that I still haven't finished the goddamn writing things I need to get done that are way overdue at this point, but I have no goddamn time to finish them because I'm working 8 hour shifts Friday-Monday. To top it all off, my roommate of this past year left Friday morning, and my summer roommate is moving in in 10 hours. The apartment needs to be cleaned, I technically have 8 hours of writing to do, and I have to get up and ready for work in 8 hours. The decision now is to sleep and be even more overdue with pomegranate or not sleep and get everything done, but then die tomorrow.... pineapple it, I'm going to bed. I'll get half the writing done in the morning and do the other half tomorrow night. Guess I'm not enjoying going out this summer till Sunday night? Lol. More like I get to wait another 4 days. #ugh 
2011-05-16, 03:52 PM
Terrible day. Will probably evolve into a terrible week.
Putting aside the fact that I flunked an exam I was expecting to get at least a B and the fact that I was given a surprise quiz that I was totally unprepared for (thus, another fail). I also had to meet with some peeps for a group project. And it was disastrous. Long story short, I'll probably end up doing the project alone. On top of that, I have three bomb partial exams scheduled for this week. Add to that the fact that final exams week will start Saturday. And lab reports, three lab reports. And two assignments, two freakishly long assignments (that happen to be from the same course that group project is from). Times like these reminds me how much easier it would be to just give up. Too bad that's not an option. *sigh* Guess I'll start by tackling the assignments and the lab reports. =\ 
2011-05-16, 04:05 PM
Studied a set of notes completely. Considered one of my more productive days.
I found that the best stimulant for me is sleep. Hadriel 
2011-05-16, 04:37 PM
Progress on getting that new job:
a) Phone call interview -> Checked! b) Went to their location to do a typing test & customer service test -> Checked! c) Go to actual interview -> Will do so tomorrow at 10 AM. So excited.  
2011-05-17, 01:26 AM
Pretty awesome day. Had my Math instructor changed, this guy is a lot less understandable but I like him more.
2011-05-17, 01:32 AM
Kalovale Wrote:Pretty awesome day. Had my Math instructor changed, this guy is a lot less understandable but I like him more.but? No but's about it. Obviously he's more enjoyable.
2011-05-17, 02:16 AM
Death. I've worked 40 hours over the past four days (well, 32 technically, but 8 hours total of communting), and I'm exhausted. I wouldn't be so tired, surprisingly, if I didn't have all this writing I haven't had time to do to still do. Ohwell, it'll all be done within 24 hours, and I'll finally be officially on to my summer vacation.
2011-05-17, 08:07 PM
Watched Looney toons in chem all day, and we're starting Mulan in AP world tomorrow
 . First day of football practice. The thing I learned today is: PURSUIT DRILL IS SERIOUS F'UCKING BUISNESS
2011-05-17, 09:05 PM
Pretty good day. Listening to some T-ara and working on a Spanish project the day before it is due :3
Blame it on my partner though cause I was ready to put the power point together sooner but she thought it was a good idea to take a week off and go on a cruise to Mexico .. Bleh. Now I'm kind of stressing but I can make crap power points look decent. Shouldn't be too hard. 
2011-05-17, 10:18 PM
Blech.
Boring school day, have my Chinese and Japanese tests tomorrow, I just got a charlie horse on my right calf and it hurts like pineapple to walk on it, my crush is oh so straight and I keep qqing about it, but graduation is so close. <3  
2011-05-17, 11:16 PM
The slightest things can change my outlook of the day. For instance, I was driving with the window down and the music really loud. While I was singing along to some Walter Meego, a fly came through the window and hit my glasses and disappeared in my car. I was cursed loudly, then proceeded to laugh my ass off. I love life when things like this happen.
2011-05-18, 05:36 AM
I spent an hour last night helping Rick with his retarded math assignment. He ended up discarding my answer because "it looked different" from his teacher's solution. Ugh.
 [spoiler=]Rick Dalliessi 1:16 am Harrison If you have time tonight, can you please give me a bit of help. It's the last undone question on my derivatives assignment. Harrison Wang 1:16 am if it's not something stupid Rick Dalliessi 1:17 am 1(b)(iv) Harrison Wang 1:17 am the hell are you referring to the same assignment? Rick Dalliessi 1:17 am Yes. Harrison Wang 1:17 am jesus how did you not finish that yet Rick Dalliessi 1:17 am I haven't been working on it. Everything else has been done since before the weekend. Harrison Wang 1:18 am you're still on number 1? Rick Dalliessi 1:18 am No... I've done EVERY question but 1(b)(iv) Rick Dalliessi 1:18 am I haven't done them in order, clearly. Harrison Wang 1:18 am using technology, draw an accurate graph of f(x)=x^(1/3) find the derivative f'(x)=(1/3)*x^(-2/3)=1/(3x^(2/3)) from your graph, given an explanation of why the derivative is not defined at x=0 f'(0) is a singularity you end up with 1/0 Rick Dalliessi 1:20 am Yes I know all that. Harrison Wang 1:20 am so the slope is infinite there. aka vertical slope Rick Dalliessi 1:20 am I'm just not able to prove it with the formal definition of the derivative setting x to 0 Harrison Wang 1:20 am therefore it is an inflection point well i just told you the reason >_>" Rick Dalliessi 1:21 am No no not that. They want me to go through the whole f(x+h) - f(x) / h Harrison Wang 1:21 am no they don't. Rick Dalliessi 1:21 am With x as 0 Harrison Wang 1:21 am where the hell did you get that Rick Dalliessi 1:21 am From question 1(a) Harrison Wang 1:22 am ...... oh my god. Rick Dalliessi 1:22 am That's what he said he wanted. Harrison Wang 1:22 am okay well if you have to do that Harrison Wang 1:22 am lim [f(x+h)-f(x)]/h as h->0 [(x+h)^(1/3)-x^(1/3)]/h Rick Dalliessi 1:23 am And that's where I got stuck. Harrison Wang 1:23 am hold on Rick Dalliessi 1:23 am He's only every given us ones where we can expand. Harrison Wang 1:23 am well... lemme think of a trick. Rick Dalliessi 1:24 am Ok Harrison Wang 1:25 am okay we're going to cube the whole thing. [ [(x+h)^(1/3)-x^(1/3)]/h ]^3 [(x+h)^(1/3)-x^(1/3)]^3 [(x+h) - 3(x+h)^(2/3) *x^(1/3) + 3(x+h)^(1/3) *x^(2/3) -x] /h Harrison Wang 1:27 am ugh i'm going to do this on a paper this is stupid Rick Dalliessi 1:27 am Can it even be done... Harrison Wang 1:27 am yes obviously it can be done Rick Dalliessi 1:27 am I don't even see the usefulness in this. Rick Dalliessi 1:29 am I wish there was a programme that you can easily write math on. That way I wouldn't have to slowly copy this all out by hand. Harrison Wang 1:29 am use latex editor Rick Dalliessi 1:29 am I will look this up. By the way, Wolfram Alpha can't even graph x^(1/3) properly. Harrison Wang 1:35 am yes it can... Rick Dalliessi 1:35 am It's plotting it all funny. Harrison Wang 1:35 am oh Rick Dalliessi 1:39 am None of the online graphers seem to recognise the negative sides of the functions. Harrison Wang 1:42 am okay looks like expanding it failed. Rick Dalliessi 1:43 am Yeah... And the question is only worth 2 marks. The other was worth 5. Harrison Wang 1:43 am there's another trick though we could multiply top and bottom by (x+h)^(3)+x^(3) Rick Dalliessi 1:44 am Remember it says to do it setting x to 0. Harrison Wang 1:44 am OH let's multiply top and bottom by (x+h)^(2/3)+x^(2/3) Rick Dalliessi 1:45 am While that would work, why would a question requiring this effort only be worth two marks... But I don't see what else he wants done here. Harrison Wang 1:46 am (a+b)(a-b)=a^2-b^2 Rick Dalliessi 1:46 am I know? Rick Dalliessi 1:50 am I think I'll draw the graphs instead of using technology. It seems like it'll be easier. Harrison Wang 1:57 am i think i solved it Rick Dalliessi 1:58 am Cool Rick Dalliessi (RickDalliessi) is idle 2:08 am Harrison Wang 2:14 am oh pineappleing peach Rick Dalliessi (RickDalliessi) is available 2:14 am Rick Dalliessi 2:14 am ? Harrison Wang 2:14 am i tried multiplying by something else and it worked. >_> Rick Dalliessi 2:14 am =S Harrison Wang 2:19 am i'm never doing that pomegranate again. Rick Dalliessi 2:20 am If it took that much work, it can't be what he wants us to do. So what the hell DOES he want >.> Harrison Wang 2:20 am it wasn't "a lot of work" it was just tricky really tricky Rick Dalliessi 2:21 am Thank you, Harry. Transfer complete: Problem 1b4.jpg 2:22 am ![[Image: problem1b4.jpg]](http://img804.imageshack.us/img804/7917/problem1b4.jpg) Rick Dalliessi 2:23 am Wow The hell... Harrison Wang 2:24 am look at the "identity" up top (a-b)(a^2+ab+b^2) = a^3 - b^3 Harrison Wang 2:24 am that's one of the things i learned a long time ago but never used... i learned it with (a+b)(a-b)=a^2-b^2 Rick Dalliessi 2:24 am He wanted us to do it with x = 0, remember. Harrison Wang 2:24 am doesn't matter once you reach the end you'll get h/(that whole garbage) h/h cancels out so you're left with 1/(that whole garbage) it simplifies to 1/(3x^(2/3)) then you can say if you plug in 0 you get a singularity implying an infinite slope. you can do the rest without my aid. Rick Dalliessi 2:26 am Maybe... I'll copy out the rest for now. Harrison Wang 2:27 am well i obviously didn't simplify it to the end you can do that yourself Rick Dalliessi (RickDalliessi) is available 5:29 pm Rick Dalliessi 1:17 am Hi Harry. By the way, today my lecturer showed how that question should be done. And it's different to what you did. Harrison Wang 1:18 am what did he do? just talk it out and i'll try to see if i understand you if not then type it out Rick Dalliessi 1:18 am Setting x to 0 it went like this ((0+h)^1/3 - 0)/h h^1/3 / h 1/h^(2/3) Take the limit Harrison Wang 1:19 am as? h approaches 0? Rick Dalliessi 1:19 am h -> 0 Harrison Wang 1:20 am the limit is infinite. Rick Dalliessi 1:20 am Yeah. That was the point. Harrison Wang 1:20 am doesn't matter though my way was more general Rick Dalliessi 1:20 am Yes. Harrison Wang 1:20 am after finding the derivative you can plug in any point and find the limit why restrict yourself to x=0? Rick Dalliessi 1:21 am 'Cause that's where the asymptote was. Well, the singularity, as you say. Harrison Wang 1:22 am it's not an asymptote -_- an asymptote is a second function that a first function approaches as the the first function approaches infinity not 0 ... f(x)=x+1/x approaches x as x approaches infinity therefore, x is an asymptote f(x) approaches infinity as x approaches 0 however, 0 is not an asymptote it's a singularity you might call it the vertical line x=0 Harrison Wang 1:24 am but it's still not an asymptote and that's because f(x) doesn't truly exist you only spanned it out on a coordinate axis to view the behavior of the function but it's fictitious Rick Dalliessi 1:25 am Either way, that's how he wanted it done. It does seem much simpler. But less general. Harrison Wang 1:25 am not by much and you can't use it whenever the hell you want to did he mark you wrong? Rick Dalliessi 1:26 am No I asked him before the assignment was due. Then handed in the assignment with that in it. Harrison Wang 1:26 am and then you discarded my answer, therefore wasting an hour of my time Rick Dalliessi 1:26 am What else was I supposed to do? Lose the marks? Harrison Wang 1:26 am you dumbass if the answer is correct, it is correct i thought i pineappleing told you that there was no single "correct answer" = = i'm never helping you again pineappleing never again i don't give a damn how much you need it Rick Dalliessi 1:27 am I don't quite think you understand the concept of you write what he wants. Harrison Wang 1:27 am you're an pimento you don't need to "write what he wants" you write what IS CORRECT Rick Dalliessi 1:27 am Yes you do... Harrison Wang 1:27 am ugh ughhh why are you pineappleing stupid Rick Dalliessi 1:28 am The two answers are different. Harrison Wang 1:29 am so? does that make my answer wrong? do you think your teacher is honestly so stupid that he can't think for himself? Rick Dalliessi 1:29 am He doesn't mark them. The tutors do. Harrison Wang 1:29 am -_- if asked you what 1+3+4 is you can simplify it as 4+4=8 or you can do 1+7=8 does that make either one any more wrong? Rick Dalliessi 1:30 am The tutors are marking over 100 assignments. They have an answer key. If it differs that much, what do you think they're going to do? Harrison Wang 1:31 am dude tutors don't even use answer keys half the time do you honestly think that 100 students are going to turn in identical assignments? Rick Dalliessi 1:31 am These tutors that I have They're level 2 students. They're not the highest quality >.> Harrison Wang 1:31 am just because they're level 2 students doesn't mean they don't know what they're doing and if you have a problem you can bring it to your teacher cuz your teacher ultimately determines your grade not your tutor Rick Dalliessi 1:31 am By the way Remember the person who told me about the discriminant in a cubic having a cube root and you hated it That was one of the tutors. Harrison Wang 1:32 am so? your teacher decides your grade, not your tutor Rick Dalliessi 1:32 am They're not the biggest help, really. Harrison Wang 1:32 am obviously by ending up with the derivative of x^(1/3) my solution was correct your tutor can't mark you wrong for a correct solution Rick Dalliessi 1:33 am It's a big hassle to go through the appeal. Harrison Wang 1:33 am it's a big hassle talking to someone as stupid as you you know what you piss me off go pineapple yourself Rick Dalliessi 1:34 am ... Harrison Wang 1:34 am all you know how to do is copy you're worthless you should go back to music at least you have pieces that good composers already written out to play you obviously lack the ability to think for yourself so why are you even in economics? why are you even taking mathematics it clearly requires too much ability that a simpleton like you just can't grasp Rick Dalliessi 1:35 am Can you stop being so God damned unrealistic. Harrison Wang 1:36 am i don't even know why i wasted 45 bucks mailing you my calc book[/spoiler] 
2011-05-18, 06:52 AM
2147483647 Wrote:I spent an hour last night helping Rick with his retarded math assignment. He ended up discarding my answer because "it looked different" from his teacher's solution. Ugh. At least it makes Rick look good.
2011-05-18, 06:55 AM
Sarah Wrote:At least it makes Rick look good. I'm not trying to make him look bad. I'm just pissed because this is but one of the numerous times he did this to me. Rick: "Oh Harrison, please help me out. This problem is soooo hard." Me: "Okay. Hold on." Some time passes. Me: "I solved it. Took forever. Make sure you understand what I did." Rick: "Yeah whatever. I'm just going to copy down what you gave me." A day or two later: Rick: "Hey Harrison, remember that problem you helped me on? Yeah, I didn't really bother to understand how your solution works. However, my teacher told me a different answer to yours, and since I understand how his solution works and since he's the teacher, whatever he says is obviously more correct than whatever you say. Yeah thanks for wasting your time helping me, but it looks like your help really wasn't necessary." Ugh.
2011-05-18, 10:30 AM
Good lord Harry. If you get that enraged over losing an hour of your time that you viciously rip into someone you call a friend, I wonder how you played MapleStory for so long.
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