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I'm a maths student at university and I hate people who can't add correctly! So if I correct your calculations I apologise in advance. Also I must say it has been a long time since I found an area so mathematically ignorant. I mean gods, have you not heard of confidence intervals or discreet distributions?!?! | "I'm a maths student at university and I hate people who can't add correctly! So if I correct your calculations I apologise in advance. Also I must say it has been a long time since I found an area so mathematically ignorant. I mean gods, have you not heard of confidence intervals or discreet distributions?!?!" - Me about 17 years ago. | ||
Well, I was a bit of a prat - I ended up as uni lecturer (who just about knows the difference between discrete and discreet, and who learned that there is a label for people who can't add correctly - "university leadership"). To put it in the final record, Urban Dead is a game that played a key part in my formative years, and was one of the few things I enjoyed applying mathematics to as a student, and is the sole reason I didn't hate probability theory entirely. Now, as a teacher of other students, I often show them the game as a solid example of what can be done with a database, a lot of patience, and a boatload of creativity (it's also a nice example of a binomial distribution in action). | |||
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About Me
"I'm a maths student at university and I hate people who can't add correctly! So if I correct your calculations I apologise in advance. Also I must say it has been a long time since I found an area so mathematically ignorant. I mean gods, have you not heard of confidence intervals or discreet distributions?!?!" - Me about 17 years ago.
Well, I was a bit of a prat - I ended up as uni lecturer (who just about knows the difference between discrete and discreet, and who learned that there is a label for people who can't add correctly - "university leadership"). To put it in the final record, Urban Dead is a game that played a key part in my formative years, and was one of the few things I enjoyed applying mathematics to as a student, and is the sole reason I didn't hate probability theory entirely. Now, as a teacher of other students, I often show them the game as a solid example of what can be done with a database, a lot of patience, and a boatload of creativity (it's also a nice example of a binomial distribution in action).
