ameriver comments on Evangelical Rationality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ameriver 21 April 2011 08:43:37AM 7 points [-]

A few weeks ago, I put a link to "Guessing the Teacher's Password" into one of my physics class lab reports. My professor followed the link, read several articles, and has shared at least that first one with several other science faculty at the community college I attend.

Doesn't quite count as non-geeky, but I am nonetheless well pleased.

Comment author: kpreid 21 April 2011 06:56:02PM 1 point [-]

I am curious what the context for the link was.

Comment author: ameriver 21 April 2011 07:06:21PM 3 points [-]

I was discussing an error I had made in a calculus problem becaues I tried to integrate a function of x with respect to z. I pointed out I made the error largely because my calculus skills are rusty, and I was just remembering a password ("velocity is the integral of acceleration!") and pushing on a magic button (INTEGRATE!) without remembering exactly what I was doing (calculating the area under the curve of a function of x, which doesn't make when you try to do it by adding up tiny pieces of z). At the end of my post-mortem, I linked the article and said it talked about some of the issues I was trying to articulate.