kpreid comments on Evangelical Rationality - Less Wrong

36 Post author: CannibalSmith 20 April 2009 04:51AM

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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.