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MIT courses online!
« on: May 19, 2010, 08:36:36 am »
I don't know whether any of you know this: the material of some MIT is actually online.

Check:

youtube.com/user/MIT
and
ocw.mit.edu


Right now, I'm at lecture 12 of 18.02: multivariable calculus.

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Re: MIT courses online!
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2010, 09:18:43 am »
weird, i'm doing that in class right now...

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Re: MIT courses online!
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2010, 10:34:11 am »
Oh wow, that's interesting  :o
I'll have to check that out when I get home, thanks for the links mapar  ;D

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Re: MIT courses online!
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2010, 12:04:40 pm »
wow nice, that's cool we can learn some stuff when you want there


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Re: MIT courses online!
« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2010, 01:46:31 pm »
Yeah youtube is great.  I watched the entire Linear Algebra series in the Standford lectures before I took the class and it was very cool (great for programmers, it even talks about how jpeg compression works)
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Re: MIT courses online!
« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2010, 03:23:58 pm »
Very cool. I knew that there were good courses online but never spent some time finding and watching. That shall be useful next year. ;)
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Re: MIT courses online!
« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2010, 05:29:35 pm »
That's nice. Now I know where my next few hours online (not necessarily continuous) will be.
EDIT: Oh, wait, these are 40min lectures. Let's make the next day or so
« Last Edit: May 19, 2010, 05:36:46 pm by calcdude84se »
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Re: MIT courses online!
« Reply #7 on: May 21, 2010, 12:27:16 pm »
I've done the 2A practice exam, all correct apart from some stupid arithmetic mistakes :P, so I'm moving on to integrals.

Btw, my math teacher hates me now because I reduced her 1-page proof of the product rule of derivatives to three lines (in front of the whole class :P ). (and I'm not allowed to use my 9000x more efficient proof on the exam! the injustice!)
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Re: MIT courses online!
« Reply #8 on: May 21, 2010, 03:27:10 pm »
Btw, my math teacher hates me now because I reduced her 1-page proof of the product rule of derivatives to three lines (in front of the whole class :P ). (and I'm not allowed to use my 9000x more efficient proof on the exam! the injustice!)
Lol!  Nice Mapar!  That's awesome. ;D  It's too bad you can't use it though... :D

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Re: MIT courses online!
« Reply #9 on: May 21, 2010, 05:29:17 pm »
lol nice x.x

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Re: MIT courses online!
« Reply #10 on: May 21, 2010, 09:50:43 pm »
wow. that's an incredible optimization. surprised you can't use it, though.
well, sounds nice anyway
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Re: MIT courses online!
« Reply #11 on: May 22, 2010, 02:24:11 am »
Well, the reason I can't use it is the fact that I officially don't know how multivariable calculus works, at the exam.

Screw it. I could prove all those 'tricks' as well. Meh.

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Re: MIT courses online!
« Reply #12 on: May 22, 2010, 05:36:21 pm »
I sure hope for school projects they won't restrict people to using specific code/functions x.x. I really hate the lack of freedom in some projects that involves art or creativity in school, sometimes.