CME 265 stupidity

[kyrasantae]

Tuuli Mustasydän:
my process analysis prof was being stupid today

peter:
hmmm... how so?

Tuuli Mustasydän:
stupid's the wrong word

Tuuli Mustasydän:
I'm going to type out the notes i took in the last couple of classes

peter:
sure

Tuuli Mustasydän:
OMG, units!!! <- <- <-
Really, if you're copying these off your lecture notes onto the board, you spend far too much time on your lecture notes.
Unit analysis: how many times have we had this lecture? Like, since high school... (although I don't understand how some people couldn't understand this back then...)
Oh dear.
*facepalm*
Is everybody confused yet? [the imperial system]
1 lb(mass) object weighs 1 lb(force). <- WTF?
32.174 (lb_mass*ft)/(s²*lb_force) <-g_c <-whose stupid idea was this?
      ^- a conversion factor to make lb_m into lb_f -> _so_ contrived! [actually a triple underline; can't reproduce here]
      ^- [eg.] W=mg/(g_c)

Tuuli Mustasydän:
that's yesterday

Tuuli Mustasydän:
oops

Tuuli Mustasydän:
missed one arrow next to "OMG, units"

Tuuli Mustasydän:
today:

peter:
wow... that's ridiculous

Tuuli Mustasydän:
"when you use pounds..." you get confused.
OMG I don't need examples! >.< zzzzz... [this was on doing stuff with the aforementioned 'g_c']
Americans are silly.
Energy 0.7375 Btu = 9.486*10^-4 lb_f*ft <-more contrived-ness.
Okay, we see the point already. Just stop. [on more stupid examples]

Tuuli Mustasydän:
then i fell asleep

peter:
yeah, falling asleep would be good at that point

Tuuli Mustasydän:
when i woke up it seems that he had done something about interpolation and extrapolation

peter:
haha

Tuuli Mustasydän:
and then he started ranting about how averages don't mean anything without standard dev and how you can make statistics support anything you want, via "how it's presented, how the data is collected, and" something else i can't remember

peter:
mmm... yeah

Tuuli Mustasydän:
including more stupid examples

Tuuli Mustasydän:
actually the comment about him copying the lecture notes:

Tuuli Mustasydän:
he started off his lecture on monday talking about you have units for every value, but "unfortunately, data is not always measured in units that are consistent with the units you need to perform the calculations" or something (he wrote this on the board, and all i can clearly remember about it was the word 'unfortunately')

peter:
hmm... not good

Tuuli Mustasydän:
at that point, i *knew* i wasn't copying down what was on the board

Tuuli Mustasydän:
oh

Tuuli Mustasydän:
he also can't spell his TA's name

peter:
that's not cool

Tuuli Mustasydän:
there was a typo on the course outline, so it said "Brain" instead of "Brian"

Tuuli Mustasydän:
he copies this onto the board

peter:
haha

Comments

[fakiiri.livejournal.com]

He's right about the statistics, though (wether it was relevant to your course or not). You really can present anything from a given set of data with suitable tricks up your sleeve. That's why I'm having a hard time classifying statistics as science...

*waits for a statistician to kick his butt*

[kyrasantae.livejournal.com]

Yes, but honestly, it's not all that relevant to the course ;)

[fakiiri.livejournal.com]

Figured as much ;-)

hey! where'd you get this icon?

[spiffikins]

I recognize that art! It's a picture drawn by my brother! From http://www.scarybear.org

coolness!

Re: hey! where'd you get this icon?

[kyrasantae.livejournal.com]

I don't know which category it was on the site, but I got it off the mess.be collection of avatars. In fact, the Scarybear site mentions it on the 'goodies' page.

Re: hey! where'd you get this icon?

[spiffikins]

cool - it's always fun to track down how different people come across his stuff!