Steve Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 Still, nothing as fun as flying 3000 miles to study College in a foreign country in order to get a future there, leave all your family behind, live in campus and keep a scholarship up x_X. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Krystal Posted August 30, 2007 Share Posted August 30, 2007 Still, nothing as fun as flying 3000 miles to study College in a foreign country in order to get a future there, leave all your family behind, live in campus and keep a scholarship up x_X. A little worse than my driving 2400 miles across the US with almost everything I own in the back seat to study at one of the hardest schools I know about, Digipen (the video game college). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxbird22 Posted August 30, 2007 Share Posted August 30, 2007 Digipen (the video game college). I ran into someone while I registered for my classes on last Monday. He's going to Digipen, too (next year). You're gonna have some competition Dwight, cuz he wants to work for Nintendo as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chiro-Chan Posted August 30, 2007 Share Posted August 30, 2007 *shakes her fist at Chiro* Not fair. I actually wish school would start a bit *sooner* just so I can get it over with. I go next Tuesday. (fail) Since my school goes on a block schedule, every other day for the first semester, I have only one class. xD And I don't see what it is with people and Digipen. I'm planning on working for Nintendo as a concept artist (hopefully), and I'm planning on attending the Seattle Institute of Art. = Though I suppose Digipen must be more for programming and stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Star Fox Runner Posted August 30, 2007 Author Share Posted August 30, 2007 I want to be a programmer too, but I won't go to Digipen, I want to try to look for something more closer to home, mainly in the same state, but in Missouri, thats a little hard to do. Well that'll be 2 years from now, I'm only a sophomore in high school. Speaking of which, I've been in school for 2 weeks now, not as bad as I expected. Here's my schedule. Purple Day (A day) Intro to Chemistry Computer Applications 2 Academic Lab (fancy word for study hall) Concert Choir Geometry Gold Day (B day) Spanish 1 Communication Skills 2 (aka English) Academic Lab World History Show Choir Schedule changes next semester. *Begin Rant* P.S. If anyone says I'm retarded for joining Show Choir, you need to shut up, cause it's a lot funner than it looks, and we get enough trouble from people in our school saying its for gay people, cause we bust our butts in class, in after school practices, and in competition to do our best and win. *End Rant* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Krystal Posted August 30, 2007 Share Posted August 30, 2007 And I don't see what it is with people and Digipen. I'm planning on working for Nintendo as a concept artist (hopefully), and I'm planning on attending the Seattle Institute of Art. = Though I suppose Digipen must be more for programming and stuff. Digipen is an intense program, programmer, artist, whatever, it's hard. Also, MOST of the people who go there go immediately into the game industry, making games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Four-eyed Vulpine Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 I thought I'd give you people in high school a taste of trigonometric integration. Early Calculus II stuff, by the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuffNStuff Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 ...... *browns his pants* Yeah... and I'm going to college for aeronautical engineering....... crap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Four-eyed Vulpine Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Yeah, that's probably only the beginning for you, Puff. Good luck with that. I might post some more Calc stuff here as I learn it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxbird22 Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 I thought I'd give you people in high school a taste of trigonometric integration. Ah, good times, good times...except I'm incredibly rusty with integration already. Amazing how brain-cell-killing summer is... *browns his pants* FEV has shown only a very tiny miniscule tip of the iceberg, buddy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Inari Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 FEV has shown only a very tiny minuscule tip of the iceberg, buddy. Yeah... That was just one problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxbird22 Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 If you have at one problem, multiply it by 100 of those per day, and you have: raised to the power of . Nah, just kidding. It isn't that bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Four-eyed Vulpine Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 Here's another problem, a system of equations. Find z. z approximates 5. It's an estimate because my computer calculator ran out of digits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuffNStuff Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxbird22 Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 Oh, I kinda remember how to do that, except with much simpler problems. Fractional parts, right? Random question: what kind of calculator do you have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Four-eyed Vulpine Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 TI-83 Plus Silver Edition. I got to a point where the calculator started giving answers in scientific notation, and thought "Oh crud, what have I gotten myself into..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Inari Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 ..... My sentiments exactly... How long did that take you Four-eyed Vulpine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Four-eyed Vulpine Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 Oh, about three hours. Repetitive cross-multiplying of ten-plus digits by ten-plus digits is awfully time-consuming. There are several places within the problem where I could have simplified a fraction, but it was just easier to go ahead and multiply it out instead of search through a list of prime numbers to see if one could go into both the numerator and denominator and result with integers instead of decimals. Since the fractions in this problem are constantly compounding in complexity with each step, coming to the exact value of the variable is nigh impossible, not to mention that I've yet to see a calculator that can compute that many digits without going into scientific notation and estimating. By the way, the full answer is w=2, x=3, y=4, and z=5, exactly. It took a time just to create the problem and plug the variables in to come up with the answers along the right side. Since I have calculated z to equal 5, all that's left is plugging that into the other equation of the resulting pair to find y, then plugging z and y into the remaining equation of the system of three to find x, and finally plugging x, y, and z into the remaining equation of the original quadruple system to find w. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Star Fox Runner Posted September 12, 2007 Author Share Posted September 12, 2007 .................Do you have to learn that to be a game programmer? please no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Four-eyed Vulpine Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 Well, keep in mind that systems of equations usually aren't THAT difficult, as foxbird22 said. Most are double, and some are triple systems (two and three equations in a system) that only involve integers and the occasional fraction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxbird22 Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 I find it entertaining how so many people are , , or "........", while FEV and I just sit here and go, "it's easy!" Systems of equations are far more menacing at first sight than they are once you get going. I actually find systems of equations quite fun, especially the in-depth ones like the one FEV posted. Triple systems are my favorite. The quad ones are irritating, and the double are too easy. .................Do you have to learn that to be a game programmer? please no. Unfortunately, yes. Dwight's taken the entire Calculus sequence, and I believe he's on to linear algebra this semester. I asked him to give advice on the Krystal Archive Podcast 13, and he says to take calculus in high school. Probably the best advice there is. How far are you going with calculus, FEV? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Four-eyed Vulpine Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 Just Calculus II and some Statistics. By the way, I'm currently in the middle of a QUINTUPLE system of equations. I'll post the results tomorrow in the Mathematics thread, since it's a lot more relevant over there. EDIT: The system fell apart, so I won't be posting it. It's nigh impossible to do systems that big on paper, unless they have nothing but 1's and 0's or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuffNStuff Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 nerds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Four-eyed Vulpine Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 Is that jealousy I detect? J/k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxbird22 Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 Aha, so you used a matrix to do it. Fun stuff. Those things can get reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyy drawn out sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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