1/24 Should I expect to put more work in cs170 or m113?
\_ 113 was cake. One of the easier upper div classes I took. 170 had
piles of work but it wasn't hard. It only takes time and lithium to
get through any upper div math class.
\_ lithium? what is this a reference to?
\_ Also a great Nirvana song! Woo hoo!
\_ To the bulk quantities of drugs shipped to the math dept
daily to keep the profs semi-stable. Lithium is for people
with various mental stability problems usually lumped into
the meaningless title of "schizophrenic" (which is totally
different from multiple personality disorder).
\_ Ummm, no. Lithium is used in treating bipolar
disorder, aka manic-depression. It's a mood
stabilizer. Often, anti-psychotics (Haldol as an
example) are used to treat schizophrenia. And the
two disorders are completely different things. I
don't know if I'd call them meaningless, though,
real folks suffer from these things. --bipolar sodan
\_ I'm glad you know a single use for lithium. I would
correct you on the details but wouldn't want to
upset your delicate condition. "Meaningless" in
terms of "a diagnosis of schizophrenia" doesn't
_mean_ anything. Psychiatrists tend to call any
and everything they can't properly diagnose some
form of schizophrenia. Thus the term is meaningless
not the condition itself.
\_ actually schizophrenia is very specific, it just
happens to have many different effects.
\_ "Yeah it's like totally specific, but has like
851+ effects and they like know all about it
which is why anything they can't properly
diagnose is called schizophrenia!! YEAH!"
Uhm, no. You're simply wrong. Think about it.
\_ Don't inbreds have an excess of lithium in their
bloodstreams? -John
\_ I'll have to ask my cousin/brother/uncle.
\_ M113, by far
\_ The CS geeks I know would say 113 because it isn't familiar to them,
the math geeks I know would say 113 because "CS is so watered down
and math is for real" except these same math geeks always talk
about how incredibly easy 113 is compared to their other classes.
Ask ilyas about his mathematical purity of essence and the lack of
similar purity on the part of mere CS losers (in his mind).
\_ I never took either class while at school, but when I started
working, I ended reading most of the CS 170 book because it
had so much useful and interesting stuff. I don't know which
is more work, but if you are in CS you'll probably get more
out of cs170 than math113. By the way, I've always meant
to teach myself abstract algebra, but never quite got around
to it. Can someone point out some incentives for classes like
m113?
\_ Teaches you to hold the same thing in your mind for longer than
the default american attention span of 3 seconds. -- ilyas
\_ Damn ilyas, I never thought YOU'D stoop to such an idiotic
troll. What a bummer. :(
\_ You know I was reading this newspaper article about
new, 'tougher' standardised tests in california. This
article was talking about how some students 'cried in
the middle of the test and gave up' because they thought
the test was too hard. Call the whole thing a troll if you
will but the american public school system really doesn't
teach things like attention span, or proper english, or
foundations of math, or whatever very well. This is even
more surprising because american colleges are in general
excellent and emulated by the rest of the world. -- ilyas
\_ Don't confuse the California pre-college system with the
rest of the country. CA doesn't have a school system. It
has a 12 year baby sitting service. ilyas, you're either
trolling or don't know what you're talking about or both.
The anecdotal "some student in this one article" isn't
proof of anything. I thought you were some sort of self
proclaimed super rational logic genius? Stop trolling.
--American with longer attention span than ilyas
\_ Is the public school system any good in other states?
I would be very interested in any information on this.
And stop trolling yourself, rationality is intractable.
-- ilyas
\_ Take a look at grad theory class prereqs. Quite a few ask
for 113.
\_ Traditional uses for 113--cryptography, quantum physics,
graph theory (networks). Pretty useful stuff, even if
you never do the quantum.
\_ Quantum physics and graph theory my ass. Cryptography,
yes. But never in the class did they mention anything
remotely close to quantum physics or graphs.
\_ Moron. Did your 1st grade arithmetic teacher happen
to go over all uses of arithmetic for, say, quantum
physics? You're not going to deny that it's used,
in quantum physics and elsewhere, right? Just because
most 113 profs don't bring up those subjects, doesn't
mean it's not directly applicable to them. It is.
Ask anyone educated enough in either field.
\_ ok fancy pants. if you know so much, tell
me exactly what part of 113(that isn't covered
in 110) is needed in anyway for quantum mechanics
besides crystalography wich i dont count. ive taken
113 and physics137a/b, and i dont see any connection
. youre lame. you human paraquat.
\_ D00D!!1! U R SO K3WL!!! 2 S3M3S+3RZ OF QUANTUM
M3CH!!1!! K-RAD!11!!!!!
Read a book: Mirman, "Group Theoretical
Foundations of Quantum Mech", ISBN 1560722487
Come back when you're done reading.
\_ I find this offensive. -- non-human paraquat
\_ Math 113 is less useful and is an easy class. So, I'd put more
work into CS 170. --dim (Applied Math)
\_ I think they're about equal. Put more work into whichever you
find interesting. If you're in CS, you'll probably pick up lots
of 170 by osmosis later on, so I'd pay more attention to 113 --pld
\- in my vast experience at the upper div and grad level, math
classes vary greatly in terms of difficulty of grading and
work load by professor ... that difference swamps any
"inherent" differences between various classes. --psb
\_ He's back! --psb #1 Fan
\_ Maybe.
\_ Perhaps.
\_ Yes.
\_ Psb.
\_ Qed.
\_ ED! ED! ED is the STANDARD! Almost-three-letter abbreviation.
\_ ED is not an abbreviation.
\_ EDitor? Hello? Are you dumb?
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