Extra echoes laying around? Yes.
Impulse control? No.
Was trying to think of things I haven’t done yet in the game and this crossed my mind. Congrats Orsinio. Your house is full of weasels.
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show this to ur friends w no context
As if theirs some context that could explain this.
Lemme just drop this onto the conveyor belt of your dashboard
This is what scrolling through Tumblr feels like
They’re also shooting for 100% renewable plastic sources by 2030! All of the soft plant/leaf elements in sets right now and going forward are made out of bioplastic made from sugarcane, and they’re working on getting the regular hard plastic bricks out of that, too.
They’ve done it, actually! The full bricks are in the prototype stage now, and are expected to be 100% biodegradable without the need for a commercial compost facility. It’s very cool. Right now they’re testing the durability and playability of the bricks and seeing what needs to be revised/reworked on their final model.
So its that easy huh
Of course it is
Actually, this isn’t “easy” and is huge news. You see, Lego is absolutely meticulous about their quality control. Their standards for manufacturing are stupidly high, as are their safety requirements. You know that distinctive “click” when you pop two Lego bricks apart? They engineered that. That sound is so distinctive that it can be used to tell genuine Lego bricks from counterfeits and it’s a sound that would be based on shape and material.
Furthermore, one of the hard requirements for a Lego brick is that it must be compatible with any other Lego brick. If I buy a set today and pull a set from the 1980s? Those bricks would fit together perfectly. This requires a huge amount of precision engineering and controls on manufacturing quality. (I can’t remember the source, but I’ve at least heard that once the brick molds wear to a certain point, they’re pulled from the line and either melted down or turned into construction material for Lego HQ. Point being, no one is getting their hands on a worn Lego mold)
Recycled and non-petroleum plastics are different from other plastic. The chemistry is different. The timing and process to use them is different. This has been a reason why more companies haven’t moved to them, because there’s a drop in quality for material (so they claim).
What Lego just did is completely obliterate that argument. The corporation with some of the strictest quality control requirements for plastic just kicked the basic foundation of the “bad quality” argument out from under it, because if they feel confident enough to guarantee the same experience as using a brick from over 40 years ago, if they are confident enough that they can meet their own metrics at a huge industrial scale….
Nobody else has any excuse.
GLORIOUS NERDERY Lego edition
*kicks down door and wheezes heavily*
GUYS.
MATHBLR.
HELP ME.
I’ve been HOMESCHOOLED all my life which has been the only option really for my family for a number of reasons. As a consequence I have only really learned bare bones basic math that I need to survive.
My mom thinks I could have been a math genius if my dad wasn’t a ~deadbeat father~ and gave up on me so help me and her out a little? Jus a wee bit??
I’m going to College. And by that I mean I am finishing up a gap year because I. Uh. I got really sick. And I’m still really sick but Yknow how it is. ANYWAYS I might not pass the Basic Math Classes so that I can. Yknow. Get my degree. Help me. Is there any like, video series or website or place online that explains math and helps you learn math but isn’t annoying because it feels like someone is talking down to you?? Because I’m tired of feeling like I’m stupid for not knowing this,,,, I also am broke so I can’t purchase a two hundred dollar textbook,, please I’m stuck I dunno what to dooooo
Please note I have dyscalcula
Oh boy, my time has come. These are all resources which I recommend to college students who need some assistance or review to help with their required math classes.
Paul's Online Notes: Comprehensive notes for algebra, calculus I-III, and differential equations courses. Also includes some additional cheat sheets and review sheets. These are very accessible and won't assume much prior knowledge beyond the typical prerequisite classes for each course. https://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/
S.O.S. Mathematics: Review material for topics from algebra on through differential equations. These are great if you have a specific topic you need to refresh your memory on. http://www.sosmath.com/
PhET Interactive Simulations: These aren't usually ideal for beginning with a concept, but they are fantastic tools for better understanding how various concepts work, especially if you prefer visual or interactive learning methods. They are also useful for improving your intuitive sense of a concept that doesn't come naturally to you. I definitely recommend at least looking at what they have available, so you can come back to them if you are having trouble with a specific concept. The trig tour and the various graphing ones are particularly helpful, in my opinion. The site also includes physics, chemistry, and biology simulations, if those are of interest. https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/math/mathconcepts
OpenStax: A catalogue of free, open-source textbooks. Includes books for pre-algebra, algebra, trigonometry, pre-calculus, calculus I-III, and various statistics courses. Some of those books are also available in Spanish. https://openstax.org/subjects/math
KhanAcademy: This has already been mentioned multiple times by other people on this post, and for good reason. KhanAcademy is great if you prefer video material (although it should be noted they don't only offer videos). Of the resources on this list, KhanAcademy will give you an experience closest to a traditional class progression (albeit not in a traditional format), but many of their lessons and articles will also work standalone if you only need to cover a particular topic. They have material on everything from elementary school mathematics through calculus, multivariate calculus, differential equations, and linear algebra. https://www.khanacademy.org/
Honorable Mention
Desmos Online Graphing Calculator: This isn't a review website, but it is a great resource. Desmos' calculator has an easy-to-understand interface and neat visuals. You can use it to graph various equations and compare the graphs of various equations. The tool which lets you adjust the value of a constant by dragging a slider is particularly useful for visualization. There is also a good set of example graphs which you can view and play around with. https://www.desmos.com/calculator
Reblogging in case @ms-demeanor has recommendations for dyscalculia specifically
I unfortunately was not able to find good resources for adults with dyscalculia however I have to recommend The Organic Chemistry Tutor on YouTube - every time I was having trouble with a concept I searched and one of his videos came up and explained things in a way that made a lot of sense.
In terms of dyscalculia: get a documented diagnosis of your learning disability and contact your school's disability office. Inform your professors. Ask for resources and accommodations. You may be able to ask for an aide who can read equations to you or for extra time in tests or questions with the numbers written or marked differently - there are tools that your school will have to help you, but only if you have documentation of the disability, so ensuring that you have that documentation adults should be a part of your gap year plan.
If you can't get that documentation then see if you can have classmates or tutors check over any homework you turn in for transcription errors before you turn in the assignment, or check them very very carefully yourself. What you're looking for is to make sure that the numbers in the assignment were correctly written on your scratch paper and then that the results on your scratch paper are correctly written in the assignment. This is the single biggest problem that I have had with my math classes and unfortunately it's not a problem with an easy fix.
One thing that has helped me with that slightly is working out equations by hand whenever possible because I'm much more likely to mess up putting a number in a calculator and writing it down than I am to mess up working by hand.
OH HEY by the way about the expensive textbook thing - a huge number of textbooks are available on archive.org and you can check them out for free for an hour at a time with an account. All you have to do is sign up for an account and it costs nothing to borrow a book and read a chapter. I've gotten through entire classes without buying a textbook because there was an older edition on archive.org.
So, for example, someone in the notes mentioned "Math for Dummies" - and here's part of that series on archive.org:
I have used books in the For Dummies series before and I find that they are a useful primer on a subject that manages to be approachable without feeling patronizing.
And what type of math class you have to pass is going to depend on your major. When I was an English Lit major the most I needed was Math for Liberal Arts Majors which was basic stuff like probability and money management and interest. As a Nutrition major I need to take college algebra, statistics, trigonometry, and pre-calc. If I were to switch my major to Computer Science I'd need to take Calculus with Analytic Geometry I and II.
At a bare minimum you will need to pass some type of Math 100/Basic Math/Daily Math class; here is an open-source textbook for Math in Society. I'd strongly recommend going through the textbook and seeing what your level of understanding of each subject is and working from there.
There are free and open source textbooks for hundreds of classes and dozens of math classes. Here's one on elementary algebra, here's one on Multivariable Calculus. If you know what level of math you will need for your major, check out some free textbooks on the subject to get an idea of what direction to point your learning.
Now, you say that you're going to college but you don't say that you've been admitted to college; if you haven't been accepted to a specific college with a particular matriculation plan I cannot recommend community colleges enough. In most states in the US community colleges are much more affordable even than state colleges and they will have smaller class sizes, a better tutor-to-student ratio than larger schools, and failing a math class at a community college is not the same level of expensive disaster as failing a math class at a university.