go/baduk/weichi chess
George Beck
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Walking in circles and listening, math, go player, old music and movies, doom without gloom.
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What is it called when someone successful in one domain gets overconfident about their ability in another domain? Like Balzac becoming a publisher or Mark Twain investing in a typesetting machine? Or software people going into newspapers, rockets, cars, and so on, but they haven't failed badly yet.
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It's self-evident.
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Thirsty? Drink water.
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Ctrl-F doesn't work in a PDF shown in a browser but using the menu Edit > Find > ... works. (I am not 100% sure.)
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What about asking ChatGPT if it knows things, understands words, or is creative? (I won't ask it myself for fear of being inadvertently misinformed, just like I avoid listening to politicians.)
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So when a student wants to sketch x sin(x), say, they can do it without calculating a single value or plotting a single point.
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Compound graphing: Start with an inventory of the elements: powers, trig functions and their inverses, exponential and logarithm. Sketch them on the same axes and (roughly) add or multiply those graphs, moving along the x axis. Take reciprocals, shift, scale, reflect.
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telephoning a graph: I split the class into pairs, a sender and a receiver. The sender saw a hidden graph (there were lots at the back of the book); the sender's job was to get their receiver to draw something like that graph by describing it verbally.
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Reverse graphing: The teacher shows the students the graph of a secret function. The student has to find a function to match the graph. There is no unique answer and there is no single method for finding one. Students (and the other teachers) found reverse graphing very amusing and learned a lot.