| ed | this made all the difference. because the question was something like "prove that it's less" meanwhile the chapter said "it's more" what level of a student are you, KD? |
| KD19 | I'm not sure I'll go with any level |
| ed | I meant, are you in junior high school or are you doing your doctorate? |
| KD19 | can't I pick somewhere in between |
| ed | OK I'll allow it |
| KD19 | ok I'm somewhere in between probably I just like math, that's all |
| ed | i hate math. |
| KD19 | and I like the way knuth writes, so I figured I should give that book a try then why are you doing math |
| ed | actually i dont hate it i am just awful at it |
| KD19 | ^^ ya me too |
| ed | Like I am trying to do a question which i know is totally easy yet I don't see it |
| KD19 | but I don't quite enjoy things I'm really good at as much then it's not totally easy |
| ed | sure it is |
| KD19 | no it's not |
| ed | it's like this. 2+2 is easy, right? but only because you know what + is. I think the question I am trying to do IS that easy, I just don't know some pivotal fact. |
| KD19 | saying it's "easy" serves no other purpose than to put you down instead of trying to grade its difficulty, try to get a millimeter closer to solving it and another, and another, until you're there |
| ed | I meant that it's not a complicated question that requires thought. it just requires some piece of information which i lack and i dont know what it is |
| cyclicFifths | ed: i hate it when that happens. |
| ed | cyclicFifths: I am glad I was able to properly convey the nature of my frustration. |
| KD19 | ed you probably have all the information necessary. use the information you have to generate related information up to the point where solving becomes trivial that's the whole fun part |
| ed | KD19 - nope wanna hear the question? |
| KD19 | would you really like it if all problems let you skip that part and go right to the trivial thing? I know I wouldn't ok go ahead |
| ed | just a sec, let me format it this is from learning theory. I understand the learning theory part. I just don't get the linear algebra part: Show that the VC dimension of the set of all closed balls in R^n, that is sets of the form {x in R^n : ||x - x0||^2 = r } for some x0 in Rn and r = 0 is less than or equal to n + 2. |