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18:56
@TheSimpliFire, @Daniil: It's such a tight race!
19:17
@NikeDattani Oh don't worry, you'll both overtake me soon. I'm a little too busy to be answering any more than one Q a day if I do answer any
19:28
@TheSimpliFire But I was joking about it actually being a "race" :) I'm also too busy to answer one Q per day. Especially now that the new term has started and I'm teaching again (2nd year undergrad linear algebra course this term).
@NikeDattani I know :P Indeed term has started... for my PhD
It's only been a few weeks but I can feel the pressure ;)
@NikeDattani Teaching linear algebra is probably one of the most boring things
19:46
@TheSimpliFire This one is a reasonably fast-paced course, so it's not so boring. But the part I don't like is that it's online! I enjoy in-person teaching much more :)
 
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21:02
@NikeDattani As it so happens, I'm taking a linear algebra course this term at my university! (MATH 4A @ UC Santa Barbara)
@ifconfig This course covers pretty much exactly the same topics, except in a different order. We did matrix operations immediately after "systems of linear equations", and the vector material will be later. For how many months will this course run?
Hrm, @NikeDattani. Interesting! UCSB is on a quarter system, so 10 weeks long.
I think the next required math course (MATH 4B) is also lin alg
4B looked like differential equations
oh oops
I haven't really looked at it yet, that's for the upcoming winter quarter... :)
So for 4A, you are how many weeks in, and which topic are you now on?
21:13
Classes start on Oct 1 lol. :)
Our term has been about 3 weeks so far, and we just finished Matrix inverses
oh hahahahaha
No one ever expects this, but yea. XD
Most universities in the US start in September right?
Yeah, IIRC
UCSB is the odd one out
Uni starts in October in the UK, Japan, and a lot of other countries though.
September in USA and Canada
21:21
🤷‍♂️ I've learned several times over that the USA is highly peculiar and I should almost always expect that we're the weird ones. lol
Usually ends up being true
Canada is peculiar for the same things though :)
I'm Canadian
Our universities and schools run on a similar schedule to US universities.
Canada and USA are also two of the only countries that require an undergrad degree before medical school or law school. In UK, Australia, Japan, etc., Medicine and Law are undergrad degrees.
21:46
Yeah.
 
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22:54
A recent question on Robotics:SE might be of interest to people here.
It also occurs to me: would that question have been considered on-topic here?

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