Mathematics for the Adventurous Self-Learner

Re:Mathematics for the Adventurous Self-Learner by user00012-ab on Sunday February 23, 2020 @11:10PM (#22401580)

I found that the community on brilliant.org can be quite toxic. I was a member for awhile, but quit due to the people on the site.

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Re:Mathematics for the Adventurous Self-Learner by scranglis on Monday February 24, 2020 @01:23PM (#22406730)

It gives me great pain to hear this.

Please do email me silas [at] brilliant.org, so I can figure out which failure mode you hit and evaluate if it has improved at all since you quit.

In addition, as others have noted, our courses have no community aspect to them at all.

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Re:Mathematics for the Adventurous Self-Learner by ben_w on Monday February 24, 2020 @04:23AM (#22402714)

I’m using brilliant, but just the courses, not any of the community parts. What was the failure mode?

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Re:Mathematics for the Adventurous Self-Learner by user00012-ab on Monday February 24, 2020 @02:59PM (#22407806)

I think the final thing was on the daily challenges; I always tried to solve them before looking at the answers even If I don't know the "proper" math to do so. I had posted my (correct) solution that I got to by writing a program to work it out; and I got some replies saying I was an idiot for not doing in the proper (math) way.

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Re:Mathematics for the Adventurous Self-Learner by ben_w on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @10:41AM (#22414007)

Ah, that type. Thanks for the heads-up.

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