Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it

Re:Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it by sztanko on Thursday March 06, 2025 @01:45PM (#43283665)

How did it go?

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Re:Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it by semireg on Thursday March 06, 2025 @02:25PM (#43284149)

I didn't ace it, but knew immediately what I had done wrong as I rode my bicycle home. I kept checking my linear transformation matrix and the Eigen values didn't compute... Looked again at the TI-89 when I got home and realized I swapped the orientation on the Jordan constants. I wrote all the equations out, so maybe my professor will have mercy on me. Oh well, another case of elevator wit - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27esprit_de_l%27escalier

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Re:Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it by Tade0 on Thursday March 06, 2025 @03:12PM (#43284618)

Is calculus included in your classes?

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Re:Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it by bitwize on Thursday March 06, 2025 @05:39PM (#43285764)

This sounds like a line from a Silicon Valley type TV series used to establish "character am smart"... and I love it.

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Re:Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it by semireg on Thursday March 06, 2025 @07:23PM (#43286416)

Ha! I was so nervous writing it because I am not qualified to use the smart math words!

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