Final Stretch Part III

  I have decided that I will share with you guys the video I've done for the winter semester. Might as well own it, am I right? I spent so much time on it, it would be a shame if no one sees it. It'd definitely also be extremely embarrassing for me but hey... when am I not embarrassing? It is one of my many unredeeming qualities.



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  My finals are literally tomorrow. I feel I've been procrastinating my studies a bit too much.

  The past few days, I've been too focus on work rather than studies. The good news is I've made huge progress in my work. The video is almost done and just needs a few more edits (which would probably take hours but still...); the bad news is that I've been neglecting my studies cause of that. I've been reviewing my courses, and I'm confident that I am extremely unconfident about one of my paper. I am used to the practical usage of statistics, such as finding the mean, finding confidence intervals, infer something from the data you received etc. etc... but not mathematical proofs. I absolutely abhor proofs. 

  "Well what's the difference?" you may ask. Let me give you an extremely extremely EXTREMELY simplified version of the difference. 

  Say, there is a question. Find the average test score of a class. A practical question would provide you, say... 50 students, and 50 test scores. You just add them up, divide it by 50, and bam! There's your average! A number! A proof would not be a number. When it comes to proof questions, usually no numbers would be given, so the answer would be something like this:

                n 
    x̄ =1/n  Σ  X_i
               i=1

  That was an extremely simple example. The course would ask something more like... between time 0 and time t, what is the expected number of cars entering this intersection, or... "The lives of Joe’s dog and cat are independent exponential RV’s with rates λd and λc. One of them has just died. Find the expected additional lifetime of the other pet." I copied that right out of my assignment. This one is one of the easier ones, there are some which are just, ughhh.

  

Figure 66.1: My work desk turned study desk for the rest of the semester

On Monday, one of our board game buddies hosted a Christmas night! I know it's a bit early for Christmas, but they realized that majority of the board game group won't be here for Christmas, so they decided to host early. Sadly too, other than the host (they are a married couple), everyone else are undergraduates, so we're all busy with exam preparations. I somehow find time (or I just simply not find time and go anyway) to attend this, and it was only me, the couple, and the one who brought us all together, the GM. It was nice. We made Christmas decorations, made Christmas cookies, and thought the GM and the husband man Chinese chess. The wife didn't want to be near anything chess related because she feels stupid whenever she loses. It was a fun night... :)

Figure 66.2: I suck at rolling so I was in charge of chopping instead.
Christmas cookies!

Figure 66.3: Christmas Heart!

Figure 66.4: Christmas Chinese chess!

  But yeah, that's about it for now! There's this other thing that happened to me last night, it was incredibly scary I felt. In my adult life, it has only been happening to me when I was about to sleep, so even though it's still scary, but yet kind of "safe" feeling, cause I'm in bed and all. I remember that this used to happen to me even when I'm up and moving about when I was a kid. But that will be for another time, gotta get back to studying!

Figure 66.5: I was distracted by the Tv:n!
Always finish reading the sentences!

Figure 66.6: :hmmm: