Let's hear it!

[iago]

If a tree falls on a baby in the forest and there's nobody around to see it, is it still hilarious?

I think the funnier version is, if a tree falls in the woods, and no one's around, and hit hits a mime, does anyone care?

[rabbit]

Vector crosses are easy.  If there were projections on inverted nxn, n > 2, I'd worry.

Duh.

Why?  It's still easy.  As long as you're not doing something like Gram-Schmidt where you have to keep your set of vectors orthonormal, it's not that tedious.

That's the way we had to do it in my linear alg class.  It sucked.

[leet_muffin]

If a man is standing alone in a forest, with no woman around to hear him, and he says something, is he still wrong?

[deadly7]

If a man is standing alone in a forest, with no woman around to hear him, and he says something, is he still wrong?

Conversely:
If a woman is standing alone in a forest, with no one around her, and she says something, is she still a two-timing bitch?

[Sidoh]

Vector crosses are easy.  If there were projections on inverted nxn, n > 2, I'd worry.

Duh.

Why?  It's still easy.  As long as you're not doing something like Gram-Schmidt where you have to keep your set of vectors orthonormal, it's not that tedious.

That's the way we had to do it in my linear alg class.  It sucked.

Again, duh.  It's Gram-Schmidt.  You're turning an arbitrary basis into an orthonormal basis.  Of course you have to keep the set of vectors orthonormal. :P

Even still, it's pretty tedious, but it's not at all hard as long as you're using the "normal" inner product.

[Hitmen]

Word from Newby:

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[rabbit]

Vector crosses are easy.  If there were projections on inverted nxn, n > 2, I'd worry.

Duh.

Why?  It's still easy.  As long as you're not doing something like Gram-Schmidt where you have to keep your set of vectors orthonormal, it's not that tedious.

That's the way we had to do it in my linear alg class.  It sucked.

Again, duh.  It's Gram-Schmidt.  You're turning an arbitrary basis into an orthonormal basis.  Of course you have to keep the set of vectors orthonormal. :P

Even still, it's pretty tedious, but it's not at all hard as long as you're using the "normal" inner product.

Never said anything about hard.  There were so many places for transcription errors.  I had to check problems 3 or 4 times before I thought I had them right (ew).

[Sidoh]

Vector crosses are easy.  If there were projections on inverted nxn, n > 2, I'd worry.

Duh.

Why?  It's still easy.  As long as you're not doing something like Gram-Schmidt where you have to keep your set of vectors orthonormal, it's not that tedious.

That's the way we had to do it in my linear alg class.  It sucked.

Again, duh.  It's Gram-Schmidt.  You're turning an arbitrary basis into an orthonormal basis.  Of course you have to keep the set of vectors orthonormal. :P

Even still, it's pretty tedious, but it's not at all hard as long as you're using the "normal" inner product.

Never said anything about hard.  There were so many places for transcription errors.  I had to check problems 3 or 4 times before I thought I had them right (ew).

You implied they were in your original post :P

I just checked my work as I went along in Mathematica.  We didn't bother with many GSO problems, though.  We pretty much moved right along to SVD.

[CrAz3D]

I got there two hours early, just in case.  Started the test relieved that reading comprehension was first.  Logic followed reading, then third was another reading (thank God I didnt have two logic sections).  After reading so much I can't retain anything in short-term memory ... my mind gets FUBAR'd.  After the third section (reading) was a 10 minute break.  Then we had puzzles (I kicked those mother fuckers' ASSES!) then the second logic*.

*There are five sections to the test, four are scored while the extra is just for LSAC's purposes.  There are always at least two logic sections, if not three.

I walked out of the testing room after four hours of death feeling like my brain was deflating.  Only three weeks 'til I find out my scores, AH!

[Sidoh]

What kind of puzzles are on these sorts of tests?  What kind of logic do they put in there?

[CrAz3D]

puzzles:
there are 6 performers, some are on stage and some are off.  If J is on, L is Off.  If L is off, J is on.  If F is off J is off.  If there is an X on then G is on.
(there are about 6 Qs based on the above scenario)
example Q: What is the least number of people that could be on the stage? 


logic:
Person can get Z with Y and Z or person can get Q with Y or Z. 
Which of the following most matches the above logical progression.





Stuff like that.  Much more complicated, obviously, but ... yeah

[rabbit]

We weren't allowed to use anything on tests, silly Psyduck.

[Sidoh]

We weren't allowed to use anything on tests, silly Psyduck.

lol, neither were we.  However, our professor made an effort to make problems that tested our knowledge of our material, but didn't involve excessive tedious arithmetic.

We had a GSO problem on the final, but the original vector space only had a dimension of three and two of the vectors were already orthonormal.

[zorm]

puzzles:
there are 6 performers, some are on stage and some are off.  If J is on, L is Off.  If L is off, J is on.  If F is off J is off.  If there is an X on then G is on.
(there are about 6 Qs based on the above scenario)
example Q: What is the least number of people that could be on the stage? 


logic:
Person can get Z with Y and Z or person can get Q with Y or Z. 
Which of the following most matches the above logical progression.





Stuff like that.  Much more complicated, obviously, but ... yeah

Sounds pretty easy...

[CrAz3D]

The issue is usually the time constraint and just so much reading.