Oct. 29, 20: Recording a Calculus Lecture, Xbox, Teaching Calculus, Laps, and Games

Up at five today but still two and a half hours short since I went to bed way later having slept away the entire afternoon the day before.

Got my morning routine going and done bright and early and heartbroken to see HIVE continue to collapse. We’re entering into alt-shitcoin territory at this point and I’m definitely questioning my investment even moreso than in the past. There’s a point at which faith becomes blindness.

I tried the other day and failed to register for the poshtoken, but they set up a website, so I tried that and it worked. 🙂 I thought it was an HE token, but I think the balance is “virtual” for the time being until HMTs...so, Soon™️. Still, it has made me keep sharing (and shilling) on Twitter fresh in my mind.

I felt really bad that I missed teaching my Calculus class yesterday, so I offered to meet today instead and that further fueled me to focus on getting a lecture video recorded.

I did a video on Newton’s Method, an algorithm for finding the series of differentiable functions which can be used to approximate things like square root of two.

Made a stupid/embarrassing mistake, but I just tried a different value and it worked fine...I thought of redoing the entire thing, but no use in throwing the baby out with the bath water.

After I watched it through and got it uploaded, I watched it again to check the subtitles and make sure the audio and video came out clear. Luckily it wasn’t terribly long, only a little over twenty minutes, so it didn’t take insanely long to upload even though it failed once. Still, that process takes some time and I can’t let the phone go to sleep or it quits.

I snagged some lunch and then played some more Resident Evil 3 on the Xbox. Had to fight the Nemesis like three more times, but they were relatively forgiving on the saves and let you restock before. Beat the game and popped a couple more cheevos.

The disc also came with REvolution, so I fired that up and gave it a try. Scored a couple more cheevos for playing through the tutorials and played a couple matches.

It’s an online multiplayer deal with survivors and someone trying to kill them, like Among Us (sort of) or more like Friday the 13th. It’s ok, but not exactly my favorite kind of game, probably’ll go back to Planetfall and try the campaign mode.

In the evening I met with my Calculus class on video. Only two students showed up and only one asked questions, but I showed them the derivative of inverse functions and tried to stress recognizing the structures of inverse trig functions particularly.

Grabbed a little cereal for dinner and was starting to head toward bed, but I still had a few thousand steps to go for the day. Busted out some laps around the house.

Didn’t go too much past. I started to feel all achy 🤕 and just wanted to lay down. Didn’t take long before I was out again, can’t really say I even watched any TV. At least a somewhat more productive day than yesterday. 👍

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No crime today in my dCity. 😁 Slowly building back up now, but got a ways to go. Starting to take a penalty on the unemployment, so need to find something for them to do soon.

A little more BEER and a little more WEED...every drop counts said the woman as she pissed in the sea. 😃

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Despite still having a bit of a struggle in the arena, I did get all my Holybread tasks done today! 🤩 Nearly able to afford another potion refill already, but I haven’t heard anything more about the epic item event. 🤔

Really can’t seem to advance in the ranks, but still holding position.

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Got the brew finished that I started yesterday over on CryptoBrewmaster and sold it out. I thought I had duplicates of enough to start another one, but no, it’s back to gathering ingredients again.

It was just the basic beer, so not much change, but up is up.

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Ugh. I had really intended to play today to try and recover at least a little bit. Once again the browser window sat open, I went to play, and thought “later.” Later, of course, turned into not at all.

I have to admit that 18 chests isn’t bad for playing three games, but the consequences of not playing are getting more severe.

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