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#13469

2222

Sept. 25, 2024, 3:26 p.m.

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Veena: But Mr. Rose, that’s cheating Rose: Shh, cheating is good sometimes

#13454

1515

Sept. 12, 2024, 1:59 p.m.

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Rose: This problem is really hard. Maybe you cried, maybe you were tweaking out

#13451

1717

Sept. 12, 2024, 12:15 p.m.

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Rose: one student told me he was "tweaking out" Rose: and that could mean like anything

#13443

1313

Sept. 9, 2024, 3:29 p.m.

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Rose: All pictures are basically bad

#13440

1010

Sept. 9, 2024, 2:48 p.m.

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// On the application of reason to geometry, talking about the Pythagoreans. Rose: "Let's say I found 20 people, and put them in a room with food and water for a month, and asked them to prove geometry." Rose: "I'm a cult leader, and they're all committed to me." Rose: "They may define something, they might rebel, I don't know." // Later... Rose: "What might be something that might be, like, hard to figure out?" // Mutters from the class. Rose: "True. Hard stuff is hard to figure out." // Later, proving that sqrt(2) is irrational by contradiction, reaching the crux of the proof. Rose: "Now, a strange sense of weirdness -- cue the "Woo-o woo-o" music -- descends upon you."

P6 Logic. Early in the semester, talking about the development of math.

logic, rose, reason

#13434

2525

Sept. 6, 2024, 12:43 p.m.

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Rose: so there are no circles, no lines, no triangles, what the hell have we been doing in math all these years? Meru: straight up BS, man

#13426

1515

Sept. 4, 2024, 12:11 p.m.

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Rose: "Tell your parents to come to Back to School Night." Rose: "There will be a propositional logic quiz!" Rose: "Winner gets a prize."

P6 Logic. Beginning of the year, Rose is running through an Innovation slide talking about Back to School night.

logic, rose, innovation

#13417

1921

Aug. 30, 2024, 12:12 p.m.

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// Rose is talking and an announcement about ID photos comes on Rose, quietly: shut uuuuuuup

#13409

2121

Aug. 29, 2024, 12:14 p.m.

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Rose: "Now, Schwartz is a perfect example of someone who has been perverted by education..." Schwartz: "I'm a weirdo!"

P6 Logic. Rose is talking about conditionals, explaining why "If the moon is made of cheese, then 5 is less than 3" is a weird statement. He asked Schwartz, who was visiting, who responded that it was true with little thought.

logic, weird, rose, schwartz

#13408

1212

Aug. 29, 2024, 12:10 p.m.

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Rose: they were missing some comma in this 17th century document and now we have machine guns or something