Are you good at it?
I have to admit that I hate it even though I have shitloads of it at my university. I mean I like maths itself, the concept behind it and how perfect it is but learning maths is really frustrating to me. Same as programming or algorithmics and data structures. Funny thing is that I'm better with higher maths starting with discrete mathematics than more basic mathematic analysis. I always hated algebra.
I though I was better than an average mortal man. I knew that I will suck compared to other people at my uni but seriously I have met some math geniuses here.
Last week I invited a friend (who seemed to be the least nerdy guy from my group), we played old school Dreamcast games looking for an inspiration (he translated the Japanese Shenmue and Sonic for me), then some ass kick with street fighter and then.. I decided to bump some music. He's not into rap music so I bumped some random 90s compilation. I use winamp and after starting a playlist it automatically sets itself to full screen and displays random visualisations that change with the music every few seconds.
What amazed me that this dude instantly knew the function used to generate each visualisation. He simply had it in his mind and believe me that these are not simple things. For a normal person these are just some random objects of various colors moving, some might also notice a loop and some basic reoccurring patterns but no, he had a whole formula the second he saw it.
I couldn't believe so I told him to write it all down and compare it to the algorithm used in those visualisations.. after checking codes I found out that he was right with all of them. People like him really amaze me.
I have to admit that I hate it even though I have shitloads of it at my university. I mean I like maths itself, the concept behind it and how perfect it is but learning maths is really frustrating to me. Same as programming or algorithmics and data structures. Funny thing is that I'm better with higher maths starting with discrete mathematics than more basic mathematic analysis. I always hated algebra.
I though I was better than an average mortal man. I knew that I will suck compared to other people at my uni but seriously I have met some math geniuses here.
Last week I invited a friend (who seemed to be the least nerdy guy from my group), we played old school Dreamcast games looking for an inspiration (he translated the Japanese Shenmue and Sonic for me), then some ass kick with street fighter and then.. I decided to bump some music. He's not into rap music so I bumped some random 90s compilation. I use winamp and after starting a playlist it automatically sets itself to full screen and displays random visualisations that change with the music every few seconds.
What amazed me that this dude instantly knew the function used to generate each visualisation. He simply had it in his mind and believe me that these are not simple things. For a normal person these are just some random objects of various colors moving, some might also notice a loop and some basic reoccurring patterns but no, he had a whole formula the second he saw it.
I couldn't believe so I told him to write it all down and compare it to the algorithm used in those visualisations.. after checking codes I found out that he was right with all of them. People like him really amaze me.
