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Webassign Calculus 1 "Optimization Tricks"

 AKA, how to "cheat" efficiently and gratuitously, particularly necessary if you're trying to do the whole thing in the free trial period. Red numbers in Webassign mean they change them to make it harder to cheat. They also haven't changed this mechanism for 10 years, so most if not all of the possibilities have already been answered. Google the text of the problem, and put quotes around the red variables to guarantee you get the results. This is a very efficient way to complete classically slow word problems (One red number is a guaranteed copy-paste solution, two is iffy, three is unlikely. But try anyway, since that could be free credit). If you don't, then it becomes a slower, but not particularly slow, replace-the-numbers problem. There's actually quite a few ways to create simple replace-the-numbers situations: If you hit "Watch it", you can get a solution to a similar problem.  If you hit "Read it", and go to the examples section, on

MindForger advanced facts

Mindforger distinguishes between "in-note" headers and "note division" headers based entirely on whether there is a space before the header (if there is no space, it's a note divider). This is why imports get a header-derived note layout.  The editor will, regardless of whether there is a space in front, make it have one. This means that new notes cannot be created in MindForger's editor. (Without bug exploitation) If you make a custom stencil, you must then always have a space before headers, or otherwise the first header to break this rule will have everything below it appear, but nothing above. AltN + R (Refactor) has a search bar. This is very useful for quickly moving information packets around. If you place three dashes below a piece of text, without at least a line dividing the two, it will turn into a header, and be recognized in a buggy way as a note. This is useful kind of, but it creates more dashes, and a new metadata tag, every single time you r

Guide to writing scholarships (v2)

 I made some improvements to the last one. Here you go. As I say, "You lose by the real rules, when you play by the false rules." There is a gradient, from challenge to solution, in a scholarship story: That which serves to point out a challenge, That which serves to show the oppressions of the challenge, That which shows what motivates the protagonist to overcome it, The moment the protagonist gains (or uncovers) the permanent resolve to overcome it, That which serves to show how the protagonist overcame it,  How the protagonist, or his situation changes from accomplishing it, The benefits the protagonist experiences or the indications it was right solution,   The takeaway he shares with the reader, his belief inferring from the benefits it is the right thing to do. Suffering > Uncovering of strength > Overcoming problem with strength > Enlightenment? Here, we detail structural elements that intend to both accomplish the above, and accomplish incidental other purpos

The REAL way to win scholarships

My readers, of which I am the only one, want to know how to win scholarships, not from a "take 10 years off your life from extracurricular-academic-sport-stress-overload" kind of way, but from a "know the real rules of the situation to optimize what matters" kind of way. So after some crunch time, we came to our conclusion:  You need three things: Suffering, Virtue, and Quality. Why is suffering crucial? Empathy is also the best part of friendship, and by suffering "with" him, you become a person who wants to help him out. By suffering, are we provoked to wish to help others not feel suffering. By forcing the reader to feel suffering remotely, we can provoke this same response (create empathy). It also causes his investment (he will remember it), makes it seem realistic (suffering is da realz), and implies to the reader that the person's virtuousness is authentic (since suffering = empathy > goodness). If he suffers, he has the sympathy of the reade

Things to Do and Why

Do any of you people speak English? It's hard to get the right idea. There's so many ones just like it. And if I'm wrong, I know I'm wrong. Let's think. How could the system be made? Information storage / processing / handling / publishing: Cyborganize. Handling all it handles. Information reference: Archive everything of worth, no exceptions. We've seen too many failures. Categorize by author. Solution execution guarantee: Daily, and also Sec9 as in Book1. May be ported to WFO. Mindset management: Koanic (As in Coding 1) Schedule management: CAL (pending Cyb replacement) Writing down bad thinking: Just throw a trace down in Discord. Systematic categorical issues can be composited, like with mental issues reflectionism. Forums are still useful, and probably should be utilized for major undocumented questions. This will accomplish:  - Better information processing.   - Better sorting / retention of "large longterm memory". Everything accessible, whereas

A Sacrifice for the principled gods

I see the knives in my stride, the continuous pricks that imply my guilt in a great crime. A mighty horror, committed by my own hands, staining anything and everything I tough. When I ask what, they recede behind their justifications. My going to college, despite having no alternative within any reasonable reach. My failure to not avoid the vaccination, despite again having no reasonable alternative. How about a third. Not dealing with . despite doing so conspicuously resulting in extreme material and spiritual harm.  There is an evil in our land, and his name is the the call for sacrifice, because of guilt for unavoidable crimes. I can promise you nothing but results. He, on the other hand, can promise you anything but results. And finally, did I know his name. And they are unavoidable. Because I spent the time I could have been planning a way out neurotically crying about my not doing an irrational exit that wouldn't have ever actually happened. You ever notice how certain proble

Moments of Aeoli Pera

 I'll dig up some genuinely impressive observations, of which I find use for everyday. These are all derived from aeolipera.wordpress.com. For the sake of good sporting, I'll be deriving this from my quote collection instead of directly from his blog. Except for this one: Plus, something I’ve learned over and over is that most of what we assume is mental is actually just physical health. Oh and I very much agree that the best way to have lasting magic in one’s life is to be capable and competent at dealing with problems and overcoming obstacles, rather than to pretend they don’t exist- as some people seem to think. (Is this Mental Outlaw's?) I think pain is our primary connection to the real world, i.e. the difference between dreaming and being awake (or “woke” ;D). One of the consequences of this is that pain produces fear, fear produces reflection, anticipation, and forethought, these produce causal thinking, and causal thinking produces wisdom…leading inevitably to my pr