Hey guys,
Sorry I've been so bad about updates. Life's gotten pretty hectic lately so it's been tough to blog.
Parents forced me and my brother to get shitty jobs so we're doing that 20hrs/week which is ridic for a few reasons:
1) I'm already doing math research this summer
2) I make way more playing cards
3) Job is so miserable (we're cutting meat at a deli)
Semester ended up better than I thought. Somehow I've luckboxed my way into like a 3.9 over 4 semesters, though that'll likely take a precipitous drop in the fall given what I'm taking.
Onto the poker side of things: I've been grinding but my heater sorta came to an end. Even so, I have 3k on ftp right now as my own roll and I'll just keep playing games on my mentor's stake and building the roll. I think I'm learning a lot. I mean, whenever I get a top 3 in a 180 I just send the HH in and Vers et al review and I get feedback on where I can improve. I really think my game has come a long way and I still have leaks to plug but have to think that, over the long run, I should average $4/game at the 12/180s. We'll have to see.
I've started mixing 12/45s in for a few reasons:
1) The next jump in 180s is to the 36s so that's a pretty big jump from the 12s
2) the next jump in 45s is the 27s (a jump, but i imagine the players will be worse than int he 36/180s and my roll can handle it better, we'll see when i get moved up)
3) i get more fpp's/vpp's with 12/45s than with 2/180s
I've gotten up to 16-tabling which is nice, if a little hectic at times. My computer is fucking finally coming tomorrow which'll be great. I've had the 30" monitor sitting next to me for like 2.5 weeks and it's just killing me. I also will be able to use scripts/debustifier/etc which'll make me able to play more tables at once. MSUSYR's doing up to like 30-35 tables at some points which is so sick, both in terms of fpp's and just volume.
I'm working with Shen in a few hours which is super helpful b/c he's obv a 180s baller. I can't wait to finish off my stake and hopefully start coaching for mentors once I iron out my leaks in my game. For now, it's time to get in some more volume.
I'll let you guys know how it goes.
Holler,
Yodaddy
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Update
Hey guys,
Sorry I haven't blogged in a couple of weeks. I've been pretty busy with finals which were a huge pain in the ass. I finished yesterday and it was such a relief. Semester ended up alright, I'll ship a 3.5 or a 3.75 so we'll see how that turns out. No idea how I pulled off an A in that math class but w/e, I'll take it.
Onto more interesting things: Poker's gonna start heating up for a few reasons: I ordered my desktop a week or so ago and it should be there when I get home today, I ordered my 30" monitor today, and I have a ton more free time now that summer's officially started for me. I also want to grind pretty hard for the next couple of weeks to see if I can make enough bank to go to Vegas. I have around 2k of my own money but I don't want to totally busto myself to go. I should be able to get in 1k games and hopefully ship 2k+. We'll see how it goes.
I played a lot last night. Started around 8:45 and went until 4:45. Played the mini-Ftops event and sucked out AQ>AK for 10bb's but then lost KK
I'm looking forward to grinding this summer and making some bank. Reasons has set the bar kinda high by putting a ton of work into his game and grinding hard so I've got to follow suit. I'm hoping Vegas works out because it'd be a ton of fun to go out at night, play live MTT's or cash games during the day, and meet Vers, Draqq, etc IRL. We'll have to see how I run over the next 1,000 games though.
I'm starting to like philosophy a bit more. Here's an interesting problem we came across in class:
Two men, A and B, want to kill someone. Each points his gun at a man, thinks his gun is loaded, and pulls the trigger. It turns out, only Man A's gun is loaded and Man B's gun is not. While A is a murderer and B is not, it seems that they are equally guilty because they intended to do the same thing, held the same belief (that their gun was loaded), and took whatever action necessary to do so (pulling the trigger). That there were different outcomes seems moot. Of course, it's far from moot in a court of law, but it seems weird to penalize one man without penalizing the other. Thoughts?
I'm also starting to realize that there is a lot more depth to most subjects than I had previously thought. Math is just one example but it goes way beyond what I thought "math" typically covered. The majority of people probably think of math as numbers and solving equations, but even something like multivariable calc. isn't concerned with that so much as really developing an understanding and intuition for what's going on. I'll definitely check out a few courses in the fall to see if any courses pique my interest. Here's a problem from abstract algebra, a course I might take in the fall:
Anytime you multiply 9 by an integer, you get a product. The sum of this product's integers is always a multiple of nine. EX: 9 * 3 = 27 and 2+ 7 = 9 = 9 * 1. Prove that this holds for all integers.
Pretty dope problem and, without such a course, I would really have no idea how to approach this problem.
I'm also starting to realize that there's a huge difference in innate ability for math. I went to the Math Resource Center and was getting help from a freshman from Bulgaria. I made some joke about how she was probably on the national math team there.
Tutor: No, I didn't do stuff like that.
Me: Eh, I don't buy it.
Tutor: *mumbles* alternate...
She was a fucking alternate for the Bulgarian International Math Olympiad team. For those who don't know, each country administers tests to figure out who their best young mathematicians are. So each year, all across the US, honors math kids participate in these contests. So in a public school you have to be in an AP math class and in a private school you have to be in the honors track to take it. So I took it and did well enough to get into the next round (the AIME contest). Now, only 5% of kids qualify for the AIME so it was pretty cool. That was, until I took a 3 hour, 15 question test and got 1 problem right. After this exam, they take the best kids (top 100 or so) and give them another, longer, harder contest and from this group, the top 10 are chosen for the team. 9 and 10 are the alternates. This girl was a Bulgarian alternate. Jesus.
Here's probably my favorite story, though:
Paul Erdos, a mathematician, sat down with some other math guys for dinner. They were all specialists in a field Paul knew nothing about. They were discussing a famous unsolved problem, one that had eluded experts for ages. Paul began asking questions about definitions so he could understand the problem. Ten minutes later, he had the solution. Right then, right there. Unfuckingreal.
I'll update again soon,
Yodaddy
Sorry I haven't blogged in a couple of weeks. I've been pretty busy with finals which were a huge pain in the ass. I finished yesterday and it was such a relief. Semester ended up alright, I'll ship a 3.5 or a 3.75 so we'll see how that turns out. No idea how I pulled off an A in that math class but w/e, I'll take it.
Onto more interesting things: Poker's gonna start heating up for a few reasons: I ordered my desktop a week or so ago and it should be there when I get home today, I ordered my 30" monitor today, and I have a ton more free time now that summer's officially started for me. I also want to grind pretty hard for the next couple of weeks to see if I can make enough bank to go to Vegas. I have around 2k of my own money but I don't want to totally busto myself to go. I should be able to get in 1k games and hopefully ship 2k+. We'll see how it goes.
I played a lot last night. Started around 8:45 and went until 4:45. Played the mini-Ftops event and sucked out AQ>AK for 10bb's but then lost KK
I'm looking forward to grinding this summer and making some bank. Reasons has set the bar kinda high by putting a ton of work into his game and grinding hard so I've got to follow suit. I'm hoping Vegas works out because it'd be a ton of fun to go out at night, play live MTT's or cash games during the day, and meet Vers, Draqq, etc IRL. We'll have to see how I run over the next 1,000 games though.
I'm starting to like philosophy a bit more. Here's an interesting problem we came across in class:
Two men, A and B, want to kill someone. Each points his gun at a man, thinks his gun is loaded, and pulls the trigger. It turns out, only Man A's gun is loaded and Man B's gun is not. While A is a murderer and B is not, it seems that they are equally guilty because they intended to do the same thing, held the same belief (that their gun was loaded), and took whatever action necessary to do so (pulling the trigger). That there were different outcomes seems moot. Of course, it's far from moot in a court of law, but it seems weird to penalize one man without penalizing the other. Thoughts?
I'm also starting to realize that there is a lot more depth to most subjects than I had previously thought. Math is just one example but it goes way beyond what I thought "math" typically covered. The majority of people probably think of math as numbers and solving equations, but even something like multivariable calc. isn't concerned with that so much as really developing an understanding and intuition for what's going on. I'll definitely check out a few courses in the fall to see if any courses pique my interest. Here's a problem from abstract algebra, a course I might take in the fall:
Anytime you multiply 9 by an integer, you get a product. The sum of this product's integers is always a multiple of nine. EX: 9 * 3 = 27 and 2+ 7 = 9 = 9 * 1. Prove that this holds for all integers.
Pretty dope problem and, without such a course, I would really have no idea how to approach this problem.
I'm also starting to realize that there's a huge difference in innate ability for math. I went to the Math Resource Center and was getting help from a freshman from Bulgaria. I made some joke about how she was probably on the national math team there.
Tutor: No, I didn't do stuff like that.
Me: Eh, I don't buy it.
Tutor: *mumbles* alternate...
She was a fucking alternate for the Bulgarian International Math Olympiad team. For those who don't know, each country administers tests to figure out who their best young mathematicians are. So each year, all across the US, honors math kids participate in these contests. So in a public school you have to be in an AP math class and in a private school you have to be in the honors track to take it. So I took it and did well enough to get into the next round (the AIME contest). Now, only 5% of kids qualify for the AIME so it was pretty cool. That was, until I took a 3 hour, 15 question test and got 1 problem right. After this exam, they take the best kids (top 100 or so) and give them another, longer, harder contest and from this group, the top 10 are chosen for the team. 9 and 10 are the alternates. This girl was a Bulgarian alternate. Jesus.
Here's probably my favorite story, though:
Paul Erdos, a mathematician, sat down with some other math guys for dinner. They were all specialists in a field Paul knew nothing about. They were discussing a famous unsolved problem, one that had eluded experts for ages. Paul began asking questions about definitions so he could understand the problem. Ten minutes later, he had the solution. Right then, right there. Unfuckingreal.
I'll update again soon,
Yodaddy
Thursday, April 23, 2009
180s imo
Hey guys,
I haven't played a ton recently because of work but I did manage to play over the past 3 days. I think I'm +$1800 over the last 200 games or so. I've been playing well but I've also run pretty hot. Needless to say, my sharkscope graph looks insane. Obviously, there's a ton of variance in the 180s but I'm trying to get better at just making the right shoves/calls and forgetting about the outcome. It's much harder to do than I would have thought and I still haven't gotten to the point where losing AK to A7 aipf for massive CL doesn't tilt me but I definitely think I'm getting better at it.
I really don't see any reason to play 18 mans. 45 mans are way more profitable and if I really need to load a lot of games at once I can just mix in the 6s. As of now, I'm just playing the 12/45s and 12/180s which makes the most sense, I think. I may start mixing in the $16 turbo mtt's (the kind that jbrown shipped for $4.5k), but we'll see.
Also, my brother who is a total fish wants to get into poker. He's been asking me about it fairly consistently for the past couple of weeks so I'll be sweating/teaching him MTT SnG's this summer. On the one hand, it seems like I can just explain push/fold and he'll be profitable from the get-go. Having said that, he really has no background at all in poker and so I'll have to really build from the ground up. On the bright side, most of the profit in these games comes from push/fold so it's ok if he isn't maximizing value at the 10/20 level. At the moment, I have him watching "Math of NL Holdem", "Push", "From the Ground Up", and "Last Man Standing." I'll probably start him at the $3/45s and hopefully get him up to the 6s before the end of the summer. We'll have to see how it goes.
On the fitness side, my roommate and I ran 5 miles on Monday and Wednesday and plan to do 6 miles tmrw. Five was pretty rough yesterday (not exactly sure why) so I'm expecting six to be pretty brutal. It'll be great to be done with it, though. We lifted today and it turns out I'm a bit stronger than I thought. I'm super tall (6'7" ftw) so benching is harder for me than for most but I managed 3 sets of 10 reps of 85lbs. Not super impressive, but we'll kick it up to 95lbs. on Saturday and see how it goes. My max right now is probably 140lbs. so it'd be nice to get that up to around 180-200 but obv that's a long way off. We'll probably do 6 miles 3x next week, so that should be fun.
I'll keep you guys posted.
Funny manhat story to come.
Holler,
Yodaddy
I haven't played a ton recently because of work but I did manage to play over the past 3 days. I think I'm +$1800 over the last 200 games or so. I've been playing well but I've also run pretty hot. Needless to say, my sharkscope graph looks insane. Obviously, there's a ton of variance in the 180s but I'm trying to get better at just making the right shoves/calls and forgetting about the outcome. It's much harder to do than I would have thought and I still haven't gotten to the point where losing AK to A7 aipf for massive CL doesn't tilt me but I definitely think I'm getting better at it.
I really don't see any reason to play 18 mans. 45 mans are way more profitable and if I really need to load a lot of games at once I can just mix in the 6s. As of now, I'm just playing the 12/45s and 12/180s which makes the most sense, I think. I may start mixing in the $16 turbo mtt's (the kind that jbrown shipped for $4.5k), but we'll see.
Also, my brother who is a total fish wants to get into poker. He's been asking me about it fairly consistently for the past couple of weeks so I'll be sweating/teaching him MTT SnG's this summer. On the one hand, it seems like I can just explain push/fold and he'll be profitable from the get-go. Having said that, he really has no background at all in poker and so I'll have to really build from the ground up. On the bright side, most of the profit in these games comes from push/fold so it's ok if he isn't maximizing value at the 10/20 level. At the moment, I have him watching "Math of NL Holdem", "Push", "From the Ground Up", and "Last Man Standing." I'll probably start him at the $3/45s and hopefully get him up to the 6s before the end of the summer. We'll have to see how it goes.
On the fitness side, my roommate and I ran 5 miles on Monday and Wednesday and plan to do 6 miles tmrw. Five was pretty rough yesterday (not exactly sure why) so I'm expecting six to be pretty brutal. It'll be great to be done with it, though. We lifted today and it turns out I'm a bit stronger than I thought. I'm super tall (6'7" ftw) so benching is harder for me than for most but I managed 3 sets of 10 reps of 85lbs. Not super impressive, but we'll kick it up to 95lbs. on Saturday and see how it goes. My max right now is probably 140lbs. so it'd be nice to get that up to around 180-200 but obv that's a long way off. We'll probably do 6 miles 3x next week, so that should be fun.
I'll keep you guys posted.
Funny manhat story to come.
Holler,
Yodaddy
Saturday, April 18, 2009
fitness and spring weekend
Hey guys,
Been doing some more fitness stuff though I haven't been lifting 2x/week and running 3x/week every week, so that's been a bit disappointing. My roommate and I went running on Friday but didn't get in five miles because I had to go file math at 4:30 blah blah. For whatever reason, his gf decides to tag along. Now, she hasn't done a single athletic thing all year, so she just has no chance of keeping up with us. Imagine like...Vers. Yeah, that's it. Just no chance at keeping up. So we're running on a track where 8 laps = 1 mile. So we do the first two laps and this girl is huffing and puffing and barely able to keep up. Chris (my roommate) and I are holding a normal conversation and his gf just can't contribute because she's so winded. As we complete the fourth lap, she drops out. Keep in mind, we had been doing like 9min/mile pace and giving her the innermost lane just to maximize her chance of staying with us. No dice.
Now, instead of admitting defeat and throwing in the towel, she lets us run a lap and then tries to hang with us again. Can you say GTFO? Seriously. I mean, I really have no idea a) why she would suddenly feel inspired to run (she's never done this before) and b) why she would think that she'd be able to run alongside us. Totally ridic and a bit tilting because Chris and I had to slow down for her. Anyway, she keeps alternating between walking a lap and trying (read: failing) to run with us while Chris and I keep going. We ended up doing 4 miles at 7:55 min/mile pace which was definitely our hardest run so far. This week we'll prob shoot for 5 miles, 5 miles, 6 miles (all at about 9 min/mile pace). I really do hate running but it feels great when I finish and it's cool working toward a concrete goal.
This weekend was also pretty crazy. I didn't do much today but on Friday I went out with my friends to see Nas (he came to our school) and that was a lotta fun despite not knowing any of his music. It was sort of funny that this badass, thug rapper is getting gigs at top schools. It's like...oh rly?
The concert officially started at 7 but Nas was supposed to come on around 7:30 and we wanted to pregame before it. So it's 6 and Stephanie, my roommate's gf, says that she has to go shower and change back in her dorm and then she'll come back blah blah. At 6:15, she still hadn't left. I ask, "So steph, are you gonna go change so we can pregame before Nas?"
*cue gay voice* "Yeah, like totally."
Then she started having a babytalk session with my roommate for the next fifteen minutes. At this point I'm bitching to Reasons cuz this is tilting me hardcore and there's not much I can do about it. It's like right...you guys can do whatever you want as long as it doesn't fuck up my plans. Ofc, they didn't consider that I'm just sitting there being like "can we go....can we go....can we go?"
So anyway, Chris and I start drinking and have like five or six shots before heading to the concert. Concert was good but I get a text from Stephanie at like 10:45 (Nas didn't get on until 10) that they were in the back and couldn't really see and that she was getting cold so they left. Now, this has happened pretty consistently for the last six months. Any time we go out together, they leave early because they're not out trolling for ass. I get that. But for whatever reason, they feel obligated to make up excuses to go back and have sex.
It's like...it's 65 degrees out...you're not cold...anyone could have gotten within 50 feet of Nas. And they know I know this, so it's just insulting for her to shovel manure at me like that. Ugh. So I end up going back around 11:30 and meeting up with one of my friends and her roommate. One of the frats that a lot of my teammates are in was throwing a toga party and obv I run bad at togas so I had her help me tie it. We head over, they know the doorman, we get in ahead of 100 people in line. I run good, fwiw. So we're there and the party's sick. Lots of people, I know a good number of them, dance floor's packed, good music, just a great time all around. End up dancing with some girl, going back to her place, and hooking up. I wake up at 12 the next day dehydrated, without my shirt (I left it in the room of the girl who runs good at togas), and without my phone. Now I have few problems:
1) I'm worried I lost my phone because I just lose shit when I'm drunk.
2) I have to walk back to my dorm (across campus) without a shirt on or wearing a toga. Bad and worse options.
3) I have to deal with the awkward post-hookup conversation. "yeah, i'll see you around...right right..."
Just brutal but a great night on the whole.
Next post'll be poker-related.
Holler,
Yodaddy
Been doing some more fitness stuff though I haven't been lifting 2x/week and running 3x/week every week, so that's been a bit disappointing. My roommate and I went running on Friday but didn't get in five miles because I had to go file math at 4:30 blah blah. For whatever reason, his gf decides to tag along. Now, she hasn't done a single athletic thing all year, so she just has no chance of keeping up with us. Imagine like...Vers. Yeah, that's it. Just no chance at keeping up. So we're running on a track where 8 laps = 1 mile. So we do the first two laps and this girl is huffing and puffing and barely able to keep up. Chris (my roommate) and I are holding a normal conversation and his gf just can't contribute because she's so winded. As we complete the fourth lap, she drops out. Keep in mind, we had been doing like 9min/mile pace and giving her the innermost lane just to maximize her chance of staying with us. No dice.
Now, instead of admitting defeat and throwing in the towel, she lets us run a lap and then tries to hang with us again. Can you say GTFO? Seriously. I mean, I really have no idea a) why she would suddenly feel inspired to run (she's never done this before) and b) why she would think that she'd be able to run alongside us. Totally ridic and a bit tilting because Chris and I had to slow down for her. Anyway, she keeps alternating between walking a lap and trying (read: failing) to run with us while Chris and I keep going. We ended up doing 4 miles at 7:55 min/mile pace which was definitely our hardest run so far. This week we'll prob shoot for 5 miles, 5 miles, 6 miles (all at about 9 min/mile pace). I really do hate running but it feels great when I finish and it's cool working toward a concrete goal.
This weekend was also pretty crazy. I didn't do much today but on Friday I went out with my friends to see Nas (he came to our school) and that was a lotta fun despite not knowing any of his music. It was sort of funny that this badass, thug rapper is getting gigs at top schools. It's like...oh rly?
The concert officially started at 7 but Nas was supposed to come on around 7:30 and we wanted to pregame before it. So it's 6 and Stephanie, my roommate's gf, says that she has to go shower and change back in her dorm and then she'll come back blah blah. At 6:15, she still hadn't left. I ask, "So steph, are you gonna go change so we can pregame before Nas?"
*cue gay voice* "Yeah, like totally."
Then she started having a babytalk session with my roommate for the next fifteen minutes. At this point I'm bitching to Reasons cuz this is tilting me hardcore and there's not much I can do about it. It's like right...you guys can do whatever you want as long as it doesn't fuck up my plans. Ofc, they didn't consider that I'm just sitting there being like "can we go....can we go....can we go?"
So anyway, Chris and I start drinking and have like five or six shots before heading to the concert. Concert was good but I get a text from Stephanie at like 10:45 (Nas didn't get on until 10) that they were in the back and couldn't really see and that she was getting cold so they left. Now, this has happened pretty consistently for the last six months. Any time we go out together, they leave early because they're not out trolling for ass. I get that. But for whatever reason, they feel obligated to make up excuses to go back and have sex.
It's like...it's 65 degrees out...you're not cold...anyone could have gotten within 50 feet of Nas. And they know I know this, so it's just insulting for her to shovel manure at me like that. Ugh. So I end up going back around 11:30 and meeting up with one of my friends and her roommate. One of the frats that a lot of my teammates are in was throwing a toga party and obv I run bad at togas so I had her help me tie it. We head over, they know the doorman, we get in ahead of 100 people in line. I run good, fwiw. So we're there and the party's sick. Lots of people, I know a good number of them, dance floor's packed, good music, just a great time all around. End up dancing with some girl, going back to her place, and hooking up. I wake up at 12 the next day dehydrated, without my shirt (I left it in the room of the girl who runs good at togas), and without my phone. Now I have few problems:
1) I'm worried I lost my phone because I just lose shit when I'm drunk.
2) I have to walk back to my dorm (across campus) without a shirt on or wearing a toga. Bad and worse options.
3) I have to deal with the awkward post-hookup conversation. "yeah, i'll see you around...right right..."
Just brutal but a great night on the whole.
Next post'll be poker-related.
Holler,
Yodaddy
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
prop bets imo?
Hey guys,
I was just reading about a guy who's doing a mile prop bet with his friends. He's like 6ft. 210lbs and has been a chainsmoker for ten years. For whatever reason, he has accepted a prop bet that gives him 75 days to run a 6:00 mile or better. There's honestly just no chance this guy does it. I mean, he's going to have to undergo such a serious lifestyle change (not smoking, eating well, excercising 5-6x/week, etc) and even if he does all of this, there's no guarantee that he'll be able to run a sub six minute mile. Speaking of which...
I ran a 6:04 mile during the season and have been running about 3x/week for the past 3-4 weeks. Yesterday I did 5 miles in 9:10/mile pace (not going for time, just distance). I want to train for the mile. Unfortunately, Runner's World only offers training plans for 5k+ so I can't really use that as a resource. It just kills me to be on the track for like 50 minutes at a time and I think I'll see gains more quickly when training for the mile. Now, I'm not sure what to set as the goal for my mile. Obviously, it gets increasingly hard to shave time off as your time gets lower and lower (e.g. it's much easier to go from a 10 minute mile to a 9 minute one than it is to go from 6 minutes to 5). I've never officially done sub 6, so I'm thinking 5:30 would be a reasonable goal for the summer. Let me know what you guys think and we'll figure out details.
Holler,
Yodaddy
I was just reading about a guy who's doing a mile prop bet with his friends. He's like 6ft. 210lbs and has been a chainsmoker for ten years. For whatever reason, he has accepted a prop bet that gives him 75 days to run a 6:00 mile or better. There's honestly just no chance this guy does it. I mean, he's going to have to undergo such a serious lifestyle change (not smoking, eating well, excercising 5-6x/week, etc) and even if he does all of this, there's no guarantee that he'll be able to run a sub six minute mile. Speaking of which...
I ran a 6:04 mile during the season and have been running about 3x/week for the past 3-4 weeks. Yesterday I did 5 miles in 9:10/mile pace (not going for time, just distance). I want to train for the mile. Unfortunately, Runner's World only offers training plans for 5k+ so I can't really use that as a resource. It just kills me to be on the track for like 50 minutes at a time and I think I'll see gains more quickly when training for the mile. Now, I'm not sure what to set as the goal for my mile. Obviously, it gets increasingly hard to shave time off as your time gets lower and lower (e.g. it's much easier to go from a 10 minute mile to a 9 minute one than it is to go from 6 minutes to 5). I've never officially done sub 6, so I'm thinking 5:30 would be a reasonable goal for the summer. Let me know what you guys think and we'll figure out details.
Holler,
Yodaddy
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Moving along
Hey guys,
Haven't updated recently because things have been pretty hectic here. Thankfully, I only have two weeks of classes left and no more exams or papers until then. Applied math midterm went ok, but not great. I fucked up a problem I really should have known so I probably shipped an 85 or something. Pure math was better, though. I got a 92 on a curve where 86+ was an A (yeah, I run good at maths fwiw). Unfortunately, only 60% of my grade has been accounted for so far and that class is getting insane. The final is largely based on the last two chapter and I'm so lost it's not even funny. We'll see how that goes.
I had to write a phil paper on Pascal's wager. It was basically "Do you find Pascal convincing?" and I was like no because he's forcing us to commit to belief or disbelief (to "wager") in the absence of evidence...and we can only form a genuine belief when we have evidence...so we can't wager at all. Blah blah phil.
I originally declared mathematical econ but decided to quit being such a wuss and go for math, even though I'm sure my GPA'll suffer as a result. I thought of doubling with phil, but tbh, I'd have to take three classes (ancient phil, early modern phil, and logic) that I really don't want to take. So I think I'll just take the phil classes that appeal to me (philosophy of mind, political philosophy, morality, etc).
I am somewhat excited for the upcoming math classes though. I'll take abstract algebra in the fall which'll rape me HARD, but then I'll take a topology class with one of the department's best professors and the following year I'll do probability, statistics, operations research (basically optimization), and cryptography (which is supposed to be tight). This'll also open the door to a ton of cool jobs and leave a lot of doors open (econ grad school, math grad school, optimization jobs, etc). I think I've been sort of a wuss in terms of worrying about how my gpa'll be effected by my major. It's surprisingly hard to separate what I like and what I'm good at but I think I've done a reasonable job of figuring that out and, even though I'm not incredible at math, I do find it pretty satisfying. Although it happens rarely, when I really understand something (and can rigorously prove it), it's pretty satisfying. I have to run but I'll update later tonight about poker, etc.
Holler,
Yodaddy
Haven't updated recently because things have been pretty hectic here. Thankfully, I only have two weeks of classes left and no more exams or papers until then. Applied math midterm went ok, but not great. I fucked up a problem I really should have known so I probably shipped an 85 or something. Pure math was better, though. I got a 92 on a curve where 86+ was an A (yeah, I run good at maths fwiw). Unfortunately, only 60% of my grade has been accounted for so far and that class is getting insane. The final is largely based on the last two chapter and I'm so lost it's not even funny. We'll see how that goes.
I had to write a phil paper on Pascal's wager. It was basically "Do you find Pascal convincing?" and I was like no because he's forcing us to commit to belief or disbelief (to "wager") in the absence of evidence...and we can only form a genuine belief when we have evidence...so we can't wager at all. Blah blah phil.
I originally declared mathematical econ but decided to quit being such a wuss and go for math, even though I'm sure my GPA'll suffer as a result. I thought of doubling with phil, but tbh, I'd have to take three classes (ancient phil, early modern phil, and logic) that I really don't want to take. So I think I'll just take the phil classes that appeal to me (philosophy of mind, political philosophy, morality, etc).
I am somewhat excited for the upcoming math classes though. I'll take abstract algebra in the fall which'll rape me HARD, but then I'll take a topology class with one of the department's best professors and the following year I'll do probability, statistics, operations research (basically optimization), and cryptography (which is supposed to be tight). This'll also open the door to a ton of cool jobs and leave a lot of doors open (econ grad school, math grad school, optimization jobs, etc). I think I've been sort of a wuss in terms of worrying about how my gpa'll be effected by my major. It's surprisingly hard to separate what I like and what I'm good at but I think I've done a reasonable job of figuring that out and, even though I'm not incredible at math, I do find it pretty satisfying. Although it happens rarely, when I really understand something (and can rigorously prove it), it's pretty satisfying. I have to run but I'll update later tonight about poker, etc.
Holler,
Yodaddy
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Little Update
Hey guys,
Things are slowly winding down for me. I just have a pset and midterm on wednesday and then I'm cruising till exams. I played a couple hours last night with Reasons sweating and ended +35 or something over twenty games maybe? Play at the 6/18s was ridic bad. It was so nice playing on my 20" monitor b/c, over break I played on my 13" laptop screen and that was just brutal. A 30" is gonna be unbelievable. Although figuring out how to work mikogo (downloading it, making a new acct, and setting it up with Reasons) while 10-tabling was so tilting because I'd be sitting out at times and the whole time Reasons is like "let's go, wtf's going on?" ugh it was brutal. But yeah, I started tiling and I definitely like it more than stacking. 1) You get a better sense of game flow and 2) You know instantly if/when you're sitting out (as opposed to when I have just one big stack of tables).
I've been keeping up with the fitness, culminating in a 4 mile run (at 8:35/mile pace) this past Friday. We'll shoot for 4, 4, 5 this coming week and see how it goes. Don't think I've ever run 5 miles straight before (no real reason to) so should be good. Running for the sake of running sucks but building towards some goal (say 10 miles) makes it much easier to motivate myself.
I can't wait for summer. No schoolwork, no stress about exams, only squash, poker, running, and a bit of math research. This summer's shaping up to be pretty sick. Let me lay out some goals:
1) 3-4k games (hopefully 6-10k profit)
2) play squash 3-4x/week
3) put in some good hours on math research (I'm working with a local prof) and turn work into a paper at the end of the summer
4) be able to run 20 miles at once (this one may be really hard but as long as I build slowly towards it, I'm confident I can pull it off)...(prob bets anyone?)
Later boiz,
Yodaddy
Things are slowly winding down for me. I just have a pset and midterm on wednesday and then I'm cruising till exams. I played a couple hours last night with Reasons sweating and ended +35 or something over twenty games maybe? Play at the 6/18s was ridic bad. It was so nice playing on my 20" monitor b/c, over break I played on my 13" laptop screen and that was just brutal. A 30" is gonna be unbelievable. Although figuring out how to work mikogo (downloading it, making a new acct, and setting it up with Reasons) while 10-tabling was so tilting because I'd be sitting out at times and the whole time Reasons is like "let's go, wtf's going on?" ugh it was brutal. But yeah, I started tiling and I definitely like it more than stacking. 1) You get a better sense of game flow and 2) You know instantly if/when you're sitting out (as opposed to when I have just one big stack of tables).
I've been keeping up with the fitness, culminating in a 4 mile run (at 8:35/mile pace) this past Friday. We'll shoot for 4, 4, 5 this coming week and see how it goes. Don't think I've ever run 5 miles straight before (no real reason to) so should be good. Running for the sake of running sucks but building towards some goal (say 10 miles) makes it much easier to motivate myself.
I can't wait for summer. No schoolwork, no stress about exams, only squash, poker, running, and a bit of math research. This summer's shaping up to be pretty sick. Let me lay out some goals:
1) 3-4k games (hopefully 6-10k profit)
2) play squash 3-4x/week
3) put in some good hours on math research (I'm working with a local prof) and turn work into a paper at the end of the summer
4) be able to run 20 miles at once (this one may be really hard but as long as I build slowly towards it, I'm confident I can pull it off)...(prob bets anyone?)
Later boiz,
Yodaddy
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