And I can't fucking believe it, this is the first time in my life that I'm understanding my own mediocrity.
So, it has been some weeks since I started my math degree, I was very excited and probably still am but today I realized I'll never be the kind of person that I've always dreamed of. Pic related is a problem that our Discrete Mathematics professor was talking about, no one in the class was able to solve it, he even gave us 5 minutes or so to try, there were even some girls trying to solve it in their notebooks, but in the end all effort was futile. But then this fucking piece of shit who didn't even opened his notebook said he solved and gave the answer 8. Everyone was shocked and the motherfucker even said he did it in his head and without using any of the advanced techniques we were learning at the time, but using only school knowledge about combinatorics. I've never been so shocked in my life.
Now I can finally understand why this board is so obsessed with IQ and intelligence, it means literally everything in this field, I doubt anyone in my class will even come close to the accomplishments of this man. Even worst, everyone is already his friend and the guy is shy and strange, they even call him "Jackie" now because somehow he reminds them of Jackie Chan meanwhile I have no friends in this shithole yet.
Translation of some parts of the image: Calculate "m" knowing that...
Noah Edwards
Funny, that's how I started to talk to people in the University.
The first month I spent all the time alone but when the exam results came, for some reason the teacher liked to give the results in order, first the higher and finishing with the lowest.
Then people started to talk to me and to this day they still think that I'm very smart, but in reality the only thing I am good at is math, in the rest of the subjects I am below average.
Dylan Campbell
Or draw Pascal's triangle, that's also what he did. He says he did it in his head but you also admit he was weird, weird/autistic people are self conscious in general so are afraid of telling people about themselves, in this case about how he solved the problem. Maybe he didnt want to be frustrated by all the attention as he was explaining Pascal's triangle. I imagine it went something like >Dios mio Jose how you solve that ese? >I did in mi cabesa is all.. >Orale
Aaron Walker
>Know that [math]\sum\limits_{i = 0}^{m}{m\choose{i}} = 2^m[/math] >Realize it can't require much calculation if you're only given five minutes >Notice that the sum is a little off and that 254 is 2 away from a power of 2.
What else could it have been? The guy had some background knowledge and good instincts, nothing more.
Brody Hernandez
Out of curiosity, OP, how did you approach the problem? What were you doing in those 5 minutes?
Parker Ortiz
I gave up after some seconds of frustration.
Jeremiah Morgan
Literally the question translates to254=2^m-2
Binomial expansion ~ middle school problem
Isaac Lopez
The thing is, "friend", that the question was just the first line, everything below it was just shit I copied from the professor's solution.
Adam Cruz
Why not post the question, "friend"?
Nolan Fisher
it's already there, the first line he thinks he's mediocre but the situation is even more grim
