gah I need to catch up on this
― the tax avocado (DJP), Thursday, 6 October 2011 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
are you really willing to lower your standards for a 2nd tier university course?
― iatee, Thursday, 6 October 2011 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
ha
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 6 October 2011 14:10 (twelve years ago) link
i decided to take intro to compsci instead :D
― Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Thursday, October 6, 2011 9:42 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
wooo
who is teaching intro to compsci?
― the tax avocado (DJP), Thursday, 6 October 2011 14:13 (twelve years ago) link
I want to take compact but 3 of these at once seems unrealistic. I have free time but not thattt much free time.
― iatee, Thursday, 6 October 2011 14:15 (twelve years ago) link
one good thing about watching these is that you realize that ivy league college courses are pretty much exactly the same as city college courses
― iatee
at the end of the day, how good can sitting and listening to someone talk about finance for an hour be, no matter how good their credentials?
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Thursday, 6 October 2011 14:16 (twelve years ago) link
err 'compsci' rip Steve Jobs your ghost will live forever in our ilx typos
― iatee, Thursday, 6 October 2011 14:16 (twelve years ago) link
compsci is being taught by Malan... I don't think I know him
man has that class changed since I took it (it was all Pascal, for one thing!)
― the tax avocado (DJP), Thursday, 6 October 2011 14:17 (twelve years ago) link
/one good thing about watching these is that you realize that ivy league college courses are pretty much exactly the same as city college courses― iatee/at the end of the day, how good can sitting and listening to someone talk about finance for an hour be, no matter how good their credentials? --funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja)
― iatee/
at the end of the day, how good can sitting and listening to someone talk about finance for an hour be, no matter how good their credentials? --funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja)
i dunno i like econ so 'pretty good'?
― iatee, Thursday, 6 October 2011 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
(it was all Pascal, for one thing!)
― the tax avocado (DJP), Thursday, October 6, 2011 2:17 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
ha!
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 6 October 2011 14:22 (twelve years ago) link
somewhere in my dad's photo albums is a picture of me at age 8 on a old ass Texas Instruments computer in my grandpa's basement with a pascal book and a BASIC book
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 6 October 2011 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
ok good, sure, but how about "educational"?
i have a feeling that the learning in classes like this happens in the problem sets.
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
right i mean
are people not doing those?
i'm doing them
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
nah IMO the problem sets are just testing your applied math skills, don't (always) need the math to understand 'the big picture', tho you do need to be able to follow a graph
― iatee, Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
hoos can you link them? I couldnt even find em last night.
― iatee, Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
i don't think my math skills are strong enough to do them :(
― remy bean, Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
lecture 2 problem set
http://oyc.yale.edu/economics/financial-markets/content/sessions/lecture02.html/
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
that problem set is not working
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
I forgot to bring my ipod to work again. :( Can't do the sessions at home b/c home computer currently non-fxn-al.
― Octavia Butler's gonna be piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiised (Laurel), Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Thursday, October 6, 2011 3:52 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
weird, yeah i see that--i got them yesterday
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 6 October 2011 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
i'll scan what i've got and post
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 6 October 2011 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
i am home sick today and would love to do some math problems, it beats grading
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Thursday, 6 October 2011 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B14F8TksSbscZTYxNGUwOWMtMDk5MC00NDBjLTk5ODAtZjhjNWI0NTk3YzJi&hl=en
the pdf is upside down lol sorry
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
u can ctrl+s to dl the pdf or ctrl+p to print f yall i
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
5. Suppose that as a Yale graduate you can expect to earn $150,000 per year on average from your job after taxes starting next year, and extending until you retire in 50 years.
― iatee, Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
srs
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
I should bring this p-set to occupy wall street
― iatee, Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
i see that problem #3 is 10th grade level
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
posting to ilx, otoh
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
so is #4
if you know zero factorial is equal to 1 , so are #1 and #2
hope you have a scientific calculator handy
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
get ready to PLUG and CHUG
he is a little too impressed w/ himself
― remy bean, Thursday, 6 October 2011 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
I'm getting more 'aloof'
― iatee, Thursday, 6 October 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
I'm 3/4 way through the first lecture.
How far back am I?
― Mark G, Saturday, 8 October 2011 09:09 (twelve years ago) link
not far, lecture 3 is for next Monday
― iatee, Saturday, 8 October 2011 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
Okay I loaded up the ipod with first 4 in case I forget again next week! Will have a very educational weekend.
― WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Saturday, 8 October 2011 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
each one (so far) is better than the last. i found the first one a big chore.
― similar to "dinobear" (remy bean), Saturday, 8 October 2011 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
will we really need one thread per week? or is it better to keep it all in one.
― iatee, Sunday, 9 October 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
#1 was pretty familiar stuff to me. I did Econ O-level back in 1977, on the face of it not much is different, just the way it's done is 'nothing like it now'...
So, shall indeed continue.
― Mark G, Monday, 10 October 2011 09:09 (twelve years ago) link
anyone watch lecture 3 yet? "why do people hate finance workers? idgi" seems sorta quaint in 2011. also in 2008 tho.
― iatee, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 01:04 (twelve years ago) link
that bit in the first lecture where he talks about the questionable morality of being a financial markets profiteer was interesting in how ambivalent he was--"you'll have to sort of...decide for yourself."
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 01:06 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, realistically, like 75% of the the people in that classs want to go into finance
― iatee, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 01:07 (twelve years ago) link
so I mean maybe OWS signs woulda been kinda dickish
but the extent that he defends the financial industry in lecture 3 is kinda amazing, curious how he's giving this lecture today, ya know?
― iatee, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
nah def
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
OKAY have ipod, have headphones, am listening to lect 1 and will catch up.
― WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 01:30 (twelve years ago) link
lecture 2 will be kinda confusing w/o the chalkboard
but it will be kinda confusing w/ the chalkboard, I'd just zone out for those parts unless you want to go over the math
― iatee, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 01:37 (twelve years ago) link
Oh I have video too, just not much going on r now.
― WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 01:41 (twelve years ago) link
That's the theory.
― Mark G, Monday, 24 October 2011 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
The audio is so damn low, I've got everything turned up all the way and I have a hard time hearing.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 24 October 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
lol I still haven't started in on this yet
it's likely going to have to wait until I am done with immediate gigs, so like 2 weeks
― do not wake the dragon (DJP), Monday, 24 October 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
catching up can be done pretty quickly
laurel, lecture 4 is another one that would be nonsense without the visuals
I would ignore the early math and just try to understand the graph used in the lecture
― iatee, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 02:22 (twelve years ago) link
"The real financial technology that works to eliminate risk is that which works to spread them out, to pool them & share them among many different people. The ideal that theory suggests--the perfect financial system--would have all of our risks pooled completely. Nobody suffers alone. If anything happens to me and my livelihood, it's spread out over the whole world."
huh.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, October 24, 2011 10:54 AM Bookmark
Yeah, I remember this line was real mind lightning for me
― pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 11:05 (twelve years ago) link
howzit?
― Mark G, Thursday, 5 January 2012 12:25 (twelve years ago) link
lol I never started this
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Thursday, 5 January 2012 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
I'm willing to keep it up if there is interest
― iatee, Thursday, 5 January 2012 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
I mostly got sidetracked from going to OWS every night
― iatee, Thursday, 5 January 2012 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
so anyone else want to keep this one up?
― iatee, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 03:23 (twelve years ago) link
I'm on week 5
after j17 i might be back in
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 05:08 (twelve years ago) link
I'm on week 5 now!
OK, slow. But I got a new phone with better sound and screen.
― Mark G, Monday, 25 June 2012 12:08 (eleven years ago) link
I highly recommend listening to the one with guest-lecturer Carl Icahn just so you can hear him talking about how the execs of most companies are idiot frat boys who didn't rock the boat.
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Monday, 25 June 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
Think that's 7. Soon come.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 10:04 (eleven years ago) link
i'm doing the yale one now.
standford also doing something similar this semester http://venturelab.stanford.edu/finance. sounds like fewer lectures but more substantial problems.
― caek, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 11:55 (eleven years ago) link
I worked through loads of these, but managed to lose most of the lectures I downloaded.
― Mark G, Sunday, 12 November 2017 12:15 (six years ago) link