There seems to be a rather egregious problem with my commentary in the key to homework 4. At the very top of page 4, it says “Here, the two daughters are 2 and 4, and 2 is a function from…” and which point it goes off into bizarro world. 2 is in fact a function …
Sorry I forgot to bring this to class, but I have now posted the key for Homework #4, which I have also given back to just about everyone. I’ll bring copies of this key on Tuesday too. Coming up later tonight will be a bit more reasonable attempt at a midterm mockup, stay tuned. I …
We talked a bit about tall and the fact that it really seems to mean something like “tall as compared to other things of the same sort.” And it came up that even something like red is probably relative too (cf. red hair vs. red paint). But for the purposes of the homework, you can …
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Ok, so this is in fact one of the questions on the homework, but there has been a certain amount of confusion surrounding this one. So, let me walk you almost all the way up to it. Here’s the general plot: We used to treat is boring as being an intransitive verb, but that’s clearly …
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Here’s a question not specifically about this homework that I’ve gotten a couple of times over the past couple of days: What does √ really mean as a homework score? I have been grading the homeworks on essentially a five point scale, which are given in symbols as a mark between √++ (doubleplusgood) and √−− …
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So, I have gotten a few questions about homework #4 throughout the day, but I haven’t had a chance to post anything about them due to a very crowded schedule. I will post a few comments now at least. First, though: if you have questions about something, don’t think you’re alone just because the blog …
On the sentence structures that you were supposed to draw for parts of homeworks 2 and 3, I had you number the nodes. But, just to clarify: there’s no secret, magic, or rules behind my choice of what number to assign to which node. I generally started from 1, and I started at the bottom, …
Just as a note of reassurance, there are still things to cover tomorrow that are relevant to the homework. Don’t despair if you look at it and feel that you don’t quite know how it should work. You probably don’t, and that’s probably to be expected, given that it has not yet all been presented …
It seems I spent a bit too much time drawing cats and mats and a bit too little time proofreading on Homework 1. I was just trying to write up a key, and it turns out that Part 3 is wrong in a startlingly large number of ways. My suggestion: burn the copy of Homework …