It was another disappointing week working through KA. 😒 I made it through the final article from the section Tangent Planes and Local Linearization and then made it through the first four videos in the following section, Quadratic Approximations, but that’s it. I don’t have much of a grasp on what was taught in the latter section either which makes… Read More Week 208 – A Disappointing Week, a New Challenge, and Year Five Ahead

I made some solid progress this week working through KA. I passed the unit test on Wednesday (🥳) but did have to look up two or three questions before answering them. There was only one question where I would have gotten it wrong if I hadn’t looked it up, however, and it was from a… Read More Week 207 – Unit Test Complete! A New Unit and More Calculus Progress

I’m happy with the progress I made this week but didn’t end up passing the unit test. I finished off the final section in Derivatives of Multivariable Functions which was about the Jacobian Matrix and actually managed to more-or-less understand what it’s all about, but then got smoked on the unit test. One good piece of news… Read More Week 206 – The Jacobian: A Tough Test and a Welcome Curvature Breakthrough

I wish I would have gotten more done this week but I’m still happy with the progress I made and what I was able to learn. I finished the section Laplacian and have a relatively decent understanding of what it is and how it works but still need to get a better grasp on why it works. Halfway through… Read More Week 205 – The Laplacian and Jacobian: Learning the How Before the Why