I had a pretty disappointing week on KA. I got through the final three videos and three articles of Applications of Multivariable Derivatives but didn’t start the unit test. I got a much better idea of what constrained optimization is, how it works, and a decent grasp on why it works. A new equation/formula/concept was introduced to… Read More Week 212 – The Lagrangian: A Week of Work, but Still No Intuition

I had an interesting week working through KA. As you’ll see below, I only made it through four questions/concepts from two articles and six videos but everything I worked on was pretty hard and took a good amount of time and effort for me to understand. I started the week finishing off an article on… Read More Week 211 – Gradient Descent, Lagrange Multipliers, and Eight Pages of Notes

If I was to grade myself for my effort this week I’d give myself somewhere between a B and a B+. I made it through five videos, one exercise and 3.5 articles, and probably studied for ~7–8 hours. Part of me wishes I would have made more progress but I worked through some tricky-ish concepts (some of which… Read More Week 210 – Second Partial Derivatives: More Understanding, One Step at a Time

I’m happy to say that my fifth year working on KA got off to a pretty good start! I didn’t achieve my goal of getting all the way through the section Optimizing Multivariable Functions this week, but managed to get about halfway there. I didn’t take too many notes overall this week but did cover a lot… Read More Week 209 – Year Five Begins: A Productive Week of Multivariable Calculus