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 – Aug. 28th to Sept. 3rd

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 – August 21st to August 27th

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 – August 14th to August 20th

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 – August 7th to August 13th

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 – July 31st to August 6th

I didn’t make as much progress this week as I hoped I would but I’m still happy with the effort I put in and with what I was able to learn. I ended up watching six videos, reading two articles and finishing off two exercises. The majority of my week was spent working on understanding… Read More Week 204 – July 24th to July 30th

I had another solid week this week and managed to get through 11 videos, one article and two exercises. I finished off the section Divergence, which ended up being fairly straightforward, and almost made it through the following section, Curl, but was one video and two exercises short. I likely would have made it through that section… Read More Week 203 – July 17th to July 23rd

I didn’t reach my goal this week of getting through the section Divergence but did have a very productive week, nonetheless. It was disappointing that it took me until Friday to get through the four articles from the section Differentiating Vector-Valued Functions (Articles), but they gave me a much better intuitive understanding of vectors, their derivatives and curvature,… Read More Week 202 – July 10th to July 16th

For the first time in a while, I actually achieved the goal I set for myself this week! 🥳 I rewatched and worked through the questions in the final three videos from Curvature and then made it through all the videos and exercises in the following section, Partial Derivatives of Vector-Valued Functions. The latter section was pretty straightforward for most… Read More Week 201 – July 3rd to July 9th

I spent this entire week trying to understand curvature but haven’t really figured it out. I think I understand what it is (a measurement for how much a function curves – no surprise there given the name), but I don’t fully understand how to calculate it or why the formula works the way it does. There were nine videos in… Read More Week 200 – June 26th to July 2nd