Does your solution rely on negative numbers or could you just add 2 so it deals with positives so you don’t have to worry about mod/remainder weirdness? In other words, would the below work? You tell me.
(x-y+2) remainder 2
Maybe you’re looking for something too simple: just take some expression then find its remainder and done.
Instead, try looking at combining two things. For example:
take x+y, x+y+1 or x*y as one thing and then add, subtract or multiply it with a second thing. The second thing could be using remainder 2 on any of the first things. Doing this, you should either be able to find a solution or find something that seems useful which has some advantage over your starting place which could reach a solution using further operations.
Yeah that’s good. You can find other versions if you want but you can absolutely move on too.
Implementing arithmetic using logic is kinda hard and unnecessary. If you want to look at that, there is lots of stuff online if you search terms like “half adder”. I don’t really recommend this stuff but maybe watch a 15 minute video to get a rough idea of what it’s like and see how much it interests you. Some of this stuff is covered in Feynman’s lectures on computation (I like that book but it’s technical and unnecessary) and I’m sure it’s in many textbooks.
Let me know how that goes and what you want to do. We could potentially move on to grammar.
Hmm. The stuff with half-adder was a bit confusing. I probably could get more comfortable with it if I tried but since it’s unnecessary I’d rather not for now. I think it’s interesting (though I am able to make myself interested in just about any topic) but since it’s kinda unnecessary for philosophy (I assume thats what you meant by unnecessary here) I’d rather just move onto grammar for now.
OK, before grammar let’s try a high level activity. I think it’s important to mix those in sometimes.
Find links I’ve shared and write comments on 5 of them. I’d suggest stuff that isn’t too old, like from after I made the CF forum. You can use these topics but looking in other places is allowed:
Ok. I got about ~30 minutes in before I checked out of the assignment. After making this initial post: What Kind of World Do We Live In? - #66 by Eternity, I got stuck mentally to comment on the other posts. I spent the rest of my time thinking on why I had issues with this assignment.
In no particular order:
1.) Some of the stuff I think I could’ve commented on/wanted to comment on were too long to consume in the 60 minute time limit. Other stuff that was much more reasonable to comment on, like the tiktoks, stressed me out a little because of the need to form an opinion within the time limit.
2.) I have an issue with overthinking. I think in the context of tutoring I’ve gotten better at not overthinking the stuff I’m doing but when it comes to stuff outside of tutoring I still have the issue. I tried to tell myself that the posts don’t necessarily need to be “good”, its an assignment just post. Relatedly:
3.) Broadly I have an issue sharing my thoughts on stuff. Its not the having or writing thoughts thats the problem. My note organization for stuff I’ve personally commented on that you’ve shared in my notes is poor, but I have commented a good bit on stuff. Just nothing that I’ve shared. This is why some my first CF posts was responding to stuff that sounded like assignments. I didn’t have to think too much on posting something of value in my head, I just had to do an assignment and share. Easy.
There are a lot of scenarios in my life where if asked for my opinion I have trouble sharing it. For example, at work I can talk to my coworkers and boss about some ideas I have for work, but the moment it becomes a meeting and I’m expected to share I struggle to get a thought out (the important thing here is thought out, I do have thoughts and opinions on stuff in the meeting). Maybe it’s kind of similar to how I here that people will have a bunch of medical concerns but the moment they’re put in front of a doctor they have nothing to say.
Hmm. I could it put like this: when it comes to posting I don’t do it much because I stress about my posts being of value. Not necessarily perfect. I don’t have an issue with my writing being messy (in terms of sharing stuff, I should try and make my writing clear) or anything like that. I just stress about writing something pointless. An example here I could share is related to this post:
I was looking into my eye condition and found some stuff about it that I think I could relate to the above post, but then I started overthinking on the issue. I was like how much do I have to research about my condition to share, do I have to look at research?, etc. Personally I do have my own thoughts already written on this, but I don’t know if they’re good enough, on topic enough, etc. to share.
Could you write 5 one sentence comments on short videos? They don’t have to be clever. What is required for a comment to succeed? E.g. not being a question, joke or insult. A comment doesn’t need to be true but it should sound kind of plausible so that a reasonable person might think it was true even after giving it 60 seconds of thought.
If that sounds easier, go ahead, otherwise we can skip it for now.
What do you know about grammar? What have you done before?
Assignment: Read my grammar article. Speak up if you find stuff hard or confusing. Consider sharing some thoughts as you go along but don’t get stuck on that (not mandatory). Do the practice exercises.
I would say nothing consciously really. I know I covered stuff throughout school. I remember understanding stuff well up until whatever I covered in middle school. By high school I checked out of school and stopped caring about a lot of school subjects.
I haven’t really done anything outside of school assignments. The most recent school assignments from high school (~4 years ago) were done fully with the mindset of memorizing responses to get a grade.
OK. You’ll need to look at some other materials while reading my article. I don’t go into much detail on a fair amount of well known topics like what a noun, verb or preposition is.
It took me a bit to start this assignment due to needing to read and understand material. I think it’s easier for me to immediately start assignments that just involve doing something. Anyways, I started reading the grammar article today. I only spent 30 minutes today and just covered up to “Step 1- Verb”. Here’s some notes and questions:
Part 1: Simple Sentence Grammar
There are four main steps for understanding simple sentences, and one more step for understanding complex sentences. Complex sentences involve multiple simple sentences joined together.
There are only two types of simple sentences in English. And they’re similar enough to share the same analysis steps.
Four steps for understanding simple sentences
Complex sentences involve simple sentences joined together
Complex sentences have one more step required to understand them
English has only two types of simple sentences.
These two types of simple sentences have the same steps for their analysis.
Step 1 - Verb
The verb is the most important part of a simple sentence because it tells us what’s happening in the sentence. There are two types: action verbs and linking verbs. The verb determines which of the two sentence types you’re dealing with (action sentence or linking sentence).
What exactly is a verb? Mmm. Without looking it up: verbs are words that describe some action an entity is doing.
From Merriam-Webster: A verb is a word that shows an action (‘I will jog to the store’), occurrence (‘The bananas ripened overnight’), or state of being (‘I have the same right to exist as you’).
What would a sentence without a verb look like? John. Brooklynn. School. Hmmm. Things need to do something in a sentence, even if that doing if just existing. House. House what? That’s just a word. The house is, or the house was conveys information. Hmmm. I think I get why a verb is important. I do remember when I was studying Japanese that the simplest sentence can be just a verb, but not just a noun or adjective. 食べる (ta-be-ru, to eat) is the simplest Japanese sentence and it is just a verb.
The two types of simple sentences in English are determined by the type of erb you are dealing with. An action verb leading to an action sentence, or a linking verb leading to a linking sentence.
action verbs - they describe some sort of action
play
write
read
kick
jump
fall
throw
sit
sleep
Linking verbs link or relate two things. They describe or rename the first thing with the second thing. They’re sort of similar to an equals sign. The most common linking verb is “be”. (“Is” is present tense of “be” and “was” is past tense.)
is - present tense
Baba is a rock.
be - future tense
Baba will be a rock.
was - past tense
Baba was a rock.
is/be/was - these words are used to convey the state of something?
A simple sentence only has one verb. In part 1, I use the word “sentence” to mean “simple sentence”.
Hmm. So would Baba kicked and lost the ball be a complex sentence. kick -verb, lose - verb
Example action sentence: I threw a red ball.
Further examples:
I kicked a red ball.
She kicked a red ball.
He stole a dollar.
Bob bought a coffee.
Example linking sentence: The house is very big.
Further examples:
The car is big.
The car is small.
The cat is fat.
The cat is cute.
The dog is aggressive.
The first step for analyzing a sentence is finding the verb. The verbs in the examples are “threw” and “is”.
The first step in analyzing a (simple) sentence is finding the verb.
An action verb answers the question, “What action happens?”. A linking verb answers “What type of linking is this?”.
What are other types of linking? What are some other linking verbs besides be, was, and is?
Is my understanding fine so far? What are some other examples of linking verbs?
“Unlike other verbs, linking verbs do not show an action—or more accurately, the only action they show is merely existing. Linking verbs simply explain the state of the subject, such as what it is or how it looks.”
to exist is a form of action. linking verbs “actions” are how something is existing.
Example Sentences:
I am thirteen years old.
am is the linking verb
She seems sad today.
seems is the linking verb
This place looks like a mess!
looks is the linking verb
“This makes linking verbs different from other types of verbs like ditransitive verbs, phrasal verbs, or impersonal verbs, which all describe specific actions. In fact, you can categorize all verbs into two groups, action verbs and linking verbs. However, sometimes a verb can be either, depending on how it’s used.”
Huh, like how Elliot said. Neat.
“Linking verbs define the subject or add more details about it. That means sensory verbs like appear, look, feel, smell, sound, or taste can act as linking verbs when they describe the subject.”
Example Sentences:
Dinner smells burnt.
The cat’s fur felt silky.
Those verbs above not acting like linking verbs:
I smell fish.
I felt her hand.
“While the verbs be, become, and seem are always linking verbs, some other verbs have one or two particular contexts where they act as linking verbs. (We explain more on how to tell the difference below.)”
Ok, so some other linking verbs are: be, become and seen.
Step 2 - Subject
Nouns are things. They include objects, people, places and abstract things like a thought or an emotion. Example nouns: Joe, California, dog, chair, car, opinion, dream, happiness.
Nouns are things. Verbs are actions. Kicking isn’t a thing. You don’t see kicking, you see things kicking.
Some other examples: taco, burrito, anger, lemon, purple.
Step two is finding the subject. The subject is the noun that does the action or has the link. The subject is always a noun, and it’s the noun that does the verb.
Ok. First find the verb, i.e. what’s happening in the sentence. Then find the subject, the thing is that either doing the verb or being linked/defined by the verb.
The house is blue. House has the link here.
Subjects are normally to the left of verbs. In “John hit Fred.”, word order is the only way to know that John did the hitting rather than getting hit.
Hmmm. So subjects can sometimes be to the right of the verb?
Warning: The “subject” does not mean the topic of the sentence. In “I like big, warm, fluffy, delicious pancakes.”, you could consider pancakes the topic. But the subject is “I” – the person doing the liking action.
I guess you could consider pancakes the topic because the sentence goes into detail describing and talking about the pancakes. So even though “I” is the subject liking the pancakes, the sentence topic could be considered the pancakes itself.
Note: Some people teach finding the subject before the verb, mostly because it comes first (to the left) in the sentence. But it makes more sense to look for an actor after you know what the action is. And sentences tend to have more nouns than verbs, so starting with verbs gives you fewer things to deal with.
Hmm. That makes sense. Plus that fits with verbs being the most important part of the sentence.
“A noun is a word that names something, such as a person, place, thing, or idea. In a sentence, nouns can play the role of subject, direct object, indirect object, subject complement, object complement, appositive, or modifier.”
Ok. So verbs can either do actions or link in a sentence. Nouns can be the subject, the direct object, indirect object, and more in a sentence. Seems like the roles nouns can play in a sentence is more varied than a verb.