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Research participants who pay themselves
A country quiz got fifteen minutes of careful answers and a referral out of me, for nothing. What it would take to build a research study that recruits itself the same way through social media, and what the free participants cost you in bias.
Leasing the right not to be sued
Ten kilometres of stopped traffic behind one lane closure in northern Ontario, and the question of how much congestion is physical road capacity and how much is human driving. What autonomous vehicles could recover of the second, and why collecting it runs into liability law.
Linear algebra speedrun
Cram notes for a first linear algebra course: extracting a maximal independent subset, null space bases, change of basis, rank, determinants and LU, the adjugate, diagonalization, Gram-Schmidt, and quadratic forms.
Calculus speedrun
Cram notes for single-variable calculus: differentiability, equivalent infinitesimals, Taylor remainders, integration technique, the Wallis integrals and product, ordinary differential equations, and curvature.
Industrial Process Lecture Notes (Lecture 5: Gas Experiment / Full Organic Experiment Workflow)
High school chemistry lecture notes on industrial processes, covering apparatus setup and common operations for gas experiments, plus the full workflow, difficult operations, and evaluation for organic experiments.
Derivatives: Handling Multi-Variable Always-True Inequalities
High school math notes on derivatives, using an example inequality involving e^x to demonstrate three methods: parameter separation, Taylor expansion, and derivatives, for handling multi-variable always-true problems.
Physics Mind Maps
A collection of high school physics mind maps covering 20 topics, from kinematics and force analysis to Newton's laws and circular motion, each with a clickable full-size image.
Essay-Writing Lecture Notes
High school Chinese essay-writing lecture notes on reading the prompt and establishing the thesis, reading the task and source material, and structural thinking methods such as parallel, progressive, and contrast-unity structures.
Classical Chinese Lecture Notes: Parsing and Translation
High school classical Chinese lecture notes covering common cues for sentence punctuation, how to check cultural-knowledge multiple choice questions, techniques for comprehension/judgment multiple choice questions, and a seven-step method for translating classical Chinese.
Classical Chinese Lecture Notes: Words and Syntax
High school classical Chinese lecture notes on content words vs. function words, flexible word usage (causative, putative, and benefactive), elliptical sentences, and four inverted sentence patterns, with classic examples.
Game Theory Study Notes
Study notes on game theory, covering the three theorems of winning/losing states, the Nim game, the SG function and SG theorem, and Wythoff's game.
Chemistry Notes
High-school chemistry notes based on the High School Chemistry Reader, covering first ionization energy trends, chemical equations, silicon and colloids, and electrolyte solutions, with downloadable resources.