By the way, the education path as Subject Teacher, although it was my primary target, was not the only thing I applied for. I also took the entrance exam to Education Sciences (the nationwide standardized exam called VAKAVA-koe) and the associated aptitude test (series of four short formal interviews, measuring my response to a series of hypothetical situations, on five metrics). The points from those (69.34/106 and 96/120 respectively) were enough to qualify me for a Bachelor’s+Master’s Program for Class Teachers, where the bars were 58.51 and 92 points respectively, but _not_ for Special Pedagogy, where the bars were 60.17 and 100 points respectively, _nor_ for General and Adult Education Sciences, where the bar was 71.51 points (no aptitude test). I also applied to a vocational university or two, but because of conflicting exam schedules, I was not able to go to the entrance exam. I am happy with that. It would have been my third time applying; I was approved on both of the previous times. Conflicting exam schedules was also the reason why I did not take the physics exam. I realize this post and video is a lot about me and not a lot about you. However, read my replies to other posts on this page, for tips that I have given to people. Particularly the comment in response to Dark GT. Unfortunately I can only pin one comment.
Bisqwit, your efforts are extremely commendable. I'm not organized enough to do 3 years worth of content all at once and hearing that you did all of those intro courses to physics all at once blew my mind. Those physics classes gave me hell, especially electromagnetism. Keep up the good work! 💖
If anyone is interested at the details shown in my diagrams, here are the symbols that I used. Some of these appear differently because of font differences. The font I used for the icons was Noto Color Emoji. 💩☑1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣5️⃣ course outcome (the first two mean cancelled/failed and passed respectively ). Multiple symbols indicate multiple attendances. Higher number = better grade, with 5 being the maximum. Weakly ensquared number = estimate. 🚮⬇🆗↔⬆ = personal opinion on course outcome: ⬆ = better than expected, ⬇ = worse than expected, ↔ = turbulent circumstances. 📝 = (notepad) course completed with a general exam, without attending any lectures or doing any exercises. 📝🗒 = (notepad + different notepad) multiple completions, including a general exam and attending course normally. ⏳ = (hourglass, beginning of line) the course is in progress. ⌛ = (empty hourglass, end of line) no work remains, but the grades have not been confirmed yet. 🔧 = (wrench) alternative that may still be swapped without breaking course requirements 🏺 = (red amphora) approved (hyväksiluettu) on the basis of earlier studies or earlier experience 🔹 = (blue diamond) courses specific to subject teachers 🦮 = (guide dog) worked as a supervisor 👀 = (pair of eyes) planning for next period
Congratulations! Completing three years of Math/Physics/CS in one is an absolute hard-work achievement. I graduated in Physics and I felt your pain when you mentioned "I was almost certain that I would fail them, all of them". That's pretty much the constant feeling of every Physics undergrad.
Wow, I wish to have a blessed brain as you have, well done Bisqwit. I’m going to start a degree in computer engineering also by distance/offline method because I have a full time job. I’m currently 22 years old. You have been a inspiration to me since I found your channel. I’m grateful for your videos, they are always educating me. It’s my biggest wish to understand and talk to computers.
Finally I had time to finish watching this video. Congratulations for having a fulfilling year and I wish next (this) one to be a great year for you too!
Honestly, I look forward to hearing that you're an official teacher in college or high school, in the future. I've always enjoyed how you present things and I always said your voice was relaxing to listen to. You'd make a good teacher, Yoel. (:
The first and most important factor for me was a spreadsheet, on which I put all the courses that I have begun, and under each course title I put _all_ the tasks I have to do, such as week 1 exercise, week 1 peer review, week 2 exercise, … along with their associated deadline. I marked each task in red when its deadline was within one week, dark red when it was due _next,_ and green+overstrike when it was completed. There was a separate section for exams, similarly structured. This allowed me to easily see where I am going and what I should do next. I would update the colors every day and after completing each exercise, and I would move the most urgent courses to the top of the page. This is how I could keep track of everything. Despite this, I occasionally forgot to do some peer reviews (by inadvertently marking it done), which concretely caused me to miss the highest course grade for Logic II and Statistics I. If you are going to cram your schedule, I definitely urge you to maintain such a spreadsheet. It was vital for me. At first I tried to follow all lectures, but eventually, I stopped attending any lectures except those that have mandatory participation or those that I was particularly interested in. If the subject was particularly difficult, I would watch&listen to the lecture VoDs in a dedicated session at the beginning of my personal weekly session of doing the exercises for that course. For Interactions and Bodies and for Statistics I, if I had realized from get-go that the VoDs were as useful as they were, I would have done it from the start and had a significantly easier time with the courses. I _never_ attended any exercise sessions (laskarit), something that most students definitely require and find invaluable. These sessions are where an instructor would be present, and students could ask for guidance on particular exercise questions. I also never did any voluntary/practice exercises; but only those that directly influence the course grade. I relied on my wits to get me through the exercises: when I didn’t understand something, I would first attempt to learn it from the course material (book/booklet/whatever), and failing that, look for lectures that teach it. Failing that, I would accept that I get zero points for the exercise and I would try to learn it from the model solutions that are posted after the exercise return deadline closes. This method is definitely not suitable for everyone. It also caused my answers to often differ significantly from the model answers, as I came up with the answer (usually correctly) by deducing it from what I already knew rather than by following the method taught at the course. Sometimes I was penalized for that, sometimes not. There was a significant factor in gambling the peer reviews. Not attending lectures definitely contributed to me getting bad grades for Algebraic Structures II, for Series, and for Linear Algebra II. This appears contradictory, because I got good grades for Algebraic Structures I and Linear Algebra I despite not attending any lectures there either. The difference was in the combination of course materials + exercises. Good exercises direct the student into studying the relevant things, and good course materials are easy to digest. Still, overall, the time cost by far outweighed the benefit of attending lectures. For most courses, I tried my best (barring the aforementioned constraints). An exception was Mathematics of Machine Learning I, which was extracurricular for me* (although I am requesting it to be included in my degree), which is why I quit doing exercises for the course mid-way through, when I had calculated that I am already guaranteed at least 3 for the grade; and for the Linear Algebra series, where I never returned extra credits exercises due to them being particularly time-consuming. *) I also began doing Mathematics of Machine Learning II, but the course was organized very differently compared to the first part, and there was mandatory attendance bullshit that caused me to drop this optional course early on. This is what the poop icon in my listing denotes on that course. There were also a few other poop-marked courses; all of those were courses or exams that I had signed up for, but cancelled for one reason or another.
The trick is not being creative in the traditional sense of creating something unique - have you heard this dudes music ? He can create music but its not up there with high level creators, his computer CGI skills are by definition creative but he is essentially making known objects and systems. You cant have a horse pulling the cart in many directions. You have to get all your horses lined up and pulling in the direction you want to go - as a consequence, you cant excel in other directions. So ? To learn. Get organised, focus and go over the material as often as is practicable.
@@newvocabulary more importantly pulling from a lifelong bank of knowledge from directly or indirectly related material helps. How does fretting over iq levels help in learning? You are already shooting yourself in the foot by believing that "innate" talent and not hardwork dictates your learning journey. I personally believe that most ppl can learn how to do most things especially if they don't have to be in the forefront of their field and engage with unprecedented problems. Just cause it took someone a few weeks and it took you a year isn't a reason to abandon your passion or to abandon your learning path.
Mr bisqwit I am going to start my pg course in india and I am not even worth the dust beneath your feet but this video inspired me to start studying hard. You are inspiration to many Sir. Please keep uploading videos.
When I complimented my high school studies on the internet, breezed through a year worth of school in a month. Taking a course on the internet from the comfort of your home is almost like a video game. Assuming this applies to just about all education the 12 years of mandatory schooling for teenagers could be reduced to 1-2 years. I don't know if this is true of higher learning as well. But it's definitely true that our education system is outdated, we're stuck with the same system they came up with back in the 19th century. (Probably because teachers need jobs)
You are one of my biggest inspirations! Congratulations for all the achievements obtained. One day I would like to see a video of how you manage your studies, because I see it as a great challenge.
Taking on new phases of life is always difficult and wrought with anxiety. However, the highest risks usually have the highest returns. I wish you the best of luck and success with your future studies.
Hi, Bisqwit!!! We all miss your videos!! I know you were studying; so, you're very busy now!! Have a great Christmas and a happy New Year!! God bless you and your family!!
Math+CS+Phys is not a bad foundation for computational chemistry, if you are interested in such endeavors. Plenty of O(N^6) problems with tensor contractions and multidimensional integrals, Fourier transforms, N-dimensional spaces, gradients, Hessians, you name it.
Two inputs: Topology is pretty useful and can be fun for someone who knows how to code! Have you heard of topological data analysis? It is a great application if one is interested in math and CS (ml particularly!) and it is not hard to learn by yourself as a “hobby” ( book suggestion: Elementary Applied Topology, R. Ghrist). I also recommend a lot of attention on linear algebra, get comfortable with it! (I recommend Axler’s book: Linear Algebra done right). Linear algebra is not easy and is the bread and butter of our modern tech. I wish you the best! You inspired me to learn to code years ago, thank you!
At one point when doing peer reviews for Algebraic Structures I, one of the anonymous submissions that I received for reviewing was one where a student had accidentally submitted their exercises for Topology IA, to this course. The exercises looked so boring and difficult that it persuaded me against taking those courses… I have not actually heard of topological data analysis.
Thank you for being one of the last few on TH-cam who cares about content quality, being humane, being grounded and humble. I'm a 43 year old dad of two, and you are an inspiration to me. And I really look forward to your next password hacking video, those are gold.
No worries, my friend, we are all good at something, but not a single one of us, good at everything. I wish you luck in all that you pursue, but just know, that in this world, there are more people that want to see us fail, than there are those that want to see us succeed.
Hi. Mr B, great video and explicarion of your education path, I dont know how do u do, it s a great achievement in just one year, you must be proud of you. Hope your health is good with all that strees.
It's not really inspiring, quite the opposite actually. Highly intelligent man succeeds where you wont. I'm happy for him, but he's a genetic anomaly that you or I simply will not ever be.
@@newvocabulary That's a bit negative view on things you have there. This kind of attitude might push you behind in the long term.. Bisqwit is a guy who set up a plan for the things he wanted to do in life and follows that plan strictly. To me he's an example of dedication and focus , not an anomaly.
@@vancedajcg8724 I work hard every single day, it's always frustrating knowing that I'll simply never be intelligent enough to grasp material as fast as others though. I still do highly technical work for a living, but sometimes my turbo-autist contemporaries absolutely baffle me with the amount of information they're able to process, store, and recall without effort. I'm happy they exist, and happy that I exist, however I can't say I live without a bit of jealousy. I'm content knowing that truth despite it's unchangeable reality.
@@newvocabulary I have a tech-leader that fits that description exactly. It feels as unfair how he's able to find out bugs in 10min that I've been stuck around 2h with no progress. And the age gap is just 1year old so i can't help but feeling as it's my fault for not being working hard enough
Man I've been following you for years. Your dedication and spirit had always inspired me. Now I feel like it's time to pursue knowledge after nearly 10 years of software development. Thank you.
really interesting to see the inner workings of how to teach the teachers, it's not something i'm familiar with and its structure seems really solid. enjoy your time off.
I had the same experience with online classes, although i did finish most of my college subjects at the time i couldn't do both work and school at the same time, i simply am not smart / good enough and the commute also took a toll, with remote classes i have been getting better grades, learning more and overall enjoying the process, take the time you need man, your content is awesome and im glad to see that its going well!
I remember starting watching your videos when i started my studies. By the time we started with linear algebra I was surprised how much I already understood, simply because I've been passively picking up on stuff from your videos. :)
I’ll be learning Linear Algebra in uni too, do you remember any videos containing Linear Algebra explanations? I’m interested in learning from those videos too.
How he did it so quickly? Dense neuro axonal structures and long dendrites, ie very high IQ thanks to winning the genetic lottery in that department. It takes a fairly high IQ to even do it in a regular time frame, an average IQ person simply can not do it at all. Once you learn about genetics you will understand that no one should be praised/judged for their accomplishments/failures since it's just a natural course of events for them. Understanding breeds motivation, it's a self bootstrapping process - you observe a concept -> if you understand it -> you become motivated to further observe the next one -> you grasp more -> motivated -> grasp -> motivated -> etc. If you can't grasp or grasp too slow you're not motivated to invest further effort
@@amir3515 ofcourse free will doesn't exist, the universe is deterministic. At every time interval the current state is derived from the previous one. Given a hypothetical supercomputer of adequate computational power available at the moment of the big bang - every subsequent position/state of every particle could have been known upfront
It's so funny that you spent most of your time on physics because I also have spent more time on physics these last two semesters(a school year in the US) than all my other classes combined! I felt sad when I turned in my last lab because I found Electromagnetism so fascinating. What was your favorite subtopic in physics? Did you enjoy any of it, or was it all stress?
As long as you got an equation group, the exact mathematical method of solving the equation group was irrelevant. Because our exercises were all done online (PDF files, and you submit a PDF file containing answers either as a document or a scan of photos), there was no way to control whether someone used calculators or e.g. Wolfram Alpha. Of course you still had to justify your answers.
So in summary he went in to the best college in Finnland at 50 years old and got excellent grades because hes just a natural genius and hes programming background.
Nice to hear from you Bisqwit. I would like to mention my studies too: I got to Germany to study and chose to study math. It was required to have a minor, so i chose mechanical engineering. The courses that i took were the following in Bachelor: Analysis 1, 2, 3; discrete math 1, 2; linear algebra 1, 2; miniatur math 1, 2; complex analysis, partial differential equations, stochastics, optimizations, algebra 1, numeric 1, differential geometry as well as extra courses: human biologie, ethics in sciences, marketing, japanese 1. In mechanical engineering, i had: technical mechanical 1, 2, 3; fluid mechanic, introduction to mechatronics, modelbuilding and simulations, teamproject, control theory 1; 2 , higher dynamics. I did 2 masters in each of those fields. In math, i had: Variational inequalities, calculus of variation 1, 2; partial differential equations 2, optimal control of partial differential equations, machine learning, algebraic multigrid, optimal control of ordinary differential equations, time-continous finance math and a bunch of seminars. In mechanical engineering, i had stuffs in automobile, robotics and smart systems. During university, i made a living by programming and this is how i learned about your channel.
@@Bisqwit Partly, unfortunately. Please excuse this rant. Mathematics got more fun in master because stuffs from bachelor started to get properly used and everything started to make more and more sense. Morever the people in the math faculty were just "better": When i did good things, i would get rewarded and they would be proud for me. Not only that mathematicians are more direct and honest. They are not so sociable but when you talk to one, you get the answer you expect without noise. In mechanical engineering it was the opposite. In almost every subject i managed to beat the prof at their own game and everytime, they would hate me and fight just to be right. In math, my profs would apologize when they made mistakes. In mechanical engineering, they will justify them. Not just the profs, the students are like this and this made projects harder. Mechanical engineers are not very intelligent. The study doesn't teach how to find solutions, but how to use preexisting ones, so that when something seems the least out of place, they will assume that the problem is unsolvable. They also have such big egos, people thinking they know everything and blame you for knowing more than them. Many would say: "we are not all mathematicians with mega programming experience". I had the chance to work in the mechanical engineering faculty for a while and it was the same problem. Imagine having a teamlead jealous of you. To whom, everything you say is wrong and everything he says is right. I worked with electrical engineers, informaticians, mathematicians, physicists but mechanical engineers are just the worst. I studied master mechanical engineering mostly because i was curious, but a lot of the subjects were just grind-work that are useless. Honestly, if i knew how mechanical engineering (master) was going to be, i would not have started it. Mathematic is just better and should have been enough.
That sounds awful. I am sorry that you had to experience it. Thank you for sharing your story. There are indeed cultural differences between disciplines.
Well, I can attest that my preferred method of learning is to gain understanding on how things work, and I am very weak at learning by memorization. The results presented in this video, combined with the information from this post, should provide you evidence on how studies at a university actually work, at least where I come from.
This seems quite different from a german university of applied sciences where lots of subjects throw everything into large modules that last an entire semester.
In general, universities of applied sciences operate quite differently. My experience is from the late 1990s so I don’t know how it is nowadays, aside from glancing a study schedule from early 2000s, which left me unimpressed. If I had known in late 1990s how universities operate, I would have applied back then. My biggest frustration with _any_ studying was rigid scheduling and studies that had nothing to do with the topic.
You don't want to miss the CS master's courses String Processing Algorithms and Data Compression Techniques which are gray in your list. They are really interesting. Full disclosure though: I have been the TA on both of them :).
They are _included_ in my list specifically because I am going to take them :-) Gray because they are not part of curriculum. If I didn’t, they would not be listed unless they are mandatory…
@Bisqwit perhaps consider taking some courses in robotics, with your cs background, it would be really applicable to you and would bring forth tons of possibilities and project ideas. I myself am considering self-studying robotics this summer.
@@Bisqwit brother having seen u do amazing projects over the years, I dont think it would be too hard for ya to get running with :) regardless, even I was thinking about ways to avoid the "nasty" parts of this, and basically made my mind up last night that I want to work with virtual robots... in simulators, getting them to do something xd that would be more realistic for summer xd
Electromagnetism was actually quite heavy on integral calculus. For example, the Biot-Savart law: B⃗ = µ₀/4π ∮(Idl⃗ × ʳ⃗ / r²) or this screenshot from the model answer to one of the exercises: i.imgur.com/VkT220L.png Likewise for Radiation fields & Photons: i.imgur.com/p70Q8tG.png with a touch of some differentials too.
@@Bisqwit i stand corrected. I have looked it up. But concidering Finland being the happiest place. Its has pretty high suicide rate among EU countries. Almost the highest. Pretty contradicting data.
Hey Bisqwit! Great video, it's very interesting to see your path through the educational system. I've been a follower of the channel for years, and am also an Associate Professor in Computer Science - I live-stream all my lectures online and put my courses up for free on my TH-cam channel. Some of your videos are so good they have actually inspired parts of lectures in my courses. And your early work on TASvideos has inspired research in my field (video game AI) as well. Please continue on with your studies, you will be an inspiration to others and you have the talent to really make a difference. If you'd ever like to chat about online teaching, or even pursuing a PhD related to video game programming or game AI, please let me know. Someone with your specialized talents could easily get a PhD and would be a huge benefit to the academic community.
Let's say the truth, Bisqwit isn't an ordinary student or even a PhD for that matter! Have know and met many PhD's in CS/EE with not even half as much as Bisqwit programming skills, talent and ingenuity. and if people disagree? well here is to me! they just like titles and colored ties!
Do you have the link to the demolision video somewhere, I just cannot believe that the guy swinging the mallet would demolish the whole school by hand instead of using machines in 21 century :)
th-cam.com/video/-QNIXu_12io/w-d-xo.html Here is the video I quoted. This was the (sort of) celebratory event, albeit sad, for the demolition of the school.
@@Bisqwit hmm, why would the demolition be celebrated Kids will loose their school and people that worked hard to build this would be sad to see their work demolished
I thought the celebration was weird too as it was a sad event, but I was glad it was organized anyway: It was cathartic to be allowed to walk through _all_ areas inside the school, including areas that were always off-limits to pupils such as the kitchen or the janitor’s warehouse, and to revisit one last time all the places in the school that shaped and defined most of my childhood so long ago, even though some of it had changed slightly during the decades. When they demolished the school, they built a new one, a bigger and more modern one over the same lot.
As a numerical physicist, I am sad that scientific computing apparently can't be part of your curriculum. That is a course I think you could complete easily if you already have the basics in calculus/linear algebra and that might give you another look at computer science from a purely numerical part. Though I am sure that you already know a lot (maybe more than me :p ) about how numbers are dealt with in a computer, it is still fun and gives (IMHO) a more concrete grasp on what the math/theoretical physics courses teach. Since you already know C, it should go like a breeze. You can still take a look at dedicated books on the topic. Glad to see you're enjoying your studies. The cat is cute.
The course Scientific Computing I, which you noticed, covers the following topics: - Basics of programming in Python - Basics of Jupyter Notebook (interactive frontend to Python) - Basic commandline commands in Linux - Basic concepts and methods of statistics, such as least squares fitting - Elementary knowledge on using databases to find scientific knowledge - Foundations of creating scientific documents. I think I’ve got all that covered. Part two, Scientific Computing II (also a physics course), covers the following: - Most important aspects of Fortran for scientific computing - Writing moderate size programs in Fortran - Compiling a program from its source code - Experienced in using Linux as a programming environment. I think I’ve got all that covered too, although instead of Fortran I would use C or C++. Then there is a separate 10 ECTS course “Numerical Methods in Scientific Computing” which belongs to the master’s programme in materials research. This covers the most common numerical methods and algorithms, and their strengths and weaknesses, and their use in self-made programs as well as the numerical libraries and programs. The detailed list is: - Tools, computing environment in Kumpula, visualization - Basics of numerics: floating point numbers, error sources - Linear algebra: equations, decompositions, eigenvalue problems - Nonlinear equations: bisection, secant, Newton - Interpolation: polynomes, splines, Bezier curves - Numerical integration: trapeziodal, Romberg, Gauss - Function minimization: Newton, conjugate gradient, stochastic methods - Generation of random numbers: linear congruential, shift register, non-uniform random numbers - Statistical description of data: probability distributions, comparison of data sets - Modeling of data: linear and nonlinear fitting - Fourier and wavelet transformations: fast Fourier transform, discreet wavelet transform, applications - Differential equations: ordinary and partial differential equations This sounds more like what you described. But it still is not part of any curriculum that I have. I don’t even know what subject could I theoretically group it under.
@@Bisqwit I suspected that the course would also cover introductory aspects that you would obviously already know. Back when I was an undergraduate (and not in Finland actually), the initial focus was more on the numerical aspects (how to solve a problem numerically on a computer, and how it could actually turn wrong) and less on the coding. Fortran and C came only in master years for the numerical methods but we could skip it if we already know about it (and get advanced coding lessons). The master programs seems actually more into what I had in mind. Topics like differential equations, Fourier transform, Linear Algebra algorithms or interpolation are actually very useful in physics and maths, and the subtleties on what is under the hood are often overlooked by students. Considering the subject, well, I would put it under the umbrella "scientific computing"... which is general but quite vague, I admit. ^^ But anyway, I just saw the grey box with my favorite discipline on it and couldn't help but rant a bit. I am pretty sure that if you get interested, this would be something you would catch up with without problem. The most important thing is that you make your own courses selection and take them at your own (apparently pretty fast) pace.
I did something like this while at university, studied MSc in mechanical engineering full time, then 50% full-time Japanese courses on top of that, plus 25% Russian evening courses, and worked as a mechanics teacher for younger MSc students. But I kept that up for a year only, and I almost certainly wouldn't be able to do it now, at 20 years older... I hope you can keep it up and finish you plan!
This mans destiny in life appears to be growth and utilization of his brain. He seems to thrive on mental challenges and learning quickly. Many of us can only wish to be so adept.
and the educational system in finland is the best. He told he progammed in C with 15. At age 15 we did nothing with computers at school. (ok personally I programmed a little in BASIC) Later in 12th grade we started in Pascal with things like calculationg Resistors, simple 3 lines of code.Education in germany regarding IT and digital logic, its hillarious. Companies beg for foreign workfoce...
The education system did absolutely _nothing_ to teach me C, or C++. That was all me. What it did was teach me BASIC and Pascal when I was 14 and 15 respectively. But it did teach us how to use DOS command prompt. Which, mind you, was considered _vital_ back in 1990s, so that is good. Not so much in this millennium.
I sometimes feel I am too stupid for some studies. I really struggle with calculus and gave up my 3-year study of informatics, but still got a job as a software developer doing full stack development. Is it worth giving it a second try sometime far in the future? What mindset must I have to succeed? Any advice?
Thank you for bringing this to my attention. Looks like my IP address changed again, and I didn’t get the memo. I have now updated the DNS, thanks to your report. EDIT: Will take about a hour for the changes to propagate.
09:00 looks like you found someone special😉. I'm happy for you😊. I remember a video where you were talking about your life and I felt sad you didn't have someone.
Oh no, that’s a friend of mine, who was about 65 years old when that video was recorded, in 2013 (when I was 35). Not a “someone special” in that sense.
Huh, I held some free days, but sometimes I would literally be working round the clock on some exercises. Other exercises might take just a few hours. I had a weekly schedule in each period; I kept track of when is the deadline of a particular thing I had to. For example, Tuesday for linear algebra and statistics, Friday for logic, Saturday and Sunday for physics.
Oliko nuo differentiaali ja integraalilaskennan kurssit miten haastavia? Entä miten syvällisesti kävit läpi nuo aihealueet lukion kirjoista jos ne kerta parissa viikossa lukaisit läpi ja oliko kenties jo kokemusta niistä entuudestaan?
Ne olivat aika hankalia. Erityisesti minulle jäivät hämärän peittoon epsilon-delta -todistus (joka tuli jo raja-arvojen kurssilla, mutta diffiksessä se oletettiin jo osattuna), sekä likiarvon virheen estimointi. Integraalilaskennan kurssista en odottanut ollenkaan edes pääseväni läpi. Oikeastaan ainoa, mitä viimeksimainitussa oikeasti koin oppineeni oli osamurtokehitelmä. Toisaalta en juuri myöskään osallistunut luennoille. Integrointitekniikat kuten muuttujan vaihto eivät useista yrityksistä huolimatta oikein auenneet. Integraalikurssilla keskityttiin myös funktiojonojen suppenemiseen, teema joka jatkui myös sarjojen kurssilla. Kaikilla matematiikan kursseilla, erityisesti diffiksessä, keskityttiin paljon todistamiseen. Minulle oli ennestään tuttua mistä integroinnissa ja derivoinnissa oli kyse, mutta derivointikaavoja jouduin opettelemaan, samoin integrointia. Koin paljon oivalluksia kirjojen parissa, esimerkiksi funktion nollakohtien selvittämisestä. Tavoitteenani oli oppia tarpeeksi päästäkseni läpi pääsykokeista, ja siinä onnistuin.
Why have the title, the description and the subtitles for this video been translated into Swedish? Did you translate them yourself? I think they appear in Swedish for me because I have my language set to Swedish or because I am in Sweden.
I only pay the following, once a year (these two are mandatory): - Membership of student union: 46 € per year - Healthcare fee for students in higher education: 71,6 € per year Studying itself is completely free of cost. Of course, I still need to get income somehow in order to live. This is accomplished by adult education allowance, which is a financial support paid by the employment fund. One can only get it for a total of 15 months in lifetime, which is another reason why I am rushing my studies. There _are_ some courses I could take that would cost me money. In particular, the basic studies on English, 6 × 5 credits, would cost 1425 €. Because these courses have attendance requirements and because the money would only give the privilege to do the courses during a particular year, I will postpone them by at least a year for now, in order to avoid conflicts with other courses that also have similar requirements, but which are actually part of my degree and which I _can_ reschedule if needed.
Huh. Well, I don’t usually write shopping lists, but I do write lists sometimes in Joe. If I had to take it with me to the store, I would write it in Colornote instead.
No disrespect for the people who interviewed you but I am 99% sure that you are smarter than all of them combined lol. Anyway congrats and looking forward to see more videos from you!
Hej, det är vi - dina svenska tittare. Vi kommer fortsättningsvis kommentera på svenska i förhoppning att det är dig till någon användning. Har du koll på de/dem ännu? SJ-ljudet?
Tack för att du skrivade. Även om det är intressant att lära sig språk, hoppas jag faktiskt att jag aldrig riktigt behöver använda svenska. Den svenska SJ-ljudet är ganska annorlunda i finlandssvenska än i rikssvenska. Jag vet inte från vilket perspektiv du skriver. På kursen lär vi oss finlandssvenskt uttal...
@@Bisqwit Har ingen aning om vad finlandssvenskt uttal är, kanske svenska versionen av Mumindalen? Du verkar i alla fall förstå, vilket är mer än vad man kan säga om mig och finska. Försöker lära mig finska på Duolingo och har bara kommit till minä, sinä. Vad du än lägger manken till kommer du att lyckas med Bisqwit! Jag håller på dig. Matematik och fysik är universalt, svenska är lokalt. Gör din grej, men jag kommer att fortsätta kommentera på svenska. 😉
Hey Bisqwit can you give more details about the course like are the lessons recorded and you can watch on x2 speed? Are the tests discourse questions or multiple choice.
_Most_ courses had some selection of these ingredients (very few had _all_ of these): - Pre-made video lectures, usually short, that you could watch at any time of your choosing (VoD), including using fastforward; each video focuses on particular topic - Live lectures, held in Zoom, where you could ask the lecturer for information, and the lecturer might use tools like Presemo to poll the class; the lecture would be recorded and available as a VoD afterwards (of course without audience participation) - Exercises, usually calculation heavy, presented as PDF file online, and you have to return your answers as a PDF file (either saved from a word processing program or a collection of photos/scans) - Peer review: You grade your own exercises and also anonymously two other person’s anonymous exercises. You get extra points for doing so. The points for your own exercise will be an average of your own + peer reviews, unless they diverge too much; in that case, a course assistant grades it and the three reviewers will receive fewer peer review points. - Online exercises (”STACK”), on Moodle; these are either multi-choice, or questions where you have to fill in a value or a formula. They are automatically graded. Sometimes you can retry infinitely many times, sometimes retry count is limited, sometimes getting it wrong adds penalty so on the 2nd attempt you get fewer points for getting right. - A self review, where you review your own learning and give a grade to yourself with good written justifications. - A course exam, held online. This works identically to either the PDF exercises or STACK exercises, but there will not be peer review; only assistants (or automatic in case of STACK) grading. The course grade is assigned using a weighted sum of these; weights vary. A typical way is ⅓ exercises+reviews and ⅔ course exam.
How in the world did you complete fifteen textbooks in 1/1/2 weeks? Can you simply focus that well? Or did you have some tremendous source of motivation? You’re a hero!
I think he might already have some experience/knowledge of the subjects that they teach in high school (or "lukio" in Finnish) mathematics so it's not really trying to learn 15 books from scratch in 1 ½ weeks. Still admirable pace if he's doing most of the calculations in the books along the way
Well, thirteen textbooks. For the five chemistry books, I got only half-way through with the first book; there was way more memorization and far less understanding than in mathematics, and this is definitely a weak area for me. For the math books, I skimmed through things I already had an idea how it works or which I could understand right away. It helps that back when my peers were the age of studying that material, decades ago, they talked about it. So I caught some ideas and remembered them. For things that I was not sure about, I followed through some exercises in the book (usually in my head only, sometimes also in a text editor) until I understood the point.
I don’t actually know. Well, I do know that the _master’s_ thesis does require supervision from a professor. I presume thus that it also requires approval of the topic. The bachelor’s thesis probably does not have such requirements. I will soon find out, as my work on that will begin in September.
As a swede, I don't really understand why it's (still) mandatory in Finland to study Swedish... Sure, some areas in Finland speak Swedish, that's natural I suppose, but mandatory learning it? Is it merely a stubborn remnant from the past that (not enough) people want to get rid of?
Svenska folkpartiet - they always get ~%5 votes. They're almost always in government. I think they've been in opposition only once during my life time. Their only condition to support any government coalition is that government keeps learning Swedish in any educational institute mandatory.
@@neon-rust Only 5% is 10 seats in parliament. Sometimes enough to make or break the coalition. They are of course not the only ones who support status quo. The other parties have also their share of Swedish speaking Finns. So the language minority holds proportionally more power than you'd expect based purelly on size of the population. For them status quo means there's always a subject in schools they and their children won't have any troubles with, but some of the majority population will. That - combined with university programmes in Swedish, where only few who wasn't born to Swedish speaking family are able apply - gives them an academic edge they don't want to lose. This said; I am not 100% against the current system.
Swede here too. My understanding of it: it is a remnant, but changing the law that Swedish is a mandatory subject wouldn't do much. The key is that Swedish is an official language according to the constitution. Anyone communicating with government services can require communication to be in Swedish, and working for the government thus requires passing a language test. If mandatory Swedish was abolished, the ~5% Swedish-speaking population of Finland would have a huge advantage to all government jobs.
An average student: takes years to learn all the stuff required to pass the entrance exams Bisqwit: so I bought a bunch of books and read them over the past week. I passed ...
Without suggesting Bisqwit is not a few standard deviations from the mean : as you get older, you eventually "learn to learn" : picking what is essential, what is a technical detail, managing your energy. I don't have the raw energy of my 20's, but I'm much better at managing my efforts and I pick new skills faster.
By the way, the education path as Subject Teacher, although it was my primary target, was not the only thing I applied for.
I also took the entrance exam to Education Sciences (the nationwide standardized exam called VAKAVA-koe) and the associated aptitude test (series of four short formal interviews, measuring my response to a series of hypothetical situations, on five metrics). The points from those (69.34/106 and 96/120 respectively) were enough to qualify me for a Bachelor’s+Master’s Program for Class Teachers, where the bars were 58.51 and 92 points respectively, but _not_ for Special Pedagogy, where the bars were 60.17 and 100 points respectively, _nor_ for General and Adult Education Sciences, where the bar was 71.51 points (no aptitude test).
I also applied to a vocational university or two, but because of conflicting exam schedules, I was not able to go to the entrance exam. I am happy with that. It would have been my third time applying; I was approved on both of the previous times. Conflicting exam schedules was also the reason why I did not take the physics exam.
I realize this post and video is a lot about me and not a lot about you. However, read my replies to other posts on this page, for tips that I have given to people. Particularly the comment in response to Dark GT. Unfortunately I can only pin one comment.
Finally can see you are doing this~
You are inspired me to start a new chapter in my life.
Thank you
Whatever it is, I believe you will ace it!
Bisqwit, your efforts are extremely commendable. I'm not organized enough to do 3 years worth of content all at once and hearing that you did all of those intro courses to physics all at once blew my mind. Those physics classes gave me hell, especially electromagnetism.
Keep up the good work! 💖
Thank you! I appreciate your input.
If anyone is interested at the details shown in my diagrams, here are the symbols that I used. Some of these appear differently because of font differences. The font I used for the icons was Noto Color Emoji.
💩☑1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣5️⃣ course outcome (the first two mean cancelled/failed and passed respectively ). Multiple symbols indicate multiple attendances. Higher number = better grade, with 5 being the maximum. Weakly ensquared number = estimate.
🚮⬇🆗↔⬆ = personal opinion on course outcome: ⬆ = better than expected, ⬇ = worse than expected, ↔ = turbulent circumstances.
📝 = (notepad) course completed with a general exam, without attending any lectures or doing any exercises.
📝🗒 = (notepad + different notepad) multiple completions, including a general exam and attending course normally.
⏳ = (hourglass, beginning of line) the course is in progress.
⌛ = (empty hourglass, end of line) no work remains, but the grades have not been confirmed yet.
🔧 = (wrench) alternative that may still be swapped without breaking course requirements
🏺 = (red amphora) approved (hyväksiluettu) on the basis of earlier studies or earlier experience
🔹 = (blue diamond) courses specific to subject teachers
🦮 = (guide dog) worked as a supervisor
👀 = (pair of eyes) planning for next period
Congratulations! Completing three years of Math/Physics/CS in one is an absolute hard-work achievement. I graduated in Physics and I felt your pain when you mentioned "I was almost certain that I would fail them, all of them". That's pretty much the constant feeling of every Physics undergrad.
yes 😖
Wow, I wish to have a blessed brain as you have, well done Bisqwit. I’m going to start a degree in computer engineering also by distance/offline method because I have a full time job. I’m currently 22 years old.
You have been a inspiration to me since I found your channel. I’m grateful for your videos, they are always educating me.
It’s my biggest wish to understand and talk to computers.
Finally I had time to finish watching this video. Congratulations for having a fulfilling year and I wish next (this) one to be a great year for you too!
thanks for everything you do, you are a massive inspiration for me, I'm incredibly glad to have someone like you posting on youtube
Honestly, I look forward to hearing that you're an official teacher in college or high school, in the future. I've always enjoyed how you present things and I always said your voice was relaxing to listen to. You'd make a good teacher, Yoel. (:
Not everyone is capable of such fast learning. Do you have tips and tricks of how to study efficiently? What works and don't works for you?
The first and most important factor for me was a spreadsheet, on which I put all the courses that I have begun, and under each course title I put _all_ the tasks I have to do, such as week 1 exercise, week 1 peer review, week 2 exercise, … along with their associated deadline. I marked each task in red when its deadline was within one week, dark red when it was due _next,_ and green+overstrike when it was completed. There was a separate section for exams, similarly structured. This allowed me to easily see where I am going and what I should do next. I would update the colors every day and after completing each exercise, and I would move the most urgent courses to the top of the page. This is how I could keep track of everything. Despite this, I occasionally forgot to do some peer reviews (by inadvertently marking it done), which concretely caused me to miss the highest course grade for Logic II and Statistics I.
If you are going to cram your schedule, I definitely urge you to maintain such a spreadsheet. It was vital for me.
At first I tried to follow all lectures, but eventually, I stopped attending any lectures except those that have mandatory participation or those that I was particularly interested in. If the subject was particularly difficult, I would watch&listen to the lecture VoDs in a dedicated session at the beginning of my personal weekly session of doing the exercises for that course. For Interactions and Bodies and for Statistics I, if I had realized from get-go that the VoDs were as useful as they were, I would have done it from the start and had a significantly easier time with the courses.
I _never_ attended any exercise sessions (laskarit), something that most students definitely require and find invaluable. These sessions are where an instructor would be present, and students could ask for guidance on particular exercise questions.
I also never did any voluntary/practice exercises; but only those that directly influence the course grade.
I relied on my wits to get me through the exercises: when I didn’t understand something, I would first attempt to learn it from the course material (book/booklet/whatever), and failing that, look for lectures that teach it. Failing that, I would accept that I get zero points for the exercise and I would try to learn it from the model solutions that are posted after the exercise return deadline closes. This method is definitely not suitable for everyone.
It also caused my answers to often differ significantly from the model answers, as I came up with the answer (usually correctly) by deducing it from what I already knew rather than by following the method taught at the course. Sometimes I was penalized for that, sometimes not. There was a significant factor in gambling the peer reviews.
Not attending lectures definitely contributed to me getting bad grades for Algebraic Structures II, for Series, and for Linear Algebra II. This appears contradictory, because I got good grades for Algebraic Structures I and Linear Algebra I despite not attending any lectures there either. The difference was in the combination of course materials + exercises. Good exercises direct the student into studying the relevant things, and good course materials are easy to digest. Still, overall, the time cost by far outweighed the benefit of attending lectures.
For most courses, I tried my best (barring the aforementioned constraints). An exception was Mathematics of Machine Learning I, which was extracurricular for me* (although I am requesting it to be included in my degree), which is why I quit doing exercises for the course mid-way through, when I had calculated that I am already guaranteed at least 3 for the grade; and for the Linear Algebra series, where I never returned extra credits exercises due to them being particularly time-consuming.
*) I also began doing Mathematics of Machine Learning II, but the course was organized very differently compared to the first part, and there was mandatory attendance bullshit that caused me to drop this optional course early on. This is what the poop icon in my listing denotes on that course. There were also a few other poop-marked courses; all of those were courses or exams that I had signed up for, but cancelled for one reason or another.
The trick is not being creative in the traditional sense of creating something unique - have you heard this dudes music ? He can create music but its not up there with high level creators, his computer CGI skills are by definition creative but he is essentially making known objects and systems.
You cant have a horse pulling the cart in many directions. You have to get all your horses lined up and pulling in the direction you want to go - as a consequence, you cant excel in other directions.
So ? To learn. Get organised, focus and go over the material as often as is practicable.
The trick is having a very high IQ. No other trick.
@@newvocabulary hardworking and patience. IQ can be devleopped
@@newvocabulary more importantly pulling from a lifelong bank of knowledge from directly or indirectly related material helps. How does fretting over iq levels help in learning? You are already shooting yourself in the foot by believing that "innate" talent and not hardwork dictates your learning journey. I personally believe that most ppl can learn how to do most things especially if they don't have to be in the forefront of their field and engage with unprecedented problems. Just cause it took someone a few weeks and it took you a year isn't a reason to abandon your passion or to abandon your learning path.
Mr bisqwit I am going to start my pg course in india and I am not even worth the dust beneath your feet but this video inspired me to start studying hard. You are inspiration to many Sir. Please keep uploading videos.
my friend you are worth more than that
This is a great example about how to enjoy life and be happy without chasing the dream of becoming rich with money. Keep learning and be happy ⭐️
God bless you bisqwit, hope you're able to complete your degree quickly, love all your videos.
So nice to watch new videos from you!
When I complimented my high school studies on the internet, breezed through a year worth of school in a month. Taking a course on the internet from the comfort of your home is almost like a video game. Assuming this applies to just about all education the 12 years of mandatory schooling for teenagers could be reduced to 1-2 years. I don't know if this is true of higher learning as well. But it's definitely true that our education system is outdated, we're stuck with the same system they came up with back in the 19th century. (Probably because teachers need jobs)
Wow, after a long time TH-cam has again showed you on my recomeded list and I must say: congratz Bisqwit ☺, keep on going 👍
You are one of my biggest inspirations! Congratulations for all the achievements obtained. One day I would like to see a video of how you manage your studies, because I see it as a great challenge.
Taking on new phases of life is always difficult and wrought with anxiety. However, the highest risks usually have the highest returns. I wish you the best of luck and success with your future studies.
Hi, Bisqwit!!! We all miss your videos!! I know you were studying; so, you're very busy now!! Have a great Christmas and a happy New Year!! God bless you and your family!!
Math+CS+Phys is not a bad foundation for computational chemistry, if you are interested in such endeavors. Plenty of O(N^6) problems with tensor contractions and multidimensional integrals, Fourier transforms, N-dimensional spaces, gradients, Hessians, you name it.
Onnittelut Joel! Tämä video on minulle erittäin inspiroiva.
Two inputs: Topology is pretty useful and can be fun for someone who knows how to code! Have you heard of topological data analysis? It is a great application if one is interested in math and CS (ml particularly!) and it is not hard to learn by yourself as a “hobby” ( book suggestion: Elementary Applied Topology, R. Ghrist).
I also recommend a lot of attention on linear algebra, get comfortable with it! (I recommend Axler’s book: Linear Algebra done right). Linear algebra is not easy and is the bread and butter of our modern tech.
I wish you the best! You inspired me to learn to code years ago, thank you!
At one point when doing peer reviews for Algebraic Structures I, one of the anonymous submissions that I received for reviewing was one where a student had accidentally submitted their exercises for Topology IA, to this course. The exercises looked so boring and difficult that it persuaded me against taking those courses…
I have not actually heard of topological data analysis.
Many congratulations to you. You deserve great respect.
Thank you for being one of the last few on TH-cam who cares about content quality, being humane, being grounded and humble. I'm a 43 year old dad of two, and you are an inspiration to me. And I really look forward to your next password hacking video, those are gold.
Morpheus: “How is he?”
Tank: “8760 hours straight. He’s… a machine.”
No worries, my friend, we are all good at something, but not a single one of us, good at everything. I wish you luck in all that you pursue, but just know, that in this world, there are more people that want to see us fail, than there are those that want to see us succeed.
happy for you ! keep us updated!
You're one of the smartest men in existence, bisqwit. Keep up with the studies, go, and make the world a better place!
Bisqwit, you got this. Great work ethic, keep at it and the world will be yours.
Impressive! I remember being really unprepared when I took the basic physics courses, but it got so much better in the years after
Dude, your work ethic is truly impressive. Kudos.
I love seeing Primitive Technology and Two Minute Papers in your subscriptions list.
Incredible! Congratulations! Looking forward to hear more about it \o/.
Congratulations, very inspiring!
propsit äijälle, sairaan kova veto
keep it up!!, greetings from Peru
Congratulations!! Fantastic results! Any kid would be lucky to have you as a teacher
Hi. Mr B, great video and explicarion of your education path, I dont know how do u do, it s a great achievement in just one year, you must be proud of you. Hope your health is good with all that strees.
you are such an inspiration, Joel
Bae-bracha
בברכה!
(~May you~ be in blessing)
Very inspiring as always! Wish you all success, Master!
It's not really inspiring, quite the opposite actually. Highly intelligent man succeeds where you wont. I'm happy for him, but he's a genetic anomaly that you or I simply will not ever be.
@@newvocabulary That's a bit negative view on things you have there. This kind of attitude might push you behind in the long term.. Bisqwit is a guy who set up a plan for the things he wanted to do in life and follows that plan strictly.
To me he's an example of dedication and focus , not an anomaly.
@@vancedajcg8724 I work hard every single day, it's always frustrating knowing that I'll simply never be intelligent enough to grasp material as fast as others though. I still do highly technical work for a living, but sometimes my turbo-autist contemporaries absolutely baffle me with the amount of information they're able to process, store, and recall without effort. I'm happy they exist, and happy that I exist, however I can't say I live without a bit of jealousy. I'm content knowing that truth despite it's unchangeable reality.
@@newvocabulary I have a tech-leader that fits that description exactly. It feels as unfair how he's able to find out bugs in 10min that I've been stuck around 2h with no progress. And the age gap is just 1year old so i can't help but feeling as it's my fault for not being working hard enough
But to balance things out, they struggle with other aspects of life
Glad to hear you do so well and seeing you upload again. Good luck to you.
You are a genius, keep it up kind sir. All the best in life
Very inspiring! thank you Joel
Man I've been following you for years. Your dedication and spirit had always inspired me. Now I feel like it's time to pursue knowledge after nearly 10 years of software development. Thank you.
it's mind blowing that you were able to complete so many classes in such a short time. wow.
cant wait to see what challenges you take on next! always an inspiration :)
really interesting to see the inner workings of how to teach the teachers, it's not something i'm familiar with and its structure seems really solid. enjoy your time off.
I had the same experience with online classes, although i did finish most of my college subjects at the time i couldn't do both work and school at the same time, i simply am not smart / good enough and the commute also took a toll, with remote classes i have been getting better grades, learning more and overall enjoying the process, take the time you need man, your content is awesome and im glad to see that its going well!
Awesome!! I am finishing my Bachelor CS this year. I hope for the best for you my friend, you really inspire people :D
I remember starting watching your videos when i started my studies. By the time we started with linear algebra I was surprised how much I already understood, simply because I've been passively picking up on stuff from your videos. :)
I’ll be learning Linear Algebra in uni too, do you remember any videos containing Linear Algebra explanations? I’m interested in learning from those videos too.
bisqwit is on the grind. I believe in you
Good luck on your journey!
Good job , very inspiring
Congrats! How did you work through those textbooks so quickly? I imagine you skimmed many things you already knew?
How he did it so quickly? Dense neuro axonal structures and long dendrites, ie very high IQ thanks to winning the genetic lottery in that department. It takes a fairly high IQ to even do it in a regular time frame, an average IQ person simply can not do it at all. Once you learn about genetics you will understand that no one should be praised/judged for their accomplishments/failures since it's just a natural course of events for them. Understanding breeds motivation, it's a self bootstrapping process - you observe a concept -> if you understand it -> you become motivated to further observe the next one -> you grasp more -> motivated -> grasp -> motivated -> etc. If you can't grasp or grasp too slow you're not motivated to invest further effort
@@Ljosi going further, free will doesn't exist
@@maybenot7298 what does that mean?
@@amir3515 ofcourse free will doesn't exist, the universe is deterministic. At every time interval the current state is derived from the previous one. Given a hypothetical supercomputer of adequate computational power available at the moment of the big bang - every subsequent position/state of every particle could have been known upfront
@@Ljosi interesting that it exists though and we feel like we have free will
It's so funny that you spent most of your time on physics because I also have spent more time on physics these last two semesters(a school year in the US) than all my other classes combined! I felt sad when I turned in my last lab because I found Electromagnetism so fascinating. What was your favorite subtopic in physics? Did you enjoy any of it, or was it all stress?
My favorite subtopic was optics. I also enjoyed solving the currents in a classic resistor circuit using matrix calculation.
@@Bisqwit Neat, did you do those by hand? We were allowed calculators because linear algebra was not a prerequisite.
As long as you got an equation group, the exact mathematical method of solving the equation group was irrelevant.
Because our exercises were all done online (PDF files, and you submit a PDF file containing answers either as a document or a scan of photos), there was no way to control whether someone used calculators or e.g. Wolfram Alpha. Of course you still had to justify your answers.
So in summary he went in to the best college in Finnland at 50 years old and got excellent grades because hes just a natural genius and hes programming background.
Genius or not. His ability to focus for long periods of time appears super anomalous.
He was born 1978
he's 50? seriously???
@@levonschaftin3676 Around 40 I think. And no one is ever too old to pursue college
@@klebleonard I didn't say that, the wow was referring to his youthful look.
I really like your "Work and Education History" timeline. How did you make it? It would be an interesting format for a resume.
I used Inkscape to make it.
@@Bisqwit Thanks for sharing, much appreciated!
Of course you aced it you're a genius.
Nice to hear from you Bisqwit.
I would like to mention my studies too:
I got to Germany to study and chose to study math. It was required to have a minor, so i chose mechanical engineering.
The courses that i took were the following in Bachelor: Analysis 1, 2, 3; discrete math 1, 2; linear algebra 1, 2; miniatur math 1, 2; complex analysis, partial differential equations, stochastics, optimizations, algebra 1, numeric 1, differential geometry as well as extra courses: human biologie, ethics in sciences, marketing, japanese 1. In mechanical engineering, i had: technical mechanical 1, 2, 3; fluid mechanic, introduction to mechatronics, modelbuilding and simulations, teamproject, control theory 1; 2 , higher dynamics.
I did 2 masters in each of those fields.
In math, i had: Variational inequalities, calculus of variation 1, 2; partial differential equations 2, optimal control of partial differential equations, machine learning, algebraic multigrid, optimal control of ordinary differential equations, time-continous finance math and a bunch of seminars.
In mechanical engineering, i had stuffs in automobile, robotics and smart systems.
During university, i made a living by programming and this is how i learned about your channel.
Thanks. What do you mean by "did 2 masters in each of those fields"? You got two master’s degrees?
@@Bisqwit Yes.
I hope you enjoyed it!
@@Bisqwit Partly, unfortunately.
Please excuse this rant.
Mathematics got more fun in master because stuffs from bachelor started to get properly used and everything started to make more and more sense. Morever the people in the math faculty were just "better": When i did good things, i would get rewarded and they would be proud for me. Not only that mathematicians are more direct and honest. They are not so sociable but when you talk to one, you get the answer you expect without noise.
In mechanical engineering it was the opposite. In almost every subject i managed to beat the prof at their own game and everytime, they would hate me and fight just to be right. In math, my profs would apologize when they made mistakes. In mechanical engineering, they will justify them.
Not just the profs, the students are like this and this made projects harder. Mechanical engineers are not very intelligent. The study doesn't teach how to find solutions, but how to use preexisting ones, so that when something seems the least out of place, they will assume that the problem is unsolvable. They also have such big egos, people thinking they know everything and blame you for knowing more than them. Many would say: "we are not all mathematicians with mega programming experience". I had the chance to work in the mechanical engineering faculty for a while and it was the same problem. Imagine having a teamlead jealous of you. To whom, everything you say is wrong and everything he says is right. I worked with electrical engineers, informaticians, mathematicians, physicists but mechanical engineers are just the worst.
I studied master mechanical engineering mostly because i was curious, but a lot of the subjects were just grind-work that are useless. Honestly, if i knew how mechanical engineering (master) was going to be, i would not have started it. Mathematic is just better and should have been enough.
That sounds awful. I am sorry that you had to experience it. Thank you for sharing your story. There are indeed cultural differences between disciplines.
another one of your long list of achievements congratulations. I hope you can continue to do online classes that will be more comfortable for you.
Bisqwit, you have that world famous Finnish SISU, and it shows! Congratulations.
Our subscription page looks the same. Great minds think alike!
I hate the ideas of colleges or universities, but I want to congratulate you for actually learning something from this broken system
What’s your problem?
@@Bisqwit i'm against education systems where memorization is the only solution, no practice, just theory
Well, that’s not university you are talking about then.
@@Bisqwit I used to go to one and while we did some labs they were superficial
Well, I can attest that my preferred method of learning is to gain understanding on how things work, and I am very weak at learning by memorization. The results presented in this video, combined with the information from this post, should provide you evidence on how studies at a university actually work, at least where I come from.
This seems quite different from a german university of applied sciences where lots of subjects throw everything into large modules that last an entire semester.
In general, universities of applied sciences operate quite differently. My experience is from the late 1990s so I don’t know how it is nowadays, aside from glancing a study schedule from early 2000s, which left me unimpressed.
If I had known in late 1990s how universities operate, I would have applied back then. My biggest frustration with _any_ studying was rigid scheduling and studies that had nothing to do with the topic.
You don't want to miss the CS master's courses String Processing Algorithms and Data Compression Techniques which are gray in your list. They are really interesting. Full disclosure though: I have been the TA on both of them :).
They are _included_ in my list specifically because I am going to take them :-) Gray because they are not part of curriculum. If I didn’t, they would not be listed unless they are mandatory…
@Bisqwit perhaps consider taking some courses in robotics, with your cs background, it would be really applicable to you and would bring forth tons of possibilities and project ideas. I myself am considering self-studying robotics this summer.
One topic within robotics is inverse kinematics. I find it very difficult. I don’t know if there is a course that can make it palatable.
@@Bisqwit brother having seen u do amazing projects over the years, I dont think it would be too hard for ya to get running with :)
regardless, even I was thinking about ways to avoid the "nasty" parts of this, and basically made my mind up last night that I want to work with virtual robots... in simulators, getting them to do something xd
that would be more realistic for summer xd
for magnetism and RF/Microwave you need a good foundation in linear algebra and multivariable calculus maybe some differential equations too.
Electromagnetism was actually quite heavy on integral calculus.
For example, the Biot-Savart law: B⃗ = µ₀/4π ∮(Idl⃗ × ʳ⃗ / r²)
or this screenshot from the model answer to one of the exercises: i.imgur.com/VkT220L.png
Likewise for Radiation fields & Photons: i.imgur.com/p70Q8tG.png with a touch of some differentials too.
At the moment I’m reading a very interesting book titled Finntopia: What We Can Learn From the World's Happiest Country. Finland fascinates me!
World's happiest pigs in s*
Finland most happiest country? I thought that was Denmark. Finland actually has alot depression because of very little sun.
Finland has dominated that ranking for at least four years straight. Denmark has not been far behind.
@@Bisqwit i stand corrected. I have looked it up. But concidering Finland being the happiest place. Its has pretty high suicide rate among EU countries. Almost the highest. Pretty contradicting data.
Hey Bisqwit! Great video, it's very interesting to see your path through the educational system. I've been a follower of the channel for years, and am also an Associate Professor in Computer Science - I live-stream all my lectures online and put my courses up for free on my TH-cam channel. Some of your videos are so good they have actually inspired parts of lectures in my courses. And your early work on TASvideos has inspired research in my field (video game AI) as well.
Please continue on with your studies, you will be an inspiration to others and you have the talent to really make a difference. If you'd ever like to chat about online teaching, or even pursuing a PhD related to video game programming or game AI, please let me know. Someone with your specialized talents could easily get a PhD and would be a huge benefit to the academic community.
Let's say the truth, Bisqwit isn't an ordinary student or even a PhD for that matter! Have know and met many PhD's in CS/EE with not even half as much as Bisqwit programming skills, talent and ingenuity. and if people disagree? well here is to me! they just like titles and colored ties!
Nice, blessings from Brazil 🇧🇷
Man's reppin' the Dexter's Laboratory accent
His educational background is more complex than the ingredients list from all of the different meals I had last month combined
Do you have the link to the demolision video somewhere, I just cannot believe that the guy swinging the mallet would demolish the whole school by hand instead of using machines in 21 century :)
th-cam.com/video/-QNIXu_12io/w-d-xo.html Here is the video I quoted.
This was the (sort of) celebratory event, albeit sad, for the demolition of the school.
@@Bisqwit hmm, why would the demolition be celebrated
Kids will loose their school and people that worked hard to build this would be sad to see their work demolished
I thought the celebration was weird too as it was a sad event, but I was glad it was organized anyway: It was cathartic to be allowed to walk through _all_ areas inside the school, including areas that were always off-limits to pupils such as the kitchen or the janitor’s warehouse, and to revisit one last time all the places in the school that shaped and defined most of my childhood so long ago, even though some of it had changed slightly during the decades.
When they demolished the school, they built a new one, a bigger and more modern one over the same lot.
As a numerical physicist, I am sad that scientific computing apparently can't be part of your curriculum. That is a course I think you could complete easily if you already have the basics in calculus/linear algebra and that might give you another look at computer science from a purely numerical part. Though I am sure that you already know a lot (maybe more than me :p ) about how numbers are dealt with in a computer, it is still fun and gives (IMHO) a more concrete grasp on what the math/theoretical physics courses teach. Since you already know C, it should go like a breeze. You can still take a look at dedicated books on the topic.
Glad to see you're enjoying your studies. The cat is cute.
The course Scientific Computing I, which you noticed, covers the following topics:
- Basics of programming in Python
- Basics of Jupyter Notebook (interactive frontend to Python)
- Basic commandline commands in Linux
- Basic concepts and methods of statistics, such as least squares fitting
- Elementary knowledge on using databases to find scientific knowledge
- Foundations of creating scientific documents.
I think I’ve got all that covered.
Part two, Scientific Computing II (also a physics course), covers the following:
- Most important aspects of Fortran for scientific computing
- Writing moderate size programs in Fortran
- Compiling a program from its source code
- Experienced in using Linux as a programming environment.
I think I’ve got all that covered too, although instead of Fortran I would use C or C++.
Then there is a separate 10 ECTS course “Numerical Methods in Scientific Computing” which belongs to the master’s programme in materials research.
This covers the most common numerical methods and algorithms, and their strengths and weaknesses, and their use in self-made programs as well as the numerical libraries and programs. The detailed list is:
- Tools, computing environment in Kumpula, visualization
- Basics of numerics: floating point numbers, error sources
- Linear algebra: equations, decompositions, eigenvalue problems
- Nonlinear equations: bisection, secant, Newton
- Interpolation: polynomes, splines, Bezier curves
- Numerical integration: trapeziodal, Romberg, Gauss
- Function minimization: Newton, conjugate gradient, stochastic methods
- Generation of random numbers: linear congruential, shift register, non-uniform random numbers
- Statistical description of data: probability distributions, comparison of data sets
- Modeling of data: linear and nonlinear fitting
- Fourier and wavelet transformations: fast Fourier transform, discreet wavelet transform, applications
- Differential equations: ordinary and partial differential equations
This sounds more like what you described. But it still is not part of any curriculum that I have. I don’t even know what subject could I theoretically group it under.
@@Bisqwit I suspected that the course would also cover introductory aspects that you would obviously already know. Back when I was an undergraduate (and not in Finland actually), the initial focus was more on the numerical aspects (how to solve a problem numerically on a computer, and how it could actually turn wrong) and less on the coding. Fortran and C came only in master years for the numerical methods but we could skip it if we already know about it (and get advanced coding lessons). The master programs seems actually more into what I had in mind. Topics like differential equations, Fourier transform, Linear Algebra algorithms or interpolation are actually very useful in physics and maths, and the subtleties on what is under the hood are often overlooked by students.
Considering the subject, well, I would put it under the umbrella "scientific computing"... which is general but quite vague, I admit. ^^ But anyway, I just saw the grey box with my favorite discipline on it and couldn't help but rant a bit. I am pretty sure that if you get interested, this would be something you would catch up with without problem. The most important thing is that you make your own courses selection and take them at your own (apparently pretty fast) pace.
Update: I did actually complete Scientific Computing I & II this semester. I got 100% points from both courses.
Godard Lord Jesus be with you! That is a lit of studying
I did something like this while at university, studied MSc in mechanical engineering full time, then 50% full-time Japanese courses on top of that, plus 25% Russian evening courses, and worked as a mechanics teacher for younger MSc students. But I kept that up for a year only, and I almost certainly wouldn't be able to do it now, at 20 years older... I hope you can keep it up and finish you plan!
Of course he will Finnish! (sorry...)
This mans destiny in life appears to be growth and utilization of his brain. He seems to thrive on mental challenges and learning quickly. Many of us can only wish to be so adept.
and the educational system in finland is the best. He told he progammed in C with 15. At age 15 we did nothing with computers at school. (ok personally I programmed a little in BASIC)
Later in 12th grade we started in Pascal with things like calculationg Resistors, simple 3 lines of code.Education in germany regarding IT and digital logic, its hillarious.
Companies beg for foreign workfoce...
The education system did absolutely _nothing_ to teach me C, or C++. That was all me. What it did was teach me BASIC and Pascal when I was 14 and 15 respectively. But it did teach us how to use DOS command prompt. Which, mind you, was considered _vital_ back in 1990s, so that is good. Not so much in this millennium.
I sometimes feel I am too stupid for some studies. I really struggle with calculus and gave up my 3-year study of informatics, but still got a job as a software developer doing full stack development. Is it worth giving it a second try sometime far in the future? What mindset must I have to succeed? Any advice?
Are you still active? I notice that your Castlevania II translation site is down. Is everything okay?
Thank you for bringing this to my attention. Looks like my IP address changed again, and I didn’t get the memo. I have now updated the DNS, thanks to your report.
EDIT: Will take about a hour for the changes to propagate.
@@Bisqwit Awesome! I'm scheduling a post about your translation/improvements for our blog, I discovered the site was down while confirming links
Awesome. Let me know of the link to your blog!
@@Bisqwit Sure thing!
So, what might the link be?
Dance instructor... 😳 Wouldn't have anticipated that being on there.
Yeah, neither would I have anticipated that 15 years ago.
09:00 looks like you found someone special😉. I'm happy for you😊.
I remember a video where you were talking about your life and I felt sad you didn't have someone.
Oh no, that’s a friend of mine, who was about 65 years old when that video was recorded, in 2013 (when I was 35). Not a “someone special” in that sense.
how many hours do you study in a day? have a good summer!
Huh, I held some free days, but sometimes I would literally be working round the clock on some exercises. Other exercises might take just a few hours. I had a weekly schedule in each period; I kept track of when is the deadline of a particular thing I had to.
For example, Tuesday for linear algebra and statistics, Friday for logic, Saturday and Sunday for physics.
Oliko nuo differentiaali ja integraalilaskennan kurssit miten haastavia? Entä miten syvällisesti kävit läpi nuo aihealueet lukion kirjoista jos ne kerta parissa viikossa lukaisit läpi ja oliko kenties jo kokemusta niistä entuudestaan?
Ne olivat aika hankalia. Erityisesti minulle jäivät hämärän peittoon epsilon-delta -todistus (joka tuli jo raja-arvojen kurssilla, mutta diffiksessä se oletettiin jo osattuna), sekä likiarvon virheen estimointi. Integraalilaskennan kurssista en odottanut ollenkaan edes pääseväni läpi. Oikeastaan ainoa, mitä viimeksimainitussa oikeasti koin oppineeni oli osamurtokehitelmä. Toisaalta en juuri myöskään osallistunut luennoille. Integrointitekniikat kuten muuttujan vaihto eivät useista yrityksistä huolimatta oikein auenneet. Integraalikurssilla keskityttiin myös funktiojonojen suppenemiseen, teema joka jatkui myös sarjojen kurssilla. Kaikilla matematiikan kursseilla, erityisesti diffiksessä, keskityttiin paljon todistamiseen.
Minulle oli ennestään tuttua mistä integroinnissa ja derivoinnissa oli kyse, mutta derivointikaavoja jouduin opettelemaan, samoin integrointia. Koin paljon oivalluksia kirjojen parissa, esimerkiksi funktion nollakohtien selvittämisestä. Tavoitteenani oli oppia tarpeeksi päästäkseni läpi pääsykokeista, ja siinä onnistuin.
@@Bisqwit we learn that in Viet Nam as kids in high schools.
Why have the title, the description and the subtitles for this video been translated into Swedish? Did you translate them yourself? I think they appear in Swedish for me because I have my language set to Swedish or because I am in Sweden.
I translated them. Why? Whim.
i wonder how much it cost 🤔
I only pay the following, once a year (these two are mandatory):
- Membership of student union: 46 € per year
- Healthcare fee for students in higher education: 71,6 € per year
Studying itself is completely free of cost. Of course, I still need to get income somehow in order to live. This is accomplished by adult education allowance, which is a financial support paid by the employment fund. One can only get it for a total of 15 months in lifetime, which is another reason why I am rushing my studies.
There _are_ some courses I could take that would cost me money. In particular, the basic studies on English, 6 × 5 credits, would cost 1425 €. Because these courses have attendance requirements and because the money would only give the privilege to do the courses during a particular year, I will postpone them by at least a year for now, in order to avoid conflicts with other courses that also have similar requirements, but which are actually part of my degree and which I _can_ reschedule if needed.
My guy is just that guy😮💨
Do you write your super market shopping list in Joe’s editor? 😃
Huh. Well, I don’t usually write shopping lists, but I do write lists sometimes in Joe. If I had to take it with me to the store, I would write it in Colornote instead.
No disrespect for the people who interviewed you but I am 99% sure that you are smarter than all of them combined lol. Anyway congrats and looking forward to see more videos from you!
Aivan mahtavaa!
Hej, det är vi - dina svenska tittare. Vi kommer fortsättningsvis kommentera på svenska i förhoppning att det är dig till någon användning.
Har du koll på de/dem ännu?
SJ-ljudet?
Tack för att du skrivade.
Även om det är intressant att lära sig språk, hoppas jag faktiskt att jag aldrig riktigt behöver använda svenska.
Den svenska SJ-ljudet är ganska annorlunda i finlandssvenska än i rikssvenska. Jag vet inte från vilket perspektiv du skriver. På kursen lär vi oss finlandssvenskt uttal...
@@Bisqwit Har ingen aning om vad finlandssvenskt uttal är, kanske svenska versionen av Mumindalen? Du verkar i alla fall förstå, vilket är mer än vad man kan säga om mig och finska.
Försöker lära mig finska på Duolingo och har bara kommit till minä, sinä. Vad du än lägger manken till kommer du att lyckas med Bisqwit! Jag håller på dig. Matematik och fysik är universalt, svenska är lokalt. Gör din grej, men jag kommer att fortsätta kommentera på svenska. 😉
Ja, finlandssvenska ofta i Sverige kallas Mumindalsvenskan, så har jag hört. Tack so mycket.
Hey Bisqwit can you give more details about the course like are the lessons recorded and you can watch on x2 speed? Are the tests discourse questions or multiple choice.
_Most_ courses had some selection of these ingredients (very few had _all_ of these):
- Pre-made video lectures, usually short, that you could watch at any time of your choosing (VoD), including using fastforward; each video focuses on particular topic
- Live lectures, held in Zoom, where you could ask the lecturer for information, and the lecturer might use tools like Presemo to poll the class; the lecture would be recorded and available as a VoD afterwards (of course without audience participation)
- Exercises, usually calculation heavy, presented as PDF file online, and you have to return your answers as a PDF file (either saved from a word processing program or a collection of photos/scans)
- Peer review: You grade your own exercises and also anonymously two other person’s anonymous exercises. You get extra points for doing so. The points for your own exercise will be an average of your own + peer reviews, unless they diverge too much; in that case, a course assistant grades it and the three reviewers will receive fewer peer review points.
- Online exercises (”STACK”), on Moodle; these are either multi-choice, or questions where you have to fill in a value or a formula. They are automatically graded. Sometimes you can retry infinitely many times, sometimes retry count is limited, sometimes getting it wrong adds penalty so on the 2nd attempt you get fewer points for getting right.
- A self review, where you review your own learning and give a grade to yourself with good written justifications.
- A course exam, held online. This works identically to either the PDF exercises or STACK exercises, but there will not be peer review; only assistants (or automatic in case of STACK) grading.
The course grade is assigned using a weighted sum of these; weights vary. A typical way is ⅓ exercises+reviews and ⅔ course exam.
What video editor do you use to edit your videos? Is it Kdenlive?
Yes, I use kdenlive.
I feel stupid now but inspired at the same time
I just want to see your typing speed..pls LMK
How in the world did you complete fifteen textbooks in 1/1/2 weeks?
Can you simply focus that well? Or did you have some tremendous source of motivation? You’re a hero!
I think he might already have some experience/knowledge of the subjects that they teach in high school (or "lukio" in Finnish) mathematics so it's not really trying to learn 15 books from scratch in 1 ½ weeks. Still admirable pace if he's doing most of the calculations in the books along the way
Well, thirteen textbooks. For the five chemistry books, I got only half-way through with the first book; there was way more memorization and far less understanding than in mathematics, and this is definitely a weak area for me.
For the math books, I skimmed through things I already had an idea how it works or which I could understand right away. It helps that back when my peers were the age of studying that material, decades ago, they talked about it. So I caught some ideas and remembered them.
For things that I was not sure about, I followed through some exercises in the book (usually in my head only, sometimes also in a text editor) until I understood the point.
Do finish universities require approval of the topic? If so start any of your thesis papers as early as possible.
I don’t actually know. Well, I do know that the _master’s_ thesis does require supervision from a professor. I presume thus that it also requires approval of the topic.
The bachelor’s thesis probably does not have such requirements. I will soon find out, as my work on that will begin in September.
As a swede, I don't really understand why it's (still) mandatory in Finland to study Swedish... Sure, some areas in Finland speak Swedish, that's natural I suppose, but mandatory learning it? Is it merely a stubborn remnant from the past that (not enough) people want to get rid of?
Svenska folkpartiet - they always get ~%5 votes. They're almost always in government. I think they've been in opposition only once during my life time. Their only condition to support any government coalition is that government keeps learning Swedish in any educational institute mandatory.
@@fl4shi238 Ok, slightly weird stance to take... But if they only have 5%, I guess it must mean that also others support it.
@@neon-rust Only 5% is 10 seats in parliament. Sometimes enough to make or break the coalition.
They are of course not the only ones who support status quo. The other parties have also their share of Swedish speaking Finns. So the language minority holds proportionally more power than you'd expect based purelly on size of the population.
For them status quo means there's always a subject in schools they and their children won't have any troubles with, but some of the majority population will. That - combined with university programmes in Swedish, where only few who wasn't born to Swedish speaking family are able apply - gives them an academic edge they don't want to lose.
This said; I am not 100% against the current system.
Swede here too. My understanding of it: it is a remnant, but changing the law that Swedish is a mandatory subject wouldn't do much. The key is that Swedish is an official language according to the constitution. Anyone communicating with government services can require communication to be in Swedish, and working for the government thus requires passing a language test. If mandatory Swedish was abolished, the ~5% Swedish-speaking population of Finland would have a huge advantage to all government jobs.
@@Trunkerad Ah, didn't realize it was in the constitution even. That stuff probably takes a while/effort to change...
An average student: takes years to learn all the stuff required to pass the entrance exams
Bisqwit: so I bought a bunch of books and read them over the past week. I passed
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Without suggesting Bisqwit is not a few standard deviations from the mean : as you get older, you eventually "learn to learn" : picking what is essential, what is a technical detail, managing your energy. I don't have the raw energy of my 20's, but I'm much better at managing my efforts and I pick new skills faster.
congrats