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My students in S&P have their first problem set due at the end of this week, so here's some examples of the kind of stuff I want them to work on this week. First, the goal: Practice with dot-products, vectors, trig, and using formulas. Time to calculate stuff! <1/n>
Many of the problems are quite dull: Here are some dot-products, practice multiplying and adding. Here are some trig functions (and inverses) to calculate. Here are two points - calculate the Euclidean distance between them. Hopefully this is re-awakening old skills. <2/n>
Next, I almost always introduce them to the formula for calculating visual angle in one way or another. The easier way to do this is to give them the formula and ask them to explain why it is what it is. The point is to practice reasoning about math and talking about it. <3/n>
Alright, time for more comparative color #visionscience, but this time the species is far less well-researched. On Monday, I'm talking to my S&P students about the visual system of the animal below. <1/n>
In case you don't know what that thing is that is the PREDATOR. This alien essentially won the 1980's by being the most ridiculously awesome scary alien I had ever seen by the age of 8 (and I'd seen some stuff by then - trust me). <2/n>
As a grown-up scientist, I also recognize that the Predator provides an opportunity to try making inferences about the visual system of another species given only limited access to its subjective experience. Many have tried other approaches - all have been PREDATORed. <3/n>
