Sisyphus Wins the FAMU BB OPT

[Austintacious]

UTEP 67 - 53 FAMU     (Total Score:  120)
NEXT GAME: vs. NMSU, 12/03/21, Haskins Center, 6 PM
TV:  Stadium         Radio 600

UTEP   Opp   NAME   Differential
68      55   SisyphusMiner   3
65      55   Chanson           4
63      57   Minermojo         8   Total Predicted Score 120
62      50   m12345678u     8   Total Predicted Score  112

1st Tie Breaker:  Total Predicted Score and Actual Total Score differential.  Smallest differential wins.
Mojo wins 3rd with a total score differential of zero (0).

[Minermojo]

I have no idea how you do this but I appreciate your hard work Austin. 

[Austintacious]

I owned a data analysis and data processing business for 25 years before I retired.  I started teaching because I got bored staying at home.  I teach Advanced Quantitative Reasoning in addition to Geometry, Algebra II and Pre-calculus.  Math runs in my blood. 

[liebestraum]

I owned a data analysis and data processing business for 25 years before I retired.  I started teaching because I got bored staying at home.  I teach Advanced Quantitative Reasoning in addition to Geometry, Algebra II and Pre-calculus.  Math runs in my blood.

I wish that AQR class had existed when I taught high school.  I helped some people develop materials for the curriculum and I really loved the types of problems we created.

lieb

[Chanson]

Congrats Sis.

[SisyphusMiner]

Pretty sure you're still #1 though Chans.  You're the man to beat

[Chanson]

I'm pretty sure your #1 signal to me is that middle finger. Oh wait, that's Mojo.

[Minermojo]

I'm pretty sure your #1 signal to me is that middle finger. Oh wait, that's Mojo.

Oh no, not me. I'm a good guy...when I'm asleep.

Austin, Lieb, I hold people that have great math skills in utmost respect. People that can do the math (of all kinds) are the builders of everything that we have. I wish I had the brains to be one but my expertise is merely trying to beat Chans in the OPTs...and still sometimes I lose.

I'm super glad that UTEP prepares its mathematicians to go out into the world, you guys prove it.

[SisyphusMiner]

It?s interesting that this bord has attracted so many mathy people.
A math prof, 2 math teachers, an engineer.

[Chanson]

I actually am in banking & do finance. Money is numbers. Smartest "math-er" I ever met is Dr. Delmar Boyer. Former UTEP professor.

[SisyphusMiner]

Was he the one that wore overalls all the time?

[liebestraum]

Yep.  Had him for two classes.

Side notes:  he and Rabbit19 shared a house and one of the characters in Rabbit?s book (The Rattler of Zacatecas) is named Delmar.  And one time in class, when a student said she didn?t understand whatever he?d just put on the board, he said, ?You have my sympathy? and then kept on lecturing.

lieb

[Austintacious]

I don't remember my math professors' names.  However, I remember many of my engineering professors' names. 

[SisyphusMiner]

Everyone told me to avoid Boyer so I never had him.  I remember taking classes from Lopp and Przymusunski.  It feels like Lesser and Hall too, and maybe Shoemaker and/or Schuster?

I've probably butchered the spelling of some of these names.

I think I had Hall for Cal 3.  Whoever it was, they were tough as hell but I finally "got it".  I had really struggled with Cal 2, and had dropped it at least once, maybe twice.  But after Cal 3, I breezed through linear algebra, discrete mathematics, and differential equations.   Also the more math oriented EE classes like digital signal processing which was mainly about Fourier Transforms, and then probability and statistics.  I also took combinatorics, but I don't recall if that was math dept or eng dept.

[Austintacious]

My Intro to Engineering class we had a professor who lived next door to my aunt.  He would ask, "who's majoring in electrical engineering?  Okay, you, turn off the lights!"  His name was similar to "retalin", the ADHD medication.