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notes/2024/as-am-5/week-1.md

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+# Week 1
+
+## Lecture 1 (9/30)
+
+- Ralph Ellison: novel bound up with nationhood
+  - What/who are we?
+  - What has been the experience of this particular group?
+  - How did it become this way?
+  - What stops us from attaining the ideal?
+- American writers + artists always return to question of our national
+  collectivity -> successes / failures
+- American flag is abstraction + symbol
+- Same painting, over and over again, different meaning/symbol
+- w/ rise of democracy in US, slavery happened in parallel -> cannot talk about
+  one without the other
+- Use example of Asian American literature as entryway toward understanding
+  larger American / minority literature
+- _Otherness_: radical difference -> Asian is always "foreigner", "strange",
+  "grotesque"
+  - Asians come to US for labor shortage (railroads, etc)
+  - Perceived through 19th century and further as radically different
+- Assimilation: American promise of leaving behind "tradition" -> "modern life"
+  - Theoretical concept -> trickle into daily lives
+- W.E.B. DuBois -> "the problem of the color life" + "double consciousness"
+  - Most useful metaphor: double consciousness
+- Double consciousness -> hybridity: rethinking from two different distinct
+  selves -> combination / overlapping "hybrid consciousness"
+- Does the arc of history bend toward progress?
+- On style: how do stylistic decisions (by writers) shape their thematic arguments?
+  - Leave things out, emphasize, etc
+- On realism, modernism, postmodernism
+- Next: read Erika Lee
+
+## Section (10/04)
+
+-

notes/2024/math-4a/week-2/main.typ

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+#import "@preview/unequivocal-ams:0.1.1": ams-article, theorem, proof
+
+#show: ams-article.with(
+  title: [Week 2],
+  authors: (
+    (
+      name: "Youwen Wu",
+      organization: [University of California, Santa Barbara],
+      email: "youwen@ucsb.edu",
+      url: "https://youwen.dev",
+    ),
+  ),
+  bibliography: bibliography("refs.bib"),
+)
+
+= Vectors, linear combinations, spans, matrix-vector product.
+
+- Consider a whole new way of looking at linear systems
+- Add vectors entrywise, head to tail
+- Multiply vectors via scaling
+- A more flexible way to draw a line. For a line through point $p$, in direction $arrow(d)$, use $arrow(p) + t arrow(d), t in RR$. Intuition: Add a vector $arrow(p)$ pointing to point $p$ and compose a vector pointing in the intended direction $arrow(d)$ head to tail.
+
+A linear combination is
+
+$ arrow(y) = sum_(k=1)^n alpha_n arrow(v)_n $

notes/2024/math-4a/week-2/refs.bib

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+@article{netwok2020,
+  title={At-scale impact of the {Net Wok}: A culinarically holistic investigation of distributed dumplings},
+  author={Astley, Rick and Morris, Linda},
+  journal={Armenian Journal of Proceedings},
+  volume={61},
+  pages={192--219},
+  year=2020,
+  publisher={Automatic Publishing Inc.}
+}

notes/2024/phil-1/week-1.md

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+# Week 1
+
+-