I first learned about Sam Oser when she covered the Valero release of Hydrogen Cyanide in Houston Neighborhoods. While local papers are too busy licking the boots of the Oil and Gas industry or rank every new gastropub within Houston city limits as a 10/10. She is diligently covering the eviction crisis, the HISD privatization and contract talks, police brutality, falsified flood maps, and all the topics where class, gender, and race intersect within the city. She also hosts a show at All Real Radio called “Unconventional Journalist”, Saturdays 1:30 pm - 2:30 CST.

She was recently in a panel for local organizers and storytellers for the city of Houston, and she will be doing an AMA with us the afternoon (3-4pm CDT) of May 27th.

Post your questions

  • furryanarchy [comrade/them,they/them]
    ·
    3 years ago

    My awful math education from highschool is making all the engineering I'm trying to do difficult. All these engineering guidelines are like "just sin the cos and then use the phi of this angle and multiply the result by this number we pulled out of our ass" and I barely know what any of that is. And they refuse to ever explain if the number comes from some sort of mathematical constant or if it's a number they have decided to settle on for standardization. So far the only method for figuring that out I've found is to cross reference different documents and refactor the equations till they spit out the same measurements.

    Edit: It's seriously frustrating that the shitty school I went to is making things so difficult rn. I'll be cruising along getting a ton of things done and then I find one thing that is supposed to be easier than the stuff I was doing before and it takes me two days because I have to learn a bunch of basic math before I can get started on the actual problem.

    • gwesyjibo [comrade/them]
      ·
      3 years ago

      not that it's a magic bullet but you know about khanacademy right? their videos are basically top-tier explanations of every math topic you can think of