I joined IDEO in 2001 right after graduating from Harvey Mudd College with a bachelor’s degree in engineering. To celebrate my first week at IDEO, all forty-ish members of my location gathered outside on a hot and humid Friday afternoon in a suburban office park. As each person scooped their favorite ice cream flavor, I used a launcher I built during employee onboarding to shoot berries into their bowls. This was the first of many incredibly creative and joyful moments I had throughout the eight years I worked there. But, as I described in Breaking the Trance, it wasn’t long before lighthearted games could not hide the inequities I’d come to experience inside the walls of the company.
What does it mean to have a determinant equal to zero?
it is possible to find another way to solve the system of equations when the determinant is zero without using the inverse of the…