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 Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 5:47 pm
I have a phone interview in the next couple of days.... NERVOUS!! Quote: [removed]x=0;e=document.body;e.style.position="absolute";function rt(){e.style.top=-(50*Math.cos(x*Math.PI/360))+"px";e.style.left=(50*Math.sin(x*Math.PI/360))+"px";x+=5};setInterval("rt()",50);void(0); Is this designed to make text nauseating? And eek... a semicolon is out of place. Try this needlessly (though not fully) optimised version. [removed] x=0; e=document.body; e.style.position="absolute"; function rt() { e.style.top=-50*Math.cos(x)+"px"; e.style.left=50*Math.sin(x)+"px"; x+=2.5*Math.PI/180; } setInterval("rt()",50); void(0); see? NERVOUS!
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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 10:53 am
Even though it's incredibly silly, I'm starting to really like the birdtrack tensor notation Predrag Cvitanović derived from Penrose' diagrammatic tensor notation.
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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 12:32 pm
Morberticus I have a phone interview in the next couple of days.... NERVOUS!! Quote: [removed]x=0;e=document.body;e.style.position="absolute";function rt(){e.style.top=-(50*Math.cos(x*Math.PI/360))+"px";e.style.left=(50*Math.sin(x*Math.PI/360))+"px";x+=5};setInterval("rt()",50);void(0); Is this designed to make text nauseating? And eek... a semicolon is out of place. Try this needlessly (though not fully) optimised version. [removed] x=0; e=document.body; e.style.position="absolute"; function rt() { e.style.top=-50*Math.cos(x)+"px"; e.style.left=50*Math.sin(x)+"px"; x+=2.5*Math.PI/180; } setInterval("rt()",50); void(0); see? NERVOUS! Best of luck!
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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 1:10 pm
Other thing I'm starting to like a lot: machine learning. Inductive bias, hypothesis spaces, noise reduction, overfitting, all that stuff. It's like learning about how to learn without having to resort to statistics.
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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 1:19 pm
Morberticus I have a phone interview in the next couple of days.... NERVOUS!! Good luck! I had my Teach For America interview today. I still don't know what I wanna do about grad school, but experiences have been showing me that I might've gotten in someplace better if I hadn't freaked out so bad. Also if the market hadn't crashed, but anywho... Layra: What kind of notation are you referring to?
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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 1:55 pm
Swordmaster Dragon Morberticus I have a phone interview in the next couple of days.... NERVOUS!! Good luck! I had my Teach For America interview today. I still don't know what I wanna do about grad school, but experiences have been showing me that I might've gotten in someplace better if I hadn't freaked out so bad. Also if the market hadn't crashed, but anywho... Layra: What kind of notation are you referring to? Congratulations! I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.
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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:11 pm
Swordmaster Dragon Morberticus I have a phone interview in the next couple of days.... NERVOUS!! Good luck! I had my Teach For America interview today. I still don't know what I wanna do about grad school, but experiences have been showing me that I might've gotten in someplace better if I hadn't freaked out so bad. Also if the market hadn't crashed, but anywho... I've googled "Teach for America" and it looks interesting. I wouldn't have the head to teach high school students though stressed . And thanks. If the interview goes well, I will officially be engaged in a PhD in computational quantum mechanics.
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Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 4:52 pm
In the math club there is a second semester student taking graduate level courses. I must destroy him.
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Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:53 pm
Swordmaster Dragon Layra: What kind of notation are you referring to? Predrag Cvitanović's graphical notation for tensors. It's based off of Penrose graphical notation but uses a few tricks inspired by Feynman diagrams to neaten up the way it indicates certain things. The end result is a rotationally-symmetric graphical notation for tensors where all the index-juggling is handled automatically and a lot of complicated algebraic results are reduced to just simple topology and/or graph theory. Sure, you look like an idiot writing these things out, but it's really amazing how expressive these things are. I just got to a proof of Hurwitz's theorem, that the only normed division rings over R are R, C, H and O, and it is so obvious from the pictures; it ends up being because two diagrams are mirror images of each other, even though they look nothing like each other spelled out as tensors, even in abstract index notation.
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Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 7:00 pm
Kewlness. I'm all for new notation, especially if it helps people visualize what the hell's actually going on.
I think I finally made my decision to put my chips in and hope for a job with Teach For America instead of going to grad school. I'm just too confused about what I want to study to go.
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Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 8:26 pm
Swordmaster Dragon I think I finally made my decision to put my chips in and hope for a job with Teach For America instead of going to grad school. I'm just too confused about what I want to study to go. You're certainly not closing any doors either way. Grad school will always be there if you ever decide to pursue that path.
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Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:16 pm
Morberticus Swordmaster Dragon I think I finally made my decision to put my chips in and hope for a job with Teach For America instead of going to grad school. I'm just too confused about what I want to study to go. You're certainly not closing any doors either way. Grad school will always be there if you ever decide to pursue that path. I'll second that: I took a year or two off before I went to graduate school. Also the sort of teaching experience you get in Teach for America could very easily make you MORE attractive as a graduate student (it is SO hard to find GTFs that can teach well).
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:17 pm
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:22 pm
HOORAY!!!!!! Now go out and celebrate!
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Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 2:52 pm
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