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 Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 6:09 am
I got some really cool old physics books from a used book sale. Now, if only I could understand them.
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Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 2:50 pm
I had done that once, getting old physics books, but they turned out to be mostly a novelty. Physics is hard enough, but any book that's too old uses English I'm not used to and that just complicates things. (Common language really does evolve quickly.)
In other news, my old Windows computer got a nasty virus, so I installed Ubuntu. I no longer own any Microsoft product, including software! I do have an iPod though, damn...
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Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 6:50 am
Swordmaster Dragon I had done that once, getting old physics books, but they turned out to be mostly a novelty. Physics is hard enough, but any book that's too old uses English I'm not used to and that just complicates things. (Common language really does evolve quickly.) In other news, my old Windows computer got a nasty virus, so I installed Ubuntu. I no longer own any Microsoft product, including software! I do have an iPod though, damn... The language thing isn't really a problem but just time and attention span. I'm pretty good with languages and I like to research older physics results. Anyway, I should probably get Linux or something but I'm too used to windows. razz
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Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 4:05 am
My correlation energy calculation won't converge!! gonk I've been sitting on it for three days now.
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Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:08 am
I continue to be baffled by how people are impressed by basic quantum mechanics.
DATING IS SO MUCH HARDER.
ASFKHSDJSDLFJSKLFJSKLJFDGRAAAGHRAAAGHRAAAAAAAAAAAGHADLFJSD
Also my GPA is dreadful and I am in my second semester of sophomore year.
On the upside, I start taking grad level classes next semester. I am afraid for grad school though. I am not sure what kind of institutions I can get into from Purdue University.
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Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 11:05 pm
I hate algebraic topology. What the ******** is a spectral sequence? I mean, I get the basic idea: you take homology/cohomology until it stabilizes, but the actual definition is just wtf.
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Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 7:39 am
Hello, everybody!!!! Anyone remember me??? mrgreen
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Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 7:04 pm
What was the last thing I posted? I don't remember.
Anyway, point is, I GOT INTO GRAD SCHOOLS!
MIT for climate physics and environmental engineering (hydrology)
Tufts for a dual master's in environmental engineering and urban and environmental policy
UW for enviro engineering and atmospheric physics
Now I just have to make a decision...
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Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 3:09 am
Yay! We've finally gotten the Standard Model group! And it only took one class after the semester officially finished.
Nevermind that the SU(5) compactification in which we found the SM group has been disproven, if I remember correctly. We've finally gotten to some recognizable physics! By which I mean vague hints at recognizable physics; we haven't actually gotten anything resembling the standard model itself, only an occurrence of (SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1))/Z6 as the low-energy affective group derived from a compactification+symmetry breaking. But that's pretty good, right?
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Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 9:58 pm
Layra-chan Yay! We've finally gotten the Standard Model group! And it only took one class after the semester officially finished. Nevermind that the SU(5) compactification in which we found the SM group has been disproven, if I remember correctly. We've finally gotten to some recognizable physics! By which I mean vague hints at recognizable physics; we haven't actually gotten anything resembling the standard model itself, only an occurrence of (SU(3)xSU(3)xU(1))/ Z6 as the low-energy affective group derived from a compactification+symmetry breaking. But that's pretty good, right? Any time you end a question with a comma followed by "right," the answer is no.
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Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 8:25 am
Who would have thought 1/|x| could be such a hassle.
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Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 11:14 pm
I learned today that if you graph both y=√x and y=-√x on the same plane, you will get a horizontal parabola. How very interesting. I never thought it possible.
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Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 4:19 am
I hate algebra. I hate algebraic topology, I hate algebraic geometry, and I hate algebra.
The only "algebra" I can stand is Lie algebra, because that's mostly differential geometry and vector fuzzles.
Friggin sheaves.
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Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 9:02 pm
Morberticus My correlation energy calculation won't converge!! gonk I've been sitting on it for three days now. *pats* I have a thesis to write in a month. Fun times.
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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 1:38 pm
I'm back again! Maybe. Haven't decided.
Point is, I'm finally starting some new projects at work. Statistics ftw! Honestly, I'm having a lot of fun learning about stochastic processes and statistical mechanics, which I never thought was possible. (Freaking real analysis, I hate you so much.) And I've never taken a proper stats course since high school, so it's easy and it feels like I'm learning tons.
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