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My quantum mechanics (QM) class is the most frustrating thing in the world. It's simultaneously the most interesting class and the most frustrating. Interesting inherently, but frustrating because, well, I find the lectures inconceivably incoherent. I wish I could have John Baez as a professor. (But Riverside? no thanks.)

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This probability class (Physics 402) I'm in is simultaneously listed as a graduate-level physics course and a sophomore-level math course. Telling, no? I think the whole of this class was taught—in a much more spectacular way, I might add—in three or four lectures of UC Berkeley's CS70.

Shockingly, however, this course just covered something interesting: generating functions! I think Nadia first told me about generating functions.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/jcreed/683620.html

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Kris, Matt, and I went out to dinner with two of the new recruits... it was, of course, hilarious for me at least, but I suspect I will be banned from any further contact with them. Then I got myself lost at the airport much to the annoyance of K and M. I think I am going to go eat some crayons now. The End.

tonight's reading: Category Theory for Computer Scientists