update in a dozen items

[nibot]

1. It turns out that starting a co-op is really a lot of work.

2. I'm going to try to make chiles rellanos tonight. Yum.

3. Canadian roadtrip this weekend, hosted by barks!

3 1/2. Business trip to LIGO / Hanford Site the following weekend. Sadly, no detour to Seattle. Curses.

4. The New York Times is not available for daily delivery in Rochester, NY. Curses.

4 1/2. Link in the above item (Yum, by the way) is for four, who thinks the NYT is strictly a "local New York City paper."

5. Looking forward to coaxing final science results out of my experiment, and being done with it.

6. I received the blue LED's I ordered from Hong Kong. They came to $0.1468 each, which is amazing. Yum.

7. Car has a new starter, but I have a cracked CV boot and a finicky door latch to deal with. Curses.

7 1/2. Thankfully my uncle and cousin will help me with the CV boot.

8. I am working through the book Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics. Yum. Anyone want to join me?

8 1/2. You know you want to.

9. Picked up a copy of Something Wicked This Way Comes at the library thanks to emidala's recommendation. Yum.

10. I have not yet received the part I ordered (ebay) needed to fix my laptop computer, nor the thousand feet of cat6 cable. Curses.

11. My officemate just returned from a month in Greece.

12. I'm absolutely starving. I forgot to pack my lunch, and there's nothing on the UR campus (really). Ergo, I'm going home!

13. Just about any post by inertiacrept could go into best of livejournal.

Comments

[sfllaw.livejournal.com]

Where in Canada are you going?

[nibot.livejournal.com]

Looks like it's near Port Franks, ON (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=port+franks,+on&ll=43.224692,-81.975174&spn=0.238137,0.481407&t=h&hl=en)—southern end of Lake Huron.

[nanomonkey.livejournal.com]

What are the blue LEDs for?

[nibot.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure. Maybe a POV toy of some kind. I also ordered a ATtiny AVR microprocessor and a couple PICs to play with. Waiting for a prototyping breadboard to arrive from Mouser.

[squarkz.livejournal.com]

i was thinking very briefly about biting on #8, but then i looked at the table of contents and saw it uses scheme.

seriously, what?

anyway, it's really the E&M i need serious help with between now and prelims next month. (ack.)

[eigenvalue.livejournal.com]

scheme rules

[nibot.livejournal.com]

I could definitely go in for some E&M. Do you have a proposed course of study?

[nibot.livejournal.com]

BTW, you can almost ignore the Scheme if you want to. In addition to implementing everything in Scheme, they have an unconventional notation for the mathematics. However, their unconventional notation disambiguates all kinds of notational nuances that seem to always trip me up when I try to do anything with partial derivatives, calculus of variations, etc. I mean, when people start doing crazy manipulations with partial derivatives I never know what's going on--like, multiply both sides of an equation by "dy"?? OKAY WHATEVER YOU SAY. So what I appreciated about SICM is that their various derivative operations are clearly defined. I will admit, though, that it has particular appeal to me, since, as a CS-head, they sort of speak my language whereas conventional textbooks don't.

[easwaran.livejournal.com]

I assumed they meant the word "scheme" rather than the language. That is, a locally ringed space that is locally isomorphic to Spec(R) for various rings R.

[nibot.livejournal.com]

nope.

[easwaran.livejournal.com]

If you lived in New York would you support the New York Post?

[nibot.livejournal.com]

Try it sometime.

[nibot.livejournal.com]

or just check http://www.democratandchronicle.com/ and http://www.nytimes.com/ and decide which is more interesting.

i agree that, generally, having thousands of pounds of paper delivered to one's doorstep is wasteful.

[easwaran.livejournal.com]

I found that same article independently!

[nibot.livejournal.com]

I think I got it via eigenvalue.

[inertiacrept.livejournal.com]

You're very good for my self-esteem. You set 'em up, Sara knocks 'em down!

[nibot.livejournal.com]

glad to be of service

[emidala.livejournal.com]

I love that book. unfortunately it is in princeton, otherwise I would sit down and read it right this minute! :)

[cheeseparade.livejournal.com]

so SICM has some scheme in it, does that mean i can read it easily enough if i've already burned through SICP? cuz i might totally join you. it's just that i never got past math 1a (well, and 55) so physics books can be intimidating

[nibot.livejournal.com]

maybe. it's very mathy. but the hard math might be limited to partial derivatives. want to take a look? it's kind of an intimidating book, but what i like is that it doesn't assume you're already familiar with "traditional" notation, which is itself ambiguous and confusing.