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the one-line secret to ordinary diff eq

By gzt (Thu Mar 16, 2006 at 11:17:09 AM EST) (all tags)

So I have a test in it in a couple hours. Is there some easy one-line secret to ODEs? With some other things, like beginning undergrad complex analysis, there's just a couple easy tricks that will pretty much solve everything. With easy undergrad ODEs, it seems about the same way, but I can't quite put my finger on it.

I spent a bit of last night reading about Carthusians because I heard of Into Great Silence and want to see it. It'll be like that penguin film. I'm also planning on taking a course on "Early Monasticism" as long as it isn't about gender relations in 4th century Syria. Politics, nationalism, factionalism, sure, I can dig that, but gender relations is a bit much.

The anguish of space-time! Listening to Apparat Organ Quartet again. Need more Icelandic electric organ music in my life.

I need more of a lot of things in my life: pirates, order, cleanliness, justice. I need a bit less of other things: that bastard roommating infidel, my own failings, this damned internet.

Stereo! Rock and roll!

I'd better roll, this is getting negligent.

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Yes by DesiredUsername (2.00 / 0) #1 Thu Mar 16, 2006 at 11:18:47 AM EST

Don't cross the streams. Think "total protonic reversal".

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Pirates! is a fun game by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #2 Thu Mar 16, 2006 at 11:33:44 AM EST

though my four year old just isn't very bloodthirsty. KMart has the cheapest sets, $9.99 for four packs.

What sort of game is it? by Forbidden (2.00 / 0) #9 Thu Mar 16, 2006 at 04:33:20 PM EST

How much strategy is involved?

I've seen the little models and stuff, and was a bit interested, but have no one to play it with.

You once was.
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It's pretty light by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #10 Thu Mar 16, 2006 at 09:01:03 PM EST

but fun, it's got the collectible thing going, the best pieces are hard to get and you have to buy lots of packs to get them, but you can have fun with 4 packs or so. It's listed on board game geek as Pirates of the Spanish Main, and the rcent kuro5hin article made me pick it up.

I mostly play with myself, but I'm trying to get nine year old interested.

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What's the objective? Is there any game it most by Forbidden (2.00 / 0) #11 Thu Mar 16, 2006 at 09:06:51 PM EST

Resembles?

You once was.
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: To try and get the most gold by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #12 Fri Mar 17, 2006 at 06:36:51 AM EST

you set up a bunch of islands, each player uses one as a home base, and you try to sail to the others and get gold, and probably shoot at your competitors. It's really a minituare game, too. Read the reviews on boardgamegeek, they come from people who have actually played it against other people.

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When I was a physics undergrad by komet (2.00 / 0) #3 Thu Mar 16, 2006 at 11:35:51 AM EST

the most important lesson I learned was that it is sub-optimal to solve differential equations while sober.

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I have a PhD in physics by joh3n (2.00 / 0) #4 Thu Mar 16, 2006 at 11:53:14 AM EST

And your statement is truer than you know

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I've always suspected that physicists go around by ObviousTroll (2.00 / 0) #6 Thu Mar 16, 2006 at 12:37:57 PM EST

at least half-plastered.

I mean, strange, charm and beauty? Come on!

Plus, Feinman would have made an incredible real estate salesman. I've listened to tapes of him, I read QED and everything he says makes perfect sense while he's saying it - but somehow I can never remember any of it.

The doctor said it was the worst case of cookie-blindness he'd ever seen.
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Indeed by joh3n (2.00 / 0) #7 Thu Mar 16, 2006 at 01:45:26 PM EST

Feynman's lectures follow the Chinese Food principle: tastes great going down, but 20 minutes later, you wonder if you ate anything at all.

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: Strangely enough by Forbidden (4.00 / 1) #8 Thu Mar 16, 2006 at 04:32:38 PM EST

This is true with Chinese women, as well.
You once was.
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Yes! by gzt (2.00 / 0) #5 Thu Mar 16, 2006 at 12:03:02 PM EST

there's a reason it's been five years since i've studied this crap.

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