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Real issue vs Fake Issue
There's a lot of political debate going on about the second wave of Depression Era style big government stimulus and health care reform, and soforth that has been happening in the last few months. The popular debate misses the real issues by about 90 degrees, and i'd like to comment on it all ( Read more... ) -
Research Progress
Well, for those of you interested in such things, here's the story so far ( Read more... ) -
A simple view of financial crisis.
One hears a lot about cause and cure for economic ailments these days. My take on this is based on a Milton Friedmanish view of the effect of the (broader) money supply ( Read more... ) -
Watches + Presentation
I just gave a "15 minute" presentation to my stochastic partial differential equations class.... My suggestion to all those giving timed presentations is ( Read more... ) -
Mathematicians vs Scientists vs Engineers vs Economists
Mathematicians are people who are interested by equations.
Scientists are people who are interested by the phenomena described by equations.
Engineers are people who are interested in the money saved by describing phenomena by equations.
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Today's meeting
Funny thing happened today. I went to my advisor's office to talk about the stochastic PDE class. During the class he looked up several things on the internet. At one point he says "hey that's your livejournal!". apparently he had googled some terms that were similar to ones from this post about the SPDE course and it came up about 3 or 4 on the ( Read more... ) -
I'm taking what will probably be the most challenging math course ever
It's a graduate "Topics in Probability" course on stochastic partial differential equations ( Read more... ) -
Last Final
Today at 7-9 PM is my last final, in dynamics of structures (vibration theory). The test covers a lot of material, and is very conceptual oriented (probably little in the way of calculation, much in the way of derivations and explanations, qualitative answers etc ( Read more... ) -
B2 bomber just buzzed my house at 500ft or so
I didn't get a good picture, but the B2 bomber was very visible directly above my house low enough that you could probably see the pilot if it were inverted (which it wasn't).
Here's a wikipedia image:
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