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20:00
now I know why you write $1/(1-\gamma)$
@TedShifrin Neat (I hadn't thought of doing it that way)
@Stan: No. I told you you want to reduce to the usual max/min test which tells us that $0$ is a local maximum of $F\:\Bbb R^n\to\Bbb R$ if the hessian of $\F$ at $0$ is negative-definite.
Oh @Tobias ... I think it works.
@Chris'ssistheartist for my integral over $\Bbb{R}$ of $\frac{1}{(1+x^2)(2+e^{ix}}$ it's $\frac{\pi}{2}(2+e)$
@TedShifrin I agree, it looks like it will work fine
How had you approached it? :)
20:01
@Gato That is another version. You asked me to calculate the one with $1$ instead of $2$.
@TedShifrin Expand $(1+x)(1+y)$ in two ways
@Chris'ssistheartist yes, I said $1+exp{ix}$, sorry.
@Chris'ssistheartist I ask you for help, not to calculate for me :)
Oh, that's easier ... @Tobias. Cute.
@TedShifrin une intégrale avec les résidus pas trop dur mais cool, pour moi ? :P
Pas trop dur? Sais-je ce que ça veut dire? :D
20:03
@TedShifrin I actually find your way simpler
@Gato by real analysis you mean?
(though this other way also works when unity is weakened to all elements being the product of two elements)
Yeah, but I think with that assumption you can prove that there actually is a unique $1$.
I haven't rethought all that yet.
Something doesn't seem right
I don't feel like I get the perpendicular slope from just the reciprocal of the slope with a positive x value.
@Gato: As-tu considéré les problèmes que je t'ai déjà envoyés il y a longtemps?
Draw the picture, @Owatch. Draw slope $2$ and draw slope $-1/2$.
You can put in right triangles and see that it works.
20:06
@TedShifrin No, there need not be a $1$ (for example a simple complex Lie algebra will satisfy the conditions)
Did you change the sign? @Owatch
ah, @Tobias, right. Let me look up the conditions on the problem I'm recalling.
Only for x on the reciprocal
@skillpatrol
20:08
@Owatch Have you never seen the formula m' = -1/m?
@TedShifrin right, j'avais pas tout fait, car des choses étaient trop avancées, je vais essayer $\cos(x)/(1+x^2)^2$, déjà c'est pair, donc j'ai 1 point sur 20 non ? :P
Ah, @Tobias: The problem I had was this. Assume $\cdot$ is associative. Suppose that for all $a,b$ the equations $x\cdot a = b$ and $a\cdot y = b$ have solutions. Then we have a group.
@Chris'ssistheartist no, complex, in real analysis I am very bad, but I like to see some ideas anyway :)
@TedShifrin Ahh, yeah
20:10
:(
It should have been covered in high school
Yup @skull/@skill.
But one needs only draw the right picture, as I keep trying to say. I wish I had a blackboard in here.
Don't recal.
I see it now Ted
@skull/@skill = u/i
I had axis wrong on excel
@MichaelA ... $=-iu$.
Oh, use paper and pencil, @Owatch. Oy.
20:12
You have bested me yet again Ted.
I have just blank paper
So I can't really make good axis
sorry, @MikeMiller, I didn't think about (2) anymore. seems like too much work. I see someone has already posted an answer, but I decided adding my visualization.
Or increments
20:12
You should get practice drawing things roughly to scale, @Owatch. It will help you later on.
Well, I do.
if it doesn't get any vote (i.e., if it's not useful), I'll delete it later on.
I was.
ah, it's Balarka's bedtime :P
Get some graph paper pal :-)
20:13
Things just looked ever so slightly wrong. Which is what had me paranoid.
Use $$f(a)=\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \frac{e^{-a x}}{(1+x^2)(2+e^{bx})} \ dx$$ with the fact that $\displaystyle f''(a)+f(a)= \frac{1}{a-b}+\frac{2}{a}$. Maybe it helps.
I can go buy some.
Ever so slightly is ok ... @Owatch.
Pictures aren't a proof, anyhow. They're for you to understand.
It helps A LOT
@Owatch: You can print some.
20:14
Oh, that's cool, @MichaelA. I made my own in Illustrator some years ago ...
Oh, sweet. I'll print some then.
Thanks for the mini-challenge, @Tobias :)
@TedShifrin Your welcome
Don't want my brain atrophying completely ... just yet.
Have fun making sketches @Owatch :D
To scale
20:17
By the way, when I do that in the third day of my multivariable or linear algebra class, @skill/@skull, none of the students remembers why the slope is the negative reciprocal. So I always show them the picture with the right triangles and this motivates the algebraic definition of dot product.
Great approach Professor @TedShifrin
People remember pictures.
@TedShifrin okie dokie. Danke :)
I have some difficulty
The distance between object A and B is described in terms of a (dx,dy)
It is (100,30).
Object A is stationary, but Object B must move at velocity V
I require object B to move perpendicular to the surface of A.
So, the (direction), it must move is the reciprocal of the distance (dx,dy) with -dx.
But integrating V into the direction is where it becomes a bit more difficult..
@TedShifrin ici $i$ un pole double, to compute the residue it's a big long but I get $-i/4e$,so the integral is $\frac{\pi}{2e}$
V is basically the hypotenuse of the direction described by dx, dy.
As I think of it. So now I must find a way to put it in terms of dx, and dy.
20:38
@Gato by residue theorem, we have that $$\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \frac{1}{(1+x^2)(2+e^{i x})} \ dx=\frac{e \pi }{1+2 e}$$
@Chris'ssistheartist this is what I have no ?
@Gato Isn't this the integral you needed to calculate?
@Gato Mathematica says that my calculations are perfect.
@Chris'ssistheartist Yes, I succeed too :), multumesc.
@Gato I can generalize it as I want. Welcome. :-)
Now, I need to sleep ^^, good night @Chris'ssistheartist
20:43
@Gato Good night.
bonne nuit @Gato
If I got the distance to be (100,30). And then I said that it must go in direction (-30,100) to be perpendicular, than how can I determine a vector who's hypotenuse is 90 from that?
Ah ha, I got it.
Let us say distance (dx, dy) is (100,30). I know I need to go in direction (-30,100) to be perpendicular. This is good. But if I need to go in that direction at 90 units/s. I should have a vector for that too.
So the hypotenuse of the triangle created when you draw (100,30) is the magnitude?
And then you divide your wanted magnitude (90) by that, and multiple both dx, and dy to obtain the appropriate change in x and y to get that.
21:11
$$\int_{-\infty }^{\infty } \frac{1}{\left(x^2+1\right) \left(1+e^{e^{i x}}\right)} \, dx=\frac{\pi }{1+e^{1/e}}$$
Just easy stuff.
BBL
j
$\infty$
e
"In any system in which customers arrive and depart one at a time" / can someone help me to understand this statement? does it mean that(1) there is first an arrival and then a departure, or(2) is it that it arrives one at the time and departs one at a time?
You're doing Poisson random variables?
queuing theory
by the way ted it was a long time ago
how is tennis going
just saying that the people don't clump up ... either in arrival or in departure
what was a long time ago? :D
long time ago i talked to you
21:21
I remember your name ... but no more
you probabably don't remember, anyhow back to the question
Hmm
"In any system in which customers arrive and depart one at a time" then the rate at which arrivals find n = the rate at which departure leave n
Stuff doesn't behave entirely right in my simulator :(
velocity is too high, things spin off into the distance.
that sentence didn't quite make sense, but yeah, Danny
you're probably not scaling right, @Owatch
21:23
the proposition is
"In any system in which customers arrive and depart one at a time"
implies
the rate at which arrivals find n = the rate at which departure leave n
"arrivals find n" ?
Look. All I want to do is have an object move around another object. I have used the well known V = sqrt ( G * M / r) equation to get that speed I need. Yet it slowly spirals outwards.
whoa whoa ... where is that well known?
@TedShifrin they find "n" in the system
they can see n persons in the system
Google "orbit velocity equation", and that pretty much shows up all the time.
21:25
how is the number of people you see a rate, Danny?
It was also taught to me in high school physics.
That's for escape velocity, @Owatch. You'd better know what you're googling.
He's right though
It's the speed required to orbit at a radius $r$
I don't think so.
Ted
@TedShifrin let me find a URL link
to the book i would appriciate if you could explain
21:26
So we're just doing conservation of energy here.
I don't want to be in the middle of both of these.
@Owatch What are you doing exactly ?
thanks @Hippa for taking over
PUT TED BACK
It's fine.
jokes
21:27
I am building a simulator that is supposed to simulate the way objects with mass move in a gravity field.
People sometime call it an n-body simulator I think?
I've done that a while ago :D
oh, a person arriving will see $n$ people there ... and a person departing will leave $n$ people behind.
I am using Velocity Verlet Integration equations to determine the positions of objects each time interval.
ok
And what's the issue ?
21:29
Because they apparently converse energy, which is what I want.
You're only doing two bodies with one fixed, right, @Owatch?
@TedShifrin but does the Proposition mean that : there is first an arrival and then a departure
for reference
The orbital speed of a body, generally a planet, a natural satellite, an artificial satellite, or a multiple star, is the speed at which it orbits around the barycenter of a system, usually around a more massive body. they can be used to refer to either the mean orbital speed, i.e. the average speed as it completes an orbit, or the speed at a particular point in its orbit. The orbital speed at any position in the orbit can be computed from the distance to the central body at that position, and the specific orbital energy, which is independent of position: the kinetic energy is the total energy...
no, nothing sequential like that, Danny
@TedShifrin One is supposed to be fixed, but it is slightly moved by the other depending on the mass of the satellite.
The problem is I placed the satellite at close range, and instead of maintaining a fast but steady orbit, it spiraled outwards.
21:30
@Danny: All they're saying is that two people never arrive together and two people never leave together. But there might be several arrivals and then perhaps a departure, etc.
What initial speed did it get ? What magnitude, what unit vector ? @Owatch
then i don't know how they come to that conclusion
I get the initial speed using V = sqrt(GM/r). Where r is the hypotenuse of the distance vector (dy,dx)
they state in the proof: "in any interval of length T the number of transitions from n + n+1 must equal to within 1 the number from n +1 to n"
why must that be so?
@TedShifrin
The distance vector is (dy,dx). So to go perpendicular to the surface. It must go (-dx,dy)
21:32
because we're talking about the same $n$, @Danny.
what's the initial direction of the velocity?
@Owatch R=r ?
Then, I get the magnitude of (-dx,dy) which is sqrt(dx^2 + dy^2)
@Hippalectryon My bad, it is just r. Fixed it
@Owatch Ok, and what's M ?
So in a particular time interval, we might have several arrivals and several departures. But if we're keeping $n$ people in the room, there must be a departure for every arrival or vice versa.
21:33
Mass of parent object. (Object to be orbited).
= M
It should be the sum of the masses of the two objects
Should it be..
?
Oh.
You're right
@TedShifrin let me think about it, Iam a bit slow
21:34
Well. Then that should be an easy fix.
That's the same author who wrote the probability book I used, @Danny. Sometimes he is confusing.
It probably won't be enough, but it should be better.
Spiral still occurs
But I guess it will be slightly improved.
@TedShifrin ok right now, I am doing a course called "Stochastic processes II" ...
Ok now, doesn't it lose its circular orbit rather slowly ? @Owatch
21:36
It does not.
Doesn't it follow a quasi-circular motion at the beginning ?
Well. It might, but I don't have any line tracing it's path.
Do it and see. Btw what are you coding in ?
I can only observe the distance between it and the parent object increase each pass.
I'm writing this in Objective -C.
Adding line tracing is pretty problematic. I might do so eventually..
It sounds simple to add. But it's been something I've tried putting in months ago without any success. I will try again for testing purposes I guess.
Could you graph the distance to the center in function of t/T where T is the expected period ?
21:39
Graph period over expected period?
Over, say, 20T
Hm. It may be possible yes.
I can log positions.
But they mostly go to the console.
Plus, the position updates many times per second.
I'll write my own code, give me 5 mins.
I'll be back in 20`
@TedShifrin i still don't get it : he says that that is enough that customers arrive and depart one at a time
implies that departure and arrival rates are equal
21:45
But he's talking about rates with the same $n$ ... If more people arrive, $n$ will go up a lot and then to get back to the same $n$, the same number of people will have to depart.
Afternoon, @Ted. I have this strange liquid mixture of mayo, tarragon, lemon juice, salt, pepper, and olive oil. Any ideas what I could do with this? [Probably shouldn't have rushed, the olive oil wasn't needed :P ]
and add chicken broth to that (since it was used to cook chicken breast) xp
22:00
LOL, hi @Clarinet
reduce it a bit, add a bit more acid, maybe, and use it as a salad dressing or marinade for vegetables
@Owatch I get a perfect orbit
@TedShifrin Thanks! Heh, I was trying to make chicken salad for my first time but there ended up being too much liquid remaining
well, the poaching liquid is unrelated to the chicken salad, although I wouldn't object to reducing it (before the mayo) and then whisking some mayo into it and having that be the dressing.
Ugh cooking O_o
@Nickolas: I don't understand your write-up at all, but I haven't figured out the right way to do the problem. However, I think this is a standard topic in standard probability books.
We don't say ugh to you when you show up, @Hippa.
Well, maybe I do.
22:06
@TedShifrin I'm just saying that because I'm awful at cooking q_q
You're smart. If you want to learn, you will.
If I were interested, maybe :-)
If you weren't interested in math, you wouldn't work so hard at it, either.
Huh..
Not sure how you're calculating it.
22:09
I took the earth-moon system for the values
(it's not circular because the scales aren't the same)
Hmm. I do mine differently.
What did you do differently exactly ?
It shouldn't have any effect on it.
Wait
What timestep did you take ?
My satellite affects the parent object too.
22:11
It's negligible if the difference in mass is great enough
10,000 to 1.
Do you still have your problem when the parent object is much much heavier ? If so, the problem lies elsewhere
Yeah, it's as if the parent was not affected with that ratio.
Well. Let me look more at it later. Since I can't right now. I bookmarked the pastern file! so I'll take a look at what I am doing it a bit.
I have to eat, then I have a swimming thing to go to.
Ok :-) I'll probably be here at the same time (and earlier) tomorrow
Thanks!
22:14
Night, guys.
Night @Ted
Night. beware the knight of the night muhahahahahaha owait that's totally lame :/
I'm not quite gone, @Clarinet, but soon. Going to dinner at friends'.
Ah k. Now how to make this acidic... maybe a bit of sugar
Idk
:P
No, no, not sugar. More lemon or a bit of vinegar.
22:15
Oh k
Don't you know any chemistry? :D
You might also use a bit of Dijon mustard in the dressing. It'll help it emulsify.
It's been too long :P
Just don't tell me sodium hydroxide is an acid.
wb @Stan
@TedShifrin But also please don't put that into your food. It will not taste good
22:17
Well, in some cases, it can be :P
oh, @Hippa is the chemistry expert.
@TedShifrin hola!
Looks beautiful. :) Thanks @Ted. That was my first reduction on purpose :P
LOL ...
It's more about taste than looks, though.
@TedShifrin so I was talking to my econ professor, and he was groaning about how laborious writing a textbook is. How long did yours take you on average?
22:19
Oh hell, many years.
Indeed
Yes, that's what he said.
Oh, I was responding to Ted about taste vs. looks
The first draft of the multivariable I did in about a year, but I pilfered much of the linear algebra material from an earlier book.
All the responses make sense ... not to worry.
But I kept adding exercises and revising the text for five years or so before I went to the publisher.
IIRC, you have written 4. Which took the longest?
22:21
Dunno.
I had a coauthor for the linear algebra book.
The diff geo notes have been around for about 10 years and I still revise them in little ways.
@TedShifrin where can i buy your book :)
Iam in sweden ,tough
They're all too expensive, @Danny, except for the free diff geo notes.
Mmm, tastes very good
Yippee @Clarinet
@TedShifrin In France they write them in some months (they're forced to do so) :( no wonder why people think they are terrible
22:22
LOL, @Hippa.
Well, since we have a new education reform with each new president ...
@Danny Where in Sweden?
I've usually taught out of the text four or five times and revised continuously before publishing, @Hippa.
@Hippalectryon Happens in actuarial too.
@Hippalectryon write a textbook in a few month?
22:23
@TobiasKildetoft Stockholm
@Danny Neat. I am in Uppsala (well, at UU, I don't actually live in Uppsala)
@TedShifrin Since I'm in prep school, we haven't used a single book in any subject (except French). I find that as good.
@TobiasKildetoft really, i live in Upplands Väsby, so we are not so far from eachother
@StanShunpike Yep. With the reforms, they have to write the books very quickly so that they can be printed and ready for the upcoming year
@Danny I live in Bålsta, so yeah
22:25
@TobiasKildetoft what do u study
@Danny I am a postdoc
oh really
@Hippalectryon that's interesting. Are they digital?
I do representation theory and categorification
That would make it easy to add / edit
22:25
@StanShunpike nope
We're pretty late in terms of new technolgies in our education system
Wow, that's very inefficient. :/
I wonder if they've heard of LaTeX, @Hippa.
@TedShifrin Hopefully, yes
Well, can't you tell from what you get printed?
I don't have any book with me atm. I don't have my old books anymore O_o
22:29
@TedShifrin okay can you settle a debate we had in my econ study sessions. Is it L-AH-TEK , LAY-TEK or L-AH-TEX?
About 1/2 my students just used the free .pdf file, rather than paying for a $12 printed version.
I say the second, @Stan.
@TedShifrin what about the last statement about $a_n = d_n = 0$ if the overall arrival rate will exceed the overall departure rate
Okay me too
@TedShifrin Our school gave us the books with a financial guarantee (which is why I don't have them anymore)
In Actuarial, if you know LaTeX, you are an asset to any actuarial ed company.
22:30
@Danny: Sorry, I have to leave in a few seconds. Maybe tomorrow ... :)
ok..
Bye, all.
Bye @Ted
bye
22:31
Bon appétit, @Clarinet.
Heh thanks again @Ted
22:47
What do you do when members of your external testing group ask where you put certain App features that don't in fact exist..
You tell them they don't exist?
I have to sneak it in next update.
Oh boy
Tell them you'll have a status update to them in a little bit and work overtime to get it done
Someone mentioned it to me like it was an "oh, by the way" comment.
My sim allows planets and small moons to be played with in a sandbox.
He asked where the stars were
And where he had to go to load and save the "worlds"
:S
Yeah, just tell them you'll get back to them ASAP when you find out
and work overtime to get it done
That's what I would do, at least
22:51
I will put it in.
I already worked overtime this week to refine it.
But it shouldn't be too bad to put that in too.
Well, if it's done, might as well put them in
Cool. Will do then
@AlexClark you there?
@TedShifrin sorry but english is not my first language so some math terms may be poorly translated. What I did is assumed my random variable is following the geometric distribution (since what matters is the number of trials for first success, in this case number of flips to get heads when previously we got heads) then calculated the probability (I hope correctly) and then $E(X) = \sum_{i=1}^{5}E(X_i)$ where $E(X) = \frac{1}{p}$
23:08
@Nickolas Was that the 5-consecutive-heads question?
23:37
@robjohn I discovered a nice integral
@Chris'ssistheartist looks interesting.
@robjohn ooooo, that is nice! When you say interesting, it really is! :-)
@robjohn Some hours ago someone asked a question about a nasty integral, and I said to myself to spend some time in the area of complex analysis. So, I calculated more integrals like this one.
@robjohn In a way I'm a bit anxious about not affecting my real analysis thinking, it's very important for my book. :-)
@Chris'ssistheartist do you use contour integration to solve?
@robjohn It's a more sophisticated approach.
@robjohn Yes, I used contour integration. I do it for some hours, but I hope to cease soon, I'll use the proper complex tools at the proper moment.
But it was fun to play with some tough integrals while using complex tools.
23:53
@Chris'ssistheartist: this was an interesting question.
@robjohn Yeah, I see. Nice the series you got.
@Chris'ssistheartist I am surprised that it has not gotten more answers. I read it before my son and I went out for lunch, and it was still unanswered when we got back.
@robjohn There were some comments there, I suppose there were some people that tried to answer it.
@robjohn It's nice to see in what kind of other situations the series I like can appear.

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