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8:00 AM
combining numpy and sympy I guess?
 
8:22 AM
hello
 
ay
 
please on finite dimensional normed vectorial space, the continuity is important to fined eigenvalues ?
 
8:38 AM
someone here ?
 
i'm here but i have no clue sorry
 
do you understand French ?
 
par hasard hehe
 
Yep
how would i find the angular rotation of the earth 60 degrees north of the equatoe
 
@shintuku fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeur_spectrale dans cet article
Si E est de dimension finie, tous les endomorphismes de E sont continus et tout endomorphisme de E injectif est bijectif, par conséquent la notion de valeur spectrale se confond avec celle de valeur propre.
pourquoi on a besoin de la continuité
?
 
8:47 AM
s'il n'est pas continu, ça implique que y'a pas de bijection, non?
 
ah bon ? je ne sais pas
 
si t'as une transformation linéaire de A à B, et que A est continu mais pas B, alors tu peux pas avoir de bijection
parce qu'il y aura des valeurs de B qui n'auront pas de représentants dans A
définition de l'injection, qui est un des deux critères de la bijection
 
c'est la surjectivité non ?
 
ah, ouais t'as raison
c'est la surjectivité qui manque, pas nécessairement l'injectivité
 
9:36 AM
@Vrouvrou non, en fait, c'est l'injectivité qui manque: la surjectivité nécessite que chaque membre de B soit associé à un membre de A. Mais l'injectivité necessite que chaque membre de A soit lui seul associé à un membre de B. Si l'injectivité manque, ça veut dire que tu peux avoir deux membres de A pour un membre de B. Alors: s'il n'y a pas de continuité chez B mais il y en a chez A, nécessairement, t'auras plus d'un membre de A pour chaque membre de B.
 
10:14 AM
Je sais un peu de francais. C'est tres bien de voir des gens parler en francais ici.
:)
 
@shintuku mais pour calculer les valeurs propres de T o regarde si T-\lambda id_E est injectif pourquoi on a besoin de la continuité de T ?
@robjohn can you help me about eigenvalue and spectral value on finite dim space
 
ça me dépasse un peu désolé, mais il semble y avoir ça:
In mathematics, operator theory is the study of linear operators on function spaces, beginning with differential operators and integral operators. The operators may be presented abstractly by their characteristics, such as bounded linear operators or closed operators, and consideration may be given to nonlinear operators. The study, which depends heavily on the topology of function spaces, is a branch of functional analysis. If a collection of operators forms an algebra over a field, then it is an operator algebra. The description of operator algebras is part of operator theory. == Single...
section "spectrum of operators"
 
ok thank's
 
y'a aussi l'article "Spectral theory"
qui semble en lien avec tout ça
 
10:36 AM
merci
 
 
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11:38 AM
@JairoA.delRio Welcome to the beautiful world of Apollonian gaskets and Descartes' theorem.
I should modify the code that produced that so it outputs in SVG...
@Vrouvrou Stack Exchange policy is that for reasons of moderation, chat conversations on English language sites should be in English. (Small, well-known things like bonjour are ok). OTOH, a lot of the regulars in this room, including a room owner, can read French...
@shintuku It won't kill you to do a few by hand, unless the function's really ugly... But anyway, you can easily do Hessians in SageMath, which is a giant computer algebra system built on top of Python. You can run SageMath online, so you can use it without having to install anything. If you are already comfortable with Python, you won't have any problems picking up SageMath. You can learn the basics & be doing useful stuff in a matter of hours.
Here's a short Hessian demo I stole from the docs.
 
11:57 AM
wow, what an amazing thing
thanks a lot for the reference!!
 
No worries. I've only been using SageMath since last September. It's so big that it would be pretty hard to become an expert. So just work through the main tutorial, and then dive into the relevant section of the docs when you need to figure out some specific thing.
You can run plain Python on the SageMathCell server, but it does have a few quirks. But I just love being able to write & run Python on my phone.
 
sweet
i just wanted something a bit familiar and this looks like exactly it
 
12:12 PM
There's an example of doing 3D plotting with SageMath at the end of this answer, which uses ephemeris data from JPL. astronomy.stackexchange.com/a/28036/16685
 
holly molly, that is one smooth applet
0 lag
 
@shintuku Yep. You can usually guess how to do stuff, and your guess will be correct. And of course you can learn how stuff works with the usual Python help() function. The Sage docs are pretty good, although they are a bit of a rabbit warren, and occasionally sections aren't fully up to date. But I guess it's impossible to organise that much info in a completely sane way. :)
Here's another cute 3D one:
Apr 1 at 15:31, by PM 2Ring
TIL, that you can arrange 7 cylinders (of identical radii) so that the curved surface of each cylinder touches the curved surfaces of the other 6 cylinders. https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/a/109191/36040
 
wow very smooth too
i don't know, I'm used to 3D lagging on websites
 
The three.js system is very powerful, and Sage only exposes a tiny bit of it. I could make that cylinder thing a lot prettier, coding directly in JavaScript (which can also run in SageMathCell). But I much rather code in Python / Sage. :)
 
@PM2Ring I agree that most of the content on SE is in English, but if I see something in a language I don't understand and think might be interesting/problematic, I find Google Translate useful. Is there a posted StackExchange policy about language requirements? I have seen a lot of non-conclusive discussions on meta, but nothing like a policy statement. If there is one, I would like to know.
 
12:24 PM
@shintuku How about 4D? mikelortega.github.io/tesseract (also done with three.js)
 
woah, extremely neat!
 
@robjohn I'll see if I can find an official statement somewhere. I learned that rule from a couple of mods who were / are ROs in the SO Python room, eg Martijn Pieters. I know there were problems a few years ago on the SO chat network with some (Android ?) programmers persistently chatting in their local language in a particular room.
 
Thanks.
 
How's this? There may be something more FAQ-like.
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A: Disallow languages other than English in chat

Shog9As previously discussed, we cannot effectively moderate non-English chatrooms. If concerns are raised over the appropriateness of a room's conversation, then either the conversation or the entire room is subject to deletion. If you're seeing flags like this raised, re-flag with a mod-only flag ...

So, it's more an attitude of: a bit of non-English is ok, but if things get off the rails & lots of non-English stuff gets flagged, then watch out!
And in the interests of ethnic equality, I don't think it's fair to allow French, but to clamp down on (eg) Gujarati: meta.stackoverflow.com/q/323257/4014959 Those guys love talking in Gujarati, and can get rather passionate in their chats...
 
12:50 PM
@PM2Ring that looks like a nested $(-2,3,6)$ gasket (the outer circle has bend $-2$, the largest inner circle has bend $3$ and the next largest inner circle has bend $6$). Is that correct?
 
1:09 PM
@robjohn Yes, it's nested. I can't remember the exact details: I created that image ~10 years ago. IIRC, I used Python to create the basic gasket(s), and did the nesting by hand (probably using GIMP).
From Meta Stack Exchange: What languages are we allowed to speak in SE chat rooms?, although that's from 2012, there may be something more recent.
 
@PM2Ring I have found a few things around 2017, some around 2013-2014, but most 2012 or before. I agree with Shog9 that we need to be able to moderate the site and SE is going to be held accountable for the content, so the moderators of the room (which includes room owners) should be comfortable with the language used in the room.
However, it is the CMs who are SE employees, and they need to be comfortable with the languages used so that they can moderate things.
@PM2Ring I have a bunch of non-nested gaskets that I created around 2009. I colored by generation and labeled with their bends. Thus, they are not as pretty.
 
1:29 PM
@robjohn I just asked the Meta SE mods: chat.meta.stackexchange.com/rooms/89/tavern-on-the-meta
 
I see
 
@robjohn But they are informative. :) But yeah, that colour scheme's a bit jarring. My Python program uses the now-obsolete GTK2 for the GUI, and lets you choose between various colour parameterizations (like RGB, HSV, HLS) to do the colour interpolations.
 
I might change the function that actually generates the object added to the image so as to make it less informative, but easier on the eyes.
 
1:52 PM
Here's one with discs:
 
it looks like it gave up rendering a little bit soon in the lower left :)
cool images.
 
The small circles get a bit ugly. SVG would definitely look better. And be smaller than PNG.
 
i used to have a program that would do iterations of approximants to space filling curves. i should dig that up.
 
@leslietownes Thanks. The program gives you some control over how deep you want to recurse, and the radius of the smallest circles it renders. But I haven't touched that program in years, so I'm a bit hazy on the details (and I don't feel like booting up my computer to look at my Python code).
I noticed in the transcript a few days ago that you mentioned that they use a starter pistol to obtain the acoustic spectrum of a room, but you weren't sure if that's really true. It is true! I met the acoustician who worked on the upgrades to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, back in 1994. We had some great conversations, and I was a bit sad when he had to return to the USA.
 
hah! that is awesome.
you can see how it might sound too good to be true. particularly if you slip it in after a few exercises in a book involving approximate identities and the dirac functional.
 
2:08 PM
You can get a rough spectrum from any sharp "slap" sound, but a starter pistol gives you a good Dirac delta with plenty of energy.
 
see, now if someone had told me this in high school my life could have turned out different. i would be in the conservatorium right now with my pistol.
 
I guess blind people do it with cane taps.
 
i bet they do. one time when i was a kid i tried to see whether it was possible to orient in a room using sound only. it definitely is. even after about 15 minutes i had a 'feel' for the shape of the room.
 
Our brains have nice circuitry dedicated to mapping 3D resonating chambers to spectra, which gets plenty of use when we're speaking or singing, and also when we're listening to others speak or sing.
OTOH, I must admit that I've occasionally been surprised when I see a photo of a singer, and the shape of their head is radically different to how I've imagined them. :) Of course, that's less likely to happen these days, in the YouTube era.
 
and yet i can't hear the shape of a drum. how do you like that.
 
2:18 PM
Drums can be tricky because you have resonating surfaces that can do complicated things, as well as resonating volumes.
 
i was referencing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_the_shape_of_a_drum, a cool problem with surprisingly simple counterexamples. simple after you think about it long and hard of course.
 
Speaking of which, WP has a bunch of nice anims of drum head resonance modes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… Of course, real orbitals are 3D, not 2D, but they aren't so easy to visualise. ;)
 
those are cool.
there's also that thing you can do by putting sand on a surface and get it into a resonant mode and then you have a fun sand picture.
 
@leslietownes Ah, right. I have seen that page before, in my quest to read everything on WP about how things vibrate when you hit them. There are some great articles about bells in various places online, but a lot of them are paywalled. :(
 
wikipedia is pretty good.
 
2:27 PM
@leslietownes Yep. Chladni plates
The world needs more musical physicists. I'm pretty sure that Albert Baez was a strong singer. I remember reading John Baez saying that Baez family gatherings always have a big sing-along.
 
i did not know that john was related to joan. mind blown.
 
And of course Brian May is an astrophysicist as well as one of the great rock guitarists, and a competent singer (although I don't know if he does much singing these days).
 
2:43 PM
Hello everyone!! I'm trying to show that there is a homomorphism between the free group of $n-1$ elements and $S_n$, the permutation group for $\{1,2,\ldots,n\}$. Any hints on how to start this??
 
@leslietownes :) John's a Stack Exchange member. I interacted with him briefly a while ago on Physics.SE. John was strongly inspired to become a mathematical physicist by childhood conversations with uncle Albert.
 
what is a "free group of $n-1$ elements"? most free groups im aware of are infinite and you can kinda map out of them rather easily by mapping to their generators
 
having said that, it's always mildly depressing to me to learn that professor X is the child or niece/nephew of professor Y. which is not to criticize anybody.
 
@Quin Oh, yes, your terminology is correct, sorry. I'm talking about generating a free group with $n-1$ elements, that is, $\{a_1, a_2, \ldots, a_{n-1}\}$ so $a_1 a_2 a_3^{-1} a_{n-4}$ is a word in this free group
 
quin i can only imagine the n-1 is a number of generators.
and not the number of elements of the group.
 
2:49 PM
gotcha typically we want a presentation of a group to get a map out of the free group into said group. ill need to try to remember a presentation for $S_n$ :)
 
@Quin I'll look into presentation of a group! thx
 
yeah sounds good, thats the thing to do. i looked it up and it seem like it would give it away!
yeah once you have free groups, they satisfy a universal property that makes it very easy to "find" homomorphisms out of them by virtue of specifying a map from the generators to some other group (that is to say, universality gives existence of such a map, but its still rather constructive without this perspective)
 
if you're feeling mischievous, attend the next protest in your city with a sign that says FREE ABELIAN GROUPS
 
@Quin Good hint! It'll definitely help. I guess this is too basic for groups, thanks again. I have to learn all of this today.
@leslietownes hahah
 
best of luck!
 
3:00 PM
Q: What's purple & commutes? A: An abelian grape. — PM 2Ring Aug 22 '17 at 21:43
 
what's yellow normed and complete? a bananach space. note: it helps to use the british pronunciation of 'banana' here, otherwise it's just confusing.
that joke baffled me for years until i realized how you were supposed to pronounce banana. the vowel sound doesn't work right if you use a US accent.
 
@leslietownes There have been some great families of mathematicians / physicists, the most well-known being the Bernoulli's, although they didn't always cooperate... You could write a soap-opera about them, and call it "Weekend at Bernoulli's". :)
 
bernoullis could be a whole column in jeopardy. there are enough of them.
some of my best mentors were members of 'mathematical families.' one even taught in his dad's department. but there is something gross in some people's heads about math talent being implicitly assumed to be hereditary, and treating people who don't have mathematical parents as curiosities.
i read a letter of recommendation once which convinced me that the writer should not be put in front of students. he presented a student as a kind of miracle mutant for having understood math despite having grown up rural and poor. it was disgusting. he meant well.
and yes his dad was a professor.
i think there's two impulses if your parent or grandparent is a famous mathematician. one, go into the family business. two, get well away from the family business.
i've observed this before, but imagine having the last name "gauss" and taking calculus in high school. there would be no end to the mockery.
hey gauss. what's your answer for number 4, gauss. you missed a minus sign there, gauss.
 
3:16 PM
@leslietownes That's terrible. :(
FWIW, Gauss actually forbade his kids from going into mathematics.
Medieval Indian mathematicians did some amazing work in trigonometry, and almost invented calculus. But their mathematical culture was very family-oriented, and they only shared results, not details, with outsiders. And they didn't really have our modern attitude towards proofs. The proof thing was still a bit of an issue in the late 19th / early 20th century. Hardy had great difficulties getting Ramanujan to understand the importance of proofs.
 
did he really? i wonder about that.
that's very funny if he did.
 
i think i remember hearing that he forbade it because he thought they would never be as good as him and so he didnt want them doing it
or something like that
 
i mean, that's fair. they wouldn't be.
 
yeah, but kinda a shame as if they wanted to, why not? seems like a weird extension of his "few, but ripe" philosophy
 
i read an interesting paper once about ramanujan's mistakes. we rightly focus on the insights but he did write down things that weren't true. it seems like there ought to be room for that in math, if we can have more ramanujans.
 
3:19 PM
@leslietownes I've read that he was afraid they couldn't be as good as he was, and didn't want them to taint his reputation. But maybe it was more complicated than that. Or he simply didn't want them to be doomed to live in his shadow.
 
i've decided that i will let my daughter look at my math books but not encourage her to read them. and if things get dire, i will prevent her from working in fields that i regard as gimmicky.
it does seem authoritarian to deprive your relatives of agency. everyone should feel free to be a s--tty mathematician.
gauss is my mathematical great^8-grandfather. he would be ashamed of me.
 
my friend asked my a question "Two cars start driving at the same time, originally with the first car $80$ miles directly north of the second. The first car travels south at a constant rate of $40\frac{\text{mi}}{\text{hr}}$, and the second car travels east at a constant rate of $30 \frac{\text{mi}}{\text{hr}}$. After $1$ hour, how quickly is the distance between the two cars changing?"
I am sort of confused
 
The "living in your parent's shadow" thing can be a pain for entertainers. But some don't seem to mind, eg Ashley Campbell, daughter of Glen. She does her own stuff, but is also happy to sing songs that her dad made famous.
 
I use this model $x^2+(80-y)^2=d^2$
 
i'm grateful to my parents for not having shadows for me to grow up in.
 
3:24 PM
but my friend use $x^2+y^2=d^2$
 
@PM2Ring I heard that back in 1981 in grad school.
 
the distance between the cars is the hypotenuse of a right triangle. you seem to agree on that.
 
initially 2 driver distance traveled is 0
I am confused why his answer is valid 😭
I cannot reason what is flaw in his model
 
either model is ok, but it's what you plug into it. you could shake the right answer out of both equations.
 
i've crushed $\mathbb{R}^n$ on the abscissas and put $\mathbb{R}$ on the ordinates
no one can stop me now
 
3:26 PM
@leslietownes but taking derivative i get different answer
 
after t hours, car one is 80 - 40t miles north of the vertex, or whatever you wanna call it, of the triangle. and car two is 30t miles east of that vertex. i would set it up using the pythagorean theorem but with time very explicitly playing a role as the parameter.
 
I understood lol
 
what a delightfully real-world problem. i can't count the number of times i've gone in one compass direction at the same time that a friend of mine 80 miles directly south of me has gone in another one.
 
indeed
taxicab metric
 
80 miles! what are these people doing so far apart.
you could make this marginally more realistic if you just scaled down to feet instead of miles. my city does have some directly north-south and east-west streets without a lot of traffic lights.
 
3:38 PM
 
people do the dumbest s--- in word problems. walking radially away from streetlights is another one .
hahaha
 
@Omniman Ok. So what number do you get?
 
@PM2Ring 14mi/hr
 
Sounds good to me.
 
after setting up both parameter correctly it is obvious that it is obvious
 
3:40 PM
:)
 
i was doing this just now but the cops pulled me over and said i can't go 40mph down bellflower. i tried to explain about my friend on 7th st, and the purpose of the exercise. they didn't care.
where do i send the bill for the ticket?
 
BTW, it's good to avoid using $d$ as a variable name in differentiation problems. Physicists often use $s$ for distance / displacement.
 
to me it's more like programmer's habit 😅
 
@Omniman Increasing or decreasing?
 
@robjohn ah strictly decreasing
 
3:51 PM
@Omniman okay
 
lol
 
In MathJax, you can do stuff like $\frac{\mathrm{d}d}{\mathrm{d}t}$, but it's a bit tedious, especially on a mobile device. And although purists insist that the differential "d" should not be italic, IMHO it's a bit ugly.
 
after not doing math for a while I don't even remember what monotonic is
@PM2Ring why not use ∂
looks cooler
 
@Omniman Because that's for partial derivatives.
 
I saw some author use it for single variable function too
 
3:55 PM
mathrm.
i am in the anti-mathrm camp. also anti leibniz notation. i rant about this every 36 hours or so.
 
@Omniman Confusing. And slightly weird.
 
after a time $\partial$ the distance $d$ between the cars satifies $d^2 = (80-40\partial)^2 + (30 \partial)^2$. what is $\frac{\mathrm{d} d}{\mathrm{d} \partial}$?
 
I don't mind Leibniz, but I'm happy to agree about mathrm. Annoyingly, we have people on Physics.SE who go around mathrm'ing derivatives.
 
@leslietownes I use \mathrm for operators when I am too lazy to use \operatorname and I consider the $\mathrm{d}$ in integrals part of the operator.
 
one of my favorite math analysis books uses mathrm. they get a special dispensation.
 
4:00 PM
@leslietownes which book?
 
robjohn, i am glad that you noticed my comments were directed squarely at you. :)
analysis, by michael lieb and elliott loss.
 
I hope it is better than rudin
in terms of giving intution
 
i think it is. slightly different coverage.
tis better to have liebed and lossed than never something something.
 
Oh, I agree with the principle that operators ought to be marked differently to variables. I just think it tends to look ugly in derivatives. It's not quite as bad in integrals. OTOH, in physics, we do that thing of putting the dx directly after the integral sign, which mathematicians tend to loathe. ;)
 
see, i can do puns too.
 
4:04 PM
Isn't that a line from "House of the Rising Sum"? ... "And it's been the Rudin of many a poor boy"
 
i'm out of my punning league.
pm: dx after the integral sign is heresy.
 
yes, horrible
they also like to write $\mathrm{d}^3x$, horrible
 
@leslietownes you mean before the integrand? I get confused by that. where does the integrand end?
 
yeah. it's a disaster.
it never does. we're still writing it out.
 
my life as an integrand... looking for a proper $\mathrm{d}$.
 
4:11 PM
one time i emailed lieb or loss, i forget which, about a conjecture in one of their papers. it's false, i said. here's an example, i said. the response was 'where did you come up with this?' i said 'nowhere, really, i had this example from something else and i just ran it through your theorem.'
it was an unprofitable email exchange
 
lol im trying to read the transcript
 
all i can tell you is that your conjecture is broken.
if you have absolutely any follow up questions, i'm as dumb as a brick
 
It's handy for definite multiple integrals. You can tell which limits belong with which variable without jumping back & forth from the start to the end of the integral.
 
and I saw something about the fire marshall and what theyd say and it was funy
 
you can't put 20 cooks in the kitchen. i don't care how quickly it makes them bake the bread, you can't do it. taps the maximum occupancy sign
 
4:12 PM
@leslietownes You can't do it legally
 
it probably violates covid norms as well
 
I just looked at a book from 1969, so pre-TeX. Calculus With Analytic Geometry, by Rees & Sparks. They use italic "d".
 
Again you can't do it legally
 
when i give talks i'm always eager to highlight the availability of extra-legal measures.
latex should have a primitive for integration. where someone supplies their preference and they get dx before the integrand, or after, or mathrm'ed, or whatever. it should be something like \int{integrand}{variable list} and tex takes it from there.
 
@Koro My wife talked to someone who just came back from Montana. They had worn a mask into a shop and the person in charge laughed and said, "those are for the liberals in California".
 
4:16 PM
in all honesty, they certainly are. we're very fond of them.
 
you have quite a lot of rep leslie
wish I had a lot of rep honestly
 
That's the problem. People not taking it seriously :'(
 
i was criticized the other day at the duck pond for wearing a mask. i was not in my full two weeks of post-vaccination yet. i told the person, very politely, to mind their own business. she reacted as though i were the rude one.
 
@robjohn and those who are taking it seriously are being laughed at like this
 
she didn't stop talking, so i told her to shut up. which admittedly, was rude.
 
4:18 PM
@leslietownes Honestly people should keep wearing masks in my opinion
until corona is over but I won't be upset at someone for not wearing one or whatever they do that's their decision to do whatever they want(within the law of course)
 
my daughter, who is too young to be vaccinated, goes to a day care where covid was briefly running rampant. i probably had it last fall and whatever i had was not a joke. people should just calm down and let others do what they are comfortable with. if you're not in someone else's face about it, nobody cares.
 
If someone wants to wear a mask, more power to them. I wear one when the situation dictates, but if someone wants to be extra careful, I have no problem with that. Someone who complains about people wearing masks seems to feel as if the person wearing the mask is telling them they should be, too.
 
Yeah wear one or don't but don't be a jerk about it
 
@robjohn yeah
 
The California regulations are a bit stricter than the CDC recommendation, but since we had some pretty big numbers here, I think that stricter is just fine.
 
4:23 PM
my wife had several students drop out or suspend their education due to deaths at home. it ripped through more than a few communities around here.
 
:'(
 
with 590 thousand deaths in the US, I think that it should not be poo-poo-ed
 
there are also people who can't get vaccinated as easily. one of my best friends is immunocompromised and needs permission from an array of doctors to get a flu shot.
also, i bought a thing of about 50 masks and i've only used about 10 of them. let me get the use of the other 40 masks.
 
@leslietownes Perfectly okay. They need to be careful anyway wherever they go.
 
whatever i had last fall was awful. i couldn't stand up for several days and i had to force myself to eat. i couldn't taste anything.
 
4:29 PM
People here in Australia grumble about wearing masks, but we wear them. Maybe that's why the US covid death rate (per head of population) is almost 60 times the Australian rate...
 
@leslietownes I assume she was not talking about ducks ;-)
 
In my opinion, people should not act like it's over until it actually is over people should keep being careful until their is no major threat
 
a lot of americans are ignorant of the fact that mask wearing in public places, particulartly by people with symptoms, was standard practice in many parts of the world pre-covid.
 
@PM2Ring I think the fact that Australia locked down air flights pretty quickly had a lot to do with it also
 
i have a wonderful set of pictures of baby ducks from that visit. it was compromised only slightly by me telling a stranger to shut up.
 
4:30 PM
Just found a message I sent ages ago kinda funny
in Discussion between Benjamin Hollon and CiurkitboyN, May 11 at 4:31, by CiurkitboyN
When I'm on the computer late at night the world around me becomes dark and unknown and I slowly forget about it lost in the unending amounts of existential crises of the SE network and when I finally go I the world is an unending black void because my eyes are adjusted to the light...
very funny
 
True. We did get an early influx from cruise ships, which let us know how serious it was.
 
ducks
quack
ducks
 
We have a duck pond that has ducks, geese, and turtles in the business park that is down the street from me.
 
our duck pond is similarly supplied with those animals.
we also had a tern, on our last visit. diving for little fish.
 
4:32 PM
It would be a wonderful place to work, but it is like a ghost town there. Quest Diagnostics is the big tenant there.
 
quack
 
the herons here are concentrating on people's personal fish ponds.
 
there's a law firm on the peninsula i hate going to because their whole office park is overrun with geese who s--t on everything.
i have to wash my shoes when i get home.
 
the pond in the business park has no fish, probably because the birds got them all.
@leslietownes Gads... when I walk my dogs there, I have to be extra careful because they consider goose poop to be a delicacy.
 
cropping logs of enormous goose poop out of photos is a common weekend activity for me.
 
4:36 PM
well just searched someone doing same mistakes as my friend and found one on youtube
 
@robjohn You know that math you did for me? that told me how many days away I'd be done in so if I just plug that equation into a spreadsheet and have it add that to whatever date today is it will give me the approximate date right?
 
i go back and forth on whether it is good to keep track of units or not. some of my high school instructors were obsessed with writing units to everything. i get the motivation but don't generally think that it is helpful for computation.
unless dimensional analysis or compatibility of a model with reality is desired, maybe don't write the units. numbers can just be numbers.
this is inspired by the khan video writing "miles" and "miles/hour" in the expressions for y and dy/dt.
 
Leslie: you should make lectures on topology and share with us :)
and on real analysis also
:)
 
I am scared to even watch YouTube tutorial
 
i don't want to compete with ted. i'll make videos on stuff he has not already covered.
 
4:41 PM
@Omniman why?
 
227,406 views and no one pointed out mistake
 
Or may be they did but didn't comment
 
Yeah and did you look at all the comments?
 
there are too many videos, as a general matter, these days. you go searching for some tech support style thing, how do i keep software X from throwing exception Y. instead of typing it in ten lines of a text file, some jerk has made a 5 minute video with no closed captioning.
 
@CiurkitboyN yup
the mistake can be life threatening if it's physics 😅
 
4:45 PM
ok
@Omniman your right it's not there I looked at all the comments
 
what is the mistake? i am not seeing it
 
@leslietownes Well I doubt they did it to be rude but it is annoying when there are no closed captions...
 
5:00 PM
@Quin Thanks for your answer about homomophisms between free and symmetric groups again! Although I gave up on it because I can't give a 20 min talk about something I don't really feel like I know it truly.
 
videos force people to adopt the pacing of whoever is supplying the information. they can be worse than useless if they move too slow or too fast. text lets me choose the speed.
 
@leslietownes Compete away. My days are over! :) I only wish I could have gotten my last diff geo course recorded. Oh well.
 
@TedShifrin me too!
 
Well, the text is free and there, @Quin. Just missing the puns :D
 
@Tangoed anytime! free groups are fairly useful because of group presentations. basically, if you're given the presentation, you can construct a hom as in your initial question
 
5:04 PM
@Quin What makes me feel like shit is that I honestly think it's not a hard concept at all hahaha
 
@TedShifrin ive been reading through it in my free time but i have found i learn better watching lecture (working on an actual problem is still the best for learning but i have yet to find a big concrete project-style problem to test some of this stuff on), but beggars cant be choosers :)
 
Yeah, I agree. I always enjoyed learning from lectures. There are some interesting exercises in my text, so you can always ask for recommendations :)
 
@Tangoed its really not that easy. the conservation of mathematical effort is still at play. you just shove a lot of it under the rug in the definition and construction of free groups
 
I learn best by reading stuff to be honest
 
sounds good! ill likely take you up on that if i every manage to finish some of my more mandatory work early!
 
5:07 PM
anyways Im gonna say goodbye because I honestly have no place in this chat lol
 
mandatory work — how boring :P
@CiurkitboyN Different people learn in different ways. No arguments there.
 
@TedShifrin oh that's not why im leaving the only reason I joined was to ask someone a question but they never responded so...
 
Oh, I was just responding to your point about learning best by reading.
 
oh ok
@robjohn
34 mins ago, by CiurkitboyN
@robjohn You know that math you did for me? that told me how many days away I'd be done in so if I just plug that equation into a spreadsheet and have it add that to whatever date today is it will give me the approximate date right?
 
ok
 
5:11 PM
Hi @robjohn
 
Hey, Ted!
how are things closer to the border?
 
No sudden invading hordes.
 
. o O ( life on the edge )
 
@Quin Yes! Will do things calmly now.
 
I'm right on the Albany/Kensington/Berkeley/El Cerrito border, things are rough here.
 
5:13 PM
lack of invading hordes is good
 
A good Tuesday to all of you. Bye.
 
Yes, copper, one of the most crime-filled neighborhoods in the state.
bye, Tangoed
 
we've had some squirrels invade our territory from slightly south of here.
 
@leslietownes the squirrel races on our roof cause our dogs to go crazy
 
our cat loses her mind. thump thump thump.
 
5:14 PM
I used to have that in my house in Georgia. Horrid squirrels.
 
sometimes they come down to antagonize her at the window.
 
And then there was the evening the bat flew into the living room ...
 
i heard a chicken outside our house this morning. had to call our local swat team.
 
one time as a grad student we caught a bat in evans hall. i don't know what it was doing there.
 
the rats hollow out our oranges on the tree. "Look, I'll go pick the oranges. Hey, who took the insides?!"
 
5:15 PM
it was by prof. lam's office.
 
Dangerous, cuz rabies.
 
i'm not saying noncommutative algebra attracted it. i'm just not discounting the possibility.
 
had my rabies shots already...
 
It had a question about the Campbell-Hausdorff-Bat theorem
 
And the belfry was closed.
 
5:17 PM
@Quin hint:the equation x^2+y^2=s^2 is wrong it should be (?-x)^2+(??-y)^2=s^2. That's why I think I need to be more careful and not blindy follow instructions.
good kinght
 
@Omniman i am not sure. in the video, the origin is at the intersection of the streets. where is the origin in this equation? it seems like it wants to be in two places at once? unless im missing something (not unlikely!)
 
what x is or is not is all a matter of perspective, man.
 
@Quin @omni is there a succinct question here?
 
2 hours ago, by Omni man
my friend asked my a question "Two cars start driving at the same time, originally with the first car $80$ miles directly north of the second. The first car travels south at a constant rate of $40\frac{\text{mi}}{\text{hr}}$, and the second car travels east at a constant rate of $30 \frac{\text{mi}}{\text{hr}}$. After $1$ hour, how quickly is the distance between the two cars changing?"
 
there was a concrete question from a while back. we worked through it and then a video was posted above where there is (maybe?) a mistake. i worked the problem in the video and got the same answer as the video using basically the same method (Setting origin at intersection of two streets) and getting the (maybe wrong) equation $x^2+y^2=s^2$.
yeah thats the original question that started this
 
5:25 PM
Oh, did I miss another that got dropped into the meat grinder?
 
what one decides to call the variables is arbitrary, the important point is to arrange them as specified in the problem. and deal with them consistently.
 
I would put the origin at the original location of the southern car (so your intersection).
We have $x(0)=0$, $y(0)=80$. Yes, we have $s(t)^2 = x(t)^2 + y(t)^2$, so $s(t)s'(t)=x(t)x'(t)+y(t)y'(t)$. We assume that $y'(t)=-40$ and $x'(t)=30$ for all $t$ so that we can compute $x(1)$ and $y(1)$.
So, $s'(1) = (30(30)+40(-40))/50 = -50 mi/hr$.
I don't understand @omni's question marks in his equation.
 
yeah thats exactly what the video does. i do not think there is an error in it. i think the confusion is that if we express $x$ and $y$ in terms of $t$ we can get an expression like $(80-40t)^2+(30t)^2=s^2$
 
@TedShifrin is that a minus sign in there? on the 40
 
Yes @robjohn. Two, in fact. :)
The northern car is heading south.
 
5:30 PM
$900-1600=?$
 
@Quin: I taught my students never to write out equations like that. Just use instantaneous information.
Ooh. My final arithmetic got distracted.
 
hey @TedShifrin, sorry for the ping, just a quick question on $Df(\vec a)$ in your definition on differentiability. Does $Df(\vec a)$ actually just output a scalar?
 
spanks self
 
i agree, but i think this is where the (?-x)^2+(??-y)^2=s^2 is coming from. I think it is mixing up $x$ and the expression for $x$ in terms of $t$ in this way (same for $y$)
 
uh, sorry didn't mean to cause that
 
5:31 PM
The correct answer is $s'(1) = -70/5$.
 
my wife is talking to someone in very broken spanish on the phone. she's incomprehensible. this is goofy. i may have to intervene.
 
@Quin: No, they're putting in explicit values for $x(t)$ and $y(t)$.
 
gotta run
bbl
 
wow, things are rattling this morning!
 
im confusing myself at this point between the problem in chat, and the problem from the video. i do not think the video has an error (at least at this point!)
 
5:37 PM
it was a wire transfer for an admission fee to some kind of online conference offered by a university in mexico that one of her coauthors works at. i assumed it wasn't a scam. i told them to provide a receipt via email. we'll see about that.
 
they dont take card online? seems kinda weird they would need a wire transfer
 
pay by cc surely?
use lesliecoin
 
5:54 PM
it seemed suspicious to me, too. i did offer to pay in lesliecoin.
 

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