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@can-ned_food The idea of being subpoena'd for a drug screen is ridiculous. Very simply, the company can (even retroactively) make complying with the test a condition of employment, and this isn't a court, so taking the 5th is really nothing more than retracting your application.

makes it very clear

I really like the figure you made that shows the geometric relation between those two Gaussian point-clouds on the IQ plane

@DanielSank Convolutions and kernels are something I have been trying to learn about recently for neural network applications.

I don't really have the background to understand your answer, but the question is very interesting.

@DanielSank WOW !

Yeah, I really like the whole "as he distance to home approaches infinity" deal.

Nice.

i'm a fan of R but i think there are better for stochastics, neh?

@DanielSank yeah. what do you like to use for modeling?

Random walk stochastics, sick.

VERY cool solution, @DanielSank.

He says "show how X" and almost nothing inbetween.

That's really my interest in jackson.

Yeah!!

It changed me!

While, many of the actual math majors were like "uggghh".

Yeah. I took real analysis as an elective and loved it.

yeah!

@BenNiehoff, I am a glutton for punishment.

@DanielSank Noted. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place.

I'm not a physicist, but I love challenging texts.

From many people, I have got the sentiment "after Jackson, my vector calc and problem solving muscles are so strong, I can crunch anything"

@BenNiehoff, That's primarily why I'm interested in it.

Maybe I should reconsider my priorities.

Hmmm..

Really?

Enthused!

hahaha

People come out the other end of the 2nd grad class on Jackson a different person.

It's like Goku training with a stone on his back.

I have heard that from my physics grad student friends and professors, but I have also heard that there is a great reward from pushing through it.

Whereas Jackson just says "ok show how this vector field"

Ch.1 in Zangwill, Mathematical Preliminaries, really helped me brush up on my multivariate vector calculus / fields

I'm actually using Zangwill to help me understand Jackson. I'm glad you suggested it, maybe i'm on the right path.

OH!

I mean, I want Jackson for the challenge, but if there's a more modern text which doesn't rake you against the coals maybe I could get some understanding from it and take another look at Jackson.

Don't tease me.

!!!

Anyway, if anybody has any favorite texts or suggestions for how to get a better grasp on approaching Jackson, hit me.

Watchmen is maybe one of the most "literary" works in the graphic novel medium.

haha

The graphic novel is tops, too.

Brilliant.

Yeah.

Is that why following his notation is so confusing?

I'm glad you said it

PHEW

It seems that largely, we're talking vector calc of real fields, and PDEs in cartesian/ellipisoidal/polar/spherical/cylindrical blah blah blah

I'm working through Griffith.