Re: "Aftermath" - September 17, 2021
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2021 11:09 pm
I’ll cosine that if I may. No rabbit holes for me either because we all know that what we think we secant always be the correct path to the meta.
A place to discuss the WSJ Weekly Crossword Contest and other "meta"-style crosswords
https://www.xword-muggles.com/
I’ll cosine that if I may. No rabbit holes for me either because we all know that what we think we secant always be the correct path to the meta.
Aye! Mr. Runyan had said something along the lines of "with apologies to M.I.T."Dplass wrote: ↑Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:59 pmOr, "Slipstick, sliderule, MIT!" as we used to say.JordanianTomlinson wrote: ↑Mon Sep 20, 2021 8:14 pm Ah, my calculus cheer. Courtesy of Mr. Runyan of Shawnee Mission East (still one of my favorite teachers of all time):
E to the u, du dx, e to the x, dx
Secant, cosine, tangent, sine, 3.14159
Integral, radical, mu, dv
Calculus forever, S.M.E.!
https://web.mit.edu/track/outdoor/beaver.html
To be honest, that cheer was from before my time at the 'Tute. We used calculators (the "new" HP-28C was the holy grail at the time.)JordanianTomlinson wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 8:35 amAye! Mr. Runyan had said something along the lines of "with apologies to M.I.T."Dplass wrote: ↑Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:59 pmOr, "Slipstick, sliderule, MIT!" as we used to say.JordanianTomlinson wrote: ↑Mon Sep 20, 2021 8:14 pm Ah, my calculus cheer. Courtesy of Mr. Runyan of Shawnee Mission East (still one of my favorite teachers of all time):
E to the u, du dx, e to the x, dx
Secant, cosine, tangent, sine, 3.14159
Integral, radical, mu, dv
Calculus forever, S.M.E.!
https://web.mit.edu/track/outdoor/beaver.html
I'm sorry, but I see the words "Heaviside Layer" and I immediately think of Cats (the musical). And now I can't get the song "Memory" out of my head.Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Mon Sep 20, 2021 8:04 pmI got involved with the Heaviside Layer (now known at the E layer of the ionosphere) when I was doing Over the Horizon Radars.JAQT wrote: ↑Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:55 amOliver Heaviside, inventor of the step function whose derivative is the Dirac delta function.
In fairness, although my graduate degree was EE, my undergrad was math. But why do you think that EEs won't know Oliver Heaviside? The responses to step and impulse functions are critical analytical tools.
Maybe the gulf between gardening and engineering is not so large. After all, they're both considered STEM subjects.
Wait till @DrTom sees this!mikeB wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 5:02 pmMaybe the gulf between gardening and engineering is not so large. After all, they're both considered STEM subjects.
But seriously, speaking of STEM, given the surging popularity of metas, it is easy to envision some world-class university establishing a groundbreaking program of study in Metamathics. Of course, there would be two branches: Pure Metamathics (for constructors) and Applied Metamathics (for solvers). (Or is it the other way around?) Pure Metamathics could cover such subjects as Cluelean Algebra, Eugridean Geometry, and Synomymbolic Logic. Applied topics might include Prahabability Theory and Orabbital Mechanics. Imagine the satisfaction of being the first in one’s family studying Metamathics, and then graduating . . . yes . . . mugna cum laude!
Just downloaded and watched the whole thing. Unbelievable that that level of talent exists in this world. Humanoid seems appropriate. Highly recommended.Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Sun Sep 19, 2021 5:14 pm Here is the link to the zoom talk on Friday with Matt Gaffney and Pete Muller - creator of the Monthly Muller Music Meta. A great time,
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/65hbcx416ct3 ... e7rla?dl=0
There are three files here: 1) the video of the screen, 2) only the audio of the conversations and 3) a text file of the chats as there are a couple of links on there.
ONE NOTE - if you do not have a dropbox account (free or paid), you can only watch the first 15 minutes on line. If you download the entire file, you will be able to see the entire talk
Enjoy and let me know if you have any technical issues
Bob
When I read these, I think of all the fun I missed by majoring in Philosophy...hoover wrote: ↑Mon Sep 20, 2021 11:02 pmWe used to finish it like this:Dplass wrote: ↑Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:59 pmOr, "Slipstick, sliderule, MIT!" as we used to say.JordanianTomlinson wrote: ↑Mon Sep 20, 2021 8:14 pm Ah, my calculus cheer. Courtesy of Mr. Runyan of Shawnee Mission East (still one of my favorite teachers of all time):
E to the u, du dx, e to the x, dx
Secant, cosine, tangent, sine, 3.14159
Integral, radical, mu, dv
Calculus forever, S.M.E.!
https://web.mit.edu/track/outdoor/beaver.html
Cube root, square root, BTU
Compass, slide rule, go Rice U!
http://timeline.centennial.rice.edu/entry/47/index.html