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Feb 10, 2012 12:52:48 GMT -5
Post by Virgil Showlion on Feb 10, 2012 12:52:48 GMT -5
It's NOT a part of the DFS, Dr. Choi! Either you're lying, or I can't add worth a... donkey. *RRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!* I trusted you! WHY WON'T THIS WORK!!!!!!!! ? ... ... That is all.
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Feb 10, 2012 12:53:47 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2012 12:53:47 GMT -5
9th grade math confused me too, Virgil. I feel your pain.
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Feb 10, 2012 12:55:38 GMT -5
Post by TD2K on Feb 10, 2012 12:55:38 GMT -5
< pats Virgil on the head >
There was one time that math might have made sense to me but that time is long past.
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Feb 10, 2012 12:55:53 GMT -5
Post by rovo on Feb 10, 2012 12:55:53 GMT -5
OK Sheldon .... calm down and let's discuss it.
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Feb 10, 2012 12:56:12 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2012 12:56:12 GMT -5
Great, a mathematician with a sense of humor.
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Feb 10, 2012 12:56:51 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2012 12:56:51 GMT -5
OK Sheldon .... calm down and let's discuss it. He's not crazy, his mother had him tested.
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Feb 10, 2012 12:59:36 GMT -5
Post by NancysSummerSip on Feb 10, 2012 12:59:36 GMT -5
Virgil, put down the dart gun and the pipe, and just calm down, OK? It's Friday, sweetie. At least on this side of the hemisphere, anyway.
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Feb 10, 2012 13:07:54 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2012 13:07:54 GMT -5
Did you ever hear the one about the scientists lost in the mountains. While on top of the mountain, they got lost and one yelled out, "help, help, we are lost can you help us? Where are we?" After this echoed through the mountains, there was a long pause and a reply, "You are over there, there, there." One scientist turns to the other and says, "He must be a mathematician. The answer took forever, was completely correct and absolutely useless." lol, funny!
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Feb 10, 2012 13:12:14 GMT -5
Post by jarhead1976 on Feb 10, 2012 13:12:14 GMT -5
Don't post that equation. Certain people are highly insulted by Differential or Integral Calculus because they don't know what it is and it is proof you think you are smarter than them. lol , He is.
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Feb 10, 2012 13:16:35 GMT -5
Post by lexxy703 on Feb 10, 2012 13:16:35 GMT -5
Staggers back to the beer thread where thing make more sense
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Feb 10, 2012 13:21:37 GMT -5
Post by Virgil Showlion on Feb 10, 2012 13:21:37 GMT -5
*sigh*
I am now TD2K.
TD, you get my life and I get yours. It will be difficult at first (especially for you, sucka), but even if you suck lint out of people's toes for a living... I'll take it. There's a man outside mowing the lawn right now. He's listening to music and he's happy.
CURSE HIM! Curse that happy man! And curse whoever invented writing! If nobody could write, I'd be out hunting wild elephants now having a gay old time of it rather than figuring out Choi bases.
There's not even any guarantee this work will end up being useful.
Nope. Being TD2K is the life for me. Just... cut off a gypsy in traffic or something, will you?
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Feb 10, 2012 13:36:38 GMT -5
Post by Peace Of Mind on Feb 10, 2012 13:36:38 GMT -5
LMAO, Virgil!!! Sorry, but that's all I understood.
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Feb 10, 2012 13:37:10 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2012 13:37:10 GMT -5
LMAO, Virgil!!! Sorry, but that's all I understood. I think he is complaining about work. Now that I can get on board with.
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Feb 10, 2012 14:00:56 GMT -5
Post by Virgil Showlion on Feb 10, 2012 14:00:56 GMT -5
It's called a "stochastic master equation". It looks nasty, but think of it as an equation that tells you where you're going in the next instant in time based on where you are and a little bit of randomness thrown in.
One is supposed to be able to come up with a slightly more useful representation called the "Kraus representation" an intermediate step of which is called the "Choi representation". But the algorithm I wrote isn't working, and I'm beginning to suspect my own lousy coding isn't at fault.
I'm having to check Choi's proof.
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Feb 10, 2012 14:05:10 GMT -5
Post by jarhead1976 on Feb 10, 2012 14:05:10 GMT -5
So your saying the fault LIES in the EQ 55 and not the theorem ?
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Feb 10, 2012 14:15:28 GMT -5
Post by NancysSummerSip on Feb 10, 2012 14:15:28 GMT -5
Jarhead - a man in uniform who understands math.
<<Swoon>> ;D
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Feb 10, 2012 14:16:35 GMT -5
Post by busymom on Feb 10, 2012 14:16:35 GMT -5
I love Sheldon!! I LOL'd when he cut his finger in the biology lab & passed out last night. ;D Virgil, here, have some chocolate. Or maybe a drink. It IS almost the weekend....
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Feb 10, 2012 14:35:07 GMT -5
Post by TD2K on Feb 10, 2012 14:35:07 GMT -5
So what's the story behind that rat's nest of an equation anyway? It brings me terrible, terrible memories. I still hate calculus with a passion. I didn't mind calculus. That is, until we hit second order differential equations of the undefined type. That nearly killed me and everyone in my class. Except for one guy who was more than slightly weird (wondering what ever happened to Rob?).
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Feb 10, 2012 14:36:37 GMT -5
Post by Peace Of Mind on Feb 10, 2012 14:36:37 GMT -5
So what's the story behind that rat's nest of an equation anyway? It brings me terrible, terrible memories. I still hate calculus with a passion. I didn't mind calculus. That is, until we hit second order differential equations of the undefined type. That nearly killed me and everyone in my class. Except for one guy who was more than slightly weird ( wondering what ever happened to Rob?). He goes by the name Virgil now.
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Feb 10, 2012 14:37:07 GMT -5
Post by TD2K on Feb 10, 2012 14:37:07 GMT -5
but even if you suck lint out of people's toes for a living... I'll take it
I don't make my living from that.
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How are you on designing equipment for the oil and gas industry?
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Feb 10, 2012 14:41:00 GMT -5
Post by rovo on Feb 10, 2012 14:41:00 GMT -5
Oh. That sounds like fun. I could do that.
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Feb 10, 2012 14:47:41 GMT -5
Post by TD2K on Feb 10, 2012 14:47:41 GMT -5
Oh. That sounds like fun. I could do that. Walking into a Refinery with a sign "designed by Rovo", talk about truly scary.
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Feb 10, 2012 14:52:21 GMT -5
Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Feb 10, 2012 14:52:21 GMT -5
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Feb 10, 2012 14:52:59 GMT -5
Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Feb 10, 2012 14:52:59 GMT -5
Make sure your laptop's out of range. ;D
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Feb 10, 2012 14:54:44 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2012 14:54:44 GMT -5
My brain hurts....make it stop
Why oh why would you ever post an equation like that on a Friday, during tax season
I need an aspirin now
Higher math....yikes!
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Feb 10, 2012 15:00:54 GMT -5
Post by rovo on Feb 10, 2012 15:00:54 GMT -5
Oh. That sounds like fun. I could do that. Walking into a Refinery with a sign "designed by Rovo", talk about truly scary. Not so scary. Just about every secondary plastic plant and food processing plant in the world has equipment designed by rovo. ;D
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Feb 10, 2012 15:16:47 GMT -5
Post by Waffle on Feb 10, 2012 15:16:47 GMT -5
So Rovo, you're the Wolowitz to Virgil's Sheldon?
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Feb 10, 2012 15:17:31 GMT -5
Post by rovo on Feb 10, 2012 15:17:31 GMT -5
I'll never tell. ;D
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Feb 10, 2012 15:33:42 GMT -5
Post by Virgil Showlion on Feb 10, 2012 15:33:42 GMT -5
My father worked as an engineer and wound up as a project manager. My family would kid him (good naturedly) because he was the only one in my immediate family who wasn't a 'Dr.' (one medical doctor, two Ph.D's). However, I found out that the year he retired (a few years back) he pulled in just under three times as much as the rest of us combined, not including bonuses or stock options. I've kidded him that chemical engineers don't know anything except how to make Aunt Jemima syrup out of crude oil. He claims electrical engineers don't know anything except how to operate a lightswitch. It's a running gag. So in that light, I'm inclined to say something like... sure I'll take your job. I can handle making Aunt Jemima syrup. (Three times my current salary wouldn't hurt either.) I should mention that I saw a documentary on life in India, where one of the men on video earned a living (a dollar a day, I'd wager, in money terms) by cleaning the toe jam out of passerby's feet. At the time I thought "Please let me never have a job that bad.", but I (truly) have had work on occasion where if a genie promised to complete it for me by the end of the day in exchange for me cleaning out people's toes for 10 hours, I would take him up on the offer without hesitation.
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Feb 10, 2012 15:39:08 GMT -5
Post by NoNamePerson on Feb 10, 2012 15:39:08 GMT -5
Personally, I think mixing numbers and letters is just downright nasty
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