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sounds like a p expensive civil case mostly though.
look, twisted fate tried to gank us
say, where are you going
*fling*
For some reason it is more expensive for me to take out Third Party, Fire and Theft cover than it is to take out Comprehensive cover for a tiny panel van.
Flirting with women, and giving them the sex.
Jacob.
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Oh, the qualifier of "on" is there. Didn't see that.
probably
Have you covered infinite series? Taylor Series (and other expansions) are a neat thing you can do related to functions. EG: It's how a computer or calculator will compute a sine or cosine.
You can write a program that can vary how many terms to include in the series expansion and calculate the speed vs. accuracy tradeoff.
edit: something simpler: try using different easing functions in an animation to see how they affect the overall look of it. EG: A linear vs a quadratic vs a logarithm etc...
The Vac - My Science Fiction Epic
Fortune Pancakes - My Gag-A-Day Comic
Ok good, going to have to report the anime thread, the wrestling thread, and the gay thread for some modding, and its all context so you'll have to read each thread to properly see who needs an infraction.
The third movie is already out? Jesus.
oh yeah i had missed it. i wasn't sure because a lot of younger technical people i've known - especially west coasters - seem to be surprisingly resentful of dressing up or wearing suits.
i guess i kind of understand it on some level, but the sheer vehemence usually leaves me p confused.
Nah we haven't gotten that far. He's going really slow. Real basic stuff.
I shall watch it.
Actually, the trailer looked good, the special effects were pretty damn impressive for a direct to dvd
The Vac - My Science Fiction Epic
Fortune Pancakes - My Gag-A-Day Comic
You watch smallville and glee though, so your opinions are really in question.
it's mostly just a conceptual structure, mostly useful IMO for keeping straight independent variables, dependencies and that sort of thing.
also, you;ll generally use a functional structure in computing, like riemann said
dick
i ain't doin shit. just locking the bunch of them.
Yeah that's how I've always understood it.
Basically you learn about graphing a line in the form of y=(stuff)x
And then they're like hey that's the same as f(x)=(stuff)x
And it goes from being just a slope-intercept form of a line to a concept that can be used in a bunch of ways.
At least that's how it went down in my algebra classes.
If this happens I will send you five american dollars through paypal
The Vac - My Science Fiction Epic
Fortune Pancakes - My Gag-A-Day Comic
I might be up in a bit
I told Jacob this joke the other day and he laughed, and then told me what he hates, so now I've got that too.
Almost live!!!
To this day anytime I see someone with their seatbelt stuck in their door I immediately think of the ballard school of driving.
plus it makes life a little easier to remember differentiation and integration techniques when you can break things down into, like f(g(x)) or f(x)*g(x)
that sort of thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JjoPX42jUU
Ok, even for the basic stuff here is something to think about. Usually functions are thought of as having a single input (eg: a number) and an output (eg: also a number or possibly undefined).
You can also think about a function as a map from one set of many inputs (sometimes called a space) to another set.
For a given function imagine if you fed into it, one at a time, every Real Number. What does the resulting set of numbers look like? EG: consider the funciton f(x) = 1/x. First just consider what happens if you feed into it every number > 0. It takes everything between 0 and 1 and smears them out over the entire rest of the number line and at the same time squashes everything > 1 down into the space between 0 and 1. All of this without skipping any numbers or duplicated any results (eg: it is "isomorphic").
Anyway, thinking of functions not just in terms of single inputs and outputs but in terms of spaces is a big part of differential geometry and topology.
i could moderate the gay thread, and probably the wrestling thread, but the anime thread is just outside my understanding. i just wait until the density of japanese: english words per sentence breaks the 1:3 barrier or until the prepubescent girl panty shots start showing up and then i strike.
Jacob apparently doesn't like the mma thread, file this away will.
And yes Matt that's bill Nye, Almost Live was where bill nye the science guy came from.
Yep.