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on Sunday May 08 2016, @11:49PM
from the I-can't-solve-DiffEq-with-a-computer dept.
from the I-can't-solve-DiffEq-with-a-computer dept.
This just in from the front lines of the War on the Unusual:
University of Pennsylvania economics professor Guido Menzio was solving a set of differential equations on a plane departing the Philadelphia airport when the woman next to him surreptitiously passed a note to a flight attendant telling them she thought he was a terrorist because of the strange things he was writing on a pad of paper. The plane returned to the gate where he was questioned. At least this time the pilot had enough sense not to kick him off the flight.
Remember folks, if you see something say something!
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UPenn Professor Solving DiffEQ on Scratchpad Causes Plane to Return to Gate
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Snotnose on Monday May 09 2016, @12:39AM
I'm really glad I graduated in '90, before all this bullshit got to be all to common.
/ diffy-Qs were a real bitch
// wasn't until I took the class after it (heat transfer, etc) that I "got" them
/// this is the wrong forum for slashies, isn't it?
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(Score: 2) by bitstream on Monday May 09 2016, @12:44AM
How does your graduation year makes this terror madness easier to dodge?
(Score: 2) by jimbrooking on Monday May 09 2016, @01:10AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
(Score: 2) by sjames on Monday May 09 2016, @01:17AM
Officer! Officer! There's a slasher in the forum!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 09 2016, @05:20PM
Why do all the officers suddenly seem so alert? They thought you said a flasher...
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 09 2016, @01:30AM
Get out. Diff-eq was all about the right recipes. Either you are lying about being math major or your school sucked.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Monday May 09 2016, @03:24AM
As a CS/Math/Engineering triple major I'll say that if all you got out of *any* math class is "recipes" then either the class sucked, or you did. Any competent idiot can apply equivalencies, it's the comprehension of underlying principles that's actually worth something.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 09 2016, @04:46AM
No, you are either a moron or haven't taken diff-eq. Diff eq basically lists classes of diff eqs for which known recipes can apply. If you actually went past freshmen year and you still haven't figured this out, you should ask for your money back from your lousy excuse of school.
(Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Monday May 09 2016, @06:16AM
Diff eq basically lists classes of diff eqs for which known recipes can apply.
That "teaching" technique is used, but only in nonmathematics classes.
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Monday May 09 2016, @01:08PM
I have a math degree, of course I took DiffEq. And yes, I remember well the massive appendices full of equivalencies and solved forms. But if that's all you got out of the class, then it was a waste of your time - those were just the "cheat sheets" to save you untold hours of tedious grinding.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 09 2016, @01:58PM
There is no coherent set of underlying principles, and that's why there is no general solution to various classes of diff eqs.
You are full of shit.
(Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Monday May 09 2016, @05:54AM
we could summon bevets if you want..
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 09 2016, @02:07PM
the heck is a slashie and what's all this slash nonsense you're doing