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Sunday, 01 November 2009

Saturday, 31 October 2009

  • my current state of mind

    Religion. i haven't been posting on religion as much as i used to. millions of people are praying for their god to cure an amputee, but that's not happening.

    Calculus. since i moved to Oregon, I've made learning calculus and programming a priority. i want to write about the definition of the derivative and anti-integral in a future post. since i came to Oregon I've been studying calculus and since I've been out of high school, i've learned way more about the subject than when I was in class. i think what helped the most were the DVDs by a professor at the University of Austin. He had some sweet analogies describing the tangent line to a point and describing the limit that I wish my teacher in school used.

    Programming. i've laid of programming ever since i developed my philosophy of c++. i was satisfied enough with my understanding of programming languages that I took a break. before I had a lot of trouble understanding basic things such as the function of 'constructors' in c++.



Tuesday, 15 September 2009

Friday, 28 August 2009

  • Calculus

    I don't get access to the internet very often. The closest thing I got to internet is the text messages I get from twitter. My pass time is studying calculus. I'm starting to understand calculus a lot more than I did in high school. The derivative of a function is the rate of change of the function. The integral is the sum of the products of all the rates of changes and little changes  time  of  an independent variable. The derivative is also the tangent line to any point on the graph of the function; the integral is the area under the graph of any function.

    I've been learning with Calculus Made Clear films. All basics come in 8 hours of film. I like the films because they include a lot of examples of how aspects of calculus may be applied to solve "real life" problems. I think studying math solely from the abstract is more difficult than learning how the same math can be applied to different real life problems. One interesting example: what width of a rectangle provides the most area given that 3 sides of the rectangle sum to 600 units of perimeter? Another example I need to review myself: if there was a floor with parallel lines and the distance between those lines was equal to the length of a stick, what are the odds that the stick will hit a line once you throw it on the floor?

    I'm not sure how calculus integrates into programming yet (pardon the pun). I haven't been studying C++ alongside calculus, but I plan on getting back to programming once I'm confident in my understanding of calculus.




Friday, 10 July 2009

  • The Future Please

    I wish I could live 'til I chose o die. I don't want to miss out on the future. Who knows what the future has to bring but I want to be there when we fall (no pun intended until now) or when we rise to different planets. If I couldn't take anyone with me into a life of immortality, watching loved ones die would be sad, but I'll have enough time to get over it. I asked my girlfriend if she would go immortal and she said she couldn't bare watching her family and friends die. The first thought that came to mind was that one can always make new friends, and she should know since she's moved so many times in her life and has had to make new friends. I never moved much but I never did make many friends. Making friends was a bit harder for me since I moved from an the U.S. to a Spanish speaking country and I didn't pick up the the language as easily. I isolated my social life to the very few people that new English at my school and didn't dedicate much energy to perfecting my Spanish or strengthening relationships with peers. I'm for the future for the technology. I hear in 5 years, the petabyte will be available at 700$. I guess the petabyte means one day we'll be posting youtube videos in blue ray. Seeing how things like the Kindle and the Iphone make getting information so much easier, I can't wait to see what new things will be invented that will make getting information even easier. I heard someone from Google mention retenal projection. I want to be there in 2666 when everyone expects the world to end and be there in 2999 when ever expects the world to end again and be there to remind everyone about how I was there when people thought it was going to end in 1999 and 2012.

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