Harvard: Don't Come To Cambridge If You're A Conservative

Discussion in 'Politics' started by JamesL, Mar 1, 2013.

  1. Lucrum

    Lucrum

    I've never used calculus in the real world either. I can barely remember what it was supposedly good for.
     
    #11     Mar 1, 2013
  2. pspr

    pspr

    Yeah, I'm pretty indifferent to differential equations any more, too. :D
     
    #12     Mar 1, 2013
  3. they always been indifferent to my efforts to solve them too...
     
    #13     Mar 1, 2013
  4. What's the difference between Calculus and pussy?

    Advanced math students get Calculus.
     
    #14     Mar 1, 2013
  5. One's a pain in the ass to do, the other is a pain in the ass after you do it.:D
     
    #15     Mar 1, 2013
  6. That's good....:D
     
    #16     Mar 1, 2013
  7. I'll send some money to your Paypal account for that. :D :p :) :cool:
     
    #17     Mar 2, 2013
  8. Acceleration based on position, or distance based on acceleration are two of the most useful in aerospace (obviously for nav / avionics).... but the computer doing the calcs would not be using calculus, rather numerical methodz.

    The big fallacy with calculus is you need to start with some equation that describes acceleration or position with respect to time. The only way to get these would be curve fitting data....

    :eek:

    Just like in system trading, engineering all boils down to getting an intelligent fit to data, and knowing when a refit is called for.
     
    #18     Mar 2, 2013