I've been reading a lot of random message boards lately, in an effort to do anything that doesn't involve studying for a dreaded math final.
One of the most frustrating thing about reading through a debate online is the frequency with which someone will make a key point and that point goes completely. I guess it's even easier to completely duck a difficult argument online than it is in person.
I hate Green's functions. I'm taking the rest of my phd math requirements in statistics. Since I'm an experimentalist and have no interest in developing numerical models, that has much more use for me than lectures about how great it is to use partial differential equations to model traffic - traffic on a one lane road, no less!
One of the most frustrating thing about reading through a debate online is the frequency with which someone will make a key point and that point goes completely. I guess it's even easier to completely duck a difficult argument online than it is in person.
I hate Green's functions. I'm taking the rest of my phd math requirements in statistics. Since I'm an experimentalist and have no interest in developing numerical models, that has much more use for me than lectures about how great it is to use partial differential equations to model traffic - traffic on a one lane road, no less!