Cambridge Chat (previously New Cambridge Students Entry 2004)

Camford

DEs are too simple. For this one, you need a Chaos system :s:

. So yes, bring on the FRACTALS!!! (Woot? the 2.54th dimension? Are you mad?)

Cool - that's where complexity theory comes in then. I don't think the system is itself purely chaotic, it is in fact, to my knowledge, maintained at the edge of chaos. That is, any pertubation brings about large changes in the system.
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Steveee

Since coming to university I've done about two hours worth of work. I've ignored my examples sheets, and missed a good proportion of lectures.

If you modelled my learning cycle in a DE, then you'd have to stick a big negative constant on the back to simulate me not doing most stuff.

To the optimist the glass is half full. To the pessimist the glass is half empty. To the Engineer the glass is twice as big as it need be.

My DEs must have an imaginery / complex parameter in the functions.

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Steveee

Since coming to university I've done about two hours worth of work. I've ignored my examples sheets, and missed a good proportion of lectures.

If you modelled my learning cycle in a DE, then you'd have to stick a big negative constant on the back to simulate me not doing most stuff.

To the optimist the glass is half full. To the pessimist the glass is half empty. To the Engineer the glass is twice as big as it need be.

Does anyone know how the mathmo would think of that glass with half something water.

Patch: to the compsci, the glass has a metastable amount of water.

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Helenia

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Without talking random Maths crap I don't understand, don't worry if you don't learn absolutely everything now. There is a huge amount of stuff and you'll be surprised how much goes in anyway. Do as much as you can and then panic and try to do the rest at Easter. Bin the kidney, everyone does.

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darkenergy

Cool - that's where complexity theory comes in then. I don't think the system is itself purely chaotic, it is in fact, to my knowledge, maintained at the edge of chaos. That is, any pertubation brings about large changes in the system.

We get to do Complexity theory at some point... frankly, I am not looking forward to anything that's chaotic.

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Helenia

Without talking random Maths crap I don't understand, don't worry if you don't learn absolutely everything now. There is a huge amount of stuff and you'll be surprised how much goes in anyway. Do as much as you can and then panic and try to do the rest at Easter. Bin the kidney, everyone does.

I don't think so - our DoS is head of renal medicine..... :frown:

Camford

We get to do Complexity theory at some point... frankly, I am not looking forward to anything that's chaotic.

Why not? It's the natural tendency of the universe.

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darkenergy

Why not? It's the natural tendency of the universe.

People say physics explains things. How much of physics do you want to know?

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minimo

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lets get this thread to 20.000 tonight

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Alaric

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Camford

We get to do Complexity theory at some point... frankly, I am not looking forward to anything that's chaotic.

That's not really what the complexity course teaches. It's to do with the computational difficulty of classes of problems. P, NP, NP-hard, NP-complete, PSPACE, NPSPACE, EXP etc etc.

It don't remember there being anything to do with 2.45 dimensions or any chaos ********, it's all about trying to derive a polynomial time reduction to 3SAT iirc.

A.
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Camford

Question on Moral stand.

Patch: My supervisor wrote "Ass -> Concl" on the board today. Anyone care to tell the world what he meant by that? :biggrin:

Oh god, it's been a while, Assertion implies Conclusion, it's probably a end case of a proof from L&P or something. Or was it Assertion if (and not only) if Conclusion.

ppfft, I don't care, it's all theory ****.

A.

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Camford

People say physics explains things. How much of physics do you want to know?

None.
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Helenia - please, please can you make a PERMANENT IP BAN.

Thank you. :smile:

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I don't want to learn Complexity Theory :bowling:! I want to do normal nice Vector Calculus kind of maths :bowling:.

Yeah, it's L&P, assumption implies conclusion. He just wrote down Ass without even realising what he has just written.

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visesh

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it's "bawling" dude...

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WhiteLily

anybody know any1 called kim maudlsey?

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Helenia

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darkenergy

I don't think so - our DoS is head of renal medicine..... :frown:

So? He's not going to know what essays you write in the exam :wink:

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minimo

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My DoS seems to have marked IA microeconomics papers for the last several years, and he i think he thinks i have the IQ of a dodo - not good.

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