And now it's all this
And now it's all this
Dr. Drang
I just said what I said and it was wrong or was taken wrong
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This week’s episode of Upgrade (which I listened to on a longish drive yesterday) has a preview of Jason Snell and Myke Hurley’s upcoming Designed in California podcast. No, not the “Road to the Apple II” series they’ve been squeezing...
I’ve been thinking about 1984 lately—the year, not the novel. What got me thinking about it was the reduction in gas prices over the past few weeks, and this article in the New York Times about Donald Trump’s declining poll numbers among...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] At the end of yesterday’s post about the combinatorics of the World Cup group stage, I said...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] We’re in the middle of the first set of games in the group stage of the 2026 World Cup, and I’ve...
I took a bike ride this morning on a portion of the I&M Canal Trail from Romeoville to Joliet and back. It’s a fairly short ride, eight miles each way, and that distance got me thinking about using Mathematica to do some calculations...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] After my last post—the one about using Fourier series—I started thinking about how to use...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] We’re finally here, at the end of all things. In this post, we’ll use a Fourier series to get...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] This would have been the last post in the series if I hadn’t realized recently that another...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] We’re in the home stretch of this series, so ANIAT will soon go back to complaining about...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] The biggest problem I face when writing posts in this series is deciding how much background...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] Continuing our series on the many ways to get the center deflection of a uniformly loaded beam,...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] Today we’ll use the Rayleigh-Ritz method again, but this time we’ll avoid dealing with an...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] I just learned that people are listening to music pitched slightly down because it makes them...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] Continuing our trip through various methods to derive the equation for the center deflection of...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] The sixth way we’ll derive the formula for the center deflection of a uniformly loaded simply...