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Happy Mole Day!
Matlab is awesome. I have gone too long not using Matlab.
(Trying to relearn it at 3:30 in the morning before the computer network shuts down is less awesome, but has a certain surreal charm.)
(As does setting the terminal to use dvorak, as certain programs seem to accept it, and others don't, and others only sometimes do, so I get that lovely shivery cognitive dissonance not knowing what I'm typing.)
I still do not know why my structural professor hates trig. We had a problem set due today in which he wanted us to use circle diagrams. Lacking a protractor, I worked out how to draw the angles with trig. This got me more accurate answers in less time than the circle diagram would have taken, and seeing as the angles were 30-45-90ish, I didn't even need a calculator. Yet I still had to draw the diagram. This circle fetish is getting sillier and sillier.
(Trying to relearn it at 3:30 in the morning before the computer network shuts down is less awesome, but has a certain surreal charm.)
(As does setting the terminal to use dvorak, as certain programs seem to accept it, and others don't, and others only sometimes do, so I get that lovely shivery cognitive dissonance not knowing what I'm typing.)
I still do not know why my structural professor hates trig. We had a problem set due today in which he wanted us to use circle diagrams. Lacking a protractor, I worked out how to draw the angles with trig. This got me more accurate answers in less time than the circle diagram would have taken, and seeing as the angles were 30-45-90ish, I didn't even need a calculator. Yet I still had to draw the diagram. This circle fetish is getting sillier and sillier.
Muhahaha.
So you have discovered Matlab(R) .. if you use it often, you will no doubt learn to detest it ... and yet, it is indeed the best software for what it does. I'd rather program in matlab than in C++, for what I do ..
And as I have passed along to previous initiates, here is a link to the function reference: http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/ref.shtml . It is difficult to find if you don't already know where it is or what it's called.
P.S. Oh goddess of image manipulation, can you neatly give my icon a clear background, without also invisible-izing the poor kitty's nose and stars? Pretty please?
Re: Muhahaha.
But since I've been dying to do it anyway, here:
Re: Muhahaha.
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Matlab is evil. As a math major, I feel obligated to steer you from that path of darkness. I suggest some classical conditioning: every time you feel like matlab might not the ultimate evil of the universe or heavens forbid even ENJOYING your matlab assignments, cause yourself to vomit. In no time at all you should feel vaguely ill every time you're even in the same room as anyone using it!
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Matlab is fun. It feels like programming on a graphing calculator, long ago.
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