I'd like to thank all of you for giving me guidance. I needed it.
Here is where I'm at right now. My advisor told me to go for another major (along with comp sci and physics), something that I know nothing about (I'm thinking ee or comp e. I know the basics but that's it). Or to transfer to somewhere with a more intellectual environment.
I'm rushing sigep. Taking some time out of the lab. I have an interview for an internship with union pacific tomorrow morning so there is that too.
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Originally Posted by Jared Russell
A big fish stops growing unless he finds a bigger pond.
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That is basically what my advisor told me. I started doing research with the university my senior year of high school. This school doesn't have much to offer me, socially or academically. I'm thinking about transferring to Harvey Mudd next year, even though the atmosphere will kill my cf.
I try to mentor other teams. Last year I helped a grand total of 14 teams with computer vision, and this year I plan to solve the vision challenge over winter break as a for fun thing, and have it tested and good to go for anyone who wants it. I might do it in multiple languages, but I'll probably stick to c++ and python. The kid I left in charge of vision for the team doesn't need my help. I taught him calc 1 during build season just because I knew he could handle it, he was a freshman at the time.
As for student programs, I go to the buddhist temple just about every night. It helps me cope with having CF. We have a lot of student design teams, our school placed second in the mars rover challenge last year I believe.
I have my own projects that I'm working on, but I'm running out of ideas fast. I write the same code in python, c++, and matlab and test to see which one is fastest just out of pure boredom.
I run to fill my afternoons too. I would join the cross country team but cf just recently put me in the hospital for 2 weeks and that can happen at a moments notice, so sports are kind of out of the question. I do intramural soccer here, but it's not as competitive as I like it. I was captain of my soccer team in high school.
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Originally Posted by jee7s
Yes, I can understand the boredom. I was there. But, a question to ask yourself: Can you explain how the fact that the divergence of a 4 dimensional anti-symmetric rank 2 tensor equals zero means that there is light? Can you explain why a square pulse in the time domain equals something like sin(w)/w in the frequency domain? Can you explain why a single pendulum is well governed by algebra, but a double pendulum is chaotic? Can you explain why a curve ball curves, in a mathematical sense?
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oh boy, I haven't done tensor stuff in awhile. Let me dissect the question as I think about it:
Some more background: (in relativity) the electromagnetic field is described by a 4D antisymmetric tensor.
quoting my physics professor "An anti-symmetric tensor is a tensor in which exchanging two indices negates the tensor"
By divergence (the antisymmetrized derivative) is zero in a vacuum, and obviously is not zero when there is charge or a current.
I do not conceptually understand why it produces a photon, but it does. I haven't thought about it that much. But I'm only in the first physics class.
Speaking about physics, it irritates me that the Nobel prize was given to something so simple. Maybe I just don't appreciate it.
As for the second question, that is a simple Fourier transformation.
Ah, the classic double pendulum question. It is a system of chaos, to give the cop out answer, as you have stated. The system is governed by a system of diff eq. The vision program I wrote my sophomore year of high school solved a system of partial diff eq (camera pose estimation). If you're really interested, i presented this at ISWEEEP, the international science fair:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5wbgtie9vc...ation.ppt?dl=0
Of course my boeing mentor helped me with the math, it was about half and half. Neither of us could have done it without the other.
I have spent a lot of time on the hospital bed due to having cf. I finished the vision program my sophomore year in the hospital at 2am a week before competition. My junior year I missed 2 months of school due to being sick. Senior year was about a month. It has allowed me to develop academically.
Having cf greatly reduces the amount of time I have here, and I want to actually "contribute a verse" and I feel like I'm wasting my time right now.
Edit* forgot about the last question: if I remember right, I believe it is called the magnus effect. It's very similar to that of an air foil, I believe. I do not believe anyone actually has mathematically explained it, I'd be more than happy to see one if one exists though.