Comments on: Satellites, missiles, Calculus and XMLHttpRequest http://blogs.seapine.com/grant/satellites-missiles-calculus-and-xmlhttprequest.html Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:58:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Jonathan http://blogs.seapine.com/grant/satellites-missiles-calculus-and-xmlhttprequest.html#comment-2292 Jonathan Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:54:24 +0000 http://blogs.seapine.com/grant/satellites-missiles-calculus-and-xmlhttprequest.html#comment-2292 your page looks pretty good on the iPhone your page looks pretty good on the iPhone

]]> By: Satellites, missiles, Calculus and XMLHttpRequest http://blogs.seapine.com/grant/satellites-missiles-calculus-and-xmlhttprequest.html#comment-2285 Satellites, missiles, Calculus and XMLHttpRequest Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:02:28 +0000 http://blogs.seapine.com/grant/satellites-missiles-calculus-and-xmlhttprequest.html#comment-2285 [...] Original post by Grant [...] [...] Original post by Grant [...]

]]> By: ChipMonkey http://blogs.seapine.com/grant/satellites-missiles-calculus-and-xmlhttprequest.html#comment-2284 ChipMonkey Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:08:05 +0000 http://blogs.seapine.com/grant/satellites-missiles-calculus-and-xmlhttprequest.html#comment-2284 Dude, and all that time I thought you were doing well in math because you were cheating off of my work. Pesky Maple. I'm glad Paul mentioned SAGE -- I've been using it to crash my machine a lot over the past few months (although I'm using the huge virtual machine download -- not nearly as elegant as AJAX, but hey -- I'm lazy). Mathematica cost, if I recall correctly, 12 times the going value of my soul in college, and that counts the minute amount of gold in my fingernails. I doubt it's gotten much less expensive. Maple was like half that. SAGE actually comes in at less than the cost of fingernail _clippings_, so that's real progress. I wonder if an embedded version of SAGE could guide missles? Hmmm... Dude, and all that time I thought you were doing well in math because you were cheating off of my work. Pesky Maple.

I’m glad Paul mentioned SAGE — I’ve been using it to crash my machine a lot over the past few months (although I’m using the huge virtual machine download — not nearly as elegant as AJAX, but hey — I’m lazy). Mathematica cost, if I recall correctly, 12 times the going value of my soul in college, and that counts the minute amount of gold in my fingernails. I doubt it’s gotten much less expensive. Maple was like half that. SAGE actually comes in at less than the cost of fingernail _clippings_, so that’s real progress.

I wonder if an embedded version of SAGE could guide missles? Hmmm…

]]> By: Paul http://blogs.seapine.com/grant/satellites-missiles-calculus-and-xmlhttprequest.html#comment-2276 Paul Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:26:42 +0000 http://blogs.seapine.com/grant/satellites-missiles-calculus-and-xmlhttprequest.html#comment-2276 Regarding the online version of Mathematica, they better speed up if they want to compete with SAGE (http://www.sagemath.org/) Regarding the online version of Mathematica, they better speed up if they want to compete with SAGE (http://www.sagemath.org/)

]]> By: Jonathan http://blogs.seapine.com/grant/satellites-missiles-calculus-and-xmlhttprequest.html#comment-2274 Jonathan Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:50:24 +0000 http://blogs.seapine.com/grant/satellites-missiles-calculus-and-xmlhttprequest.html#comment-2274 Heh, I remember Mathematica. Calculus II, III, and IV were all required to be taken in tandem with Calculus Lab I, II, and III (imaging matching up Calc II with Lab I, III with II, etc. They made you take a test just to see if you could understand the number mismatches before you could even register). Anyways, although the labs were required with the lecture, they were completely independent. Therefore when I scored pitifully on a Calc III exam and dropped the course, I could still remain in Calc Lab II. My point in this comment is to explain that I had such a great lab instructor for my last quarter that he posted the solutions to all of the labs online, thus enabling me to get an A for the lab with little to no work. Heh, I remember Mathematica. Calculus II, III, and IV were all required to be taken in tandem with Calculus Lab I, II, and III (imaging matching up Calc II with Lab I, III with II, etc. They made you take a test just to see if you could understand the number mismatches before you could even register). Anyways, although the labs were required with the lecture, they were completely independent. Therefore when I scored pitifully on a Calc III exam and dropped the course, I could still remain in Calc Lab II. My point in this comment is to explain that I had such a great lab instructor for my last quarter that he posted the solutions to all of the labs online, thus enabling me to get an A for the lab with little to no work.

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