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RE: Computer programming, landscaping, education, origami
July 5, 2018 at 6:26 pm
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(July 5, 2018 at 3:35 pm)SaStrike Wrote: I see you're a man of culture as well.
Yes, I've been playing World of Warcraft for a few years now.
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Why did you put Ayn Rand as your first influence?
She's the first author I remember influencing my thinking, outside of Christian and Baha'i scriptures. I read her books when I was in high school.
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RE: Computer programming, landscaping, education, origami
July 5, 2018 at 8:33 pm
Welcome!
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
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RE: Computer programming, landscaping, education, origami
July 5, 2018 at 8:46 pm
(July 5, 2018 at 3:35 pm)SaStrike Wrote: I see you're a man of culture as well.
Stop calling him a petri dish.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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RE: Computer programming, landscaping, education, origami
July 5, 2018 at 9:41 pm
(July 4, 2018 at 5:01 pm)jimhabegger Wrote: Some of favorite reading has been science fiction, Dr Seuss, L. Frank Baum, Tolkien, math, detective mysteries, and Lovecraft.
What type of math do you read?
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RE: Computer programming, landscaping, education, origami
July 5, 2018 at 9:59 pm
(July 5, 2018 at 9:41 pm)polymath257 Wrote: What type of math do you read?
It's been a while since I did any reading in math. The last I remember was about fractional calculus. I spent hours and hours and gave myself a headache trying to figure out a way to define a half derivative on my own, but I finally gave up and looked it up. Then I spent hours and hours and gave myself a headache learning about it. I never did get a clear view of it, or of its applications.
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RE: Computer programming, landscaping, education, origami
July 5, 2018 at 11:04 pm
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RE: Computer programming, landscaping, education, origami
July 6, 2018 at 8:40 pm
(July 5, 2018 at 9:59 pm)jimhabegger Wrote: (July 5, 2018 at 9:41 pm)polymath257 Wrote: What type of math do you read?
It's been a while since I did any reading in math. The last I remember was about fractional calculus. I spent hours and hours and gave myself a headache trying to figure out a way to define a half derivative on my own, but I finally gave up and looked it up. Then I spent hours and hours and gave myself a headache learning about it. I never did get a clear view of it, or of its applications.
Yes, fractional derivatives are mostly a curiosity. At the very least, you need some Fourier analysis to even begin to see why they might be studied. But I'm not convinced they really are useful for much.
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RE: Computer programming, landscaping, education, origami
July 10, 2018 at 5:50 pm
(July 4, 2018 at 5:01 pm)jimhabegger Wrote: Some other influences have been Ayn Rand, Alfred Korzybski, Soren Kierkegaard, NLP, Dinkmeyer and Losoncy, Gerard Egan, Carl Rogers, Dorothy of Oz, math, physics, electronics, map projections, my wife, my children, and of course my parents. That’s just a sampling; there have been many others.
I’ve had training and experience in Christianity and in the Baha’i Faith, and for a few months I explored a pagan path.
Ayn Rand, but not Nietzsche? Carl Rogers, but not Jung? What kind of spiritual thinker are you?
J/K, of course. I am a fan of Kierkegaard and Rogers.
Welcome to AF. Baha'i seems really cool. I hadn't heard of it until I read this post.
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