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Many ages ago, when the Earth was still cooling, I started my undergraduate career as a physics major. I made it to the middle of the first semester of my junior year. I was in an Advanced Mechanics course that term, and we were doing Fourier Transforms. I was completely lost, so I stood up in the middle of class and said, “This is a bunch of mathemetical bullshit!”, and walked out and changed my major to Anthropology.
Well, it’s 20 years to late, but this explanation is actually pretty intuitive:
http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2011/05/17/understanding-the-fourier-transform/
I wish I had had this explanation at the time, because I struggled through it without actually understanding it, which is a sure-fire way to be hate something.
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Are you familiar saying with the old human saying “I want to shoot you so bad my dick’s hard?”
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(Some will say this is not the time. I disagree. This is the time when every mixed emotion needs to find voice.)
Since his arresting the early morning of January 11, 2011 — two years to the day before Aaron Swartz ended his life — I have known more about the events that began this…
