Planet Nectarius » 2006 » August http://nectarius.net Nectarines are tasty Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:32:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Good night http://nectarius.net/2006/08/22/good-night/ http://nectarius.net/2006/08/22/good-night/#comments Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:44:38 +0000 Tim http://nectarius.net/2006/08/22/good-night/ ..and sleep well.

]]> http://nectarius.net/2006/08/22/good-night/feed/ 0 Like a rock being ground down into dust. http://nectarius.net/2006/08/17/like-a-rock-being-ground-down-into-dust/ http://nectarius.net/2006/08/17/like-a-rock-being-ground-down-into-dust/#comments Thu, 17 Aug 2006 04:03:22 +0000 Tim http://nectarius.net/2006/08/17/like-a-rock-being-ground-down-into-dust/ Honours is indeed hard. It isn’t so much the difficulty of the subjects, I can handle the level of maths provided I study. The problem is keeping up.

It moves so fast. I have to spend all day every day studying. Then I discover I haven’t done a thing on my thesis all week. Yesterday I left uni at 10pm, got home had dinner, sat around for half an hour, then crashed. I slept like shit though because my mind couldn’t stop thinking about the maths problems I’d just worked on. So then I slept in and missed the morning of study.

I think the key to not going insane will be to grapple onto the thing I am doing at the time, forget about progress, and just trust in planning that I will come out the other side each week.

]]> http://nectarius.net/2006/08/17/like-a-rock-being-ground-down-into-dust/feed/ 0 Iff http://nectarius.net/2006/08/15/iff/ http://nectarius.net/2006/08/15/iff/#comments Tue, 15 Aug 2006 06:40:47 +0000 Tim http://nectarius.net/2006/08/15/iff/ I’ve been riding my bike around recently, push bike and motorbike. I love them both. I need lights for my bicycle. Maybe I can get some tonight?

Anyway I have some proofs to finish, then some typing, then some reading to do first.

I think I’m being careful what I say, because I don’t want to jinx things. I don’t want to talk about things I’m doing until I’ve done them.

In other news, archery is fun and consuming, but I think I’ve decided not to buy some new limbs. I can’t really afford them, and I’m not sure I even really need them. Consumer therapy my make me buy them in the future.

]]> http://nectarius.net/2006/08/15/iff/feed/ 0 A good breakfast doesn’t fix everything. http://nectarius.net/2006/08/15/a-good-breakfast-doesnt-fix-everything/ http://nectarius.net/2006/08/15/a-good-breakfast-doesnt-fix-everything/#comments Tue, 15 Aug 2006 06:35:24 +0000 Tim http://nectarius.net/2006/08/15/a-good-breakfast-doesnt-fix-everything/ You still have to do something with your day, so you can pat yourself on the back when it’s over.

I am awkward.

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I have just looked into definitions of the determinant for linear tranformations on real vector spaces. Now I’m delving into the determinant for commutative rings. I find when I’m reading up on things I am constantly asking myself “what the fuck does that mean?”

Time to learn about fields, rings, modules, tensor products, exterior products. bla bla.

The grand goal so far is a general definition of the determinants which applies for non-commutative rings, and the nicer more friendly algebras. There is one, but I can’t follow it at all.

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