I tend to use Maple rather than Mathematica, though I need to learn Mathematica -- Maple is way easier to work with, which is why I've stuck with it, but Mathematica is more powerful. Basically, it's kind of a mini programming environment for the types of programs you'd tend to use in math. All the common math functions are built in, and it'll easily graph stuff. I don't use it as much in my work as some other people do, because what I'm doing doesn't involve so many calculations, but I do use it sometimes. The place where I usually use it is when I have some formula and want to see what the value is for, say, all the numbers from 1 to 20.
Book: Where's the doctor? Not back yet?
Zoe: (beat) We don't make him hurry for the little stuff. He'll be along.
Book: He could hurry... a little.
'Safe'
Spike's Bitches 40: Buckle Up, Kids! Daddy's Puttin' the Hammer Down.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Hil R. - May 01, 2008 6:20:58 pm PDT #7307 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
billytea - May 01, 2008 6:37:48 pm PDT #7308 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Hey Hil, do you know anything about Matlab? Some of the models from head office have started using it, we're looking at getting a licence here.
Hil R. - May 01, 2008 6:52:40 pm PDT #7309 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Hey Hil, do you know anything about Matlab?
I've used it a few times. Seems like it's most popular for people doing statistics.
Susan W. - May 01, 2008 7:00:10 pm PDT #7310 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Welcome home, Kristin! Take care of yourself...
Laga - May 01, 2008 7:06:00 pm PDT #7311 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Yay Kristin! Just in time to go see a preview of Iron Man.
beth b - May 01, 2008 7:07:27 pm PDT #7312 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
yay!!!! glad you are home, be very good to yourself, Kristin.
Laga - May 01, 2008 7:45:31 pm PDT #7313 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I just deleted my sister's husband from my gmail contacts so I never have to see his stupid name again. That felt surprisingly good. Way better (and easier) than my original plan which was to send him an email that consisted entirely of, "you are a non-person" repeated to fill 100 pages.
WindSparrow - May 01, 2008 7:53:53 pm PDT #7314 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Welcome home, Kristin!
SuziQ - May 01, 2008 7:54:06 pm PDT #7315 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
My daughter's boyfriend just friended me on Facebook. Odd.
omnis_audis - May 01, 2008 8:47:46 pm PDT #7316 of 10001
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Pretty cool .mov showing flight patterns over the US: [link]