You're welcome! Huh. Very interesting. What seems to make you anxious now that school is out of the way?
Now that school is over, I have little to no structure to my day. On one hand, that's really fun and I get to do whatever I want, but my brain doesn't let me work like that. It freaks out and I get restless and anxious, because I'm happiest when I have some type of job or activity to do and I'm accomplishing something. I wish I could just enjoy being lazy and not feel sick to my stomach and sad about nothing. >_>
Hmm. I see. You always need to be doing something in order to feel like your day was worth it or satisfied, I suppose. What kinds of activities do you plan on doing this summer?
Ah, very nice, at least for the spacious dorms. Hopefully you can at least still have time to think of some LEGO ideas to build. I did a lot of digital building when I was in college.
Yep. I'm more of a night owl. Cool. I think the majority of LMB users from the US are from the east coast.
Ooh, wow, you also have some classic space as well, that's awesome. Also pretty cool that you have a mix of other themes as well. A majority of my LEGO sets are disassembled as well, and now pieces are just all around the table waiting to be used in MOCs.
Can you even get LDD still? I have it on this laptop, but not my newer one. And idk, I use so many nonstandard building techniques that building digitally just doesn't cut it for me.
I used to stay up late, but I've going to bed at a reasonable hour fairly consistently now. I'd like to get up at like dawn but lack the motivation
(convenient use of photo attachments) I need to disassemble most of the stuff on the second shelf in the image. Also enjoy the strange mix of stuff here, I think this is a good one with the sheer magnitude of stuff to take in All the cool old stuff is on another shelf, maybe I'll get a picture of that tomorrow or dig up some pictures of the actual sets that I have over there.
-benboy
Yeah, I think so. It still seems to be available on LEGO.com. That makes sense. It's hard to use advanced techniques on LDD, like your Technic peg trick.
That's good. Getting a good bedtime is very important, especially in college. I usually sleep late and wake up late.
(Indeed.) Wow, that's a big collection. There's definitely a lot to see here, like Darth Vader at the Battle of Helms Deep, I think, as well as the four Cordak blasters as one giant weapon. Also recognize the Knights Kingdom and the many Star Wars set all around. That's really awesome, thanks for sharing.
Ah yes, very good for making some nice highlights and designs with colors, and it stands out very well, assuming the colors compliment each other.
I see. A lot to red blood cells that you never knew before? That'll be helpful to know. I've only programmed numerical integration once for a homework assignment, but I've forgotten it now. That'll sound helpful for what you'd like to do. Hopefully it goes well.
Nice. I think you'll do pretty well then. How long until you take the test?
Speaking of organization and technic here's another LEGO picture you may enjoy
I finally finished what I was typing up with the blood cell models, trying to find ordinary differential equations as opposed to partial or discrete is sometimes a bit challenging. For whatever reason, my advisor seems to prefer the ODE approach. Admittedly it is easier but I'd like to get the opportunity to learn some proper PDE theory. I missed out on taking the PDE course last semester so I really want to pick up that material somehow seeing as it's so relevant to applied math. I've done numerical integration a few times for a numerical analysis course but the professor was terrible and gave us code templates we all kind of just rigged to work. I think if I start from scratch on Matlab I could probably figure the stuff out - but perhaps I should just take the opportunity to learn python instead. I personally really like R but I'm not entirely sure if you're meant to be doing numerical integration on R...
Apparently the general GRE is online until June 30, so I'll register sometime within the next week or so I guess then take it in June sometime. Need to do my practice exams
-benboy
Ooh, very nice! I like the cardboard dividers you've made for the small drawers. Very good use of space. I'm gonna predict though that you'll probably need more room for the common pins like the black 2-long and the blue 3-long pins.
Hmm, I see. I've heard the most about ODEs so far in my college career and not very much on PDEs, so that's probably why since ODEs are probably more used, though hopefully there's something in PDEs that may be helpful as well. MATLAB is probably the best option, especially when you have to work with matrices of data. Python can do the same things that MATLAB can do, but I find that Python has a lot more syntax rules and things that can go wrong when you least expect it. The other day I was doing some Python homework and I managed to put in a matrix as an element of another matrix and it messed up the dimensions what I was going to do. As for R, I'm not too familiar with it, but I've heard some things about it.
Cool. I wish you the best of luck in studying for the GRE.
Can you even get LDD still? I have it on this laptop, but not my newer one. And idk, I use so many nonstandard building techniques that building digitally just doesn't cut it for me.
I used to stay up late, but I've going to bed at a reasonable hour fairly consistently now. I'd like to get up at like dawn but lack the motivation
(convenient use of photo attachments) I need to disassemble most of the stuff on the second shelf in the image. Also enjoy the strange mix of stuff here, I think this is a good one with the sheer magnitude of stuff to take in All the cool old stuff is on another shelf, maybe I'll get a picture of that tomorrow or dig up some pictures of the actual sets that I have over there.
-benboy
Yeah, I think so. It still seems to be available on LEGO.com. That makes sense. It's hard to use advanced techniques on LDD, like your Technic peg trick.
That's good. Getting a good bedtime is very important, especially in college. I usually sleep late and wake up late.
(Indeed.) Wow, that's a big collection. There's definitely a lot to see here, like Darth Vader at the Battle of Helms Deep, I think, as well as the four Cordak blasters as one giant weapon. Also recognize the Knights Kingdom and the many Star Wars set all around. That's really awesome, thanks for sharing.
Isn't there another program people use for that, or is there just something you can run an LDD file through to make it less fake-looking?
Last year my roommate was not an early sleeper, so I was staying up later as a consequence. But no class until 10:45 so it was ok
There's a lot of other stuff too, I'll figure out pictures of that stuff later. As you can see below the frame there's stuff, I have a whole bookshelf, then of course left of all those shelves is more stuff too I'm not sure what inspired me to set up some Return of the Jedi esque battle on the side of helms deep, I think I was going for the Cloud City duel but that's clearly ROJ Luke so whatever It's entertaining if nothing else. The Cordak blasters were going to be the back end of a spaceship, but I could never get the mechanics right on the landing gear and entry ramp I wanted. I think I was going for too small a scale. Maybe I have pictures of that too somewhere before it sat for 5 years and got covered in dust I was trying to use a dark red and black theme, cool colors for me when I was 15 I've managed to pick up bits and pieces of Knights Kingdom from random used buys over the years, they're all missing a few pieces though, annoyingly. I should get some parts on Bricklink to patch them up. (my favorite is the death star on the technic crane)
Speaking of organization and technic here's another LEGO picture you may enjoy
I finally finished what I was typing up with the blood cell models, trying to find ordinary differential equations as opposed to partial or discrete is sometimes a bit challenging. For whatever reason, my advisor seems to prefer the ODE approach. Admittedly it is easier but I'd like to get the opportunity to learn some proper PDE theory. I missed out on taking the PDE course last semester so I really want to pick up that material somehow seeing as it's so relevant to applied math. I've done numerical integration a few times for a numerical analysis course but the professor was terrible and gave us code templates we all kind of just rigged to work. I think if I start from scratch on Matlab I could probably figure the stuff out - but perhaps I should just take the opportunity to learn python instead. I personally really like R but I'm not entirely sure if you're meant to be doing numerical integration on R...
Apparently the general GRE is online until June 30, so I'll register sometime within the next week or so I guess then take it in June sometime. Need to do my practice exams
-benboy
Ooh, very nice! I like the cardboard dividers you've made for the small drawers. Very good use of space. I'm gonna predict though that you'll probably need more room for the common pins like the black 2-long and the blue 3-long pins.
Hmm, I see. I've heard the most about ODEs so far in my college career and not very much on PDEs, so that's probably why since ODEs are probably more used, though hopefully there's something in PDEs that may be helpful as well. MATLAB is probably the best option, especially when you have to work with matrices of data. Python can do the same things that MATLAB can do, but I find that Python has a lot more syntax rules and things that can go wrong when you least expect it. The other day I was doing some Python homework and I managed to put in a matrix as an element of another matrix and it messed up the dimensions what I was going to do. As for R, I'm not too familiar with it, but I've heard some things about it.
Cool. I wish you the best of luck in studying for the GRE.
Dude, in my OG organizational system it was all cardboard trays I made from old lego boxes because I was too cheap to buy anything Then I realized that was a pain and scrapped that. Still have the trays, just no longer in use. For whatever odd reason because of those roof designs I have a ton of black 2-long pins in some other bags I haven't sorted yet - I put all the black and dark red pieces in one place to be used on my spaceship... I think I may have more of the black 3-long pins than the blue, honestly. We'll find out eventually. I think I'll try to put all my technic pieces in those drawers pictured, I feel that may work better than bags. I'll have to experiment, perhaps this will be a project for this afternoon.
PDEs of course have different uses, as of course sometimes you need a multivariable function, but I believe most PDE analysis comes down to breaking your differential equation into a system of ODEs. Yes, Matlab is much more user-friendly, perhaps my best option. We'll see what my advisor recommends I do next. If I get the time I also have a nice book on fractal dynamics with some pseudocode, so it'd be fun to run that on Matlab. (I love fractals) I remember for intro Java we had to do a lot with multidimensional matrices, it was sometimes a little weird to visualize but definitely useful. I have another Java course in the fall (need it for my degree), I wonder what we'll have to do for that. R is more statistical, but honestly it's a lot like Matlab but with probability tools heavily built in. You can run simulations very easily - it's a lot of fun.
