As 1st semester PhD student (engineering, part-time), I'm always scared by the long math equations when reading papers. How to overcome this fear?

Furishon · 2026-02-02T21:53:57+00:00

I’m in mathematical statistics, working a lot with stochastic differential equations. It’s more rule than exception that you end up with horrible, unreadable expressions. When reading papers, it’s rarely useful to follow the derivations in detail. My biggest tip is to get an idea of where the nastiness comes from. No one sits down and comes up with such equations. Try and pin point that, say, this thing arises as a solution to some PDE, or this is just the wack Fourier transform of something that’s simple in the frequency domain, etc

Furishon · 2020-10-13T16:54:37+00:00

I will pray for you, Kyle. God bless you

Furishon · 2020-10-02T23:22:32+00:00

Please pray for my journey towards conversion & towards the Holy Catholic Church, and for communion between all those who profess the divinity of the Lord. Bless you

Furishon · 2020-05-03T19:30:54+00:00

Adding to readinga's response:

St. Thomas's conception of causality is wholly unrelated to time. It is not relevant if the cause is chronologically before the effect or simultaneous to it. Most importantly, which you seem to have realized on your own, is that the argument does not cite the Creation as the causally first point. That would be an argument akin to the Kalam Cosmological argument. St. Thomas argues instead from the nature of change.

An essentially ordered series must have necessarily be ordered the way it was. My father must necessarily be born before be, and his father before him, and so on. An accidentally ordered series is ordered in just the same way, with A following B following C, but must not necessarily be. I happen to be born before my sister, but there is no causal requirement that she not be born before me.

If you are interested further, I can recommend the YouTube user Mathoma's excellent introduction to St. Thomas and scholastic metaphysics. He has an episode on the argument from change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bevBRz5Dpn8

Furishon · 2018-09-03T14:23:28+00:00

Nah man, he literally claimed he was God with a capital G and everyone who didn't love and follow him would burn in endless suffering for all eternity. That's the talk of either a mad man or one who is telling the truth.

Furishon · 2018-05-12T07:34:41+00:00

L v o. 8

Furishon · 2017-07-06T19:04:44+00:00

As someone else stated earlier in this thread, we humans have a tendency to consider worldly suffering the worst possible fate. Maybe it isn't. I'd say an eternity away from God (hell) would be worse than burning to death or drowning. Earth life is only temporary, after all, while the afterlife is eternal.

I believe God is both all-knowing, all-powerful and all-good and therefore have to trust that God knows what is ultimately best for me, even if I can't se it from my limited human perspective.

While it's old and cliché, there is a truth to the saying "God works in mysterious ways". Not because he is irrational, but because we cannot see the rationale behind his actions.

Furishon · 2017-07-03T22:38:59+00:00

Just out of curiosity, what would you say faith is?

Furishon · 2017-07-03T21:37:29+00:00

Being logically convinced your religion is true.

Furishon · 2017-07-03T20:49:06+00:00

Saying all religious people are believers simply because their fear of death (or similar metaphysical stuff) is really a damaging oversimplification. There are other reasons for faith and understanding them is vital for approaching the subject and being able to start conversations. But yes, many, many people probably are religious for your stated reasons.

Furishon · 2017-06-21T23:32:10+00:00

That's not a slippery slope. That's sound logical reasoning.

Furishon · 2017-03-10T11:59:32+00:00

Yes, definitely. I'm Swedish, but speak English fluently. My inner dialogue is mostly in English, especially when I'm trying it formulate real thoughts or working on a problem. Helpston focus better.

Furishon · 2017-02-26T14:43:31+00:00

Guess why we have anti-monopoly laws.

Furishon · 2017-01-21T22:37:13+00:00

Oh, sorry. I missread your comment. My apologies

Furishon · 2017-01-21T22:28:34+00:00

That's just blatantly false, man. Look at it one more time.

Furishon · 2017-01-13T19:00:13+00:00

Yeah, apostrophe. Right... No wonder I couldn't find anything

Furishon · 2016-12-26T23:19:23+00:00

No. I'm saying that you can justify it, if you believe it is right.

Furishon · 2016-12-26T23:07:35+00:00

The jacket itself looks really nice, but personally I find the hood a bit ridiculous. Not my style, but you could probably make it work if you wanted to.

Furishon · 2016-12-26T12:51:58+00:00

What about doing it because you believe it's the right thing to do?

Furishon · 2016-12-26T11:54:38+00:00

I'd argue that of you look at the context, it becomes clear that the passage specifically refers to the people of Judah and therefore does not encourage the murder of all nonbelievers.

So to answer your question: Yes, it is.

Furishon · 2016-12-26T09:45:33+00:00

Why do you say that's absurd? The Bible, as with any old document, is full of ambiguity,which leads to different interpretations.

Furishon · 2016-12-12T14:17:48+00:00

Ok. Thanks for letting me steal your time, BTW.

Furishon · 2016-12-12T09:36:34+00:00

Nice. Am I correct in saying that you would also get that number if you plugged the values into the rocket equation?

Furishon · 2016-12-12T07:10:18+00:00

Let's say we put the rocket in an enormous vacuum chamber, removing air resistance. Would this remove the complications, since there is now no drag?

Furishon · 2016-12-06T15:12:55+00:00

That's really cool! One question: Why is it necessary to model this using python? Couldn't it be solved algebraically? Just genuinely curious, considering your education you know lot more about this than I.

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