Recent happenings
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Jakob Nielsen has put it down quite nicely. This explains why posting has been sporadic lately — it’s significantly harder to write original content. I usually do not have the time or the energy to write in the evenings. Weekends are spent living my “real life.”
This is going to be one of those meta posts, with the only common link between the topics is that it has to do with me.
Firstly, I’m beginning to appreciate Vancouver more than ever. On Canada Day, my family and I went to the Capilano Suspension Bridge. There’s a fair amount of history behind the bridge. The tour also covered some of the First Nations history. This might be controversial, but I think that by accepting special rights and privileges from the Canadian government, they’ve distanced themselves from the mainstream. For someone like me who is genuinely interested in learning about different cultures, it makes it harder than usual. Contrast this with St. Patrick’s Day, Bisaki or the Chinese New Year celebrations which attracts a few hundred thousand people. If you live in Vancouver, you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about.
Secondly, I’m giving a talk at the Canadian Undergraduate Math Conference. As usual, I was only able to register a few minutes before the deadline, so I didn’t have much time to think about what I wanted to talk about. I registered with a very generic abstract on fluid image registration. There are many approaches I can take in the talk (as a physics guy with an engineering major presenting to math majors on applications to medical images.) More on this in a later post.
Lastly, if you’re looking to get a comprehensive understanding of math (or mathematical physics,) check out Penrose’s Road To Reality. It runs about 1100 pages, but it goes through all the math from the ground up for a general audience. It starts with all the way from the Pythgoras theorem, complex numbers, calculus, Fourier decomposition, group theory to more complicated stuff in theoretical physics. A good read.
That is all.