Wish I had some free time
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Chris Warburton
Just trying to publish stuff that’s been in draft form for months,
whether it’s finished or not :P
Lectures are finally over for this semester (mine went on a week longer
than everyone else’s it seems) and my exams start next week (I only have
3, as opposed to the usual 6!). However, I’ve got projects overdue and
some slipping off the radar altogether because of my stubborn insistence
on doing things correctly. I didn’t get very far at all with my second
Numerical and Computational Physics assignment, since I can’t get my
head around the Runge Kutta method of approximating functions based on
their derivative and some initial conditions. I did manage to use them
during an assessment/exam for the same module (after attempting to use
Microsoft Word and Excel, then giving up at the hopeless confusion they
caused me and instead downloading and installing Gnumeric and Abiword
which, whilst allowing me to actually get some bloody work done without
flashing any
fancy-yet-utterly-fucking-useless-because-I-don’t-know-what-it-does
bling at me, still took up about half an hour of my exam), but a
spreadsheet is a horrible way to do any kind of programming, so my
disgust at entering hard-coded functions was drowned out by the limited
use of the actual tool.