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07-17-2021, 04:34 AM
Hey everyone, I used to be around awhile back on knotty.me under the name myloverhasfur. I think I made an account here, too, but don't recall doing anything with it. I kinda dropped out of the community for awhile but have dived back in as of late. In any case, I'm a cynophile, attracted exclusively to dogs but nevertheless married to a human. I've also got a canine companion, but we're not intimate. I enjoy math and fantasy books, among other things. 
07-17-2021, 12:49 PM
PERVERT !! What's wrong with that guy ?!? Enjoys MATH? Now THAT's twisted! *Engineering degree here, sick to death of math by the third year.* Well at least there's the Dog, so there's still hope-- Howdy anyway! 
07-18-2021, 12:22 AM
Well there's a familiar name! Heyo <a contenteditable="false" data-ipshover="" data-ipshover-target="<___base_url___>/profile/4944-hamiltonianmechanic/?do=hovercard" data-mentionid="4944" href="<___base_url___>/profile/4944-hamiltonianmechanic/">@HamiltonianMechanic</a>
07-18-2021, 02:12 PM
Quote: I apparently had the opposite experience. I started out studying engineering and picked up a math major because I had a crisis over not having any more math requirements. 
07-18-2021, 09:20 PM
Some people are wired for math ... and then there's me ... I can't do calculus to save my life, nor some of the more exotic flavors of trig. Anyway, welcome!
07-18-2021, 09:58 PM
Quote: Pretty much. If I were in school today I'd probably be on some spectrum or other. I can "see" math in a way, some numbers have "symmetry" and just flow, some less so. They lost me at "non-terminating differential equations" 3rd year. Couldn't see it, couldn't understand how it got to a conclusion, just had to memorize every damn thing in the table in the back of the Chemical Rubber handbook that I thought might be on the test. (And usually guessed wrong). Fortunately even back then the "real world" instructors said it was mostly busy-work, any outfit you worked for would have proprietary programs for doing what their requirements were. Math is a tool. Doesn't mean I like it. I do it; you wanna know the fluid capacity of the transfer case and reservoir for an obsolete D-whatever, or how much to let the wire sag, OK I'm good. But what do non-terminating differential equations do again now---- ?
07-20-2021, 08:03 AM
Quote: While math is a wildly effective tool in many areas, that's not what really interests me; I just think it's neat and beautiful (on the whole, anyway; I can't say I have a great fondness for differential equations either). It almost feels like art to me. Thanks for the warm welcome everyone, by the way |
