Nerd Post

I'll write this for the non-nerds out there as best I can.

So I spend a lot of my time solving Ax=b, where A is a huge matrix with thousands of entries. This is done with a computer, and it can take a significant amount of time to do. Amazingly, I just programmed a new method for solving this system, called multigrid, and its about an order of magnitude faster than the way I was doing it before. That means I can spend a way less time worrying about Ax=b and actually get some work done. I wish I had started using this a long time ago...

Shampoo and Conditioner

Currently, I use one bottle of shampoo and one bottle of conditioner to wash my hair. I find it irritating when one bottle runs out before the other, so I'm thinking about switching to a 2 in 1 formula. Since I buy the cheapest possible hair products, I think the effects this switch will make on the quality of my hair is negligible. Let the great experiment begin!

Time To Move To Europe

After traveling a few weeks ago and paying the price of the weak dollar, I began thinking that the US could be in some trouble. Then I read this article:

The Weakening Dollar

It pretty much freaked me out - I think the US is in for poorer times. Good thing about getting a PhD is its much easier to get citizenship in another country!

However, there is a benefit that Adam pointed out; all those student loans of mine are getting cheaper by the day.

Some Pictures

Being solo I took way too few pictures of the trip, but here are a few of them.

Belgium and The Netherlands