the mandelbrot set
the mandelbrot set Thursday April 22
i'm starting to realize the real utility of my undergraduate education. certainly, i am more familiar with issues relating to electrical engineering and east asia than the average individual, but that's not saying very much. compared to the experts in either field, i know relatively little. however, i am aware of my insufficiency; in other disciplines, i am not aware of what i do not know. therefore, i think that the real purpose of these four years is to show me the depth that i do not know about a particular subject, and that makes me (a) realize that learning in that field is never finished, and that i am just beginning, and that (b) education is like the mandelbrot set: you can keep zooming in, but you'll never arrive at the base case.
mark receives +2 nerd points for referencing the mandelbrot set in a post.
side note about math. liz at foellinger asked me how to integrate a function of e the other day, and i remembered how to do it. and suddenly, i missed math. hard sciences are great like that, there's a right answer sometimes. maybe that's why i still program.
