I took the Blue Pill so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

cgraves67: I remember multiplying matrices in high school. I'm pretty sure it wasn't just a theory.

I remember doing them in college, with variables, in matrices 4x4 and higher. THAT sucked.

Hollie Maea: I remember doing it 10 minutes ago. Well, making MATLAB do it for me.

/Working on an optics model.
//n^2.373 won't make my slow-ass laptop suck any less.

Matlab is the most amazing program ever. Days of drudge work reduced to hours, sometimes minutes.

cgraves67: I remember multiplying matrices in high school. I'm pretty sure it wasn't just a theory.

Number theory is just a theory, just like evolution is just a theory.

I recall a course titled Differential Equations & Matrix Methods. I now realise the wisdom of choosing a career that does not require regular usage of such maths skills.

entropic_existence: mainstreet62: Hollie Maea: I remember doing it 10 minutes ago. Well, making MATLAB do it for me.

/Working on an optics model.
//n^2.373 won't make my slow-ass laptop suck any less.

Matlab is the most amazing program ever. Days of drudge work reduced to hours, sometimes minutes.

I use R for all my heavy math work personally.

I used to use Mathematica, but it varied so wildly from computer to computer, and I had a TA that sucked so badly at teaching it, that I gave up on it.

torusXL: Lord Dimwit: cgraves67: I remember multiplying matrices in high school. I'm pretty sure it wasn't just a theory.

Number theory is just a theory, just like evolution is just a theory.

You're probably trolling, but I'll just say for the record that mathematical theory and scientific theory are two whole different things.

I wasn't attempting to troll, I was attempting to be funny.

/ "attempting" apparently being the operative word

torusXL: evilmrsock: torusXL: Lord Dimwit: cgraves67: I remember multiplying matrices in high school. I'm pretty sure it wasn't just a theory.

Number theory is just a theory, just like evolution is just a theory.

You're probably trolling, but I'll just say for the record that mathematical theory and scientific theory are two whole different things.

But that's just, like, your opinion, man.

Must....not....bite......

Phew. I was able to resist.

You have a high capacitance for that.

StoneColdAtheist: mainstreet62: Hollie Maea: I remember doing it 10 minutes ago. Well, making MATLAB do it for me.

/Working on an optics model.
//n^2.373 won't make my slow-ass laptop suck any less.

Matlab is the most amazing program ever. Days of drudge work reduced to hours, sometimes minutes.

I'm jealous...and so old my undergrad matrix algebra book doesn't even mention Strassen.

jake3988: I did matrix multiplication in C, using tiling. Does that count?

Jimmy-come-Lately...i did matrix algebra using APL after graduating and getting my first job.

I think I'm the only person I know under 35 who has any real experience with APL. It's...beautiful in a way. I just wish Inconsolata had APL symbols.

I've made a decent side-career of knowing obscure and/or old technologies. I'm 31, but I've written assembly for DG Novas, fixed up old Fortran code, reverse-engineered stuff whose source has been long-lost, and can help you out if your system is written in REBOL or Eiffel. It's fun. :)

StoneColdAtheist: Lord Dimwit: I've made a decent side-career of knowing obscure and/or old technologies. I'm 31, but I've written assembly for DG Novas, fixed up old Fortran code, reverse-engineered stuff whose source has been long-lost, and can help you out if your system is written in REBOL or Eiffel. It's fun. :)

Cool...I wrote a shiat-load of Fortran code back in the day. Elegant language as I recall.

/you're welcome on my lawn any time... :)

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I think you may be suffering from that disease that causes you to think things were better when you were younger.

StoneColdAtheist: Bacontastesgood: Don Coppersmith and Shmuel Winograd ... put omega at 2.376.

Now, Virginia Vassilevska-Williams, who ... tweakinged the algorithm to produce an omega of 2.373.

Her parents must be so proud.

In a matrix of sufficient size to be useful that might be the difference to computing an answer in less than the projected lifespan of the observable universe. ;)

I worked on a very mission critical piece of embedded software back when I worked at *mumble*. One of the algorithms ended up having a superlinear time complexity (not like, Ackerman bad, but, bad enough). Basically, it came down to if you had more than about 30 *mumble* specified in the *mumble*, the system would freeze, as the calculation would end up completing some time after the heat death of the Universe (I will point out that I did not write the offending code). This code was burned into ROM and already shipped, so it wasn't going to change. I had to go through and write patches to the compiler to prevent code from getting deployed on top of the hardware that would trigger the issue. It's more fun if you know where this software is deployed and what would happen if it went wrong. :)

Hollie Maea: Lord Dimwit: what would happen if it went wrong.

I reckon that the consequences would involve some serious *mumble*, amirite?

They might even graduate to full on throat-clearing and meaningful glances.