Dyslexia
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That sounds ridiculous, most Fourier Transform calculations cannot be done explicitly!
Are you sure she's not pulling your leg?
My brother says it isn't hard either...he is a physicist.
Personally I wouldn't know.
Edit: a quick google seems to say it isn't that hard either.
Anyway it isn't important, she is simply exceptional with numbers and abysmal with words, which is the point I was making, whether she can solve the Goldbach Conjecture or whatever isn't actually the point.
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OK, that just means your wife and your brother don't know what they are talking about!
OK, that just means your wife and your brother don't know what they are talking about!
I'll be sure to tell them.
I'll email Prof John Rodenburg as well to tell him that he is wrong as well......
http://www.rodenburg.org/theory/y1300.html
Like I said, a quick google seems to imply that it is possible.......
http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~sheinis/ast500/AY500_lect14.ppt.pdf
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Flanders is perfectly correct, and John Rodenburg is being ridiculously simplistic. If his comments (and your wife's) were true, Fourier analysis would be easy. It's not.I'll be sure to tell them.
I'll email Prof John Rodenburg as well to tell him that he is wrong as well......
http://www.rodenburg.org/theory/y1300.html
The link you've given is tantamount to saying "splitting integers into their prime factors is easy -- look, 58=2x29". Yes, some Fourier transforms can be done with little-to-no-effort. But most cannot. Your wife is guilty of nothing more than being a little naive.
Flanders is perfectly correct, and John Rodenburg is being ridiculously simplistic. If his comments (and your wife's) were true, Fourier analysis would be easy. It's not.
The link you've given is tantamount to saying "splitting integers into their prime factors is easy -- look, 58=2x29". Yes, some Fourier transforms can be done with little-to-no-effort. But most cannot. Your wife is guilty of nothing more than being a little naive.
Like I said, I wouldn't know.
However, she was replying to my asking her in regard to Permabanned's flippant remark.....it had little to do with whether all calculations are easy or not.......on showing her this, she actually thinks this is amusing and said her original remark was as flippant as the original accusation....she was asked if she could do them in her head...she said yes, the complexity was not mentioned.....She seems rather flummoxed that it was all taken so seriously, but then she doesn't understand the importance of ocuk forum debate......
All I know for sure is that she can do stuff in her head that I can't do on a calculator, and even when I can she does it in half the time.
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The wife has a BSc in Mathematics and Economics, my Brother is a studying for a Physics Doctorate.....I think they are ok for now.
It would be me that might like to learn more.
I've often wondered if I have dyslexia but never claimed I have. My concentration skills suck. When I have to think, like with maths, even simple stuff, its like my mind freezes up.
I'm on a music degree and have been studying music for like 4+ years and still I haven't learnt or retained any theory because of its relation to maths.. ugh.
I also have an awful memory.
Probably I just suck though!
I'm on a music degree and have been studying music for like 4+ years and still I haven't learnt or retained any theory because of its relation to maths.. ugh.
I also have an awful memory.
Probably I just suck though!
That's awesome -- you can all read the books together!
My brother said he'll teach me if I really want, he maintains that that it isn't that difficult, even if it can be mathematically complex. I suppose it depends on how you define difficult.
I doubt I'll get it or find it easy, my talents lie elsewhere. Still I'll learn anything.
Anyway back to Dyslexia.
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I have not read the whole thread as I am tired and ready for bed, but I may read it another day.
Here is my situation including what I think.
Long version:
Firstly, I am Dyslexic. I was 'diagnosed' in 2009 at the age of 21 and had gone through school, 6th form, my first year of uni (which I failed so badly I got kicked out of as I was very lazy), the first year of my new uni course and half of the second year of it. As far as I am concerned, it is just a way of thinking. Being this way probably helped me to get my 1st class BEng degree.
I have a very strong opinion that Dyslexia is not an excuse for basically not being bothered with basic timekeeping (i.e. being late and/or missing appointments), basic grammar or simply being thick at school. The amount of free stuff the university wanted to give me was absolutely crazy but the note taker was about the only think I honestly believe helped.
I love it when people play the Dyslexia card, because I have the condition and so can justly tell them to stop using it as an excuse. We live in a world where technology allows us to keep track of the time and check our spelling. The biggest load of crap I have heard of with Dyslexia is giving students longer deadlines for coursework. As an engineer I was told you cannot have this as then the deadlines stack up due to the high workload that engineers have - If engineers can cope with 4 deadlines a week, why does the geography student need their 1500 word essay deadline extending?
I am sure there is a fancy word for me being crap at sports and being fat too. Many people use Dyslexia as a cover up excuse for their children just being a bit slow.
Short version:
I have Dyslexia and it is pretty much meaningless. There is enough technology out there for someone in the 21st century to be on time and have a good level of spelling.
Here is my situation including what I think.
Long version:
Firstly, I am Dyslexic. I was 'diagnosed' in 2009 at the age of 21 and had gone through school, 6th form, my first year of uni (which I failed so badly I got kicked out of as I was very lazy), the first year of my new uni course and half of the second year of it. As far as I am concerned, it is just a way of thinking. Being this way probably helped me to get my 1st class BEng degree.
I have a very strong opinion that Dyslexia is not an excuse for basically not being bothered with basic timekeeping (i.e. being late and/or missing appointments), basic grammar or simply being thick at school. The amount of free stuff the university wanted to give me was absolutely crazy but the note taker was about the only think I honestly believe helped.
I love it when people play the Dyslexia card, because I have the condition and so can justly tell them to stop using it as an excuse. We live in a world where technology allows us to keep track of the time and check our spelling. The biggest load of crap I have heard of with Dyslexia is giving students longer deadlines for coursework. As an engineer I was told you cannot have this as then the deadlines stack up due to the high workload that engineers have - If engineers can cope with 4 deadlines a week, why does the geography student need their 1500 word essay deadline extending?
I am sure there is a fancy word for me being crap at sports and being fat too
. Many people use Dyslexia as a cover up excuse for their children just being a bit slow.Short version:
I have Dyslexia and it is pretty much meaningless. There is enough technology out there for someone in the 21st century to be on time and have a good level of spelling.
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I thought it had been established that your brother didn't know what he was talking about!? If you know some elementary undergraduate calculus (and some complex analysis as a bonus) then Fourier analysis is entirely approachable.
I'm sure when you and your brother go through the material you'll see why it's nigh-on impossible to perform a generic Fourier transform! (by the way, great to see people interested in this stuff)
He said it can be simple or hard, It is merely a mathematical tool. He says it isn't that difficult a theory to understand and I have no reason to disbelieve him, given his profession I would suspect he at least knows something about math, not that you do not.
As for a generic Fourier Transform.....whoever said that???
Anyway while I am interested in the theory, I am not so interested in being spoken down to all the time by someone I don't know even if it is not intentional.... so I'll leave this here, it has nothing to do with the thread anyway.
Thanks.
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Which is good for you but of course makes the assumption that everyone who has dyslexia has exactly the same presentation that you do. However, they will most likely not and therefore require more or less support.