Wednesday, October 03, 2012

as an aside ..

i should stop telling people that my work is tangentially related to ΡDEs. it only causes them to ask more questions and if i happen to know how to solve this or that.
this has happened to me at airports,
indoor climbing walls,
and even saunas.

/sighs/
being that my colleagues would be more qualified to handle such questions, maybe i should keep their business cards [1] on hand, so that i can dispatch such inquiries directly to them ..! (-:



[1] .. not that they would actually have business cards, but you get the idea.

2 comments:

Daniel said...

Ha, I know I am somewhat guilty of that. Though, at least I know enough to know that you don't know how to solve PDEs.

janus said...

nah, don't worry about it, Daniel.

it's just that haven't gotten back to (A) a physics acquaintance who asked about convection-diffusion equations and (B) two finance people who asked me about what kinds of functionals could give rise to bipartite probability distributions ..

*shrugs*

all in a day's work, really. (-: