Programming Throwdown Episode 165 Differential Equations.

Take it away, Jason. Hey, everybody. This is going to be a cool

show. We're going to talk about something that Patrick and I are definitely not experts in,

but I've had to do a lot of it recently. I think it's very important. And so we're going to talk

about DiffyQ. Oh, man, you already shortened it. I'm already out.

You know, I don't know if, uh, did we have to take Diff EQ in college? It was a requirement.

It was a requirement. I did very, very bad at it. You know, I honestly don't even remember taking it.

So that that goes to say, show something right there.

I don't know if I took it or not.

But we are going to dive deep into it.

It turns out it is really important.

And so we'll get to that.

But before we do, I want to talk about spreadsheets.

I actually fell back in love with Excel, in this case Google Sheets, but we really take it for granted.

I mean, sometimes we even make fun of people who, you know, do tons of things in Excel.

You know, we say like, oh, like, you know, we could have done so much of this in Python or

R or what have you. But, you. But one of the really powerful things in Excel is the sort of like recursive nature of it

and how you can kind of incrementally build on top of some data,

and you can see all the intermediate values as long you know you

don't make the functions too complicated so I had this thing where it's actually

it's kind of a it's pretty nerdy but there's this video game called X4 and in X4 you

it's one of these grand strategy games.

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