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ep10 - Stephen Boyd: Linear Matrix Inequalities, Convex Optimization, Disciplined Convex Programming, Rock & Roll

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How to Be a Rock and Roll Sound Vunderkind

When I did electrical engineering we certainly used math. It wasn't like advanced or fancy kind of math. Anyway, when I went off to Harvard I remember I wrote a letter which is completely hilarious these days but I write a letter to the head of what was then the second largest rock and roll sound company in the US called Maryland Sound Industries, MSI. So I had the great advantage that I knew their systems perfectly because they had something like 14 tours every summer. Two or three of them would come through the theater where I worked and I actually knew their equipment. The stories kept growing actually for years they kept growing anyway.

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