1186. Jeff (echelon.cs.yale.edu) –
06 Jan 2004 01:21:46
[ Eyes ]
...and hang out with Jeff while you're in town. |
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1185. Tuuur (supercow.kabel.utwente.nl) –
05 Jan 2004 23:38:56
[ Eyes ]
That's good news! |
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1182. Tom 7 (pcp01253016pcs.hamden01.ct.comcast.net) –
05 Jan 2004 16:57:33
[ Math Shirts ]
Also please use scare quotes when referring to the busy beaver "function" or "sequence". |
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1181. Hock (p-proxy-1-int0.net.wisc.edu) –
05 Jan 2004 16:52:26
[ Math Shirts ]
The audience for my busy beaver shirt is small? But computation affects us all! Plus, it's all about the captions. |
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1180. Heather (cobamide.bio.pitt.edu) –
05 Jan 2004 11:14:48
[ Stuck! ]
Cars suck,
Let's never have cars again!
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1179. Heather (cobamide.bio.pitt.edu) –
05 Jan 2004 10:32:34
[ Stuck! ]
Cars suck,
Let's never have cars again!
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1178. Tom 7 (pcp01253016pcs.hamden01.ct.comcast.net) –
05 Jan 2004 09:23:45
[ Stuck! ]
Shit, I blinked when I read your post--I couldn't help it. |
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1177. Tom 7 (pcp01253016pcs.hamden01.ct.comcast.net) –
05 Jan 2004 09:22:30
[ Math Shirts ]
I thought of more obscure t-shirts as well. But your target audience would be so small! |
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1176. Hock (res211.mesls.org) –
05 Jan 2004 01:50:14
[ Math Shirts ]
The shirts are are all horrible. I did like the comment on the log shirt though. But seriously, what's so fucking special about the quadratic formula? I guess it's the most complicated thing that kids in high school these days have to memorize. I would probably buy a shirt with various representations (NOT approximations) of pi. Or how about the first few members of the busy beaver sequence? Caption: On one side, "Get busy." On the other, "Got beaver?" |
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1175. Hock (res211.mesls.org) –
05 Jan 2004 01:39:59
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Damn Tom, that sucks. Be sure to get as much money out of this accident as possible. It is good that you have sustained some kind of minor injury. Demand monetary compensation for the temporary loss of visual information, something which I'm sure is priceless to you. After all, every moment of your action-packed life is precious and if you blink you'll miss something important, and a floater is like an extended (partial) blink. |
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1174. Tom 7 (pcp01253016pcs.hamden01.ct.comcast.net) –
05 Jan 2004 00:35:49
[ Stuck! ]
So true! |
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1173. Marc (h00102b024a85.ne.client2.attbi.com) –
04 Jan 2004 18:40:41
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Lasers are what you use to fix robots. Tom is a robot. |
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1172. Tuuur (supercow.kabel.utwente.nl) –
04 Jan 2004 10:31:54
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Sorry to read about your eye... hopefully that laser thing won't be necessary. |
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1171. Tom 7 (pcp01253016pcs.hamden01.ct.comcast.net) –
04 Jan 2004 10:09:41
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My eye will be fine if it doesn't have any retinal tears, and if it does, I think it's still a fairly simple laser thing to fix them.
The intersection is aka Whitney and West Woods rd. You probably never need to go up there unless you're going to Cheshire. |
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1170. Marc (h00102b024a85.ne.client2.attbi.com) –
04 Jan 2004 09:20:16
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Ack, that's really terrible about your eye, I hope that the eye specialist can help! I didn't know about that, sorry to hear.
Dang, I can't even tell you how many times I've been a waiting left turner on Whitney Avenue and someone stops coming the other way and waves me on, while other drivers zip by in the other oncoming lane. I don't get why they do it, and really, it's happened far more on Whitney then anywhere else for me, kind of odd. It's always a mixture of, "Hey, you're trying to be a considerate driver and that's a nice thing," and, "Don't you get it that you're on a two lane road and I will blow up if I try to accept your invitation? Just give it up and keep driving, please!"
So which intersection on Whitney is Death And Dismemberment? I gotta know to avoid it... |
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1169. Adam (dsl093-061-064.pit1.dsl.speakeasy.net) –
04 Jan 2004 00:24:09
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Actually, it's not even compressed nitrogen, but a chemical pack which generates nitrogen gas with explosive force. |
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1168. Tom 7 (pcp01253016pcs.hamden01.ct.comcast.net) –
03 Jan 2004 19:10:01
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Oh yeah, I did that too! But coming up with filler was one of the best parts... |
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1167. ndm (user-vc8fbmi.biz.mindspring.com) –
03 Jan 2004 18:36:39
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whoa holy crap. You finally changed the code of your weblog to display the previous month's contents beneath the current month thus eliminating the hassle of always needing to come up with some filler at the first of the month to prevent your log from looking stupid. Good for you.
sorry about the accident. |
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1166. Tom 7 (pcp01253016pcs.hamden01.ct.comcast.net) –
03 Jan 2004 13:01:29
[ Newsweek Short ]
Haha, yeah, I don't know what was up with that one. |
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1165. Andrew (yale128036074100.student.yale.edu) –
03 Jan 2004 12:12:10
[ Newsweek Short ]
"popu-lar" |
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1164. Andrew (yale128036074100.student.yale.edu) –
03 Jan 2004 12:09:04
[ Evolution Quote ]
Mind over matter! |
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1163. Tom 7 (pcp01253016pcs.hamden01.ct.comcast.net) –
03 Jan 2004 09:51:09
[ Math Shirts ]
Oh, the diagram is terrible! It's visible in the page source. (Alas, I have nobody to blame but myself...) |
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1162. Tom 7 (pcp01253016pcs.hamden01.ct.comcast.net) –
03 Jan 2004 09:50:23
[ Math Shirts ]
Hehe. Well, I think you got a minus sign wrong somewhere because 3(-1)^1 - 8(-1) is -5, not 5. The actual answer is much less nice, because it has a square root of 124 instead of 4. But that's the right idea!
The reason that there's a plus-or-minus in there is that quadratic equations (ones with x^2) are parabolas when graphed. That means that they might cross the x-axis twice:
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(That probably won't come out, oh well...)
So the quadratic equation has two solutions, one on the right side (plus) and one on the left (or minus). In the case that the square root is 0, then the tip of the parabola just touches the x axis at a single point. If b^2-4ac is negative, then the square root doesn't exist, and that's the case that the parabola lives entirely above the x axis and never touches it at all.
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