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Your new style is dope! I like hearing it.
It's a curious thing that my brain immediately picks up a tempo and a beat. In the beginning it's easier, but I tried skipping to the middle of the song and the same thing happens, my brain immediately thinks it's got the pulse of the song figured out. It could be off of course, but it's still cool. I'm trying to imagine the probabilistic fuzzy logic biowet algorithmic complexity madness that must be going on in my head, could probably nuke all of modern computer science with it. Or maybe someone who knows anything about signal analysis could nuke me, but my brain liked thinking this thought anyway.
It's a curious thing that my brain immediately picks up a tempo and a beat. In the beginning it's easier, but I tried skipping to the middle of the song and the same thing happens, my brain immediately thinks it's got the pulse of the song figured out. It could be off of course, but it's still cool. I'm trying to imagine the probabilistic fuzzy logic biowet algorithmic complexity madness that must be going on in my head, could probably nuke all of modern computer science with it. Or maybe someone who knows anything about signal analysis could nuke me, but my brain liked thinking this thought anyway.
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I should post some of the projects we did sometimeYes you should.
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We got snow today.
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why is it so easy to get attached to memories just for the sake of the fact they are memories? i'm stuck in sydney last year. i don't even know why. i mean okay there are lots of reasons but none of them are exactly specific to sydney, and there was A LOT about the 6 months I was there which wasn't so amazing.Could it be simply because of lots of new stimulating stuff happening, even if all of it wasn't pleasant? I don't know anything about your trip, but I suppose it was at least something out of the ordinary. Seem to me that often the change of environment makes you feel alive irrespective of wheter you're having a good time or not.
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Election day, election day, I'm getting excited!
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I really enjoyed No Direction Home, the Scorsese documentary about Dylan, but that might have something to do with my relationship to Dylan being a lot like the average 5-year-old's relationship to his dad. And seconding Exit Through the Gift Shop, a street art documentary which is at least as entertaining as it is documenting.
I know one that fits jamie's request perfectly,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iZK4Ka5d9A
but it's in Finnish so tough luck foreigners. (Ramci I found it, I found it! I asked the guy who uploaded it if he could send it to me but he hasn't replied yet, gonna have to consider more effective measures soon (try to find his email address))
I know one that fits jamie's request perfectly,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iZK4Ka5d9A
but it's in Finnish so tough luck foreigners. (Ramci I found it, I found it! I asked the guy who uploaded it if he could send it to me but he hasn't replied yet, gonna have to consider more effective measures soon (try to find his email address))
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Gröthendieck or no Gröthendieck, in our series of The Most Handsome Men In Science, the Man Of The Month is definitely
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yeah i did a category theory class last year and all the maths people were pretty uneasy about it, partly because a lot of the basic notation and syntax was more geared towards computer science stuff but mostly because the actual course content seemed to consist entirely of piling triangular commutative diagrams on top of each other and labelling the arrows between them. wow enough of this doodling shit gimme back my lemmas ¬¬ .............I heard about category theory for the first time, I don't understand anything about it so it sounds mindbendingly cool. I love the idea of that level of abstraction and the bald look of that Gröthendieck guy. I could be like a ice hockey coach hastily drawing multicolour arrow patterns on a marker board and still be doing stuff that's so abstract even mathematicians are scared.
And congrats, sounds like you had a good birthday!
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there's nothing "incredible" about the south. it is the worst cultural region in the world.I think that's pretty incredible!
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I've never really thought about going to southern US, but you're getting me interested. It sounds pretty incredible.
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Quote from: Wikipedia
In mathematics, abstract nonsense, general abstract nonsense, and general nonsense are terms used facetiously by some mathematicians to describe certain kinds of arguments and methods related to category theory. (Very) roughly speaking, category theory is the study of the general form of mathematical theories, without regard to their content. As a result, a proof that relies on category theoretic ideas often seems slightly out of context to those who are not used to such abstraction, sometimes to the extent that it resembles a comical non sequitur. Such proofs are sometimes dubbed “abstract nonsense” as a light-hearted way of alerting people to their abstract nature.
More generally, “abstract nonsense” may refer to any proof (humorous or not) that uses primarily category theoretic methods, or even to the study of category theory itself. Note that referring to an argument as "abstract nonsense" is not supposed to be a derogatory expression, and is actually often a compliment regarding the sophistication of the argument.[1][2]
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Strange, I would assume that there would always be a market for cheap accommodation for budget travellers.
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If you are travelling on a tight budget where do you sleep?
I quickly checked and there seemed to be plenty of couchsurfers around the area, so it shouldn't be hopeless, especially if you don't have strict plans on where you need to be and when.
I quickly checked and there seemed to be plenty of couchsurfers around the area, so it shouldn't be hopeless, especially if you don't have strict plans on where you need to be and when.
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No what I'm saying is for those safety incentives they don't count stuff like what happened to the deepwater horizon they count a yearly sum of hand injuries, falls, loss time accidents like that and a large scale explosion like the deepwater is considered something else entirely. Also I'm pretty sure the execs weren't the only ones that got that bonus with my company it goes across the board. I read the link you posted and it seems a little vague like the author could not have researched further into it or just left that bit out.Yeah I get the last part, though I'm pretty sure you didn't get $370k. If environmental damage is not included in safety stuff at all then that explains it a bit, but I'm still majorly pissed that a company fucked up about as bad as you can imagine in that business and ends up giving huge bonuses to their execs, with the CEO getting a neat 34% raise to his base salary and all in all a million more than the year before. According to my pretty conservative financial calculations of shit+shit=lot of shit Transocean should be buried in so much of it that they wouldn't be handing out anything to anyone.
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more and more I am regreting my life choice of going into art, and finding myself more interested in astronomy and physics and such. On an average week morning, my housemate will be downstairs watching the culture show or something, and I'll be in my room watching something on quantum theory or the big bang
Undergraduate physics is 90% boring stuff like classical mechanics (Newton's laws and onwards), thermodynamics etc., and then heaps and heaps of math. Sometimes when you get to the cool stuff you don't even realize it, it's probably just another a big pile of matrices with this property and that theorem and if you multiply it with this you get this and that and whooooops, somewhere there between the million sigmas was a result that makes a cool headline for a popular science magazine.
Not saying it isn't awesome when you get it, and good lecturers motivate with sidenotes like that, but mostly it's just more math. The one exception in my undergrad physics has been introduction to special relativity, which was filled with mind bending examples of how to drive a 6m car to 4m garage. Special relativity is a great in the sense that it's probably the only part of modern (relativity+quantum) physics that doesn't require much more than highschool level math as a basis. Often the best part comes sometime after you've done a course and you browse through the material and can skip all the mathematical technicalities and focus on the big picture.
I get what you mean though, I'm often thinking why didn't I go to philosophy or psychology or something, I would only have to read books and talk cool, grass is always greener on the other side. But when somebody's talking about the revolutionary new ways Kant had for thinking about perception he never mentions that in the original texts they are buried in a thousand pages of incomprehensible rambling. Which is natural of course, not criticising it, but you sometimes need a reminder.
If you wanna do the open university thing you can find lots of course materials online for free, MIT has its OpenCourseWare and googling around I've often ran into lecture notes or even video lectures from Caltech, Berkeley, Stanford etc.
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If 2010 was honestly their "best year in safety performance in our company's history" either they have a really, really skewed way of calculating this or I don't even wanna hear about 2009. I get it that oil rigs are dangerous places and the eleven people who died on Deepwater Horizon probably weren't even the only deaths in 2010, but even if it had been a hundred and eleven it would have been the small compared to the whole extent of the catastrophe caused by cost-cutting induced lapse of safety standards by Transocean and others. I don't know from which level the decisions to cut corners originated, but I bet it was pretty high up the ladder, and the bonuses in question were not for anybody who needs helmet, it's the top execs getting tens or hundreds of thousands on top of their already multi million salaries ($370k bonus for the CEO otherwise earning a petty 5.5 million). Which is outrageous by itself, even before somebody gets the brilliant idea to mention "safety performance" as a reason for them.
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If you're backpacking and don't mind not having the privacy of your own hostel room check http://www.couchsurfing.org/. It's a community where people offer each other couches to sleep on when they're travelling, I've done it a few times and can recommend. If you're interested I can tell you more, you can probably get a couch even if you just created your profile, there's all sorts of stuff about verifiying your indentity and getting reviews etc. but really it's not an obstacle. Especially if you're trying to find the less rednecky people around there, couchsurfers are a pretty good bet, and they often have good tips about what to see and do around where they live.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPHYpiR4JuM&fmt=18
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"The offshore drilling firm responsible for running the Deepwater Horizon rig has given its top executives bonuses for its "best year" for safety." It's one thing to be a huge dick handing out outrageous bonuses, but it's another to be so estranged from all reality that you name it "best year for safety" and don't even understand that this would be pr problem.
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"The offshore drilling firm responsible for running the Deepwater Horizon rig has given its top executives bonuses for its "best year" for safety." It's one thing to be a huge dick handing out outrageous bonuses, but it's another to be so estranged from all reality that you name it "best year for safety" and don't even understand that this would be pr problem.
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Why is everybody always talking about grey hound, don't you guys have trains?