December 2011
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“The greatest hinderance to knowledge is our own subjective presence.”
– Alan Watts, “Tao: the Watercouse Way”
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“Atheists are routinely asked how people will know not to rape and murder without...”
– 10 Myths Many Religious People Hold About Atheists, Debunked (via mutualaddiction)
“Ah he had loved a love that never
is known today; only a soul
that raves with...”
– Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
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Math Major Problem
“The proof is left as an exercise for the reader.”
“It is very interesting, clicking nothing. But then, we were clicking nothing the...”
– Adam Scriven, in Wired magazine article “The Curse of Cow Clicker”
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The Semester that Never Ends
Checkers-playing program that uses AI to beat all opponents? Done.
Artificial Intelligence final? Done.
Hearing Science final? Done.
Combinatorics “midterm” on the last day of class? Done.
Combinatorics final? Done.
Honors research paper on Speech Synthesis? Done.
Phonology final? Done.
Mathematical Logic final? 7:45 AM tomorrow monring. Why? Just. Why.
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“Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget...”
– Neil Gaiman (via excessivebookshelf)
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“Like Spinoza’s god, [math] will not love us in return.”
– Bertrand Russell. All I can think about while studying for my logic final…. It’s my last one and my brain is refusing to learn any new information.
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“A program is an intricate recipe of logical and statistical operations directed...”
– Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works
Getting the internet fixed was the worse freaking...
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“All of that time you thought I was sad
I was trying to remember your name.”
– Stars, “Your Ex-Lover Is Dead”
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“Hill Climbing [as a search technique] does not look ahead beyond the immediate...”
– Russel and Norvig, “Artificial Intellgience: A Modern Approach”
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“Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.”
– E. W. Dijkstra (via silversouled)
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Math Major Problem
Make a claim. Reflexively write “Pf:” after it.
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Standing in Line at a Coffee Shop...
Drunk guy ordering a triple-shot of espreso: Are you a student here?
I: Yep.
He: Oh really? What's your major?
I: Math
He: Oh.... I can't even add 2+2, haha. *skips off to rejoin his group*
Part of me feels like I should be slightly offended by that. "You're a math major? kbye," but I can't stop laughing at how strange it was long enough to care.
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“What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.”
– Christopher Hitchens - British-born American journalist. Regular contributor to Vanity Fair and Slate. His books include the merciless Missionary Position: Mother Theresa in Theory and Practice and God is Not Great: The Case Against Religion. Identified as a leader of the atheist movement,...
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The point of saying Happy Holidays is not to...
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“The first sweet moments, why could one not live an eternal, immortal life in...”
– Turgenev, “Fathers and Sons”
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Math Major Problem
Professor in non-math class: “the least common denominator of 500, 750, and 1000 is 100.”
You: sit there and have a minor rage attack as she keeps repeating it.
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“As long as one lives through an experience, one must surrender to that...”
– Nietzsche
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“Sometimes your shallowness is so through, it’s almost like depth.”
– Daria
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“Those thinkers in whom all stars move in cyclic orbits are not the most...”
– Nietzsche
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“Don’t you get it, Daria? You did something stupid for a guy. You may join...”
– Jane
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“It is we alone who have devised cause, sequence, for-each-other, relativity,...”
– Nietzsche
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“There are heights of the soul from which even tradgedy ceases to look tragic.”
– Nietzsche
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Free Natural Language Processing Class from... →
Because I clearly don’t have too much to do already.
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"Your Daily Reminder of Death" (link) →
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Math Major Problem
“But you’re hot!”
(bars……)
Do not argue with a CS student about graph theory. You will lose.