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« on: January 21, 2007, 03:29:23 AM » |
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I remember we used to have a thread for random things you may want to share (if memory serves correctly, it may have been called "The Random Thought Topic"), and I've recently noticed the serious lack of such a thread on our current boards. So I'm bringing it back. Like a boomerang. B-) So if you've got something you wish to present to us, or thoughts/feelings you wish to share (please try to keep the precedings as emoless as possible though  ), yet doesn't particularly deserve it's own thread, feel quite free to dump it here. Or place it gingerly. Entirely your choice.
I'll start things off, as I wanted somewhere to put this:
Cryptography
- Kris
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« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2007, 04:11:39 AM » |
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Kiefer Sutherland is doing the narration for a documentary about prostitution in the the Philippines, it's kinda weird, I keep expecting to see car chases, shootouts, and tense conversations about bomb disarmament. I'm having trouble watching it because of this, thanks alot Kiefer Sutherland.
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« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2007, 04:36:38 AM » |
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You should go watch Freeway.
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Even gnus get the blues sometimes.
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Kris
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« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2007, 12:24:41 AM » |
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Ackermann Function.
In computability theory, the Ackermann function or Ackermann-Péter function is a simple example of a computable function that is not primitive recursive. It takes two natural numbers as arguments and yields another natural number. Its value grows extremely quickly; even for small inputs, for example (4,3), the values of the Ackermann function are so large that they cannot be feasibly computed, and in fact their decimal expansions require more digits than there are particles in the entire visible universe.  Trying to read through the whole article is interesting, yet dangerous. My mind quite nearly exploded! View at your own risk. - Kris[/color]
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JskieXL
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« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2007, 05:15:01 AM » |
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Ah yes, computability. I still have no idea how I passed that course...
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Kris
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« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2007, 11:21:47 AM » |
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I take it back. This is even crazier. 
Graham's number, named after Ronald Graham, is often described as the largest number that has ever been seriously used in a mathematical proof. It is too large to be written in scientific notation because even the digits in the exponent would exceed the number of particles in the visible universe, so it needs special notation to write down. And James, if this is what that course was comprised of, then you have my utmost respect for passing it. - Kris[/color]
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JskieXL
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« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2007, 01:11:35 PM » |
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No, we avoided stuff that couldn't fit in the universe, mainly because it probably wouldn't fit on the lecture slides either.
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JskieXL: Dead, in the gutter, covered in regurgitated cat food
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JskieXL
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« Reply #7 on: January 24, 2007, 05:16:43 PM » |
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Cats wearing headphonesPossibly the most pointless link in the world.
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JskieXL: Dead, in the gutter, covered in regurgitated cat food
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Kris
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« Reply #8 on: January 24, 2007, 06:47:12 PM » |
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Haha. You sir, have a real knack for finding pages with cat modifications. And I bet this was at work, wasn't it?
- Kris
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« Reply #9 on: January 25, 2007, 03:43:46 AM » |
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Those all come from some dude on B3ta. You can apparently get them as cell phone backgrounds through some UK phone company or something.
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« Reply #10 on: January 25, 2007, 05:23:39 AM » |
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Metroid Wifi friend code: 4338-6798-6961
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Kris
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« Reply #11 on: February 02, 2007, 10:18:07 AM » |
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Holy moly! Dan Aykroyd's forehead is humongeous!
- Kris
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« Reply #12 on: February 10, 2007, 05:27:21 AM » |
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Man gets breakfast tattoo on headWhat an odd fellow... EDIT: Another one! You have to love The Sun.
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JskieXL: Dead, in the gutter, covered in regurgitated cat food
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« Reply #13 on: February 10, 2007, 07:42:42 PM » |
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Speaking of breakfast, I just make a pancake cake with maple icing.
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JskieXL
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« Reply #14 on: February 11, 2007, 04:16:46 AM » |
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But you have no plans to get a pancake tattooed on the top of your head, right?
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