jedishrfu's latest activity

For what it's worth, admission committees do tend to take into account poor performance due to illness, particularly when there is...

Welcome to PF! What are your fields on interest? What programming family? For the last 25 years itwas java but the previous 20 years...

https://news.mit.edu/2026/mit-scientists-build-worlds-largest-collection-olympiad-level-math-problems-open-0424 MIT researchers have...

I had an eerie experience when I moved to Poughkeepsie, NY, to start a new job. My manager's name was Carl M. I was out in my yard...

There are a couple of semi-related variations of this problem. —- The amazing Randy gave a class on the validity of astrological...

Interesting, let's hope your cousin wasn't pranking you, knowing your math background.

I based it on the top twenty names in the US in the 1980s. The top name, Smith, was 1%, the top ten names covered 6-7%, and the top 100...

Wouldn't this be solved in the same manner as the birthday problem? You know the one where you're at a party of 20 guests, and the...

I'm unaware of practical examples of your function:$$f_{k}\left(x\right)\equiv x^{k/x}$$but a transformation of that...

Have you done any googling to find examples?

Many optimization problems in business engineering and science exhibit the behavior described by this function They start with a...

I still have a Gumby. He injured his hand awhile back and it's hard to fix. The foam material aged over 60 years or so that it crumbles...

I never had a Barbie, nor a Ken. Nor a GI Joe to boss them around. Instead had a Gumby and Pokey.

Here's a YouTube video on the History of Barbie:

I am actually surprised that governments don’t generally use Linux for security reasons. A government should worry that a commercial...