Great one-liners from PF members

[strangerep]

I haven't read The Hobbit either, though I imagine it's a comparitively easy read.

I was exposed to "The Hobbit" in year 9 high school English class. It was one of the prescribed literature textbooks, but our teacher refused to teach anything about it. She thought it was nonsense -- far beneath her. (Tbh, I didn't like her much at all. A literature teacher who doesn't comprehend the achievements of J.R.R. Tolkien?? Sheesh.)

"The Hobbit" is interesting in that the writing starts off with a rather childish tone -- well below year 9, I'd have thought. Not to mention the silly poems/songs.

Then the tone soon becomes more mature as the chapters advance.

 

[Hornbein]

I took a speed reading class and then was able to read War and Peace in twenty minutes.

It's about Russia.

That was Woody Allen.

 

[berkeman]

I'm not sure if I'm allowed to self-report, but this is from a PM discussion with a couple members after they wasted a fair amount of time and effort trying to help a user in the EE forum who mainly seemed clueless about their AC Mains project they kept asking about, but turned out to have ulterior motives...

Yeah, very sorry about that, what a waste of our time and effort. He was a help vampire and hacker hidden in clueless sheep's clothing. (That might be a record for mixing metaphors...)

 

[Vanadium 50]

Hacker hidden in clueless sheep's clothing? Maybe he's just not the sharpest cookie in the jar.

 

[berkeman]

Hacker hidden in clueless sheep's clothing? Maybe he's just not the sharpest cookie in the jar.

Doh!

 

[BvU]

Link limited to a select group !

 

[berkeman]

Link limited to a select group !

Yes, it's from a PM conversation.

 

[Vanadium 50]

Or...you can lead a gift horse to water but you can't look in his mouth.

 

[gmax137]

I always thought the gifted horses were the ones stomping out answers to arithmetic questions...

 

[BillTre]

I always thought the gifted horses were the ones stomping out answers to arithmetic questions...

They could also just be horses given to someone.

 

[Vanadium 50]

I always thought the gifted horses were the ones stomping out answers to arithmetic questions...

HorseGPT.

 

[Vanadium 50]

HorseGPT.

ChatGPY and horses have one thing in common, at least: they both produce a lot of hotses.h...er...manure.

 

[Hornbein]

HorseGPT.

That could be a winner. People like animals. Could CatGPT lie ahead?

I kind of like the idea of ChatLSD but that might get old fast. Then again, maybe not.

 

[Borg]

CatGPT would just ignore your questions.

Edit: This got me to thinking about Googling it and it turns out that CatGPT exists - https://cat-gpt.com

 

[jack action]

Could CatGPT lie ahead?

We already have it in French.

 

[Hornbein]

We already have it in French.

Well dang. I've had this happen before. Last time it was Apocalypso. Someday soon anything you can imagine will already be there. Then what?

A ChatLSD search turned up the Charles Schwab brokerage. Who knew?

There was a ChatLSD on Instagram that has been removed.

 

[gmax137]

Who knew?

Timothy Leary?

 

[phinds]

This process of continually updating one's knowledge of a subject is called learning. It's the opposite of religiously adhering to an established view in the face of evidence to the contrary.

 

[Swamp Thing]

... if only there were some way of searching for information on the internet

This deserves to be in this thread in its own right, yeah?

 

[topsquark]

PeroK said
This process of continually updating one's knowledge of a subject is called learning. It's the opposite of religiously adhering to an established view in the face of evidence to the contrary.

I might borrow this one, if you don't mind.

-Dan

 

[pinball1970]

This deserves to be in this thread in its own right, yeah?

That was my complaint about the title "Breaking bad."

 

[Tom.G]

About e-mail scams, banks, and police.

...is better to learn locksmithery than rely on somebody else to guard your stuff.

https://www.physicsforums.com/posts/6916748

 

[Ibix]

In a discussion about a woman who had 69 children from 27 pregnancies (all multiple births):

27 x .75 = 20.25 years
That so much more reasonable.
Very fertile, but also efficient.

 

[berkeman]

About questionable results in a new paper:

At least it puts the woo in woo hoo.

 

[berkeman]

When trying to help an EE student with analyzing fairly simple circuits, and they keep trying to use SPICE to guide their learning...

You'll learn a lot more about electronics if you solve simple circuits with math before you simulate them. Simulations only give you answers, not reasons.

 

[jack action]

As a rule of thumb, when the first thing someone tells you is that their invention isn't a perpetual motion machine (before you can even think to ask), that means it's a perpetual motion machine.

 

[Borg]

That sounds like a conversation that could go on forever.

 

[gmax137]

There is no universal Least Action path to happiness.

 

[berkeman]

This one is way over my head...

The fact that you can buy an oven mitt at all is proof of quantum mechanics.

 

[Vanadium 50]

There is an explanation in that thread.