Is it time for Random Thoughts - Part 4?

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The discussion centers on the splitting of larger threads to alleviate server load, with a focus on the continuation of a previous thread. Participants engage in light-hearted banter, celebrating a trivia quiz and discussing various topics, including creativity, humor, and personal anecdotes. One member shares a humorous proposal joke involving a "trivial ring," leading to a deeper conversation about mathematical concepts and the nature of "nothing." The conversation shifts to personal experiences, including frustrations with the medical system following a wisdom tooth extraction, highlighting issues with prescription management and insurance complications. Members express their opinions on dental practices, particularly the necessity of wisdom tooth removal, with some viewing it as a financial racket unless there are complications. Overall, the thread reflects a mix of humor, personal stories, and commentary on broader societal issues, maintaining a casual and engaging tone throughout.
  • #751
if I was a transistor id probably be a generic like a 2n3055.

a high power sanken in a to-big package is what I aspire to be
 
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  • #752
thankz said:
if I was a transistor id probably be a generic like a 2n3055.

a high power sanken in a to-big package is what I aspire to be

I must admit, "if I were a transistor" is a phrase I have never heard, nor even thought :smile:.
 
  • #753
lisab said:
I must admit, "if I were a transistor" is a phrase I have never heard, nor even thought :smile:.

Me neither. I'd rather be a capacitor.
 
  • #754
Resistor suits me best. Alternatively, any system with a large time constant. My Mom used to say I am so slow I even fall slower than others.
 
  • #755
dkotschessaa said:
Me neither. I'd rather be a capacitor.
Borek said:
Resistor suits me best. Alternatively, any system with a large time constant. My Mom used to say I am so slow I even fall slower than others.

You two could form a band. :-p

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  • #756
Borg said:
You two could form a band. :-p

electronic+jokes_2c10e5_4846288.jpg

You just couldn't resist, could you...
 
  • #757
dkotschessaa said:
You just couldn't resist, could you...
It was futile.
 
  • #758
Borg said:
It was futile.

You have a capacity for understatement.
 
  • #759
Thought:

Maybe the reason the U.S. isn't that interested in the world cup is that we're trying NOT to be a barbaric third world country?

Homophobic chants, people biting each other... no thanks.
 
  • #760
dkotschessaa said:
Homophobic chants, people biting each other

You really want me to list Americans doing exactly that?
 
  • #761
Borek said:
You really want me to list Americans doing exactly that?

Touche.

I'm not usually Mr. rah-rah America, mind you. It just seems that the whole spirit of this game is something humans should be moving away from, and here it is being celebrated.

But I am moving away from the required level of stochasticity for this thread, so I'll end it there.
 
  • #762
Do you like me?

Yes OR No

Analysis:
Yes = 1
No = 0
1 || 0 = 1 = Yes

So he/she likes you.
 
  • #763
Psinter said:
Do you like me?

Yes OR No

Analysis:
Yes = 1
No = 0
1 || 0 = 1 = Yes

So he/she likes you.

:biggrin:
 
  • #764
2B\vee\neg 2B =?
(To be, or not to be, that is the question)
 
  • #768
Mandelbroth said:
I'm having fun reading these codes. :smile:

From the tutorial page:
By prefixing a noun with an adjective, you multiply it by two. Another adjective, and it is multiplied by two again, and so on. That way, you can easily construct any power of two or its negation. From there, it's easy to construct arbitrary integers using basic arithmetic, such as ``the sum of $X$ and $Y$'', where $X$ and $Y$ are themselves arbitrary integers.

For example, ``the difference between the square of the difference between my little pony and your big hairy hound and the cube of your sorry little codpiece''. Substituting the simple constants with numbers, we get ``the difference between the square of the difference between 2 and 4 and the cube of -4''. Now, since the difference between 2 and 4 is $2 - 4 = -2$, and the cube of $-4$ is $(-4)^3 =
-64$, this is equal to ``the difference between the square of $-2$ and $-64$''. The square of $-2$ is $(-2)^2 = 4$, and the difference of 4 and $-64$ is 60. Thus, ``the difference between the square of the difference between my little pony and your big hairy hound and the cube of your sorry little codpiece'' means 60.
 
  • #769
OMG. Got a TAship. I actually didn't see it coming.

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  • #770
Mandelbroth said:
I'm having fun reading these codes. :smile:

I cannot grasp the "Hello World" code.

But alas, methinks, that perchance, Windows 8, utilized SPL developer suite, version 3.
 
  • #771
dkotschessaa said:
OMG. Got a TAship. I actually didn't see it coming.

Bear-in-the-Big-Blue-House.gif
Awesome!
 
  • #772
OmCheeto said:
...Windows 8...

My first computer came with an 8 kilobyte, ROM burned operating system

250px-TRS-80_Videotex_terminal_retouched.jpg

and a chiclet keyboard, just like my new mac laptop.

Everyone laughed at the chiclets back then. Not sure why. I loved it.

I think people are funny.
 
  • #773
25841471_BG2.jpg


"My leg hairs were singed. I could smell the burnt hair," he explained. "I looked across the driveway and I could see my boots over there. They were no longer on my feet, and one of them was smoking'. At that point I realized I had just been hit by lightning."

http://www.cbs46.com/story/25841471/man-survives-after-lightning-strike-blows-him-out-of-his-shoes
 
  • #774
OmCheeto said:
My first computer came with an 8 kilobyte, ROM burned operating system

250px-TRS-80_Videotex_terminal_retouched.jpg

and a chiclet keyboard, just like my new mac laptop.

Everyone laughed at the chiclets back then. Not sure why. I loved it.

I think people are funny.

My first computer. Cosby not included:

ti-cosby-300x276.png


Actually I'm not even sure what that big thing is that the monitor is sitting on. Mine was just the keyboard/cpu hooked up an old television. I had no drives or storage. I programmed the game I wanted in and then played it. When I turned it off the program was lost.

-DaveK
 
  • #775
dkotschessaa said:
My first computer. Cosby not included:

ti-cosby-300x276.png


Actually I'm not even sure what that big thing is that the monitor is sitting on. Mine was just the keyboard/cpu hooked up an old television. I had no drives or storage. I programmed the game I wanted in and then played it. When I turned it off the program was lost.

-DaveK

Good grief! You are old!

ps. Mine had a cassete deck memory storage unit, sold separately. The joke was, that it had a higher data transfer rate than the Commodore 64's disk drive.

No joke.
 
  • #776
mine was a 286 with 1 meg of ram and a 40 meg hard drive, 5-1/4 floppy, a copy of dos 3.0 and gw basic. a Hercules monochrome vga card. I had to build it myself as a summer afterschool job and not only did I get to keep it but they paid me $600 dollars to do so.
 
  • #777
dkotschessaa said:
My first computer. Cosby not included:

ti-cosby-300x276.png


Actually I'm not even sure what that big thing is that the monitor is sitting on. Mine was just the keyboard/cpu hooked up an old television. I had no drives or storage. I programmed the game I wanted in and then played it. When I turned it off the program was lost.

-DaveK

Great machine, TI99/4 and 4a.
It was based on TI's industrial TMS9900 cpu chipset which had interesting architecture. You could define any memory location as program counter and the next (twenty? I forget exactly) memory locations became your stack , really handy for real time applications that context switch a lot.
My Canadian friends had a Candu nuclear plant simulator that ran on the 99/4a , using every last byte of memory.


The expansion box contained more memory, disk drive and I/O cards. There's a 99/4 following today - hobbyists are still souping them up.

To find out if computers are really radiation tolerant i took mine down to the Radiation Protection lab and gave it a thousand rads. Didn't phase it. I used it for an office computer thereafter until the company bought us PC's a few years later.

Ahhh nostalgia - thanks guys !
 
  • #779
OmCheeto said:
Good grief! You are old!

ps. Mine had a cassete deck memory storage unit, sold separately. The joke was, that it had a higher data transfer rate than the Commodore 64's disk drive.

No joke.

YES. We eventually did get the tape. The five minute loop tapes. They were fun to listen to. "eeeechhhffchfffchffffchfffchfffchffff..."
 
  • #780
  • #781
Evo said:
Awesome!

Man, I had to ask a friend of mine (who I feel is perhaps a bit more deserving) if he got one, and he didn't. I have never been in this type of situation. :frown:
 
  • #782
How I confused my wife in the swimming pool the other day

Wife: "Are you going out the ladder or the stairs"
Me: "I choose the latter."
[I take the stairs]
 
  • #783
  • #784
DennisN said:
Ok, dkotschessaa and Mandelbroth, which song am I thinking of when I write this:

sgn(t_1, t_2, t_3, ...t_n)
(I know I ought to be be slapped for this :blushing:)

Well, you're safe from me, because I'm not getting it. Mandelbroth?
 
  • #785
DennisN said:
Ok, dkotschessaa and Mandelbroth, which song am I thinking of when I write this:

sgn(t_1, t_2, t_3, ...t_n)
(I know I ought to be be slapped for this :blushing:)

"Sign of the Times"...? Petula Clark
 
  • #786
Emptyset?
 
  • #787
Identifying a "psychological metric" to determine approximately how much homework results in a desirable test performance has become central to my study habits. About 5-10 pages per chapter seems alright currently.

It's interesting to project the concept into other contexts, like a work or business situation. I feel like I'm gaining psychological efficiency.
 
  • #788
I wonder if there are any professors who are guilty of purposely causing leptokurtosis because of their grading practices.
 
  • #789
This thread in and of itself is better than Twitter since there is no 140 word limit. :smile:
 
  • #790
phion said:
This thread in and of itself is better than Twitter since there is no 140 word limit. :smile:

I must say, I enjoy this thread, and like the people who post here.
 
  • #791
dkotschessaa said:
I must say, I enjoy this thread, and like the people who post here.
Me too!
 
  • #792
No matter how many time I sign my name, I get it perfect maybe 1/3 of the time.
 
  • #793
DennisN said:
Ok, dkotschessaa and Mandelbroth, which song am I thinking of when I write this:

sgn(t_1, t_2, t_3, ...t_n)
(I know I ought to be be slapped for this :blushing:)

TumblingDice said:
"Sign of the Times"...? Petula Clark
Correct! (actually I was thinking about the song by Prince, but you decoded it correctly)
 
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  • #794
DennisN said:
Correct! (actually I was thinking about the song by Prince, but you decoded it correctly)

It was a cool conundrum! I tried to wait 'cause you posed it to dkotschessaa and Mandelbroth. My bad for jumping in before giving Mandelbroth a chance. I enjoy puzzles SO much, and was looking to join y'all in this thread.

@Mandelbroth: Hope you caan forgive me!
 
  • #796
There is only one word that describes what has happened in my back yard over the last few of years:

Entropy...

:cry:
 
  • #797
OmCheeto said:
There is only one word that describes what has happened in my back yard over the last few of years:

Entropy...

:cry:

Tell us more I love stories that begin like this.:approve:Btw I think I am going through my second childhood and it really isn't all that bad.
 
  • #798
edward said:
Tell us more I love stories that begin like this.:approve:


Btw I think I am going through my second childhood and it really isn't all that bad.

Story? Good grief. Where does one begin...

I was born a poor black child. It all went downhill from there...​

:cry:
 
  • #799
OmCheeto said:
Story? Good grief. Where does one begin...

I was born a poor black child. It all went downhill from there...​

:cry:


Hmm maybe that is why my second childhood seems to be better than my first. I was born a poor white kid and got stuck in the rut of what poor white kids could afford to buy. Now I can easily afford what middle class white kids can afford to buy.:approve:
 
  • #800
edward said:
Hmm maybe that is why my second childhood seems to be better than my first. I was born a poor white kid and got stuck in the rut of what poor white kids could afford to buy. Now I can easily afford what middle class white kids can afford to buy.:approve:

I haven't received my first retirement check yet, so I'm not sure what I can afford.

Other than cheap beer... (hic!) :redface:
 

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