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[WWGD]

My social grace. Someone tells me "See you later" and I reply: "You too!".

 

[fresh_42]

Time to tune in: RSA vs. NZ.

 

[nuuskur]

I am doubting elementary stuff like
$$Y = Y_0\oplus Y_1 \Rightarrow Y/Y_0 \cong Y_1$$
Not feeling well today

 

[fresh_42]

Well, it would be wrong for $Y=Y_0+Y_1$.

3:17 at 36'
13:23 (final)

 

[WWGD]

Read this somewhere:
My sister is pregnant , but I don't know if it is a boy or girl, so I don't know if I am going to be an aunt or an uncle...

 

[WWGD]

I am doubting elementary stuff like
$$Y = Y_0\oplus Y_1 \Rightarrow Y/Y_0 \cong Y_1$$
Not feeling well today

Iirc, it has to see with the associated SES splitting.

 

[nuuskur]

For every sensible question I will have asked a hundred stupid ones.

 

[WWGD]

This guy still walking around in Sandals, shorts and t-shirt. I told him: " Let it go, man, Summer is over. I was sad too. " But there is hope with global warming, not(with)standing Greta (Nor Hansel, I guess).

 

[fresh_42]

Tv is not always bad. Just watched, i.e. listened to a lecture by a Harvard anthropologist about the decline of various civilizations (Maya, Easter Islands, a certain conflict in the medieval Japan, etc.). It was very interesting and completely up to date. He closed with the statement that he is cautiously optimistic, because nowadays we have several communication networks which allow us to learn from catastrophes elsewhere and elsewhen.

I was stunned as they said at the end that it was from 2005. I would like to ask him whether he is still optimistic.

 

[WWGD]

Tv is not always bad. Just watched, i.e. listened to a lecture by a Harvard anthropologist about the decline of various civilizations (Maya, Easter Islands, a certain conflict in the medieval Japan, etc.). It was very interesting and completely up to date. He closed with the statement that he is cautiously optimistic, because nowadays we have several communication networks which allow us to learn from catastrophes elsewhere and elsewhen.

I was stunned as they said at the end that it was from 2005. I would like to ask him whether he is still optimistic.

Sad thing is channels like nat geo, discovery, which intended to provide serious programs ended up jumping the shark because,it seems, people today only want entertainment and not having to do any serious thinking.

 

[WWGD]

Calling Godel: Task Viewer is telling me that...Task Viewer froze up??

 

[fresh_42]

Sad thing is channels like nat geo, discovery, which intended to provide serious programs ended up jumping the shark because,it seems, people today only want entertainment and not having to do any serious thinking.

That's the European luxury of having public channels which are paid per general fees. The only disadvantage is that they are broadcast at weird times. (We do not call it socialism here, we call it public interest of education and culture. We believe that our administration has the duty to keep the population educated, at least in principle. A cop once told me that people have the right to be stupid.)

 

[WWGD]

That's the European luxury of having public channels which are paid per general fees. The only disadvantage is that they are broadcast at weird times. (We do not call it socialism here, we call it public interest of education and culture. We believe that our administration has the duty to keep the population educated, at least in principle. A cop once told me that people have the right to be stupid.)

Almost every country, AFAIK, has its own Public Television System, likely for that reason.

 

[WWGD]

I gave part of my rigatoni to my friend: mi pasta es su pasta.

 

[fresh_42]

I gave part of my rigatoni to my friend: mi pasta es su pasta.

You owe me a 3-mile-run in the Central Park now, but the pasta are delicious, thanks.

 

[WWGD]

You owe me a 3-mile-run in the Central Park now, but the pasta are delicious, thanks.

I gave you and then I owe you? Nein kapisch.

 

[fresh_42]

I gave you and then I owe you? Nein kapisch.

I cooked it because of your joke. Now someone has to run off the calories again. Since it was your fault ...

 

[Rive]

Time is often considered as a dimension on its own right. With all the confusing and disturbing quantum paradox-like experiments it just happened to me - how 'thick' is the 'present' actually?

 

[WWGD]

Attn Dr Floyd:
Didn't expect to hear' Dark side of the Moon' at the (walking past) yuppie coffee shop.

 

[WWGD]

Time is often considered as a dimension on its own right. With all the confusing and disturbing quantum paradox-like experiments it just happened to me - how 'thick' is the 'present' actually?

I have always been curious to work out the topology of space-time, but was always too busy ( i.e., too lazy) to work it out, or even to look it up.

 

[fresh_42]

$7 for a 48h access and $72 for a download, only to see whether a paper from 1937 is the one everybody refers to when they say: "... proved 1937, that ..."

Ridiculous.

 

[WWGD]

$7 for a 48h access and $72 for a download, only to see whether a paper from 1937 is the one everybody refers to when they say: "... proved 1937, that ..."

Ridiculous.

Doesn't your institution pay for access? Most "non-trivial" institutions get access.

 

[nuuskur]

Yeah, those prices are ridiculous. Thank god our uni pays for mathscinet and whatnot.

 

[nuuskur]

I get triggered every time I see an action denoted by $\lambda . v$, what's wrong with $\lambda\cdot v$? :( e.g multiplying vector with a scalar i.e ring action on an abelian group.

 

[fresh_42]

I get triggered every time I see an action denoted by $\lambda . v$, what's wrong with $\lambda\cdot v$? :( e.g multiplying vector with a scalar i.e ring action on an abelian group.

Multiplication is usually associative, an operation doesn't have to be.

 

[WWGD]

@nuuskur : You're not the only lost one: After many times talking to the French Math guy I realized 'Lemons' is meant to be 'Elements'. And 'Roget' stands for $\rho .(j)$

 

[WWGD]

VMWare with Win 7 went on installing updates for more than 2 hours until I had the common sense of restarting it cold.

 

[fresh_42]

VMWare with Win 7 went on installing updates for more than 2 hours until I had the common sense of restarting it cold.

Just had a W10 update. 30 min. restart and 20 min. waiting until the background programs gave back enough CPU and memory to work with ...

 

[WWGD]

Just had a W10 update. 30 min. restart and 20 min. waiting until the background programs gave back enough CPU and memory to work with ...

Aren't updates optional beyond Win 8 or so? Or should you really do them, maybe for security patches?

 

[fresh_42]

Aren't updates optional beyond Win 8 or so? Or should you really do them, maybe for security patches?

I guess you can avoid them, but then they will get on your nerves with permanent reminders, and if you don't pay attention during shutdowns, installation starts. With W10 even the small rest of transparency has gone. In W7 I could still decide what to update and what not. E.g. I don't need their Java version (forgot how they name their nonsense, something with framework IIRC.) Now it's only update now or postpone it. And postponing it forever sucks. If my early Linux experiences hadn't been so troublesome I would certainly use Linux. But I only know the early versions where you had to be a Linux expert before using it. I always only used it from time to time, so I never get used to it completely. And I fear that I will end up with a Windows emulation in order to get all my old programs running. So I keep watching how W10 trashes my HD with big installations and braking the performance. I see the day coming I reinstall my W7 copy.