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Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> True story: A friend of mine left the cinema after watching Titanic, and
> overheard a couple of people talking.
>
> "Did you know it's based on a real story?"
>
> "Don't be stupid!"
>
> Draw your own conclusions.
people are becoming like Andrew?! Ignorance is a fast spreading disease...
BTW, again it's not a good example. You're comparing one of the major naval
catastrophes in history, well documented in countless of Hollywood movies, to
one obscure rock band, perhaps local to UK.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_(band)
I understand you're from UK, so I guess it's not the electronic band... it's
really just an obscure, irrelevant rock band.
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:41:29 +0100, "Gilles Tran"
<gil### [at] agroparistechfr> wrote:
>I like geeks, but sometimes they should be forcefully dragged out of their
>cubicles/basements/hobbitholes and sent to work in some paddy fields for a
>while.
Is this a reference to Pol Pot or the Cultural Revolution? :)
Regards
Stephen
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web.47a05d77821471c47b614c6a0@news.povray.org...
> you could start by developing an interest into knowing the why of certain
> paradoxes and techniques having funky names, like: Russel's paradox,
BTW, until recently, there was absolutely *** nothing *** on the web about
Phong, who died at 33 from leukemia right after inventing the shading
method. Being called either Phong Bui Tuong or Bui Tuong Phong didn't help
researching his name either.
Fortunately, last year someone interviewed his teacher and friends at
Standford and put the material in Wikipedia, and now the article is tagged
for lacking sources and being Original Research :(
Grumble grumble
G.
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"Gilles Tran" <gil### [at] agroparistechfr> wrote:
> Fortunately, last year someone interviewed his teacher and friends at
> Standford and put the material in Wikipedia, and now the article is tagged
> for lacking sources and being Original Research :(
BTW, it sounds like "BEH zee ay", according to wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_B%C3%A9zier
no final R sound?
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nemesis wrote:
> That's it: I'm demoding you from your geek privileges!
> From now on, you're a freak! :P
...again. *sigh*
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
>
> > That's it: I'm demoding you from your geek privileges!
> > From now on, you're a freak! :P
>
> ...again. *sigh*
it's a joke. Don't blow an artery...
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>>> That's it: I'm demoding you from your geek privileges!
>>> From now on, you're a freak! :P
>> ...again. *sigh*
>
> it's a joke. Don't blow an artery...
So was my responce. ;-)
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>
> BTW, it sounds like "BEH zee ay", according to wikipedia:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_B%C3%A9zier
>
> no final R sound?
>
Nope, in French the letters "er" at the end of words are generally
exception at the moment, but I'm putting a "generally" in there just in
case :-)
--
Vincent
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Invisible wrote:
>>> Oh, I see. So you think that I should know about every "important"
>>> person in history?
>>
>> No, it's just that if you choose to enter a discussion on something
>> without doing any research (or being completely ignorant to the
>> subject being discussed), you should expect to get flamed.
>
> Hmm, let's see now. I commented that normal programmers worry about
> practical matters while this Haskell programmer is debating abstract set
> theory. And somebody said "ah, so you know who Russell is then?", and I
> just pointed out that I don't. And now I'm being yelled at. Again.
Yip, because you didn't do your homework. Again.
No actually I think you have no idea what astonishment you create when
you admit you have never heard of Russell or his profound impact on
mathematics and logic. I think 90% or more of the people in this group
at least have heard of him and 99% or more of those who are only
moderately interested in logic showing by reading this haskell thread.
What makes it even more unbelievable is that you are an Englishman (or
so you claim). The English tend to be rather proud of their own history
(yes, he was English).
Anyway add him to your list of who to know on your next job interview.
> Who Russell is and what the paradox is about is rather orthoganol to the
> point I was actually trying to make...
>
Yes, but this is off-topic, we are allowed to drift here.
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Invisible wrote:
> Who Russell is and what the paradox is about is rather orthoganol to the
> point I was actually trying to make...
OK, the point *I* was making is that people still remember who Russell
is and what he did 100 years ago, while "normal programmers" half the
time don't even get their names displayed in the credits of their own
creations. Just FYI, Russell did for set theory (i.e., the basis of most
or all modern math) what Godel and Turing did for their fields.
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
On what day did God create the body thetans?
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