I will not complete 100% as two of the tasks require developing plans from scratch and I have no energy to do that.

I had to laugh at the pendulum experiment in the last ep, though. That so would not work. I suspect there is a combination of actual math/science and lots of hand-waving.

Yeah, I looked askance at that bit myself. I like the show a lot, and I think the actors are great. I worry that they're going to run out of math solvable crimes, though.

I worry that they're going to run out of math solvable crimes, though.

As a network exec, I'd make them give me, like 30, before agreeing to continue. Not plots, just solvable and reasonably distinct crimes.

Then again, House is still on the air, and it doesn't really look like it varies much. The methodology, I mean. The medicine is Aramaic to me. Can you imagine the bills incurred by their diagnoses? Or lack thereof?

New Yorkers, I'm going to be on the radio tomorrow.

Sounds of Blue with Bob Putignano
Wednesday 9:00A to 1:00P on 89.1 WFDU-Fm

I think I'm going to be on between 11:30 and noon East Coast time.

I wonder about the math in Numbers, though. I take it on faith, cause, so not mathy, but I found myself wondering what would all the math-oriented B'tas think? Is this all accurate, or TV bullshit?

Most of the equations, at least as far as I've been able to tell, have looked like they actually do what he says they're supposed to do, within the field where they're usually used. The part that makes me most skeptical is just that taking those equations and trying to apply them to human behavior will be anywhere near accurate, but that's pretty much an issue with the premise.

I was also kind of iffy on the episode where he was so obsessed with the P=NP problem -- that deals with a field of math that's pretty much as far as you can get from what they've usually shown him doing and still be math. There've also been a few lines where the actor just got the emphasis wrong, and it was pretty obvious that he had no idea what he was saying.

Jesse's prety durn peppy and is probably going to laugh at me for using that word, but I think so.

worry that they're going to run out of math solvable crimes, though.

Eh, there are lord knows enough classic physics problems (first couple of years of college physics) they could incorporate if so inclined. Throw in friction and they'll at least seem a little more complex....

I can't watch Numbers. Math makes me go blind and drool. All higher brain functions shut down and I'm only capable of breathing and bowel movements.

Alternately, math sometimes makes me angry and I start throwing rocks at it and howling like a baboon.

Allyson is me, here.

Yeah, but the math in the show is like a McGyver math. It might make you say, Huh, cool when they explain some theory, but it's chosen to be cool with no knowledge on your part (Me, I'm a math hater from way back). You don't actually have to understand how to use the gum wrapper and the nail clipper to make a bazooka to enjoy waching McG do it.

They don't explain very much at all. So far it's been on the level of "I used an equation, and I think that it will/did happen this way." Then they draw some pictures, scribble fast, but it's easily blurred.

It's an okay show.