So, uh, anybody here watching Numb3rs?
I will watch later, so I'm no help right now.
Do I wish I was somebody else right now. Somebody not... married, not madly in love with a beautiful woman who can kill me with her pinkie!
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Natter 34: Freak With No Name
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
JenP - Apr 15, 2005 5:43:57 pm PDT #6186 of 10001
§ ita § - Apr 15, 2005 5:45:00 pm PDT #6187 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm sorry to prompt gut-cramps, JZ. Can you print to PDF or something, and take it to Kinkos?
Me, I'm just hoping the Post Offices here do like MI and stay open late.
Off to see!
Lee - Apr 15, 2005 5:46:31 pm PDT #6188 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Some do, and some don't, ita. The post office web site should tell you which is which.
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Emily - Apr 15, 2005 5:47:38 pm PDT #6189 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
It's just... it's totally, totally unimportant, but he labelled his horizontal axis y. The heck?
Hil R. - Apr 15, 2005 5:48:09 pm PDT #6190 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
So, uh, anybody here watching Numb3rs?
I've got Numb3rs Tivo'd, and I'm going to start watching pretty soon, but I haven't actually watched it yet.
sarameg - Apr 15, 2005 5:49:14 pm PDT #6191 of 10001
he labelled his horizontal axis y.
He was lying down?
So very very wacky.
Emily - Apr 15, 2005 5:56:07 pm PDT #6192 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I mean, you can label your horizontal axis y, it doesn't hurt anything, but I've just never seen it done. Unless you were plotting something on that axis which started with y. On the other hand, maybe when it comes to higher-level math or physics, they do it all the time, and I'm just working with a pretty lay understanding.
Hil R. - Apr 15, 2005 6:01:00 pm PDT #6193 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Hmm. Well, I can think of a few times when I'd label the horizontal axis with y, usually when it's something in the middle of a problem with several variables. Just starting out by picking y to represent the independent variable seems a bit weird, though I'd bet there are a few fields where that's the convention. (That last bit is mostly because, whenever I've complained about any sort of weird notation, someone in the department has been able to name a field where that's the conventional notation.)
Eddie - Apr 15, 2005 6:09:45 pm PDT #6194 of 10001
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Emily - Apr 15, 2005 6:12:28 pm PDT #6195 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
(That last bit is mostly because, whenever I've complained about any sort of weird notation, someone in the department has been able to name a field where that's the conventional notation.)
Yeah, that's what I'm hedging against. But no, he seemed to be graphing only two variables... well. Actually, god only knows what they mean for him to be doing. But he drew a two-axis graph and then they did a close-up on him writing a y next to the horizontal line. Eh, it doesn't matter. Just weird, was all.