Binary may be easier to figure out.Than confusing guy.
Zoe: Next time we smuggle stock, let's make it something smaller. Wash: Yeah, we should start dealing in those black-market beagles.
'Safe'
Spike's Bitches 27: I'm Embarrassed for Our Kind.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
erikaj - Dec 13, 2005 7:32:36 am PST #9623 of 10003
Always Anti-fascist!
Gudanov - Dec 13, 2005 7:33:15 am PST #9624 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
What? You were expecting something mathy?
It's just it seems like it isn't hard to come up with a mathy reason for 0^0 to be 0/0 ickiness, so why go with the unmathy when the mathy is there?
Oh well.
Gris - Dec 13, 2005 7:43:23 am PST #9625 of 10003
Hey. New board.
Well, Gud, here's the thing: I've always defined in the opposite direction. That is, the reason I've always justified that a^-1 was equal to 1/a was the same argument you just made, only backwards. That is, a^-1 has to be such that a^-1 * a^1 = a^0 = 1 (by definition), so a^-1 must be 1/a for a ≠ 0 and undefined for a = 0. But then there's no problem allowing 0^0 to be 1, because it's the 0^-1 that's the undefined number in this insoluble equation. That is: undefined * 0 = 1 makes just as much sense as undefined * 0 = undefined.
Volans - Dec 13, 2005 7:46:03 am PST #9626 of 10003
move out and draw fire
I would like to interrupt the mathy talk by saying that I am wearing my St. Nicholas Day present, a "Joss Whedon is My Master Now" t-shirt, and it's making me look BUSTY. Like Hooters girl busty. Cheaper than plastic surgery.
Also, I want one of these for Christmas, except I want one that works: [link]
Thanks for the Goober!Baby reassurance. Mallory's doing the thing where he gets on his hands and knees and rocks back and forth also, looking like he's a jockey in post position. That wasn't as worrying, because it was clear he was doing it on purpose.
Speaking of, he learned to crawl on his hands and knees in a hotel room in Germany - the increased velocity took him by surprise and he ran his head into the wooden bed.
Emily - Dec 13, 2005 7:52:29 am PST #9627 of 10003
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
For Steph:
"The ace, it was explained, uses pulses of electricity generated at the rate of a million a second.... On the machine these pulses are used to indicate the figure 1 and the gaps the figure 0. All calculations are done using only these two digits on the binary scale."
I just mention it because I'm going through the King's College digital archive looking for last-minute Turing stuff, and that was from a 1950 newspaper report "From our science editor" on one of the very early computers. [link]
P.M. Marc - Dec 13, 2005 7:58:40 am PST #9628 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Gronk.
So, umm, any tricks to get a kid to take a bottle at daycare? I mean, just because it's not fresh squeezed, doesn't mean you reject the stuff out of hand. Sheesh.
(I'm home today, and about to nap, because man, I am SO tired.)
It's 0/0 where we say, "No no no don't go there, that's the bad place!"
Doubledogdare you to write it up in story form for Anthropomorfic on LJ.
beth b - Dec 13, 2005 8:04:13 am PST #9629 of 10003
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
yay ! I hung all my clothes in the bedroom that have been need to be hung up for months.
In the process I think I have found 2, possible 3 outfits that do not need tights. which is good since mine seem to have vanished and I would rather wait 'til the end of the week to buy more.
Emily - Dec 13, 2005 8:07:37 am PST #9630 of 10003
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Doubledogdare you to write it up in story form for Anthropomorfic on LJ.
The what now what? Ask me again after this week is over.
Okay, so I'm reading the letters back and forth from various people after Turing's death, and it's just so sad! They're making me quite teary -- all torn between unsurprised irritation at the press's "no troubles" line coming so soon after his prosecution and also shock because they thought he knew they'd support him no matter what... so sad.
brenda m - Dec 13, 2005 8:09:50 am PST #9631 of 10003
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Did you try that boobie bottle, Plei?
Topic!Cindy - Dec 13, 2005 8:11:10 am PST #9632 of 10003
What is even happening?
So you've got some nothing. You raise it to the power of nothing (or multiply it by nothing), effectively giving nothing even more nothing. Suddenly you've got something? Where did it come from!? Dear God, WHERE?
This is why I'm not a creationist, isn't it?
That sounds way more like the naturalist** argument to me. In the beginning there was no life at all, and all these lifeless things combined, at and under what just "happened" to be all the right conditions, and the precise moment, and then there was all kinds of life, that kept improving itself. And all of the conditions that never before had allowed for life, maintained to keep allowing for life.
Confusing!Boy (remember him?)Hate him
about my unholy love of the OED,Love that (and you)
and somehow that became a conversation about binary numbers, and I even tried to make a joke about binary numbers....and he didn't hang up on me! Keen!How sad that a conversation about something as cromulent as the OED ended up mathy.
** edited to change "evolutionist" to "naturalist" because I have no problem accepting Evolution, proper.