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Thursday, November 11, 2004
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
National Priorities
Am I the only one who thinks that organizing the largest temper tantrum in known history is just a mite childish?Australia: Create literate, and thus safer, cars
America: Grow rat brains to run your flight simulator
Germany: Revolutionize beer-brewing techniques
I wonder what Henry would think if I told him that the flight simulators he loves so much are capable of being operated by a rat brain with less than 1/40000 the number of brain cells a human has.
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America: Grow rat brains to run your flight simulator
Germany: Revolutionize beer-brewing techniques
I wonder what Henry would think if I told him that the flight simulators he loves so much are capable of being operated by a rat brain with less than 1/40000 the number of brain cells a human has.
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Tuesday, November 9, 2004
Am I the only one who thinks that organizing the largest temper tantrum in known history is just a mite childish?
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Wednesday, November 3, 2004
Tuesday, November 2, 2004
I gave blood yesterday, for the first time. The lady gave me a foam piggy to squeeze as she sucked my blood; I wanted to keep it, but she said I couldn't.
But now I know that those who say you're supposed to get dizzy and hungry after having your blood drained are vile, pernicious liars.
Anyways. According to one site I'm following, most (in fact, all the ones that they're keeping track of) of the news channels have declared that both Indiana and Kentucky have gone to Bush. I am deeply ashamed.
The cleansings shall begin tomorrow. *sharpens his blades*
There have been numerous statements made to the effect of "If Bush gets reelected, I'm fleeing the country." But if we all do that, it'll just leave Bush's constituency as the sole population of America--then he'll be completely unopposed, and able to pass any crazy laws he likes. Imagine if he were able to repeal the 22nd amendment.
And now, Pope Buddha the First--the waterfowl previously known as Duck--shall boggle your minds with his geniosity.
Today, Duck shall use mathematical induction to debunk the Holocaust.
What is mathematical induction, you ask? It is a technique used to prove a proposition true for the entire set of natural numbers. First, you must prove the proposition true for some initial number N0, which is usually 0 or 1, but could be anything. Then you prove that if the proposition holds for N, it must hold for N + 1. This has a domino effect of proving the proposition true for all numbers greater than or equal to N0.
(As an aside, the opposite of induction is called infinite descent, which would make an excellent name for one of the moves of Harold the Dork Knight.)
As an example, just to whet your appetite, Duck shall prove that all horses in a set of N horses are the same color.
Base case: Clearly, this is true when N = 1. All horses in any set of 1 horse are the same color.
Inductive step: Assume that the proposition holds for N = K; that is, all the horses in a set of K horses are the same color. Consider then any group of K + 1 horses--let us number them 1,2,3,...,k,k+1. By our assumption, the first K horses (1,...,k) are the same color, as are the last K horses (2,...,k+1). Since these two sets overlap, all K + 1 horses must be of the same color. Therefore, the proposition is true for K + 1 and thus all horses are the same color.
And now, Duck's long-awaited proof that the Holocaust was an odious lie. The so-called "Holocaust" involved the deaths of millions of people; Duck shall prove that no-one, in fact, died in the Holocaust, and therefore it did not happen.
Base case: We know that there is at least one person that "survived" this "Holocaust", and therefore did not die. Let us call him "Magneto".
Inductive step: Assume there are K people who did not die in the Holocaust. Add Magneto to this group to arrive at a group of K + 1 people who did not die in the Holocaust.
Ergo, nobody died in the Holocaust.
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But now I know that those who say you're supposed to get dizzy and hungry after having your blood drained are vile, pernicious liars.
Anyways. According to one site I'm following, most (in fact, all the ones that they're keeping track of) of the news channels have declared that both Indiana and Kentucky have gone to Bush. I am deeply ashamed.
The cleansings shall begin tomorrow. *sharpens his blades*
There have been numerous statements made to the effect of "If Bush gets reelected, I'm fleeing the country." But if we all do that, it'll just leave Bush's constituency as the sole population of America--then he'll be completely unopposed, and able to pass any crazy laws he likes. Imagine if he were able to repeal the 22nd amendment.
And now, Pope Buddha the First--the waterfowl previously known as Duck--shall boggle your minds with his geniosity.
Today, Duck shall use mathematical induction to debunk the Holocaust.
What is mathematical induction, you ask? It is a technique used to prove a proposition true for the entire set of natural numbers. First, you must prove the proposition true for some initial number N0, which is usually 0 or 1, but could be anything. Then you prove that if the proposition holds for N, it must hold for N + 1. This has a domino effect of proving the proposition true for all numbers greater than or equal to N0.
(As an aside, the opposite of induction is called infinite descent, which would make an excellent name for one of the moves of Harold the Dork Knight.)
As an example, just to whet your appetite, Duck shall prove that all horses in a set of N horses are the same color.
Base case: Clearly, this is true when N = 1. All horses in any set of 1 horse are the same color.
Inductive step: Assume that the proposition holds for N = K; that is, all the horses in a set of K horses are the same color. Consider then any group of K + 1 horses--let us number them 1,2,3,...,k,k+1. By our assumption, the first K horses (1,...,k) are the same color, as are the last K horses (2,...,k+1). Since these two sets overlap, all K + 1 horses must be of the same color. Therefore, the proposition is true for K + 1 and thus all horses are the same color.
And now, Duck's long-awaited proof that the Holocaust was an odious lie. The so-called "Holocaust" involved the deaths of millions of people; Duck shall prove that no-one, in fact, died in the Holocaust, and therefore it did not happen.
Base case: We know that there is at least one person that "survived" this "Holocaust", and therefore did not die. Let us call him "Magneto".
Inductive step: Assume there are K people who did not die in the Holocaust. Add Magneto to this group to arrive at a group of K + 1 people who did not die in the Holocaust.
Ergo, nobody died in the Holocaust.
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Thursday, October 21, 2004
I hurt you with my words
In my CS 251 class, we cover various data structures of use in programming: trees, graphs, queues, stacks, etc. So oftentimes the professor will draw an example of how we might envision one of these data structures on the blackboard, and he'll occasionally ask the class to give him numbers to fill into the nodes. The first time he called on me, I said "pi". The second time, I said "e".
He doesn't call on me anymore.
And now, it's time for...
Duck's Classroom Corner
-with Professor Duck
Today, Duck will prove to you that 2n = 0, where n is any natural number.
First off, we know that 2n - 1 = 20 + 21 + 22 + 23 + ... + 2n - 2 + 2n - 1
In binary, the ith bit of a bitstring, starting at 0 and from the rightmost bit, is equal to 2i. Therefore, the righthand side of the equation becomes the bitstring 1111...11
But! In binary, the most significant (or left-most) bit is known as the sign bit, meaning that it indicates whether the number is positive or negative. Let's show our bitstring again, with the most significant bit highlighted:
1111...11
Since the most significant bit is 1, this number is clearly negative. But negative what? To negate a two's-complement binary number, you invert every bit and add 1 to the result. Let's investigate further:
1111...11 <= What we started with
0000...00 <= After inverting each bit
0000...01 <= After adding 1
So we see that the negative of 1111...11 is just 1; therefore, 1111...11 = -1.
But recalling our previous equality, we know that 2n - 1 = 1111...11, and by the transitive property of equality, we know therefore that 2n - 1 = -1.
After adding one to both sides, we arrive at our final result:
2n = 0
Next class, Duck proves that the total number of dead in the Holocaust was also 0... or, as Duck might say, 2n.
Debora, you might want to stop reading at this point.
Y'all should visit this site.
Where else could you find a woman telling you that John Kerry eats fetal stems cells, will kill every unborn child in the world, will kill every newborn male of the Hebrews, and will elect activist judges like Saddam Hussein to the Supreme Court? That's something the liberal media won't report!
Nor do they seem to be making widely known the massive ignorance (or possibly denial) of Bush's constituency.
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He doesn't call on me anymore.
And now, it's time for...
Duck's Classroom Corner
-with Professor Duck
Today, Duck will prove to you that 2n = 0, where n is any natural number.
First off, we know that 2n - 1 = 20 + 21 + 22 + 23 + ... + 2n - 2 + 2n - 1
In binary, the ith bit of a bitstring, starting at 0 and from the rightmost bit, is equal to 2i. Therefore, the righthand side of the equation becomes the bitstring 1111...11
But! In binary, the most significant (or left-most) bit is known as the sign bit, meaning that it indicates whether the number is positive or negative. Let's show our bitstring again, with the most significant bit highlighted:
1111...11
Since the most significant bit is 1, this number is clearly negative. But negative what? To negate a two's-complement binary number, you invert every bit and add 1 to the result. Let's investigate further:
1111...11 <= What we started with
0000...00 <= After inverting each bit
0000...01 <= After adding 1
So we see that the negative of 1111...11 is just 1; therefore, 1111...11 = -1.
But recalling our previous equality, we know that 2n - 1 = 1111...11, and by the transitive property of equality, we know therefore that 2n - 1 = -1.
After adding one to both sides, we arrive at our final result:
2n = 0
Next class, Duck proves that the total number of dead in the Holocaust was also 0... or, as Duck might say, 2n.
Debora, you might want to stop reading at this point.
Y'all should visit this site.
Where else could you find a woman telling you that John Kerry eats fetal stems cells, will kill every unborn child in the world, will kill every newborn male of the Hebrews, and will elect activist judges like Saddam Hussein to the Supreme Court? That's something the liberal media won't report!
Nor do they seem to be making widely known the massive ignorance (or possibly denial) of Bush's constituency.
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Monday, October 11, 2004
On the Honest Reporting blog, someone posted a comment berating Israel's creation, in defense of the "native" Palestinians*. In it, she wrote "How many countries can be named that have become states by... terrorizing and massacring... [and] waging terrorist campaigns...?"
I hope the irony of this is not lost on all of you.
If it is, we must have a long talk.
*No, I'm not implying that the Palestinians were not native to the land. I'm taking offense at her implication that the Jews who formed a homeland there weren't living there before 1948
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I hope the irony of this is not lost on all of you.
If it is, we must have a long talk.
*No, I'm not implying that the Palestinians were not native to the land. I'm taking offense at her implication that the Jews who formed a homeland there weren't living there before 1948
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Friday, October 8, 2004
There've been a whole buncha fliers posted around campus telling people to vote for the Homecoming King & Queen--including some fake ones for Cthulhu, Kodos, and Lando Griffin for Homecoming King.
I think some guy should register as a Homecoming Queen candidate and run with the slogan, "Vote for the Homecoming Drag Queen."
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I think some guy should register as a Homecoming Queen candidate and run with the slogan, "Vote for the Homecoming Drag Queen."
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Thursday, September 30, 2004
Appudeito
On Wednesdays, I have a 3-hour lab at 7:30 in the morning. Ten minutes after that, I have the lecture for that same class. An hour after that, I have another class.
All in the same building.
So I spend upwards of six hours in the EE building on Wednesdays... joy.
Well, today I finished the lab two hours early. We had to implement a set of specific functions with the integrated circuits in our lab kit. But during the pre-lab in which I designed my circuit, I didn't have my kit with me... so I wasn't aware what chips were actually at my disposal. I made some conservative guesses and designed my circuit.
Turns out one of the chips I used three times, wasn't in the kit.
So I cheated.
I used one of the integrated circuits from one of my other classes.
But that's not the point of this update.
The point is, after I got out of the lab, I sat out in front of the classroom for my next class for about 90 minutes--which means I sat through the entire lecture before us. So that means I heard the teacher assign their homework at the beginning of class.
She told them, "Your homework is to engage in deviant behavior."
I think one of them should've walked out of class as their deviant behavior. But no-one did.
And! On the walk to the lab this morning (around 6:45, I guess), I saw a rabbit on one of the large grails outside some building. It reminded me of how our cats would sleep on top of the heat registers back at our old house. And it was kinda chilly today.
And I think I saw a squirrel bullying a chipmunk outside of my dorm on my way to dinner today. I chastised the squirrel, but he just gave me a look as if he was thinking "What, you want some of this?"
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All in the same building.
So I spend upwards of six hours in the EE building on Wednesdays... joy.
Well, today I finished the lab two hours early. We had to implement a set of specific functions with the integrated circuits in our lab kit. But during the pre-lab in which I designed my circuit, I didn't have my kit with me... so I wasn't aware what chips were actually at my disposal. I made some conservative guesses and designed my circuit.
Turns out one of the chips I used three times, wasn't in the kit.
So I cheated.
I used one of the integrated circuits from one of my other classes.
But that's not the point of this update.
The point is, after I got out of the lab, I sat out in front of the classroom for my next class for about 90 minutes--which means I sat through the entire lecture before us. So that means I heard the teacher assign their homework at the beginning of class.
She told them, "Your homework is to engage in deviant behavior."
I think one of them should've walked out of class as their deviant behavior. But no-one did.
And! On the walk to the lab this morning (around 6:45, I guess), I saw a rabbit on one of the large grails outside some building. It reminded me of how our cats would sleep on top of the heat registers back at our old house. And it was kinda chilly today.
And I think I saw a squirrel bullying a chipmunk outside of my dorm on my way to dinner today. I chastised the squirrel, but he just gave me a look as if he was thinking "What, you want some of this?"
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Thursday, September 23, 2004
Damn them!
The Gideons came to school! They caught me completely unprepared! Grrr.
Oh, well. I don't really have enough money to buy a couple dozen copies of the Bhagavad-Gita and give one to each Gideon who gives me a Bible. Though I did to one.
Maybe some year I'll get a large box of Necronomicon's and set up shop right next to one of them, pushing a Necronomicon on everyone who gets a Bible.
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Oh, well. I don't really have enough money to buy a couple dozen copies of the Bhagavad-Gita and give one to each Gideon who gives me a Bible. Though I did to one.
Maybe some year I'll get a large box of Necronomicon's and set up shop right next to one of them, pushing a Necronomicon on everyone who gets a Bible.
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