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Funny cat videos? Bah. Have a funny machine video.
Source: What is it? set 403 (a weekly "Identify these objects" puzzle).
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- caps,
- irrelevant,
- life,
- quotes,
- short
The hazards of working with MarkM
“The most important constraint [on naming this] is that it's a good pun.”
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- college,
- e,
- irrelevant,
- latex,
- life,
- math,
- physics,
- programming
Things I had not done before entering college
Normal People Things:
- Gone to a party unrelated to my family.
Never thought I'd do:
- Worn a t-shirt with text on it.
- Written an essay structured using a gratuitous extended metaphor.
Extra nerd points:
- Programmed a number type which carries units and error values, to reduce the tedium of lab reports.
- Learned to write all my assignments in LATEX.
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- found,
- irrelevant,
- lisp,
- short,
- thoughts
And now for something utterly internet-pop-culturish
Photo taken by me in a Staples store. Text added with Zach Beane's roflbot.
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an approximation, the usefulness of which depends on the application
Java programming class (yes, I know Java already) today, introducing loops. Task: write a factorial program. I wrote mine to use int arithmetic if possible, floating-point if not. Test the edge cases, of course. It says:
500! ≈ Infinity
I'm glad I used the “approximately equals” sign.
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The overstuffed ballot box
I get the feeling the textbook writers had a list of everyday objects which they randomly picked from to avoid saying “an object” in each exercise. The results are mostly just distracting or mildly amusing, but sometimes they're a bit too much:
— Halliday, Resnick, Walker, Fundamentals of Physics, 8th ed., page 215
