Gary_Yngve

The road that goes to the TH for Mt. Forgotten. I assume that's the Perry Creek Road you refer to.

The next time you go climbing, use two digits instead of ten. Let me know how hard it is.

Some mathematicians do believe computers are aid. I personally believe those mathematicians are old-fashioned. Here's a great quote from a proof of the four-color theorem: We should mention that both our programs use only integer arithmetic, and so we need not be concerned with round-off errors and similar dangers of floating point arithmetic. However, an argument can be made that our `proof' is not a proof in the traditional sense, because it contains steps that can never be verified by humans. In particular, we have not proved the correctness of the compiler we compiled our programs on, nor have we proved the infallibility of the hardware we ran our programs on. These have to be taken on faith, and are conceivably a source of error. However, from a practical point of view, the chance of a computer error that appears consistently in exactly the same way on all runs of our programs on all the compilers under all the operating systems that our programs run on is infinitesimally small compared to the chance of a human error during the same amount of case-checking. Apart from this hypothetical possibility of a computer consistently giving an incorrect answer, the rest of our proof can be verified in the same way as traditional mathematical proofs. We concede, however, that verifying a computer program is much more difficult than checking a mathematical proof of the same length.

The relevance of this quote would be to the ability to visualize and simulate code inside your head. Just as phone numbers are seven digits because it's hard for us to remember more, there's only so much we can keep track of in our heads.

is open to barlow pass mt forgotten road is drivable to TH given a sufficient combination of 4wd / chains / skill.

I'm not well-versed in movies. If Stand and Deliver is something you think I'll like, I'll check it out.

Oh please, computer science and information systems are different. That's like saying that math and actuarial science are the same. My PhD work relies heavily on math and physics. I prefer the applied nature of CS -- that I can produce something useful -- which isn't necessarily true of math. Here's a quote by the late great Edsger Dijkstra: "Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."

I believe there's a classic photo of me that some folks like to continually repost

Granite near Renton, bigwall near B'ham I've heard Twight's explanation from his show, and I've heard a totally different version from another celebrated climber.

Hang on. It's quite possible that you were a few days too late for Fall, and I just recieved Winter this week. I'd imagine mail has a little more delay for you. Also, you should be able to check your subscription via a web form.

So Poopie ran away from his own thread? I really wanted to know what he thought of Dana's Arch. btw - AlpineK - that was hilarious.

Eh, take your 37, multiply it by an 18, and go to hell.

Yes, Dru, I recognized that 1337 is "leet" and is 13*100+17. But I have a problem that when I see a 3- or 4-digit number, I try to factor it.

crap, now you're making me play the factor-in-your-head game... 7 191 (When I'm trying to make time go by on a painfully long approach/deproach, I compute primes in order in my head. It's nice, because the problem goes on forever, steadily increasing in difficulty, as opposed to something finite like naming all the states in alphabetical order.)

I thought it was a cute comment. But did they honestly skip it because 13 is an unlucky number? That's kinda ethnocentric. The Italians think 13 is lucky, and 17 (my fave number) unlucky. The Japanese think 4 is unlucky.

lim 3 = ? w->oo

doesn't sound like a fun day No it doesn't. As my math is infallible, it must mean, then, that the assumption Men/X > Gary is wrong.

nice, i too missed that fracture line in the first image.

They most certainly don't have to be in my same area (and I probably wouldn't want same area), but it would need to be in some science-related area. I don't think I'd do well with a brilliant writer.

If Gary is positive, then a cube of men over Gary > X X X.

RuMR, it's never been my intent to say you all suck. I'm somewhere i the middle. There are plenty of people who are way better than me. I've simply been saying that I'm weird, and if I'm not with someone who's similarly weird, it could be awkward. There's a fine line between stating the facts and chest-beating. For example, trollng for partners by saying, "I'm looking for someone who can swing leads with me on Centerfold at Index." Is that chest-beating?

Well, some of my favorite movies include Real Genius, Goodwill Hunting, and Pi.

Re: Napoleon Dynamite, that movie disgusts me. Obviously, academics were a big part of my childhood, and my friends were the weirdos who were, either worshipped (by the teachers) or ostracized (by the jocks and cheerleaders) for our academics. One of my friends got a 1600 on the SAT, took it again, got another 1600, and said that now he could claim his 1600 wasn't a fluke. My senior year of high school I managed to break out of that crowd and befriend the jocks/sheerleaders.

I actually feel that calculators have hurt math education to an extent. There's something about being able to reason about problems intuitively and do back-of-the-envelope estimations that tends to get lost with the reliance on calculators.

Fuck, this thread has gotten weird. In the past five years, I don't think I've told anyone that I got X place at Y competition, that I scored X on Y test, etc. The only thing that I can think of is the National Geography Bee -- I was state champ of GA, and another CC.commer was state champ of his respective state. But the reason that I brought it up is my parents dug up the profiles of the competitors from back then, and it had pics of us when we were 12, with silly bios. Somehow all this shit is bursting out at once. Not sure why. Maybe it's the insecurity that someone else mentioned... insecure of my lack of results on a problem that may be too hard for a PhD?