*Soy* sauce?!
Dec. 7th, 2004 06:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sniffnoySo today as I was standing in the senior breezeway, two people came out of the freshman hallway, and one of them said to the other, "Soy sauce?!" So I went around saying that at people today.
Great, the one day I actually plan to do my math homework, my Apostol goes missing. And I still haven't done that CS assignment, because first I lose the assignment sheet, then I lose my graphing calculator and I don't want to double-differentiate this stuff by hand (the assignment is put these integrals in a form such that you can Romberg them)... but yay, we proved Γ(½) in math today.
Jayme gave me a cabbagehat! He had a cabbage, which I think he gave to Shannon, but he gave one layer to me to wear as a cabbagehat! But this was at the end of the day, so I didn't keep it very long. I did wear it home, though.
Some Galitskiy quotes:
On a rubberband: "Does it expand, or does it stretch?"
On a steel cable: "It doesn't made out of rubber."
And nearly finally, a link from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
koloth: A guy who claims to have refuted the whole theory of infinite cardinals. http://descmath.com/diag/refute.html. Truly awful stuff. He claims that "Transfinite Theory", as he calls it, is controversial... no clue where he got that idea.
"Unfortunately, refuting Transfinite Theory is as difficult a task as refuting its kissing cousins: Marxism, Fascism, Nazism and all the other impressive isms built on the dialectics of the German Transcendental Idealistic movements."
Wow. Set theorists are Marxists and Fascists and Nazis. Just wow.
Try and actually read his refutation of the diagonal method. He's trying to deny the distinction between countable and uncountable by failing to notice the distinction between finite and infinite! "You lose! Good *day*, sir!" And yes, infinite sets *do* act a bit unintuitively; it's because they're *infinite*. Things do that in math. It's not a hole in mathematics.
We have a half day Thursday. I don't know why, so I'm claiming it's because Thursday is Afflux. All hail Eris!
EDIT: Oh whoops. *Tomorrow* is Afflux, not Thursday. Oh well.
Another edit: Rather than make a 4th entry for today, I'll add here that, application to Brandeis sent out, that's 4/10...
Random number I looked up of the day: The cycle of year-lengths is 689,472 years long in the Hebrew calendar.
-Sniffnoy
--
"Heisenberg Airlines: we don't know where we are, but we're making
good time!"
-Ian Davis, rhod
Great, the one day I actually plan to do my math homework, my Apostol goes missing. And I still haven't done that CS assignment, because first I lose the assignment sheet, then I lose my graphing calculator and I don't want to double-differentiate this stuff by hand (the assignment is put these integrals in a form such that you can Romberg them)... but yay, we proved Γ(½) in math today.
Jayme gave me a cabbagehat! He had a cabbage, which I think he gave to Shannon, but he gave one layer to me to wear as a cabbagehat! But this was at the end of the day, so I didn't keep it very long. I did wear it home, though.
Some Galitskiy quotes:
On a rubberband: "Does it expand, or does it stretch?"
On a steel cable: "It doesn't made out of rubber."
And nearly finally, a link from
koloth: A guy who claims to have refuted the whole theory of infinite cardinals. http://descmath.com/diag/refute.html. Truly awful stuff. He claims that "Transfinite Theory", as he calls it, is controversial... no clue where he got that idea."Unfortunately, refuting Transfinite Theory is as difficult a task as refuting its kissing cousins: Marxism, Fascism, Nazism and all the other impressive isms built on the dialectics of the German Transcendental Idealistic movements."
Wow. Set theorists are Marxists and Fascists and Nazis. Just wow.
Try and actually read his refutation of the diagonal method. He's trying to deny the distinction between countable and uncountable by failing to notice the distinction between finite and infinite! "You lose! Good *day*, sir!" And yes, infinite sets *do* act a bit unintuitively; it's because they're *infinite*. Things do that in math. It's not a hole in mathematics.
We have a half day Thursday. I don't know why, so I'm claiming it's because Thursday is Afflux. All hail Eris!
EDIT: Oh whoops. *Tomorrow* is Afflux, not Thursday. Oh well.
Another edit: Rather than make a 4th entry for today, I'll add here that, application to Brandeis sent out, that's 4/10...
Random number I looked up of the day: The cycle of year-lengths is 689,472 years long in the Hebrew calendar.
-Sniffnoy
--
"Heisenberg Airlines: we don't know where we are, but we're making
good time!"
-Ian Davis, rhod
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