No I didn't - I thought it was just some guy being a dick. I apologize to...uh, ahem- "Professor Booty" but in my own defense will continue to advise him to no longer be a self-hating grammar Nazi (the worst kind!:P) and to do something with his life.
Step 1. Look down at your keyboard. Step 2. Notice that the "c" and "v" keys are right next to each other. Step 3. Quit being a spelling Nazi and do something with your life.
This is really stupid. Casinos will lose lots of money for this for a simple reason: now the somewhat-educated player, the player who knows enough about blackjack to know it can be "beaten" but isn't knowledgeable/ambitious enough to learn card-counting, will similarly deduce that blackjack is now unbeatable (as compared to the person in vegas just for fun, say). Take for example when Edwin O. Thorp's famous book Beat the Dealer came out - casinos were petrified and changed blackjack rules, afraid that they were going to be taken over by a mass of chip-bearing mathematicians. What happened? They lost tons of money (people don't like being told that they can't split their aces even once:P). They reluctantly changed the rules back. What happened? They made more money than ever. Why? Because thousands more people had the knowledge that blackjack is beatable, but they were all too lazy to do the work to implement the strategy.
Therefore, Casino Revenue Generation for Dummies, chapter 1: Give the players every reason in the world to think they can win, but count on their laziness to keep them from actually doing so. They will more than make up for the few who actually bother to learn card-counting.
I believe this is accounted for by taking "baseline" readings, to gauge your base level of nervousness just because of the situation you're in; e.g. taking voice-stress data while you answer simple questions like your name and other information of that sort. Then, when you are asked questions which could induce some sort of stress, the baseline stress value would be subtracted... I haven't enough knowledge to judge on whether or not lie detectors actually work, but that's the way its supposed to work in theory.
I hope I spelled his name correctly - read his books Innumeracy and Beyond Numeracy, excellent introductions to practical mathematics and advanced mathematics, respectively. I tutored math in college, and by *far* the best way I have found to explain calculus to students who "just don't get it" is using Paulos's "driving on the turnpike" analogy.
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Oh wait, wait, I know this story, a math prof of mine told me in class once...Gauss's elementary school teacher wanted to keep his class busy so he told them to sit at their desks and sum the integers from 1 to 100 so Gauss got pissed off and shot him!...right?...why is everyone staring at me like that?
Right now it's mostly physics, but I'm a CS major...
If you're a CS major you should learn TeX regardless of whether you're going to use it in a paper or not. It's open-source and one of the few major pieces of software that is for all intents and purposes bug-free. It's part of the CS canon, and you should learn it and read the source for that reason alone.
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You forgot about all the Ali G episodes, innit! :P
No I didn't - I thought it was just some guy being a dick. I apologize to...uh, ahem- "Professor Booty" but in my own defense will continue to advise him to no longer be a self-hating grammar Nazi (the worst kind! :P) and to do something with his life.
Step 1. Look down at your keyboard.
Step 2. Notice that the "c" and "v" keys are right next to each other.
Step 3. Quit being a spelling Nazi and do something with your life.
can you mod it to play as Stephen Hawking?
*jumps out window*
that same URL is in the parent post to which you replied. Way to go you.
My favorite snippet (paraphrasing): "It was 1991, and John Romero wanted to program in a hot new programming language called 'C'." (emphasis mine)
I dunno about you, but I've already bought my tickets in advance for his match against the Clippers...
I imagine he'd also be excellent at "refusing patches and being ignored"...
Therefore, Casino Revenue Generation for Dummies, chapter 1: Give the players every reason in the world to think they can win, but count on their laziness to keep them from actually doing so. They will more than make up for the few who actually bother to learn card-counting.
There exists a corollary joke to this one, involving titanium apples and a burned crotch, but it is trivial and left as an exercise for the reader.
*dodges scurvy*
I wanna dip my BALLS in it!
*dodges...holy shit are those what I think they are??*
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I believe this is accounted for by taking "baseline" readings, to gauge your base level of nervousness just because of the situation you're in; e.g. taking voice-stress data while you answer simple questions like your name and other information of that sort. Then, when you are asked questions which could induce some sort of stress, the baseline stress value would be subtracted... I haven't enough knowledge to judge on whether or not lie detectors actually work, but that's the way its supposed to work in theory.
It'd be a good way to get people to manage their finances though, no?
"AHH, stop! OK, OK, I'll pay! just close the window please!
Marklar: It gots much marklar!
now everyone can be happy (until it gets to the HOWTOs: "plug the marklar into the marklar, but whatever you do, DO NOT plug it into the marklar.")
I hope I spelled his name correctly - read his books Innumeracy and Beyond Numeracy, excellent introductions to practical mathematics and advanced mathematics, respectively. I tutored math in college, and by *far* the best way I have found to explain calculus to students who "just don't get it" is using Paulos's "driving on the turnpike" analogy.
Your theory needs a lower bound - "Solaris 9 for Wholly Incompetent Fucktards" wouldn't sell that well.
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Oh wait, wait, I know this story, a math prof of mine told me in class once...Gauss's elementary school teacher wanted to keep his class busy so he told them to sit at their desks and sum the integers from 1 to 100 so Gauss got pissed off and shot him! ...right?...why is everyone staring at me like that?
Creates multiple files from a single source file.
Prior art.
My foot's asleep.
If you're a CS major you should learn TeX regardless of whether you're going to use it in a paper or not. It's open-source and one of the few major pieces of software that is for all intents and purposes bug-free. It's part of the CS canon, and you should learn it and read the source for that reason alone.
What the hell are you doing? Shush! It's not just a clever name, you know!