Maybe you're right, because I go to MIT and sort think the Chicago version is lame. It's easy to come up with a solution when you're able interpret the question any way you like, but finding elegant solutions to a difficult problem is more interesting. For example, there is a riddle called 100 prisoners and a lightbulb, where you have a lightbulb in a room and prisoners are selected in random orders to enter the room and either keep the lightbulb in its current state or toggle it. You want to minimize the amount of time before one of the prisoners can declare that he knows that all 100 prisoners have entered the room. People always come up with "creative" solutions like breaking the bulb in 100 pieces and use them as markers... but at some point these are far more obvious and less interesting than the actual mathematical solutions. I think you should look at some mystery hunt puzzles, they are very deep and I'd say more difficult. They include "solving secret codes" and "figuring out cryptic clues on a road trip", often in the same puzzle. At some point, if the MIT mystery hunt was more like the Chicago scavenger hunt, it just wouldn't be that hard. A quarter of the participants in the mystery hunt are adults from across the country, professional puzzle solvers and writers. I haven't got anything against Chicago, I think it's a very cool school, but to say that Chicago is somehow a more creative school because of their scavenger hunt is completely ridiculous.
It takes a huge amount of creativity to figure out the solution to any puzzle (there's no instructions for any puzzle) what's so creative about U of C thing, maybe I'd call it minor thinking outside the box..
There is a correlation. Why? Because if I charge $50 and it only cost $20, then another firm will jump in and undercut my price but still be profitable. In an industry with no barriers to entry (which this admittedly is not), the price should exactly equal the marginal cost.
In MIT's case, they didn't really practice too much - but since the team basically consisted of USA IOI members from previous years (and they clearly practiced for that), they still perform well.
That's ridiculous. The difference would have been that the police should have simply not shut down the bridges before going to examine the devices; if it was a real bomb that situation is still way worse then just hiding the bomb out of sight altogether - like.. in a car or something..
Almost all MIT classes write new problem sets and exams each year. However, previous years' exams are some of the best resources for studying, and a large selection of these are usually provided as reference material.
He's a theoretical linguist, not a language specialist.. it's like comparing an electrical engineer to an electrician. See also: Generative grammar, Chomsky hierarchy, Chomsky Normal Form (in theoretical computer science)...
[i]Even some of the cheap second hand PS2 games look attractive so why would I want to spend AU$600 to AU$750 for an Xbox360 or AU$400 for a Wii and a pack-in games.[/i]
Why would somebody want to do this? Because they can afford it....
It gets exponentially more difficult based on the rate that the brain can send muscle instructions, after a certain point. 150 is an order of magnitude harder than 130, and 160 would be an order of magnitude beyond that. Furthermore, online test in question uses pretty common English. I just took the test and was at 140 wpm with 98% accuracy (obviously, I am a very good typer - but it's not so rare).
Is it a stronger guarantee than you will get from Linden Labs?
UHH... YES... in the financial world, US government bonds are used as a riskless metric because if the US government ever defaults we all will have bigger things to worry about than our investments.
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Funny things can be nevertheless informative.
Maybe you're right, because I go to MIT and sort think the Chicago version is lame. It's easy to come up with a solution when you're able interpret the question any way you like, but finding elegant solutions to a difficult problem is more interesting. For example, there is a riddle called 100 prisoners and a lightbulb, where you have a lightbulb in a room and prisoners are selected in random orders to enter the room and either keep the lightbulb in its current state or toggle it. You want to minimize the amount of time before one of the prisoners can declare that he knows that all 100 prisoners have entered the room. People always come up with "creative" solutions like breaking the bulb in 100 pieces and use them as markers... but at some point these are far more obvious and less interesting than the actual mathematical solutions.
I think you should look at some mystery hunt puzzles, they are very deep and I'd say more difficult. They include "solving secret codes" and "figuring out cryptic clues on a road trip", often in the same puzzle. At some point, if the MIT mystery hunt was more like the Chicago scavenger hunt, it just wouldn't be that hard. A quarter of the participants in the mystery hunt are adults from across the country, professional puzzle solvers and writers.
I haven't got anything against Chicago, I think it's a very cool school, but to say that Chicago is somehow a more creative school because of their scavenger hunt is completely ridiculous.
It takes a huge amount of creativity to figure out the solution to any puzzle (there's no instructions for any puzzle)
what's so creative about U of C thing, maybe I'd call it minor thinking outside the box..
The MIT Mystery Hunt is not similar, it's not even a scavenger hunt - it's much more creative..
web.mit.edu/puzzle/www
What does this have to do with MIT?
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There is a correlation. Why? Because if I charge $50 and it only cost $20, then another firm will jump in and undercut my price but still be profitable. In an industry with no barriers to entry (which this admittedly is not), the price should exactly equal the marginal cost.
In MIT's case, they didn't really practice too much - but since the team basically consisted of USA IOI members from previous years (and they clearly practiced for that), they still perform well.
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That's ridiculous. The difference would have been that the police should have simply not shut down the bridges before going to examine the devices; if it was a real bomb that situation is still way worse then just hiding the bomb out of sight altogether - like.. in a car or something..
I took that class in the year it was recorded, Wolfe is a great lecturer; too bad he doesn't teach at MIT anymore for dumb political reasons.
Almost all MIT classes write new problem sets and exams each year. However, previous years' exams are some of the best resources for studying, and a large selection of these are usually provided as reference material.
On the other hand, Apple is making money on this hardware, and Sony is losing a lot of money if you consider component cost alone.
Your beef is with poorly written exams then, not poor teaching.
You are deluded, joking, or both.
He's a theoretical linguist, not a language specialist.. it's like comparing an electrical engineer to an electrician. See also: Generative grammar, Chomsky hierarchy, Chomsky Normal Form (in theoretical computer science)...
I don't see any reason that this should be true. ?
What does this have to do with the story? (-1, Hippie)
you do realize "Sloanie" doesn't make any sense outside of cambridge right?
[i]Even some of the cheap second hand PS2 games look attractive so why would I want to spend AU$600 to AU$750 for an Xbox360 or AU$400 for a Wii and a pack-in games.[/i]
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Why would somebody want to do this? Because they can afford it.
He's not talking about individual applications, he's talking about the framework, which is pretty incredible from an engineering standpoint..
Any color you want, as long as it's black.
It gets exponentially more difficult based on the rate that the brain can send muscle instructions, after a certain point. 150 is an order of magnitude harder than 130, and 160 would be an order of magnitude beyond that. Furthermore, online test in question uses pretty common English. I just took the test and was at 140 wpm with 98% accuracy (obviously, I am a very good typer - but it's not so rare).
Control of midway WAS in fact crucial during WWII, I'm not sure what you're driving at..
UHH... YES... in the financial world, US government bonds are used as a riskless metric because if the US government ever defaults we all will have bigger things to worry about than our investments.