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Don't call my country a cunt, and don't call my fraternity a frat. "Frat" is generally derogatory when used by outsiders. It's analogous to "nigger" being used by non-blacks.

There is also a lot of evidence contradicting the Whorf hypothesis. In <The Language Instinct> by Steven Pinker, Pinker suggests that humans think with separate thought-modules and then only express the substance of thoughts through arbitrary languages.

That being said, I think there is something to be said for diversity of culture, and perhaps better more fluid translation services are the true solution.

Can someone please explain why this is clever?

The reason Boston and Palo Alto are such great locations are due to the locations of the elite neighboring universities and abundant reverse brain-drain

You have to ask someone to watch your laptop. I'm a psych major, and there was a study that demonstrated that people have a _much_ higher rate of deterring thieves when asked to look after someone's items, for some reason.

Or, get a laptop with built in GPS and 3G internet, and hack the firmware to autoemail you the location on boot-up.

There are a lot of high-powered investment analysts who had proven their credibility with a string of years of success, guided, I'm sure, by logical and well-reasoned investments.

That's just not how it works pal. Everyone is bound to be wrong in the long run. Sorry.

Wow, how was that visual proof?

For those who aren't looking forward to a lame video, the basic idea is this:

e^(pi)(i) = -1.

Why?

Because you can express e^x as a taylor series:

e^x = 1 + x + x^2/2! + x^3/3! + ... thus e^ix = 1 + ix + ix^2/2! + ix^3/3! + .. e^ix = (1 - x^2/2! + x^4/4! + ..) + i(x - x^3/3!+x^5/5!+...) implies e^ix = cosx + isinx

because those parenthetical quantities are the taylor series for cosx and sinx respectively

So, e^i(pi) = cos(pi) + isin(pi). = -1 + i(0) = -1

Yes, as well as its recent upvote activity.

I'm taking a class on psychological development of mathematics in children next quarter. I'll bump the thread and keep y'all posted.

From Wikipedia:

Intelligence

As a group, the crows show remarkable examples of intelligence, and Aesop's fable of The Crow and the Pitcher shows that humans have long viewed the crow as an intelligent animal. Crows and ravens often score very highly on intelligence tests. Certain species top the avian IQ scale. Crows in the northwestern U.S. show modest linguistic capabilities and the ability to relay information over great distances, live in complex, hierarchic societies involving hundreds of individuals with various "occupations", and have an intense rivalry with the area's less socially advanced ravens. Wild hooded crows in Israel have learned to use bread crumbs for bait-fishing. Crows will engage in a kind of mid-air jousting, or air-"chicken" to establish pecking order.

One species, the New Caledonian Crow, has also been intensively studied recently because of its ability to manufacture and use its own tools in the day-to-day search for food, including dropping seeds into a heavy trafficked street and waiting for a car to crush them open. On October 5, 2007, researchers from the University of Oxford, England presented data acquired by mounting tiny video cameras on the tails of New Caledonian Crows. It turned out that they use a larger variety of tools than previously known, plucking, smoothing and bending twigs and grass stems to procure a variety of foodstuffs. Crows in Queensland Australia have learned how to eat the toxic cane toad by flipping the cane toad on its back and violently stabbing the throat where the skin is thinner, allowing the crow to access the non-toxic innards; their long beaks ensure that all of the innards can be removed.

Wow, kick ass. Now I don't need to worry about downloading an IRC client when I'm programming in the library and need to troubleshoot. Kick ass.

Thank you; installed.

Oh man, this is great.

"Easily recovered" translates to "minor pain in the ass"

Lot of build up for the pain body, bro.

The xbox360 is an amazing machine. You guys need to be more positive!

Not only that, but you should do homework because it forces you to learn the material through spaced repetition, which will create more access cues for your long-term memory.

This is so true. In fact, I'd wager that my perl skills are ultimately the most valuable component of my resume. I learned perl in 10th grade by hacking on AIM robots, messing around with the Net::AIM module I found on CPAN.

Then I got a job [still in 10th grade] writing a robot for some woman in Canada. This was fundamentally a huge thing, because it opened my eyes to the possibility that I, despite my lack of formal credentials, could generate income based on my skillset.

Honestly I haven't touched perl in years, and now most of my hacking is in PHP/JavaScript, and honestly I'm happy that I don't have to deal with perl anymore...but it definitely gives me some cred.

Llama book 4 lyfe!

At 50 points you can downvote.

Cerberus. It kicks ass. I used it at two of my internships...quality software.

http://www.cerberusweb.com/

It's super-easy to use, too.

This could be made more obvious.

While on one hand you make a point, on the other hand, perhaps this article can simply be considered community advice to Twitter: if Twitter wants to protect the stability of its platform then perhaps it should consider more explicitly stating its Terms of Service with respect to username ownership.

Haha, no way! This is great news. Now, I only wish I had access to my Facebook chat list within my Gmail client. I already have both AIM and GChat rolled into one, and that's great. Then, I just need an iPhone client, and some way to integrate it with both texting and email.

Exchange for chat + email + texting, all specced out with an API for easy integration into browser-side clients...

Hopefully they'll give away the source code.

Bummer. The music industry is a tough nut to crack. I don't know anyone who's really ever made tons of money on a startup there; tons of legal bullshit. Anyone know if Napster ever did well? I think Shawn Fanning only ever made money on Snocap.

Maybe it's an unconscious slip about his MicroSoft member.

I am home for winter break and would be willing to write this for you in the name of science. Plus, it seems that you know Marcello Herreshoff, with whom I took Computer Science in high school. Email me the requirements for your tool to <zackster>:at:<gmail.com> please.

I actually have pretty good handwriting, so no. My handwriting has perhaps only improved from years on the keyboard. Coding and related pursuits are, for me, creative activities; my handwriting, I feel, is a manifestation of this temperament.

The sad reality is that more or less all jobs have some component of tedium to them.

this + twitpay ftw