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chris302001
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I think the general public impression of IQ is totally skewed, likely thanks to the internet, wherein the center of the curve is shifted to the right by 30 points.
Everyone's an expert with google....
I'm sad because I haven't received any k from
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Everyone's an expert with google....
LOL
Engineers are easy to forget about.
A mathematician, a physicist and an engineer enter a mathematics contest, the first task of which is to prove that all odd number are prime.
The mathematician has an elegant argument: `1's a prime, 3's a prime, 5's a prime, 7's a prime. Therefore, by mathematical induction, all odd numbers are prime.
It's the physicist's turn: `1's a prime, 3's a prime, 5's a prime, 7's a prime, 11's a prime, 13's a prime, so, to within experimental error, all odd numbers are prime.'
The most straightforward proof is provided by the engineer: `1's a prime, 3's a prime, 5's a prime, 7's a prime, 9's a prime, 11's a prime ...'.
What about wallstreets actuarial?
What are these prestigious acturials I keep reading about on the law board? Are they ibankers? Is ibanking really dead now?
*hits new guy with karma*
redguru
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An engineer, a mathematician, and a physicist are each presented with a beautiful woman 8 ft away and the stipulation that at each time interval, they may move half of the remaining distance towards her.
The mathematician concludes that after N iterations there will be 8 divided by 2N feet remaining which will never equal zero so he gives up on the spot.
The physicist opines that if each iteration requires a finite amount of energy then the energy expended in the approach will be inversely proportional to the distance remaining and gives up on the spot.
The engineer says "8 feet, 4 feet, 2 feet, 1 foot, 6 inches, good enough for practical purposes".
The mathematician concludes that after N iterations there will be 8 divided by 2N feet remaining which will never equal zero so he gives up on the spot.
The physicist opines that if each iteration requires a finite amount of energy then the energy expended in the approach will be inversely proportional to the distance remaining and gives up on the spot.
The engineer says "8 feet, 4 feet, 2 feet, 1 foot, 6 inches, good enough for practical purposes".
LOL, I haven't heard this one before:
A physicist and an engineer are in a hot-air balloon. They've been drifting for hours, and have no idea where they are. They see another person in a balloon, and call out to her: "Hey, where are we?" She replies, "You're in a balloon," and drifts off again. The engineer says to the physicist, "That person was obviously a mathematician." They physicist replies, "How do you know that?" "Because what she said was completely true, but utterly useless."
A physicist and an engineer are in a hot-air balloon. They've been drifting for hours, and have no idea where they are. They see another person in a balloon, and call out to her: "Hey, where are we?" She replies, "You're in a balloon," and drifts off again. The engineer says to the physicist, "That person was obviously a mathematician." They physicist replies, "How do you know that?" "Because what she said was completely true, but utterly useless."
redguru
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LOL, I haven't heard this one before:
A physicist and an engineer are in a hot-air balloon. They've been drifting for hours, and have no idea where they are. They see another person in a balloon, and call out to her: "Hey, where are we?" She replies, "You're in a balloon," and drifts off again. The engineer says to the physicist, "That person was obviously a mathematician." They physicist replies, "How do you know that?" "Because what she said was completely true, but utterly useless."
LOL, I need to link that post to Blut Wump.
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Humble Pride
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Think bout it you don't even have to remember the address you just use surface assoications to type in, we did this with calculators and then we got google and this trend is only increasing so we don't make an effort at all, thats why I think with information overload and attention deficit in culture will only increase geometrically, don't you all notice it is just getting harder to remember and account for daily shit. I mean its noticably different than it was 10 years ago due to exponential rate of info overwhelming our domes... think of the emotional consequences that this trend correlates to, where it is all reactivity and no effort is made to understand... okay you get my point...
sorry your comment was tipping point on that digressive explosion.
24 hour rule
Sorry Lestat my 16 power karma is a force to be reckoned with.
