Well-Actually War Trall Niemand Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 Over such a time scale a single item of spam should do little harm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 Bah, humbug. If I wanted spam, I'd go to McDonalds in Hawaii. Why don't you make like a panda and go eat some bamboo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 So the lim t-->oo[Harm(Spam)]=0, then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Enraged Slith Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 This is over my head, so I'm going to stick to my original plan and pretend that everyone else is defective. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall The Ratt Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 Well at least you understand it, I'm still lost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 Congrats Niemand! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Tracer Bullet Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 10. DO print "this is spam" 20. DO get last_input 30. IF last_input reads "yes this is spam" 40. THEN print "oh" 50. ELSE 60. IF last_input reads "no this is not spam" 70. THEN print "good I shall post more spam" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 There is a greasemonkey script (for Firefox), which allows users to see the joining date of memmbers here, rather than their member number. I think Niemand wrote it too, actually. I think this should cast some light onto this thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 Originally Posted By: Nikki. There is a greasemonkey script (for Firefox), which allows users to see the joining date of memmbers here, rather than their member number. I think Niemand wrote it too, actually. I think this should cast some light onto this thread. * comprehends * Aha aha! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 You mean it's not the answer sheet for the next Quiz of Knowledge? Great. Now Dikiyoba actually has to study. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Sss-Chah Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 Originally Posted By: Nikki. There is a greasemonkey script (for Firefox), which allows users to see the joining date of memmbers here, rather than their member number. I think Niemand wrote it too, actually. I think this should cast some light onto this thread. it also shows the join date on chrome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Niemand Posted March 8, 2011 Author Share Posted March 8, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dantius So the lim t-->oo[Harm(Spam)]=0, then? No, Harm=Harm(Spam,Δt) which can also be written Harm(ρ^α) for some α>0 where ρ=Spam/Δt and it is the case thatlim ρ→0[Harm(ρ)]=0and this limit can be approached either by taking Spam→0 or Δt→∞. Originally Posted By: Nikki There is a greasemonkey script (for Firefox), which allows users to see the joining date of memmbers here, rather than their member number. I think Niemand wrote it too, actually. The script in question actually does the reverse (replaces the joined date information with member number). The two are related by a monotonic function, though. Originally Posted By: Dikiyoba You mean it's not the answer sheet for the next Quiz of Knowledge? Great. Now Dikiyoba actually has to study. Actually, part of the reason I created this thread is that it is the key for the next quiz. Of course, it's encoded, so it isn't much use without the mapping function: Code: [answer key text] => [current contents of this thread][anything else] => wombat Now all you have to do is invert it (taking into account that the mapping is necessarily time dependent). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Ephesos Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 Congrats, Niemand! (conveniently ignores all the math) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 How did you get all those special characters? The only way I can even approximate that is by writing it out in a separate program and screencaping, cropping, uploading, and then image embedding. It's some special mod powers, isn't it? I can't even get in a mu or a sigma, much less arrows and \infty's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Erebus the Black Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 probably latex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Niemand Posted March 8, 2011 Author Share Posted March 8, 2011 Yeah, I got frustrated with UBB ruining my Unicode and told it to use HTML formatting, which I think only mods can do. The particularly dumb part being that I didn't actually use any HTML, I just needed UBB to using the HTML character entity for the ampersand to escape the ampersands that are actually the first characters of other HTML character entities. When I do need to typeset small snippets into images I use LaTeXiT,but for non-Mac OS systems one would have to find something else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 Congratulations, Niemand! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 Originally Posted By: Erasmus probably latex what you do in your spare time is your business - we don't need to know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Callie Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 I stared at this for ten minutes thinking it was a post-count thread. Congrats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 It's not Latex or latex. It's LaTeX. You can tell because it's a language that prints symbols and code using TeX macros, and also because software engineers apparently spend the time they have in between writing brilliant code writing terrible, terrible puns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast VCH Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Latex is fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Actually no real TeX user would make puns on LaTeX, simply because the "TeX" part is pronounced "tech". The "X" is really a chi. This may sound like something I'd make up, but it's true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Originally Posted By: Student of Trinity Actually no real TeX user would make puns on LaTeX, simply because the "TeX" part is pronounced "tech". The "X" is really a chi. Huzzah for Greek! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dantius It's not Latex or latex. It's LaTeX. You can tell because it's a language that prints symbols and code using TeX macros, and also because software engineers apparently spend the time they have in between writing brilliant code writing terrible, terrible puns. Fun tie-in with the Alan Turing topic: Edsger Dijkstra had a Volkswagen bus which he called "the Touring Machine". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall A less presumptuous name. Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Originally Posted By: Student of Trinity Actually no real TeX user would make puns on LaTeX, simply because the "TeX" part is pronounced "tech". The "X" is really a chi. This may sound like something I'd make up, but it's true. I heard that it can also be pronounced like "yech" or one of those hissing words. Something to do with the exasperation of the guy who made it. I downloaded MacTeX or something, but never bothered to figure it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Originally Posted By: Master1 I heard that it can also be pronounced like "yech" or one of those hissing words. Something to do with the exasperation of the guy who made it. I downloaded MacTeX or something, but never bothered to figure it out. So it's like the "ch" in "Chanukah"? I still think that it was a mistake for the roman alphabet to drop the "theta" /th/ sound. I probably use that more than the regular /t/ sound. This post, for example: /th/: 10 /t/:9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 The Roman alphabet never had theta; Latin doesn't use that sound. Theta is Greek, and when other languages imported the Latin alphabet they added some characters of their own. English had two, eth (Ð) and thorn (Þ). Eth probably disappeared because thorn was good enough; thorn disappeared because "th" and "y" were considered acceptable replacements. The latter, at least, was influenced both by drift in the shape of the letter and the fact that typeset usually came from countries that didn't have thorn and didn't bother to add it for overseas orders. —Alorael, who imagines that TeX with a yech is just based on differing opinions on the pronunciation of chi. It all depends on how archaic your technology is, really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Tracer Bullet Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 Eth is DH. Thorn is TH. It's an important distinction. In Old English, eth usually occurred between vowels (brodhor), where dh is an eth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 So 'ye olde' is really just 'the olde', with the y standing in for an eth. But what about the old past-tense prefix y? As in 'ydrad' and 'yclept'? Was it also an eth? 'Thdrad' is kind of a moutful. But 'ee-drad' isn't exactly gorgeous either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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