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Quotations | Rambling Thoughts
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8220;Forests catch on fire, why not rivers? 8221; — Lynnelle. 8220;I hate being surrounded by people who want to socially interact with me.” — Anand. 8220;You will be chained to a rock and have your eagle torn out by livers.” — Robin. 8220;I am the right path. I am the only way.” — Lynnelle. 8220;Screw this, just because I’m as old as Galois was when he died doesn’t mean I have to understand his junk ideas.” — Lynnelle. 8220;Eat your javascript, or else! 8221; — Anand (to his computer). 8220;The Abyss...
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Sleep | Rambling Thoughts
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Posted by Moor Xu. On August 26, 2012. I like data. I believe in collecting data and analyzing it to see interesting trends. And it’s always sad to lose data, because then I lose opportunities to analyze said data. Could be recording their sleep schedules too, but instead fail to do so out of laziness. Average since March 13: 7:59:21. Maximum: 12:29 on March 29. Minimum: 0:00 on March 24 (thanks to red-eye flight). Minimum positive time: 2:45 on June 3 (thanks to ARML. And some very regular weeks:. You a...
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Two New Computers | Rambling Thoughts
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Posted by Moor Xu. On August 12, 2012. For making me feel guilty about failing at blogging. Lesson: guilt is far more effective than to do lists. I got two computers in the mail this week! The first computer is an old Lenovo Thinkcentre that was acquired from eBay. It’s going to be the Stanford University Mathematical Organization. 8216;s new server. We’ll use it to do a whole bunch of things, including but not limited to a number of jobs for the Stanford Math Tournament. Before I got my Raspberry Pi, I ...
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2013 | Rambling Thoughts
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Posted by Moor Xu. On January 1, 2013. Welcome to the new year! As usual, here’s some trivia about the number 2013. 2013 starts a sequence of years with interesting factorizations — factorizations with all primes less than 100. These are numbers for which it is easy to write interesting problems, and the next few years should give plenty of those. Have more trivia about 2013? Please comment and let me know! Larr; A study in non-canonical choices. 2013 Pi Day →. One response to “. Enter your comment here.
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Bibliography | Rambling Thoughts
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Here are some books that I have looked at and enjoyed. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. Bell, E.T. Courant, R. and Robbins, H. Godel, Escher, Bach. Atiyah, M. and Macdonald, I. Introduction to Commutative Algebra. Bak, J. and Newman, D. Dummit, D. and Foote, R. Graham, R., Knuth, D. and Patashnik, O. Principles of Mathematical Analysis. Real and Complex Analysis. Enumerative Combinatorics, Vol II. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public).
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A study in non-canonical choices | Rambling Thoughts
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A study in non-canonical choices. Posted by Moor Xu. On September 16, 2012. I was at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich last week. There were several exhibits on the work of the observatory, including a large section on their work dealing with longitude and time. In the 1700s, people were interested the solving the “Longitude Problem”: how does a sailor determine his longitude? I mean choices that are natural or motivated; non-canonical. Arbitrary and would make just as much sense if chosen any other way.
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Moor Xu | Rambling Thoughts
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Posted by Moor Xu. On March 14, 2013. It is once again Pi Day! I’m proud of. For having survived yet another year. Let’s hope that we can celebrate many more. Days for this most glorious number. I wonder sometimes: if pi could think, what would it think about all of those silly humans who celebrate Pi Day every year? Given that every Pi Day makes me feel old, how does. Feel about the aging process? Posted by Moor Xu. On January 1, 2013. Welcome to the new year! Have more trivia about 2013? In the 1700s, ...
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Puns | Rambling Thoughts
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This page is under construction and is accepting submissions! Puns about shoes are mooronic. Is isomoorphic to the moordinals (like the ordinals, but there are moor of them). The mooral of the story is that puns are mooraculous methods of getting points. Xurely there are always Moor points for moorbidly Xameless puns. We could Wu Moor ARML coaches by making finNicky puns about the Xuperb coaches who moorally give their time to us MooroNick kids :). Don’t overdose on moorphine. He is in moortal danger!
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Random thoughts from 2012 ARML | Rambling Thoughts
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Random thoughts from 2012 ARML. Posted by Moor Xu. On June 9, 2012. Last weekend was 2012 ARML. It was my fifth ARML, and third as coach of the SFBA teams. I remember my first trip to ARML, with just a single team. This year, ARML has become a 7-team, 4-day expedition. This was also one of my most entertaining trips to ARML. Watching SFBA troll the Friday evening talent show was amazing. Some random thoughts from ARML:. Tie-dye was an amazing shirt color. Pink was pretty cool too. Flip, Flop, Fliegerspiel.
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Mathematical Quotations | Rambling Thoughts
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8220;The ultimate goal of mathematics is to eliminate all need for intelligent thought.” — Alfred N. Whitehead. 8220;‘Obvious’ is the most dangerous word in mathematics.” — E. T. Bell. 8220;Mathematics is not a deductive science — that’s a cliche. When you try to prove a theorem, you don’t just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.” — Paul Halmos,. I Want to be a Mathematician. A Mathematician’s Apology. How to solve it. 8220;If you can...
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