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@laurelrusswurm http://larryrusswurm.com/2011/04/06/true-if-destroyed/ are you the evil genius behind this? :P
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@marjoleink this is early... if i'm still here in 5 hours... :)
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@tekk uh oh... let me go read it 80
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@tekk whew, no. Larry was in the second wave of siblings :) I'm the nice big sister who gave him Robert Heinlein books :)
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@tekk this is us a few years back: http://ur1.ca/2dtls
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@laurelrusswurm ah, about 05 right? ;P
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@laurelrusswurm Too cute.
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@tekk ahem a few decades back
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@laurelrusswurm yeah, 69-early 70s guessing by larry mentioning he was born in 67 :P
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@laurelrusswurm I should probably grab my 5 minute mysteries book instead, I'm sure you know when it was taken..
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@tekk you math people :)
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@tekk I swear I didn't take your five minute mysteries book!
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@laurelrusswurm strangely I'm awful at math though, at least algebra(failed on the entrance test because of it)
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@tekk I can tell you're a math guy from all the way over here! I suspect your algebra teacher was inferior.
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@laurelrusswurm it's at the foot of my bed at the moment :D I love those things
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@laurelrusswurm nope, I'm just awful at algebra(programming is fine thouhg)
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@laurelrusswurm I've tried everything to improve it
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@laurelrusswurm It sounds like you need a eureka. Not everyone learns in the same ways.
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@laurelrusswurm Well on the other hand it may have been pressure. Iirc I did okay in the practice test for algebra
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@tekk Stress can really skew results. I would imagine the programming skill set is similar to the algebra skill set.
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@laurelrusswurm programming is essentially applied algebra, especially !scheme, one of my favorite languages
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@laurelrusswurm I have issues with all the abstract data in algebra though, at a really base level
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@tekk You? Awful at algebra? Fuck that. "Education" systems are awful. I never graduated yet I'm smarter than all my teachers combined.
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@tekk i'll bet that one day when you aren't looking it will suddenly make sense.
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@speeddefrost what about me makes you think I'm good at algebra? :P
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@laurelrusswurm having my friend teach me factoring and simplifying polynomials was helpful. have a scan of his hand written notes in my ~
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@tekk Lets see. Your profile says your a developer. I'm assuming you know what 'developer' means.
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@speeddefrost you overestimate the work of a distro. I'm a robot that does ./configure --prefix=$PREFIX && make && make install
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@speeddefrost occasionally aesthetic choices or real fun work comes along though, like picking the theme for 2.0 or writing a new module man
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@tekk Okay, well still. Algebra isn't very hard. Idiots were probably trying to explain it to you in a complicated way (and failed utterly).
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@tekk Lets begin lessons: If a = 2 and b = 3, solve this: a8+b3
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@speeddefrost most of it was teaching myself. though if anyone is offering to teach me some of the stuff I'd love to
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@speeddefrost on the plus side, I seem okay at geometry, so at least I'm good for newtonian physics :P
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@tekk See? You aren't "bad" at algebra. The education system is just fucked.
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@speeddefrost that's simple arithmetic with variables though. my issues are simplification, equivalency, etc.
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@tekk Most schools teach liek this: The faster you can answer shit, the more smrtr you are.
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@tekk I'm the same way. I never learned anything past that very well. Most of it isn't even necessary for programming, so fuck it.
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@speeddefrost yeah, they're focussed on rote.
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@speeddefrost it IS necessary for getting into uni. and if I want to work at, say, !redhat, I need at least some college
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@tekk I would try learning it off the internet first. That way you have all the time you need to understand it fully.
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@speeddefrost Mhm. simplifying polynomials and factoring I know how to do, but need speed. no idea where to go from there though
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@tekk Repetition is the only way to build speed, I think. Otherwise you'd need genetic brain enhancement or something.
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@speeddefrost Yes. And I'm pretty sure that I'll use them more as I try out more advanced stuff that I don't know exists yet :P
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@speeddefrost Do you mean to write it as "a⁸+b³" in which case the answer is not 25. (p.s. I sucks at algebra.)
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@jacobwb I wasn't meaning powers at all. Just multiplication.
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@jacobwb Apparently it's "8a + 3b".
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@jacobwb For the heck of it though, the answer is 91.
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@aqeeliz I see, somebody wrote it out wrong. I was starting to think I was worse at algebra than I thought.
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@speeddefrost Huh? a⁸+b³=283. Where'd you get 91 from?
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@jacobwb Err, wait, I swapped the arguments in python's pow() function by accident ;D
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@jacobwb you're like a man
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@x11r5 Damn straight! Hell, more than like. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrOInua-c18
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♻ @tekk: @speeddefrost you overestimate the work of a distro. I'm a robot that does ./configure --prefix=$PREFIX && make && make install
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