Friday, November 17, 2006
PlayStation 3 mania
Armed Thugs Shoot 1 Person Waiting in Wal-Mart PlayStation Line
That's bad but from further along in the article:
In West Bend, Wis., a 19-year-old man was injured when he ran into a pole racing with 50 others for one of 10 spots outside a Wal-Mart.
LOL! What a dumb cracker.
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That's bad but from further along in the article:
In West Bend, Wis., a 19-year-old man was injured when he ran into a pole racing with 50 others for one of 10 spots outside a Wal-Mart.
LOL! What a dumb cracker.
# posted by O'Brien @ 11/17/2006 12:37:00 PM 
Poisoned cookies sent to Supreme Court Justices (and others)
Half-baked attempt to kill Supreme Court crumbles
Apparently, the cookies contained enough poison to kill but the sender was kind enough to include a note stating they were poisoned. What a looney tune.
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Apparently, the cookies contained enough poison to kill but the sender was kind enough to include a note stating they were poisoned. What a looney tune.
# posted by O'Brien @ 11/17/2006 12:24:00 PM
Term for the day
Least concave majorant--The smallest concave function lying above a function of interest. I learned about the concept today in my stochastic differential equations class, specifically in the context of optimal stopping times.
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Labels: mathematics
# posted by O'Brien @ 11/17/2006 12:14:00 PM
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Rogue Scientist Has Own Scientific Method
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/49180
"...[W]asn't Einstein ridiculed when he unveiled his theory of relativity, or Copernicus when he posited that the Earth revolved around the sun? True, I have since proved them both wrong, but at least they took risks."
ROFL!
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"...[W]asn't Einstein ridiculed when he unveiled his theory of relativity, or Copernicus when he posited that the Earth revolved around the sun? True, I have since proved them both wrong, but at least they took risks."
ROFL!
# posted by O'Brien @ 11/11/2006 09:36:00 PM
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Lebesgue v. Riemann integration analogy
One of my (favorite) instructors compared Lebesgue integration to Riemann integration with the following analogy:
Say you dump your change jar on the floor. Riemann goes along and adds up each coin as he picks it up; whereas Lebesgue counts the number of pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, etc. and multiplies each total by its corresponding value.
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Say you dump your change jar on the floor. Riemann goes along and adds up each coin as he picks it up; whereas Lebesgue counts the number of pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, etc. and multiplies each total by its corresponding value.
Labels: mathematics
# posted by O'Brien @ 11/08/2006 11:44:00 PM
