You've probably already heard of Rule 34 of the Internet:If it exists, there is porn of it on the Internet. No exceptions.
Now, as any mathematician can tell you, the statement "if X then Y" is equivalent to its contrapositive, "if not-Y then not-X". For instance, "if Socrates is human, then he is mortal" is equivalent to "if Socrates is not mortal ( Read more... )

By popular demand, a picture of Slava Pestov wailing on guitar:


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Hi, this post is about Factor, real Factor. This post is awesome. My name is pozorvlak and I can't stop thinking about Factor. Factor is cool, and by cool, I mean totally sweet.

Facts:
1. Slava Pestov is a mammal.
2. Slava Pestov hacks on Factor ALL the time.
3. The purpose of Slava Pestov is to flip out and kill people.

Weapons and Gear:1. Concatenative ( Read more... )

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Via, er, neoanjou and kimholding and filecoreinuse and a bunch of other people...

What Be Your Nerd Type?
Your Result: Science/Math Nerd

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Inspired by mrpjantarctica's comment on my last post, here's a first cut at a "which scientific topics do you understand?" meme. Currently, it needs a lot of work: it's heavily biased towards topics that I know about, and topic selection's a bit dodgy even within those. So, can any of you suggest some better topics, or things I've missed? I'd particularly ( Read more... )

Via michiexile and atreic.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them
5) Put a star next to those you've only partially read.

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I know I'm very late to the LOL$thing party, but what the hell:

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You have lost The Game.

That is all.

mi_guida: I have won the Pillaging Game.

There are a number of well-known systems for classifying people's personalities according to various measures such as introversion-extroversion, and organisations often use these schemes to categorize their staff. Unfortunately, such methods do not capture a number of the most important aspects of an individual within an organisation; any corporate ( Read more... )