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wow_its_wolf

Semester Ending

Dec 13, 2005 02:00

During the last few semesters I checked the "Check your grades online" section of the UT Registrars website compulsively. It was like an early Christmas watching those delicious A's get posted. This semester won't be as fun, but the compulsiveness factor is still here. Tommorow is an optional astronomy test, I'd need to make a 99 on it to raise my ( Read more... )

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octopodes December 13 2005, 01:52:15 UTC

i used to do gilbert and sullivan (victorian operettas) and in one of the songs was this line:

"How quaint the ways of Paradox!
At common sense she gaily mocks!"

anyhow... my favorite is from a myth in which there is a fox that always eludes it's predator, and a hound that always catches what it hunts, and zeus turns them both to stone to keep the world from exploding or something. maybe called zeus'paradox?

aaron_omnislash December 13 2005, 10:01:13 UTC

The one about God and that heavy rock he can't pick up.

riklown December 13 2005, 17:00:30 UTC

BTW, "every thing I say is a lie" could be explained if you view it as a set. I personally disagree with this solution to self-predicating paradoxes but...

If the name of the set is "everything I say is a lie" and the set itself is "everything I say" then you avoid the problem.. still a load of crap tho IMO.

Umm..
How about:
It is impossible to give a suprise quiz if the students know there will be one suprise quiz.

Like so: Say there are 14 class days. the quiz is only a suprise if the kids don't know about it before the class. They know there will be one "suprise quiz."

It can't be on the last day because they will know that it is if they have not had a quiz yet. By the same logic you can go all the way back to day 1.
Annoying as hell.
Enjoy.

riklown December 13 2005, 20:02:48 UTC

But what about the set of all sets that doesn't include itself?

branderson December 13 2005, 20:03:08 UTC

That was me by the way.

riklown December 13 2005, 23:37:16 UTC

Yeah, same concept. I think its a cop out. The set name refers to itself in my opinion and therefore is part of the set as well.

calicaterpillar December 13 2005, 21:09:14 UTC

i totally understand the 'checking the grade website' page thing..i have been doing that a lot lately...i was hoping for 4 A's and one B...but it does not look that way unfortunately. i hate finals and i did not want to study at all.