1. I will never know why a non-mathematician knows as much math as you do. 2. Anything little-kid cute in a particular kind of way, really... 3. I think you have to be a cookie of some kind. Oatmeal-raisin, perhaps. 4. "This book answers the central question of recursion theory: what is recursion theory?" 5. I don't actually have a clear first memory -- you kind of strike me as having always been there. 6. Density theorem of Sacks! 7. I actually have no clear idea of what you're even up to now...
1. Short answer: Because math is fun! Slightly longer answer: I really should have been a mathematician, but life takes funny turns sometimes. I might return to the straight and true path one day. 2. yeah, probably. 5. You were definately there before me. 6. Explain. . . 7. Sold out. Goldman Sachs.
No offense, but my brain is just too mathed-up right now to render those initials into a name, so I think I'm screwed unless more information somehow comes out...
Ok, time to get off my conference-y ass and finish these...
1. So how many of our collective RPG characters have ended up spending all their time trying to be pragmatic with each other? 2. Practically anything about angels-as-characters, so everything from Lucifer through Lamb. 3. You sir are a carrot stick. 4. Gazebos! 5. I remember you taking over Buffy sig about halfway through your freshman year, but knowing that you'd been there all along. 6. I think you've got to be Zorn's lemma, actually, if only because it's simultaneously obvious and not. 7. Are you still painting?
1. Why on earth, with the whole economics thing, haven't you made it to the auction house yet? 2. Usually B5 (cause duh), but also Yes, Prime Minister. 3. You are a fast-food breakfast sandwich -- sausage, egg, and cheese on a biscuit. 4. So, how do we fix Bang? 5. Cities and Knights, that first time for any of us in Tom's room. 6. Arrow's Impossibility Theorem, beyond shadow of doubt. 7. How exactly is it that you got so infatuated with parliamentarism? I assume there are fairly good reasons that go pretty far back...
1. Lagphobia. 4. Make it faster and don't care about fairness. 7. Over my career simplicity has developed more respect. I started that things that were beautiful and fun to play with (for gov students or the political actors in it) like a great game... are highly inefficient.
1. Is that picture from the project of illustrating the book about the sea with Mindy? Something about that face just feels fishy to me... 2. Does Neil Gaiman qualify as a media artifact? Like, not his work but the actual guy? And, of course, Les Phys. 3. Mexican hot chocolate -- hot, rich, sweet, and with some serious bite (but the good kind). 4. Oooh, the timing on that light cue was off -- let's take the kiss again. And again. And again. 5. Definitely your HRSFA intro meeting -- I was so happy with the posse that showed up as a whole, but you were the most immediately impressive. I was such a fan. 6. The Yoneda lemma* -- reliable, powerful, omnipresent, and surprisingly subtle. 7. So I actually have no earthly clue why you have the response you do to the word from my #4... perhaps it's just left my memory, but I'm curious.
*This is probably the most important result in pure category-theory, but it's therefore very hard to explain. Essentially it says that moduli spaces (that is, spaces parameterizing families of things) are well-
1. You probably have the only braid I've ever genuinely thought about pulling, and I'm ok with that ;-) 2. Any anime with wide-eyed girls who do that blink/head twist/inquisitive noise thing you're so good at. But also most of high fantasy. 3. Hangar steak, I think -- primal, but sophisticated. 4. I resemble only half the things I say I don't; the other half resemble me. 5. I have hazy memories of prefroshdom (some Hour, I suppose), but probably reading your stuff at writer's SIG. 6. Chinese Remainder Theorem -- probably the folkiest theorem I can conceive, complete with oral history, but not without continuing importance and more modern uses.* 7. Why anthropology?
*Old version: if p and q are prime, Z/pq is isomorphic to Z/p x Z/q. Fancier versions include statements about multiplication of ideals in rings and even some quite general geometric formulations.
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2. Anything little-kid cute in a particular kind of way, really...
3. I think you have to be a cookie of some kind. Oatmeal-raisin, perhaps.
4. "This book answers the central question of recursion theory: what is recursion theory?"
5. I don't actually have a clear first memory -- you kind of strike me as having always been there.
6. Density theorem of Sacks!
7. I actually have no clear idea of what you're even up to now...
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2. yeah, probably.
5. You were definately there before me.
6. Explain. . .
7. Sold out. Goldman Sachs.
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Do your worst Mr. Clark.
(And, thanks for taking the time.)
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Charles here. The "M" is for Michael.
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1. So how many of our collective RPG characters have ended up spending all their time trying to be pragmatic with each other?
2. Practically anything about angels-as-characters, so everything from Lucifer through Lamb.
3. You sir are a carrot stick.
4. Gazebos!
5. I remember you taking over Buffy sig about halfway through your freshman year, but knowing that you'd been there all along.
6. I think you've got to be Zorn's lemma, actually, if only because it's simultaneously obvious and not.
7. Are you still painting?
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2. Usually B5 (cause duh), but also Yes, Prime Minister.
3. You are a fast-food breakfast sandwich -- sausage, egg, and cheese on a biscuit.
4. So, how do we fix Bang?
5. Cities and Knights, that first time for any of us in Tom's room.
6. Arrow's Impossibility Theorem, beyond shadow of doubt.
7. How exactly is it that you got so infatuated with parliamentarism? I assume there are fairly good reasons that go pretty far back...
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1. Lagphobia.
4. Make it faster and don't care about fairness.
7. Over my career simplicity has developed more respect. I started that things that were beautiful and fun to play with (for gov students or the political actors in it) like a great game... are highly inefficient.
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2. Does Neil Gaiman qualify as a media artifact? Like, not his work but the actual guy? And, of course, Les Phys.
3. Mexican hot chocolate -- hot, rich, sweet, and with some serious bite (but the good kind).
4. Oooh, the timing on that light cue was off -- let's take the kiss again. And again. And again.
5. Definitely your HRSFA intro meeting -- I was so happy with the posse that showed up as a whole, but you were the most immediately impressive. I was such a fan.
6. The Yoneda lemma* -- reliable, powerful, omnipresent, and surprisingly subtle.
7. So I actually have no earthly clue why you have the response you do to the word from my #4... perhaps it's just left my memory, but I'm curious.
*This is probably the most important result in pure category-theory, but it's therefore very hard to explain. Essentially it says that moduli spaces (that is, spaces parameterizing families of things) are well-
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2. Any anime with wide-eyed girls who do that blink/head twist/inquisitive noise thing you're so good at. But also most of high fantasy.
3. Hangar steak, I think -- primal, but sophisticated.
4. I resemble only half the things I say I don't; the other half resemble me.
5. I have hazy memories of prefroshdom (some Hour, I suppose), but probably reading your stuff at writer's SIG.
6. Chinese Remainder Theorem -- probably the folkiest theorem I can conceive, complete with oral history, but not without continuing importance and more modern uses.*
7. Why anthropology?
*Old version: if p and q are prime, Z/pq is isomorphic to Z/p x Z/q. Fancier versions include statements about multiplication of ideals in rings and even some quite general geometric formulations.
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