Mathematics - 2012-05-07 (page 7 of 9)

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9:02 PM

@tb I'll respond to this when election ends.

spoken like a true politician^

@skullpatrol Bullying? I liked Asaf!

Whatever

The bully has left the play ground.

@Gigili I hope I haven't offended you in any way. In any case: I voted on it because I appreciate the honesty, not to make it more visible or anything. If you have a problem with that, you can re-post the comment and I won't vote again.

@skullpatrol Ah. I need to read back more carefully.

9:05 PM

He's indulging himself in celebrating that Asaf's gone.

@tb I see that. I came back from elsewhere and responded too soon.

@tb Ok ... I'm sorry :(

@tb Not at all, I knew why you upvoted it. Thank you again.

@tb Well then: screw him! WTH. I want to punch myself for writing the stupid message that made him come back. Seriously: we're all nice, make him come back and as soon as he returns all he does is speak badly of Asaf.

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Has anyone noticed how many more times a candidiate for mod will say "thank you" before and during the election?

9:09 PM

I think he should've come back f*cking grovelling for forgiveness.

@skullpatrol Thank you for noticing ;-)

@robjohn great comment :) whispers thank me!

@tb Thank you for the comment :-D

@MattN I said I was "sorry" what more do you want?

robjohn for president!

9:11 PM

@robjohn should I edit the souffleur-bit out?

@JonasTeuwen Yes! : )

och, too late

@tb of where?

I'm getting rid of all my books!

@JonasTeuwen Can I send you my address? No wait: what language?

9:12 PM

@JonasTeuwen You beast!

Na, must go as soon as possible.

@MattN Math books.

@JonasTeuwen In Dutch?

English, French, German.

Send them to me : ) I'll pay the postage! (in advance)

For the moment I throw them in the basement.

9:13 PM

@robjohn a souffleur is a prompter in French. (does that make it clearer? Hiding traces of me allowing you to thank me)

I need an empty mind first.

@JonasTeuwen Ah, ok.

@JonasTeuwen I hear pot helps.

But if I would throw them away (which is very possible), I will keep you in mind.

@JonasTeuwen The horror.

@MattN Only for a while.

9:13 PM

@JonasTeuwen Thank you! : ) Nice : )

@JonasTeuwen How many do tou have, like 10 ?

@N3buchadnezzar Like 600?

@JonasTeuwen Why don't you donate them to a public library?

@JonasTeuwen 600? Thats more than 599 books!

Or to a school?

9:15 PM

@tb Ah, nah. It's all in fun :-)

@JonasTeuwen books or bottles of whisky?

@tb I put the bottles now where the books were! :-).

I distinctly remember your "library"

So you got rid of your math books to make room for whiskey, clever.

@tb Yes, I have a lot of both.

9:17 PM

@N3buchadnezzar might result in more theorems :-)

I actually don't want to lose my books, but I feel like I have to.

@tb This is what I was asking

@JonasTeuwen Why?

I will not tell here :-).

is a complex with no imaginary part the same as a real?

9:18 PM

@EricGregor I think here we should call it not "baby-kissing" but "proof kissing". Something like this: Hey Rob, you know I've been thinking a lot about those Bezout proofs, and I'm beginning to realize: who needs them universal GCD proofs? Does anyone really work in anti-matter domains?

@Gigili oh, boy...

@Mariano: I have a little issue here, when you're around.

You have an issue with him being around?

I'm not taking sides on this issue, but it's really getting tiresome.

The monkey bro, I'll clean up some more! 8-).

9:20 PM

@tb which issue?

@BillDubuque :-)

@JonasTeuwen who?

say I have a*b, where a and b are complex and a = c+0j, does that equal cb?

@tb I didn't even mention the name, I don't know what's the point of messing around.

@JoeStavitsky does the distributive property help?

@robjohn this

9:21 PM

@N3buchadnezzar I don't really know, but seeing tb's comment I guess I don't want to know. I have enough things to do myself already 8-).

@robjohn, yes, exactly what I'm asking

so in this case imaginary with no real part is the same as real

@JonasTeuwen Filling up that libary with whisky!

These guys should just have a drink together instead of (pseudo)fighting.

@tb Thanks. I followed the Gigili trail back.

@JonasTeuwen : )

9:22 PM

That's why robjohn should go for president, he manages to keep out of all these things :-).

@robjohn, right?

@JonasTeuwen It's all about age : )

Is it age?

The other ones will grow up too eventually : )

Not so sure...

Most people never grow up it seems, if you define this as "grown up".

9:23 PM

True dat. Considering coughs

Luckilly I am all grown up now, and never do or say anything immature =)

Lately I just think: Has it brought me ever anything other than misery? If the answer is: no, I will not do it.

Stop
coughing
at me
:D

@JonasTeuwen "Lately" = you've grown up : )

That's not the point. Taking things way too seriously is more the issue.

@MattN Really? Woohoo! Let's get so drunk my hair turns green!

9:25 PM

@JonasTeuwen ...Asaf? Is it you?

Do not drink and drive, think and derive.

@MattN Your help's needed on the question we were not supposed to close...

@JonasTeuwen But we should indeed go out for drinks if we ever get the chance! : )

@MattN Yes.

Beer!

9:26 PM

I wanted to go to some conference. My advisor said: Do you actually know anything about the subject?

@tb Show me link pleeze : )

@JonasTeuwen Here?

I said: No, not really. Then he asked: Why would you want to go? I said: "To have a drink with the cool guys".

I didn't get the funding :-(.

@MattN Yes, there too.

@JonasTeuwen Noooooo! :,(

@MattN Don't worry, I will find something! :-).

@JonasTeuwen Do you know anything about the subject? If no. Then you are going there to learn about the subject. Or so you say ;)

9:27 PM

Better hurry up, or I'll be gone : )

@N3buchadnezzar To learn about the Ricci curvature? I don't think an advanced conference on the subject will help with that :-).

:4508907 Oh. Yes. I'll be right there. Just let me finish my cave painting, m'kay?

@JonasTeuwen Oh yes it will, or you have to atleast persuade your supervisor that it will.

@robjohn, so was that right?

@MattN sure, meanwhile I have left some smoke signals on the question, so no hurry.

9:30 PM

@JoeStavitsky can you tell what the distributive law saya?

@MattN So you will apply Riesz?

@tb It is definitely aimed at one person. As such, I think it can only be seen as an attack.

I don't think any other candidate meets those criteria.

When you're stuck just apply Riesz.

@robjohn, (a+b)(c+d)=ac+bd+bc+ad

@JonasTeuwen nuke that problem!

@JoeStavitsky can you apply that to your question?

9:33 PM

@tb Done. : ) Tell me: am I painting too many cave paintings?

(b+dj)(c+aj)=bc+cdj+baj+daj

@JonasTeuwen No, I thought it's "When you're stuck apply Baire". : )

@robjohn Hm. I'm not sure I caught that, are you referring to the question G. commented on?

@tb The question at the end of the G trail, yes

now, let d=0, comes to bc+baj

@robjohn, right?

9:36 PM

@JoeStavitsky daj?

@tb attack may be too strong a word, but it seems directed.

@robjohn:?

@JoeStavitsky how about daj^2

@robjohn, ah, ok

but regardless, d=0 so it doesnt count?

@robjohn I see a few ghastly things there, so I'm not sure I'm following. I see that it could point to the MathGems fiasco, and then there's an exchange in the comments I'm not really happy about.

@robjohn I'm curious, why do you want to be a moderator as I know nobody that became more popular (but I'm sure you will not be any less popular) and it costs you quite some time which you could spend doing mathematics :-).

9:38 PM

@JonasTeuwen, he wants to be moderator to be cool, of course =P

Na, I doubt it.

@tb is there more than one suspension in question here?

@robjohn, but is that right?

@JoeStavitsky yes

@MattN Yea... Asaf's the bro (I hang around too much with NZ people I think 8-)).

9:39 PM

ok, cook thx

@JonasTeuwen I thought I was the bro.

@JoeStavitsky did you still want to talk about the linear fit in $\mathbb{R}^3$? I am still working on the regression

@MattN Sorry, you're the bro and he is one of the bro's 8-).

@JonasTeuwen Aces! : D

Now I need to look at this Riesz question.

@tb I may not have been around, or as cognizant of such things, for previous suspensions.

9:42 PM

@robjohn Two candidates that I know of have been suspended in recent memory, one on the main site for a month, one here for 30 minutes.

@BrianMScott Who is the one that is not Bill Dubuque?

@BrianMScott Ah, you're right. My mistake. I forgot about here.

Gigili, here.

Suspended? Didn't know that.

Why was Bill suspended?

9:44 PM

@MattN That spat with Kannappan a while back.

@PeterTamaroff Because of an old grudge.

@PeterTamaroff For abusing people. Unfortunately, all the comments have been deleted.

@BillDubuque What happened?

Do we really have to vote for three people?

@MattN Rephrase: that's not a nice comment of your part. Why do you use the word abuse?

9:44 PM

@MattN I will buy you a beer if you can actually solve it using Baire.

@JonasTeuwen you know, I have no idea

Well, no cheating! Don't use Baire to prove PUB...

@MattN Alas, you hvae no idea what really happened behind the scenes.

@robjohn Okay :-).

@PeterTamaroff Abuse because he was unnecessarily unpleasant when trying to tell someone that what they were doing wasn't right.

@BillDubuque No but I think we're not talking about the same incident. The thing I'm talking about was a bunch of comments. The guy had written a wrong answer and you were telling him that it was wrong.

9:47 PM

See my starred message 8-).

@JonasTeuwen Which?

The one about the beers!

@JonasTeuwen I starred that.

I know :-).

@MattN That's not abuse. That is being rude. I don't really know if you can actually abuse someone online.

9:48 PM

@BillDubuque Old grudges are the best kind ;-)

But I don't think this will go anywhere! Try the Riesz thing. Then I will star you 8-).

@MattN And, as you may recall, many people were shocked that a mod suspended someone for 30 days for that comment. As I said, there was much more to it than that. But it has little to do with who should be moderator.

@PeterTamaroff Yes. Verbal abuse. But I don't want to talk about any of this anymore because I don't care. It's not interesting. : )

Some said they often want to punch people through the internet

I want to give people alcohol through the internet.

<non sequitur> I will be so glad when this @#!$@# election is over. </non sequitur>

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9:50 PM

@N3buchadnezzar That would be cooler, see.

But that comment makes me seem very pedophile, uhmm...

@BillDubuque Bill: Level headed people should be moderators, I know you agree with me. And neither myself nor you are level-headed enough to be a moderator. You will agree with me again if you're honest with yourself.

@N3buchadnezzar Why would you bring that up? Jeez.....

@BrianMScott Yes, like I said: I'm not interested in talking about all of this. Bores the hell out of me : )

does anyone know of a good resource to find problems and solutions involving tempered distributions?i want to get a feel for how one can DO things with this generalized application of fourier analysis. some nice toy examples would be enlightening

9:52 PM

@skullpatrol No doubt. When one is as outspoken as I, one cannot help but bump into them. But even I was shocked in this instance. That's the problem with virtual worlds, you cannot easily get visual clues when feathers are ruffling.

Teddy, are you still here?

@BrianMScott 8-). Why should just get a drink and be friends right?

@MattN Yes, I am, just came back. Very multitasking-challenged.

why can't we all just get along

But but... You're male?

9:54 PM

@MattN I can't speak for you. But I wear many very different hats, personal vs. professional, etc. As I said in my statement, as a mod I will wear my professional hat.

this is why democracy never works

@EricGregor What do you suggest?

@JonasTeuwen Or even not get a drink and be friends, inconceivable as that may sound.

@BrianMScott That's also okay I guess :-).

@BrianMScott Haha, Brian, you are so funny : D

9:55 PM

@PeterTamaroff To encourage affection?

@Gigili I'd start with respect. But that seems nice =)

@Peter i suggest an MSE oligarchy, with a Caesar clause for when things get out of hand

@tb Oh, looks as if he's going to figure it out.

@EricGregor I'd like a guillotine. Power to the masses.

user image

What a man!

So well dressed.

So smart. So gentle.

9:57 PM

@JonasTeuwen Is this the French mathematician?

I don't know who this is but he needs a haircut.

+1 for you. (that you dare ask this question).

He does not!

@Gigili Is your name French? Or just a nickname?

@PeterTamaroff Actually, that was a movie quote.

@JonasTeuwen Does. Long hair is for women.

9:58 PM

@Gigili Which movie?

And facial hair is for monkeys and cave men : )

@MattN Na.

@PeterTamaroff Pride and prejudice, IIRC.

@MattN he could use a new tie, too :)

@MattN Oh, dear. It seems that I'm a female monkey.

9:58 PM

if any.

He should not change.

@BrianMScott : D

He's way cooler like this.

who is this guy? he looks dandyish

@MattN Surely you're joking, Matt N.

9:59 PM

@tb This is not a tie : ) It's a ribbon, no? Like Easter bunnies wear them.

@EricGregor Cedric Villani.

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