@JasperLoy What i mean is you're abbreviating stuff, is that just what y'all do for everything or is that a thing with race names

no, go dig for your students' grades :P

Anyway, I will avoid using Jap and homo from now @MikeMiller. It is understood that I don't mean to offend, since everyone knows I am such a nice, liberal minded guy.

like do you go around eating pineapps and polish saushes

LOL

I understand, @Jasper, and was not offended.

pineapps sound delish, @Alex

@MikeMiller Totes

rolls all seven eyes

Reminds me of that Bugs Bunny cartoon from WWII that was really, really racist, with a really, really racist title.

@AlexanderGruber To answer your question, I would need to have studied linguistics. Alas, I cannot answer you!

"Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips". Pretty messed up.

I see

Linguistics was my next subject, @Jasper ... fascinating

Nothing yet, @Ted. No reason to expect so. One of us didn't start grading until noon today.

Well, in the final analysis, there's no hurry. I just like to have everything done as efficiently and soon as possible :P Evidently, so do you.

@Alizter How is your cold?

Well, I'm in a car heading home. So I would hope I was done grading by now :)

@MikeMiller It's dangerous if you are driving.

heading home? Don't you need to be there to assign final grades?

No... the instructor's inputting them.

oh ... so you have no say on borderline cases or anything ...

Alright, it's past midnight. High time to sleep.

when I was a recitation instructor (once) at Berkeley, we put in our own grades, but the lecturer had to approve them.

Good night everyone.

Schlaf gut, @Huy.

@JasperLoy during undergrad i dated this girl who lived about 5 hours away, in a direction where there was nothing but open country for miles

good thing your car didn't die, @Alex

@AlexanderGruber Wow, are you still with her?

@JasperLoy Still bad. Just coughing though

i ended up driving there during the day often, and there was never anybody else on the road, so even once in a while i'd be thinking about school, get out a book and glance at an equation

I am a real busybody. I always like to find out if people have girlfriends, lol.

Not really reading, it was safe

smacks @Alex

I hope I don't have to drive when I go to the US.

I cannot even ride a bicycle.

But one time I got pulled over towards the end of a trip, and the cop looks in the car

it can be very scary, @Jasper

I haven't had to drive for any of my 64 years.

and sees like 8 books on quantum mechanics open to different pages in the passengers seat

do you have a license, @Mike?

with comprehensive notes

Nope, @Ted

LOL , @Alex

It was a sizable and well-deserved ticket.

Yes. I agree with the cop.

Did you learn your lesson, @Alex?

(note the double-entendre)

LOL

@TedShifrin By god I got an A in that course like nobody's business.

yup, and you continued to drive dangerously

ok, outta here

I definitely haven't continued that practice, and have never been close to an accident either.

Anyhow, @Jasper, no we are no longer together

@Alizter It usually starts with runny nose, then becomes sore throat, then becomes cough. The infection moves downwards.

@AlexanderGruber Just to repeat for the 9000th time, I am 33 and never had a gf, lol.

I ended up getting into a relationship with a different girl who lived near me, then immediately moved across the country for grad school, and had the same exact problem.

@JasperLoy Why? By the way, did you start going jogging?

@Chris'ssis Well, maybe I have not really been looking. Too busy with mental problems. No, still not started, I know you will scold me!

@AlexanderGruber Well, I hope you find your wife soon!

@JasperLoy it's probably good that you're doing that man, i think many people get into relationships before they are ready.

@JasperLoy Heh, yeah. I've got time. I'm not too worried about it.

@JasperLoy How would you consider your social skills on a scale from 1 to 10 (greater means better) ? Not on internet, but in the real life.

@Alex you know something about websites?

@Chris'ssis I think my social skills are alright now. I am not worried about them. Maybe 9 out of 10.

@JasperLoy That's great. I mean I guess you paid some bodyguards to keep the girls away from you. Social skills means A LOT. :-)

@Chris'ssis LOL. It's paid, not payed.

@JasperLoy Yeah, tired now. ;)

@MikeMiller That's very vague, I don't think he knows what you mean.

@Chris'ssis Hmm, maybe you should go to sleep.

@MikeMiller Yeah

Whatchyou got

@JasperLoy I'll do it soon.

@Chris'ssis I think it would be real interesting to poll MSE's user base on that question

@Alex part of my website is an Easter egg that I don't want indexed by Google. How do I avoid that?

@Chris'ssis How many pages of your book have you written?

@AlexanderGruber Yeah, I agree. :-)

@MikeMiller let me see

i think I remember how to do this

It seems odd that the answers to the simpler questions get the most upvotes.

@robjohn Welcome to SE!

@JasperLoy I don't write pages, I write things separately (problems and solutions), not on paper, but in some documents.

@JasperLoy Thanks! is there a tour starting soon?

@MikeMiller

I think you can just ask them to deindex the url.

@Chris'ssis I imagine your book will be done next year?

@JasperLoy We'll see. The problem is that I'm waiting for some articles to be published first.

ah wait this may be easier

@Mike put this in your <head>: <meta name="robots" content="noindex">

Thanks, I'll save that for when I get home.

@robjohn These questions are easier to understand. It requires less from the user to appreciate the question. Hence more upvotes

Let A_1A_2A_3A_4 be a square, and let A_5,A_6,A_7,\ldots,A_{34} be distinct points inside the square. Non-intersecting segments $\overline{A_iA_j}$ are drawn for various pairs (i,j) with $1\le i,j\le 34$, such that the square is dissected into triangles. Assume each $A_i$ is an endpoint of at least one of the drawn segments. How many triangles are formed?

@N3buchadnezzar Even though I understand, it still seems odd that answers which take a day or two to finish often get a few upvotes, while ones which take 2 minutes get a dozen or more.

I guess it all evens out.

@robjohn This is why one must bounty good answers

I think it's just that most users won't click on something if the title is not attractive, and titles of lower level questions tend to be more attractive. Good answers to hard questions might be upvoted just as much by those who see them, but maybe nobody looks at hard questions

@AlexanderGruber That works if the bounty supplier actually gives the bounty. I've had two people say they were going to target a bounty for my answer. They posted the bounty, but did not come back in time and the bounty just vanished.

@robjohn it didn't get auto-awarded?

@AlexanderGruber there were no new answers that qualified.

I actually think the primary round for elections ain't necessary. But they should make the main voting period longer.

Ohhh... that is lame.

@AlexanderGruber From now on all my questions will be called "Big booty females #"

Some people don't log in so often, and then they miss the voting period.

@AlexanderGruber actually, it was three... someone just let 1300 points disappear.

@N3buchadnezzar That will get attention, but perhaps not the kind of attention you intend.

@N3buchadnezzar What's the pound sign for?

For da booty

@AlexanderGruber Numeral 1, 2, 3 etc.

@robjohn Just edit the titles of questions you answer into clickbait.

I voted

"You'll Never Believe Why $\int_0^1f(x)dx=0$ when $f(x)=0$"

Questions titled "Am I wrong" and "Is my teacher a jerk?" tends to get a lot of clicks

:-)

@N3buchadnezzar and soft questions in general

Or "My teacher just gave me a ring, what should I do?" When you click the question you discover that it was an abelian ring.

Do we use abelian for rings as well?

@JasperLoy commutative

I think I would use commutative for groups as well. Weird to just use abelian for groups.

@N3buchadnezzar I mean there really is truth to it, it's not buzzfeed level blatent but people are always more likely to click stuff that they could just read for fun than they are for real, difficult questions

I'll click on "Examples where..." every time

I tend to click on integral questions and "can you prove Y without using/assuming X"

Also, difficult questions take longer to answer, and most viewing happens in the first few minutes.

You could get a view spike from external sites though.

@N3buchadnezzar it definitely seems like there is a threshhold number of votes where a question goes from being pretty good / flavor of the week to out of control

and that is usually associated with it being featured somewhere

@AlexanderGruber I think a lot of clicks comes from other stack exchange sites, when they are featured on the sidebar.

@N3buchadnezzar hackernews seems to do mse stuff sometimes too

And it's always weird threads... like, I'll see something with 3 upvotes but it has 30 thousand views.

@AlexanderGruber However I do not think questions that contain MathJax, does not seem to qualify. Since moth sites do not have that feature. Which is a shame really.

@AlexanderGruber I guess it is because those external viewers have eyes but no acount/soul.

@N3buchadnezzar Yeah... their loss no doubt

Hmm

Say I've got an interesting math/computery question

maybe you guys can help me

It is truly amazing how so many users here write questions which refer to a book but not give the last name and the full title, lol.

I've got a set of points $P$ inside a box, let's say $[0,1]\times [0,1]$

I'm trying to figure out how to compute the size of the biggest circle I can fit in there without hitting any of the points

@AlexanderGruber Ooh... hadn't thought of that.

I guess I could just Monte Carlo it, keep picking random points, finding the closest point in $P$, keeping track of the biggest one

but that seems like a crappy solution

evening