I've realized that I don't waste time on CGCC or YouTube or whatever because it's distracting me, but because I'm just not motivated to work on productive stuff anyway. Forcing myself to work on it just doesn't really do anything, and CGCC's a better use of my time than like, rereading a hundred xkcds or staring at a wall.
Either that or my brain just found a really convenient excuse for not doing work
That's kinda true for me too but it has also been distracting me from work. I'm also just not that interested in code golf anymore (or right now, at least, maybe I'll come back to it later)
i'd say it's the fact that math is regarded as objective so disagreements aren't a matter of opinion but right and wrong, plus smart people often get into quarrels over... many things :P
If I woke up one morning to learn that Math.SE had started a literal war after someone assassinated the archduke of set theory over the way a flag was handled I'd be like, only moderatley surprised
My guess for why Math.SE is so angry all the time is: 1. It's too big for a tight knit community like we have, but too small for the near total anonymity of SO 2. If you're active on Math.SE you probably don't get much practice of friendly social interaction
I've never seen people with such sensitive egos in person, so I guess the fact that we're online means that there's going to be like 5 of those sort of people among the thousands of normal people on that site but those 5 make it seem like that sort of drama is normal
@hyper-neutrino Not sure if you mods have something different, but we haven't actually gotten an announcement beyond WW showing up and dropping the news :P
@RadvylfPrograms Man, why did you remind me of this? Now I have 2 reasons not to run for mod :P
@cairdcoinheringaahing ah - well i haven't seen that either lol
tbf it's not like i didn't already know cuz i literally discussed it in the mod chat before i left :P so ig all i'd get from it is details like the question collection deadline or w/e
Basically. A couple of them start earlier IIRC, but otherwise
The week beginning the 19th is basically a national holiday, called "Freshers", where all the incoming students spend a week drowning in alcohol. Most unis plan around that
@lyxal Hey, while I know it's likely that I will get the position if I run for it, I would like to ask that people hold of on a lot of saying that I'll be the next mod. While I'd very much like (and hope) to be, I worry that it might discourage other people to run, and I would like anyone who is interested in running for mod to feel like they're able to do so.
Plus, it's started to feel a little bit uncomfortable for me after the first few jokes
@Joey I accidentally spilled some coffee over my quantum computer, and my friend is using his to "hack into the US Government" or something unimportant, so, no. :( — Mateen UlhaqMay 3, 2011 at 5:59
Write a function that takes as input a set of integers (can be a list, array or any other container with distinct numbers), and outputs the list of all its permutations.
Python (95 chars):
p=lambda s:s and sum(map(lambda e:map(lambda p:[e]+p,p(filter(lambda x:x!=e,s))),s),[]) or [[]]
It'd be n...
Write a function that takes as input a set of integers (can be a list, array or any other container with distinct numbers), and outputs the list of all its permutations.
Python (95 chars):
p=lambda s:s and sum(map(lambda e:map(lambda p:[e]+p,p(filter(lambda x:x!=e,s))),s),[]) or [[]]
It'd be n...
