Mathematics - 2012-10-13 (page 2 of 2)

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user19161

21:00

@Charlie Hehe. Actually my favourite operatic tenor is Carerras.

Charlie

@JasperLoy I love Pavarotti

busman

@JasperLoy It may be just a typo, but it is spelled "Carreras"

user19161

@busman Ah, it is not a typo. It is my mistake. I never remember which is which.

busman

carerras sounds rather awkward and funny

user19161

@busman Don't they sound the same?

busman

21:02

nope

Charlie

@JasperLoy absolutely not

busman

double r is like in "rather"

while single r is like in "parents"

user19161

@busman In English, those two r's are exactly the same.

Charlie

i thought that rr sounded like H in High

busman

though at the beginning is always a single r, 'cause it can only be the sound like in "rather"

user19161

21:03

@busman I am still not sure what you mean, because rather and parents have the same r sound.

busman

no, no, double is called (roughly<) "sound r", while single is called "deaf r"

@JasperLoy Hum, ok, you¡re right, let me think of another example

Charlie

in portuguese single r in the beggining of a word is roughly

busman

yeah

Charlie

in the middle is deaf

user19161

@busman I think you mean that you read the r in parents as a "flap"?

user19161

21:05

The tongue makes a light touch with the upper part of the mouth.

Charlie

@JasperLoy double r, rr is equivalent to the sound of H in english

busman

I think there is not an englsh equivalent for double r, nor to single r

@JasperLoy Yep, it's like that

Charlie

@JasperLoy holy

busman

while with double r, you make your tongue vibrate towards your ceiling of the mouth

I think that if you're trying now it is gonna be rather difficult...

english speakers who learn spanish usually never get to make it sound properly

Charlie

@busman what makes me very mad

busman

21:09

what is it?

Charlie

@busman it what?

mad?

busman

you said "what makes me very mad"

what is making you so mad?

Henning Makholm

third base?

Charlie

@busman speak with the damn accent, jesus.

user19161

Baseball is beyond my understanding, as is cricket.

busman

21:11

Well, I understand that for most people it is difficult to abandon their native habits

but yeah, everybody should try to adapt to the language they are speaking

Charlie

@busman i try as hard as i can to make accent. my techers liked them, the english and spanish. I think it respects the language.

@skullpatrol HEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!

skullpatrol

hi @Charlie

busman

I agree for the most part (it happened the same to me when I was in school, and happens now since the master's degree is in english) but after years have passed, it seems to me that not everybody has the same skills for languages

for me is quite easy to learn a new language, but for other people it isn't

Charlie

@busman yes it's weird,but yes

@skullpatrol wassup?

busman

in the other hand, I'm a rather mediocre mathematician, while other people learn in a very fast, natural way

skullpatrol

21:14

@Charlie Chillin' ... you?

Charlie

of course.

@skullpatrol goody

@JasperLoy sports are beyond my understanding...

skullpatrol

Shopping is beyond my understanding ;-)

Charlie

@skullpatrol hehe

skullpatrol

@Charlie hoho

Charlie

@skullpatrol haha

skullpatrol

21:27

@Charlie hihi

Charlie

@skullpatrol huhu

@Jasper don't turn your back to me!!!!!

skullpatrol

and sometimes hyhy.

busman

or high-high

skullpatrol

the opposite of low-low

Charlie

great!

busman

21:29

nope, because of double negation, low-low actujally means high

oh man, this is truly mathematician-like humour, it is loathable

Charlie

but he's not denying

busman

I know

Charlie

it's $2low$

$2low<high$

busman

you put dollar's as if you were TeXing?

Charlie

@busman because i am

we use chatjax

busman

21:32

chatjax? it is obviously not working

Charlie

@busman math.ucla.edu/~robjohn/math/mathjax.html

install it

busman

Oh my f**k, such a thing actually exists

Charlie

it does

busman

The thing is, I run under Ubuntu/Linux, and I feel lazy to go and manually get the packages at the moment

but ok, I actually understand TeX code, so who cares

let's go back to $2-low < high$

Charlie

@busman you just have to drag "start" to your bookmark.piece of cake,no problem

busman

21:36

in a sense, "low-low" is like a second-order lowing, like "the level of lowlyness is low", so in this way, low-low can mean high

okay

in the other hand "the level of highness is high" (yeah, I know) still means high

ah, look, now it chatjaxes all, thank you very much

skullpatrol

@busman But you just said it was "double-negation"?

9 mins ago, by busman

nope, because of double negation, low-low actujally means high

busman

yes I did

it was a poor try to make the joke bigger, I know

skullpatrol

hi @JayeshBadwaik

Charlie

@Jayesh !!!!!!!!

isn't 3h14min?

a.m

busman

Well, I leave, it is midnight in this time fuse, you know

nice to meet y'all

Jayesh Badwaik

21:45

@Charlie yup. just got up to drink water. going back to sleep now in a min.

Charlie

@JayeshBadwaik Ok.

Good night again!

Jayesh Badwaik

@Charlie :-)

Charlie

@busman My pleasure!

busman

same here, bye

Jayesh Badwaik

@PeterTamaroff $S_{\delta}(y)$ is an open sphere of a radius $\delta$ around $y$ in a metric space. On real line its an open interval $(y-\delta, y + \delta)$

Charlie

21:47

@JayeshBadwaik sleep tight

Jayesh Badwaik

Okay. going back to sleep now. @Charlie Good evening/ Night.

Charlie

@JayeshBadwaik Thanks!Now it will be.

skullpatrol

@Charlie $\Huge\text{:-*}$

...

user19161

@JayeshBadwaik See you in your dreams. I am going to sleep soon too.

user19161

@Charlie You can always talk to me in your dreams.

Charlie

21:53

@skull when someone asks your name , you can say:"The coldest blood runs through my veins..you know my name!"

skullpatrol

Chris Cornell?

Charlie

@skullpatrol yup

skullpatrol

@Charlie Snakes are considered "cold blooded," no?

user19161

@skullpatrol I think reptiles are cold blooded.

Charlie

@skullpatrol yup

skullpatrol

22:01

@JasperLoy Reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects and arachnids are all cold-blooded animals.

Charlie

@skullpatrol fish?

insects does not have blood

skullpatrol

Cold-blooded

Cold-blooded is a generic term used to refer to a complex suite of characters that determine an animal's thermophysiology. These characters include: * ectothermy, controlling body temperature through external means, such as by basking in the sun * poikilothermy, the ability of an organism to function over a wide internal temperature range * bradymetabolism, the ability to greatly alter metabolic rate in response to need; for example, animals that hibernate Popular culture * "Cold Blooded" (song), the title track from Rick James's 1983 album *Cold Blooded (Rick James album) *Coldbloode...

Charlie

insects have Hemolymph

Well , good night Gentlemen!

fish are cold blooded

skullpatrol