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0celo7

9:00 PM

seems current because his mac OS looks new

and they update annually

FenderLesPaul

lol EMP

0celo7

can someone please translate "chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie" from Polish to English? note: Google translate does not make sense

Loong

@0celo7 :

Chrząszcz

Chrząszcz (beetle, chafer) by Jan Brzechwa is a poem famous for being one of the hardest-to-pronounce texts in Polish literature, and may cause problems even for adult, native Polish speakers. The first line “W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie” (In Szczebrzeszyn a beetle buzzes in the reed) is a well-known Polish tongue-twister. Thanks to the poem, the town of Szczebrzeszyn is widely known in Poland. A monument to the beetle was erected there in 2002, and a yearly sculpture festival has been held there ever since. Chrząszcz was translated into English by Walter Whipple as Cricket (whose...

0celo7

lol that still makes no sense

oh well

I thought there was some hidden meaning behind it

0celo7

9:25 PM

A polish libertarian topologist teaching algebra?

0celo7

9:42 PM

@ACuriousMind I see that LoTR talk was suggestive

Kyle Oman

9:53 PM

Anyone know if there's a way to query question views as a function of time? curious because I got a 'famous question' today, yet the question views are at 14k... either there were a LOT of views yesterday (it's an old question, seems unlikely), or that badge is checked very infrequently. The question is physics.stackexchange.com/questions/67957/…

vzn

does anyone understand aaronsons boson sampling?

he cites this new Science paper Universal Linear Optics / Carolan et al

p714

> Based on the foundations of computer science, boson sampling is a mathematical proof (using plausible conjectures) that a many-photon state, when acted on by a large LO circuit set to implement a Haar-random unitary, will give rise to a probability distribution that cannot be efficiently sampled by a classical algorithm.

0celo7

10:54 PM

Sounds like something made up tbh

Really jargon dense

user54412

@KyleOman According to this documentation I don't think there is a way. ViewCount just seems to be a counter.

user54412

11:11 PM

@KyleOman As of the last database update, that question only had 9364 views. So there certainly were several thousand views in the last couple weeks at most.

skull patrol

Perhaps badges are given out semi randomly :P

user54412

Perhaps some prof linked to it in a class with 5000 students?

skull patrol

We need John D. here to give us some "rock solid evidence."

chat.stackexchange.com/…

Sorry, ~~evidence~~

0celo7

11:28 PM

::sigh::, linear algebra online assignments are 404'ing

skull patrol

You get them online?

0celo7

@ChrisWhite there are classes with 5k students?

@skullpatrol some

we get quick problem sets online and then others in class

skull patrol

Which textbook?

0celo7

notes

he said if you want a book, google for one

or ask a TA

skull patrol

Not even a list of recommendations?

0celo7

11:32 PM

This is the most lazy prof ever. He gives us notes and quick videos where he draws intuitive pictures or whatever.

Then the TA does recitation IRL.

@skullpatrol he said googling linear algebra pdf is pretty good

also Wiki

but "Wiki said so" is not an argument

skull patrol

Lol

0celo7

also he likes dogs

and dislikes the government, cf. above

math at 8:10 tomorrow :(

skull patrol

How big is your biggest class?

0celo7

no clue, I haven't been in all of them

I'd imagine hon. english will be large

but hon. physics is 60 people

oh intro to CS

that will probably be a monster class size

skull patrol

Indeed.

0celo7

11:37 PM

although it's in Perkins, which does not have any giant lecture halls

tbh I don't even know where the 100+ people lecture halls are

skull patrol

Are you talking five courses?

0celo7

16 credit hours

although 1 of those was the summer bullshit

so I think there are 7 classes on my transcript

that's not including my AP and dual enrollment stuff, which is ~60 more hours

skull patrol

So you have to write six finals?

0celo7

I guess?

hello KK

skull patrol

No biology, right?

0celo7

11:41 PM

no, no one likes that

skull patrol

Psychology is similar.

0celo7

I'm taking a psych seminar/class/discussion group thing

he was kinda unclear about what we're doing

all I know is that we get to read a book

skull patrol

Lots of reading.

0celo7

yes

I have 3 (?) books for English

skull patrol

Get a good night's sleep before your math class.

0celo7

11:46 PM

it's ODEs and so far every first class has been them explaining the syllabus and blackboard and other online crap they're using / being forced to use

I do need to email the TA about this 404 business

why did you remove that

Nike copyright?

> There are examples of axiomatic systems in real life. Law is constructed along those lines and the US Constitution is a set of primitive concepts and basic relationships between them. The final validity of a result in US law is verified by the Supreme Court of the US.

yeah my math prof is a libertarian

FenderLesPaul

good night's sleep is a non-existent concept in college

skull patrol