"you don't have to teach both sides of a debate if one side is a load of crap".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eijI5PEiy0c&mode=related&search=

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I've started playing a lot of poker. Like, 5 nights a week. I'm also kind of bad about inviting people from outside the house, mainly because I can usually find 5 people to play on a moment's notice here...

So if like no-limit hold'em and want to be occasionally invited to play, respond to this post and I'll call you next time we play.

http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/2006/06/bill_oreilly_sc.html

I like this guy (not Bill o Rielly).

John Stallings on ethics ( Read more... )

I'm going to start blogging any interesting statements I come across in papers that I don't have time to follow up on ( Read more... )

We Americans are the only ones who didn't get creamed at some point during all of this. We are free and prosperous because we have inherited political and values systems fabricated by a particular set of eighteenth-century intellectuals who happened to get it right. But we have lost touch with those intellectuals, and with anything like ( Read more... )

Help!

I'd like to install Pari on my home computer with as little pain as possible. How should I do this? I'm running Mac OS X.

Thanks!

A mathematician named Klein
Thought the Möbius strip was divine.
Said he: "If you glue
The edges of two
You'll get a weird bottle like mine!"

To me, "recent" means "in the last couple of years". But apparently in mathematics "recent" means "in the last twenty years".

Apparently, an effective version of the Strong Torsion Conjecture was proved, as "recently" as 1999. I find this interesting because no one I've talked to was sure if the Strong Torsion Conjecture had been proved at all, ( Read more... )