Hah!

[hizhnik]

Lookit.

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[androktone]

we need to start you up a private laboratory so you can be Evil Doctor Tammy again :)

[ninja_andy_p]

He just needs to say that the line is 'a guide to the eye' and he'll be fine...

[hizhnik]

Heh!

[x_louise_x]

Hehe. I wish I'd had the balls to write up reports in his style. I have measured the conductivity of germanium as a function of temperature before actually and got beautiful results :) :p

"This relation between temperature and resistivity can be shown to be exponential in certain temperature regimes by waving your hands and chanting "to first order". "

"Going into physics was the biggest mistake of my life. I should've declared CS. I still wouldn't have any women, but at least I'd be rolling in cash. "

Haha. Waving yours hands around and chanting 'to first order!' sounds fun! What's CS, computer science?

[hizhnik]

CS is, indeed, computer science. And I pretty much concur with the conclusion ... at the moment, at least.

You'll see a lot of the hand-waving and saying "to first order" or "to a first order approximation" at conferences!

[androktone]

Hahaha, i think my paper on semiconductor diodes and the ideal equation went something like that, although not as honestly written :)

[hizhnik]

I remember writing in a similar (though more moderate) tone about something ... it was either about the thermal expansion of copper, or the refractive index of air. Probably the latter: it involved 'fringe counting', which was infuriating - you had to count the passing of diffraction rings, but they'd do nothing for ages then suddenly race past ... kind of hard to focus your eyes on scattered red laser light, so it fucked with your eyes, too.