Philosophers are notorious for having private vocabularies. There are some words, of ( Read more... )

The other outstanding feature of Ramanujan's mathematical personality was his "friendship ( Read more... )

Kevyn Andreyasn: General Tagon has a former mob boss as a neighbor. And now the ex-Don Donald Mushi is back in business counterfeiting and smuggling very expensive hallucinogenic snails. And I stole from him. Daedalus: I'm going to turn up the garden ninja gain another notch.
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As far back as 1922, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover launched a crusade to turn tenants into ( Read more... )

Brandon: I just watched, last night, 3:10 to Yuma, the new one with, uh, whoever in it... Dan: I love Whoever. Brandon: Yeah. Dan: Whoever is great. Brandon: Whoever has another one coming out soon... Howard: He's been in a lot of good films. Brandon: Anyway, Whoever dies -- spoiler warning -- and it's really, really awesome....
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Harry had then asked if he could simply tell Griphook how to diversify his investments beyond stacks of gold coins sitting in his vault.

Griphook had stared blankly and asked what 'diversify' meant.

Banks, it seemed, did not make investments. Banks stored your gold coins in secure vaults for an annual fee.

The wizarding world did not have a ( Read more... )

... Watson, I don't mind confessing to you that I have always had an idea that I would have made ( Read more... )

Inside the house there were no clocks and no mirrors and three locks on each and every door ( Read more... )

... consider an NPC who is surrounded by hostile monsters and cannot think of anything intelligent to do. The NPC could simply stand there looking dumb, or the animation system can be triggered to play an animation of the NPC running around screaming. It is surprising how an appropriate animation can make all the difference ...

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"Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated with the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid."

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Incidentally, Bolyai's father, Farkas (or Wolfgang) Bolyai ( Read more... )