/sci/ nostalgia thread

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/sci/ nostalgia thread Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:40:30 2013 No.5402732 [Reply] [Original]

>EK
>Harriet
>Teacunt
>Josef
>King of /sci/
>Madsci
>putnam problems

>>	EPLさん !ynKiSyG7Wc Tue Jan 1 18:42:14 2013 No.5402736 Remember Powder Toy threads every 3 seconds?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:42:14 2013 No.5402737 >>5402732 >putnam problems ;_; I miss working together with people on those.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:43:58 2013 No.5402739 >Carl

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:44:59 2013 No.5402748 >Psistar >that feel when a girlfriend

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:45:13 2013 No.5402753 I solved one of those putnam problems. It was fun. I wasn't trippin at the time though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:47:29 2013 No.5402757 >>5402732 >tfw when you are a retard and don't know what putnam problems even mean

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:48:13 2013 No.5402761 >>5402757 google it then.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:48:29 2013 No.5402764 What happened to Josef anyways, I remember him being real helpful and being one of rare people who knew his shit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:49:43 2013 No.5402767 >>5402764 he got mad because of all the troll threads that repeated themselves every day

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:50:28 2013 No.5402773 I miss madsci a lot. The man actually did science and brought it here for us to enjoy, question, and suggest further ideas. It was constructive and usually relevant to the board. Didn't he leave because someone dox'ed him?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:51:14 2013 No.5402775 >>5402767 I remember this guy, any more info about him?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:51:43 2013 No.5402777 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:52:29 2013 No.5402779 >>5402775 I think he wrote a pretty good TeX guide that still pops up every once in a while.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:52:58 2013 No.5402778 File: 989 KB, 500x353, disgusting.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Of all those, I of course miss EK the most.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:53:29 2013 No.5402782 Day 1 - Some wonderful, sweet anon dumped links to every episode of Bill Nye and Cosmos

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:55:13 2013 No.5402792 >>5402739 Is carl gone? I haven;t been going to /sci/ recently and the archive's search isnt working

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:57:43 2013 No.5402804 >>5402792 Which Carl? We've gone through like... three or four of them

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 18:59:58 2013 No.5402811 File: 129 KB, 477x453, audrey.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5402804 Now and then, I am Carl. Probably more people here have shitposted under the trip Carl.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 19:00:43 2013 No.5402819 >>5402804 The Violent Simians Guy.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 19:05:58 2013 No.5402832 >>5402819 Carl isn't Redcream.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 19:07:02 2013 No.5402838 >>5402832 Yes he is.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 19:08:15 2013 No.5402841 >>5402804 The Carl who says retarded shit and claims he has a degree in "science"

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 19:09:15 2013 No.5402845 I remember when the board was created and we didn't have any tripfags because it hadn't been here long enough.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 19:10:15 2013 No.5402846 File: 32 KB, 338x322, 1343895158951.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw when namefags succeeded in their quest for attention and are now a defining part of the board culture, making them be missed if they leave

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 19:11:15 2013 No.5402850 >>5402845 That lasted for all of ten minutes

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 19:12:15 2013 No.5402854 >>5402850 So did I when I slept with your mom.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 19:12:15 2013 No.5402855 >>5402845 You mean the imageboard? Good times. 80% of the threads were /b/ raids, guidos, and science vs. religion threads.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 19:16:15 2013 No.5402866 >>5402855 A history of /sci/ First 24 hours - a golden age The following four months - a cesspool of raids and 0.999 = 1 threads Since then - slightly less of a cesspool

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 19:24:22 2013 No.5402886 I miss madsci the most https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC4frzQQ9TI

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 00:38:01 2013 No.5403671 I miss religion and 0.999... threads.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 00:44:31 2013 No.5403697 >>5402732 >Inurades or whatever the fuck his name was

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 02:04:46 2013 No.5403859 >staying up late with /sci/ to watch the SpaceX Dragon launch, the Curiosity landing, and the Higgs announcement GREAT fucking times

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 02:18:31 2013 No.5403896 >>5403859 >when they powered up the LHC Live to break the previous TeV record. >that one guy at CERN with /sci/ on his screen. I...I can't even remember which experiment he was with.

Rebirth !t8w8eUL.NU Wed Jan 2 02:44:16 2013 No.5403962

madscientist was horrible. fucking 'DEEP WATER OMG ;_ ;' threads. had practically no real scientific background.

truly, one of the worst tripfags ever who was veiled as a decent tripfag.

Josef was really awesome. CHEM GUY is based as hell, although he doesn't trip. although EK was a shitty tripfag, she did offer some nice HW thread solutions from time to time and was generally inquisitive which is nice. i was one of the first ones to fuck with her lel.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 02:45:47 2013 No.5403963 >>5403962 >offer some nice HW thread solutions How is this a good thing? She was feeding rule violations. >to fuck with her Literally?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 02:53:31 2013 No.5403984 >>5403896 >physics guy never posts on /sci/ anymore ;_;

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 02:55:16 2013 No.5403991 >>5403984 I sure hope so. His mentally ill spamming of obscenities is a case for a psychiatric hospital, not for /sci/.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 03:01:01 2013 No.5404004 File: 68 KB, 550x432, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5403896

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 03:07:01 2013 No.5404010 >>5403991 I dont think you know who physics guy is

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 03:09:16 2013 No.5404015 File: 52 KB, 855x568, howscichangedmylife.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5404004 That just made my night. Awesome. Also - never forget /sci/, we've had an impact

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 03:11:16 2013 No.5404020 >>5404010 I know he's a guy who claims to work for CERN. That doesn't give him the right to terrorize legitimate physics threads with below /b/ tier flaming and spamming.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 03:12:16 2013 No.5404021 >>5403896 >>5404004 >>5403984 He was a cool guy. http://archive.installgentoo.net/sci/thread/1246393

sage sage Wed Jan 2 03:12:46 2013 No.5404023

>>5404004

I miss this. I miss the Hampster Rapture. I miss that one guy who grew all kinds of fucked up mold and fungi cultures in a bucket and blogged about it. I miss laughing at homeopathic string theory and generally shitting on ignorant fucks.
I miss the initial influx of brilliance back when /sci/ was first formed, before the board was corrupted with self-consciousness.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 03:16:46 2013 No.5404027 >>5404023 >I miss shitting on ignorant fucks >the board was corrupted with self-consciousness.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 03:20:46 2013 No.5404034 >>5404020 >That doesn't give him the right to terrorize legitimate physics threads with below /b/ tier flaming and spamming. What the fuck are you talking about?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 03:21:47 2013 No.5404036 >>5404023 >self-consciousness >>>/x/

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 03:24:48 2013 No.5404041 File: 150 KB, 616x725, 136.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5404023 >/sci/ will never be good again ;_;

Anonymous Wed Jan 2 03:26:17 2013 No.5404044

>>5404034
Unfortunately the search interface of the installgentoo archive is down. Over the course of several months physics guy was harassing threads by spamming an entire folder of infantile /b/ image macros and kindergarten level insults along the lines of "suck ur father dik". Prior to the US election he spent hours every day spamming Romney pictures all over the board. It seems you are lucky because you are visiting /sci/ in the morning and don't have to see the shitposts he made in the evening. At least the mods banned him after several reports.

sage sage Wed Jan 2 03:27:17 2013 No.5404048

>>5404027
fullmetal /a/lchemists, vampires from /x/ and Tulpa general. I miss the time when ReligionVsScience threads were posted in earnest, back when I could click on /sci/ and not expect to see at least one Dawkins, .999...=/= 1, tripfag metathread or shitposting general.

This isn't a testament on board structure or development but I just miss it, y'know? Being excited to see that /sci/ tab and finally finding a niche to fulfill your needs.

sage sage Wed Jan 2 03:36:32 2013 No.5404057

>>5404036

Do you think I am purporting some manifested metaphysical entity as a board? Self awareness in that context shouldn't be mystical in the slightest. But for me, personally, nostalgia comes from lack of awareness. It's the same principle as "reading a book for the first time" or what have you, but knowing /sci/, posting in /sci/, is certainly less excitable than posting for /sci/.

>self-consciousness
>QUALIA
>DETERMINISM
>MATERIALISM
>DUALISM
>ANTI-PATRICIAN ANARCHO-CAPITALIST LIBERTARIAN SOCIALISM!

Anonymous Wed Jan 2 03:50:16 2013 No.5404074

>>5404023
There's nothing preventing any posters on /sci/ from doing something cool like that... people just need to get off their asses and do more cool shit and post it here.

Hell, doesn't even need to be anything as complex as 'Hampture'. Build a model rocket and post pics of the construction and launch, share pictures from a physics field trip, start a thread where we share research projects we've worked on, etc etc.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 04:04:46 2013 No.5404084 >>5404044 Maybe he was drunk?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 04:08:17 2013 No.5404088 File: 16 KB, 125x125, 1348299012682.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5403962 You shut your whore mouth. Deep water threads made me come here and madsci was gem among men

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 04:15:31 2013 No.5404093 >>5404084 Who cares? He shitposted, lost all his reputation and got banned. /sci/ is not the place for drunken shitposting.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 04:18:01 2013 No.5404096 >>5404088 If your only reason to come here was infantile role playing threads, then please stay away from /sci/. We want to discuss science here.

Anonymous Wed Jan 2 04:19:31 2013 No.5404098

>>5404074

It's a posting economy. If everyone is acting like idiots, it attracts idiots. Even if everyone was trolling. If everyone harasses any honestly good /sci/ threads and posts, those people will stop posting here. Productive people, who are constantly building and doing cool things, don't want to post in a place that doesn't give a shit. So when shitposting idiots drive off the good people, the board is irrevocably damaged.

Mods and Moot don't care, so it's up to us to facilitate good posters and ostracize bad ones. But everyone here responds to troll threads so we can't do anything either. All that's left are /b/ elements.

I'm going to be building a radiotelescope next semester but I have no interest in sharing progress or results. I already know each thread will either be ignored or turned to shit. It'd be better off in /diy/.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 04:19:31 2013 No.5404099 File: 217 KB, 570x310, barry.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw no EK

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 04:21:46 2013 No.5404102 >>5404074 >>5404098 I challenge every poster here to try and make one genuinely awesome thread this week.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 04:23:17 2013 No.5404103 >>5404102 I did. See <span class="deadlink">>>5401376[/spoiler]

Anonymous Wed Jan 2 04:35:17 2013 No.5404113
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>>5404098
Basically this
Personally i liked mad scientist, he was willing to share what he did and he generated lots of OC. Sure he also shitposted a lot when he spammed his sea shit outside of the actualy sea theads but i was willing to forgive him for that because we had trips who did nothing but shitpost.
Then the rest is history, now he's gone and the shitposting is still here but the OC is not.

Without people like him, who are willing to generate OC with a trip or not this board is nothing but homework and religion trolling

sage sage Wed Jan 2 04:48:03 2013 No.5404125

>>5404098

This is what I mean by awareness. You can expect to be trolled in any facet or context of posting, but when the expectation of trollage is what propels the troll, rather than the organic satire of earnest content, then blatant bashing furthers nothing but future shitposting.

Invest your metaphorical posting money in substantive creation, not petty vacancies. Shitposting is just shitposting. If you can get just one person out of the thousands that lurk, to legitimately engage in organic discourse, then it's well worth the investment.
A good conversation is the most beautiful thing in the universe.

Also, is /sci/ tsundere for EK now or something? First time I've seen dere.

>>5404103
I lol'd.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 05:08:32 2013 No.5404135 Both EK and Harriet still post here. I'm not sure why you'd miss them, even if you did like them for some bizarre reason.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 05:18:03 2013 No.5404148 File: 597 KB, 503x355, science.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 05:19:02 2013 No.5404149 File: 1.91 MB, 601x338, SCIENCED.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5404148 2.0 And then we forgot about it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 05:25:03 2013 No.5404155 File: 22 KB, 750x750, feeeeeel.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5404149 >>5404148 I remember those threads

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 05:30:02 2013 No.5404158 the only people I miss are Josef, TN5 and psistar. Putnam problems

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 06:59:47 2013 No.5404241 >ITT no-one cares for KrakEngineer

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 07:37:47 2013 No.5404284 >>5404044 That's not Physics guy, he never tripped and rarely posted, so just about any asshole could put Physics guy in the namefield and abuse his reputation.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 07:39:02 2013 No.5404288 >>5404074 HAHA, oh god, anyone remember that guy posting a modified metal tube, "by this time next year /sci/, we will be in space. brb, looking for thread

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 07:49:02 2013 No.5404305 >>5404241 Ironically, he and Col. Coffe were the trips that were actual scientists. Anyone know what happened to Krak? Last time I saw him post he was bitching about his shitty conditions in that cancer R&D job he had and talking about quiting.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 07:55:17 2013 No.5404312 >>5404149 What is that?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 07:55:33 2013 No.5404313 >>5404288 http://archive.installgentoo.net/sci/thread/4156945

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 08:00:17 2013 No.5404319 >>5404305 >KrakEngineer >actual scientists. he couldnt even solve a basic fluid statics problem, while maintaining that pressure works in such a way that you can generate free electricity from it. i hope he wasnt an actual scientists.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 08:08:02 2013 No.5404331 >>5404319 And Josef once made mistake that a first year called him out on. Everyone makes mistakes. The difference being that Josef was a student while Krak was solving real world problems.

Anonymous Wed Jan 2 08:20:02 2013 No.5404343

>>5404331
o no, that wast a simple mistake, krak argues on 2 separate ocations for more that an hour each time that he was correct, even after all of sci even drew force diagrams and linked to textbooks to show him he is wrong, he still just clung to his retarded ideas with no proof.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 08:20:33 2013 No.5404345 >>5404241 No one seems to miss Scientist either. Not that he was a particularly good poster, but he did post a lot at some point.

Anonymous Wed Jan 2 08:22:33 2013 No.5404349

>>5404284
He posts anonymously but is easily recognized by his repetitive low level insults and his exact same /b/ reaction images. Lurk more and you'll see.

>>5404305
>actual scientists.
I don't think you know what that means. High school faggots who didn't even pass calculus do not suddenly become scientsts just because they can post links to pop sci news sites. With that lack of education you are clearly part of the shitposting problem.

Anonymous Wed Jan 2 08:31:48 2013 No.5404360

>>5404345
"Scientist" is one of the few people I have in my filter. The only occasions I've ever seen him posting was either in religion / pseudo-philosophy threads where he was spamming the worst and edgiest r/anti-theism garbage, or in high school math homework threads where he needed 10 consecutive posts correcting the low level mistakes he made while correcting other low level mistakes. He's pretty much the worst poster because his quality is shit tier while he's serious. Even the troll trips intentionally posting crap often produce better quality than him.

Anonymous Wed Jan 2 08:32:48 2013 No.5404361

>>5404343
I did not know about that, lol.

>>5404345
>Scientist
There were plenty of different posters by that name.

>>5404349
>He posts...
Yes, I know he was an asshole, but my point stands and he said he was leaving /sci/ forever last year after the December CERN conferences, so chances are people just stole his

>I don't think you know what that means. High school faggots who didn't even pass calculus do not suddenly become scientsts just because they can post links to pop sci news sites.
And now a, "lurk more" to you, one of them pop-sci too, yes, but they were graduates who were already working in the industry and sometimes discussed their research, unlike the others (excluding PhysGuy) who were all still students.

>shitposting
Stop using this word as if it has any objective meaning.

Anonymous Wed Jan 2 08:36:22 2013 No.5404368

>>5404361
>but they were graduates who were already working in the industry and sometimes discussed their research
Krakenengineer claimed to be a student of biomedical engineering. Too bad he never posted about it, but instead had to demonstrate that he didn't even understand special relativity. Inurdaes and Colonel Coffee Mug were underaged high schoolers who were far away from studying in university and only came here for perpetuating their infantile fantasy role playing and pseudo-religious "transhumanism" threads.

>Stop using this word as if it has any objective meaning.
"Hurr stop posting things I don't like".

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 08:37:18 2013 No.5404370 >>5404361 >Scientist >There were plenty of different posters by that name. I meant one particular tripfag who mostly posted in philosophy and religion threads, as >>5404360 pointed out. He was also a pretty stern moral realist.

Anonymous Wed Jan 2 08:46:17 2013 No.5404382

>>5404368
>student of biomedical engineering.
He graduated circa 2010
>he never posted about it
He did.
>special relativity
It's outside his field anyway, but I never said he wasn't an idiot; all trips are.

>Inurdaes
I never even mentioned him, his TRS threads were actually occasionally entertaining, but no one ever took him seriously except for other high-schoolers.

>Colonel Coffee Mug
I may be confusing him with someone else, but I don't remember him being a high-schooler.

>"Hurr stop posting things I don't like".
Right so everything I don't like is a officially shitpost and should be deleted, thank god I'm already a Janitor.

(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

Anonymous Wed Jan 2 08:48:48 2013 No.5404385

>>5404382
>I may be confusing him with someone else,
You are.

>but I don't remember him being a high-schooler.
He once admitted not having learned calculus yet and struggeling with prealgebra. If the search interface wasn't down, I'd find and post the archive link.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 08:50:47 2013 No.5404388 >>5404382 Janitors are not allowed to reveal themselves. Impersonating a janitor is a bannable offense. Either way you fucked up.

Anonymous Wed Jan 2 08:52:32 2013 No.5404390

>>5404385
>If the search interface wasn't down, I'd find and post the archive link.
That won't be necessary, I think I grouped him with a particular generation of posters from the late 2010s, both trips and anonymous, without really knowing him.

>>5404388
>Either way you fucked up.
OMG, NO I'M GOING TO HAVE TO RESET MY ROUTER AGAIN. THE HORROR.

>>	None !obkpuSWh5M Wed Jan 2 09:22:48 2013 No.5404432 Not this shit again.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 09:47:02 2013 No.5404462 >>5404432 stfu pleb u hvnt even ever had a gf befor in ur entir life lol

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 10:15:47 2013 No.5404479 >>5403697 Inurdaes or something. Knew all about Mars and stuff. Great guy, absolutely! One of the best tripfags out there.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 10:24:48 2013 No.5404493 >>5404004 How do you know that's /sci/? It could have been any worksafe board. Maybe dude was a co/ck/.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 10:29:33 2013 No.5404501 That tripfag scheisse or whatever is obviously Harriet

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 10:39:33 2013 No.5404513 File: 250 KB, 1920x1080, compter science.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] OHHHH Josef ;_;

>>	Jenny !NSPcQQMvS. Wed Jan 2 10:40:04 2013 No.5404515 I ain't dead yet.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 10:40:17 2013 No.5404516 File: 1.42 MB, 1920x3500, sci.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5404513

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 10:48:17 2013 No.5404527 I could start tripfagging. What kind of tripfag do you want to see? I'm a girl, btw.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 10:54:47 2013 No.5404532 >>5402846 this

>>	Schaiffe !zribfvVT8o Wed Jan 2 10:55:32 2013 No.5404534 Why did they stop the putnam problems?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 10:57:02 2013 No.5404537 Madsci has a live stream of hampture at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/madsci9001.. look at the facebook comments lol

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 11:04:32 2013 No.5404552 >>5404534 Because putnam is an undergrad competition. Any pleb who took babby's first calculus can solve them. We don't need more uneducated homework kids on /sci/.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 11:11:48 2013 No.5404574 File: 104 KB, 500x484, sad_frog_2547.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >missing MadSci and his glorious undersea /sci base project which we all had a great time contributing to >and thorium reactor threads

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 11:15:47 2013 No.5404582 File: 598 KB, 4000x2000, 1309073938785.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5404574 here it is. Anyone having the space station / asteroid version?

>>	Schaiffe !zribfvVT8o Wed Jan 2 11:18:03 2013 No.5404589 File: 726 KB, 1969x2900, space_station.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5404582 >Anyone having the space station / asteroid version? Yes. You can have it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 11:20:32 2013 No.5404595 >>5404589 thx.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 11:35:48 2013 No.5404617 >>5404382 Wow, you actually banned me for that? I wasn't impersonating anyone, it was sarcasm you cunt, >>5404388 is just autistic.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 11:36:47 2013 No.5404618 >>5404515 Who the fuck is this?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 11:40:33 2013 No.5404622 File: 62 KB, 400x519, autismone-journal.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5404618 It's Jenny.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 11:44:48 2013 No.5404626 >>5404617 Ban evasion is also a bannable offense

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 11:49:02 2013 No.5404631 >>5404626 I'm not evading my ban, I'm critiquing a tragic injustice.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 12:59:03 2013 No.5404800 File: 67 KB, 493x750, 1355901709871.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5404582 >>5404589 Glorious

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 13:01:32 2013 No.5404804 >>5404617 >>5404626 Oh god this permab& will be sweet

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 13:11:48 2013 No.5404828 File: 452 KB, 500x600, cutey_Emma_redsihuett.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Josef is coding small scripts for me on demand. Like as a challenge. Cool guy. Don't talk shit. Also, happy new year.

Anonymous Wed Jan 2 13:24:33 2013 No.5404859

>>5404828
Why do you still come here? Shouldn't you be on stackexchange or doing your job? You are way too educated for this board. Why do you waste time with borderline retarded american teenagers who failed calculus and believe watching Dawkin's hate speeches makes them scientists? Think about it. Posting here makes you dumber.

>>	Marion Bartoli is my Waifu Wed Jan 2 13:33:18 2013 No.5404872 > tfw no one remembers or cares about you

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 13:36:02 2013 No.5404878 >>5404872 http://archive.installgentoo.net/sci/reports/post-count >1352 posts All the big shitposters have more posts than you.

>>	Marion Bartoli is my Waifu Wed Jan 2 13:42:17 2013 No.5404898 >>5404878 > dat TN5 sigh... I miss that dude.

>>	Marion Bartoli is my Waifu Wed Jan 2 13:44:32 2013 No.5404900 >>5404878 Actually several of my namefags shows up in there, along with some trips I totally forgot about.

Anonymous Wed Jan 2 13:45:02 2013 No.5404902

>EK
shitposting mentally ill retard
>Harriet
malicious troll
>Teacunt
autistic butthurt faggot
>Josef
arrogant circlejerker
>King of /sci/
underaged emo wannabe troll kid
>Madsci
uneducated pop sci pedophile role player
>putnam problems
pleb undergrad contest

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 13:48:47 2013 No.5404905 >>5404900 Which ones were you?

>>	Marion Bartoli is my Waifu Wed Jan 2 13:49:32 2013 No.5404906 >>5404905 Can you keep a secret?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 13:50:48 2013 No.5404907 >>5404906 You can trust me. I'm Anonymous.

>>	Marion Bartoli is my Waifu Wed Jan 2 13:55:49 2013 No.5404913 >>5404907 > > Can you keep a secret? > [yes] So can I.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 13:56:18 2013 No.5404915 >>5404913 BAZINGA

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 13:57:33 2013 No.5404916 >>5404859 I am on StackExchange actually, 5k user. I also work my 40h job, but I'm on Christmas holiday now. I also have a good social life, I didn't wake up in my bed yesterday. So don't worry, everybody needs a hobby :)

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 13:58:33 2013 No.5404919 >>5404916 >good social life Stop giving me feels. What's next? Are you gonna tell me you have a gf?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 14:15:48 2013 No.5404947 the only people good at science I ever saw regularly posting on 4chan were josef and that guy who posted emma stone pictures

Anonymous Wed Jan 2 14:19:47 2013 No.5404959

a robot wakes up in the morning each day then does 1 of 4 actions each with equal probability: self-destruct, build 1 identical robot, build 2 identical robots, do nothing.

If you start with a group of 1 robots, what is the probability that eventually you will be left with no robots?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 14:22:32 2013 No.5404967 >>5402850 HA HA

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 14:25:04 2013 No.5404973 Teacup cursed me one time Apparently it was supposed to make my TV break, but nothing ever happened

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 14:52:17 2013 No.5405033 >>5404959 Solve your quadratic equations homework alone.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 14:54:47 2013 No.5405044 >>5405033 I can't tell whether you know how to do it or not. Be just a little bit more precise about the form of the algebraic problem. it isn't exactly a quadratic equation.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 14:56:17 2013 No.5405046 >>5405044 Who cares? This is not your homework thread and homework doesn't even belong on /sci/.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 14:59:48 2013 No.5405055 >>5405046 It isn't a homework question. I'm asking it to see who in this thread is intelligent. I already know the answer. I suspect that part of the reason you are frustrated is because you are not intelligent enough to answer it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 15:13:47 2013 No.5405092 >>5405055 Why do you think anyone is gonna solve your high school homework ITT?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 15:14:32 2013 No.5405101 >>5405055 >I'm asking it to see who in this thread is intelligent. Why?

Anonymous Wed Jan 2 15:16:47 2013 No.5405104

>>5405092
>highschool homework.

If it's highschool homework you should be able to do it. I suspect you can't.

>>5405101
Because I want to see what talent is. And what kind of people have talent. This question is my talent test. I suspect only people who have large amounts of talent will be able to answer it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 15:17:48 2013 No.5405113 The only one of those things that was good was putnam problems. I fucking hated all the tripfags.

Anonymous Wed Jan 2 15:19:18 2013 No.5405115

>>5405104
Answering this question does not require any talent. Don't make up such retarded stories. Even though it's against the rules, /sci/ would do your homework, if you politely asked for help. But with that retarded attitude right now nobody is gonna do it for you.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 15:20:32 2013 No.5405122 OP, you forgot Aether

Anonymous Wed Jan 2 15:24:03 2013 No.5405133

>>5405115
sure it doesn't.

if you can do it then just give a range for the numberical answer of 0.1.
that won't help me to answer my "homework" in the slightest and I'll be able to see whether you can actually do it.

Asking questions isn't against the rules. There is no need for you to get quite so butthurt just because you can't solve what you perceive as a question that should be simple.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 15:33:02 2013 No.5405166 What happened to mathgenius?

Anonymous Wed Jan 2 15:40:17 2013 No.5405184

>>5405104
>Because I want to see what talent is. And what kind of people have talent. This question is my talent test. I suspect only people who have large amounts of talent will be able to answer it.
WARNING! WARNING! BULLSHIT LEVELS APPROACHING CRITICAL!

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 15:44:32 2013 No.5405196 >putnam problems Glad they're gone. Funny to think people on /sci/ could actually solve such problems, or score higher than a 0 on the Putnam. HAH!

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 16:07:03 2013 No.5405257 >>5405196 >implying putnam problems are hard Pleb detected.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 16:43:47 2013 No.5405372 >>5404859 Why are you here? Who are you?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 16:49:03 2013 No.5405385 >>5405372 >Why are you here? because no bf >Who are you? a girl who enjoys science and math

Anonymous Wed Jan 2 17:17:02 2013 No.5405471

>>5405184
>get posed question designed to test how intelligent you are
>can't answer it
>don't want to admit so out of butthurt so pretend that you're actually refusing to answer it because it's a homework question

lel

Oh well I only expected Emma Stone guy to be able to answer it anyway. I hope he'll come back

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 17:59:17 2013 No.5405589 >>5405471 I don't think he cares about dicksizing.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 18:05:17 2013 No.5405607 >>5404959 Markov chain.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 18:14:17 2013 No.5405645 File: 5 KB, 250x187, 1356765710528s.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5405385 tits of gtfo

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 18:18:47 2013 No.5405666 >>5405607 no you idiot

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 18:23:17 2013 No.5405677 >>5405666 yes, you retard

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 18:24:47 2013 No.5405682 >>5405666 Every morning a die is rolled for each of the robots. The system is certainly memoryless. It has infinitely many states, though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 18:27:17 2013 No.5405690 >>5404959 50%, either it happens or it doesn't.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 18:29:19 2013 No.5405694 >>5402732 But that's just a theory (A Gauss).

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 18:30:17 2013 No.5405696 >>5404959 33.34%

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 18:30:32 2013 No.5405697 >>5402753 Bravo for solving ONE in probably 10 hours. Now try solving a dozen in 6 hours. (Which is the goal of the competition).

Schaiffe !zribfvVT8o Wed Jan 2 18:32:47 2013 No.5405703

>>5404959
>If you start with a group of 1 robots
One robot is not a group.
A group of things has to be more than one.

>what is the probability that eventually you will be left with no robots?
It approaches 100% as the days keep going by.

On average a quarter of all remaining robots die per day, and there is always a chance on each particular day that all of the robots will self destruct.

Eventually it will happen.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 18:33:03 2013 No.5405706 >>5405697 Several people per team and they actually practice this sort of mental masturbation beforehand. I do not want to take too much away from their achievement though, Putnam competitors are in most cases borderline geniuses.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 18:33:32 2013 No.5405707 >>5405697 Are you really given 6 hours to solve them? Excuse my ignorance, I'm no amerifat.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 18:34:02 2013 No.5405710 >>5405703 >A group of things has to be more than one. But that's wrong, you retard.

Anonymous Wed Jan 2 18:46:02 2013 No.5405754

>>5405677
No.
You're welcome to prove me wrong by solving it using a markhov chain, but I think you won't be able to.
And until you do I'm going to call you an uneducated idiot trying to sound clever by barking out terms he does not understand to a problem he does not know how to solve.
>>5405696
>>5405703
both wrong
>>5405589
I'm not doing this to prove I'm more clever than him. I just want to see that he can do it, and ask him about his strength. Did he always have it? Has he worked to achieve it? things like that.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 18:47:47 2013 No.5405757 >>5405044 It reduces to <span class="math">p^2 + 2p - 1 = 0[/spoiler] which is clearly the hardest part of the problem.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 19:04:33 2013 No.5405804 >>5404959 100%

Anonymous Wed Jan 2 19:05:32 2013 No.5405807

>>5405757
you know full well the hardest part of the problem is arriving at that quadratic, or rather the cubic preceding that quadratic where one of the routes was p=1.

who are you?
what do you do?
how long did it take you to solve it?
what's your academic history?
do you have any maths competition background?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 19:10:02 2013 No.5405815 Mad Scientist will forever have a soft spot in my heart. He always guaranteed a great thread on the oceanic.

Anonymous Wed Jan 2 19:49:47 2013 No.5405923
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I remember the first couple days this board was new, there was a sweet spot, when the raiders left and people who were actually in the fields showed up. Pic related was from that time.

I really shouldn't have trolled madsci as much as I did, it's sort of sad that he left. He did actually contribute to the board

And who was that mars bro again who always wanted to give mars a magnetic field?
>>5402819
I've swear I've seen him around, recognize his posting style.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 19:50:47 2013 No.5405928 >>5405923 > I recognize his posting style i don't think he's here anymore. A lot of people go to sudden-caps for emphasis but that dude took it to a new level

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 20:02:03 2013 No.5405950 >>5405815 I light a hamster to his memory. Here's hoping he submerges to new lows!

Anonymous Wed Jan 2 20:02:32 2013 No.5405951

>>5405807
not him but:
p+p+p=p^3 + p2 + 1
the p^3 comes from the addition of two robots
the p2 comes from the addition of one robot
the 1 comes from the destruction of one robot.
the powers of p come from the fact that the problem is repeated if you get more robots and it is assumed they act independently.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 20:21:05 2013 No.5405990 File: 30 KB, 160x160, Patachu_moar.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5405923 Patachu or Inurdaes?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 20:58:03 2013 No.5406079 >>5405990 Inurdaes not the fucking furry.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 21:06:33 2013 No.5406106 >>5405951 Why?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 21:09:17 2013 No.5406120 >>5404959 >If you start with a group of 1 robots Under what binary operation?!

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 2 21:14:03 2013 No.5406145 >>5406120 10/10

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 3 03:51:16 2013 No.5407001 >>5404902 How is Blackman emo?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 3 04:02:16 2013 No.5407016 >>5404959 100% . Over infinite time ("Eventually") there is a finite chance that all robots will roll "self-destruct." The question is only interesting when considered over finite time.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 3 04:08:17 2013 No.5407020 >>5407016 Wrong.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 3 04:15:47 2013 No.5407029 >>5407020 Kindly explain to me how if you wait an arbitrarily large amount of time, a nonzero probability will not occur. Or is there some meaning to "eventually" that I do not understand?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 3 04:18:47 2013 No.5407032 >>5402832 Wow, RedCream is on another *chan I frequent now. He's just a really stupid troll.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 3 06:25:16 2013 No.5407166 >>5407032 Redcream >>5402832 Redcream Stop saying Redcream. Also, 32.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 3 06:32:46 2013 No.5407176 >>5407166 Admit your roal

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