A couple things...
1) My new intellectual fetish is fractal geography. I've been reading a ton about it and think I can make an actual scholarly contribution to the field (at some lowly level) within the next year. I propose (you heard it here first) that the fractal economic dimension of first and third world cities will be substantially different, due in large part to the rate of industrialization and growth. This, while not novel in concept, would be the first such investigation I have encountered.
2) When returning from the library after picking up one such book, I saw a sign announcing that the U of MN ski club would be travelling to Telluride, CO this year. Naturally, I didn't see the part about the ski team first.
3) Tomorrow I debut my Esperanto Affirmative Case for debate. The gist is: US pays UNESCO, establishes Esperanto education, and conducts all international affairs in Esperanto, and, insodoing, saves the UN millions per anum, liberates the Third World, and prevents all war and conflict. My fellow policy debaters can have a copy on the condition that you add to the evidence/blocks upon receipt.
Michael
2) When returning from the library after picking up one such book, I saw a sign announcing that the U of MN ski club would be travelling to Telluride, CO this year. Naturally, I didn't see the part about the ski team first.
3) Tomorrow I debut my Esperanto Affirmative Case for debate. The gist is: US pays UNESCO, establishes Esperanto education, and conducts all international affairs in Esperanto, and, insodoing, saves the UN millions per anum, liberates the Third World, and prevents all war and conflict. My fellow policy debaters can have a copy on the condition that you add to the evidence/blocks upon receipt.
Michael
posted by Michael Barany at 7:20 PM
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Don't get me started on enumeration of the reals. That's all we did for the first few weeks of analysis. Esperanto did well (1-0), but, to be fair, the other team didn't really debate it (3 T violations and a Consult NATO CP). We got third place (probably a fluke) for the second straight tournament.
I have to convince my mom that it's okay to miss that much class first. Did you have to deal with Cauchy sequences and Dedekind cuts? If you haven't, you didn't have a real Analysis experience (distinct from Real Analysis, the counterpart of Complex Analysis). The gist is that we can only take the rational numbers for granted, so we define the reals as the limits of sequences of rationals. Then, of course, we have to prove all the enumeration stuff, as well as such things as the ordered field axioms (arithmetic), the existence of nth-roots, etc. Now the class is finally getting to continuity and functions after a month and a half.
That's about the thousandth citation of that poem I've seen, but thanks for the thought. My next task on fractals is to get grade distribution data for my school, learn to code in C, and make some calcs on the dimension across departments and levels. Should be interesting.
Michael
Excellent! A little more down to earth version is the catbert performance review via www.dilbert.com.
How would you tell the difference? I have two years of writing my own Kritiks under my belt proving that nobody listens to card text.
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