Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106

[UncleWolf]

Okay, I'm going to check a few more threads, then I'm going to bed.

[Dragonrider]

That's stupid. The maximum possible is 100%. By definition.

You'll hear no argument from me on that front.

Another one off to bed... nighty night!

[adanedhel9]

That's stupid. The maximum possible is 100%. By definition.

Hah. I once got a 200% on a Spanish test. Basically, we had to conjugate as many verbs as we could think of within a particular time limit; 30 verbs was 100% (and also one page of the exam) but we were allowed to continue on the back. I got to 60 before I ran out of paper (the teacher wouldn't give me another).

[Oregano]

Hah. I once got a 200% on a Spanish test. Basically, we had to conjugate as many verbs as we could think of within a particular time limit; 30 verbs was 100% (and also one page of the exam) but we were allowed to continue on the back. I got to 60 before I ran out of paper (the teacher wouldn't give me another).

I sometimes get over 100% on Maths homework as well, because we get extra marks if we go in at dinner and help each other.

[banjo1985]

I once managed 112% in a science exam, purely because they had determined th percentages out of the wrong number of questions. I think about six of us were better than perfect that day.

[InaVegt]

@PZ: I have a little maths problem for you.

Imagine you're going on a vacation, there are a cities you'd like to visit. There is a travel time of b days between each city (Different for each pair of cities, of course). You're going to spend c days in each city (different for each city). And finally, you have d days off your job, and as such available for your vacation. Of course, you need to be back at your starting position by the end.

Now, I'd like two non polynomial algorithms for this situation.

The first would be for when you'd like to visit as many different cities as possible.
The second would be for when you'd like to spend as little time travelling as possible.

[Phase]

Maths: I don't love them.

I don't hate math, but thanks to my "teacher" this year, I don't like the class, although I still don't mind the subject.

[bosssmiley]

@PZ: I have a little maths problem for you.

Imagine you're going on a vacation, there are a cities you'd like to visit. There is a travel time of b days between each city (Different for each pair of cities, of course). You're going to spend c days in each city (different for each city). And finally, you have d days off your job, and as such available for your vacation. Of course, you need to be back at your starting position by the end.

Now, I'd like two non polynomial algorithms for this situation.

The first would be for when you'd like to visit as many different cities as possible.
The second would be for when you'd like to spend as little time travelling as possible.

Gezina demonstrates for us an example of "You know you're over-planning the holiday when..."

I once managed 112% in a science exam, purely because they had determined th percentages out of the wrong number of questions. I think about six of us were better than perfect that day.

You really have to wonder how valid a test of your ability the exams are if it's possible to get 112% on them thanks to errors made by the people setting them.

(Sounds like the infamously incompetent, not-fit-to-test-the-temperature-of-bathwater Edexcel to me )

ION: "I want to be hanging fruit when I grow up". Well now you can be

[Death, your friend the Reaper]

You really have to wonder how valid a test of your ability the exams are if it's possible to get 112% on them thanks to errors made by the people setting them

Our English exam had "Department of English" as "Departmant of English".

Didn't get extra marks for pointing it out though

[Haruki-kun]

Maths: I don't love them.

I don't hate math, but thanks to my "teacher" this year, I don't like the class, although I still don't mind the subject.

Indeed, a huge part of liking the class (and the subject) is caused by the teacher.

Good Teacher in annoying subject makes a good class. Bad teacher in cool subject makes a terrible class.

Bad and Bad? See: My current Math class.

[Player_Zero]

@PZ: I have a little maths problem for you.

Decision maths? Meh. I can't be bothered to do my assignments, so what makes you think I can be bothered to do anything else?

[Kaelaroth]

Maths is great this year. Great. My teacher's gorgeous.

And, today, I saw him hot and sweaty, and sleeveless, in tight clothes, as he was coming back from a cross-country trip. Man, today was good.

[Lyesmith]

Maths is great this year. Great. My teacher's gorgeous.

And, today, I saw him hot and sweaty, and sleeveless, in tight clothes, as he was coming back from a cross-country trip. Man, today was good.

...
*Thwaps Kael with a towel*
Bad Kael!
Down boy, Down!
*Makes an appointment at the vet*

[Kaelaroth]

...
*Thwaps Kael with a towel*
Bad Kael!
Down boy, Down!
*Makes an appointment at the vet*

... Yeah, my friends all said words to that effect too.
*wanders back to listening to the Decemberists*

[Fostire]

Indeed, a huge part of liking the class (and the subject) is caused by the teacher.

Good Teacher in annoying subject makes a good class. Bad teacher in cool subject makes a terrible class.

Bad and Bad? See: My current Math class.

I am currently doing a biochemistry course which is really awesome but I really hate one of my teachers, the result: I only go to half the classes so now I'm having a hard time keeping up with them.

[CurlyKitGirl]

For the first time since I started A2 I've actually done my French homework the day before it was due in.
How I hear you not ask?
Our bus home broke down less than three miles out of college. We had to wait till five for a replacement bus (but it was the good coach) to come pick up everyone who couldn't get on another bus. I did it then, in between reading a book I borrowed from Female Anime E Lit Friend. I started reading it on the bus and I'm now on page 176 of 468 not incluing appendices to the book. This includes a fictional biography. And a fictional Note to the Text beforehand.
But I got home very late (I missed the normal bus home) and my dinner was up early so it got cold real quick. COld roast is bad.

Hum, E Lang was amazing today. We were drowned in a sea of terminology, but we knew most of it so were pretty much revising for the whole time. And because Thursday and Friday're Cool E Lang Lecturer days we had so much fun.
Plus I can now tell you what a relative embedded clause with a subject complement is. And more stuff like that.

[Castaras]

Find the perfect zombie for you here.

[Dragonrider]

Find the perfect zombie for you here.

Brilliant.

Reminds me of this.

(note: a little bit of politics at the beginning, which is why I linked partway through the video...)

[Phase]

Ugh...

I have had a VERY bad day today. I'm feeling crappy^nth power, I have a test tomorrow, and two tests on Monday, it seems. Crap, all I want to do is play Left 4 Dead...

[Eldpollard]

Left 4 dead's not out yet is it? Well, I know it's not in the UK. It's there lingering in steam all pre-ordered and nowhere to go.

[Destro_Yersul]

I think I saw it in my local EB games yesterday, right before it was covered up with 400 copies of Wrath of the Lich King. Which I got the collector's edition for. I'm going to go look at the bonus shinies and lament my lack of a working computer right now....

Stupid computer. Why did you somehow fail to boot, leaving me with nothing to use for internet but this slow-arse piece of crap?

[Raien]

Find the perfect zombie for you here.

Hehehe, fantastic.

[dish]

Anyone doing anything interesting this fine morning/afternoon/evening/middle of the night (delete as appropriate)?

[KnightDisciple]

Anyone doing anything interesting this fine morning/middle of the night?

Depends on your definition of interesting.

[Coidzor]

Anyone doing anything interesting this fine morning/afternoon/evening/middle of the night (delete as appropriate)?

Nope, just being an ordinary boring white person with insomnia.

And listening to "Common People" by Pulp.

[dish]

Nope, just being an ordinary boring white person with insomnia.

And listening to "Common People" by Pulp.

Good taste in music, at least.

[CurlyKitGirl]

'Researching' French unis.
Did you know they only have to pay 169 euros p.a. to study for their equivalent of a BA?
Yup.

Also, I missed brekkie today so hunger is rife.
Then again: today I've seen someone dressed up as the Mayor of Halloween Town; Peter Pan; several fairies and a duo in the pink hippo/orange zippy mouth suits.
Can't remember their names, but they had a TV show. I think the orange zippy mouth guy was called Zippy?

[Coidzor]

Good taste in music, at least.

My haphazard stumbling upon things has actually managed to do me some good for once, eh? Coolies.

[Player_Zero]

Anyone doing anything interesting this fine morning/afternoon/evening/middle of the night (delete as appropriate)?

I'm about to make some breakfastlunch. It's not brunch because it isn't just a meal in between, it is a combination of the two in a glorious pas de deux of yummy goodness.

[bosssmiley]

'Researching' French unis.
Did you know they only have to pay 169 euros p.a. to study for their equivalent of a BA?
Yup.

Cost reflects value. Silly pretendy frog people, trying to ape their betters.

Then again: today I've seen someone dressed up as the Mayor of Halloween Town; Peter Pan; several fairies and a duo in the pink hippo/orange zippy mouth suits.
Can't remember their names, but they had a TV show. I think the orange zippy mouth guy was called Zippy?

Show proper respect when you speak of the sainted Zippy and George from "Rainbow". George alone did more to advance the acceptance and integration of gays in contemporary British society than a generation of Gay Pride marches.
No, I'm not kidding.

ION: physics in relationships, the decline and fall of supervillain macro-engineering, anachronistic science, and Return of the Steam Jedi.

(I don't do interesting, I just know where to find it )