Tag: math

info @ the P.Pole 01.22.12

January 22, 2012 – 9:39 pm

5 not awkward things that I feel awkward doing: being the only person obviously window shopping in a store speaking at an audible level and intelligible pace to cashiers and servers standing close enough to signal eventual intent to order but far enough to let others cut in front while I think asking for “just water” at [...]

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The Scientist

October 29, 2011 – 10:29 pm

First thing’s first, I do not formally study any of the sciences, but I have been known to dabble in the Mathemagical. Arguably, “The Mathemagician” is probably an even better title for my personality profile but I’ll leave nomenclature to others. For once, I’ll make my own life easy by just re-posting… WHAT THE INTERNET [...]

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info @ the P.Pole 08.30.11

August 30, 2011 – 5:39 am

5 things that I have to do for work: pull SQL database tables into Excel spreadsheets aggregate the data into summary metrics write emails to people I am not familiar with, telling them to follow up on work that I am not familiar with take minutes for various team meetings program macros to do most of the [...]

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info @ the P.Pole 07.27.11

July 27, 2011 – 4:39 pm

5 strange things I am strangely good at: pairing and lining up bagel halves after they have been in the toaster approximating lines of best fit on scatter plots noticing mismatched socks on other people estimating when the microwave is going to finish guessing which elevator will open when called I generally don’t spend too much [...]

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Does God Exist?

April 17, 2011 – 9:59 pm

Here are the main points I came away with after watching this debate between Frank Turek and Christopher Hitchens (here’s the transcript, which I would recommend over the video). I haven’t written anything resembling an apologetic piece in a long time, and indeed most of this is just a restatement of points that others have made [...]

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