[BaalChatzaf]

Have a look at this:

http://i471.photobuc...ics/as-mind.gif


If it makes sense to you, you are a Nerd. If it doesn't you are a Normal.

See if you can figure out how to program this. I did a schematic algorithm using finite state automata.

I used to figure out how to do stuff like this when I was nine and that was before computers became genarally available. When I grew up I used Petri Nets.

Ba'al Chatzaf

This post has been edited by BaalChatzaf: 16 April 2009 - 09:00 PM

[galtgulch]

BaalChatzaf, on Apr 16 2009, 08:56 PM, said:

Have a look at this:

http://i471.photobuc...ics/as-mind.gif


If it makes sense to you, you are a Nerd. If it doesn't you are a Normal.

See if you can figure out how to program this. I did a schematic algorithm using finite state automata.

I used to figure out how to do stuff like this when I was nine and that was before computers became genarally available. When I grew up I used Petri Nets.

Ba'al Chatzaf

Ba'al,

I guess this goes in the "Life goes on!" category.

My contention is that our country and the freedom of each of us hangs in the balance at this time given the flagrant disregard by the current administration for the Constitutional limits on govt powers.

Even Obama supporters who voted for him and are now scratching their heads in bewilderment are still too lacking in vision, knowledge and foresight to realize where we are heading. Instead they say we just have to give him more time.

The trouble with that approach is that when it becomes blatantly obvious to them that we are on the verge of a totalitarian dictatorship it will be too late because our right to assemble, to speak, to write or print will no longer be tolerated by the govt.

Now is the time to act to let our countrymen know what is happening and how it can be stopped. The Tea Party rallies give us reason to believe that there hundreds of people out there for every one of us already in the Campaign For Liberty movement.

www.campaignforliberty.com 17 Apr 6AM 145989 and counting.

gulch

[Chris Grieb]

Baal; Interesting chart!

Gulch; Life will go on even if you or Ron Paul do not. Take a drink. Have a cup of coffee. Get a life!

[Michael E. Marotta]

BaalChatzaf, on Apr 16 2009, 10:56 PM, said:

If it makes sense to you, you are a Nerd. If it doesn't you are a Normal.
See if you can figure out how to program this. I did a schematic algorithm using finite state automata.

If you had not tipped your hand, I might have blown it off, but not wanting to be a mere normal, I spent some time with it. However, I confess that I must be truly a normal and not truly a nerd because I did not think to "program" it. IN fact, I lost interest in it.

A few weeks ago, my brother call me an "animal" because I told him that I hate arbitrary tasks. I never work crosswords or suduko or stuff like that. I only work if there is a purpose for me, i.e., a reward, hence, the "animal" subroquet.

In numismatics, I never got below or beyond a certain level in any direction. In other words, some people collect "one of each" for a full set. I never did. Other people buy magnifiers and even microscopes. I have a 3X hand lenses for just in case, but for me, this is naked-eye stuff: it's either obvious or it's not and minor deviations are of minor interest, at best.

However, I do like history. I like the researching and reporting. I get paid for that. So, there is that pavlovian thing again, but on its own merits, I enjoy just looking for facts, mining the data, you might say, and then putting into an explanatory framework.

I did one tough project where this guy had two different satellite feeds and a homebrew network of PCs and to solve the problem, I brought some assembler tutorials and had myself locked in the office over the weekend and on Sunday afternoon, I had a solution that I wrote directly in DEBUG in hex. ... but, again, I was getting paid for this. I would not have done it just for the heck of it.

Sometimes things interest me on their own. In computer programming, one of the things I did was to write Fortran so that it looked like Cobol just to do it. There was one programming class I took over again because I finished it with a C+. The final project was to write a Roman Numeral Parser. When I realized that there was no algorithm, that it was all grunt work, I quit hacking at it.

Mike M.

[BaalChatzaf]

galtgulch, on Apr 17 2009, 06:30 AM, said:

..........

Delenda est Cartago

Ba'al Chatzaf