2009-11-16 Swhack IRC Log

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04:16:49 <[bjoern]> http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/mandelbulb.html#renders
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11:56:16 <[bjoern]> .c 100/12
11:56:17 <phenny> 100 / 12 = 8.33333333
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13:51:20 <[bjoern]> Barack Obama's mother was 6823 days old when he was born.
13:51:24 <[bjoern]> .c (6823 - 9*28) days in years
13:51:25 <phenny> (6823 - (9 * 28)) * days = 17.9908018 years
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13:53:05 <[bjoern]> "The couple married on February 2, 1961"
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16:07:40 <[bjoern]> "Seen by millions of people worldwide, the ship design used by The Pirate Bay is one of the most recognizable logos on the Internet today. But after discovering that the iconic emblem had not been officially registered, a Swedish company has hijacked the trademark as their own, with an eye on commercial exploitation." - torrentfreak
16:18:05 <sbp> disruptance?
16:18:23 <[bjoern]> If you can spare any.
16:19:28 <sbp> .gc +þörn
16:19:29 <phenny> +þörn: 7
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16:41:28 <sbp> .thesaurus rationale
16:41:49 <sbp> .thesaurus rationale
16:41:51 <phenny> sbp: No results found
16:42:30 <[bjoern]> thesaurus rationale
16:42:31 <phenny> sbp: No results found
16:42:32 <Monty> I can't find any alternative words for rationale
16:42:55 <[bjoern]> thesaurus free
16:42:56 <Monty> I can't find any alternative words for free
16:43:02 <[bjoern]> Right Monty.
16:43:04 <Monty> something like quitting yet?
16:43:28 <[bjoern]> Yes, you've successfully discouraged further attempts Monty.
16:43:32 <Monty> In conclusion, nuking menthol magic wands has sex with daft vast the_other_cj?!
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18:04:04 <[bjoern]> .gc +Witzerklärer
18:04:05 <phenny> +Witzerklärer: 4
18:10:34 <sbp> .thesaurus thesaurus
18:10:56 <phenny> sbp: No results found
18:11:01 <[bjoern]> What's with the saurus anyway?
18:12:01 <sbp> unsure
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18:12:32 <Monty> lo m4rk_
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18:31:52 <[bjoern]> ä
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19:35:46 <Monty> But what does JibberJim have to do with the price of fish?
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20:22:48 <treed> .ety avatar
20:22:48 <phenny> "1784, 'descent of a Hindu deity,' from Skt. avatarana 'descent' (of a deity to the earth in incarnate form), from ava- 'down' + base of tarati '(he) crosses over.' In computer use, it seems to trace to the novel 'Snowcrash' (1992) by Neal Stephenson." - http://etymonline.com/?term=avatar
20:23:11 <clsn> Ah, from the root √tṛ
20:25:38 <clsn> तृ
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21:07:40 <MoiraA> sbp hi
21:09:22 <sbp> yo
21:12:03 <clsn> First time I ever saw "heuristic", in the book _2001_ I think, which I read at quite a young age, I didn't know what it meant, and the only straw I could grab at was French "heureux"
21:12:37 <clsn> So I figured that HAL9000, the "heuristic algorithmic" computer, somehow referred to some sort of cheerfulness in his programming.
21:17:10 <sbp> your accidental diacritic above looked like some schmuck on my screen
21:17:18 <sbp> I often do that, try to wipe diacritics off
21:17:24 <sbp> and then be all "man, why isn't that coming off"
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21:19:42 <clsn> Accidental diacritic?
21:20:12 <sbp> <clsn> Ah, from the root √tṛ
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21:21:16 <sbp> maybe it wasn't accidental
21:21:20 <clsn> Oh. Not accidental; the r-underdot is usually used in Indic studies for the vocalic r.
21:21:31 <sbp> I thought at first you were trying to type the Sanskrit char and used the wrong mode
21:21:59 <clsn> No, I got the Skt transcription on the next line. Sigh. on one hand,I have a quick shortcut to turn my kbd into devanagari.
21:22:24 <sbp> yeah, I thought that was a correction
21:22:26 <clsn> otoh, I don't know the layout of the devanagari kbd, so I wind up typing letter-backspace-letter-backspace-letter-backspace to find the one I'm looking for.
21:23:11 <sbp> like when I've been transcribing Greek, and then I go σο ςηατ τηε μοτηερφθψκ ισ μοτηερφθψκινγ θπ μοτηερφθψκερσ? υεαη υοθ βασταρδ ψθτσ, ψομε σπεακ το με υοθ σηιτταησ!
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21:29:40 <deltab> clsn: heuristic could be from some other word; e.g. heure => HAL runs on clockwork
21:29:59 <clsn> deltab: it probably is. But when you're, what, 10 years old, it was the best I could come up with.
21:30:10 <clsn> Oh I see what you're saying
21:30:24 <clsn> Yeah, I didn't think of heure. Maybe I didn't even know that much French
21:30:33 <deltab> .ety heuristic
21:30:33 <phenny> "'serving to discover or find out,' 1821, irregular formation from Gk. heuretikos 'inventive,' related to heuriskein 'to find' (cognate with O.Ir. fuar 'I have found')." - http://etymonline.com/?term=heuristic
21:30:45 <sbp> HERETIC!
21:30:59 <deltab> EURISKO
21:31:18 <clsn> sbp: at least the Gk keyboard vaguely parallels QWERTY. Devanagari has, like, the consonants over here and the vowels over there (a little like Dvorak, but not)...
21:32:04 <sbp> great paper title if you don't know the context: Lenat, Douglas; Brown, J.S. (1984). "Why AM and EURISKO appear to work". Artificial Intelligence 3 (21): pp. 269-294.
21:32:14 <sbp> clsn: heh
21:33:40 <clsn> Shifted vowel keys are for the independent forms... except shifted virama, which for some reason gives the fi ligature...
21:34:45 <sbp> "Brown: We can create a century of progress"
21:34:50 <sbp> what a great start he's made on that
21:35:32 <sbp> funny thing is that he was talking about a specific thing
21:35:39 <sbp> but it works for more or less any policy area
21:35:53 <sbp> (he was talking about foreign policy)
21:37:30 <sbp> ...cognate with O.Ir. fuar?
21:37:33 <sbp> how did that happen?
21:38:21 <sbp> oh!
21:38:26 <sbp> it's that Conservative candidate
21:38:34 <sbp> I think she's been given a vote of confidence!
21:38:37 <sbp> ahaha, fun
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22:41:11 <Monty> lo danja
22:52:06 <deltab> “... it was surely the most exciting thing to happen in Swaffham since a cardboard box was seen blowing down the street.” — Jeremy Paxman, Newsnight
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23:24:24 <[[sroracle]]> hola Monty
23:24:26 <Monty> great, for show/list?
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