Today in lecture, I heard an amusing proof of Ramsey’s Theorem which I reproduce here. The terminology used in it is quite … entertaining.
Notation: X is a set, then [X]k is the set of k-element subsets of X.
Ramsey’s Theorem: for all integers k ≥ 1, if X is an infinite set and F is […]
Saw the new Bond flick this weekend. Considering the ridiculous amount of hype about the movie, and, well, because it’s Bond, I fully expected that I would be seeing garbage. However, I was greatly mistaken. To my surprise, Casino Royale really is an excellent movie. Other Bond films may be pretty, or entertaining, but this […]
When I wrote about my initial impressions of Borat, I was under the impression that most of the scenes were staged. Apparently I was wrong. It seems that Bobby Rowe the Tennessee rodeo manager, Cindy Streit the Southern dining etiquette coach, and even the drunk, sexist and racist frat brothers were all real people, […]
Read this. Laugh. (And on a more serious note, Hannibal has an interesting article on the G80 architecture. Basically, it’s not a GPU, it’s a Cell on steroids. The Cell has 8 SPUs; the G80 has 128. I wonder if someone could get Linux’s spufs working on the 8800… If Nvidia ever releases a version […]
Saw the Borat movie last night. It was, quite frankly, the worst movie I’ve seen in my life. Now, the problem is not that that the movie was offensive (it was, but I don’t care about political correctness). The problem is that it was stupid, lowbrow, and generally unfunny. Granted, there was one interesting scene: […]