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# No.
I have never been obsessed with wasting my time on science. I leave that to the scientists. Now Maths however, that is cool.
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 17:51, archived)
# Maths is the queen of the sciences, you tit!
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 17:55, archived)
# Maths is even more than that
It's a language AND a science.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 17:56, archived)
# Yeah, a language for bastards.
Oh, so a 'color' and a 'label' are both numbers? Fuck you, graph theorists!
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 18:00, archived)
# Graph theory isn't maths, that's just playing around with crayons
AND NOTHING EULER CAN SAY WILL CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE. Hmmph.

Actually I really liked graph theory, probably because it involved playing around with crayons. I remember one module I liked even more, which we called "taxicab geometry", it's where you work with a totally discrete 2D geometry where the only parts that exist are the intersections of gridlines. Then you see what happens to normal geometry. Circles become tilted squares, ellipses become diamonds, parabolae become weird things like parallel tracks with a triangle stuck on the end, and hyperbolae are boringly little changed.

That was fantastic stuff.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 18:04, archived)
# Euler is old school. It's all about Erdös nowadays...
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 18:15, archived)
# Erdos is old school
nowadays its all about Terrence muthafucking Tao.

Green-Tao theorem. Epic.
Ben Green lectured me.
(chriky, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 20:48, archived)
# Hmm.
So it's like an embedding of geometry in a discrete grid er... topology thing.

Sounds a bit like chemical graph layout, except that is usually a hexagonal grid.
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 18:27, archived)
# Yep.
No idea what it's properly called. I thought it would be discrete geometry but I bought the Schaum outline of discrete geometry and...... it was gash, nothing to do with it. :(
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 19:43, archived)
# I prefer graph theory and the like to...
statistics
Oh how I loathe statistics and probability.
(I helped save b3ta! xihpete A neutrino walks straight through a bar, with v>c., Fri 16 Apr 2010, 18:29, archived)
# ^ This
The stats and probability half of my A level was modular. I did the exams and then burned the notes. I have, of course, spent the ensuing 15 years of my life first doing quantum mechanics, which is basically continuous probability theory patched onto classical mechanics patched onto linear algebra, and then doing a PhD in what was meant to be general relativity and turned out to be a bunch of fucking STATISTICS.

I take great pride in the fact that I have a PhD in, effectively, statistics and am about to put out another paper with the word "statistics" in the title, have taught "statistical" mechanics to Masters level and still don't have the faintest fucking clue what statistics is all about.

I am also aware that probably no-one will read this reply given that it's about 90 minutes late. But I don't care. That's how we geeks roll.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 19:46, archived)
# I read it
but I'm a geek too.
(I helped save b3ta! littlefish I like cheese, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 20:07, archived)
# \o/
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 20:21, archived)
# Also, colour!
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 18:45, archived)
# ah but so is music
music is science, art and language
(mr-lizard Hell's teeth man!, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 19:23, archived)
# Not convinced about the science bit of that
but I've seen Howard Goodall banging on about frequencies, lengths of pipe and the ilk so I'll accept it.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 19:48, archived)
# Mystery science theatre is not science!
it's old b-movies, with added piss-ripping!
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 17:55, archived)
# MST3K is great.
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 17:57, archived)
# never a truer word spoken.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 18:00, archived)
# You'll be glad to know we've got 'wasting our time on science' down to a fine art.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 17:59, archived)
# True dat.
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 18:01, archived)