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General Discussion / Am I morally bankrupt...

« on: March 15, 2008, 10:28:58 pm »

Because I'm pro-legalization of prostitution?  The world's oldest profession.

I believe that legalization will actually increase the quality of life of prostitutes and also make it safer for both parties.  It works just fine for Nevada.

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Trash Can / Re: Concealed weapons: good/bad?

« on: February 23, 2008, 02:42:01 pm »

Sigh.  Fucking liberals want to take away my 2nd Amendment rights.  Go to hell.

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General Programming / Help with coming up with this regular expression.

« on: November 17, 2007, 06:43:59 pm »

Ok, so I need to figure out the regular expression for this DFA (Deterministic Finite Automata) model, and I've identified the pattern characterized by the DFA... just can't seem put it into the form of a regular expression correctly.

The regular expression accepts any binary string (string of 1's and 0's) that meets the following:

-The number of 0's in the string has to be a multiple of 2 that's greater than or equal to 2.
-The number of 1's in the string has to be a multiple of 3 that's greater than or equal to 3.

Please help.  Thanks.

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General Discussion / You know who's hot and underage?

« on: November 13, 2007, 09:52:45 am »

Taylor Swift ;(

Goddamnit.  Someone help me get over my infatuation with this 16 y/o.  It's like when I was 13 and obsessed with Britney Spears!!!

/endrant

* Michael waits for Chris Hansen.

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General Programming / Bitwise problem - Help!

« on: September 25, 2007, 07:51:16 pm »

A friend gave me this problem to work on and it's kind of pissing me off.  I've spent a few hours working on it but to no avail.

Basically you have to in a maximum of 40 operations (legal operations: ! ~ & ^ | + << >>) count the number of 1 bits of a word.

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General Programming / Suggestions on Quantum Computing books...

« on: August 17, 2007, 07:34:44 pm »

Has anyone taken any quantum computing courses?  I know it's a relatively new subject, but I was wondering if there's a good beginner books on the subject.  I don't know much about the subject but just knowing that in a quantum computer, bits can be both 0 and 1 at the same time, I'm interested in learning more.

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General Discussion / Kind of old news, but since everyone's talking about buying a computer...

« on: August 02, 2007, 04:04:55 am »

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/30/1853241

I so want this!

Since starting my summer undergrad REU I realized I really need a cheap ultra portable laptop to run linux on!  All due to having to haul my ass to research workshops, dissertation defenses, weekly meetings, etc. and constantly watch grad students and profs alike doing whatever it is they're doing on their macbooks (not fully paying attention that's for sure), whilst I sit there attempting to do any bit of work on my research I can in my head or on paper because either the material being covered is above my head due to its highly specialized nature and intended audience (graduate and above), or aren't fields of research that spark my interest (i.e. path planning).

All I really need hardware wise is a something with decent wireless, LAN, and also 56k incase I get stranded on an island.  Its specs just to be able to run linux of some sort.  I mean not even specifically linux, just an OS that has nice shell integration... and X would be nice too.  OSX would work, but Apple's hardware is way too pricey for just doing the basic tasks and terminal usage I require.  Windows is just a pain to work with in this department.  Programs like PuTTY are decent, but still a hassle... and cygwin is rather a pain to install (took forever to download and install last time I had to do it)

I do have a Dell Latitude D810 which is like 2 years old, however it's big and heavy.  Also, since I flew to Texas A&M I just brought my laptop and peripherals and actually make use of my laptop for these last 2.5 months... I wouldn't like having to unplug, pack up, and lug it around daily, as well as repeat the same procedure again after I come back from working and running around for 8-10 hours.

EDIT:  Fixed the horrid 3sentencesmashedtogether that was the first part of the post.  I blame working on my research paper for the last 12 hours.

EDIT2:  LaTeX owns so much.  Random.  I know.

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Math and Other Problems / Check my work please?

« on: April 05, 2007, 11:17:29 pm »

Alright, the problem is:



Alright.  Here's what my solution/answer came out to be:



Is this correct?  Methinks I should take DiffEq even though it's not a major req.

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General Discussion / Need recommendations

« on: April 04, 2007, 11:30:45 am »

Alright, my shared webhosting account with DreamHost was closed today because they caught me violating their ToS by hosting licensed anime. 

Which brings me to the point of this post.  Can anyone recommend either companies with relatively less strict policies (like not freaking closing my account without any advanced notice) or companies outside the U.S. that offer shared webhosting?

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Introductions! / My Introduction

« on: March 28, 2007, 12:50:28 am »

Hello, my name is Michael, and I'm a sophomore Computer Science major/Math minor at a small university located in the town of Farmville, VA.  Yes, like the town's name suggests, there are quite a bit of farms in the area.

Hmmm additional info...

In my spare time I enjoy watching anime, programming, and learning new programming languages.  I'm also an ex-Battle.net Bot developer from the vL Forums (Quit bot development 2 years ago, but I started sophomore year of HS writing them in VB6, then realized the numerous bad habits I had picked up from using VB6 and switched to writing them in C++ =P).  I still visit the vL forums and post in spurts... usually b/c I'm procrastinating.

Anyways, just wanted to say hi to everyone and officially introduce myself.

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Math and Other Problems / Help?

« on: March 27, 2007, 06:13:17 pm »

Evaluate:

∞
∑ ( n/(n+1)! )
n=1


Now, I know that the damn thing is equal to 1, however I'm having trouble showing/proving this... I'd greatly appreciate any help.  Thanks.