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Re: The man with the Y Combinator tattoo

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Wow. That wins for world's dorkiest tattoo. Dorkier than the golden ratio. Dorkier than e^{i\pi} \eq -1, and maybe dorkier than using latex notation in a web forum :)

+1 for the use of LaTeX notation.

-1, extraneous use of \eq

$e^{i\pi}=-1$

: )

http://nirvana.informatik.uni-halle.de/~thuering/php/latex-o...

http://nirvana.informatik.uni-halle.de/~thuering/php/latex-o...

'LaTeX compiler' cloud app...very 2.0

Re: The man with the Y Combinator tattoo

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+1 for the use of LaTeX notation.

-1, extraneous use of \eq $e^{i\pi}=-1$ : ) http://nirvana.informatik.uni-halle.de/~thuering/php/latex-o... http://nirvana.informatik.uni-halle.de/~thuering/php/latex-o... 'LaTeX compiler' cloud app...very 2.0

It's been a while.. I actually retyped that both ways and somehow decided the \eq was better. woops

Re: The man with the Y Combinator tattoo

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I'm thinking about getting a tattoo. The goal is to get something that is aesthetically pleasing in an abstract sense, to avoid thinking something is ugly years later. I was thinking about the great wave, a dragon, a dragon fly or something else made up of PCB layout lines. I think that would look very nice on a forearm. http://www.imakethings.com/2007/09/14/image-to-pcb-app-and-p... Most science tattoos are very, ve…

Maxwell can get invalidated. Math can't.

Re: The man with the Y Combinator tattoo

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I'm thinking about getting a tattoo. The goal is to get something that is aesthetically pleasing in an abstract sense, to avoid thinking something is ugly years later. I was thinking about the great wave, a dragon, a dragon fly or something else made up of PCB layout lines. I think that would look very nice on a forearm. http://www.imakethings.com/2007/09/14/image-to-pcb-app-and-p... Most science tattoos are very, ve…

Maxwell can get invalidated. Math can't.

Ahem. Russell paradox.

Granted it's been a while, but one can never be too careful.

Re: The man with the Y Combinator tattoo

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Maxwell can get invalidated. Math can't.

Ahem. Russell paradox. Granted it's been a while, but one can never be too careful.

For the truly paranoid only:

Witness the evolution of 'V-E+F=2' since Euler's time:

http://www.amazon.com/Proofs-Refutations-Logic-Mathematical-...

Is it right? Is it wrong? What does it mean to even BE a 'face' ?

Although I guess the worst thing that could happen in this situation is you change your explanation of the tattoo, and not the tattoo itself.

Re: The man with the Y Combinator tattoo

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-1, extraneous use of \eq $e^{i\pi}=-1$ : ) http://nirvana.informatik.uni-halle.de/~thuering/php/latex-o... http://nirvana.informatik.uni-halle.de/~thuering/php/latex-o... 'LaTeX compiler' cloud app...very 2.0

It's been a while.. I actually retyped that both ways and somehow decided the \eq was better. woops

OTOH, gratuitous LaTeX notation is even dorkier.
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