Some remarkably intelligent - super smart - friends of mine insisted LaTeX is "outdated."
Five minutes later they were caught writing raw TeX inside Markdown files. "This is the Way." ;))
"The only problem <...> they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste... I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products."
- Steve Jobs
"The only problem <...> they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste... I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products."
- Steve Jobs
I figure the classical problem in #statistics:
"Suppose that a room contains N people. What is the probability that at least two of them have a common birthday?"
isn't quite as simple as it first appears.
Considering birthdays are not equiprobable, what's the P?
It is time for the United States Postal Service to ban junk mail.
Unsolicited spam calls are already prohibited by the FCC. Emails are heavily regulated by the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. Junk mail is the majority of mail, 100 million trees per year. Enough!
@martinmbauer To me... Black Holes are a good indicator that mathematics is still very much in its infancy. For instance, when it comes to infinity it's mostly nonconstructive (see Erret Bishop, etc)