The DVD Case
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Random Thought: Algorithm for Choosing Classes
% Import data
AC = importdata(“availableClasses.xls”)
RMP = importdata(“rateMyProfessors.xls”)
% Weed out classes
if seniorClasses.professor.rating.easiness <=3.5
delete current(seniorClasses)
if seniorClasses.classTime > 11 AM
delete current(seniorClasses)
if seniorClasses.weekSchedule == MWF
delete current(seniorClasses)
disp(seniorClasses)
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Random Thought: Manipulative Numbers
Quoted from WSJ (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204571404577253102978140364.html):
“Some retailers are finding that sending fewer emails can pay off. Since cutting back its volume, Nicole Miller has seen the rate at which customers “unsubscribe”—or request to stop receiving emails—drop, and the percentage of recipients who open the emails has grown from 15% to 40%, according to Andrea Marron, director of digital strategy at the company. Meanwhile, the percentage of online sales that began with an email has grown to 17% from 10%.”
When I fart in a room with 100 people, studies show that 1 out of 100 people enjoy the smell. After keeping the one person who enjoys the smell in the room and 95 other people leave, studies now show that 1 out of 5 people enjoy the smell of my farts. Statistics show that the percentage of people who enjoy my farts increased from 1% to 20% - a staggering overall 1900% increase.
Numbers can be deceiving, yet truthful.
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Random Thought: Toilets
I don’t understand why there’s a men’s and women’s bathroom if both hold a maximum occupancy of one and are both identically equipped with a toilet and sink.
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Tips: Truly Unique Passwords
Most of us have a universal password for all the websites we use. That can pose a huge security risk if someone manages to say crack your Gmail password and proceed to try it out on other websites like eBay, Amazon, and Netflix.
Since most of us can’t remember several unique passwords, I adopted a simple method to create a password that is unique to each site. Say your password is “Dvdh4n” (this fulfills most websites’ need for an uppercase, lowercase, and number for your password). Take the first three letters of the website name (all lowercase for all sites so you remain consistent) and add it to the end of your password. Then, you’ll get something like:
- Dvdh4nama - Amazon
- Dvdh4ngma - Gmail
- Dvdh4neba - eBay
- Dvdh4ncas - Case Western
- Dvdh4nfac - Facebook
- Dvdh4nsta - Starcraft
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Random Thought: Sent From Tumblr
In order to sound less of an Apple dick (read it fast and it sounds like Apple addict) I changed my email signature from “Sent from my iPhone.” to “Sent via mobile.” Sounds more professional.
Sent from my iPad.
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Random Thought: 1’s and 0’s
It surprising to know that everything digital from computers, phones, and even pacemakers all function on the simple concept of on an off (1’s and 0’s, electric high/low, logic true/false) - that everything digital has a basis in switches and memory switches (flip-flops). That’s why I believe there can never be true artificial intelligence because all results are predefined with 1’s and 0’s. Until we can factor in some form of randomness (ie. Biological computers?), computers can only be as smart as we can predefine them to be.
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This is my Macbook keyboard cover after accumulating two years of grime, dirt, oil, and other things my fingers have gotten in contact with.
After taking a closer look, I realized a few things:
- The keys of the alphabet I use most often are ADEFIJKLMNOPRSTW
- I play computer games often because my WASD and up, left, down, and right keys are grimed up
- I use my Mac for a lot of academic work (enter and space key grimed up)
- I’m an avid listener to music because my volume keys are grimed up (F10 and F11)
- I’m a person of few typos because my delete key is not as grimed up as other keys
- I’ve been a Mac user for a while since I use a lot of hotkeys (command key is very grimed up)
What does your keyboard/cover look like and what can you tell from it?
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You occasionally have to humor yourself in order to pay attention in class. Otherwise, lectures would just get so boring.
Oh yes, and the answer to that question would be a chemo-mechanical nanocomposite much like a sea cucumber’s dermis.
