Treadstone

HEY Thales!!! Avatar Theif!!! Nathan

makes illegal copies of XP not work?? <quickly cancels download> phew, that was a close one. Nathan

to save time you could also set up some conditional statements to see if the matrix is already in row reduced echelon form, then just count pivots...that way you dont run guassian elim every time. nathan

do you only have one of each wieght? if so you couldnt weigh out 2kg and so the 1-40 idea is wrong. nathan

So heres my idea....we only use a small percentage of our brain. However, if i say that psychic abilities exist in all people, in the part of our brain that we dont use then, i could say that those with psychic abilites are able to use more of the brain than the average person, the psychic part in particular....my thoughts are about as organized as my room, lol....basicly what i am trying to say is given enough time a small percentage of people would, by change, figure out how to use this part of the brain. In this way pyschic abilities are not a genetic phnomenon (sp?) but rather a simple function of chance. Please feel free to ask questions to clearify my thoughts, some times i can throw down a well organized arugment and sometime, no matter how much i think about it, my thoughts come out jumbled, lol. Nathan

The trial and error aspect would be very expensive lol

did anyone here read the avp comics? They've been out for like 10 years and the movie followed one of the comics pretty well, there was a chick that was adopted into a Preditor clan but in the comics she totally joined them and rode around in space with them. Nathan

the funny thing about doom 3 is that its SO F**KING DARK you can't appreciate all the nice graphics, plus the game play is damn near the same as doom 1 Nathan

I play SWG all the time.... Calow Flatiron of the Durmanhoth-Clan Flurry Sever Send a /tell if anyone else plays. Nathan

I had breifly looked into NSA internships...they have some for math majors doing cryptology....i dont know anything about that, can anyone tell me what sort of math is used in cryptology? I was thinking lots of linear alg but i may be wrong... Nathan

i thought they were talking about programing when he said coding.....but might be cryptography....

A. Statisticly its very improbable that earth is the only life holding planet in the universe. Nathan

ya i'll have minors in computer science and chemistry Nathan

word, operations research is pretty cool. I just took a class on linear systems in OR last semester, this fall i'm taking one of probability based OR systems... Nathan

ya i think i'd like to work in R&D somewhere.....

I'm about to start my 4th year as an undergrad in applied mathematics. I plan on going for at least my masters after school and am looking for some career advice. I know there is A LOT of things i can do with a math degree but i would like to do something with a defense contractor or maybe softeware engineering...something to do with solving problems or building things using math. I know my question is kidna all over the place but, any ideas? Feel free to shoot me some questions to help narrow down. Nathan

right, thats what i'm saying...but also i'm saying that even sexual selection isn't playing a large role since nearly everyone has children. Nathan

seriously? wow, i looked through and didnt see any others.....will look harder

I had a thought a while ago about the state of natural selection as it pertains to modern humans. I'll define modern humans as those living in industrialized nations. My idea is that natural selection no longer applies to modern people. Why? With health care as advanced as is, most people surivive for a very long time, a long enough time so that they have children. This may be based on a flawed perception, as i have not looked at census numbers, but i would guess that a very high percentage of people have children and thus pass their genes onto the next generation. Moreoever, our incredible mobility alows us to find mates where ever we'd like. If no one in our home towns will have children with us, there is someone, some where who will. Centuries ago there were many more premature deaths by natural means, such as animals and dangerous work, and political means such as, wars where a larger percentage of the populace was sent to fight and die. Child birth was also more difficult resulting in a higher infant mortallity rate. Point is, less people were able to pass their genes on in pre-modern humanity. After thinking that and with trhe knowledge that modern evolutionary theory uses natural selection as a mechinism i can up with this questions. What is currently driving humans' evolution? Are we still evolving? Discuss... Nathan