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The answer I've often wanted to give (but never quite had the courage to write) goes something like this:
1. Unplug your computer, screen, keyboard, mouse, and any other peripherals
2. Replace the computer, keyboard, mouse, screen etc. in their original packaging
3. Place everything in a large cardboard box, addressed to the vendor of your computer
4. Send it back for a refund, explaining that you are too stupid to use a computer
Unfortunately, we'd probably see messages in QA asking how to address a box. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I have asked some of them if they wanted it emailed direct to their tutor to same them the effort.
One of them said yes ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I wish I actually had the time to do it, but I would like to do somone’s homework for them in such a way as to be overly complex and obscure, and obviously not written by the student.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I spent a little time on this one[^] today. Mostly because he claims (without any evidence whatsoever) that he did part 1, which is likely horseshit. But if he fills in everything that's missing, it won't be overly complex and obscure. Instead, it'll be too clean to have been done by a student.
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Why not just name two of the variables acinonyx and jubatus?
I am sure the tutor will google what they mean 
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Is this in response to the lunatic who accused you of not knowing the answer? I laughed at that one a voted you a five.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
"I wrote this in Python ... and I don't know Python"
I always find this kind of phrases comical to say the least. They always make me laugh.
I have not read any of those QA but I wonder if some of those are not someone just trying to make others waste their time like a stupid prank.
I had a colleague do that to me once, where he requested me to help him write something convoluted and, when I delivered my version, he told me he didn't needed that for anything and just wanted to see if I would waste my time implementing something that convoluted. Never helped him again.
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So here you are:
Earlier this year, a group of bikers were riding east on Rte. 378 northwest of Myrtle Beach, SC, when they saw a girl about to jump off the Great Pee Dee River Bridge. So, they stopped.
George, their leader, a big burly man of 53, gets off his Harley, walks through a group of gawkers, past the State Trooper who was trying to talk her down off the railing, and says, “Hey, Baby, whatcha doin' up there on that railin'?”
She says tearfully, "I'm going to commit suicide!”
While he didn't want to appear "sensitive," George also didn't want to miss this "be-a-legend" opportunity either, so he asked, "Well, before you jump, Babe . . . why don't you give ol' George here your best last kiss?"
So, with no hesitation at all, she got down, leaned back over the railing and did just that . . . and it was a long, deep, lingering kiss followed immediately by another even better one.
After they breathlessly finished, George, still holding onto the girl, gets a big thumbs-up approval from his biker-buddies, the onlookers, and even the State Trooper, and then says, "Wow! That was the best kiss I have ever had! That's a real talent you're wasting there, Sugar Shorts. You could be famous if you rode with me. Why are you committing suicide?"
"My parents don't like me dressing up like a girl."
It's still unclear whether she jumped or was pushed.
Will Rogers never met me.
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A Harley motorcycle mechanic was removing a cylinder head from a motor when he spotted a well-known cardiologist in his shop.
The cardiologist was there waiting for the service manager to come and take a look at his motorcycle when the mechanic shouted across the garage, "Hey Doc, want to take a look at this?"
The cardiologist, a bit surprised walked over to where the mechanic was working.
The mechanic straightened up, wiped his hands on a rag and asked, "So Doc, look at this engine. I opened its heart, took the valves out, repaired or replaced anything damaged, and then put everything back in, and when I finished, it worked just like new. So how is it that I make $48,000 a year and you make $1.7M when you and I are doing basically the same work?
The cardiologist paused, leaned over, and then whispered to the mechanic.
"Try doing it with the engine running."
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welcome back, Roger !
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Thanks, Bill! I've been around all the while, but since nobody pays me to program anymore, I don't have much to offer. But heck, you guys and gals are family!
Will Rogers never met me.
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The research team developed a new approach to classifying these hundreds of millions of galaxies. Instead of relying on crowdsourced classification, the researchers used knowledge from the state-of-the-art Xception neural network, combined with the datasets generated by the Galaxy Zoo project, to train its deep learning models. They then applied the trained model to galactic images from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) – where it achieved a 99.6% accuracy in identifying spiral and elliptical galaxies. From the Dark Energy Survey site [^] whose 3rd. year results are now being publicized as a major challenge to classical physics.
The idea modern physics is as messed up as I am brings me a strange sense of comfort 
I happen to be reading a remarkable, just published, small book by CERN physicist and cosmologist Guido Tonelli, "Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began." The detailed explication of how perspective/symmetry in Renaissance artist Giorgione's painting, "Pala," in the Castelfranco Veneto's Costanza Chapel is deliberately disrupted ... in a way relevant to modern physics is ... marvelous, even though I don't have the deeper knowledge required to fully understand it in terms of both physics, and art history  Quote: If, in the field of art, dismantling symmetry is a deliberate act that provokes fascination and astonishment, how should we explain the fact that nature seems distinctly inclined to resist succumbing to the same process?
The universe that emerges after the phase of inflation is in a state of perfection. The laws of physics that regulate it are marvellously symmetrical. Why does such a perfect mechanism shatter?
To understand the role for physics of spontaneous symmetry breaking, we can resort to a mechanical example: a pencil resting on its point on a flat surface. The initial state of the system is perfectly symmetrical. The pencil can rotate on its axis and the laws of physics are the same, because the gravitational field is symmetrical for those rotations around the vertical axis. In other words when the pencil falls flat to the surface, it will do so in any direction. The symmetrical state is unstable, and left alone the pencil will fall. On the horizontal plane the pencil is stable, but it has broken the rotational symmetry of the gravitational field because it has opted for a particular direction. Falling on the flat surface the pencil may have lost energy and symmetry, but it has gained stability and multiplicity.
Something of this kind occurred in the early universe. The initial incandescent state had a high level of symmetry, but it was unstable; as it cools down it loses symmetry but acquires stability.
But what was the state of lower energy into which this universe was placed? What mechanism could cause the electroweak symmetry to spontaneously rupture?
I found the material on ancient Indian sources, and the section titled "Day One: An Irresistible Breath Produces the First Wonder" fascinating ... Plato, Parmenides, Hesiod, the Vedas ... ain't nowhere this remarkable mind ain't been !
Amazon: [^]
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
modified 28-May-21 15:50pm.
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This is awesome. A combination of my two favorite subjects!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Hi, I've added a quote from the book ... it's at the point where Tonelli starts to use his discourse on symmetry breaking in art as a way to approach/explicate the next revolutionary step in modern physics' evolution by Higgs, et. al. ...
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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... Quote: The idea modern physics is as messed up as I am brings me a strange sense of comfort
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Is "Where do you see yourself in five to ten years?" not a good thing to hear from your trial judge?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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It depends on whether one gets elected to high office and then is sent to prison, or vice versa.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Hearing that sentence is a scary, barring any special circumstances and you trial your options without success.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Tending bar in a third-world cantina.
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I ask myself that every year. Yet I keep finding myself here.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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It's such a ridiculous question, so maybe the answer should be, "If I could foretell the future I would not be applying for this crummy job".
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Better then your cell mate saying; "Hey you're kinda cute"
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They asked me that at my last job interview. I gave my usual response:
“I would say my biggest weakness is that I don’t listen when others are talking.”
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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