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Re: King of the Nerds commentary

Virgil Griffith — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 02:14:45 -0000

We all cast the deciding vote.

Re: One of my colleagues at lab just asked

Virgil Griffith — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:29:09 -0000

Actually I didn't know it was makeup! But yes, he's obviously trolling. I'm not mocking you in anyway---the question just made me laugh. Your pink hair/brows are great.

Re: Kotn write up episode 7

Virgil Griffith — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 01:38:27 -0000

It's important to breathe and calm down. Yoga helps calm that kind of anxiety, and does any other kind of mindfulness/meditation training.

Re: Virgil's tumblr chatter

Virgil Griffith — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 01:37:38 -0000

Not true! Alana was *totally down* for it. http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: Kotn write up episode 7

Virgil Griffith — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 01:00:17 -0000

Counter Strike: Global Offensive or The Showdown Effect.

Re: Virgil's tumblr chatter

Virgil Griffith — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 02:44:34 -0000

US/Customary is almost as bad as Imperial. The world would be a better place if we all just decided Metric.

Re: Points of a “Flawless” Finish

Virgil Griffith — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:14:00 -0000

No it's important to know! Thanks for telling me!

Re: Virgil's tumblr chatter

Virgil Griffith — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:17:09 -0000

Okay I guess we're doing this. Sunday 5pm Pacific Time it is!

URL to event: https://plus.google.com/eve...

Re: Booksthatmakeyoudumb: Comments

Virgil Griffith — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:15:21 -0000

No. Doing that would allow someone who contests the genre categories to contest the data. As-is, the numbers are completely independent of the genres.

Re: Beaver Scope Discussion

Virgil Griffith — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:25:37 -0000

Hi everyone!

Re: Beaver Scope Discussion

Virgil Griffith — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:13:06 -0000

Hi everyone!

Re: Booksthatmakeyoudumb: Comments

Virgil Griffith — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:09:24 -0000

First Post!

Re: http://booksthatmakeyoudumb.virgil.gr/comments.php

Virgil Griffith — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:03:44 -0000

Rachel,

Yeah -- in terms of following the trends of the Stacked graph, on second look it looks like Lolita falls better within the Classics category. Fair enough.

Many of these books are hard to classify. For example, obviously The Bell Jar isn't a really biography, but you can only have so many categories and you must do the best you can with them. As for Memoirs, there weren't enough books to give it it's own category, so they had to be crudely lumped into the closest one -- "Biography".

Re: http://booksthatmakeyoudumb.virgil.gr/comments.php

Virgil Griffith — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:42:03 -0000

Yes. I am claiming that books are so powerful they can reach through the fourth dimension.

In seriousness though, GREs are problematic because only a very skewed sample of students go on to graduate school. Furthermore, as far as I know there is no repository of average GRE scores by undergrad institution.

Re: http://booksthatmakeyoudumb.virgil.gr/comments.php

Virgil Griffith — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:17:42 -0000

Adam,

Images are now pngcrush'ed. Thanks for the tip! I owe you one.

Re: http://booksthatmakeyoudumb.virgil.gr/comments.php

Virgil Griffith — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:11:20 -0000

First Post!