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Author Topic: Your nerdy bragging rights  (Read 13697 times)

Bauglir

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Re: Your nerdy bragging rights
« Reply #30 on: October 03, 2011, 05:24:59 pm »

Um, Ted Woolsey was responsible for teaching me more about the English language than anybody else up until I started taking foreign languages in High School?

Also, I suppose I did a standard tall room with pillars a la Moria in Dwarf Fortress, carved from cast obsidian beneath a fractal dormitory paved with copper and green glass so as to resemble a tree.

Hm... I play D&D a lot and write a bunch of homebrew?
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In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.
“What are you doing?”, asked Minsky. “I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied. “Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky. “I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.
Minsky then shut his eyes. “Why do you close your eyes?”, Sussman asked his teacher.
“So that the room will be empty.”
At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.

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Re: Your nerdy bragging rights
« Reply #31 on: October 03, 2011, 05:26:09 pm »

I can name off all the episodes of MLP in order, from 1 -28.
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Re: Your nerdy bragging rights
« Reply #32 on: October 03, 2011, 05:57:22 pm »

When my biology teacher announced to the class that she was pregnant, every body told her "congratulations!". Amidst all of this, I cheered "Yay! A fellow human being has taken it upon herself to reproduce and continue our species!". More later, when I can think of it. Oh, and upon some quick and dirty calculations, I found out that at least 2 to 3 weeks of my life have been spent sitting on my butt playing video games. And I was reading at a college level in 6th grade. And I would often read 2 or more large books a day, namely the red wall series.
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Re: Your nerdy bragging rights
« Reply #33 on: October 03, 2011, 06:04:56 pm »

When my biology teacher announced to the class that she was pregnant, every body told her "congratulations!". Amidst all of this, I cheered "Yay! A fellow human being has taken it upon herself to reproduce and continue our species!". More later, when I can think of it. Oh, and upon some quick and dirty calculations, I found out that at least 2 to 3 weeks of my life have been spent sitting on my butt playing video games. And I was reading at a college level in 6th grade. And I would often read 2 or more large books a day, namely the red wall series.

I used to rip 2-3 of those a week.
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Re: Your nerdy bragging rights
« Reply #34 on: October 03, 2011, 09:01:22 pm »

Spoiler: Memory Dump (click to show/hide)
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Re: Your nerdy bragging rights
« Reply #35 on: October 03, 2011, 09:07:11 pm »

I'm a fucking programmer. That is like the alpha predator of nerds.
Your nerdiness doesn't even compare! ZARK!

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Re: Your nerdy bragging rights
« Reply #36 on: October 03, 2011, 09:08:06 pm »

What about engineers?

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« Reply #37 on: October 03, 2011, 09:10:28 pm »

Programmer is a subtype of engineer, we inherit their nerdiness.

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Re: Your nerdy bragging rights
« Reply #38 on: October 03, 2011, 09:11:08 pm »

Eh, I guess I'm learning C++ right now, but so far I'm pretty bad at it.
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Re: Your nerdy bragging rights
« Reply #39 on: October 03, 2011, 09:11:38 pm »

I'm also heading a project on a D&D optimization board to make the most invincible fighter possible without using infinite loops, with the goal of beating any wizardly counter. I'm winning.

This I have to see. I promise, I won't tell my own D&D optimization board, or even make inane comments on yours about it!
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In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.
“What are you doing?”, asked Minsky. “I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied. “Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky. “I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.
Minsky then shut his eyes. “Why do you close your eyes?”, Sussman asked his teacher.
“So that the room will be empty.”
At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.

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Re: Your nerdy bragging rights
« Reply #40 on: October 03, 2011, 09:12:22 pm »

I've spent most of my life studying.
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Re: Your nerdy bragging rights
« Reply #41 on: October 03, 2011, 09:20:42 pm »

Spoiler: Long D&D spiel (click to show/hide)
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Re: Your nerdy bragging rights
« Reply #42 on: October 03, 2011, 09:26:02 pm »

Wait! I'm a programmer too! In fact, it's going to be the major focus of my future careers! All hail programmers, for we are the alpha nerds!
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Re: Your nerdy bragging rights
« Reply #43 on: October 03, 2011, 09:30:22 pm »

I have derailed 400 level college math classes by managing to turn a single question into a tangent that lasted for up to an hour.
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Re: Your nerdy bragging rights
« Reply #44 on: October 03, 2011, 09:34:09 pm »

I found out that at least 2 to 3 weeks of my life have been spent sitting on my butt playing video games.

What, no more?  ???

Didn't mean to be rude tough, it just that I spend A LOT of my own free time to play games.  :P
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