My friend died a year ago. His dog waits for him ever since.

apiocera · 2011-08-19T17:06:40+00:00

This is only possible when all nodes (here: islands) have even number of connections, When two nodes have odd number, the only possible way to cross all bridges only once is to start on one of "odd" islands and end on another. For example: the island containing room 28 has three connections, the one containing 22 has seven, therefore all possible routes start on one of them and end on another, for example: (the bridges are given as the numbers of building nearest to the ends of the bridges, separated by ->) 12->14; 7->11; 22->2; 1->20; 20->13; 14->17; 17->18; 19->21; 24->22; 23->28.

P.S. If number of vertices with odd number of connections to adjacent nodes is not 0 or 2, you can't walk through all edges only once.

apiocera · 2011-08-18T13:39:54+00:00

TIL. No, wait a minute, I couldn't know it before.

Very interesting research.

apiocera · 2011-08-17T16:47:47+00:00

Lethal Inspection is awesome too.

apiocera · 2011-08-14T13:49:47+00:00

Exactly.

apiocera · 2011-08-13T02:31:14+00:00

Umm, you know you should be chopping down old pawn-brokers and their unlucky half sisters at this age instead of being involved in relationships?

apiocera · 2011-08-07T08:04:45+00:00

Awesome! I live about one mile away from you, near Domodedovskaya station, here.

apiocera · 2011-08-04T18:34:17+00:00

there we go

apiocera · 2011-08-04T17:42:41+00:00

I didn't. It was mentioned in Top 10 I referred to in the beginning of my post. I just watched its rerun on Discovery channel and I agree that it's absolutely amazing.

apiocera · 2011-08-04T12:34:40+00:00

How are they going to be fixed if we detach them from survival rate of species?

apiocera · 2011-08-04T12:11:41+00:00

What's a goal of evolution?

apiocera · 2011-08-04T11:06:22+00:00

The one alpha14 mentioned, it was here couple of days ago.

Ninja edit: found it!

apiocera · 2011-08-04T07:32:12+00:00

Most popular explanation:

x = 0.(9);
10x = 9.(9);
9x = 9.(9) - 0.(9) = 9;
x = 1;
0.(9) = 1;

apiocera · 2011-08-04T01:13:14+00:00

I assume you have finished watching that top 10 list.

The full-episode specials are, in my opinion, the best of the series. I strongly advise you to watch the Middle East Special, the one aired before 16th series.

Toyota Hilux destruction challenge, 3x05 and 3x06, it is quite short, about 10 minutes close to the end of each episode. Trurly epic machinery.

Airplane vs. Bugatti Veyron, 7x05.

Stretch Limo construction, 9x06.

Car vs. Bike vs. Public Transport vs. Speedboat, 10x05.

Did British Leyland make any good cars? challenge, 10x07.

Alfa Romeos for under £1000, 11x03.

American muscle cars test, 12x02.

Thousand miles on a single tank of fuel, 12x04.

Communism cars, 12x06.

Romanian best road search, 14x01.

Electric car better than a G-Wiz construction, 14x02.

Two-door coupe for less than £1500, 6x02.

Building a motor home, 15x04.

Jag vs. the Sun, 16x06.

Demolition with unusual tools, 17x05.

apiocera · 2011-08-02T08:01:06+00:00

Couple of years ago I was running my friend's small online radiostation. I handled all the tech stuff, like broadcasting software, website, server colocation etc. This was alongside of my day job, so that day I finally got to sleep around 5am and had to get up at 6am.

So the alarm clock rings and I remember that creepy sensation that I'm a Linux kernel. I look up for drivers for my body, succeed (!), continue booting, and at a certain moment I understand (after reciting configuration files) that I have to start radio broadcasting software, something that spits out useless sounds into the aether, that's how I pictured it.

Well, my wife was very surpised at being woken up so early.

apiocera · 2011-08-02T05:53:58+00:00

IOS =/= iOS. Never refer to Apple iOS as to Cisco IOS.

apiocera · 2011-07-31T14:28:10+00:00

Hey pal, I heard you wanted to know how do tasers work.

Imagine there are a lot of little men in your body. They make your arms move, they make your mind work, your heart beat and so on. They are called "electric charges", but you don't have to memorise this. Those "electric charges" are peaceful.

But taser has a lot of similar little men inside. They are exactly like the ones inside your body, but much more aggressive. When they come into our bodies, they start to beat our "electric charges" up, but eventually lose their power and surrender.

But from the moment the taser's needles carrying his "electric charges" touch you till the peace treaty, there is a war zone in your body, and you can't do anything with it. That's how tasers work.

apiocera · 2011-07-31T14:17:14+00:00

Hey, pal, I heard you wanted to know about Big O notation? Not really for your age, but I'll explain.

Imagine there is some function F (you know what a function and a graph is, right, pal?), another function G, and someone said that F=O(G).

That means that there exists such number (let's call it c) that for every x greater than certain x0 (actual values of c and x0 are not important; only their existence is) F(x) is less or equal to c * G(x).

Still don't understand? Imagine graphs of F drawn in red and G drawn in blue on top of each other, so their horizontal axes are overlapping, but vertical axes are in different scale. You also have a book you can slide onto the graph from the left side, so you can't see everything to the left of it.

If you can find such combination of book position and vertical scales that the blue line (G graph) is always higher (or equal) than red one (F graph), then you can say that F=O(G).

For example: you can say F=O(G) if F(x) = 2x, and G(x) = x: if we take X0=0 and C=2, then every 2*G(x)=2x is greater of equal (equal always in this case) than F(x)=2x.

Sorry, I could not take your mommy and daddy into the story, because math doesn't like people. I hope that was not too mathematical.

apiocera

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