I started going to the gym. I try to go a lift some heavy things and than swim for a while. I have to trick myself to keep swimming cause I start thinking of all the things that I'm going to have to do during the day and then I stop swimming sooner than I should.
So I started calculating squares while I was swimming.
78^2, 99^2, 56^2, etc...
Then checking them on my phone later.

So I did a couple of squares that were close together.
25^2 and 26^2.
Being a software dude, I decided there had to be a better algorithm... then I realized that 26^2 was just 25^2+25+26 = 676

I was sort of stunned.. and then figured it out for a bunch of other squares. Then realized that
(x+1)^2 = x^2 + 2x + 1

Which looks very familiar.. but I'm way too many years out of math class.
I just surprised myself while swimming back and forth in a pool.

bdc?

wow

The foil rule?

i feel much stupider than usual. thank you rev.

you need to stop smoking so much weed

I can't wait to beat you up for your lunch money, pansy.

anthony, close:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOIL_rule

W3 nli said:


weed > math.

RichHorror said:

FuckIsMySignature said:

you're out of your element donny

Geometrical Cardiovascular!

I think I need to START smoking so that I can stop.
I was also watching bird's flocking patterns the other day and figuring out a flocking algorithm for them.. like boids
http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/

Aaron what exactly do design software for?

porn

RTTP? duh!

actually, I can do just about anything in almost any language.
at work, I'm an automation engineering. someone gives me what their job is and how they do it and I make a program that does it for them. free them to do other things... like getting a new job.
that's why I can upload pictures so fast, I wrote all my own software for image processing. if I have to do something more than once, I write software to do it for me.

Hmm.. All the complex math was leading me to think computers, or missles or something... I guess porn could be a good explaination.. Thanks Mess

lately, I've been watching hex going by on an analyze and then doing encription on parts of the 1's and 0's and then sending them back..
getting a response and replying.
watching numbers blaze by the screen burns my eyes out.

Pretty nifty... You are replacing mankind with artificial inteligence basically?

i do programming for big time insurance companies. been laid off 3 times in my career. most of this stuff is outsourced to Indian contractor companies today but the pay is well worth it but i hate being laid off and worrying if i'm next. not fair i tell ya

Design programming to replace your boss, and then re-program it to give you a raise.

anonymous: have you dealt with stuff from indian? my software mostly tests hardware/firmware for switches/routers. the projects that are outsourced to indian EAT UP BAGS OF DICKS. it costs 1/5 as much on paper, but then takes them 2x as long to do it.

It's always about the bottom line rev.

its tough, because the indian programmers are only contracted for maybe 3-6mo. so when their "tour" is up they leave and new ones come in. and its back to square one with them. don't get me wrong, they are highly efficent and know their stuff but as communicators they are horrible. so its tough. "business analysts" who are not programmers but know how the system should work/good communicators are life savers in this situation.

web based software used at insurance companies have all been created here in the USA but tweaking, running, maintaining them they use indians and pay them less i assume.

indian's shoud never create user interfaces..
they always get it completely wrong and backwards.

Hey Rev, isn't that just the quadratic equation? The 'ol find the roots using (-b +||- sqrt(b^2-4ac))/2a ?

Good to see I'm not the only one spending his days automating processes with software (mostly java and perl). I get paid to piss off old guys and make their jobs obsolete.

I'm nto sure.

and I program 99% of the time in java... though my group just got combined with another group so I'll be doing a lot of *pukes* TCL/TK

I've never used Tcl/Tk, I didn't think many people did, what with the popularity of php/perl/python and all the other scripting languages. It seems like it's one of those ridiculously forgiving languages that lets you pretty much make up your own syntax and it just figures it out. Which is great if you're by yourself, but if you're in a team and you're trying to read someone else's code, good luck. Though that Tk GUI toolkit looks kinda neat.

yes it is... if you want something ugly.

I don't think your discovery has a particular name or anything fun like that. I just think you stumbled upon a practical use for expanding into polynomial form.

there are all sorts of little tricks in math that you usually just don't think of. I'm not sure that would really be a more efficient algorithm for anything but a human being. For a computer, nothing would really be quicker than the normal squaring method.

haha, when i go out running i calculate the energy that i expend into joules. not as tricky as your squares, but during the summer I also approximate the rate at which i'm losing weight from fluid loss and incorporate that into the equation. makes a nifty little related rate and since my pace is pretty steady, its actually accurate!

anonymous said:

YES....i agree. When I was working for a high tech company and they outsourced some programmers from india..communication was an issue. I'm a BA II and no matter how clear specs would be...they had issues understanding. I think it cost the company in the ling run. Now I'm a business analyst for an insurance company during the day and i know the programming group could use some programmers..dunno where you live though

I have a test on that stuff in algebra tomorrow

good luck with that.

i farted today