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Yah but more "crawling" than climbing ... i.e. less vertically

I just heard from an unreliable source that the French have surrendered. Edit: Lord, I apologize for this post ... and please be with the starving pygmies down in New Guinea, amen.

It might have been a daylight savings time change that weekend. Also, the whale might have crossed the time-line at some point with Johna. I'm sure God has a perfectly good explanation since God created time to begin with

I like how things morph as they go from mouth to mouth ... upon checking and re-checking, sounds like it was more like PBS and not history channel

Anyone happen to catch it last night? I don't know much about it other than there was something on the history channel last night on the topic ... a friend of mine was asking me about it and I was like

what web search thing from what website and what you mean by msn not working?

I bought me a $10 food chopper at walmart ... I will never need a knife again! That chopper was to go along with my $8 crock pot and $6 toaster. I have made a decision not to buy anything over $10 anymore (excluding tax, license, and additional mandatory fees as they may apply. Rebate offers may be excluded and subject to different rules. Void where prohibited. Batteries not included.)

I recently bought a $10 remote control jeep for the cat. So far, she seems much more interested with the little red thing on the tip of the remote antenna than the jeep itself. She also likes to sleep in the box.

I can't wait for the Holy Ghost to inspire a Holy Computer ... You would be able to recognize it with one of these logos: http://growabrain.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/jesus_inside_1.jpg

Wow I guess so! Thanks Mos. ... Oh no it's 5AM again

Yah it's not like she just decided to give up Christianity ... what's disturbing is she chose Islam instead just to marry some guy. I don't care whether you're Allah or God but this HAS to piss you off either way.

And what's "Azat Ankax"? Is that an "Azat without a hangdown?"

Ok first off, please direct all comments about my upside down-ness to Mosjan jan. He's the one that has made me "dakn-u-vra" Second of all, Arpa, how could I forget the nick-name sip-the-dip Third of all, Armenia exporting goat cheese to US? I can just picture the faces of my coworkers when I hand them some Armenian chese with the Armenian wine (nuri gini) they already get once a year!!!! My mom was in Jones market in LA a couple of weeks ago ... called me and asked me which wine I wanted .. she said they had six of this one kind and two of the other. Of course I told her to get them all And fourth of all, thanks for the info Ed. And fifth of all, as long as the likes of Azat, Domino, and Accelerated are roaming around on this board, I don't have a chance with the available young ladies

It wasn't really from day 1. I'd say this modern concept of "love" between man and woman is not really that old ... maybe from the Renaisance days? You don't see too many squeeshy lovey dovey poetic stuff about "love love love" from much before that ... though I am certainly no expert on the subject.

I agree with Ed. I just can't understand how this guy came to be in power ... I just wonder how the people were being brainwashed before the election.

Can they actually win such a rediculous lawsuit?

What's a JMP? and Vava, Movses did that

Think of y as a guess for x. Suppose we know all x_i = 100. Then a really good guess for y = 100 since that will minimize both L1 error (sum abs(x_i - y) for all i) and L2 error (sum (x_i - y)^2 for all i) since both sums will be 0. Picking y=12 would be another choice but clearly worse than y=100 in this case Does it make sense what I mean by "pick y"? It's basically a best guess on what you think a given x_i will be. Now given any x, I think y=median(x) will minimize L1 error (among all possible y's from -inf to +inf). My question now is regarding the relative error. I think the median will also minimize the relative error but I'm not sure. As a side note, if all we knew about x is that it will be distributed uniformly from -inf to +inf (as in all possible real numbers are equally likely to occur in x), then obviously the best guess y=0.

Ever hear of Iraq?

I would be first in line to criticize the Iranians for electing a moron but look at who we have running the US.

I've been banging my head against this for a couple of days now ... I have managed to confuse myself beyond belief so if you guys can help out, I'd really appreciate it! So I have n values in the form of a vector x. Call each of them x_i where 1 <= i <=n. Suppose I had to make a guess y that minimizes "error" with respect to these n values. If "error" is sum of absolute differences, then y = median(x) does the trick, right? If "error" is sum of squares of differences, then y = mean(x) does the trick, right? If I'm mistaken so far, please correct me! NOW, I want to pick a guess that minimizes relative error. So in other words, I want to minimize: sum i=1 to n of | (x_i - y) / x_i | Forget about divide by 0 problems for now. Is there an easy way to pick y in this case?

Jug, I take back the thanks. Mosjan, thank YOU.

Artsakh, the fact is that even the poorest people here have it MUCH better than the average people in a LOT of other places. I have never been to Armenia so I can't speak about Armenia per se. But having 3 siblings one in Stanford, one in Berkeley, and one in UCLA and then claiming you can't live here in "luxury" doesn't exactly add up. There are sooo many people in the world just DREAMING of the chance to go to even just a community college here in the US and working in McDonalds and would consider that faaaaaaaar more luxurious than their wildest dreams. Yet you sit in Kerchoff patio sipping on your iced cap royale and want to proclaim they can't expect to have "luxury" here in the US? Do you even have the remotest idea where and what they are coming from? COME ON NOW!

A moment of silence for the lost Sarma ...

How do you know she doesn't? And how did you exactly conclude she "sits on her lazy ass"? That seems quite presumptuous.