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Seattle University's Jarell Flora, senior guard from Bremerton, scored just five points in an 82-61 loss to New Mexico State in the Western Athletic Conference championship game at Las Vegas on Saturday.
A victory would have advanced Seattle U (16-15) to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1969.
Flora is Seattle's second-leading scorer (14.0 points) and third-leading rebounder (4.6). He was a second-team All-WAC selection. The 6-foot-3 guard finished with 165 3-pointers in his career, fifth all-time in school history.
There's a chance Flora hasn't played his last college game as the Redhawks could be a candidate for the College Basketball Invitational, or possibly the NIT.
Jalen Carpenter (jr., Bremerton) was Weber State's leading scorer (11.8 points) and rebounder (7.9). Weber State finished 11-8, 7-8 in the Big Sky Conference.
Rhyley Callaghan (fr., South Kitsap) and Deonte Dixon (fr., Bremerton) helped Peninsula to a third-place finish at the NWAC Championships. Callaghan averaged 17.5 points, 15th in the NWAC, and was the conference's fifth-leading shooter from the free-throw line (87.2 percent). Dixon averaged 16.4 points and 4.1 rebounds.
Western Oregon's Dana Goularte (sr., South Kitsap) was a second-team All-Great Northwest Conference pick. For the second straight year, she ranked among the conference's top five in scoring (15.6 points, fifth) and rebounding (8.6, second). Goularte led the Wolves (8-18) in 13 statistical categories this season.
Krista Stabler (jr., Central Kitsap) was an honorable mention All-GNAC pick for St. Martin's. She led the Saints (11-16) in scoring (12.1 ppg) and assists (48).
Sadee Jones (sr., North Mason) was an All-Cascade Collegiate Conference first-team pick for Evergreen State. Jones averaged 15.6 points and a conference-leading 8.6 rebounds a game despite her 5-foot-6 stature. Jones had 14 double-doubles. Irene Moore (sr., King's West/Olympic College) was a reserve guard for Geoducks (16-10). Brittany Gray (sr., Bainbridge/Skagit Valley) averaged 15.9 points and 9.3 rebounds in 12 games before using up her eligibility.
Ashli Payne (so., Olympic HS) and Sawyer Kluge (fr., Bremerton) helped Umpqua to a 27-5 record and third-place finish at the NWAC Championships. Payne, who is playing in the NWAC All-Star games on Sunday at Clackamas, Ore., averaged 17.8 points (5th in the NWAC), 10 rebounds (4th), 4.3 assists (8th) and 2.1 steals (18th). Kluge averaged 14.7 points (18th) and was seventh in the conference in free-throw shooting (81.6 percent).
Shane Matheny (fr., Olympic HS) is the starting third baseman at Washington State. Matheny was hitting .229 with a home run and seven RBI going into Saturday's Pac-12 game at USC. He had started all 17 games for the Cougars (11-6).
Central Washington first baseman Kasey Bielec (sr., North Mason) was 9-for-15 in a four-game series against Northwest Nazarene and it hitting .397 with four HRs and 16 RBI for the Wildcats (12-10). Infielder Tanner Romo (jr., South Kitsap/Everett CC) is a backup infielder at CWU.
Catcher Curtis Windung (jr., North Kitsap) is hitting .243 with a home run for Pacific Lutheran (14-6).
Tyler Ludlow (fr., South Kitsap), a first baseman, is hitting .292 (7-24) with a double for Jamestown (N.D.). Nick Torres (fr., Bremerton) is also playing for the Jimmies (8-4). Torres has a save and 6.23 ERA in 4.1 innings after appearing in three games in relief.
Arory Milyard (so., North Kitsap) is a relief pitcher at Whitworth (11-8). He's got a 6.97 ERA after six appearances and 10.1 innings (10 strikeouts, 4 walks, 13 hits, 8 earned runs).
Alissa Buss (so., South Kitsap) and Erin Kinney (so., Bainbridge) are holding down the left side of the infield for Linfield (11-5). Buss, playing shortstop, is hitting .441 (26-for-59) with a double and triple. Kinney, a third baseman, is hitting .306 (15-49) with a home run and 9 RBI.
Emma Keller (fr., North Kitsap) was hitting .353 (12-34 with 2 doubles) for the NAIA Jamestown (N.D.) Jimmies (10-8). She has made two pitching appearance and had a 14.8 ERA for 5.2 innings of work. Kalea Chapman (jr., Juneau, Alaska/Olympic College) is a backup utility player for the Jimmies.
UNLV's Carl Jonson (sr., Bainbridge) tied for 43rd at the Southern Highlands Collegiate Masters, which was played at Southern Highlands Golf Club in Las Vegas this week. UNLV finished 10th in a field that included 10 of the top 25 teams in the country. Jonson ranks No. 168 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings, down 12 spots from the previous week.
UCLA's Erynne Lee (sr., Central Kitsap) is coming off a victory in the Bruin Wave Classic and is off until the Liz Murphy Collegiate Championship, which begins March 27 in Athens, Ga. Lee's victory boosted her from No. 55 to No. 29 in the women's World Amateur Golf Rankings.


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Master bread baker Klecko combines decades of international baking experience with a lifelong love of dogs to bring you a straightforward, no-nonsense cookbook that puts your dog's tastes first.
Master bread baker Klecko combines decades of international baking experience with a lifelong love of dogs to bring you a straightforward, no-nonsense cookbook that puts your dog's tastes first.
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Comicsdestroyer Paul Pope is a true renaissance man, visiting SDCC this year as a DJ instead of just cartooning genius. We talked to him about DJing, music, comics, "pure" fantasy and why kids need new heroes.
If anyone else in comics was doing a DJ set, I'd be much more cynical and think that's just something they're doing to show off. But for you, it makes sense; you've always ignored boundaries and been more of a "communicator" than "comic artist" or "cartoonist" or whatever.
Yeah, especially since falling in with these guys, Eclectic Method. I mean, they're really pro and we're all friends, so there's a chance there to start doing parties, like my friends at Dark Igloo, they're sort of a creative design group... Long story short, over the years I've met a lot of people who do proper event planning, for places like MoMA, you know, big parties for liquor sponsors and film releases and stuff like that, so I've been able to move into that world and do public events with those guys, things for audiences. It seems like a natural fit.
So is this a different way of expression for you? Are you using different muscles, is it less personal expression and more just getting people dancing? Or is this the same thing for you as drawing, writing, creating a comic strip?
For me, it's just sharing music that I'm into, you know? The Eclectic Method guys, they really bring a party - They've done some really big shows. We've done some big ones here in New York, like 250, 500 people. They always say that my sets are like festival set at five in the morning. Someone else described it as like a
shot in the nuts from a lazer beam in the Cantina bar. I like rock, stuff like that.
So what sort of music are people going to hear, when you play?
I'm not entirely sure, to be honest. I've got a few mash-ups I've done. I just play stuff I'm really into... I always like opening a night, because it's early enough, people are just getting to the party...
There's less pressure...
Yeah, it's a chance for people to meet and greet. It's a great thrill to hear music you love, loud. It's a lot of fun.
Yeah, it's great to see people respond to it, especially if they've never heard it before. When you can see them get into it, you see them get it.
Yeah, absolutely. I'm really into, everybody now loves 80s punk bands like the Clash or Joy Division, but I'm into early Nick Cave...
Like The Birthday Party?
Yeah, and there's a lot of splinter groups that came out of the Birthday Party that never quite got bigger. I'm into more obscure things, like '80s Berlin... I play off a laptop because you can store, like, four days worth of music on there. I do want to say that the guys I'm playing with, they do a lot of... It's one of those things that has to be seen to be experienced. They do what they call "video mash-up," everything they do is run through a video mixing board, so they do this crazy, hyper-media-conscious mash-up music, using everything from images from Sesame Street to Jay-Z to The Colbert Report. They do crazy stuff, but they make it work, so people love it. They've done some big things for people like the Bob Marley estate and for Motown, so if there's anybody I could be doing stuff with... I feel really comfortable with these guys. They're British, so they know a lot of the music I'm into, but they turn it into something different. There's a visual tie-in with comics, so it makes sense I'd be involved with something like this.
This thing has gone all over the place. I did this print for Coke Zero, it's going to press in the morning. That's what I'm working on today, we're doing the (color) separations, I'm working with the guys at the press. So primarily, I'm in comics and comic storytelling, but I do like to work in other media.
I think from reading PulpHope, you can see that the language of comics informs your "fine art," for want of a better way of putting it, your screenprints and everything else, but then the processes in doing those feeds back into your comic work. Is it the same for music?
Oh yeah, definitely. I'm a real champion of breaking down this distinction between "high" and "low" (art), that's a conceit that benefits galleries and dealers.
Have you read Bill Drummond? He's a big believer in the idea that "low art" is what people want to see and read and listen to, and so it's more important than "high art"...
It's an interesting thought, that's cool.
Is that kind of thinking what led you to do the clothing last year with DKNY Jeans?
Yeah, I think so. And anytime I get a chance to push the medium in new directions, push the... I don't know, the cause of comics, you could say, then I go for that. I hadn't done something like that before, so I thought it was interesting.
Does it all come back to comics for you? Are things like that experiences that you grab to help make your comics better?
I hope so. When I was growing up, there was such a strong division. There was a choice to be like a mainstream, Jim Lee, John Byrne type cartoonist, or you'd have to be an indie cartoonist...
It's such a weird distinction now, and with things like DC's Wednesday Comics, you're working in the same book as Brian Azzarello, Dave Gibbons... You look at something like that and you just see such a celebration of comics, not just a particular "kind" of comics.
Yeah, that's a thrill. It's a chance to do something that's classically pulp. It's very influenced by something like Flash Gordon or some of the great European comics coming out of the '70s and '80s. I thought this was a chance to take something people kind of think of as a B-list character (Adam Strange, the archeologist-turned-science hero of Pope's Strange Adventures strip), even though he has a lot of potential and a lot of interesting things about him, and try to give him a sandblast, come up with something different.
What's it like working in that format, with the big page to go wild on?
The originals are huge. They take a long time to finish. There's an interesting puzzle putting a page like that together, it takes a little time to consider how to get as much information into one page as possible. I feel like everyone's really doing strong work... I couldn't turn it down, when they offered it. I feel like everyone is stepping out of their (comfort zone), like Ryan Sook is clearly doing a great tribute to Prince Valiant.
Yeah, and in your strip, I see callbacks to European comics. I don't know if it's intentional of not, but I see a lot of Heavy Metal in there.
No, there is, (European creators like Manara and Moebius) have laid the groundwork in the same way that you might say that (Frank) Miller has over here, or Jack Kirby. There's a lot to be learned from spending some time with those guys. So that's a good thing.
So, do you see yourself as part of that continuity?
(Understanding Comics) Scott McCloud thinks I'm an "Internationalist", in terms of where I fit in in the big picture. Coming from McCloud, I think that's a good thing.
That makes sense, you have a very individual sensibility, but it's one that's informed by so many different cultural influences.
Yeah, and it's a sincere (influence). I really do love all the different traditions of comics. I have my tastes, there are a lot of things I don't like, but... When I approach a page, it usually takes a lot longer than I expect, which I know irritates the hell out of my editors, but I'm really competitive with myself, I try to do the best I can so that when I finish a page, it stays finished, you know (Laughs)?
You asked earlier where I see myself... After finishing Batman (Year 100), I've really come to embrace fantasy and escapism and its value. I really feel like, in a large sense, the work I'm doing now is a big project that I've committed to, and Adam Strange is one of the first manifestations. It's a real embrace of classic pulp, sincere, no tongue in cheek: Adam Strange is the hero and the bad guys are bad, and I'm just trying to put as much imagination on the page as I can. And that's how I approached the early days of THB, my imagination was unbridled, I didn't have a lot of responsibilities in life, I didn't have a lot of contacts in the industry, I didn't have a lot of perspective of what other people think of my work. I just did work to please myself. It didn't cost a lot to live in Columbus, Ohio, at the time.
Do you think you became too aware of your audience at some point?
No, I think it's more that you want to try things because you think that they'll work. I think everybody in the freelance and creative world is concerned about what people think because you want to make the next paycheck, so you try to be strategic about the balance between personal and professional. Sometimes, getting involved in projects, like, for example, working in Japan was a wonderful experience. Not a lot of the work got published, but I walked away from it with a very interesting skill set, despite the fact that, after five years, very little of it saw print. So, it's a strange thing when you look back on it.
It's strange because, something like 100%, I think is one of the best, most interesting science fiction stories I'd read in years...
...So it's interesting to hear you say that Adam Strange is a return to a purer science fiction.
When I did that book, I was between 30 and 33, and I felt like I really wanted to tell an honest story, and I thought, what do I know about in life, what can I say that's true? At the time, I couldn't approach genre with confidence, I wanted to express something and do it through genre.
Also, at the time I had just read Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick, which is one of my favorite science fiction books, and it's such a subtle book. It was a really eye-opening read. It's not like later Dick, it's not like Valis, before he's working from a strictly-paranoid perspective.
I think early Dick works in the same way as 100%, in that it can work even if you don't like science fiction, because you can still empathize with the characters.
I really believe that, in a kind of philosophical sense. As long as we have five, maybe six, senses, as long as we live to be 80, maybe 100 years old, we can't pass on wisdom generation to generation. Everything has to be learned. That's why we keep having wars, that's why all the good, all the bad repeats. As much as we can share tradition, as much as we have the Magna Carta, exploration, conquests... These are things that we share as a culture. But on a deeper level, until people can transcend where memory is longer, or longevity is somehow expanded, we don't have the experience that a 200 year old man would have. But in 200 years, I have a pretty good feeling that there's still going to be boy meets girl, boy loses girl, there's still going to be sex, there's still going to be love.
Those are eternal experiences. There's always going to be someone who's 30, 33, 35, and going through the same things that you were at that time.
Yeah, I think about that a lot, because I'm sort of perplexed at how childhood seems so fresh and so new. It's easier to remember a vivid detail from something that happened when you were eight or nine years old rather than something that happened eight or nine weeks ago, you know? I think that, as you get older, you start to anticipate responses from experience, and I think when you're a kid, you don't have that. You've not even done anything. So everything's dreamlike, it's new. I think artists are able to hold onto that. For me, it's become a way to function in life, to not become overwhelmed by experience that will bring it down.
Is that one of the reasons you're doing your young adult book Battling Boy?
Yeah, I wanted to create a new superhero. I sort of thought, after working on Kavalier & Clay and spending so much time with Michael Chabon, really delving into the classics, the history of Superman and Batman, that superheroes really represent wish fulfillment in society, and (wondered) what superhero doesn't exist now, that people want. And I thought, a child protector.
I think children know that they're not safe in the world. They know there's abductions, they know there's war. There's this vague sense of things called bills, or taxes. There's a sense of things to figure out, so I wanted to come up with a kid who was a child defender.
It's really great to be in this position, working on this project with First Second. There's a lot of work to do, in the near future to finish the project and really get it going. And now there's a film in development, and that's another layer. It's been pretty amazing, it's really grown and developed. I can't wait to get it out there. There's a lot of cool characters in the book, good guys and bad guys. It has elements of superheroes, elements of horror, it's definitely got humor in it.
Are you working on the movie as well?
I'm working on the film as well. The writer who's currently working on the film is Alex Tse, who wrote Watchmen, we were up working til 1am on the script. I'm kind of a consultant.
Is there a date set?
No, there's a lot of stuff to do. It's not in development hell, we're moving along, but one thing I'm learning about this film stuff is that there's so many things that can happen, positively and negatively, outside your control. You could hand in a perfect script, and then the economy tanks, or the studio comes in and doesn't like what you're doing...
Does that make you appreciate the freedom in comics more?
Yeah, it definitely does, but I wouldn't want to choose one or the other. It does make me love comics, because you can have a really cool idea and just do it, you don't have to spend a lot of money to do it.
Paul will be DJing at the PopCult party at Onyx/Thin (852 5th Avenue) in San Diego on Saturday night, beginning at 9pm. Other performances include Eclectic Method, DJ Intel, Murs, Hollywood Holt and Rob Roy, with a live art performance throughout by Jim Mahfood, Dumperfoo, Mike Huddleston and Scott Morse. Entrance is a $5 donation to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, and if you need more reason to attend, the limited edition Coke Zero print Paul talked about above is being given free to the first 300 people there.
Thanks to Jeff Newelt for setting this up.


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Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, appearing disheveled and fidgety, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to 30 counts of using a weapon of mass destruction stemming from the Boston Marathon bombing.
Tsarnaev, 19, turned and looked repeatedly into the full-house crowd that assembled in federal court here as he entered not guiilty pleas to 30 counts stemming from the Boston Marathon bombing. He spoke in a Russian accent.
Tsarnaev was wearing a partially unbuttoned orange jumpsuit and a black t-shirt. He looked over his right shoulder as if to see who was there. Judge Marianne Bowler said that present were 30 victims of the bombing and family members.
He wore a cast on his left arm and hand and displayed a crooked smile to two sisters, both in Muslim garb, seated in the courtroom.
The arraignment was his first public appearance since he was arrested April 19.
Public defender Judy Clarke tried to enter a single "not guilty" plea on Tsarnaev's behalf and have it apply to all counts in the indictment. But Bowler asked that Tsarnaev speak for himself and that all the charges be read aloud.
Flanked by his two attorneys, Tsarnaev said only two words – "not guilty" – repeating them seven times as prosecutors read the charges against him. Each of the 30 counts could bring a life-in-prison sentence. Seventeen are also eligible for the death penalty if the government decides to seek capital punishment.
Tsarnaev looked unable to sit still in the courtroom. His hair was long and unkempt. His eyes appeared irritated; the skin around them was dark. His jaw functioned awkwardly. When he looked over his shoulder at portions of the crowd, he repeatedly shifted his jaw and mouth to the right side of his face.
His voice, however, was strong. Soon after his arrest, concerns had surfaced that his throat might have undergone permanent injury in confrontations with police. He spoke with an accent reflective of his ethnic Chechen heritage. He spoke clearly and loudly.
Hours before the hearing, Tsarnaev arrived at the federal courthouse in a four-vehicle motorcade.
Several of the charges could bring the death penalty for Tsarnaev, 19, accused in the April 15 blasts that killed three people and wounded more than 200. Tsarnaev also is accused of killing an MIT police officer.
His brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed in a shootout with police following a massive manhunt three days after the bombings. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured the next day — wounded and bloodied from the shootout — after a Watertown homeowner noticed blood on his dry-docked boat. Police found the suspect hiding inside.
Authorities say the brothers were inspired by al-Qaeda publications and that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left a confession in the boat justifying the bombings as payback for U.S. military action in Muslim countries.
He wrote that the U.S. government was "killing our innocent civilians."
"I don't like killing innocent people," he said, but also wrote: "I can't stand to see such evil go unpunished. … We Muslims are one body, you hurt one you hurt us all."
Tsarnaev's arrest stunned those who knew him as a likable high school athlete in Cambridge, Mass., where he lived with his older brother after his parents left for Russia.
The indictment also said that, sometime before the bombings, Tsarnaev downloaded Internet material from Islamic extremists that advocated violence against the perceived enemies of Islam.
Three people — Martin Richard, 8, Krystle Marie Campbell, 29, and Lingzi Lu, 23 — were killed by the bombs, which were improvised from pressure cookers. Authorities say the Tsarnaevs also killed Massachusetts Institute of Technology officer Sean Collier days later while they were on the run.
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No need to stop if you don't want to, of course.
Here's an interesting discussion about Graham's number, the proof in which it appeared (it was used as a bound), and some disentangling of truth and semi-truth:
Certainly we can construct larger numbers. Graham's number is special in that it actually came up as the solution (or an upper bound) to a problem Graham was trying to solve.
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That's good for Graham, I guess – always satisfying to get to an answer :).
Doesn't it depend on the problem though? Isn't it possible to ask new questions which result in bigger answers? What was the biggest number before Graham came up with his?
Jesska, here's the relevant quotation, which is non-technical:
"I talked to Ronald Graham last night at the Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Diego and asked him the question here. He said he'd made up Graham's number when talking to Martin Gardner because 1) it was simpler to explain than his actual upper bound, the one that appears in his paper with Rothschild, and 2) it's bigger, so it's still an upper bound!"
In other words, the actual number in the proof wasn't as large as the now-famous Graham's number, but the actual upper bound Graham DID use in that proof is harder to explain than is Graham's number.
Now, the issue of "understanding" Graham's number is more a matter of how many times you want to try to wrap your head around a way to build some number that is growing at rates so dizzyingly fast that you lose track of what's happening pretty quickly (or lose concentration or motivation or all of these things).
It's like googolplex. A googol is 1 followed by one hundred zeros. That's a ludicrously big number, but we have scientific notation to write it briefly, namely 10^100.
A googolplex is 1 with a GOOGOL of zeros. That is, 10^googol or reverting to the previous representation of a googol, 10^(10^100). As big as a googol is, a googolplex is just ridiculously big.
Borrowing from Wikipedia, "A typical book can be printed with 106 zeros (around 400 pages with 50 lines per page and 50 zeros per line). Therefore, it requires 1094 such books to print all the zeros of a googolplex (that is, printing a googol of zeros). If such a book would weigh 100 grams, all of them would weigh 1093 kilograms. In comparison, Earth's mass is 5.972 x 1024 kilograms, and the mass of the Milky Way Galaxy is estimated at 2.5 x 1042 kilograms."
Now, Graham's number is so much bigger than a googolplex as to make comparison pretty much meaningless. You and I would not be able to wrap our heads around it in any meaningful way, and yet if you patiently go back to how this number is CONSTRUCTED, it's not really "hard" to follow the steps. It certainly doesn't require any advanced mathematics, just the willingness to engage in a process that for almost anyone has no useful purpose.
Multiplication: Not repeated addition!
This is the coolest and simplest "proof" as to why this doesn't work I've seen, though there are others (fractions, I think, are another good example): Let's multiply -2 by -6.
Well, let's use repeated addition. -6 added together two times is…minus 12.
That doesn't work.
The best term I've seen used to define what multiplication actually is is "The scaling of numbers".
Sorry, your article is great! I had just read up a little on this awhile back and I think it's too cool a factoid not to mention.
(Sorry, unthinking mistake in my comment – negative 6 added together NEGATIVE two times would be 6. Still not the right answer.)
You should start counting at 0, not -6. Add 12 to 0 and you get the correct answer: 12. Add 12 to -6 and you get your answer, 6. Multiplication is, in this case at least, repeated addition.
"Multiplication Is Repeated Addition" (aka MIRA) is one of my favorite cans of worms. I blogged about it multiple times, initially thinking that Stanford's Keith Devlin had gotten himself in over his head regarding teaching K-5 mathematics when he wrote a series of columns on this issue, then changing my mind rather thoroughly:
Your and Devlin's assertions that the Peano axioms are "not, as are the number systems already mentioned, a descriptive axiom system that tells us how to work within it" seems to me to be completely backwards. If you handed me the complete ordered field axioms and two real numbers and asked me to multiply them, I'd have no idea how to do it, unless one of them was 1 or 0. In contrast, if you gave me the Peano axioms and two (standard) natural numbers, I would know exactly how to multiply them — by repeated addition, which is in turn defined in terms of repeated succession.
Canary, Devlin is the one who makes that assertion about the Peano postulates. I repeat it to make the point that he's not recommending that K-5 teachers start teaching it to their students. That's the extent of my interest in Peano regarding this particular issue: people trying to put Devlin in the category of some "New Math" folks from the '60s, which he decidedly isn't.
As to what an adult would do with Peano, it's an argument in which I have no skin. There's no instance of the phrase "descriptive axiom system" online other than in Devlin's columns and other references to them, so it's debatable what that "officially" means. You could, of course, write to Professor Devlin.
I think we should start with:
Consider the set N_0 such that:
0 is in N,
+ is a function from N to N\0 such that + is an injection…
And do away with all of that arbitrary one, two, three, and base ten crap we teach to kindergartners these days.
Terrific idea, Doug. You get to work on that. While you're busy, you might (not) want to check out the work of V. V. Davydov on a primary grade mathematics curriculum that starts with measurement rather than counting. Versions of it are still in use in Russia, and there are a couple of mathematicians and mathematics educators here in the US who've developed materials based on Davydov's work (e.g., Susan Addington in California, the late Jean Schmittau in New York, several folks at the University of Hawaii, Peter Moxhay in Maine, etc.).
If anyone is interested in a constructive conversation on these issues, I'd be happy to engage. More of the predictable sarcasm will be ignored.
It's a poor way of looking at it, but you can still get to the correct answer using if you still want to consider it in that fashion.
to calrify
2×6 = 0 + (+6) + (+6) = 12
2x-6= 0 + (-6) + (-6) = -12
-2x-2= 0 – (-6) – (-6) = 12
So you can see the negative applies to both -6 values, and it is still straight forward addition/subtraction -(-6)-(-6)=12
Or if it helps you visualise it think in terms of adding/subtracting vectors. A deceleration twice as strong in the opposite direction is the same thing as an acceleration (x2)
I've bumped into Graham's number before. A good thing to know is that Ron Graham is a very skilled juggler. He'd have to be, don't you think? 🙂
Bahahahaha. I read the whole post and still ?????? I knew better since being mathematically challenged is hereditary. Its a family problem.
I wouldn't worry overly much. There is virtually no chance that you'll ever need to understand Graham's number.
I have a couple of blog post about sharing Graham's number with kids. It was fun topic and the boys really enjoyed it. Playing around with the last digits was really neat.
I guess it kind of depends on what you include as a "number," but I like the Church-Kleene ordinal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_countable_ordinal
Here's an interesting even bigger – waaaay bigger – number: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruskal%27s_tree_theorem
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Have you thought of doing some with the distance formula using square roots?
This math concept reminded me of God!
Can you recommend any good sites that teaches algebra and precalculus?
I do not know the details, but there's a citation on MathOverflow that says that Graham's Number is not the largest number ever used in a paper. Now, maybe that's different from "used in a proof"? Anyway, I thought it relevant to pass along. Here's the quote from the MathOverflow page:
Though irrelevant to Tim's question, Graham's number is small potatoes compared to some of the numbers cooked up by Harvey Friedman, e.g., his paper Long finite sequences, JCT(A) 95 (2001), 102-144.
I question Mr. Goldenberg's August 16th 2016 posting to Jesska about describing a Googleplex (from Wikipedia's page). If a book contains 10^106 number of zeroes and you multiply it by 1094, isn't that just 10^106 times (approx) 10^3? 1st Law of Exponents tells us that this is only 10^109 power. There is not enough paper or space on our planet to actually write out 10^10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.


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cat on a hot tin roof? :)ReplyDelete
Cats do luv their high perches!ReplyDelete
I think somebody is looking for a fresh fat bird! The cats at home get up in the pine trees and sometimes they have to jump down. They will look for birds or to get away from pupsReplyDelete
Just days ago I took a kitty on a roof photo in the Liguria region of Italy. It seems cats are always finding the most superb bits of sunshine and the best views. Topaz and Mr. Midnight have it nailed.ReplyDelete
Very cute cat! Mine just stays inside, but it is time for me to get some barn cats...ReplyDelete
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TMZ reports DJ Cassette informed the crowd that the EDM superstar was in the hospital. The artist was all set to take the stage and do his things with deck and no advance announcement was made of his cancelation, so his medical ailment seems to have been a sudden one.
The SLS gig was a big deal. The luxury hotel was even rebranded itself to feature his name as part of their partnership, which is pretty maj, so that had to be a disappointment for fans and the higher ups at the venue.
The gig was scheduled as a warmup show in advance of this weekend's much-anticipated Ultra Music Festival, which is essentially an EDM summit.
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Curiously enough, not a single professor from the Wharton School, one of the most prestigious business schools of the US, which is part of the University of Pennsylvania, was a signatory to this letter.
Modi was invited by the Forum to deliver the keynote address at its annual conference on March 23 via video conference but it was cancelled less than 50 hours after three Indian-American professors from the University of Pennsylvania organised and sent a petition signed by about 135 people.
The number of petitioners had jumped to more than 250 by last night, according to one of the authors of the petition campaign.
"It is the result of the pressure that we were able to bring over the organisers (Wharton India Economic Forum) in the last two days. I am very very proud of Wharton as well as the Penn University. But it still concerns us that he was invited in the first place," Toorjo Ghosh, Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, one of the three professors, told PTI.
Ania Loomba, the Catherine Bryson Professor of English and Suvir Kaul, the A M Rosenthal Professor of English were the other two professors to have instantly organised the campaign after exchange of some emails Friday night.
"There was not one Wharton Professor who signed onto this letter. They were not involved till we brought on the pressure. The pressure was brought by a bunch of faculty members at the Penn, and also some community members, some attorneys," Ghosh said, acknowledging that this was quite strange.
"I think it is strange. This could have been for a number of reasons," he said.
Organisers of the annual Wharton India Economic Forum (WIEF) confirmed that it was the petition that was basically instrumental in reversing their decision on Modi.
"Only one petition to our knowledge," Tanmay Mishra, on behalf of the WIEF said.
"Mr Modi's office was informed before the press statement," he said in response to another question.
"Our team felt that the potential polarising reactions from sub-segments of the alumni base, student body, and our supporters, might put Mr Modi in a compromising position, which we would like to avoid at all costs, especially in the spirit of our conference's purpose," the WIEF organising committee said yesterday in a statement.
Asserting that it stands by its decision to invite Modi, the organising committee said it believes that this course of action would be the most appropriate in light of the reactions of the multiple stakeholders involved.
"Therefore, we as a team, would like to apologise for being a catalyst that may have put Mr Modi and the Wharton School administration in an difficult position," the statement said.
Arguing that they do not endorse any political views and do not support any specific ideology, the statement said their goal as a team is only to stimulate valuable dialogue on India's growth story, and to act as a forum where students and audiences interact with influential leaders from across India.
The student organising body was extremely impressed with Mr Modi's credentials, governance ideologies, and leadership, which was the primary reason for his invitation, the statement said.
"However, as a responsible student body within the University of Pennsylvania, we must consider the impact on multiple stakeholders in our ecosystem," the organising committee explained.
"Mr Modi's keynote address at Wharton India Economic Forum has been cancelled," the Wharton India Economic Forum said in a statement, which was welcomed by the organisers of the petition campaign.
"I think one of the things that concerns us and continues to be is an attempt by a number of folks from his (Modi's) camp as well as some camps in the business community trying to differentiate and distinguish between his economic policies versus his human rights records," Ghosh said.
"We believe that the two are absolutely connected and that is the reason why Gujarat has developed in a way it has," he said.
Ghosh, who besides his teaching, works among the poor and slums in India.
Having got what he wanted, Ghosh said he and his team would continue to "expose" Modi.
"I think it is important to keep talking about what development is. The model that Narendra Modi has put forward is seriously flawed and is based on some extremely egregious flouting of human rights. That is his economic model," Ghosh said.
"Gujarat has some of the worst human development index report. We need to unpack this rhetoric what development is. We will continue to do that," he added.
The anti-Modi petition said that it was incomprehensible to the signatories that this was the man who the Wharton India Economic Forum wished to celebrate as an exemplar of economic and social development.
"We find it astonishing that any academic and student body at the University of Pennsylvania can endorse ideas about economic development that are based on the systematic oppression of minority populations, whether in India or elsewhere," the petition said.
"Mr Modi still does not have a US visa to enter the US, but Wharton plans to present him on Skype to the audience. Recently there have been efforts to whitewash Modi's grim record and to grant him international respectability. Wharton's invitation lends itself to doing just that," the signatories of the petition argued.
"We urge the Wharton India Economic Forum to revoke their invitation to Narendra Modi. If it does not do not do so, we pledge to protest his presence--virtual as it will be, given that he remains ineligible for a US visa, in a variety of ways, including at the meeting of the Forum," the signatories said in the petition.
"We will also do all that we can to continue to educate our community about the incalculable and continuing harm done by Modi's brand of politics to the secular values enshrined in India's constitution," they said.
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There are two reasons the console port of Diablo III, announced by Blizzard last month and shown off at PAX East this weekend, could be the definitive version of the game.
The first reason is obvious: you can play offline. You don't have to worry about server errors or Time Warner Cable while playing this incarnation of Blizzard's action-RPG.
Reason #2 is harder to understand without getting your hands on the PlayStation 3 version of the third Diablo, but it becomes obvious almost as soon as you do: Diablo III feels much, much better on a controller than it does on a mouse and keyboard.
Put the pitchforks down, folks. I was skeptical too. I spent many, many hours in the demon-infested hells of Diablo II (and a few more with Diablo III), and for a while, I figured a console version would never work. When I think Diablo, I think "click, click, click."
But after just a few minutes with Diablo III on PS3—which trades in the clicking for nudging, jiggling, and mashing—I almost wish this series had been built for controllers all along.
I know. Blasphemy. Really, though, it feels like a different game: I hopped on a demo at PAX East this morning, loaded up a Demon Hunter, and wandered through one of the dungeons, flinging arrows and firing energy bolts as I danced my way around a mob of enemies. And it felt good. Surprisingly good.
To play this version, you move around with the left joystick while using the colored buttons to attack monsters and interact with the world. On the PS3 controller, you can assign attacks to R1 and all four of the colored buttons. You use L1 (and, I believe, L2) for potions. There's also a new evade command: you can use the right joystick to roll around and dodge enemy attacks.
The takeaway here is that you can move and attack simultaneously, instead of hammering your left mouse button to do just about everything. For a ranged attacker like the Demon Hunter, this is near-revolutionary. It feels graceful. Natural. More like you're inhabiting your character and less like you're guiding them from above.
Worth noting: this is the first Blizzard-developed console game in 20 years. You might remember console ports of the first StarCraft and Diablo—for Nintendo 64 and PlayStation 1, respectively—but those were built by external companies. This one is all in house.
Likely you have questions. I did too. So after playing the Diablo III demo this morning, I headed to a back room to chat with Joshua Mosqueira and Matthew Berger, both designers on the DIII port.
My first question: is this the best version of the game?
"They're both our kids," Mosqueira said. "The thing to keep in mind is that they're different."
How diplomatic. Ever the good parents, Mosqueira and his team don't want to admit that one of their games is more successful than the other, but I suspect they have private conversations about how much better it feels to play something like Diablo III on a PlayStation controller.
I asked Berger and Mosqueira about a number of other subjects, from next-gen consoles to server issues. Let's go through them.
What's new? Other than the obvious—the whole "new console" thing—Blizzard says they've overhauled the boss battles, making them feel more like the sprawling fights you'd see in an action-RPG on your Xbox or PlayStation.
"We know that there's a huge tradition of boss battles on console games," said Berger. "We're going through bosses and updating visuals, cinematics. Also, the pacing."
The item system has also been revamped, and you can now see whether an item will boost your stats even before you pick it up. Your inventory, character, and quests pages are now all tabs of one menu screen, accessible via the select button on the PS3 version. And you equip items through a radial menu rather than a ragdoll screen.
"We don't want to simplify the game," Mosqueira said. "We just want to streamline the experience."
So just how much is new? Says Berger: "If you played it on PC, you should expect it to feel familiar, but you should also expect to be surprised." Okay!
Fans have already shown some anger at this port—one message board user theorized that the PC version of Diablo III was actually a "beta" for this one. I asked the designers if that was true. Their answer: no.
This version of Diablo III won't connect to Battle.net, so don't expect any sort of cross-play between your PS3 and PC. Instead, you'll use the PlayStation Network infrastructure to play online. You can also play co-op with four people in your living room. No split screen, though—"The last thing we want to do is make your nice big TV into four smaller TVs," says Berger.
Interestingly, when you're playing co-op, the looting system will go old-school. While in Diablo III on PC every player sees their own items and doesn't have to worry about anyone else ganking them, on consoles, while playing co-op, you'll all swim in the same treasure pool.
"Loot drops a bit more, but everybody gets to share it," said Berger. "So if he picks up your bow, you can just punch him. We let the players police themselves."
No real word on PlayStation 4 just yet. Blizzard's designers wouldn't talk next-gen consoles—the PR representative sitting in on our interview shut down any and all PS4-related questions—but they did seem excited about putting Diablo on Sony's next console.
Are there really people who still haven't played Diablo III? Last we heard, Blizzard said they sold 12 million copies of the controversial game. So I was skeptical: just how many PS3 owners who might be interested in Diablo III haven't already played it on PC?
"Just judging by the number of people coming by our booth," Mosqueira said, "at least 50% of the people haven't played Diablo III."
They're not worried about Error 37 this time around. "Our plan is to be 100% ready," said Berger.
No news on expansion packs, or how they'd work on consoles. "Right now we're focusing on getting the core game out," Mosqueira said. "We still need to figure out exactly how we'll handle DLC and that kind of stuff."
Blizzard is known for their frequent patches and content updates, which might seem like a difficult thing to pull off on consoles, but Mosqueira said they've had extensive conversations with Sony about the importance of flexible patching in a game like Diablo III, and that Sony is on board.
What took so friggin' long? It seems like Blizzard has been talking about bringing Diablo to consoles for quite a few years now, but according to Mosqueira, development didn't really kick into gear until last year, after Diablo III shipped on PC. So what were they doing until then?
"What took the longest is finding the team," Mosqueira said. "We have a stringent process, an interview gauntlet that can take up to six months. The core of the console team were all hired specifically 'cause of their console backgrounds."
When's it coming out? "Soon-ish," Mosqueira said.
"When it's ready," added Berger. "On Blizzard time, because it's a Blizzard game, and we're treating it like any other game."
Any other consoles? Blizzard's designers were coy about this one.
"Step one is making it awesome for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4," said Mosqueira. "We don't have any other announcements at this moment, aside from 'stay tuned.'"
So if Diablo III really can be played offline... The PC version of Diablo III was online-only. The console version of Diablo III has an offline mode. So I asked the designers: now that fans can look at the PS3 and see that yes, Diablo III can be an offline game, will we ever see an offline mode added to the PC version of the game?
"It's one of those difficult decisions we had to make," said Mosqueira. "Right now there's no plans. Some of the reasoning behind it is, the PC and console ecosystems are very different."
Blizzard and Sony both did some research and found that many PS3s are never connected to the Internet, he said. "So we figured the best way to offer that Diablo experience was to let players play offline."


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