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1:10 AM

@jcole I had a debate in class today.

We were discussing liberal arts and the subjects it encompasses. The professor asked us to divide into groups and gave the following scenario:

Imagine a natural disaster and there was a raft leaving for safety and there was room for one "entity" on the raft. Defend your branch of liberal arts and explain why you should be on that raft instead of the others.

I was in a group of four called "math".

I am pretty sure we dominated. I find out next Wednesday.

mootinator

1:52 AM

Bah. Math is just a branch of Philosophy ;P

Moshe

@mootinator I don't remember now, but I had some pretty awesome argument there. One of the judges told me he thinks I was the best. \O/ The other two remain to be seen.

</shamelessbrag>

Moshe

2:53 AM

Okay, discussion time, who's home, er, here?

I was discussing social networking with my English Instructor today. I stated something to the effect of this: "Humans have an emotional need to socialize. However, it's the same object called emotion that causes the need for privacy. Social networks seem to discard the human need for privacy while savoring the social aspect." Now I'm tasked with finding articles that attack and defend my position. Any references?

jcolebrand

hahahahahaha

Moshe

@jcolebrand Huh?

jcolebrand

now grasshopper you must learn the secrets of the college

like keeping your mouth shut ;)

Moshe

I know, I know.

jcolebrand

So .. do you know about Maslows Heirarchy (I suck at spelling certain words)

Moshe

2:56 AM

No, never heard of it.

jcolebrand

That's a place to start

Maslow's hierarchy of needs

[[Image:Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.svg|thumb|right|300px|An interpretation of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, represented as a pyramid with the more basic needs at the bottom.]] Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a theory in psychology, proposed by Abraham Maslow in his 1943 paper A Theory of Human Motivation. Maslow subsequently extended the idea to include his observations of humans' innate curiosity. His theories parallel many other theories of human developmental psychology, all of which focus on describing the stages of growth in humans. Maslow studied what he called exemplary people such ...

Moshe

Right, I don't think he wanted me to write the paper, but to find articles discussing it. I suppose I could write it if he wanted me to. I enjoy writing, but I don't have time.

I'm trying to hack out the last few hours of a project now, just thought I'd drop that little shootout online and see if anyone had any info for me to get to.

jcolebrand

no no no

I said that was a place to start learning

Moshe

Ah, got it.

Looks like an interesting starting point. Thanks!

Oh, and: I want DevDays or some sort of StackExchange event at my Uni!

jcolebrand

lol

so START ONE

I advise you to wait a little longer tho and get more plugged in

did I not share that survey link with you?

are you on skype right now?

@Moshe ...

Moshe

3:11 AM

I am on Skype, sec.

mootinator

Aaaaaaaargh.

jcolebrand

aaaaayyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

mootinator

I keep talking to cleverbot.com

Make me stop.

jcolebrand

@mootinator you know that's really a 14 year old girl, right?

mootinator

@jcolebrand No, it's me.

jcolebrand

3:21 AM

Cleverbot

is a girl

who is 14 years old

I can prove it

mootinator

No you can't.

jcolebrand

Aye, go talk to it and eventually Bieber will come up

mootinator

Well yeah.

It's just a collection of stupid things people have said to it.

jcolebrand

Yep

just like a 14 yo girl

;)

mootinator

Oh snap.

jcolebrand

3:25 AM

And if anyone in here is a 14yo girl, they should contest me on this

mootinator

BTW.

It says it's infinity years old, a 14 year old would never think of that response.

jcolebrand

You're right, that sounds like something a 6 year old would say

damnit kevin

mootinator

lol

Ah finally.

20 minutes later... "Cleverbot: Can you sing justin bieber song for me ?"

jcolebrand

lmao

mootinator

4:05 AM

:\/

It is also highly trained in Monty Python quotes, unsurprisingly.

4 hours later…

Java Ka Baby

8:11 AM

one

tombull89

two

Java Ka Baby

:) thats realtime then

tombull89

chuckle yes.

Sathya

8:48 AM

hmm

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genesis-φ

12:45 PM

What does momentarily mean?

<span title="2011-09-15 12:45:01Z">momentarily</span>

tombull89

@genesisφ shortly, in a second, in a moment.

"I will do that momentarily"

(or, for a moment)

genesis-φ

So I've seen comment before it was posted, again?

tombull89

haha, where's that?

genesis-φ

<span title="2011-09-15 12:45:01Z">momentarily</span>

tombull89

@genesisφ uh...I'm going to say that's a bug of the "informal" time thing (i.e. "just a moment ago").

genesis-φ

12:50 PM

minor-annoyance

tombull89

Still worth opening a M.SO post though.

1 hour later…

Yi Jiang

2:06 PM

Yi Jiang's 独角兽, Singapore, Singapore

7.1k 2 14 40

Because, you know, unicode is cool

Moshe

3:06 PM

Cleverbot starts spitting out random garbage. I keep asking it "Do you prefer Android or iPhone?"

Yi Jiang's 独角兽

Q: Is this rotating cube interface user-friendly?

I'm working on a prototype for an innovative form interface, where different parts of the form are shown on different sides of a cube. The cube rotates, and the user can fill it out as the cube spins. Here is a working example. To me, it seems like a pretty robust solution to our problem (i.e., ...

forms interaction-design

Moshe

@YiJiangs独角兽 Uhhh... that form makes me dizzy.

Yi Jiang's 独角兽

Now where in world did it get featured on to get it 7k views?

Moshe

Yi Jiang's 独角兽

@Moshe Maybe somebody is teaching Cleverbot the old trick of answewring 'yes' to 'or' questions

Moshe

3:34 PM

@YiJiangs独角兽 Why is that an old trick?

It's immature. The dang robot is an infant.

Of course, I just blew my chances at working for cleverbot's owning entity.

They would not be too please to know that insulted their bot.

3 hours later…

mootinator

6:09 PM

I need a different hobby.

Moshe

6:38 PM

I got a voicemail from a recruiter. Uh oh?

2 hours later…

Moshe

8:53 PM

Should I call the guy back?

mootinator

Sure why not :P

0A0D

9:13 PM

belongs on meta: stackoverflow.com/questions/7433451/…

Shog9

no, it doesn't

Anonymous

9:44 PM

Anyone know how frequently the task that awards tag badges is run?

Tim Stone

Whoops, it runs uh..3 hours after UTC midnight.

George Marian

10:04 PM

> We're sorry, this payment is being scheduled either after the 1:00 P.M. PT cutoff time or in the past. Please type a payment date that is on or after 4:00 PM.

Tim Stone

10:21 PM

O_o

George Marian

Nevermind that I was trying to schedule it for tomorrow.

Anonymous

10:57 PM

@TimStone Thanks.

mootinator

11:16 PM

Ooo, I finally got a unit test that's been broken for 6 months to work.

Tim Stone