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Women in the Forum?
Message #1 Posted by Saile (Brazil) on 4 Sept 2009, 3:33 p.m.

Only a curiosity. Does this forum have women are crazy for calculators and pockets? :-)

      
Re: Women in the Forum?
Message #2 Posted by Katie Wasserman on 4 Sept 2009, 4:36 p.m.,
in response to message #1 by Saile (Brazil)

There's me.

            
Re: Women in the Forum?
Message #3 Posted by Saile (Brazil) on 4 Sept 2009, 5:31 p.m.,
in response to message #2 by Katie Wasserman

All of the men of the forum have his history, Chemical, Biologistas, Doctors, Engineers and you Katie Wasserman?
How did you begin in that passion?
You excuse for my English. :-)
                  
Re: Women in the Forum?
Message #4 Posted by Etienne Victoria on 4 Sept 2009, 6:14 p.m.,
in response to message #3 by Saile (Brazil)

If I may...

Not all the men in this forum have a Chemical, Biology, Medical, Engineering background.

There is also a small group of bean-counters I proudly belong to :-)

Ch€€r$!

Eti€nn€

                        
Re: Women in the Forum?
Message #5 Posted by Frank Balzer on 4 Sept 2009, 6:29 p.m.,
in response to message #4 by Etienne Victoria

Physics!!!

                        
Re: Women in the Forum?
Message #6 Posted by Ken Shaw on 8 Sept 2009, 12:34 p.m.,
in response to message #4 by Etienne Victoria

Also physics.

                  
Re: Women in the Forum?
Message #7 Posted by Katie Wasserman on 4 Sept 2009, 6:30 p.m.,
in response to message #3 by Saile (Brazil)

I posted a bio here.

      
Re: Women in the Forum?
Message #8 Posted by hpnut on 4 Sept 2009, 7:14 p.m.,
in response to message #1 by Saile (Brazil)

Quote:
Only a curiosity. Does this forum have women are crazy for calculators and pockets? :-)

does gender matter? an hp nut is an hp nut. still, it's great to have Katie and Etienne in this forum :-)

cheers,

hpnut in Malaysia

            
Re: Women in the Forum?
Message #9 Posted by Raymond Del Tondo on 4 Sept 2009, 7:27 p.m.,
in response to message #8 by hpnut

Hi,

Etienne is a male's name, the equivalent of the German name Stefan.

HTH

Raymond

                  
Re: Women in the Forum?
Message #10 Posted by hecube on 4 Sept 2009, 7:43 p.m.,
in response to message #9 by Raymond Del Tondo

As odd as it may seem, I'm an a musician. I work in music publishing. However, before my music career, I studied in math and computer science.

                        
Re: Women in the Forum?
Message #11 Posted by Katie Wasserman on 4 Sept 2009, 8:07 p.m.,
in response to message #10 by hecube

I don't think that's odd at all. Music, math and computer science all fit together very nicely. Did you ever read Hofstadter's book Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid?

-Katie

                              
Re: Women in the Forum?
Message #12 Posted by hecube on 5 Sept 2009, 1:23 a.m.,
in response to message #11 by Katie Wasserman

I did. I have a few Hofstadter books in my bookshelves.

                              
Re: Women in the Forum?
Message #13 Posted by DavidShenk on 5 Sept 2009, 1:27 p.m.,
in response to message #11 by Katie Wasserman

I am just finishing a program for the 42s that I got from his book Metamagical Themas called CopyCat. You enter a string of 6 characters and the calc picks a method and "changes" the string in a certain way, then displays the result. You get three test strings to figure out what the calc is doing, then the calc gives you a string and it's up to you to figure out what it should change to, following the pattern.

Example: ABCDEF to ABCDEG - This could be that the last character is shifted one to the right, or the last character is always 'G'. You can confirm that with more test strings.

Of course, the more interesting ones are much more complicated. Switching and rotating letters around, doing changes depending on what letters are present, etc.

I'll have it done and posted in the next week or so.

Dave

                                    
Re: Women in the Forum?
Message #14 Posted by hecube on 5 Sept 2009, 2:08 p.m.,
in response to message #13 by DavidShenk

This is my nightstand book right now. Unfortunately, I hit the sack without reading...

                                          
Re: Women in the Forum?
Message #15 Posted by DavidShenk on 5 Sept 2009, 2:27 p.m.,
in response to message #14 by hecube

It is on the thick side...

                        
Re: Women in the Forum?
Message #16 Posted by Walter B on 5 Sept 2009, 12:11 a.m.,
in response to message #10 by hecube

AFAIK, music and math have (had?) a very close relation for 2500 years at least. Some math was discovered looking at harmonies ...

                              
Re: Women in the Forum?
Message #17 Posted by Peter Klein on 6 Sept 2009, 5:16 p.m.,
in response to message #16 by Walter B

Walter: Yes they do (music and math). But some of the worst music ever written has been inflicted on the world by the misapplication of math techniques on music in the past century. Somehow the perpetrators forgot that music is sound, and what it sounds like matters.

Katie: Thanks for reminding me that I have to have another go at "Gödel, Escher, Bach" some day. It's a pretty heady read. I tried to get through it once, but I wasn't in the right frame of mind.

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