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Michael Valentine Jones
Yak DBA Kernel (pronounced Colonel)

7020 Posts

Posted - 2007-02-17 : 15:21:45
Do you notice questions that show the poster is so far below the level of knowledge required that the question is "Not Even Stupid"?

Most don’t even get a response, or just a perfunctory "explain yourself"
http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=79301
http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=79299
http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=79218
http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=79106

What’s the best way to handle them? Ignore, ask for more info, tell them to learn SQL, post a link to Google, etc.?



Apologies to Wolfgang Pauli:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong






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jhermiz

3564 Posts

Posted - 2007-02-18 : 01:07:10
There's only so much you can do. The past week was awful, I cant even count the number of times I asked a poster to post MORE information. I try to ignore :).


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Kristen
Test

22859 Posts

Posted - 2007-02-18 : 03:57:20
Next please!
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mwjdavidson
Aged Yak Warrior

735 Posts

Posted - 2007-02-19 : 12:09:38
Another classic example:
[url]http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=79339[/url]

p.s. Nice wikipedia link MVJ. I'm definitely going to adopt that expression in the workplace!

Mark
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jezemine
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

2886 Posts

Posted - 2007-02-19 : 15:43:03
the "not even wrong" quote has been made famous recently from this blog and accompanying book: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/

it's a much needed criticism of the string theorists and how they are sucking up scarce resources from physics research budgets with what I would call "mathematical philosophy". it's not science.




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Michael Valentine Jones
Yak DBA Kernel (pronounced Colonel)

7020 Posts

Posted - 2007-02-19 : 16:10:08
quote:
Originally posted by jezemine

the "not even wrong" quote has been made famous recently from this blog and accompanying book: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/

it's a much needed criticism of the string theorists and how they are sucking up scarce resources from physics research budgets with what I would call "mathematical philosophy". it's not science.




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String theory will soon explain everything. That's what they said on PBS, so it must be true.





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jezemine
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

2886 Posts

Posted - 2007-02-19 : 16:31:06
classical mechanics explained everything until the ultraviolet catastrophe...


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Kristen
Test

22859 Posts

Posted - 2007-02-19 : 17:10:09
"String theory will soon explain everything"

How does String Theory explain Recursion?!
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Michael Valentine Jones
Yak DBA Kernel (pronounced Colonel)

7020 Posts

Posted - 2007-02-19 : 17:43:28
quote:
Originally posted by Kristen

"String theory will soon explain everything"

How does String Theory explain Recursion?!



I think it's fairly obvious.

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001hep.th...10009A
Pseudo-Cuntz Algebra and Recursive FP Ghost System in String Theory
"Representation of the algebra of FP (anti)ghosts in string theory is studied by generalizing the recursive fermion system in the Cuntz algebra constructed previously. For that purpose, the pseudo-Cuntz algebra, which is a *-algebra generalizing the Cuntz algebra and acting on indefinite-metric vector spaces, is introduced. The algebra of FP (anti)ghosts in string theory is embedded into the pseudo-Cuntz algebra recursively in two different ways. Restricting a certain permutation representation of the pseudo-Cuntz algebra, representations of these two recursive FP ghost systems are obtained. With respect to the zero-mode operators of FP (anti)ghosts, it is shown that one corresponds to the four-dimensional representation found recently by one of the present authors (M. Abe) and Nakanishi, while the other corresponds to the two-dimensional one by Kato and Ogawa."






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Kristen
Test

22859 Posts

Posted - 2007-02-19 : 17:56:14
Typical, isn't it:

"Pseudo-Cuntz Algebra" is either 2-dimensional or 4-dimensional.

Yeah, I got the 2-dimensional version , like every one else, off the top-shelf in the newsagent when I was in Junior school, and now you are offering 4-dimensional - when I'm sure my imagination only needs the 3-dimensional version!

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jezemine
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

2886 Posts

Posted - 2007-02-19 : 18:48:12
mmmmmmm.... cuntz algebra

seriously, that abstract is a great example of how the string theorists have gone off the deep end. Not a word of it makes sense to me, and I am a (former) physicist!


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Kristen
Test

22859 Posts

Posted - 2007-02-20 : 01:20:14
"I think it's fairly obvious"

I'm still chuckling ...
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Michael Valentine Jones
Yak DBA Kernel (pronounced Colonel)

7020 Posts

Posted - 2007-02-20 : 04:43:19
quote:
Originally posted by jezemine

mmmmmmm.... cuntz algebra

seriously, that abstract is a great example of how the string theorists have gone off the deep end. Not a word of it makes sense to me, and I am a (former) physicist!


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They're just fiddling around with their pseudo-Cuntz.



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spirit1
Cybernetic Yak Master

11752 Posts

Posted - 2007-02-20 : 05:51:53
ROTFLOL!!





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Kristen
Test

22859 Posts

Posted - 2007-02-20 : 07:37:13
Sounds like G-string theory to me ...
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JimL
SQL Slinging Yak Ranger

1537 Posts

Posted - 2007-02-23 : 09:59:12
And again in true SQL team form we have pulled this topic down to the gutter.

LOL

Jim
Users <> Logic
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X002548
Not Just a Number

15586 Posts

Posted - 2007-02-23 : 11:50:48
quote:
Originally posted by JimL

And again in true SQL team form we have pulled this topic down to the gutter.

LOL

Jim
Users <> Logic



Or up, depending on your point of view



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elwoos
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

2052 Posts

Posted - 2007-02-28 : 04:12:39
I'm sure if someone explained what a
quote:
zero-mode operator
is it would all suddenly make sense BOL just comes up with the Errors 3000 - 3999 page, maybe that's the problem


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jezemine
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

2886 Posts

Posted - 2007-02-28 : 09:47:20
i'll venture a guess that "zero-mode" means "ground state". so a zero mode operators would be operators that create and destroy particles in their ground states. just a guess.




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Michael Valentine Jones
Yak DBA Kernel (pronounced Colonel)

7020 Posts

Posted - 2007-02-28 : 10:02:00
I hate when these topics deteriorate into discussions of theoretical physics.



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jezemine
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

2886 Posts

Posted - 2007-02-28 : 12:02:02
yea, let's get back to pseudo-cuntz. although I have to say I prefer the real thing...


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