And Speaking of Love…

So Cat asked an interesting question last night early this morning: Would you rather be in a relationship where the other party loves you more, or one where you love the other party more.

For time being, let’s accept her premise that love can be quantified (and that the dynamic called love is not in equality across . . . → Read More: And Speaking of Love…

The Joker’s MAD Game

So, I’ve watched The Dark Knight for the second time today. And this isn’t a review of Joker, the movie TDK. Instead, this movie will focus on the little insight of game theory to be found in the movie. If you haven’t watched The Dark Knight, consider this a spoiler.

In the movie, there was a scene, where the Joker got two ships to try to blow each other to oblivion. He had cut off communications and power to both ships, and the people in the ferries had to make up their minds whether they should blow the other ship or not. Add to the fact that one ship is ferrying civilians and the other is ferrying convicted prisoners. Nice GT situation, no? Continue reading The Joker’s MAD Game

cfgt’s Toilet of Doom!

I’ve been bunking over at cfgt‘s place for a couple of days (for a project of mine). And I noticed that I seem to go to the toilet more than usual. Soon, it felt like the toilet was drawing water out of me. I began to suspect that the toilet was evil, and whose sole purpose . . . → Read More: cfgt’s Toilet of Doom!

The Worst Kind of Error

Imagine my anguish this morning. I had set down the laptop on the floor last night to process some millions of lines of data. This morning, I got this message. And since it was a debug run, I didn’t save the code. Aha.

Nothing was blocking the airflow, and Melbourne’s temperature at night was about . . . → Read More: The Worst Kind of Error

An After-Dinner Conversation

This is an after dinner conversation:

KL looked at Shockrave’s untouched vegetables.

KL: What is that?

Shockrave: These are vegetables. They help with your digestion. Here, have the plate.

Shockrave passes the plate to KL. KL took a look.

KL: Nah. Thanks

Shockrave: Have it. It’s called Pareto Optimal. I gain no utility from having this plate. Since you want it, take . . . → Read More: An After-Dinner Conversation

Fourth of July

Ahah, it’s the Fourth of July. As such, it is time to get American friends over and come and party. You know afterall, USA is a country with ahem.. secure borders and open doors.

So, we had a party for our resident American girl in the house, Kels. And to make the party more fun, we invited even more American friends over. And we ate American food (meaning, unhealthy stuff like burgers and hotdogs and pepsi and coke floats).

And thus, here are the pictures:

Above is Kels, Jane and Sue in front of the white board.
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