TP or NP? Trial ballon goes up

[Mark Kohut]

sometimes life online is funny. I follow this woman because of her name
Victoria Pynchon. She just sent this:
 
She Negotiates‏@SheNegotiates
What Makes My Teeth Itch?  Math.  What challenges in life do you find most perplexing?
 

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 From: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
To: Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net> 
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: TP or NP? Trial ballon goes up
  

True, I admit it. And there are some mathematicians who write very well. So, by way of atonement, I offer this old favorite:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re3-xo9bRc8


On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:

Ian Livingston sez:
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>Algebra just makes no sense. I stand with Laurie Anderson on the principle that x=x, not y base 8 times z to the minus fourth power. Efforts to crystallize experience, which is fluid and non-repeating, are purely mystical and have little real meaning. The results of "progress" based on changing reality into something else have been, well, catastrophic, to euphemize the result… 
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>This sounds like engineers I’ve heard fuming about their frustrations in English class:  “What was all that ‘symbolism’ crap about? Why can’t writers just say what they MEAN instead of going on about albatrosses and  white elephants?” 


-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
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