Ouden

[ogygie]

Life without Internet

It's been two days without Internet connection in my house. I have an exam in three days so I've got nothing that distracts me from studying. I don't know if I'm happy about it or not... Blessings in disguise?

[papertownsy]

[baawri]

[tastefullyoffensive]

Video: President Obama at the 2016 White House Correspondents’ Dinner

[ogygie]

Too cool xD

[ogygie]

I’m depressed because my house is a mess and I’m not the one who did it so I don’t want to clean it up, but a messy house makes me depressed and apathetic and I don’t want to do anything (like studying) all day.... Should I let my sister ruin my university life or should I just kick her out of the apartment?

[ogygie]

Why would you start classes at 13.30, WHY?!?!?!?!??!??!!

[ogygie]

Me: *speaking very passionately about computer science*

friend: I don't understand anything but it's amazing how passionately you talk about it

me: that's because I'm a nerd

[ogygie]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_19Y5hXkKg)

Talks about what to do to make the world a better place

[ogygie]

At university...

It’s the second day of the second semester at university and it’s official: neither morning classes nor afternoon classes are better. Maybe it’s because all the classrooms are so dark and they make me sleepy but who knows... Yesterday was my first lesson of Web Technologies and I wish so bad it to be good. The professor seems nice and he did the introduction lesson, which is good, let’s see. Today there was the first lesson of Probability and Statistics, it is at 8.30 a.m., and that’s bad, but what is worst is that the professor can’t talk, I mean, if you’re not in the first few rows, you can understand nothing, and even there is difficult. So for this lesson I’ll have to be there at least at 8 to find a good seat. Last but not least, Operating Systems with my favorite professor (until now), but even a subject that I like so much with such a good professor it’s hard to follow at noon. Let’s try to start this new semester well, and study hard!

[thebrainscoop]

We don’t yet know what a species is.

thank you that’s all for today

[thebrainscoop]

Context for this post: I’m working on a script about the question ‘what is a species?’ and in researching the question found that there are many many ways in which scientists define what a species is. Like, there is not a single universally agreed upon definition.

It’s not that scientists are dumb or mad at each other or selfish or can’t agree - it’s that organismal life is so staggeringly complicated that it cannot possibly be defined with a single set of criteria. So there is no absolute answer to the question what is a species?, instead there are dozens of different sets of criteria used by taxonomists and they only teach you one in school.

[ogygie]

A bit like nobody really agree upon a definition of an operating system

[angeljaebum]

me when i see couples at school

[stupidfuckingquestions]

[atjeonjungkook]

[ogygie]

One of my favourite scenes

[kezzoh]

[mrbeniciodeltoro]

[princesofdorne]

This was DiCaprio’s first major role, and everyone was shocked at the red carpet to discover that he was just acting as a child with a mental condition, that he didn’t actually have one.  Which begs the question, WHERE THE FUCK IS HIS OSCAR.

[ogygie]

GIVE AN OSCAR TO LEO!!!!

[ogygie]

Lumos maxima!!!!!!!

November 2016 is too far away!!!!!!!!

[ogygie]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IYO5ljGr2o)

Amazing *-*

[itsokaytobesmart]

Grace Hopper

Rear Admiral Grace Hopper would have been 107 today, and is being honored with a great Google Doodle. It’s quite literally impossible for us to imagine, as we sit here reading about her on the internet, but people used to use things like paper and pencils and chalk and slide rules to solve (and often not solve) complicated problems. Grace Hopper quite simply helped usher in the modern age, her impact, I think, is no less than the steam engine or the cotton gin.

Some awesome stuff she did: Grace Hopper developed first compiler, allowing computer calculations to move beyond simple arithmetic and into more complex problems. She also developed first standardized computer language, COBOL, which laid the groundwork for all the languages we use today.

One day she found a dead moth disrupting one of the electronic relays in the Mark 1 computer, and upon removing it (and fixing the computer), the term “debugging” was popularized (although the idea of computer “bugs” had been around before). Here’s her daily log from that day, with the offending moth taped to the page:

Beyond that, she was a charming scientific communicator, and she possessed a marvelous ability to make people, and mind you this was in a time when almost no one owned their own computer, truly appreciate both the importance and the complexity of computing technology.

She famously carried around a bundle of nanoseconds in her purse for illustrative purposes. Here she is charming the socks off of David Letterman, and giving him a nanosecond of his very own (don’t miss the picosecond joke, either) :

[codeorg]

Happy birthday Grace Hopper!