Like an overview of the major parts of computer architecture, and an explanation of Gödel's incompleteness theorem without delving too deeply into the proof.
Serves me right for hanging out with good listeners.
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Shake your windows and rattle your walls.
Similarly, I and a professional programmer spent an hour yesterday lecturing a novice programmer on recursive data structures, object-oriented versus functional programming, Emacs versus vi, and the joys of Web scraping.
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"If I pick nine, you'd better not be racist against me!"
"No promises, niney."
And similarly, I've had to explain why English ****ics can never be stressed and how the split-PP hypothesis must be the most painful in all of syntax.
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Seth: What are you making?
Evan: I'm just drilling holes. Last two weeks, **** it.
I have had to explain my position on Avril Lavigne's Let Go to three separate people in the last two days.
And lol@how we can't say ****ic. Or en****ic for that matter.
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Set signature in options page.
I tried to explain to a woman how to find number 31 in my own housing compound, and it turned out that I didn't even really know the answer.
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x is an irrational number if and only if the set { nx mod 1 | n is a natural number } is dense in [0,1].