First of all is a weird thought that
popped into my head yesterday afternoon while eating an apple—do
you leave the stem in when eating an apple, or do you twist it out?
I don't know why the thought popped into my head; it just did. I
personally twist the stem out. I don't know why; I mean, I could eat
an apple with the stem in it. It wouldn't bother me at all. But for
whatever reason, I always twist the stem out.
I guess I'm just weird like that.
And in regard to twisting the stem out
of an apple—is/was there some kind of weird thing that goes along
with how many twists it takes to get the stem out of the apple? You
know; like if it takes four twists you'll kiss four people this year,
or something strange like that? I seem to remember something along
those lines from when I was a kid, but I don't remember any of the
details. So if YOU know if I'm remembering this correctly or if I've
just moved myself one step closer to heading off the deep end (a
distinct possibility), let me know.
And thanks.
Secondly, I would like you to read this
paragraph--
“In this paper, we develop a cascadic
multigrid algorithm for fast computation of the Fiedler vector of a
graph Laplacian, namely, the eigenvector corresponding to the second
smallest eigenvalue. This vector has been found to have applications
in fields such as graph partitioning and graph drawing. The
algorithm is a purely algebraic approach based on a heavy edge
coarsening scheme and pointwise smoothing for refinement. To gain
theoretical insight, we also consider the related cascadic multigrid
method in the geometric setting for elliptic eigenvalue problems and
show its uniform convergence under certain assumptions. Numerical
tests are presented for computing the Fiedler vector of several
practical graphs, and numerical results show the efficiency and
optimality of our proposed cascadic multigrid algorithm.”.
My question is this—did you
understand it? Please say no. Please say that only a genius (or, in
the case of the person who wrote it, a lineman for the Baltimore
Ravens who's a math scholar) can understand it. Because, you know,
if that's something most people understand and I don't; well, then, I
even dumber than I thought I was.
And that's quite dumb!
Finally, while I haven't watched it
yet, I've had several people tell me they viewed this weekend's
“Ryan Report” with the world's biggest dork as a guest. And not
one of those people said their TV blew up during the show...so I'm
guessing that's a good thing!
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