michiexile | Twitter excerpts

06:55 @robertghrist My MSc thesis advisor, Jörgen Backelin, once picked up on my using the Swedish conjunctive in an exam answer... #
06:56 @robertghrist ... and subsequently corrected my grammar in that entire answer to adher to 1880 standards of Swedish grammar ... #
06:56 @robertghrist ... from back when the Swedish conjunctive was ACTUALLY in active use. :-D #
16:07 @sigfpe And THAT's why I'm in mathematics. For those exact moments of transition. #
16:08 @wchogg You and me both!! #
16:10 @sigfpe Oooooooooooooh! Really!? Tell us!! #
17:02 @divbyzero I don't see it. Have they possibly fixed their graphics since? #
17:31 @divbyzero Oh _THAT_ pie chart. I kept getting hanged up on the top right one, where 23% occurs with 76% and 1% and looks sane. Yeah, yuck. #
17:34 Random question: could you make an automatically balanced tree (as in red-black etc) zipper by differentiating something? Maybe weightedly? #