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HOW MANY GOING TO ST IDES?

WOLF MAN AND HCIKEN IN BOAT

HOW DID MIDGET HANG HIMSELF?

pls try harder

this is GRAD SCHOOL people

there is a town where the barber shaves everyone who doesn't shave himself...

lol

If a plane crashes on the North Korean/South Korean border, where do they bury the survivors?

If you're in a race and you pass the runner in second place, in what position are you now in?

You know the "guy on perfectly circular island has to escape forest fire blowing from the West" puzzle?

If you're in a race and you pass the runner in second place, in what position are you now in?

-- Pleasant Plains

still in last place

HOW MANY GOING TO ST IDES?

-- sexyDancer

i might actually use this

criteria:

1) can give "hints" without ruining it

2) should involve some sort of iterative process

3) should be appropriate for adults + teenagers

SECOND PLACE

There's also that awful one about the bellhop and the five-dollar bill.

my two favorites:

1) line of 100 dwarves need to come up w/ a strategy to figure out what color hat they have, they can only see the dwarf in front. if they get it wrong their head gets chopped off. what's the OPTIMUM STRATEGY?

2) prisoner-lightbulb puzzle

NOT IF YOU GOT LAPPED THREE TIMES CAUSE YOU FORGOT YOUR RUNNING SHOES

You have to measure exactly 4 liters of water, but you only have a 3-liter bottle and a 5-liter bottle. How do you do it?

You thirst for three days, then drink two two-liters of Mtn Dew.

^^^^ haha we already did that about a month ago! my professor called it "the die hard puzzle"

oh yeah

that wacky jeremy irons.

Greater than God,
More evil than the devil.
The poor have it,
The rich don't need it.
If you eat it, you'll die.
What is it?

I'm Paul Harvey............. . .. . . . . . .... . .... .. Good DAY.

dirty toes?

dwarf puzzle is the 3rd down on this page: http://www.snowstone.com/archives/cat_puzzles.html

NOTHING

man in the desert w/a rock next to him how did he die from kryptonine poisoning because he is superman <----- this one is best because it has superman

kimmy and jimmy are on the floor w/water and broken glass all around how did they die they are fish and their bowl broke <------ this one is good because kimmy and jimmy are fish

those are not puzzles those are unfunny jokes

those are awz puzzles dickship to buthole

LOL u butthurt

the only "puzzling" thing about them is why you thought they were good

what kind of fish should not spend more than a few minutes in the bowl?

i explained why they are good: because of super man

You have to measure exactly 4 liters of water, but you only have a 3-liter bottle and a 5-liter bottle. How do you do it?

mark the "halfway" point on each filled bottle (from the water line down); pour out half of each bottle. that leaves you with 1.5 liters and 2.5 liters = 4 liters.

RONG

you need to do it w/ PRECISION

no, YOU are the chemist, so YOU need to do it with precision. the rest of us are okay with being a few milliliters off.

you go to the store and buy a measuring cup

ANSWER: glue together the bottles to make an 8 liter bottle, since the bottle is 2x as big it will be 2x as accurate. fill it with water and THEN drink half of it.

ANSWER: ask SUPER MAN to do it

how do you know when you've drunk precisely half?

the bottom will be half full

have u guys ever had goat butter omg im eating some right now soo good

isn't it sorta goaty

a lil maybe

those are not puzzles those are unfunny jokes

-- moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, December 5, 2007 7:33 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
THINK OUT SIDE THE BOX MAN

ask DAVID MAMET

since the bottle is 2x as big it will be 2x as accurate

o_O

jarvik's animal familiar is behind door 3, U DEAD!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Monty_open_door.svg/180px-Monty_open_door.svg.png

There is discussion of some Dr. Jarvik inspired breakcore the other day

part of me wants you to elaborate at length
the other part not so much

QUANTUM GOAT

alright tell us of this jarvikcore plz

i rapped a little and then puked a sparks... waiting for pet and ram to finish class

jarvikcore=i'm on board with this phrase

NO BEATS BECAUSE THE JARVIK ARTIFICIAL HEART DOES NOT BEAT

the sound of dracula pouring blood into a blender

http://i19.tinypic.com/86g2sxy.gif

omg

Monty Hall problem is easier to figure out if you imagine 100 doors, only one of which has a car behind it. It's went from being this thing people argued about in Scientific American, to a Microsoft interview question to an undergraduate statistical mechanics question in the space of about a decade. It is not trivial.

if dude opens up 98 empty doors

microsoft interviews sound pretty great

why are manhole covers round?

my frontline interview @ google was so fucking annoying

We ask that one at interviews for 0xf3rd physics undergrad.

xpost, questions?

whatd they ask u?

DO YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF AN APPLICATION DEVELOPER OR A WEB DEVELOPER?

Oh snap

fuck you know nothing entry level HR position!

correct answer: same dif maaaaan

congratulation here yr stock options!

I'm not really interested in interviewing for a job that they won't tell me upfront where it is.

Also I am a slacker/.

These guys seem pretty cool to work for for Web 2.0 guys:
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/archives/2007/12/want_to_work_for_freshview_1.html

why are manhole covers round?

.eloh eht ni llaf t'nod yeht oS

correct answer: $100? can't you make it $200?

here's how i understand it:

assume you pick box "A"

there's three boxes

1/3 chance of the box being in A, if you switch to the unshown box you LOSE
1/3 chance of the box being in B, if you switch to B you WIN
1/3 chance of the box being in C, if you switch to C you WIN

notice that you can't switch to box C in the 2nd scenario because it's been revealed to be empty, you can't switch to box B in the 3rd scenario because it's been revealed to be empty.

the problem is the same whether we pick A B or C, so that means switching gives us 2/3 odds.

what if we KEEP?

again, assume we picked A, but it should be symmetrical whether we pick A, B or C.

1/3 chance of the prize being in A, if you keep you WIN
1/3 chance of the prize being in B, if you keep you LOSE
1/3 chance of the prize being in C, if you keep you LOSE

that means 2/3 losing and 1/3 winning.

not sure what it says elsewhere but that's the best i can explain it.

i think the real trick to this puzzle is that it's not a stochastic situation (like rolling dice or playing roulette) - it's actually a game w/ two players and only three possible outcomes for each of your two choices, so you just need to look at the outcomes between the two choices to pick your strategy. ie game theory vs probability theory.

the "other player" is monty hall or whatever - he'll always reveal the "wrong" box no matter what, if it was "random" (ie subject to the probability rules we learn in high school) he'd be picking a random box too

ah i should've looked at the wikpedia thing earlier, it says it all much better ... what i was on about is buried pretty deep in there though - Phillip Martin's article in a 1989 issue of Bridge Today magazine titled "The Monty Hall Trap" (Martin 1989) presented Selvin's problem, with the correct solution, as an example of how one can fall into the trap of treating non-random information as if it were random.

http://blogs.columbiatribune.com/gameover/box.jpg

is this real?

you have landed in the mushroom kingdom. please pay me 1200 rupees, because i have two energy cells on the space.

http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/nintendo_monopoly.jpg

OK thing I hate about St. Ives riddle:

"As I was going to St. Ives,
I met a man..."

See all the time if I meet someone as I am going somewhere, it is bcz they are walking THE SAME direction as I am. You don't stop someone walking the other direction to ask a guy about his polygamous relationship with seven women who hoard things. Does the man have the seven wives with him, or is he just telling you about his wives? Are we to count the cats as people if his shit-toting wives are with him? Seriously, if you have the time to listen about these kits totaling in the hundreds, the guy is going the same way as you.

Fucking number one. Fucking rhyme.

water wld work like:

pour 5 liter into 3 liter, pour two liters left in 5 liter botte into 3rd container
and
repeat?

is there a third container or not? THEY DON'T SAY.

Brothers & sisters I have none
But this man's father is my father's son

no third container.

u lose

the man is your son

here's a riddle.

last week i went to whole foods. $1.99 regular milk (one quart, fuck you whole foods) was on sale for $0.99, so i bought it INSTEAD of the $3.29 quart of organic milk i usually buy. hey, can't pass up a GOOD DEAL, right?

this week, organic was $3.29 and the regular was back to $1.99. so i bought the organic, because i wasn't getting 50% OFF by buying regular.

why am i so stupid?

(similarly, something like 75% of respondents said they would drive 20 minutes to buy a $15 calculator for $5 (rather than buy it right now for $15) but that they wouldn't drive 20 minutes to buy a $110 calculator for $100)

i guess it's not *really* the same

the real answer is to not drink milk at all

go to bed

(similarly, something like 75% of respondents said they would drive 20 minutes to buy a $15 calculator for $5 (rather than buy it right now for $15) but that they wouldn't drive 20 minutes to buy a $110 calculator for $100)

I used to drive out of my way to use a station that sold gas for $1.09 rather than the place that sold it for $1.17. Nowadays, I just say fuckit.

No moonship the man is YOURSELF.

I used to drive out of my way to use a station that sold gas for $1.09 rather than the place that sold it for $1.17. Nowadays, I just say fuckit.

did you figure the additional cost of the gas consumed in?

It took my 4 yr. old to remind me of who’s in charge in this world! Yesterday was my day off. As such, I took the chance to make a few repairs at the house. If you know me at all, you know that the very mention of me and repairs in the same sentence could set the universe off course!  I am the anti-handyman. But I tried.

We had two doors in our house that had been broken fro some time due to some hinge breaking issues. So, blowing the dust off the ol’ drill I set out to work. The front closet was fairy simple and was fixed in a few minutes. That simply left the daunting front door! It is an old, solid hunk of wood that was barely opening and closing. So, after many busted attempts, bloody knuckles and bouts of anger, I got it! The door closed just right and all was well!!

Jude had been “helping” by sitting with me and watching, and at times holding the door still. Once complete, I jumped up, playing with him, threw my arms victoriously into the air and shouted “Who’s the man?”. I was expecting some possible laughter, and maybe a pat on the ol’ back.

My son calmly looked at me with a straight face and gave me the answer: “God”. Not Daddy, you are the man, but simply “God is the man!” WOW! I looked at him, laughed and gave him a great big hug. “You are right son” I said, “God is the man. He can fix everything”. I kissed his head and thanked him for reminding me that.

Our God is amazing isn’t he? We sing that our God is alive, and praise him this is true! His word promises that he is in charge of this place and that His Son has overcome this world! Victory is ours, because we belong to Him! My Lord can always “fix” things…he truly is “THE man”.

did you figure the additional cost of the gas consumed in?

I figured five or six miles wouldn't make a difference, but it probably did.

I used to do the same things with cigarettes, back in the day.

RONG

GOD THE FATHER is the DEITY, only JESUS became MAN

stupid kid.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea

That kid was a tard