The most interesting thing you ever read / studied

[wheeler]

The PCP theorem.

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[edtost]

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Black-Scholes-Merton is up there but that's so lame.

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I feel like that would have been much higher on my own list has I been around in the time before its publication.

[Duke]

This is the most interesting book I've ever read.

~D

[RacersEdge]

I like the ideas of relating math and science to everyday phenomenon in the social sciences and business. I really liked The Tipping Point.

I am reading about Agent Based simulation right now - seems incredibly interesting with the types of things you can model. For example, I saw a model of Schelling(?) racial segregation concepts from the 1960s - really cool.

[Scotch78]

Advanced Philosophy of Language at Ohio State with Neil Tennant on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:00 AM until 10:45 AM. On Mondays and Wednesdays I had a poetry class during the same time period. Monday through Friday I had Classical Mythology 222 (Who [censored] Who in 222) from 11:00 AM until 11:45 AM. I ate roughly the same breakfast at the same time every morning, and ate lunch at noon. I may have substituted sausage for bacon or pancakes for waffles, but it was basically the same everyday. On Mondays and Wednesdays I ate lunch because it was lunchtime, but on Tuesdays and Thursdays I had massive hunger pains and ate about twice as much because my brain had burned so many calories in philosophy.

And to put things in perspective even better . . . three years earlier, as a sophomore in philosophy, I had taken a graduate level solid state physics course (it was my favorite professor's only class that semester) that required quantum mechanics as a prerequisite; I had not taken quantum mechanics. Not only did I have one of the few A's in the class, but I also had the most absences. This course was remedial in comparison to the philosophy class.

Scott

[TiK]

That the Nixon Administration was the biggest spender with regards to welfare (AFDC) since FDR.

[MtSmalls]

I read a fascinating history book on the Knights Templar and the Crusades. I just can't for the life of me find a reference to it online...

[Born 2 Loose]

The most interesting thing I read today was:

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but on Tuesdays and Thursdays I had massive hunger pains and ate about twice as much because my brain had burned so many calories in philosophy.

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I'm now looking for venture capital, got any?

[surfinillini]

Took a class in college entitled:

"Human Performance and Machine Interaction (excluding A.I.)"

Being I was a psychology major, this was a completely engineering theory based class, extremely interesting and somewhat out of my league but I still managed to pull of an A.

Explained [censored] like why certain buttons are placed at certain places on ATM's/Pilot's cockpits, etc...

Then there was a large section about human/machine interaction and how it affects performance.

interesting [censored]

[miajag]

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And Journalism Ethics. I was a print journalism and philosophy double major, so combining the two was fascinating to me. And the professor was quite good.


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Did you go to Maryland? If so, was your prof Cleghorn?