#2 2012-01-08 16:00:10
This is the result of a stupid bureaucratic insistence that math be made "culturally relevant' to kneegrow children. Whether the questions resulted from stupidity, or the glee that people in repressive work environments get from gumming up the works by following directions may never be known.
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#3 2012-01-08 17:04:27
Actually according to the article it was part of a misguided attempt to integrate their Social Studies curricula with the Math homework, so I'm guessing they were doing a lesson on American slavery. Someone just didn't have the sense to say, "Hey, maybe this week we skip the lesson integration and just ask about apples."
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#4 2012-01-08 19:03:28
Theodore has 100 female slaves. If Theodore's female slaves are have a 20% chance of conceiving each month, and Theodore fucks one every night in a masterly way, at the end of one year how many slaves will produce offspring to piss fnord off 150 years later?
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#5 2012-01-09 06:50:14
Tall Paul wrote:
Theodore has 100 female slaves. If Theodore's female slaves are have a 20% chance of conceiving each month, and Theodore fucks one every night in a masterly way, at the end of one year how many slaves will produce offspring to piss fnord off 150 years later?
This is a pretty complicated business question. 100 slaves is way too ambitious, and I think Ted will go broke trying.
If Ted has all his girls in the same dorm, and working closely to each other, their periods are probably going to synchronize. Given the narrow window of fertility, and doing it himself, he's only going to get 4 or 5 a month (and that's being very optimistic). Remember, 150 years ago, there was no artificial insemination. If Ted really wants a breeding program, he's going to need help. There's no shame in needing help, having help has its benefits, he'll be giving the gene pool more diversity.
Furthermore who is going to want to feed 100 slaves per month? Ted would probably want to get some kind of rotation going. As the offspring are weened the mother should be sold, that would keep anyone from getting too old. All but a few male offspring should be sold as soon as possible, too.
Since caring for young is pretty labor intensive, productivity is going to be low. All the Ted really has here is a whore house. I don't think its a sustainable business plan. I'd bet Ted would be just as successful if he cut back to about 12 breeders, 4 care givers (male and female).
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#6 2012-01-09 07:42:14
Platymingo wrote:
Tall Paul wrote:
Theodore has 100 female slaves. If Theodore's female slaves are have a 20% chance of conceiving each month, and Theodore fucks one every night in a masterly way, at the end of one year how many slaves will produce offspring to piss fnord off 150 years later?
This is a pretty complicated business question. 100 slaves is way too ambitious, and I think Ted will go broke trying.
If Ted has all his girls in the same dorm, and working closely to each other, their periods are probably going to synchronize. Given the narrow window of fertility, and doing it himself, he's only going to get 4 or 5 a month (and that's being very optimistic). Remember, 150 years ago, there was no artificial insemination. If Ted really wants a breeding program, he's going to need help. There's no shame in needing help, having help has its benefits, he'll be giving the gene pool more diversity.
Furthermore who is going to want to feed 100 slaves per month? Ted would probably want to get some kind of rotation going. As the offspring are weened the mother should be sold, that would keep anyone from getting too old. All but a few male offspring should be sold as soon as possible, too.
Since caring for young is pretty labor intensive, productivity is going to be low. All the Ted really has here is a whore house. I don't think its a sustainable business plan. I'd bet Ted would be just as successful if he cut back to about 12 breeders, 4 care givers (male and female).
Yet another depressing failure of the public education system.
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#7 2012-01-09 12:46:52
tojo2000 wrote:
Yet another depressing failure of the public education system.
I'll say.
"Something like that shouldn't be imbedded into a kid of the third, fourth, fifth, any grade," parent Terrance Barnett told WSB-TV.
Since when is "imbed" a word?
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#8 2012-01-09 18:49:03
tojo2000 wrote:
Platymingo wrote:
Tall Paul wrote:
Theodore has 100 female slaves. If Theodore's female slaves are have a 20% chance of conceiving each month, and Theodore fucks one every night in a masterly way, at the end of one year how many slaves will produce offspring to piss fnord off 150 years later?
This is a pretty complicated business question. 100 slaves is way too ambitious, and I think Ted will go broke trying.
If Ted has all his girls in the same dorm, and working closely to each other, their periods are probably going to synchronize. Given the narrow window of fertility, and doing it himself, he's only going to get 4 or 5 a month (and that's being very optimistic). Remember, 150 years ago, there was no artificial insemination. If Ted really wants a breeding program, he's going to need help. There's no shame in needing help, having help has its benefits, he'll be giving the gene pool more diversity.
Furthermore who is going to want to feed 100 slaves per month? Ted would probably want to get some kind of rotation going. As the offspring are weened the mother should be sold, that would keep anyone from getting too old. All but a few male offspring should be sold as soon as possible, too.
Since caring for young is pretty labor intensive, productivity is going to be low. All the Ted really has here is a whore house. I don't think its a sustainable business plan. I'd bet Ted would be just as successful if he cut back to about 12 breeders, 4 care givers (male and female).Yet another depressing failure of the public education system.
All that is valid only if you assume that the 100 female slaves are the whole of the working stock owned by Theodore, which is as you point out improbable. To be fair, your kind of quibbling is mine also, which is why I've always hated word problems: By the time I'd figured out the context (which is most often necessary to finding the correct solution) the test was over. By the time I became mature enough to realize that my teachers were either harassed and overworked or just completely full of shit, the damage had been done.
The correct solution is: Theodore is as his name implies Beloved of God and therefore the army of slaves working his dominion are the reward of a life well spent. Obviously! The same thing goes for Pat Robertson's African diamond mining business.
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#9 2012-01-09 23:17:19
Tall Paul wrote:
tojo2000 wrote:
Platymingo wrote:
This is a pretty complicated business question. 100 slaves is way too ambitious, and I think Ted will go broke trying.
If Ted has all his girls in the same dorm, and working closely to each other, their periods are probably going to synchronize. Given the narrow window of fertility, and doing it himself, he's only going to get 4 or 5 a month (and that's being very optimistic). Remember, 150 years ago, there was no artificial insemination. If Ted really wants a breeding program, he's going to need help. There's no shame in needing help, having help has its benefits, he'll be giving the gene pool more diversity.
Furthermore who is going to want to feed 100 slaves per month? Ted would probably want to get some kind of rotation going. As the offspring are weened the mother should be sold, that would keep anyone from getting too old. All but a few male offspring should be sold as soon as possible, too.
Since caring for young is pretty labor intensive, productivity is going to be low. All the Ted really has here is a whore house. I don't think its a sustainable business plan. I'd bet Ted would be just as successful if he cut back to about 12 breeders, 4 care givers (male and female).Yet another depressing failure of the public education system.
All that is valid only if you assume that the 100 female slaves are the whole of the working stock owned by Theodore, which is as you point out improbable. To be fair, your kind of quibbling is mine also, which is why I've always hated word problems: By the time I'd figured out the context (which is most often necessary to finding the correct solution) the test was over. By the time I became mature enough to realize that my teachers were either harassed and overworked or just completely full of shit, the damage had been done.
The correct solution is: Theodore is as his name implies Beloved of God and therefore the army of slaves working his dominion are the reward of a life well spent. Obviously! The same thing goes for Pat Robertson's African diamond mining business.
Tall Paul wrote:
Theodore has 100 female slaves. If Theodore's female slaves are have a 20% chance of conceiving each month, and Theodore fucks one every night in a masterly way, at the end of one year how many slaves will produce offspring to piss fnord off 150 years later?
Given that all conceptions come to term, gestation is 9 months or less, and there aren't any preemies, the answer is 60. Theodore fucking them, while certainly entertaining, doesn't really affect anything as it's already determined that they have a 20% chance of conception. Pissing fnord off is an irrelevant bonus.
I hope none of you ever get shrunken and trapped in a blender.
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#10 2012-01-09 23:24:12
opsec wrote:
I hope none of you ever get shrunken and trapped in a blender.
Just in case anyone reading this is a software engineer (or wannabe software engineer), ignore these articles. They're 99% bullshit. If you want to get a job at Google some better advice would be to get your coding down cold and practice coding on a whiteboard before the interview. There may have been a time when the weird trivia stuff was de rigueur, but not presently.
This G+ post from a Google engineer covers it pretty well.
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#11 2012-01-10 00:03:42
opsec wrote:
Pissing fnord off is an irrelevant bonus.
No, that's called lagniappe.
The real question is how many offspring would be the subject of a Newt Gingrich comment on food stamps.
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#12 2012-01-10 00:05:59
tojo2000 wrote:
Just in case anyone reading this is a software engineer (or wannabe software engineer), ignore these articles. They're 99% bullshit. If you want to get a job at Google some better advice would be to get your coding down cold and practice coding on a whiteboard before the interview. There may have been a time when the weird trivia stuff was de rigueur, but not presently.
Absolutely. Successful companies hire based on skill, production and dependability. They don't hire based on a Briggs Meyers or on personality metrics or how well your Asperger Syndrome helps you with brainteasers... unless they actually fuck up and let Human Resources hire someone.
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#13 2012-01-10 05:38:30
tojo2000 wrote:
Yet another depressing failure of the public education system.
They can't teach this stuff in school, trolling is a art. I realized that damned post was going no where and hit submit anyway.
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#14 2012-01-10 14:54:21
Heh,
Bullshit designed to justify someones HR job or provide a excuse for bad hiring descions
This week I am interviewing an engineer with 15 years experience. I am interested in if his skills translate to our production. And if we can depend upon him to produce income for the company.
He wants to enter the private industry and has senior qualifications in government jobs with different priorities then our private sector, like war readiness, operational timeliness, etc.
I would have to be an idiot to ask him such a brain teaser question in hopes of gleaning some sort of pop-psych insight. The guy is nervous about his prospects in the current market. Should I do it anyways?
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#15 2012-01-10 15:00:27
No.
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#16 2012-01-10 15:45:53
You could ask him if he knows the difference between then and than. Just saying.
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#17 2012-01-10 17:31:00
Or does he understand why "would of" is incorrect?
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#18 2012-01-10 18:09:02
Right. I hate that too. I mentioned "then and than" because Johnny tends to mis-use them.
Where the fuck is George Orr? Is this not her department?
I can't be a pervert and a Grammer Nazi, I'm only sub-human.
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#19 2012-01-10 19:17:28
Years ago there was a serious challenge to George's reign as Grammar Queen. As I recall, when the Pretender to the Throne attempted to remove her crown, she repeatedly bashed him with her grammar mace/scepter.
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#20 2012-01-10 20:19:56
fnord wrote:
Years ago there was a serious challenge to George's reign as Grammar Queen. As I recall, when the Pretender to the Throne attempted to remove her crown, she repeatedly bashed him with her grammar mace/scepter.
As well she should of - er - have.
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