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(Message started by: chessandgo on Jul 6th, 2011, 11:45am)
Title: Scientific brag!
Post by chessandgo on Jul 6th, 2011, 11:45am
Dear all,

I defended my PhD (in discrete maths) just yesterday, I'm very happy. So I could catch up with my postal games today, that's good. Hopefully I'll finish writing my arimaa book this summer with my newfound free time.

Cheers!
Jean
Title: Re: Scientific brag!
Post by The_Jeh on Jul 6th, 2011, 12:34pm
Congratulations! I bet completing a Ph.D. makes winning four Arimaa championships seem like a piece of cake.
Title: Re: Scientific brag!
Post by Fritzlein on Jul 6th, 2011, 2:02pm
Well done, sir!  With luck I will follow in your footsteps four years from now.  In the mean time, the Arimaa community will be glad of Dr. Chessandgo's extra attention.  :)
Title: Re: Scientific brag!
Post by megajester on Jul 6th, 2011, 4:26pm
He is THE DOCTOR!

Dalek: EXTERMINATE!
C&G: I think the word you're looking for is "eliminate." Besides, goaling is much easier.
Dalek: EXTERMINATE!
Title: Re: Scientific brag!
Post by Nazgand on Jul 6th, 2011, 11:30pm
I'd much appreciate your posting you thesis. I doubt I would be able to understand it, but with any luck it will be easier for me to understand than the last one I read, which had far to much quantum for my branch of math.

So, do you prefer Dr. Daligault or... Dr. Chessandgo!
Title: Re: Scientific brag!
Post by chessandgo on Jul 7th, 2011, 6:31am

on 07/06/11 at 12:34:40, The_Jeh wrote:
Congratulations! I bet completing a Ph.D. makes winning four Arimaa championships seem like a piece of cake.


Thanks! But no, it doesn't. In the thesis, you don't have an opponent, so you can't lose :)


on 07/06/11 at 14:02:07, Fritzlein wrote:
Well done, sir!  With luck I will follow in your footsteps four years from now.  In the mean time, the Arimaa community will be glad of Dr. Chessandgo's extra attention.  :)


Heh, thanks, best of luck for your PhD. I think phd theses in France and in the US are pretty different, but in France it's a very pleasant experience. I hope you'll enjoy it too!

Btw, I know in some countries, maybe including the US, people like to put "Dr" in front of their name, but that's definitely not the case in France, so no "Dr c&g" please :)


on 07/06/11 at 16:26:56, megajester wrote:
Dalek: EXTERMINATE!


Haha :)


on 07/06/11 at 23:30:30, Nazgand wrote:
I'd much appreciate your posting you thesis. I doubt I would be able to understand it, but with any luck it will be easier for me to understand than the last one I read, which had far to much quantum for my branch of math.


Well, do you speak French? :) No, actually it's written (besides an introduction in French) in English. It's available at http://www.lirmm.fr/~daligault/these.pdf
Title: Re: Scientific brag!
Post by Swynndla on Jul 7th, 2011, 7:21am
You are even more my hero now chessandgo! ... brilliant at arimaa, a sexy accent and brains too.  I thought I understood a word in your thesis: "caterpillar", but it turns out that this isn't the same thing as what I have in my garden (even though it talked about trees in the same sentence!), so I don't understand any word in your thesis after all.  ;)
Title: Re: Scientific brag!
Post by Sconibulus on Jul 7th, 2011, 9:44am
Congratulations! Huzzah! Woohoo! Yippee! Yaaaaaaaay!
Title: Re: Scientific brag!
Post by Eltripas on Jul 7th, 2011, 1:47pm
Congratulations!


on 07/07/11 at 06:31:59, chessandgo wrote:
Btw, I know in some countries, maybe including the US, people like to put "Dr" in front of their name, but that's definitely not the case in France, so no "Dr c&g" please :)


What's the case in France then?, nothing at all?
Title: Re: Scientific brag!
Post by chessandgo on Jul 7th, 2011, 1:48pm

on 07/07/11 at 07:21:21, Swynndla wrote:
You are even more my hero now chessandgo! ... brilliant at arimaa, a sexy accent and brains too.


No, I'm not blushing. It's just that the light has a reddish glow.


on 07/07/11 at 07:21:21, Swynndla wrote:
 I thought I understood a word in your thesis: "caterpillar", but it turns out that this isn't the same thing as what I have in my garden (even though it talked about trees in the same sentence!), so I don't understand any word in your thesis after all.  ;)


Sure, they're the same! We have trees, caterpillars, flowers, wingspans... it's all very pastoral.
Title: Re: Scientific brag!
Post by chessandgo on Jul 7th, 2011, 1:50pm

on 07/07/11 at 13:47:34, Eltripas wrote:
What's the case in France then?, nothing at all?


Yeah, why? We keep the word "docteur" for physicians. Saves lives! :)
Title: Re: Scientific brag!
Post by robinz on Jul 9th, 2011, 6:12am
Congrats  C&G :D

But, as someone who completed my own thesis (in maths too, although a totally different and almost entirely useless area) just over a year ago, and is still pretty poor at Arimaa despite having been playing for about 6 months, I would query the claim that getting a doctorate is harder than winning multiple Arimaa World Championships  ;)
Title: Thesis
Post by Hippo on Jul 9th, 2011, 7:19am
Congrats c&g.

BTW: K\check{r}í\check{z}, not Krí\hat{z}.
Title: Re: Scientific brag!
Post by chessandgo on Jul 9th, 2011, 10:44am
Wow, you even read the biblio? Ok, thanks for the correction, I hope he doesn't mind my mispelling (or misaccenting) his name.
Title: Re: Scientific brag!
Post by omar on Jul 9th, 2011, 4:08pm
That's awesome; congrats Jean.

I took a quick look at the table of contents: kernels, trees, caterpillars, cherry reduction. You must be an horticulture major :-)
Title: Re: Scientific brag!
Post by Hippo on Jul 9th, 2011, 5:35pm

on 07/09/11 at 10:44:53, chessandgo wrote:
Wow, you even read the biblio? Ok, thanks for the correction, I hope he doesn't mind my mispelling (or misaccenting) his name.


Actually I have only looked at biblio :).
Jiri Sgall and Igor Kriz were Czechoslowak IMO participants leaving high school year before I have entered high school. I was on preparation camp with their coparticipant Jiri Witzany who left high school next year.
Jiri Sgall is still in Prague (and I cooperated with him on my the only published article ... we have already talked about).
I have probably never met Igor.

I have looked at Igor's home page and seems he is used to not using diacritic at all.
Title: Re: Scientific brag!
Post by chessandgo on Jul 10th, 2011, 4:03am
Yes, I started by putting no diacritic on his name as he doesn't use any on his webpage. Maybe that would have been better than getting them wrong :)
Title: Re: Scientific brag!
Post by clojure on Oct 1st, 2011, 9:48am
How's the book, doctor? ;)
Title: Re: Scientific brag!
Post by chessandgo on Oct 8th, 2011, 12:47pm
I realise it's been 15mn since I've started looking for a witty one-line answer. I haven't found anything I fear.
Title: Re: Scientific brag!
Post by UruramTururam on Oct 14th, 2011, 3:24am
I keep my fingers crossed to see your book soon Jean! Let the Arimaa library grow!

By the way, check your BGG account.  ;)
Title: Re: Scientific brag!
Post by chessandgo on Oct 21st, 2011, 6:25pm
Oh wow, BGG. Thanks for mentioning it here! I don't know if I can accept your geekgold though; you've earned it! And I'm already proud enough with a silver camel, I'd be downright unbearable with a gold elephant ;)

As for the book, thanks to our team of proof-readers, it is close to finished (but not yet due to my lack of focus), I'm like rerereproofreading (probably not the last time around either), and I hope it'll be good by... ah... let's say by the end of the WC? :)


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