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chessandgo
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Scientific brag!
« on: Jul 6th, 2011, 11:45am » |
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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
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Re: Scientific brag!
« Reply #1 on: Jul 6th, 2011, 12:34pm » |
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Congratulations! I bet completing a Ph.D. makes winning four Arimaa championships seem like a piece of cake.
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Re: Scientific brag!
« Reply #2 on: Jul 6th, 2011, 2:02pm » |
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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. 
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Re: Scientific brag!
« Reply #3 on: Jul 6th, 2011, 4:26pm » |
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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!
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Re: Scientific brag!
« Reply #4 on: Jul 6th, 2011, 11:30pm » |
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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!
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chessandgo
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Re: Scientific brag!
« Reply #5 on: Jul 7th, 2011, 6:31am » |
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on Jul 6th, 2011, 12:34pm, The_Jeh wrote:| Congratulations! I bet completing a Ph.D. makes winning four Arimaa championships seem like a piece of cake. |
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Thanks! But no, it doesn't. In the thesis, you don't have an opponent, so you can't lose
on Jul 6th, 2011, 2:02pm, 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. |
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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 Jul 6th, 2011, 4:26pm, megajester wrote:
Haha
on Jul 6th, 2011, 11:30pm, 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.
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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
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Re: Scientific brag!
« Reply #6 on: Jul 7th, 2011, 7:21am » |
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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. 
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Re: Scientific brag!
« Reply #7 on: Jul 7th, 2011, 9:44am » |
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Congratulations! Huzzah! Woohoo! Yippee! Yaaaaaaaay!
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Re: Scientific brag!
« Reply #8 on: Jul 7th, 2011, 1:47pm » |
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Congratulations!
on Jul 7th, 2011, 6:31am, 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
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What's the case in France then?, nothing at all?
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chessandgo
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Re: Scientific brag!
« Reply #9 on: Jul 7th, 2011, 1:48pm » |
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on Jul 7th, 2011, 7:21am, Swynndla wrote:| You are even more my hero now chessandgo! ... brilliant at arimaa, a sexy accent and brains too. |
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No, I'm not blushing. It's just that the light has a reddish glow.
on Jul 7th, 2011, 7:21am, 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. |
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Sure, they're the same! We have trees, caterpillars, flowers, wingspans... it's all very pastoral.
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Re: Scientific brag!
« Reply #10 on: Jul 7th, 2011, 1:50pm » |
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on Jul 7th, 2011, 1:47pm, Eltripas wrote:| What's the case in France then?, nothing at all? |
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Yeah, why? We keep the word "docteur" for physicians. Saves lives!
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Re: Scientific brag!
« Reply #11 on: Jul 9th, 2011, 6:12am » |
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Congrats C&G 
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
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« Reply #12 on: Jul 9th, 2011, 7:19am » |
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Congrats c&g.
BTW: K\check{r}í\check{z}, not Krí\hat{z}.
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Re: Scientific brag!
« Reply #13 on: Jul 9th, 2011, 10:44am » |
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Wow, you even read the biblio? Ok, thanks for the correction, I hope he doesn't mind my mispelling (or misaccenting) his name.
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Re: Scientific brag!
« Reply #14 on: Jul 9th, 2011, 4:08pm » |
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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
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