Bell Biv Devoe was just on Fallon doing 'Poison.' I don't know why that made me as happy as it did, but it was awesome. Fucking Bell Biv Devoe!

it needs to get warmer so i am not shivering the first 30 minutes of being up.

kruker wrote:Quote of the year from George Clooney, as to why he won't get into politics:

"I f—ed too many chicks and did too many drugs, and that’s the truth."

Hasn't hurt Jerry Brown

How do you find the standard deviation when dealing with distribuution tables?
(on TI83 too)

Halp!

The Nightman Cometh wrote:How do you find the standard deviation when dealing with distribuution tables?
(on TI83 too)

Halp!

speaking only for myself, my deviation exceeds most known standards

hilarious almost-fight in my dodgeball game last night

"Wish I was up in that ass."

Ahhh, ain't love grand?

The Nightman Cometh wrote:How do you find the standard deviation when dealing with distribuution tables?
(on TI83 too)

Halp!

2nd List, Math #7 is standard deviation tool on TI 83.

traderdave wrote:"Wish I was up in that ass."

Ahhh, ain't love grand?

that I understood. what confused me was "I'll have my office look into it"

It's just a spoof guys.

On the other hand, this is really Chris Wheeler.

The Nightman Cometh wrote:How do you find the standard deviation when dealing with distribuution tables?
(on TI83 too)

Halp!

Do you have to use the TI83? Because it would be pretty easy to do it by hand. (I'm assuming a distribution table is more or less a frequency distribution.)

1 wrote:

If you're in college (or went to college), you know that the worst part of writing a paper is trying to crank out a bibliography/works cited page at the very end when you're brain dead and running late for class. A group of ambitious young students at the University of Waterloo want to bring an end to that with Quick Cite, which lets you use the camera on an iOS or Android smartphone to scan a barcode and have the app email you a properly-formatted entry (in MLA, APA, Chicago, or IEEE formats)

I just tried this. Someone was asking me for a book reference and I had the book, so I scanned it.

This is what it gave me:

Laumann, Edward O., & Gagnon, John H., & Michael, Robert T., & Michaels, Stuart (2000). The social organization of sexuality. University Of Chicago Press.

This is the book I was scanning:

Bernard, H. Russell, & Ryan, Gery W. (2009). Analyzing Qualitative Data. Sage Publications, Inc.

I scanned it again and it gave me the right one. Nice but be sure to double check what you get.

If I'm using this in a reference in a paper, I'll get it through my reference software (Endnote). You can look things up and import them into the software. Then you can put them in the paper and it builds the bibliography automatically and re-formats everything all at one time. One time I submitted a paper to a journal and they asked me to revise and resubmit it and oh by the way we changed our reference style to Vancouver from APA so change all of your references. It would have been a pain in the ass without a reference manager.

However, I send enough book references via email, so that makes this app worth it.

phdave wrote:

1 wrote:

If you're in college (or went to college), you know that the worst part of writing a paper is trying to crank out a bibliography/works cited page at the very end when you're brain dead and running late for class. A group of ambitious young students at the University of Waterloo want to bring an end to that with Quick Cite, which lets you use the camera on an iOS or Android smartphone to scan a barcode and have the app email you a properly-formatted entry (in MLA, APA, Chicago, or IEEE formats)

I just tried this. Someone was asking me for a book reference and I had the book, so I scanned it.

This is what it gave me:

Laumann, Edward O., & Gagnon, John H., & Michael, Robert T., & Michaels, Stuart (2000). The social organization of sexuality. University Of Chicago Press.

This is the book I was scanning:

Bernard, H. Russell, & Ryan, Gery W. (2009). Analyzing Qualitative Data. Sage Publications, Inc.

I scanned it again and it gave me the right one. Nice but be sure to double check what you get.

If I'm using this in a reference in a paper, I'll get it through my reference software (Endnote). You can look things up and import them into the software. Then you can put them in the paper and it builds the bibliography automatically and re-formats everything all at one time. One time I submitted a paper to a journal and they asked me to revise and resubmit it and oh by the way we changed our reference style to Vancouver from APA so change all of your references. It would have been a pain in the ass without a reference manager.

However, I send enough book references via email, so that makes this app worth it.

Scan it again, maybe you'll get "The Sexuality Organization of Analyzing Qualitative Social Data"...

The inside Inquirer sports page -- "Sports Wit" and a photo of a cheesesteak?

jesus christ

not all that many books have barcodes

but as phdave points out, there's already tons of software to help with bibs: EndNote, RefWorks, WorldCat, etc

I know someone who is doing something with someone who may or may not be a Phillies player but I can't talk about it so never mind just forget I brought it up.

i may know about this

karn wrote:i may know about this

shut up

Grotewold wrote:The inside Inquirer sports page -- "Sports Wit" and a photo of a cheesesteak?

jesus christ

Just look at the guy writing the article(and the accompanying photo).