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Not really, as we were rusty and playing poorly anyhow. Also, I'm not quite sure how the difficulty enters into it; CO wasn't exceptionally difficult this year, as far as I could tell. This is what I get for posting without really thinking about what I'm writing. I agree with Selene's assessment of...

(though the 620-5 victory over a Reece/Onyisi led Cornell is certainly quite impressive.)

Not really, as we were rusty and playing poorly anyhow. Also, I'm not quite sure how the difficulty enters into it; CO wasn't exceptionally difficult this year, as far as I could tell.

My opinion probably shouldn't matter since I have never played in one of these tournaments, but I think I would be much more likely to play at one that allowed 2-person teams. I think it's more reasonable for the tournament to have challenging questions in all subjects if teams have two players; two...

Modern pedagogies have no need for all of the various substitution tricks that can be done. Any of a number of tools can be used to solve that plasma discharge integral. You don't have to do it. It is a misnomer that somehow the ability to do that integral makes you smarter or better prepared, unle...

I don't really feel like getting involved in this argument. I've made a suggestion that might or might not prove acceptable, and I have little else to offer. But I do want to say one more thing, briefly: I think a straw man is being attacked in some of the posts here. How many science players make t...

I was afraid "fluctuation-dissipation theorem" was a bit on the hard side, but I was trying to come up with non-obvious stat mech / condensed matter questions to offset my personal bias toward particle physics / field theory, and the theorem does seem to be among the more important results...

setht wrote:Fortunately, we have started working on a top-secret current events-destroying cyborg, using a small fraction of our club budget of infinity dollars.

What is it with Chicago and cyborgs, anyway?

Hi Susan -- Almost anything you could want to know about physics or mathematics is readily available on the web. In both fields heavy use is made of the archive -- http://www.arxiv.org -- where all new papers are posted before they are published. Print journals are essentially ignored in many fields...