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Nickname explanations?
Sakinora X:
Sakinora
Saki (先) is a noun meaning 'destination'
Nora (のら) means stray
thus coined as : 'straydestination'
It speaks a lot to me personally and it has a connotative meaning. Basically, my parents see my online self(anime, manga, games) a hindrance and just a pile of random sheez. And that's how I came up with the name. I'm not really astray though. :3
rnuaser:
Hello.
I mispelled my nickname :D
Should be rnauser (rna/dna) but i misspelled it :(
megido-rev.M:
--- Quote from: Sakinora X on February 04, 2013, 11:02:24 AM --- (click to show/hide)Sakinora
Saki (先) is a noun meaning 'destination'
Nora (のら) means stray
thus coined as : 'straydestination'
It speaks a lot to me personally and it has a connotative meaning. Basically, my parents see my online self(anime, manga, games) a hindrance and just a pile of random sheez. And that's how I came up with the name. I'm not really astray though. :3
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So what's the X for?
forks:
I decided I ought to post here because everyone usually seems to assume my nickname is that of some mere utensil.
Well it is not about that, though the eating utensil does exhibit the property after which I have been nicknamed in a way.
Perhaps the purest example would be the fork() function, where by a new process is created by duplicating the calling process.
But, forks in the road, in rivers, in tree branches, and most significantly in causation, exhibit what forks are a little more clearly.
I wrote a paper on probabilistic causation with emphasis on conjunctive forks and that was all I talked about for a year or so,
and thus it became my nickname amongst some of my colleagues.
Also I may be a little insane because of that... viewing the entire world and myself as made up of forks of cause and effect...
So in a way I don't view it as a simple nickname, I am forks (and so are you).
It would be entirely too tiresome to explain here, so if you want to read about causation, here's a link; http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/causation-probabilistic/
Ixarku:
--- Quote from: forks on February 15, 2013, 07:37:52 PM ---I decided I ought to post here because everyone usually seems to assume my nickname is that of some mere utensil.
Well it is not about that, though the eating utensil does exhibit the property after which I have been nicknamed in a way.
Perhaps the purest example would be the fork() function, where by a new process is created by duplicating the calling process.
But, forks in the road, in rivers, in tree branches, and most significantly in causation, exhibit what forks are a little more clearly.
I wrote a paper on probabilistic causation with emphasis on conjunctive forks and that was all I talked about for a year or so,
and thus it became my nickname amongst some of my colleagues.
Also I may be a little insane because of that... viewing the entire world and myself as made up of forks of cause and effect...
So in a way I don't view it as a simple nickname, I am forks (and so are you).
It would be entirely too tiresome to explain here, so if you want to read about causation, here's a link; http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/causation-probabilistic/
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You are either way, WAY too smart or too completely full of shit to be slumming it up here.
But since you're here anyway, welcome aboard. ;D
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