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Nickname explanations?
megido-rev.M:
--- 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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My first thought.
forks:
--- Quote from: Ixarku on February 15, 2013, 10:32:20 PM ---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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lol, are you kidding? reading manga and listening to jpop jmetal is the patrician way to relax.
thanks for the welcome though. :P
HeartVivian:
Hmm. Possibly the most unoriginal answer would be that I was 10 when I started using the internet and it's kind of stuck with me. I usually go between "heartless" and "heartvivian" and since heartless is usually almost always taken for some reason, I am left with the latter. Obviously "Vivian" refers to my first name.
metro.:
--- Quote from: HeartVivian on March 06, 2013, 11:05:19 PM ---Hmm. Possibly the most unoriginal answer would be that I was 10 when I started using the internet and it's kind of stuck with me. I usually go between "heartless" and "heartvivian" and since heartless is usually almost always taken for some reason, I am left with the latter. Obviously "Vivian" refers to my first name.
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Heartless is always taken because the internetworld is populated by angsty teens.
HeartVivian:
--- Quote from: metro. on March 07, 2013, 03:16:59 AM ---
--- Quote from: HeartVivian on March 06, 2013, 11:05:19 PM ---Hmm. Possibly the most unoriginal answer would be that I was 10 when I started using the internet and it's kind of stuck with me. I usually go between "heartless" and "heartvivian" and since heartless is usually almost always taken for some reason, I am left with the latter. Obviously "Vivian" refers to my first name.
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Heartless is always taken because the internetworld is populated by angsty teens.
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Haha. Probably true. Well, maybe I should get out of the habit of using an immature username for everything. I think it makes me seem like I'm 10 (again).
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