The man with the Y Combinator tattoo

http://scienceblogs.com/loom/2007/09/21/mathematical_markings.php

by norvig • 19 years ago

26 17 19 years ago

far33d2• 19 years ago

Wow.

That wins for world's dorkiest tattoo. Dorkier than the golden ratio. Dorkier than e^{i\pi} \eq -1, and maybe dorkier than using latex notation in a web forum :)

naish• 19 years ago

+1 for the use of LaTeX notation.

kcl2• 19 years ago

-1, extraneous use of \eq

$e^{i\pi}=-1$

: )

http://nirvana.informatik.uni-halle.de/~thuering/php/latex-o...

'LaTeX compiler' cloud app...very 2.0

mdemare• 19 years ago

Oh, I've got one of those, only in Javascript.

euccastro3• 19 years ago

Heh,

"I hate you with the radiance of a thousand suns. I wish you get the Y Combinator tatooed, in Java!"

centipede2• 19 years ago

May you live in interesting times?

gms2• 19 years ago

I wonder if he has a wife/girlfriend.

lambdaknight• 19 years ago

Sadly, I do not at the moment. The position is open for any girls who love guys with dorky tattoos. ;)

ivankirigin2• 19 years ago

I never understood comments like this. They assume there are no geek girls with similar interests.

gms2• 19 years ago

Relax, was a joke.

ivankirigin2• 19 years ago

I'm thinking about getting a tattoo. The goal is to get something that is aesthetically pleasing in an abstract sense, to avoid thinking something is ugly years later.

I was thinking about the great wave, a dragon, a dragon fly or something else made up of PCB layout lines. I think that would look very nice on a forearm. http://www.imakethings.com/2007/09/14/image-to-pcb-app-and-p...

Most science tattoos are very, very ugly. And what if maxwell's equations or the Y-combinator get invalidated in the future :-P ?

centipede2• 19 years ago

Maxwell can get invalidated. Math can't.

axiom• 19 years ago

Ahem. Russell paradox.

Granted it's been a while, but one can never be too careful.

euccastro3• 19 years ago

Gee, imagine waking up hungover after a total blackout and discovering that on your arm...

The man with the Y Combinator tattoo

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