test please delete

[Spartacus]

Now this is my kind of woman

[Fortune Green]

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I was thinking: what would really elevate this thread to above all the others would be if it came up in searches for all sorts of odd things, not just "test please delete". So came up with this cunning wheeze of posting possibly real live useful stuff into this thread. Thereby causing the occasional 'WTF' to be uttered when the enquirer delved further.

What does the congregation think?

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Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten,
habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Kommunist.

Als sie die Sozialdemokraten einsperrten,
habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Sozialdemokrat.

Als sie die Gewerkschafter holten,
habe ich nicht protestiert;
ich war ja kein Gewerkschafter.

Als sie die Juden holten,
habe ich nicht protestiert;
ich war ja kein Jude.

Als sie mich holten,
gab es keinen mehr, der protestieren konnte.

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[PRC1964]

Sorry

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Proof by example:
The author gives only the case n = 2 and suggests that it contains most of the ideas
of the general proof.

Proof by intimidation:
"Trivial."

Proof by vigorous hand-waving:
Works well in a classroom or seminar setting.

Proof by cumbersome notation:
Best done with access to at least four alphabets and special symbols.

Proof by exhaustion:
An issue or two of a journal devoted to your proof is useful.

Proof by omission:
'The reader may easily supply the details'
"The other 253 cases are analogous"
"..."

Proof by obfuscation:
A long plotless sequence of true and/or meaningless syntactically related statements.

Proof by wishful citation:
The author cites the negation, converse, or generalization of a theorem from the
literature to support his claims.

Proof by funding:
How could three different government agencies be wrong?

Proof by eminent authority:
"I saw Karp in the elevator and he said it was probably NP- complete."

Proof by personal communication:
"Eight-dimensional colored cycle stripping is NP-complete [Karp, personal
communication]."

Proof by reduction to the wrong problem:
"To see that infinite-dimensional colored cycle stripping is decidable, we reduce it to
the halting problem."

Proof by reference to inaccessible literature:
The author cites a simple corollary of a theorem to be found in a privately circulated
memoir of the Slovenian Philological Society, 1883.

Proof by importance:
A large body of useful consequences all follow from the proposition in question.

Proof by accumulated evidence:
Long and diligent search has not revealed a counterexample.

Proof by cosmology:
The negation of the proposition is unimaginable or meaningless. Popular for proofs of the
existence of God.

Proof by mutual reference:
In reference A, Theorem 5 is said to follow from Theorem 3 in reference B, which is
shown to follow from Corollary 6.2 in reference C, which is an easy consequence of
Theorem 5 in reference A.

Proof by metaproof:
A method is given to construct the desired proof. The correctness of the method is
proved by any of these techniques.

Proof by picture:
A more convincing form of proof by example. Combines well with proof by omission.

Proof by vehement assertion:
It is useful to have some kind of authority relation to the audience.

Proof by ghost reference:
Nothing even remotely resembling the cited theorem appears in the reference given.

Proof by forward reference:
Reference is usually to a forthcoming paper of the author, which is often not as
forthcoming as at first.

Proof by semantic shift:
Some of the standard but inconvenient definitions are changed for the statement of
the result.

Proof by appeal to intuition:
Cloud-shaped drawings frequently help here.


The above material is by Dana Angluin and was published in Sigact News, Winter-Spring, 1983, Volume 15 #1.

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http://sickflash.com/usa_education.html

[wc2]

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Spam indeed! I thought it really quite educational.