Geek Test

[leviathane]

was to long for me, i got bored xD

 

[Tesla Monkor]

34.12229% - Total Geek

No suprise there.

 

[Maff]

i got 12.62327% Geekish Tendencies
think the own dvd pushed my rank up

 

[echome]

30.96something% - Total geek...

 

[fl3a]

13%, but the test is really weird... having a decent memory and not being totally ignorant about computer stuff makes you a geek? right.

 

[Delket]

33 :d

 

[JoshYouAre]

I got 38.8% ! Major geek!
And I am the least geeky of all of you.
It's not my fault I like rubix cube's, and puzzles, have won at trivial pursuit alot and know over 10 games of cards (granted the majorities are variation of poker or other gambling games).

 

[old.Tohtori]

Somewhere round 8%, as a game dev...

But come on! Who doesn't want a REAL light saber, to be a superhero and to dominate the world.

And everyone has built some kind of a nuclear bomb right?

 

[Coldbeard]

10.84813% - Geekish Tendencies


pfff

 

[Ame]

7.10059% - Poser


hmmmm

 

[Rellik]

4.73373% - Poser


QQQQQQ

 

[evzy]

8.48126%

Phew.....

 

[Zegas]

42.60355%

 

[Serbitar]

i gave up when my eyes started to strain from reading dark green text on a black background

 

[Lamp]

i gave up when my eyes started to strain from reading dark green text on a black background

Pah ! You should try de-coding the Matrix !

 

[Naetha]

37.86% - Major Geek

I have to be quite geeky for my job though (know a fair amount of maths and chemistry) and was really geeky as a kid. For my 10th birthday I got the Dorling Kindersley Encyclopedia of Science and read it from cover to cover about 10 times. Ditto Lord of the Rings.

 

[Lamp]

know a fair amount of maths

OK.

Explain in simple terms what Ito's Lemma is.

 

[JoshYouAre]

OK.

Explain in simple terms what Ito's Lemma is.

Right because it's so hard to google it anyway even if he doesn't know.

 

[Lamp]

Right because it's so hard to google it anyway even if he doesn't know.

Anyone can go into Google and copy & paste the first page they see.

But it takes someone who REALLY knows their maths to be able to describe Ito's Lemma without assuming that the reader has a PhD understanding in applied stochastic calculus.

 

[~Latency~]

5.32544% - Poser

wow im so cool!!

You're lucky there's no option for

"playing world of warcraft 12hours a day for a year" :<

 

[JoshYouAre]

Anyone can go into Google and copy & paste the first page they see.

But it takes someone who REALLY knows their maths to be able to describe Ito's Lemma without assuming that the reader has a PhD understanding in applied stochastic calculus.

so what you're really trying to say is, you're a complete dorky git. ?

 

[elisera]

Anyone can go into Google and copy & paste the first page they see.

But it takes someone who REALLY knows their maths to be able to describe Ito's Lemma without assuming that the reader has a PhD understanding in applied stochastic calculus.

It is used to calculate differential equations (basically, the rate of one thing changing with respect to another for example the price of a stock option changing with respect to time) where the changing variable has a component which is random. Although it won't provide the solution it shows whether a solution is possible - you have to get the solution using mostly guesswork and then use that to prove it right.

Mostly used in Finance for stock prices etc as part of the Black-Scholes model.

In work, and trying to remember finance lectures so that may sound VERY basic (and most likely wrong knowing my memory)...

 

[old.Tohtori]

It is used to calculate differ...*snip* *snip*.tures so that may sound VERY basic (and most likely wrong knowing my memory)...

Yup. That's what the first page in google told me a minute ago.

In SIMPLE terms though; It's a calculation thing, used to calculate changing random things like stock prices.

 

[elisera]

Yup. That's what the first page in google told me a minute ago.

Difference is I didn't use Google

Quite pleased I remembered it though

 

[Lamp]

so what you're really trying to say is, you're a complete dorky git. ?

Not really no.

Elisera, your memory serves you well ! (sounds like a Star Wars quote)

Other than college academics, the people that use Ito's Lemma on a regular basis are quantitative analysts. In investment banks, these guys can easily earn USD 1.7m a year (or around GBP 1m).

I personally wouldn't have a problem being known as a "dorky git" if I was paid a million pounds a year...

All ya gotta do is do applied mathematics to PhD level.

 

[Sharaft]

5.3 poser xD YAY IM NOT A GEEEK!

 

[elisera]

Well personally I see nothing wrong with being a geek

And Cad I am so relieved you are one as well, us girly geeks gotta stick together!!

 

[Kinag]

9.27022% - Geekish Tendencies

 

[Naetha]

As I'm a geologist not a stockbroker, and have never studied finance, I'm unlikely to be dealing with maths related to share price variance over time.

I do however deal with Darcy's law etc, related to groundwater flow, and flow of dense and light non-aqueous phase liquids within aquifers (for example monitoring contamination plumes from diesel spills in unconfined aquifers)

Where:
Total discharge = Q
Hydraulic conductivity = K
Cross-sectional area to flow = A
Hydraulic head = H
Two measurable points = a and b
Distance between a and b = L

Needless to say, even though I use maths on a fairly regular basis, I'm not very good at it, but just because I can't quote some obscure law doesn't mean you should belittle what I do know.

 

[Serbitar]

naetha wubs rocks xD