Monday, September 01, 2008

hearsay, about bana¢h $paces?

yesterday i had just started my run from my apartment towards schenley park. as i trotted past two people along the sidewalk, i distinctly heard one of them say:

"oh, it's optimal in some ell one sense."

i was this close to turning around and asking what, in fact, was optimal in the L1 sense. in that split second, however, i decided that i'd rather be a runner than a mathematician, and so i went.

besides, L-1 might mean many things, other than the mathematical sense that i'm assuming.

so supposedly there are (other) mathematicians in my neighborhood, which makes sense. carnegie-mellon is not so far from where i live, and pitt is not much farther.

it was a lovely day in schenley park, by the way.



this idea (from a few days ago) still won't die, by the way. i suppose that i'm obsessing again.

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