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NEQNET: first two weeks of April | NEQNET: Non-equilibrium Phenomena — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:26:01 +0000

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By: Dmitry

Dmitry — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:48:46 +0000

Other years were traveling to places like Saudi Arabia or Canada – while we went to ? MOCKBA.

Ohohohohoh… ahahahahaha…bugagaga LOL

But my deepest respect in regards to how you treated that general

By: Lubos Motl

Lubos Motl — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 04:29:08 +0000

Yes, I did. It was a fun experience back in 1992. Other years were traveling to places like Saudi Arabia or Canada – while we went to … MOCKBA. But don’t get me wrong, I personally liked it.

A story how I was late at the Prague Airport – because I was helping a 200-kg woman to get to the Wenceslaus Square to a shop with clothes for extended women – became one of the descriptive stories of the event.

A pro-communist demonstration on Tvyorskaya St almost killed me, before I went to see Lenin in his mauseleum. I had to thank an aggressive Russian general “chto on osvobozhdal Pragu” but when I complained that they also brought us hardcore communism in 1968, they split into the liberal and conservative wing: the liberal wing, that didn’t want to kill me, barely won at the end.

The score was lousy for me: 4x 7 points, 2x 0 points (I believe one of them should have been 7, while the other was deserved 0): a bronze medal.

By: Dmitry

Dmitry — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:44:49 +0000

So, did you participate in international olympics? Which year? I never went higher than regional level…

By: Dmitry

Dmitry — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:38:24 +0000

I bet some of those guys are good poker players as well Regarding college times – say, in Eaton, as I’ve heard, it is nowadays typical that every single student participates in a similar competition…

By: Lubos Motl

Lubos Motl — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 05:31:10 +0000

These are not bad prizes. E.g. for the victory in the Czechoslovak math olympiad, I received a backpack for $20.

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348. Trading olympiad | azsearchengine.com — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 04:24:36 +0000

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By: Haelfix

Haelfix — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 03:42:07 +0000

In college there were competitions like this amongst my econ friends (one of which was a roommate). Amusingly its nearly always the same people year after year that perform at the top, a little bit like poker.

There is an art to the whole schtick, its not completely random.