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       MIT Splash
       By: Omni_Builder Date: November 25, 2014, 11:41 am
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       Has anyone been to MIT Splash? I just came back from my first
       trip there, and it was incredibly interesting. They offer a
       weekend of short classes taught by MIT students, and there are
       hundreds to choose from, whether it's building a board game or
       learning topology or complaining about programming languages or
       philosophizing about Tolkien. You can learn about it at
       esp.mit.edu--I think over 1000 people participated this year,
       and I can definitely see why.
       Here are a few things I learned:
       [list]
       [li]The Riemann Hypothesis is weird.[/li]
       [li]Discrete Calculus is actually easier than normal
       calculus.[/li]
       [li]It is possible to build a board game in under an hour.[/li]
       [li]There exists a collaborative game in which smarter players
       perform worse, and where handicapping yourself makes both
       players perform better.[/li]
       [li]Bash programmers are epic pranksters.[/li]
       [li]Every algorithm which can possibly be performed by a
       computer can also be represented in the solutions of some
       polynomial.[/li]
       [li]One of the most difficult challenges in video game design is
       texturing, especially when models are made of millions of
       polygons which have to be unfolded and colored somehow.[/li]
       [li]I am terrible at navigating college campuses.[/li]
       [li]And more, which I probably don't know well enough to
       explain.[/li]
       [/list]
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       Re: MIT Splash
       By: bfitzpatrick Date: November 25, 2014, 4:11 pm
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       Where is it?
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       Re: MIT Splash
       By: Omni_Builder Date: November 25, 2014, 4:59 pm
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       At MIT. :)
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       Re: MIT Splash
       By: bfitzpatrick Date: November 26, 2014, 8:24 am
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       Oh. *facepalm* Well, I am definitely never going to it, then.
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       Re: MIT Splash
       By: Omni_Builder Date: November 26, 2014, 12:31 pm
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       I went there from Texas, but only because a bunch of people from
       my school were going, and some of my extended family lives near
       there. I think it was worth it, though.
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