It started as relatively private discussions with friends. freeradical42 started it as a bunch of wine bottles and a bunch of friends sitting around a table in his apartment. But as it grew, it moved to a bar in Brooklyn and is open to the public. It has a panel format, but because of its roots we really try to keep it feeling as much as possible like a private discussion among friends. So... it's an informal panel with audience, open to the public thing.
And yeah, Gmail has something called Mail Goggles you can turn on, where if it's late it'll prompt you to solve a few simple arithmetic problems before sending an email, to prove you're rational enough to not be sending off angry email to an ex-girlfriend or something. It seemed like a good idea, but I found when I tried it for the first time that I was faster and more accurate while drunk than I usually am. And when I told other math/science people about this, several told me they'd had similar experiences.
I'm shit at calculus when drunk, though. What I really want is for Mail Goggles to ask me to do a simple integral calculation before letting me send my email.
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Date: 2012-04-27 04:19 pm (UTC)And yeah, Gmail has something called Mail Goggles you can turn on, where if it's late it'll prompt you to solve a few simple arithmetic problems before sending an email, to prove you're rational enough to not be sending off angry email to an ex-girlfriend or something. It seemed like a good idea, but I found when I tried it for the first time that I was faster and more accurate while drunk than I usually am. And when I told other math/science people about this, several told me they'd had similar experiences.
I'm shit at calculus when drunk, though. What I really want is for Mail Goggles to ask me to do a simple integral calculation before letting me send my email.