Handles

Where, oh where did that handle come from?

Monday, August 7, 2006 by KiloKrash | Discussion: Community

Recently, I was called upon to set up my aunt’s new PC. She’s pretty out of it when it comes to anything technical, so you can imagine the pain I felt. Anyway, I was explaining to her that she will need to create an e-mail account, and that the name she chooses, will need to be something unique and creative. This, however, turned into a spectacle all of its own. Finally, I provided an example of a name…mine. This was the best idea I could have come up with in months. I mean, I nearly fell to my knees in hysteria when I heard what she said about my handle.



"KiloKrash, what the hell kinda name is that! You better not be doing any cocaine! You think I’m stupid, but I know these code words you kids use. Kilo means a kilo of coke, Krash means you’re crashing because you overdosed. How could you give me that name as an example, you should be ashamed."



After I collected myself, I explained to her that KiloKrash could be linked to many things. I however, used ‘Kilobyte’ and ‘PC Crash’ to create my handle...no NOT cocaine. Let’s see, add the crash, subtract the byte, replace the C with a K and Voila!



Now to my point of this post…How is it you came about choosing your handle? Is there an interesting story behind it? Please speak, share with the community your reasoning for your decision.



Cheers,



KK
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TYCUS
Reply #1 Monday, August 7, 2006 1:56 PM
mmmhh.., i cant remember where but i think that there is a thread talking or asking about the same thing...

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btw.., the true story about my nick is that i took it from an ugly movie.., you can google it...
Fairyy~
Reply #2 Monday, August 7, 2006 2:14 PM
Before even coming to WC my first nick name was TheFairy - then A Fairy Tale 4u - then Always Fairy - so hence the user name Fairyy~

If you saw my collection of porcelin fairies, wizards , warriours and dragons you'd understand.

PS : I thought your name meant the same as your aunt interpretation ... or a form of the Cartoon character Clyde Crashcup
Bandit4edu
Reply #3 Monday, August 7, 2006 3:24 PM
I teach technology to business and industry folks...so

Business AnD Industry Teacher

BANDIT...the 4edu came because there are a lot of folks on the internet who wanted to name themselves after Johnny Quest's dog...
Ronan H
Reply #4 Monday, August 7, 2006 4:01 PM
Although my name on here is Ronan H, i usually use "Head" as my handle, but i find that its frequently used already when i try to use it...

The reason, i have a big head...

Head
thomassen
Reply #5 Monday, August 7, 2006 4:30 PM
I used Sir Thomas or Sire Thomas for quite a while. I'm playing alot of strategy games so it derives from there. I went from Sir to Sire as I felt Sire had a more ancient sound to it. (mind you, not based on facts or anything, just somehting my mind desided on) Also, Sire Thomas was less frequent occupied when registring. Lately I've tried to use my real name as much as I can. Mind you it's not easy as Thomas is a very common name, and my last name being Thomassen, .. well.... not much pickings there....
Skinhit
Reply #6 Monday, August 7, 2006 5:38 PM
lets see.....Skinhit? i just wanted to hit some skins!!!
Buttermaker
Reply #7 Monday, August 7, 2006 5:58 PM
Buttermaker... from the movie Bad News Bears. I liked the 2005 edition with Billy Bob Thornton. He played a character named Morris Buttermaker. His attitude and way of life is just like mine lol
SIXX21
Reply #8 Monday, August 7, 2006 6:26 PM
There’s only 2 people who know where (621) aka (SIXX21) came from and what it really means.
But I’m not 1 of them.   

Ok I do know………but really can’t say.  
Xiozan
Reply #9 Monday, August 7, 2006 6:34 PM
Xiozan is a Science Fiction character of my own creation. Its been my off and on again nick, here and there since 1991. Other nick I frequently use comes from a favorite anime movie of mine, Voltage Fighters Gowcaizer.

Gow, Gowcaizer and Xiozan (Pronounced Show zan)

Though it is often easier to use Xiozan to distinguish myself from the masses of Gow and Gowcaizer...some people just have trouble reading it, its why I use Gow or Gowcaizer.

- X
BigDogBigFeet
Reply #10 Monday, August 7, 2006 8:15 PM
Well err umm like most humans I've been known for er uh well um two things. Not looking where I'm going and ahh well ahhh exagerating. Phew! And, oh ya not saying everything fully and stepping in it.   I guess that's four things better stop there.
PoSmedley
Reply #11 Monday, August 7, 2006 8:34 PM
My step-son cannot function without his Pop-Tarts and Iced-Tea in the morning. He's worse than me without coffee. I try to get him to laugh while I fetch his morning meal. I started serving his Pop-Tarts and saying..."You're Pop-Tarts, Smedley", then his tea...'Your Tea, Smedley", both in my best British accent. I have no idea why I chose to call him Smedley. (I even went as far as to make a whole mess of 'Smedley' sayings in wave format for his computer, in place of the normal Windows Sound Scheme. I tweaked 'em all on Audacity with effects and such, which he still laughs at)

When I wanted a nick, I thought about Smedley, but I had been out of work from my spinal fusion for so long, I decided on Poor Smedley. Then I realized, I was REALLY poor and being such, could not afford the O and the R, so it became Po' Smedley.

Lantec
Reply #12 Monday, August 7, 2006 8:48 PM
I'll have to think for a while to remember where mine came from.....but I've always wondered where Fuzzy Logic came up with his.........
SIXX21
Reply #13 Monday, August 7, 2006 8:59 PM
could not afford the O and the R,


  
KiloKrash
Reply #14 Monday, August 7, 2006 10:03 PM
Great stuff! Keep'em coming.
aufisch
Reply #15 Monday, August 7, 2006 11:57 PM
but I've always wondered where Fuzzy Logic came up with his.........


you are sooo evil Lantec!!!    

Yea Fuzzy, tell us, where did your name come from, and what does it mean?????   

(looks innocently...)

seldomseen
Reply #16 Tuesday, August 8, 2006 12:09 AM
Monkey Wrench Gang (book). Character named Seldom Seen Smith (my patronimic). Identified w/character in novel...
cerendir
Reply #17 Tuesday, August 8, 2006 1:23 AM
Cerendir was a name I came up with for my character in Baldur's Gate, but on most other sites I'm more known as West. West is a derivation of my last name and I've actually been using this nickname ever since the late eighties; I used it for signing my artwork back then and it felt quite logical to adopt it as my online handle.
Lantec
Reply #18 Tuesday, August 8, 2006 7:38 AM
There's a earlier post much like this one if your interested WWW Link
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #19 Tuesday, August 8, 2006 7:51 AM

Do I have to do this again? Oh well, you asked for it

Fuzzy logic is a superset of conventional (Boolean) logic that has been
extended to handle the concept of partial truth -- truth values between
"completely true" and "completely false".  It was introduced by Dr. Lotfi
Zadeh of UC/Berkeley in the 1960's as a means to model the uncertainty
of natural language. (Note: Lotfi, not Lofti, is the correct spelling
of his name.)

Zadeh says that rather than regarding fuzzy theory as a single theory, we
should regard the process of ``fuzzification'' as a methodology to
generalize ANY specific theory from a crisp (discrete) to a continuous
(fuzzy) form (see "extension principle" in [2]). Thus recently researchers
have also introduced "fuzzy calculus", "fuzzy differential equations",
and so on (see [7]).

Fuzzy Subsets:

Just as there is a strong relationship between Boolean logic and the
concept of a subset, there is a similar strong relationship between fuzzy
logic and fuzzy subset theory.

In classical set theory, a subset U of a set S can be defined as a
mapping from the elements of S to the elements of the set {0, 1},

   U: S --> {0, 1}

This mapping may be represented as a set of ordered pairs, with exactly
one ordered pair present for each element of S. The first element of the
ordered pair is an element of the set S, and the second element is an
element of the set {0, 1}.  The value zero is used to represent
non-membership, and the value one is used to represent membership.  The
truth or falsity of the statement

    x is in U

is determined by finding the ordered pair whose first element is x.  The
statement is true if the second element of the ordered pair is 1, and the
statement is false if it is 0.

Similarly, a fuzzy subset F of a set S can be defined as a set of ordered
pairs, each with the first element from S, and the second element from
the interval [0,1], with exactly one ordered pair present for each
element of S. This defines a mapping between elements of the set S and
values in the interval [0,1].  The value zero is used to represent
complete non-membership, the value one is used to represent complete
membership, and values in between are used to represent intermediate
DEGREES OF MEMBERSHIP.  The set S is referred to as the UNIVERSE OF
DISCOURSE for the fuzzy subset F.  Frequently, the mapping is described
as a function, the MEMBERSHIP FUNCTION of F. The degree to which the
statement

    x is in F

is true is determined by finding the ordered pair whose first element is
x.  The DEGREE OF TRUTH of the statement is the second element of the
ordered pair.

In practice, the terms "membership function" and fuzzy subset get used
interchangeably.

That's a lot of mathematical baggage, so here's an example.  Let's
talk about people and "tallness".  In this case the set S (the
universe of discourse) is the set of people.  Let's define a fuzzy
subset TALL, which will answer the question "to what degree is person
x tall?" Zadeh describes TALL as a LINGUISTIC VARIABLE, which
represents our cognitive category of "tallness". To each person in the
universe of discourse, we have to assign a degree of membership in the
fuzzy subset TALL.  The easiest way to do this is with a membership
function based on the person's height.

    tall(x) = { 0,                     if height(x) < 5 ft.,
                (height(x)-5ft.)/2ft., if 5 ft. <= height (x) <= 7 ft.,
                1,                     if height(x) > 7 ft. }

A graph of this looks like:

1.0 +                   +-------------------
    |                  /
    |                 /
0.5 +                /
    |               /
    |              /
0.0 +-------------+-----+-------------------
                  |     |
                 5.0   7.0

                height, ft. ->

Given this definition, here are some example values:

Person    Height    degree of tallness
--------------------------------------
Billy     3' 2"     0.00 [I think]
Yoke      5' 5"     0.21
Drew      5' 9"     0.38
Erik      5' 10"    0.42
Mark      6' 1"     0.54
Kareem    7' 2"     1.00 [depends on who you ask]

Expressions like "A is X" can be interpreted as degrees of truth,
e.g., "Drew is TALL" = 0.38.

Note: Membership functions used in most applications almost never have as
simple a shape as tall(x). At minimum, they tend to be triangles pointing
up, and they can be much more complex than that.  Also, the discussion
characterizes membership functions as if they always are based on a
single criterion, but this isn't always the case, although it is quite
common.  One could, for example, want to have the membership function for
TALL depend on both a person's height and their age (he's tall for his
age).  This is perfectly legitimate, and occasionally used in practice.
It's referred to as a two-dimensional membership function, or a "fuzzy
relation".  It's also possible to have even more criteria, or to have the
membership function depend on elements from two completely different
universes of discourse.

Logic Operations:

Now that we know what a statement like "X is LOW" means in fuzzy logic,
how do we interpret a statement like

    X is LOW and Y is HIGH or (not Z is MEDIUM)

The standard definitions in fuzzy logic are:

    truth (not x)   = 1.0 - truth (x)
    truth (x and y) = minimum (truth(x), truth(y))
    truth (x or y)  = maximum (truth(x), truth(y))

Some researchers in fuzzy logic have explored the use of other
interpretations of the AND and OR operations, but the definition for the
NOT operation seems to be safe.

Note that if you plug just the values zero and one into these
definitions, you get the same truth tables as you would expect from
conventional Boolean logic. This is known as the EXTENSION PRINCIPLE,
which states that the classical results of Boolean logic are recovered
from fuzzy logic operations when all fuzzy membership grades are
restricted to the traditional set {0, 1}. This effectively establishes
fuzzy subsets and logic as a true generalization of classical set theory
and logic. In fact, by this reasoning all crisp (traditional) subsets ARE
fuzzy subsets of this very special type; and there is no conflict between
fuzzy and crisp methods.

Some examples -- assume the same definition of TALL as above, and in addition,
assume that we have a fuzzy subset OLD defined by the membership function:

    old (x) = { 0,                      if age(x) < 18 yr.
                (age(x)-18 yr.)/42 yr., if 18 yr. <= age(x) <= 60 yr.
                1,                      if age(x) > 60 yr. }

And for compactness, let

    a = X is TALL and X is OLD
    b = X is TALL or X is OLD
    c = not (X is TALL)

Then we can compute the following values.

height  age     X is TALL       X is OLD        a       b       c
------------------------------------------------------------------------
3' 2"   65      0.00            1.00            0.00    1.00    1.00
5' 5"   30      0.21            0.29            0.21    0.29    0.79
5' 9"   27      0.38            0.21            0.21    0.38    0.62
5' 10"  32      0.42            0.33            0.33    0.42    0.58
6' 1"   31      0.54            0.31            0.31    0.54    0.46
7' 2"   45      1.00            0.64            0.64    1.00    0.00
3' 4"   4       0.00            0.00            0.00    0.00    1.00

For those of you who only grok the metric system, here's a dandy
little conversion table:

  Feet+Inches = Meters
  --------------------
    3'   2"     0.9652
    3'   4"     1.0160
    5'   5"     1.6510
    5'   9"     1.7526
    5'  10"     1.7780
    6'   1"     1.8542
    7'   2"     2.1844

Skinhit
Reply #20 Tuesday, August 8, 2006 8:19 AM
ouch....

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