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« Reply #275 on: April 17, 2013, 10:53:21 am »
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Hohoho, seems Annonymous have taken over Westboro Baptist Church.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Westboro-Baptist-Church/400347320041300

How long has that been going on? I went all the way back to April 4...
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« Reply #276 on: April 17, 2013, 11:41:04 am »
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« Reply #277 on: April 18, 2013, 11:16:03 pm »
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I am paying for my procrastination tonight. Essay+test tomorrow+lots of bio homework=ugh. Especially essay.
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« Reply #278 on: April 19, 2013, 02:58:26 am »
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Casually speedrunning the game VVVVVV. After several attempts, managed to get 23:54 minutes + 59 deaths. Going to try to get some levels more consistent.

(For perspective, the current world record is 13:18, so I'm not doing that good.)
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« Reply #279 on: April 20, 2013, 10:03:32 am »
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Casually speedrunning the game VVVVVV. After several attempts, managed to get 23:54 minutes + 59 deaths. Going to try to get some levels more consistent.

(For perspective, the current world record is 13:18, so I'm not doing that good.)

Ooh, you're a speedrunner? VVVVVV is a fun game for speedrunning, or at least it looks it.
I've been Speedrunning You Have to Win the Game recently, that's quite a fun indie game. My record is 5:23 (1 unintentional death), WR is 4:58. Once the WR gets optimised with the current route it should go down to about 4:50. I contributed to the current route, cut about 20 seconds off the old route.

Also a question. Does anyone know if there's a (sensible) way to make Powerpoint give a random number generator? It would be useful for a club I do AV at.
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« Reply #280 on: April 20, 2013, 11:09:58 am »
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Also a question. Does anyone know if there's a (sensible) way to make Powerpoint give a random number generator? It would be useful for a club I do AV at.
What's AV? I can only think of Adult Video and that's probably not it.
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« Reply #281 on: April 20, 2013, 12:08:59 pm »
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Audio/Visual. So sound desk, music, and projection. And by a club, I meant a children's club :P.
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« Reply #282 on: April 20, 2013, 05:41:13 pm »
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Casually speedrunning the game VVVVVV. After several attempts, managed to get 23:54 minutes + 59 deaths. Going to try to get some levels more consistent.

(For perspective, the current world record is 13:18, so I'm not doing that good.)

Ooh, you're a speedrunner? VVVVVV is a fun game for speedrunning, or at least it looks it.
I've been Speedrunning You Have to Win the Game recently, that's quite a fun indie game. My record is 5:23 (1 unintentional death), WR is 4:58. Once the WR gets optimised with the current route it should go down to about 4:50. I contributed to the current route, cut about 20 seconds off the old route.

Also a question. Does anyone know if there's a (sensible) way to make Powerpoint give a random number generator? It would be useful for a club I do AV at.

I wouldn't call myself a speedrunner. It's more that I decided to play through VVVVVV again, then decided to get the acheivements for dying as few times as possible. So I'm not using the fastest strategies, because those involve more risk and often use death abuse to save time.

First I'm going for getting < 50 deaths, then I'll try to get under 20 minutes, and then I'll probably be done with it.

Edit: Arrrrgghhhh. 21:55, 56 deaths. Definitely would have gotten under 50 deaths if I hadn't messed up so badly on the last couple of rooms, because the rest was amazingly good.
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« Reply #283 on: April 21, 2013, 12:49:00 am »
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« Reply #284 on: April 21, 2013, 03:40:08 pm »
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It's always sad to finish a show, but I am so glad to have it be over. I can now listen to other music rather than practice what I'm supposed to be singing. And I don't have to worry about screwing up that one scene again (who knew that working in a restaurant could be so difficult to sing?).

But I have another show coming up, so I have a different set of music to worry about now.
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« Reply #285 on: April 21, 2013, 03:55:52 pm »
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Chapter 7 is done; chapter 8 is almost done.  Then time to look through the others and update with reviewer comments.  So very busy.
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« Reply #286 on: April 21, 2013, 04:12:25 pm »
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While reading through my notes for a module I'm revising (barely...), I come across a section with the following:

Let X, Y be sets, |X|=x, |Y|=y. Then if y>6x, an injective function F:X->Y exists.

Now, okay, that's a fairly sensible statement. Except this is third year mathematics, and something like that is well below even first year, making it a truly trivial statement at this point.

(There was a reason for it, though, of course, it's still just funny at this level).
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« Reply #287 on: April 21, 2013, 04:16:02 pm »
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I'd like to hear that reason.
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« Reply #288 on: April 21, 2013, 04:37:06 pm »
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We were proving it by the Symmetric Lovatz Local Lemma, I believe.
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« Reply #289 on: April 21, 2013, 05:16:03 pm »
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Lesson: there are too many academics playing Dominion.
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« Reply #290 on: April 21, 2013, 05:20:23 pm »
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Lesson: there are too many academics playing Dominion.
You could always play base octopus.
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Re: Random Stuff
« Reply #291 on: April 21, 2013, 06:07:46 pm »
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Lovatz

(Lovász)



Hungarian pronunciation guide:

s is "sh"
z is ... "z"
zs is "zh", like "jeu" in French
sz is the one that actually sounds like "s"

Disclaimer: I only speak mathematician's Hungarian.
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« Reply #292 on: April 22, 2013, 11:05:24 am »
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And yesterday's "Forgotten English" word is "Queen Dick."

As defined in George Matsell's Vocabulum, or The Rogue's Lexicon in 1859, "it happened in the reign of Queen Dick, it never occurred."

I so badly need to use this in a conversation.

"The last time I won a game of Dominion buying nothing but Villages was during Queen Dick's reign."
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« Reply #293 on: April 22, 2013, 03:07:36 pm »
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Those of you in the TtA crowd will have likely seen my housemate being mean to me in games (spending 7 resources and 3 population to deny me 3 resources, early in a 4p game, for example). So he made the mistake of telling me when his ISODOM match was.
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« Reply #294 on: April 22, 2013, 06:55:41 pm »
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Lovatz

(Lovász)



Hungarian pronunciation guide:

s is "sh"
z is ... "z"
zs is "zh", like "jeu" in French
sz is the one that actually sounds like "s"

Disclaimer: I only speak mathematician's Hungarian.

Oh, yes, it is Lovász. It actually came up in the exam, fortunately just stating the symmetric version, rather than say, proving the general version (for comparison, think: carrying a loaf of bread home compared to carrying four bottles of milk across a tightrope).

In other news, I mentioned I semi-casually speedrun You Have to Win the Game. I've just set a new PB of 5 minutes 13 seconds, which is actually faster than the run on Speeddemosarchive. Still 15 seconds off the world record though :(. Still, this does make me want to record what I do... maybe I can set a world record (probably not though lol).
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« Reply #295 on: April 22, 2013, 07:02:53 pm »
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Random Stuff =/= disruptive and non-contributory posting
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« Reply #296 on: April 22, 2013, 07:04:28 pm »
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Fine. So, did you hear about the redacted?
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« Reply #297 on: April 22, 2013, 08:30:52 pm »
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Random Stuff =/= disruptive and non-contributory posting

Meh.
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« Reply #298 on: April 23, 2013, 02:39:57 am »
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Got it! New PB, 20:14. (http://imgur.com/FPIMsy6)

Wasn't expecting it, since the run felt so terrible. I was expecting something more like 25 minutes or so. Just 14 more seconds.
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« Reply #299 on: April 23, 2013, 02:47:02 am »
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Got it! New PB, 20:14. (http://imgur.com/FPIMsy6)

Wasn't expecting it, since the run felt so terrible. I was expecting something more like 25 minutes or so. Just 14 more seconds.

Is that your personal best for running a marathon?
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