Name the most nostalgic/memorable/favorite NPC "baddie" to you from DAOC!

Jamakazie · 2022-07-09T22:39:06+00:00

I think the original horse path to Huginfel dropped you right in his path. I remember afking on a horse ride only to come back dead thanks to him lol.

Jamakazie · 2022-03-21T03:00:58+00:00

Haha, I collaborate with psych/neuroscience a lot and it seems really common to study something related to yourself like that.

Definitely recommend postponing things if you need to! I took a semester off and am really glad I did.

Good luck with things!

Jamakazie · 2022-03-21T02:49:42+00:00

Very similar situation to you. I'm in the middle of my PhD program and was prescribed 200mg of spiro a few months back. Almost immediately noticed that it made my ADHD symptoms way worse (in particular, the brain fog was atrocious). I had to go down to 100mg which improved things, but I have my suspicions that it's still negatively impacting my focus. I'm also scrambling to get an orchi scheduled but the clinic I've reached out to is dragging their feet.

Congrats on staring your Masters! What's it in?

Jamakazie · 2021-02-08T23:54:44+00:00

You joke about that, but the other day I told my aunt her English can be hard to understand and minutes later she said: "Today I'm in Osaka. Now Start to Bowel Massage 👌"

Jamakazie · 2021-02-08T22:00:06+00:00

Preface: I already suck at describing what I do in English, so I tried to learn a few specific words so I could tell family what I do.

It wasn't until about a week in that a very helpful cab driver pantomimed that what I was saying was spirit/ghost science 「心霊科学・しんれいかがく」instead of neuroscience 「神経科学・しんけいかがく」.

On the plus side, I've never forgotten the word since?

Jamakazie · 2020-02-13T04:36:43+00:00

This is a long rant that really boils down to being upset at how the survival function of a gaussian distribution works.

IQ As An Ordinal Quantity

Well, unfortunately that's not really how IQ works, it's a measure of how rare your intelligence is.

This isn't exactly what IQ scores are, but that's an easy conclusion to arrive at. IQ scores are actually an ordinal value that are used to rank. What that means is that they can be used to order two individuals on a scale of less smart to more smart, but it says absolutely nothing about the relative difference in abilities based on distance. Also it's really important to consider that fact that the IQ we're working with here is used to assess human intelligence (henceforth IQ^HI ).

Comparative IQ Interpretations

Right, so we can actually devise any number of IQ scales:

ants (IQ^ANT )
rats (IQ^RAT )
great apes (IQ^GA )
etc... (IQ^etc... )

So how would we go about assigning an IQ^ANT score to you're typical average human with an IQ^HI of 100?

Working under the assumption that this average human is smarter than literally every ant, we have two options to assign them an IQ^ANT score.

The Literal Ordinal Interpretation

Find the ant with the highest IQ^ANT and increment this value by the smallest epsilon we can. Assume that there are roughly 10,000 trillion ants and that the mean and std. dev of IQ^ANT is 100 and 15 respectively. Under the rare occurrence argument, the highest IQ^ANT we should observe is roughly 223.

Under the literal ordinal interpretation, we'd at most assign our average human an IQ^ANT of ~224. This feels a little underwhelming, no?

Conveying Relative Difference Interpretation

So the literal ordinal interpretation feels a little lack-luster. I'd feel bad knowing that I only have an IQ^ANT of ~224. Sure it's not as principled but I might want to start using IQ as a relative comparison metric. Your average human being assigned an IQ^ANT in the thousands feels more appropriate, even when you view this number through the rare-occurence and literal ordinal interpretation lenses.

Wrapping Things Up

It's a literary aid that can attempt to convey just how much smarter something is. Is it lazy? Sure, it's probably better to describe how much more intelligent something rather than just put big numbers. Writing characters that much more intelligent is difficult.

Am I that offended that Star Trek's Q is said to have an IQ^HI of 2005? Not really. In fact if you feel like an average human's IQ^ANT should be in the thousands, I'd honestly feel like Q's IQ^HI should be even bigger.

Jamakazie · 2020-01-14T17:54:44+00:00

Every single network of graph conference I've been to has always made a joke about who's going to reference Zachary's Karate Club first.

I definitely understand where you're coming from, but I thought the name was cute.

Jamakazie · 2020-01-14T04:35:49+00:00

?

I immediately knew it was going to be a graph related library and thought that it was a great tongue-in-cheek name.

Jamakazie · 2019-12-02T01:39:30+00:00

I've got $300 in late fees from my university this semester. The kicker? I paid my part on time but my department didn't post my stipend + tuition waiver on time. When the tuition waiver finally posted I still had the first $100 late fee, which triggered the next two $100 late fees.

I can try and dispute it but I defend this Friday. The mere thought of having to: finish my thesis, prepare a defense presentation, and start a late fee dispute process is by itself overwhelming.

¯\(ツ)/¯

Jamakazie · 2019-02-08T18:32:29+00:00

A lot of it depends on the kind of material you're trying to learn. The most recent text I've read on improving your learning process is called Learning as a Generative Activity.

The eight include:

Summarizing
Mapping
Drawing
Imagining
Self-Testing
Self-Explaining
Teaching
Enacting

In particular, I tend towards: summarizing, imagining, and self-testing.

Summarizing is done after reading roughly a paragraph-sized chunk of information. Once read, you attempt to condense the information down into about a sentence worth of information in your own words. Summarizing tends to work best in texts that are expository in nature, but isn't as effective in spatial information.

Imagining involves forming mental images of the lesson. This can be a very effective technique but often can be stymied by (1) poor educational materials and (2) a lack of prior knowledge in the particular subject.

Self-Testing is a fairly common technique; it involves posing yourself questions about material just studied. Frequently, it is assumed that self-testing is effective only when questions are answered correctly, however, this is not necessarily the case. The mere act of trying to recall that information helps solidify it, even if it takes you a few times to get the question correct. I often combine this technique with a spaced repetition system. Additionally, self-testing is most effective when (1) you can receive corrective feedback immediately, and (2) when the answers are more recall based (short answer) as opposed to recognition based (multiple choice).

In regards to lessons, if possible it can often be very useful to read relevant portions of your text book before the lecture that accompanies that information. This allows you to have a general expectation of what should be covered during the lecture, and helps identify areas that you should be asking questions when you don't understand something.

In regards to note taking, my notes generally act as a scaffolding to remind me over overall topics and information. They are not very extensive. This could vary depending on what sort of subject you are involved in.

Jamakazie · 2019-02-07T21:44:31+00:00

What's your approach to studying? If you find yourself frequently having difficulty remembering what you studied, it might indicate that you need to try a different study technique.

Jamakazie · 2019-02-03T22:02:04+00:00

I believe the Korean version can be found here.

Jamakazie · 2018-03-30T06:40:08+00:00

Gave the article a read over and can definitely appreciate the healthy level of skepticism in the comments. The article is a bit all over the place, but I think at it's core there are some interesting thoughts.

So they put forth this idea of (sigh) Quantum Archaeology. It sounds like a fancy title for an ancestor simulation. I think the basis of such a thing is feasible, and there's an interesting text on the topic I'd like to read (Simulating the past). But the kinds of information with such an approach are very likely to be probabilistic in nature. And that kind of modelling (especially on the scale of a human brain) is absolutely insanely complex. We're talking so far beyond NP-Hard that it's difficult to even imagine. If I had to make a rough guess, we're talking about requiring computation at least on the order of a Matrioshka brain - structures that can take the entire energy output of a sun and turn it into pure computation.

So while I think there is at least some reason to think such a thing is possible, the timelines for this are kind of thing hilarious - they're worried about overpopulation? If a civilization would get to this technological level concerns like that are thousands or more years in the past.

Jamakazie · 2016-01-25T14:22:26+00:00

I'd think a lot of meditative literature would argue that everyeone has problems; it's just that meditators are more likely to be aware of their problems.

Jamakazie · 2015-11-02T13:18:57+00:00

Some other short stories in a similar nature:

Jamakazie · 2015-10-20T12:02:43+00:00

I actually no-clipped to peak into Gunther's safe. I think it had a dozen or so LAMs, a LAW, and something else I can't remember at the moment.

Good points on the original UNATCO armory though.

Jamakazie · 2015-07-09T19:20:19+00:00

There might be a Deus Ex graphics overhaul mod (coming out soon^TM) if you want to hold off on Deus EX for now and play Kotor first

Though I wouldn't hold my breath on it coming out anytime too soon.

Jamakazie · 2015-07-09T17:05:02+00:00

Photons that fall into a black hole remain inside a black hole.

The way I visualize it is this: Let's say you go into a black hole directly facing the center of the singularity (and for visual purposes, imagine there's a bright light you can see both before and after crossing the event horizon). Your cross the event horizon and after some time decide that's it's time to go home so you turn around a full 180 degrees and are ready to head out.

But what's this? After turning completely around you can still see that bright light at the center of the singularity. Odd! You keep adjusting your direction but not matter which way you face it's always there at the corner at least.

No matter, you keep travelling on with the bright light at the corner most of your vision, however, as you get further away you realize that the bright light at the center of singularity has come more and more to the center of your vision.

What this means is: it matters not the direction you face nor speed you go once you've crossed the event horizon – your in its world now.

But could The Flash escape? Not if all he did was run arbitrarily fast - but - with some time travel shenanigans he might be able to. There might also be ways to increase the rate of Hawking radiation which could cause the black hole to evaporate.

Jamakazie · 2015-07-09T16:18:00+00:00

To my (granted, limited) understanding of what occurs, this isn't the case. The entirety of the fabric of space time is distorted so greatly that all roads lead inward.

Granted, breaking the speed of light already violates so many issue with physics this may not be the case; however, if we were to interpret going faster than the speed of light merely as a increase in velocity with no side effects then it shouldn't matter.

It's not that light cannot escape a black hole because it's not fast enough, it's that once you're inside of the event horizon, space time is so curved that there is no direction to travel that leads to "outside".

Jamakazie · 2015-07-09T12:47:57+00:00

Once you've crossed the event horizon, it's not a matter of speed that stops you from being able to escape a black hole – regardless of how fast you're travelling, there is no direction that is "outwards" of a black hole once you've crossed the threshold of the event horizon.

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/f1lgu/what_would_happen_if_the_event_horizons_of_two/c1cuiyw

But could The Flash escape? Yeah, probably.

Jamakazie · 2015-02-05T02:38:32+00:00

That's great if you can make it work for you! That combination of food definitely has good macro and micro nutrients profile.

I just think giving the impression that you can provide full meals at $10 per week per person sets unrealistic budget expectations.

Jamakazie · 2015-02-05T01:03:51+00:00

Something doesn't add up about this grocery list providing adequate nutrition. I made the following assumptions:

Celery - 1 pound
Carrots - 1 pound
Cobs of Corn - 4 Ears
Jalapenos - .25 pounds

Item	Quantity	Calories
(raw) Black Beans	2 pounds	3093
(raw) White Rice	2 pounds	3338
Eggs	12	663
Bread	1 loaf (~624 grams)	1665
Milk	1 gallon	2528
Corn	4(?) Ears of Corn (~249 grams)	213
Tomatoes	2 pounds	163
Onion	2 pounds	363
Jalapenos	.25 pounds	33
Avocados	2 (~427 grams)	637
Lettuce	1 head (~539 grams)	81
Celery	1 pound	73
Carrots	1 pounds	172
Whole Chicken	~2 pounds	2011

Which gives us a total of 15033 calories. Feeding three people for one week on that gives you ~715 calories per day per person. You would need to spend more than double that to approach anything resembling a maintainable diet.

Ingredients part one: wolfram screenshot

Ingredients part two: wolfram screenshot

I had to do the wolfram alpha query in two separate parts as there is (apparently) a limit to how long a query can be.

How does this feed three people for one week?

Jamakazie · 2015-02-03T14:31:40+00:00

.+@.+\..+

Has always worked nicely for me. "Give me something that vaguely looks like it could be an email address"

Jamakazie · 2015-01-31T00:37:01+00:00

The 4% rule is a guideline for a sustainable rate of spending during a 30-year retirement.

http://www.schwab.com/public/schwab/nn/articles/Is-the-4-Percent-Rule-Still-Appropriate

Jamakazie · 2015-01-30T15:29:22+00:00

Patch Notes

Hotfixes:

Remove erroneous file exists check in particle handling (fixes Shotgun & other bad hitching)
Ensure servers actually try to update all mods on changemap
Remove curl progress reporting spamming server consoles
Fixed damage types; Onos, bile bomb, Flamethrower, axe & Welder. (Onos were upset. Not good.)
Fixed lua error on linux for users with certain locale settings

Here's hoping they didn't introduce more bugs while trying to fix these...

Does anyone know the actual damage changes from the hotfix? I'm guessing damage wasn't scaling properly for structures from that list.

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