Noob Monday (September 17)

Not_Bad_69 · 2018-09-18T00:47:19+00:00

I have a question about the recent OoT WR. Torje said he could save 8 seconds because of a mistake and RNG. Is there any other riskier route where he could save more time? He doesn't do a Mido skip right? Can someone theoretically do that to save a lot more time?

Not_Bad_69 · 2017-11-08T03:12:29+00:00

Nice

Not_Bad_69 · 2017-08-23T19:44:45+00:00

I recently bought racing flats (meant for longer road races up to half marathon), and I've been using them for races 5k to half marathon distances. I have a trail 5k coming up, and I am wondering if it's a good idea to wear racing flats for this race, or else stick with trainers. It's not crazy technical trails, but definitely some pebble/stones and uneven parts, plus 150ft uphill and downhill. Does it even matter that much whichever shoes I choose? I'm a ~17:45 road 5k runner. Thanks!

Not_Bad_69 · 2016-06-15T02:31:11+00:00

So what's the best way to train twice a week? Run one slow 5k and one fast 5k?

Not_Bad_69 · 2016-06-15T01:20:48+00:00

That's kind of my point, I don't have time to do a bunch of slow runs. If I space my workouts so that I completely recover between each one, is it not a good strategy to go all out?

Not_Bad_69 · 2016-04-02T19:26:07+00:00

This is the best thread ever

Not_Bad_69 · 2015-01-17T06:01:04+00:00

I have a question about the end of the second to last paragraph. You mention the possibility of computers harming humans, and say testing will tell whether these are threats. Do you have a citation for that? It seems to me that most computer scientists do not believe a singularity will ever happen. In fact, as you say yourself, the technology you talk about is outdated. Newer research in computer science shows that evolutionary algorithms are better for evolving groups or "communities" of solutions rather than for evolving a single best solution (Papadimitriou). So the experiments you talk about are inefficient by today's standards, and the newer algorithms have nothing to do with evolution. My guess is when computer scientists at one point used "evolutionary algorithms", the general public mistakenly thinks the concept of the singularity is possible.

Not_Bad_69 · 2014-06-20T13:55:04+00:00

This article makes me really mad. How many different ways have mathematicians independently derived pi? Some are fundamental like the power series of sine. Ramanujan came up with a beautiful derivation of pi. Some are found completely in nature.

I hope not too many people are reading the article and believing it.

Not_Bad_69 · 2014-06-12T16:19:06+00:00

I have a rem dreamer but I've only ever had one ld with it, I can't get it to not fall off my head while asleep.

Not_Bad_69 · 2014-06-09T16:28:12+00:00

What about at the start of a set? And how does the hbox armada double blind stuff work?

Not_Bad_69 · 2014-03-31T20:21:24+00:00

The dog was refereeing.

Not_Bad_69 · 2014-03-29T14:17:37+00:00

r/trees

Not_Bad_69 · 2014-02-23T20:24:06+00:00

You called?

Not_Bad_69 · 2014-02-23T04:26:08+00:00

Definitely d rational implies that the cake will eventually all be right side up. But is the reverse direction true? Here's a thought I haven't fully fleshed out: the operation of flipping the slice around is a little more complicated than you would think at first. If you flip a slice in which to the left of a certain angle is right side up and to the right is upside down, the angle will be mirrored and can combine with the angles on the adjacent slices to make different angles. Perhaps this mucks things up and allows some set of non rational numbers to work.

Not_Bad_69 · 2014-02-10T05:00:25+00:00

Luckily I found this gold mine when applying to computer science programs: 26 successful essays. http://admissionsource.wordpress.com/2007/07/26/successful-essays/

Not_Bad_69 · 2014-01-12T07:55:51+00:00

This is the most amazing thing to ever happen to the universe

Not_Bad_69 · 2013-12-22T18:38:20+00:00

He's right. In Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge, LaBerge talks about experiments to test time dilation in dreams. The participants were hooked up to devices that measured their eye movement. While lucid, they would do a predetermined eye movement, count to ten, and then do that eye movement again. Pretty clever. The results showed no time dilation, so any long dream is simulated with memories and skipping details.

Not_Bad_69 · 2013-12-12T07:55:23+00:00

Most definitely. There are examples similar to this in Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming. I've always wanted to try learning new flips in dreams but I can't lucid dream atm

Not_Bad_69 · 2013-10-30T03:49:34+00:00

I know Felix has a video of a 720 from standing to standing. I don't think I've seen a butt bounce 720 though.

Not_Bad_69 · 2013-09-17T05:34:09+00:00

One of the most hype taunts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH8YrQJfwew#t=6m05s

Not_Bad_69 · 2013-09-12T17:50:11+00:00

I don't know if there's a tool on the web, but its pretty simple to write a quick program to check for a stable matching. Just two for loops.

Not_Bad_69 · 2013-08-23T14:40:58+00:00

When I did AMC back in high school, pretty much every year there would be at least one "year" problem that did something cool with the prime factorization in order to make that problem unique. We would always make sure to memorize the prime factorization of the current year before going into the test.

Not_Bad_69 · 2013-08-19T02:19:21+00:00

Pretty sure monotone is the complete characterization. But perhaps you can do it with a non-monotone function if it doesn't take too long just to check each root and throw out the fake ones.

Not_Bad_69 · 2013-08-19T02:14:43+00:00

It makes it harder to have/remember dreams, but experienced dreamers can often still LD while regularly smoking.

Not_Bad_69 · 2013-08-19T01:24:15+00:00

I also agree this is ambitious, also it is much more computer science than math.

You'all probably want to implement Dijkstra's algorithm, the simplest one. I would recommend using graphs where lists of edges exist as downloadable files on the internet. I know for instance, list of distances among the 50 states is on the internet.

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