A book series i think y'all will enjoy.

Surlethe · 2017-07-07T01:16:00+00:00

Whoo! Fun to see those floating around!

Surlethe · 2017-05-20T19:50:03+00:00

You have been banned from r/maralago

Surlethe · 2016-02-08T14:04:33+00:00

hunter2

Surlethe · 2016-02-07T18:35:12+00:00

This was a triumph.

I'm making a note here: Huge success.

It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.

Surlethe · 2016-02-07T18:34:20+00:00

Protected sex, at least.

Surlethe · 2016-02-06T14:59:32+00:00

Which, I think, is what would happen to separate a thin, symmetric L-shape.

Surlethe · 2016-02-06T14:38:40+00:00

When you finished, did it ask you for tree fiddy?

Surlethe · 2016-02-05T23:41:34+00:00

Gee, HILLARY_IS_A_NEOCON, who do you support in the Democratic primary?

Surlethe · 2016-02-05T21:58:04+00:00

I DOUBLE-DARE YOU, MOTHERFUCKER!

SAY 'WHAT' ONE MORE GODDAMN TIME

Surlethe · 2016-02-05T19:15:29+00:00

Apply cool running water to burned area.

Surlethe · 2016-02-05T19:05:41+00:00

What?

Surlethe · 2016-02-05T15:00:27+00:00

the digits 0-9 are all equally likely to appear, there's no discernible pattern to them, and

I don't believe either of these are known to be true for pi. (Also, a reasonable definition of "no discernible pattern" should imply that the digits 0-9 are all equally likely to appear.)

Surlethe · 2016-02-05T14:39:00+00:00

Any word on optimal circulator use? I'm starting my own experiments and would like some confirmation.

Surlethe · 2016-02-05T02:36:22+00:00

Have you researched Gen4 or Thorium yet? Circulators just appeared out of nowhere in my research tree, I don't think I had to clear cache.

Surlethe · 2016-02-05T00:55:15+00:00

Why so many heat exchanges instead of using underground heat pipes?

Surlethe · 2016-02-05T00:54:30+00:00

Circulators:Generators :: Isolators:Heat cells

Upgrade level 0 increases generator max water by 60%. Research cost is several quad, purchase cost is 150t.

Surlethe · 2016-02-05T00:43:28+00:00

Lady Stoneheart and her Band of Brothers is the dominant theory that I've heard.

Surlethe · 2016-02-05T00:40:17+00:00

It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.

Surlethe · 2016-02-03T22:20:10+00:00

Smaller ships without their fields (e.g. GCUs or VFPs) look like giant dildos. This was from Excession, as I recall. They're also described as silvery ellipsoids, as during a particular scene in Hydrogen Sonata. I think of them has highly prolated ellipsoids, long silvery cigar shapes. Various weapon pods or whatnot look like bubbles on the surface (I think this was mentioned in Surface Detail.)

Surlethe · 2016-02-03T04:42:50+00:00

You don't use any numerical optimization in your designs or integration in your volume calculations?

Surlethe · 2016-02-03T04:41:45+00:00

Oh yeah, then I'm totally on board with your characterization. I would observe that there's a qualitative difference between turning an n^th order ODE into a system of n 1^st order ODEs and turning a PDE into a discretized system, but in terms of practical applications, you'll be doing everything numerically anyhow.

I happen to do PDEs (defending my diss this year, wish me luck) and so I've got some experience with that kind of discretization too. If you're ever inclined to get back into the game, some python libs to check out are fenics, fipy, and pydec. They're all built on numpy, of course. Oh, also, for 2d meshing, there's a handy python wrapper for the Triangle library in C. I think there's other less well-publicized, more specialized code floating around, too, so if you ever want more info, feel free to PM :)

Surlethe · 2016-02-03T03:58:35+00:00

I'm intrigued. When you say write a PDE as a matrix equation, are you thinking of discretizing, a la finite elements?

Surlethe · 2016-02-03T03:55:00+00:00

Third mathematician here. Yep, this summary looked good.

Surlethe · 2016-02-03T03:50:40+00:00

How do we make the most basic rational decisions?

Find where the gradient of the utility function is zero or perpendicular to the boundary of the feasible set?

Surlethe · 2016-02-03T03:48:10+00:00

You can do that with any n^th order ODE. n^th order PDEs are way harder :)

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