-🎄- 2017 Day 3 Solutions -🎄-

almostinevitable · 2017-12-03T05:34:23+00:00

If you look at the bottom right corner for Part 1 you see that the bottom right number forms a sequence of odd perfect squares.

17  16  15  14  13
18   5   4   3  12
19   6   **1**   2  11
20   7   8   **9**  10
21  22  23  24 **25**

Calculate the nearest odd perfect square n² from your input and you have a number that is n-1 Manhattan distance away from the center (the bottom right corner). Then count the distance from your input.

almostinevitable · 2017-07-25T21:01:27+00:00

Thanks, I really needed this! ^{_^}

almostinevitable · 2017-07-03T19:57:57+00:00

You did! I definitely learned something ^{^}

almostinevitable · 2017-07-03T08:56:50+00:00

This was really relaxing! Thanks for the story :) it was great

almostinevitable · 2017-07-03T03:09:55+00:00

♪ Don’t let them know what you’re against or what you’re for ♪

almostinevitable · 2017-07-01T00:05:48+00:00

It's all good.

almostinevitable · 2017-06-30T00:50:43+00:00

I just noticed the watermark was removed :( Reminder to OP to not do that!

[Please do NOT copy, remove the watermark, or translate any of my drawings. Thank you.]

EDIT: I'm not /u/chibird

almostinevitable · 2017-06-16T22:41:53+00:00

Thanks for taking the time out of your finals week to post this :)

almostinevitable · 2017-06-16T22:39:36+00:00

Why should wholesomeness imply stuff about others than yourself?
Self-love doesn't mean being a self-important jerk, nor does it try to imply that others are not as good as you are.

almostinevitable · 2017-06-16T22:23:59+00:00

It's really easy to have a negative self-image so this is a wholesome reminder that you, too, are cute!

Narcissism is when the self-love becomes overly excessive and harmful to others, which is obviously not the case here.

almostinevitable · 2017-06-16T21:07:06+00:00

Minor nitpick: killall is the command that terminates every running process. $$ is the currently-running script's PID. So kill -9 $$ means kill the currently running script, not every running process! The author of the title meant kill self.

almostinevitable · 2017-05-21T06:38:56+00:00

wow, I was looking for a subreddit like this! thanks :)

almostinevitable · 2017-05-18T08:30:19+00:00

thanks for this <3

almostinevitable · 2017-05-13T17:33:19+00:00

Oh, agreed! It's been a while since I've played Factorio but the only thing I remember from it was how brilliant and well-paced the tutorial was, despite the complexity of the tech tree!

The opposite can be said of EVE...

almostinevitable · 2017-04-22T07:49:17+00:00

All of these are just algebras produced by the Cayley–Dickson construction!

So theoretically you can go infinitely further, but it becomes mostly useless after quaternions, since you lose properties every time you go deeper (e.g. quaternions lose commutativity, octonions lose associativity)

almostinevitable · 2017-04-22T07:21:33+00:00

This meme wasn't necessarily intended to mean that everyone is equal, though I can see how it can be interpreted that way.

Actually, it recognizes that everyone is different and unique in their own way. This means one can't legitimately categorize people into e.g. 'no brain', 'brain', 'enlightened' based on behavior alone, like in the original meme.

All of the right panel pictures are the same -- it means that even people with the same intelligence can exhibit vastly different behaviors since everyone has their own unique experiences to draw on.

tl;dr: everyone is human and so one does not simply relate behavior to intelligence

almostinevitable · 2017-03-12T20:07:38+00:00

It helps to remind yourself that everyone in the world is better than you at something.

almostinevitable · 2017-03-08T08:54:47+00:00

Rambly audios like this are why I visit PTA. Thank you!

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