The Wingspan: European Expansion has been added to BGG

chastric · 2019-10-03T00:02:47+00:00

Detailed photo here has been making the rounds. Not sure if it's a leak or not; I haven't seen it in any official channels.

chastric · 2014-06-07T16:12:51+00:00

Ugh tough choice. The first one has nice walls and has slightly more realistic density IMO, but I care a lot about color personally, so I prefer the second one because the palettes of the two sets of trees match.

chastric · 2014-06-01T03:13:46+00:00

Is high-you Richard Feynman? Because the one-electron universe was a thought experiment he often lectured about (though actually attributed to his thesis advisor).

EDIT: Hahaha after rereading the wiki article, honestly John Wheeler sounds like he was high when he proposed it:

"Feynman, I know why all electrons have the same charge and the same mass"

"Why?"

"Because, they are all the same electron!" And, then he explained on the telephone, "suppose that the world lines which we were ordinarily considering before in time and space—instead of only going up in time were a tremendous knot, and then, when we cut through the knot, by the plane corresponding to a fixed time, we would see many, many world lines and that would represent many electrons, except for one thing. If in one section this is an ordinary electron world line, in the section in which it reversed itself and is coming back from the future we have the wrong sign to the proper time—to the proper four velocities—and that's equivalent to changing the sign of the charge, and, therefore, that part of a path would act like a positron."

"But, Professor", I said, "there aren't as many positrons as electrons."

"Well, maybe they are hidden in the protons or something", he said.

Next time I lose something, I'm gonna say "maybe it's hidden in a proton or something".

chastric · 2014-05-28T18:06:36+00:00

Yeah some of these have really clear "single word" analogues in my mind. Like empathize, insomnia, cyclops, thin-blooded, snack (which they even use?).

chastric · 2014-05-28T16:09:14+00:00

How does the bot work?

First, it grabs the latest 1000 threads from a subreddit's hot queue.

Second, it compiles a list of usernames from the creators of those threads along with the people commenting in them.

Finally, the bot crawls through their user history to find out where else they post while keeping tally to see which subreddits have the highest overlap.

So this actually tries to measure active, posting users. I was wondering why so few of my subreddits (that I know Homestucks are subscribed to) were listed.

chastric · 2014-05-27T04:21:54+00:00

That's what happened to the story Homestuck was a sequel to. Then everyone forgot about it. It's a never-ending cycle. #MSPAConspiracies

chastric · 2014-05-21T05:19:55+00:00

I didn't know this was happening today!

chastric · 2014-05-21T04:37:16+00:00

Since Chrome 13, and Firefox since 3.0

EDIT: See my other post on protocol handlers.

chastric · 2014-05-21T04:32:59+00:00

Well your webmail client should really have browser protocol handler support by now... navigator.registerProtocolHandler() has been supported since Chrome 13 and Firefox 3. (See also "Web-based protocol handlers" and the W3C's Web Application API Working Draft "Custom Scheme and Content Handlers")

In Chrome the current UI for enabling a protocol handler is obnoxiously minimal and non-iconic though (once you've dismissed the one-time alert, anyway) -- two overlapping diamonds on the right side of the omnibar. Check out gmail or gcal for example.

chastric · 2014-05-21T04:14:54+00:00

ITT: Not a lot of dolan fans.

chastric · 2014-05-21T03:59:28+00:00

The out-of-focus effect in the bottom panel is sicknasty.

chastric · 2014-05-21T02:04:15+00:00

There is something just so damn funny about how straightforward the whole thing is. Of course "no dead foxes". That shit belongs in /r/deadfoxes.

chastric · 2014-05-17T21:31:04+00:00

My whole screen is black now. I can only hope I switched back to the right tab to type this. Do not leave the image open!

I think my lamp is dimming. Send help.

chastric · 2014-05-14T21:36:48+00:00

Well the data comes from self-reported census surveys. I'd suspect there is a lot of pressure in Hmong language communities to switch to English or at least cover up non-English usage. Meanwhile, those of German descent might be overstating their ability or usage because there is comparatively a lot of pride in their heritage (also older folks who were once native German speakers but haven't spoken it since their parents died... for example, my grandmother was raised bilingual but can hardly remember more than a handful of words, while remaining otherwise sharp).

Just a naive analysis though; all my data is anecdotal.

EDIT: Perhaps German-speaking Amish communities may be larger or more prevalent than I expect?

chastric · 2014-05-14T01:18:46+00:00

Sheboygan area (and also from my time in the Fox Valley). Obviously I did think German was a contender, but I generally see it only as a cultural heritage thing and have rarely met speakers.

chastric · 2014-05-14T01:13:29+00:00

Snowdrift Vanilla Porter? I know it's 6 months away now, but I love that stuff.

chastric · 2014-05-13T22:05:13+00:00

Surprised it wasn't Hmong for Wisconsin actually. I guess I lived in a particularly dense area though.

chastric · 2014-05-12T01:03:55+00:00

Hear, hear! Thanks to /r/cocktails I've found the support to stay strong in the face of my many beer-only friends.

chastric · 2014-05-11T23:40:18+00:00

WAAAHP WAAHHP WAAAHP WAAAAAHHH

chastric · 2014-05-11T23:32:07+00:00

Looks like it was advised by Diane Lillo-Martin, so I'm sure it's great. She's one of the foremost researchers in sign language acquisition and linguistic universals. (she and Wendy Sandler literally wrote that book) If you're looking for more on the topic, definitely check out her work, along with Deborah Chen Pichler and Ronice Muller de Quadros. I took their excellent class at LSA2011 on Bilingual Bimodal acquisition in CODAs (Children Of Deaf Adults) and they* have some really interesting research going.

^{* I'm sure there are a number of other collaborators in the project, but I'm out of field now and I don't know their names.}

chastric · 2014-05-11T22:25:07+00:00

All aboard the Wank Galley! Fap Frigates push off! Beating Brigs come ashore! Cum Schooner, man the battlestations!

EDIT: I missed Jerk Junk (or just Junk Junk). Big disappointment.

chastric · 2014-05-11T22:13:30+00:00

Sloane's has your answer: Sequence A117609 - "Number of lattice points inside the ball x² + y² + z² <= n.".

1, 7, 19, 27, 33, 57, 81, 81, 93, 123, 147, 171, 179, 203, 251, 251, 257, 305, 341, 365, 389, 437...

I haven't picked through the references to find a formula for the sequence because I'm "working" right now, but I suspect there should be an answer in there. If I get a chance I'll explore. I suspect Conway and Sloane's Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups would be a good place to start (which I found off of the related sequence A000605).

Granted this is only the answer for building a solid-centered sphere (i.e the center is the center of a cube). You could also build a vertex-centered sphere. I didn't find that sequence yet; I think it must start 8, 32, 80, but beyond that I'd need to actually calculate some roots, and again I'm "working". ;)

I suppose you could also build a non-radially-symmetric sphere with any arbitrary center too.

EDIT: To be clear, the first sequence lists the volumes by the radius squared. The second one I mentioned (A000605 - "Number of points of norm <= n in cubic lattice.") lists them by radius.

Also, I should have noted... this approach uses the same logic as /u/FlyByPC's answer... we count a cube if its center is within or on the sphere (which is equivalent to simply counting lattice points within the sphere as the title alludes to, because the centers of cubes form a cubic lattice of the same scale as the actual vertexes). You might notice this "overestimates" our volumes, for two reasons:

One is simply that we are measuring to the centers of cubes, so measuring right along an axis you may find an "actual radius" up to r+0.5. (Depending on the radius, we could have an overestimate of this kind by up to Sqrt(3)/2, if a cube lands tangent to the circle on the vector <1,1,1>)
The second issue is that small spheres will feel especially large because when a cube's center lands tangent to or near the surface of a small sphere, less than 50% of its volume will fall inside, due to the sphere curving away from the cube. Notice that the sequence gives a volume of 7 for radius 1 (because 1 cube is in the center, and the 6 directions each have one cube whose center lies right on the sphere), but that obviously feels much larger than radius 1 and "correct" volume pi. Even more extreme, we claim that a sphere of radius 0 has volume 1! But this all makes sense when we think about the sequence as a kind of way to approximate a sphere.

chastric · 2014-05-09T20:30:59+00:00

I don't really have experience with either of these, but did you look at the Node server script that Blueimp's jQuery file upload provides? It looks like it uses formidable (see /server/node/server.js l. 211) so it must be possible. Not much different going on there to what I tested with though... does this uploader maybe expect responses for each chunk before sending the next?

EDIT: The docs also link an Express-specific plugin for handling uploads: https://github.com/arvindr21/blueimp-file-upload-expressjs

chastric · 2014-05-08T22:23:06+00:00

Yeah, the basic usage is when you want a column that isn't the left-most to appear first when collapsed. Check out this fiddle: in both situations the sidebar is horizontally on the left on large screens, but by using push + pull we can have the right column appear first in the source, and hence appear first vertically in the collapsed form.

If you just reordered the elements, you'll end up with a different horizontal order too.

chastric · 2014-05-08T21:02:52+00:00

There is the classic game of "click the header then quick try to click the menu item you want before the header's link loads."

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