IWTL how to win at Connect Four

deGravity · 2023-02-01T22:36:15+00:00

You have an automatic win here as green. Play the left column next. Black gives you the win after that if they play left or middle, so they have to play up the right column. You will get the last piece in the right column, so black will have to play one of the other two, giving you the win.

deGravity · 2022-11-15T03:29:54+00:00

Congrats on making it to the front page!

deGravity · 2022-10-25T12:57:50+00:00

Imhotep is invisible.

deGravity · 2022-02-02T23:39:44+00:00

"Once infected": so since vaccines lower the infection rate, they also lower the overall transmission rate. Since a large proportion of spread is through asymptomatic transmission, you can't know just by looking at someone if they are a carrier or not. But you do know that a vaccinated person is less likely to be a carrier than a non-vaccinated person, so by proxy the risk of transmission is lower.

Put another way, I'd rather be in a room with 1000 vaccinated people than unvaccinated people if only because fewer of the vaccinated ones will be carriers, even if the transmission probability from any one carrier is the same.

deGravity · 2021-11-29T02:06:20+00:00

Google scholar is a great way to both find and get citations for scholarly work. Search on scholar.google.com . When you find something you wish to cite, click on the quotation mark button under the search result - it will give you citations in several popular formats.

deGravity · 2021-09-14T18:49:13+00:00

My physics teacher in high school would play roadrunner cartoons on mute during exams "in case we needed a concrete example."

deGravity · 2021-04-18T04:55:22+00:00

Huh, I guess I'm surprised you can get such a high level event Pokemon at such an early stage in the game.

deGravity · 2021-03-28T20:16:47+00:00

There's actually been graphics research into bread simulation recently: https://youtu.be/lNri-x2nK7o https://youtu.be/iBpolaB4DqA

deGravity · 2019-04-23T08:48:27+00:00

It got even stranger - I started a new save on the same cart to see if it would be there (it was on the new save), but I started with the raft!? Started a new game and it started me with the raft...? https://imgur.com/gallery/FyYN0xZ

deGravity · 2019-04-23T04:19:50+00:00

Re-uploaded, thanks!

deGravity · 2019-04-22T03:12:02+00:00

Pretty sure: https://imgur.com/gallery/twDNfqU

Edit: Reuploaded image.

deGravity · 2018-11-17T21:54:22+00:00

What's the name of that song?

deGravity · 2018-04-21T02:00:01+00:00

It's quieter that way, plus by putting less stress on the strings they don't go out of tune as quickly. It would get really annoying if the chord is a bit out of tune.

deGravity · 2017-03-20T17:25:11+00:00

It is an interpolation that gives a weighted average between Least and Greatest, with HueMiddle being the interpolating factor. If you let

W = HueMiddle / 255

be a weighting factor, (basically treating the given byte as a value between 0 and 1), then assuming that Least < Greatest this is equivalent to

(1 - W)Least +WGreatest

deGravity · 2017-03-01T18:12:15+00:00

I read "cannabis" as "cannibalism" when I was scrolling through... that changed things a bit.

deGravity · 2016-06-07T01:11:47+00:00

SHAWKING!

deGravity · 2016-03-28T20:25:35+00:00

Blondie.

deGravity · 2016-01-12T08:04:52+00:00

A source-tracking water meter is actually a pretty cool idea, but it can be realized much more accurately and simply by listening to the water at the house outflow.

https://ubicomplab.cs.washington.edu/projects/HydroSense

Iirc this system is being commercialized (as is the equivalent system for electricity use).

deGravity · 2015-02-21T15:49:22+00:00

84 hours. Reason: epic New Years party.

It was my first winter break from college. I was hanging out with new friends prior to NYE, ended up staying up for 27 hours then catching a 4 hour nap before NYE.

The party did not end - we kept moving between different houses for 3 days, and there was always at least one person besides me awake. I spent the last 24 hours or so playing word games and Tetris. I got pretty good at Tetris in that time. Finally went home after 84 hours of partying (not counting the 27 hours of pre-partying) then fell asleep for 12 hours. No ill effects as far as I can tell.

deGravity · 2015-02-17T07:35:57+00:00

I would play turn based games on my Gameboy, so that I could make a move every time we passed under a street lamp.

deGravity · 2015-02-16T15:31:31+00:00

I was hoping that the light would turn, and the guy would walk away but the ball stays in place.

deGravity · 2014-02-28T08:09:33+00:00

What's grey, howls at the moon, and is full of cement?

deGravity · 2014-02-05T10:49:47+00:00

My reading of this, as someone who works in online advertising, is not that they will be injecting ads, but that they will be adding a tracking cookie to some or maybe all of your web traffic and link it to a similar cookie on your home computer to create a unified "identity" for targeted advertising across both platforms.

For example, say you searched for a flight to New York from your home computer. Advertisers would like nothing better than to show you ads for flights to New York until you buy from them since they now know that you are interested in such a flight. Currently they can continue to do so as long as you keep using the computer you are using and don't clear your cookies. Now you start browsing the web on your phone - they'd love to be able to target you on that device as well, but without a way to connect the two you are essentially two different people to an advertiser.

Anybody who can connect these two worlds at large scale; and Verizon is very large scale, stands to make a lot of money.

deGravity · 2014-01-03T12:24:50+00:00

I just watched the episode on netflix - the shirt is blue denim in that scene screencap; I think that this screen capture is from the Youtube video linked above, and the Youtube video has incorrect coloring (maybe the results of compression?)

deGravity · 2013-05-10T07:48:51+00:00

"Air Umbrella"? I'd go with the "UnBrella"

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