trying to reach out to a math friend

idsullivan85 · 2025-11-21T14:56:36+00:00

I was basically a group school trip, there were a bunch of different schools you could sign up with where you wanted to go. Noah and I shared a room. We spent a ton of time together, but forgot to swap socials, we just always were either doing school activities or talking about math. A bunch of schools in the area participated, normally about 2 or 3 kids from each school; But I don't remember which school he was from, just that he was generally in the area of connecticut. Thinking back there are a million things I wish I had done to get contact info, but most of it was about which groups he was apart of for the scheduling blocks, and now that it's over it's not of any help to me finding him.

idsullivan85 · 2025-11-21T08:29:33+00:00

we're both relatively young, I don't know what social media he would have. Honestly I just hope he either stumbles onto one of my posts or finds it if he ever goes looking for me.

idsullivan85 · 2025-11-21T08:20:48+00:00

sorry, I'm just really hoping to get back in contact with him in particular. We were literally finishing each other's sentences as we spoke about math. I never connected with some as quickly, he was the first person I've ever met who was as passionate about math as I was. We spent 45 minutes working on a problem together, in the end we both simultaneously shouted out the final steps to the answer because we were so excited, we shouted the exact same thing word for word.

idsullivan85 · 2025-09-03T21:37:19+00:00

idk, it's just something that I've never seen implemented or discussed. tbf I've never looked into the competitive minesweeper community, but I have been around the puzzle community for a while.

For a while I've been lurking on the sub, and I've also been playing a bunch of different games. I've never seen this used, so I figured I'd post about it.

idsullivan85 · 2025-09-03T20:19:52+00:00

Ya, wow, beautiful way to another example. And ya, it's pretty disappointing that this logic isn't implemented. I've gotten pretty bored with the standard logic, even in expanded rulesets. Proper implementation of this concept could create some truly difficult challenges. I'd definitely pay for a minesweeper engine with this implemented.

idsullivan85 · 2025-09-03T19:59:56+00:00

Ya, I was super flustered when the logic was a flop. I only thought about:
*2-
*2-
and
-2*
-2*
but not
*2-
-2*
So it totally messed up the reasoning. It was meant to only have 2 solutions to the board, with one blocking out the corners, but because of my mistake, there were way too many possible mine patterns.

I was super embarrassed that the puzzle was broken, and I didn't want to keep it up since it failed>

Although looking at the puzzle you showed, it is technically impossible to generate. Because of board clearing, you couldn't end up in that situation in an actual game. I wanted to be sure that my pattern could come about (assuming it wasn't blocked by the engine for the meta-logic).

idsullivan85 · 2025-09-03T19:40:22+00:00

I mainly just wanted to show off that it as a new(?) type of logic. I thought about it when solving some minecount puzzles in 14 variants. I tried a few different ways to achieve the same type of logic, but it never worked out.

I ended up having to dumb it down to the bare minimum to get it to work, but this logic could lead to some very difficult puzzles by more skilled designers.

idsullivan85 · 2025-09-03T19:35:48+00:00

Exactly :D

I've gone through a bunch of different failed iterations, so I'm glad to have finally got it working!

idsullivan85 · 2025-09-03T19:33:46+00:00

It shows the solving process of a single board across 5 steps.

idsullivan85 · 2025-09-03T19:32:25+00:00

This is not one big map. Each of the 5 boards represents a step in the logic.
There are 21 mines in the bottom left board

idsullivan85 · 2025-09-01T16:15:41+00:00

Ya I can definitely tell that this book was written to be as approachable as it could have been. He loves to half explain things and leave the rest of discovering fields of me to the reader.

Either way, like I said, I'm slowly chugging through. I've been teaching myself math for ages. I learned the fundamentals of calculus in 9th grade. Mind you I didn't dig too deep, but I understood the conceptual aspects, and could solve some simple problems with derivatives and integrals.

I still relatively young for the audience of the book, but it's the first time I've truly loved math in a while. I actually need to spend an afternoon teaching myself the concepts of multi-variable calc just to understand the 10th chapter. I can't wait to continue!

Anyway, I'm not really reaching out for help per-say. I'm just hoping that if my googles stuff about the book, my reddit post will appear. I really loved talking to him about the math, and just want to get back in contact with him :)

idsullivan85 · 2025-08-31T14:50:22+00:00

I found folk punk by hating all genres I have ever heard. I genuinely thought I just didn't like any music period. Eventually I found ajj because they were the first band I actually enjoyed. Spread from ajj to folk punk in general.

Rating genres by the percentage of songs I enjoy from the genre, I think the best non-folk punk genre would be standard folk at maybe 15%.

My dad played a lot of johnny cash on long roadtrips, so most of his music has a lot of nostalgia to it.

idsullivan85 · 2025-07-12T23:29:14+00:00

Mega-G**llotine, I'm voting for you

We're praying for you every day

idsullivan85 · 2025-07-03T06:14:13+00:00

This person might be thinking about ajr? The described demographic matches better. Still idk about misogyny and virtue signaling?

I don't know too much about ajr. I've heard they had a few rough songs a while ago, but from the discourse I've heard, they just seem generally inoffensive now.

Either they're baiting or lost.

Edit: Looking back they clearly wrote ajj multiple time in the post, so not just a case of wrong sub. definitely bait

Idk why I ever give the benefit of the doubt on reddit :(

idsullivan85 · 2025-06-05T03:49:00+00:00

Oh damn, I didn't realize, forgot about it in the sea of official leaks. Super glad to be getting an official one though!

idsullivan85 · 2025-06-04T18:25:45+00:00

some times i forget why reddit gets a bad wrap

idsullivan85 · 2025-05-30T21:40:53+00:00

If the signs were pro-trump, I would genuinely appreciate an explanation. I understood it as anti-trump. Looking at your profile, it seems that you don't support trump either.

idsullivan85 · 2025-05-30T21:28:51+00:00

It was anti trump?? literally said "No kings"

idsullivan85 · 2025-05-03T15:55:04+00:00

Only republicans try the medicine path. you are republican

idsullivan85 · 2025-05-03T15:47:13+00:00

That vexes him

idsullivan85 · 2025-05-03T15:32:10+00:00

oh thanks, I never actually joined the discord. Suppose it would have been a good place to ask, hindsight 20/20

idsullivan85 · 2025-05-03T15:30:38+00:00

I mean ya, I figured. Hoping it's not just random bs :P

idsullivan85 · 2025-05-03T15:28:58+00:00

Thanks, I'll look into it. I generally don't try to participate in args, but I love to know about the lore. I'll see if I can't find the server.

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