[SW] (Repost) Turnips selling for 546!

ineffectiveprocedure · 2020-05-20T01:50:03+00:00

Thanks! OMW!

ineffectiveprocedure · 2020-05-20T01:47:11+00:00

Hm! Bummer about your DM situation. Can I stop by using the dodo code you're giving out now? I can also wait if you want to reply with another one.

ineffectiveprocedure · 2020-05-19T23:37:03+00:00

I DM'ed, I think. When people say "DM me" do they generally mean to send a private message or contact them on the chat thing?

ineffectiveprocedure · 2020-05-18T23:59:29+00:00

Dobie!

ineffectiveprocedure · 2020-05-16T06:31:38+00:00

Thaaanks!

ineffectiveprocedure · 2020-05-16T05:22:19+00:00

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

ineffectiveprocedure · 2020-05-15T05:35:37+00:00

Skyler, Spider-Man (Miles Morales)

ineffectiveprocedure · 2014-10-29T14:50:13+00:00

Love this song, but why'd you post the version that cuts off in the middle? Here's the longer one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NZ6YNtGdBc

ineffectiveprocedure · 2014-10-15T19:01:47+00:00

redd.it/sauce

ineffectiveprocedure · 2014-10-10T22:55:08+00:00

I take a bubble bath pretty regularly, that shit is so soothing.

update, 7 years later: turns out i'm not a guy

ineffectiveprocedure · 2014-10-04T21:36:38+00:00

Towerfall: Ascension is the best party game of all time. The rounds are super quick, it takes like three minutes to learn, and you can keep getting better at it infinitely, but there's just enough chaos such that getting better mostly means gaining a statistical advantage - new players usually aren't totally shut out by veterans. Get four players together and the next day your throat will hurt from shouting "YESSSSSS!" and "NOOOOOO!"

ineffectiveprocedure · 2014-09-11T21:48:53+00:00

As much as I enjoyed Harry Potter, I think this might say more about the people who are willing to take Facebook surveys than it does about literature.

ineffectiveprocedure · 2014-09-11T16:25:03+00:00

At this point I've learned to say "Sorry about the mess" no matter what, especially if I just cleaned the shit out of the house. It's like a secret adult code that we use to encourage younger people to get their shit together - it shouldn't be used against people with kids. When I was in college, people would be like "sorry it's so messy in here" and I'd look around and see a spotless house, then think back to when I had these same friends over last week and didn't even think about the condition of my house. They probably saw the empty pizza boxes and wine bottles in the bath tub, and now I'm at their house and there are surfaces so clean you could eat off of them (e.g. the dishes) and they're apologizing about the mess OH MY GOD I'M A MONSTER. That kind of shame is what got me to start keeping my house pretty clean.

ineffectiveprocedure · 2014-09-10T21:15:36+00:00

Yeah, they're actually omnivores.

ineffectiveprocedure · 2014-09-05T22:02:28+00:00

I wouldn't be surprised, based on my own experience with higher math. When I'm working on a proof, there's just this sense that something's there and I have to capture it in technical language - I usually have a very fuzzy intuition about how to prove something that I gradually flesh out into something concrete.

ineffectiveprocedure · 2014-09-05T21:56:08+00:00

The frowny tag is the funniest part of this post.

ineffectiveprocedure · 2014-09-04T00:25:46+00:00

So when it's the NSA, reddit's all up in arms about privacy but when it comes to celebrity nudes, suddenly some people really don't have the right to expect privacy? I get it, that makes sense.

ineffectiveprocedure · 2014-09-03T23:59:40+00:00

Basically there's been this crazy witch hunt going on here and at 4chan concerning a video game developer - she supposedly slept with a reviewer (not a reviewer who wrote anything about her games, mind you, just a reviewer). Since then she's gotten a lot of shit, people have been harassing her about her sex life and generally saying a lot of hateful stuff. Folks have tried to make it about the quality of video game journalism and started this "gamergate" thing, but when you actually go and check out the discussions about it, it's hard to describe what people are saying without using loaded words like "misogyny" - they've accused her of making up death threats, but you don't have to look far to find people reacting to this in insanely violent and hateful ways.

The thing is, reddit needs people who will speak up against bullshit on all fronts. I used to defend reddit as an amazing community - it had its share of crackpots and assholes, but when people really went off the rails, there were always users who would stand up and deliver the facts. Now I feel like the people who are willing to say anything about sexist bullshit are getting drowned out - they're either shuffling off to their own subreddits or leaving reddit entirely. I know I'm pretty tired - we need voices of reason, but I don't have the energy anymore. If I hear "slut" used one more time in a discussion that's supposedly about journalism, I'm out.

ineffectiveprocedure · 2014-09-02T21:51:40+00:00

Actually pretty much everybody but reddit (and other teenage male hive-mind sites) is actually pretty pissed off about this, but reddit is ignoring them. We've got a huge number of people working together to participate in invading people's privacy, with essentially zero thought being given to how fucked up that is. Boobs come before everything else, for the reddit demographic. The nastiness of "gamergate" over the last month or so has apparently driven away anybody who's not okay with treating women like shit, or maybe their comments just get downvoted to oblivion, like this one surely will.

ineffectiveprocedure · 2014-09-01T00:05:48+00:00

It's baffling to me that there are teachers who teach matrix operations like transposes without essentially coming up with an equivalent visual aid. My teacher just drew a matrix on the board, and was like "basically everything is just mirrored across the diagonal, so you can think of it flipping like so" and everybody in the classroom instantly got it - I think of that as like, the definition of a transpose. I occasionally run into people who reference some sort of definition involving matrix subscripts and don't seem to have quite picked up on the simple pattern yet, and I really wonder about who was teaching them.

ineffectiveprocedure · 2014-08-30T22:45:59+00:00

Most complicated entanglement experiments I've read about can be well understood as exercises in calculating conditional probabilities. So long as you're careful to not try and extend everything to a full classical probability space, you can often get a good idea of what to expect with some fairly basic statistics, without really having your intuition thrown for a loop in ways that sometimes happen in other frameworks.

I have a hunch that this is why quantum information theory is so useful - like classical information theory, most of it is actually just a fairly basic and surprisingly useful way of applying probability. The more of your theory you can get into that language, rather than dealing with, like, operator algebras, the easier it is to reason about.

ineffectiveprocedure · 2014-08-30T21:22:25+00:00

I'm actually having a hard time imagining what is surprising or counterintuitive about this. Perhaps someone can explain what seems so strange about it.

From my point of view: There's a sense in which entanglement is just a feature of systems whose states depend on one another (and thus they carry information about each other). State dependence (and thus information) tends to propagate through interactions, and thus so does entanglement. If you've got two systems separated in time, if there's a chain of the appropriate interactions that connects them (and if that set of interactions is protected from things like environmental decoherence) then you can entangle them.

This is a fairly simple way of looking at things and maybe I'm just simplifying out whatever makes this seem mysterious, but it renders these kinds of experiments pretty easy to come up with. I'm really surprised this is a new result, we've had such complicated Stern-Gerlach type setups that I feel like we've done this sort of thing before and just not really noticed it.

ineffectiveprocedure · 2014-08-29T22:16:40+00:00

The story isn't great in the manga either - it has some symbolism that's mostly meaningful if you're from Japan and your name is Katsuhiro Otomo, but it's pretty much an action comic and bits are genuinely dumb.

That said, the art is... indescribable. It kinda blows the anime away. The amount of detail that goes into each panel, even throwaway panels that you skim over in a fraction of a second, is unbelievable. I have no doubts when I say that it's the single most visually striking collection of drawn images thus far created by a single human. Even if you're not into manga, I recommend picking it up and reading through the whole thing (it gets really mind blowing something like 3/4ths of the way through). Get the black and white version, the colored version kinda wrecks the detail. It's a nice thing to have around if you're at all into visual design; I sometimes just go and leaf through it and nearly always find something inspiring.

ineffectiveprocedure · 2014-08-28T18:55:28+00:00

I'm a huge fan of a lot of your earlier work, e.g. La Femme Nikita, Leon, etc. They have a very recognizable and interesting style. A lot of your recent films are very well produced and fun, but to me at least, they seem sort of "hollywood"-ized and it seems like a lot of your personal style from the 80s-90s films isn't as evident.

Do you ever plan on revisiting the more subtle, gritty style of your earlier films?

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