sdhs-rationalist

[sdhs-rationalist]

i see you’ve never been privy to the wonders of corruption dead branch (that’s how I got both FTK and 25 cards in a turn, body slam + charon’s ashes block ironclad is a hell of a drug) shockingly, this run did not do well against the time eater

I just discovered that Steam will inform you what proportion of players have completed any given achievement.  I have apparently done three of the hardest, each of which has been completed by fewer than 3% of players: Win with <= 5 cards in deck, win with only common cards, and win with only 1 relic.

On the other hand, 19.8 percent of players have played 25 cards in a turn, which I haven’t gotten done.*  And 11.5% have beaten a boss on the first turn!?  I’ve never managed less than 3 or 4.

*My eventual plan to do this is not a clever combo, but Necronomicurse + the candle, which would allow playing as many cards per turn as you have block+HP.

[sdhs-rationalist]

I would like to present Self-Care, by Parks and Rec

‘treat yoself b4 u yeet yoself’

[sdhs-rationalist]

Similarly, I think the decimal point followed by every BB number should work too

On the topic of pi, I’ve always wondered, because it was frequently described as a number where no digit(s) repeated themselves. This was a while ago, like in my childhood, so I don’t know exactly how to phrase it to make it clear, but it seems like they were saying it wouldn’t repeat itself at some level. However, presumably it wouldn’t be individual digits, because it couldn’t go past ten decimal places. Sorry that this is so unclear, but I was wondering if you could work out what they meant?

That’s a weird way to describe or classify pi, and I don’t blame you for being confused. What I think they were getting at is that Pi is irrational. It is not the ratio of two integers. It happens to be that ratios of integers (where the denominator isn’t 0), aka rational numbers, have either “terminating” or periodic decimal representations.

To see what I mean about “terminating” decimal representation, try computing ¼. It’s 0.250000000… so it has some various digits first and then just zeroes forever afterwards. We call it terminating because we can represent this as 0.25 and stop.

Periodic decimal representations have a string of digits that repeat. Take for example 3/7, which is

0.428571 428571 428571 428571 428571…

See that text that says “(period 6)”? That means that there is a sequence of 6 digits that repeat over and over again. Period refers to the size of the repeating sequence, and it can be any positive integer. In this case, we have six digits. If you were to start counting up by digit from the 4 just after the decimal place (starting with a 0, then adding one for each digit) you would see that the 0th, 6th, 12th, 18th, (6k+0) and so on digits are all 4, the 1st, 7th, 13th, 19th (6k+1) digits are all 2, and so on.

But pi is not the only number like this. In fact, “most” real numbers are irrational. And by that, I mean that you can create a way to count all the rational numbers one by one, but you cannot count the irrational numbers because there are so many that if you start to count them, you have to skip some. Irrational numbers are so plentiful they kind of overpower the rational numbers. That’s set theory stuff, if you’re interested.

Pi is a ratio though, just not of integers. It’s the ratio of the circumference of a circle to it’s diameter.

(To clarify something here, I’ve talked about pi, normality, and common misconceptions about numbers today (hence “on the topic of pi”) on a few occasions so I assumed Panic saw those and understood my explanations.)

[sdhs-rationalist]

Yup, that's right--and actually a pretty clever proof

On the topic of pi, I’ve always wondered, because it was frequently described as a number where no digit(s) repeated themselves. This was a while ago, like in my childhood, so I don’t know exactly how to phrase it to make it clear, but it seems like they were saying it wouldn’t repeat itself at some level. However, presumably it wouldn’t be individual digits, because it couldn’t go past ten decimal places. Sorry that this is so unclear, but I was wondering if you could work out what they meant?

That’s a weird way to describe or classify pi, and I don’t blame you for being confused. What I think they were getting at is that Pi is irrational. It is not the ratio of two integers. It happens to be that ratios of integers (where the denominator isn’t 0), aka rational numbers, have either “terminating” or periodic decimal representations.

To see what I mean about “terminating” decimal representation, try computing ¼. It’s 0.250000000… so it has some various digits first and then just zeroes forever afterwards. We call it terminating because we can represent this as 0.25 and stop.

Periodic decimal representations have a string of digits that repeat. Take for example 3/7, which is

0.428571 428571 428571 428571 428571…

See that text that says “(period 6)”? That means that there is a sequence of 6 digits that repeat over and over again. Period refers to the size of the repeating sequence, and it can be any positive integer. In this case, we have six digits. If you were to start counting up by digit from the 4 just after the decimal place (starting with a 0, then adding one for each digit) you would see that the 0th, 6th, 12th, 18th, (6k+0) and so on digits are all 4, the 1st, 7th, 13th, 19th (6k+1) digits are all 2, and so on.

But pi is not the only number like this. In fact, “most” real numbers are irrational. And by that, I mean that you can create a way to count all the rational numbers one by one, but you cannot count the irrational numbers because there are so many that if you start to count them, you have to skip some. Irrational numbers are so plentiful they kind of overpower the rational numbers. That’s set theory stuff, if you’re interested.

Pi is a ratio though, just not of integers. It’s the ratio of the circumference of a circle to it’s diameter.

(To clarify something here, I’ve talked about pi, normality, and common misconceptions about numbers today (hence “on the topic of pi”) on a few occasions so I assumed Panic saw those and understood my explanations.)

[sdhs-rationalist]

can you remotely delet someone elses post

@sdhs-rationalist hi

[sdhs-rationalist]

Look u know what It's not r eliezer's fault that, as the last prophet, he was doomed to the same fate as every other Later Prophet, namely getting totally rejected by his society (yes, r eliezer was a prophet, it's subtle but definitely there)

Gemarah: pi is three

Mathematicians: I doubt that

Gemarah: remember that time I told god to suck it and won

[sdhs-rationalist]

they should call bribes in¢ives

my SO

[sdhs-rationalist]

‘a window’

‘the other window’

your lies catch up to u

What was your first magical math moment - the first problem that left you in awe of the power and meaning of math?

The month I decided to investigate why Wikipedia kept putting e^i theta stuff in the trig sections during my independent study in HS when I was first getting used to math. I struggled for days to understand, thinking about it pretty much non-stop. I did some more research, and with a hint from @sdhs-rationalist I was finally able to come up with my very first “proof” of Euler’s identity. I was ecstatic for weeks. I thought it was the coolest thing. I still kinda do.

[sdhs-rationalist]

Eli replies ‘lies, i was just trying to get closer to you so i could throw myself out a window’

that is lies. this fucker was sitting in a window seat.  I was in the aisle seat, as I always was whenever we sat with each other on the bus.  qed

this post has officially become a callout post for @the-real-numbers

What was your first magical math moment - the first problem that left you in awe of the power and meaning of math?

The month I decided to investigate why Wikipedia kept putting e^i theta stuff in the trig sections during my independent study in HS when I was first getting used to math. I struggled for days to understand, thinking about it pretty much non-stop. I did some more research, and with a hint from @sdhs-rationalist I was finally able to come up with my very first “proof” of Euler’s identity. I was ecstatic for weeks. I thought it was the coolest thing. I still kinda do.

[sdhs-rationalist]

a) god, that was _great_, at some point we need to get together so u can either return the favor for more graph theoryish stuff or so I can do that again but for information theory

b) i will note that this is the _second_ most excited i have seen eli in his entire life, closely following the time we spent 3 hours on a bus together during a flood and he tried to either murder or make out with me about 9 times and I couldn’t tell because I was too busy making math puns at him and giggling like a madman,  Followers of @the-real-numbers, take note.

What was your first magical math moment - the first problem that left you in awe of the power and meaning of math?

The month I decided to investigate why Wikipedia kept putting e^i theta stuff in the trig sections during my independent study in HS when I was first getting used to math. I struggled for days to understand, thinking about it pretty much non-stop. I did some more research, and with a hint from @sdhs-rationalist I was finally able to come up with my very first “proof” of Euler’s identity. I was ecstatic for weeks. I thought it was the coolest thing. I still kinda do.

[sdhs-rationalist]

quality additions here, though I can’t speak to yes or no campus job having not had one

startups are cool tho

if you find one you’re interested in that can, like actually give you things in return for work ‘s prob a good way to get relevant industry experience

things i’ve learned during my freshman year

right so I was supposed to write up a summary of my year in college I guess?

it is, however, 8 am, and I am not super-awake, so enjoy this vaguely unfiltered mess instead

1) prereqs are _lies_.  I’ve learned a crazy amount this year, basically bootstrapped myself into graduate level cryptographic knowledge, original research, and being a well-regarded person on a few relevant telegrams/public facing groups by sheer dint of seeing courses I was unprepared for and saying ‘fuck it’, then teaching myself all the relevant math on my own time basically just to solve psets.

2) college might have a higher set point, but the issues with professors are the same – relatedly, anybody who’s going to harvard and is debating taking CS51, anticipate literally the worst governed class I’ve ever taken, and my high school taught the fucking hydroplate theory about the noahide flood to a graduating class of 47.

3) executive function is way more a matter of producing effective routines than any other technique–get yourself into a flow state of assignments/how much time you spend on them daily, and the rest should come naturally.  this does have downsides of being stressed about assignments with 3 days of downtime before they need to get done bc you missed a day of routined work

4) fucking eat and sleep regularly.  i should not have had to tell myself this, but i did.  multiple times.  i thought I was sick like 5 times this year and it turned out to be because i hadnt consumed nourishing calories in like 18 hours. also drink water, and go into the sun.  college doesnt obviate the need for the necessary elements of survival.

5) having multiple consistent social groups is good, even if only to practice going in and out of different personal modalities of interaction

6) i probably should have more stuff here but I can’t think of any

[sdhs-rationalist]

[sdhs-rationalist]

things i’ve learned during my freshman year

right so I was supposed to write up a summary of my year in college I guess?

it is, however, 8 am, and I am not super-awake, so enjoy this vaguely unfiltered mess instead

1) prereqs are _lies_.  I’ve learned a crazy amount this year, basically bootstrapped myself into graduate level cryptographic knowledge, original research, and being a well-regarded person on a few relevant telegrams/public facing groups by sheer dint of seeing courses I was unprepared for and saying ‘fuck it’, then teaching myself all the relevant math on my own time basically just to solve psets.

2) college might have a higher set point, but the issues with professors are the same -- relatedly, anybody who’s going to harvard and is debating taking CS51, anticipate literally the worst governed class I’ve ever taken, and my high school taught the fucking hydroplate theory about the noahide flood to a graduating class of 47.

3) executive function is way more a matter of producing effective routines than any other technique--get yourself into a flow state of assignments/how much time you spend on them daily, and the rest should come naturally.  this does have downsides of being stressed about assignments with 3 days of downtime before they need to get done bc you missed a day of routined work

4) fucking eat and sleep regularly.  i should not have had to tell myself this, but i did.  multiple times.  i thought I was sick like 5 times this year and it turned out to be because i hadnt consumed nourishing calories in like 18 hours. also drink water, and go into the sun.  college doesnt obviate the need for the necessary elements of survival.

5) having multiple consistent social groups is good, even if only to practice going in and out of different personal modalities of interaction

6) i probably should have more stuff here but I can’t think of any

[sdhs-rationalist]

...god, it has been a while since I posted here.  Would ppl be interested in a summary of what’s been happenign with my life?

[sdhs-rationalist]

Transcendent apotheosis brain:  Worm as a serial webfic

small brain: live-action Worm adaptation

exploding galaxy brain: Studio Trigger anime Worm adaptation

[sdhs-rationalist]

eh, the russian psyop thing was based on IP farming, not content analysis, imo

Every time twitter deletes accounts for joke theft or tumblr deletes “Russian psyop” blogs it’s just another reminder that they absolutely could be deleting the Nazis but won’t.

[sdhs-rationalist]

As someone who lived on Maale Gilboa for a year

this post is a lie

a beautiful, evil, cruelly hopeful lie

(unless you only live in the south or the valleys)

יש בארץ שתי עונות: קיץ, וקיץ חם פחות.