May 2011
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leafdude replied to your post: How is it that I never thought of the averaging… What is this? …Oh right, I probably should have included that part, haha. In any set, there is at least one member of the set less than or equal to the average, and at least one member of the set greater than or equal to the average. It’s completely obvious now that I’ve read it, but...
May 31st
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How is it that I never thought of the averaging principle before now?  Such an obvious (and cool) fact in hindsight.
May 31st
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Good news for Laura :D Doctor Who writer Steven Moffat to ‘rest’ Daleks Moffat, who is also the BBC television show’s executive producer, said: “They aren’t going to make an appearance for a while. We thought it was about time to give them a rest.”
May 31st
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Ep 1 Part 1 Dossier
So, here’s the sum-up for what we know at this point.  Since this’ll get pretty long, I’ll stick it behind a cut.  If anyone from the stream has anything I left out that you think should be stuck in, lemme know and I’ll add it to this.  Gonna try and keep these up over the whole thing to give us some info to check back on while we theorycraft. (And anyone that wasn’t...
May 29th
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Well, after yesterday, I’m getting the feeling that my original plan for streaming might not work out the way I’d hoped.  If I can’t get through the equivalent of one episode of the anime after a full 6 hours of streaming, that’s definitely a sign that I’ll want to swap things up. :P So!  Here’s the new plan.  Saturdays I’m just going to do the VN...
May 29th
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Stream starts in 5 minutes!  I’ll be showing the indie horror piece No Through Road by indrancole3 before we start Umineko, to give people a chance to filter in, and from there we’ll get started on the actual VN.  And even though I just linked it earlier: http://www.livestream.com/idran
May 28th
anunsentsheart asked: Link to your Livestream? :3
May 28th
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All right, so we’re going to have the first stream of the VN of Umineko no Naku Koro Ni today, 12:30 PM EST!  Don’t forget!
May 28th
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Putting this in a separate post, since I do want to sometimes do things besides talk about streams and reblog stuff; if anyone has any ideas about math stuff they’d like me to write something on here, go ahead!  Stuff you don’t quite understand but want to, stuff you’d like more information on, mathematical history, even the occasional homework question!  I’d like the...
May 27th
citygrifting asked: this isnt a math question, but it burns my ass i can't watch your streams, idran. SOON. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNN.
May 27th
intothecontinuum: The digits 1-9 can work some impressive tricks: $$ \pi \approx 2^{5^{.4}} - .6 - (\frac{.3^9}{7})^{.8^{.1}}  $$ $$ e \approx (1+9^{-4^{7\times 6}})^{3^{2^{85}}} $$ The first formula, found by B. Ziv in 2004, produces the first 10 digits of \( \pi \). The second, astonishingly, reproduces \( e \) to 18,457,734,525,360,901,453,873,570 decimal places. It was discovered by...
May 26th
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Pre-show’s starting, and I’ll be streaming the actual show in 15 minutes! http://www.livestream.com/idran
May 25th
Don’t forget, streaming the last arc of Higurashi today!  3:15 PM EST, same as usual. http://www.livestream.com/idran
May 25th
chrc asked: TAG!
1-one body part that turns you on?
2-two things you're happy about?
3-three important people in your life?
4-four things on your agenda?
5-five reasons for you to be alive?
6-six things you want?
7-seven shows you like?
8-eight people to copy and paste this on their ask boxes
May 21st
May 21st
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ambivalentchef: How to remember which pole has Polar bears; Antarctic comes from the Greek for “No bears”.  Kinda sorta, but only by coincidence!  It comes from anti-arktikos, which means “opposite of the north”. Arktikos does literally mean “of the bear”, but it’s not referring to actual bears.  Rather, it was used to mean “of the north” because it...
May 20th
ん―　ん―: Oh wait →
lemonsnout: chrc: lemonsnout: chrc: lemonsnout: They went west too. Wikipedia was more helpful than an actual historical website. Durrrrrr. Wait what? I dunno, Wikipedia said that the England runestones include the Swedish (or something). History is so damn… I completely forgot about the colony in Newfoundland until I looked it up again.  I always thought that was awesome.
May 20th
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May 20th
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The Poems of Frederica Bernkastel
So, this is something extra for those of you that have been following the stream.  The Higurashi VNs, at the start of each chapter, include a poem from an in-setting, unknown poet named Frederica Bernkastel, each one summarizing the theme of that chapter.  In addition, each chapter had an extra poem usually given on a postcard at various cons around Japan when each was released.  (The game was...
May 19th
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10 minutes until Higurashi season 2! :D http://www.livestream.com/idran
May 18th
i guess i really am my own worst anomaly.....:... →
idran: okapiokapi: wigmund replied to your post: apparently there’s a twilight zone movie??? uh… Yep and a couple of people were accidentally killed while filming it. Still, a fun movie. wat how?? … It’s even worse if you read the whole thing.  Paying the kids under the table because they were breaking child labor laws, telling their parents not to tell firefighters they...
May 18th
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okapiokapi: wigmund replied to your post: apparently there’s a twilight zone movie??? uh… Yep and a couple of people were accidentally killed while filming it. Still, a fun movie. wat how?? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_Zone:_The_Movie#Helicopter_accident During the filming of the “Time Out” segment directed by John Landis on July 23, 1982 at around 2:30 a.m., actor Vic...
May 18th
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Don’t forget, everyone, today at 3:15 PM EST we start in on Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni Kai, the second season of When The Seagulls Cry! http://www.livestream.com/idran
May 18th
May 17th
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May 17th
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May 14th
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Just a couple minutes now, all!  http://www.livestream.com/idran
May 11th
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45 minutes until the Higurashi stream, guys!  http://www.livestream.com/idran
May 11th
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Streaming Higurashi today starting at 3:15 PM EST!  Hope to see people there! http://www.livestream.com/idran
May 11th
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There's only 12 hours left with about 140,000 more... →
ragobash: Please go and sign this petition.
May 11th
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May 10th
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okapiokapi: fine you all suck only idran and tricksterpunk are cool anymore  s-sob See?  I told you I was cool, Christian. :D
May 8th
Photopic Sky Survey →
May 7th
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So, I’d forgotten Marghy had 6 on Thursday’s, and Christian tells me Vanini had this time already anyway, so I won’t be sticking in this time :P For my actual regular time, I’m going to try for 3:15 Wednesdays, since it seems clear enough.  With any luck, I’ll be able to actually keep this time from here out.  So, we’ll continue with the Meakashi arc next...
May 5th
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Stream starts in 10 minutes! http://www.livestream.com/idran
May 5th
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ん―　ん―: Does anyone know where I can get some... →
ludafruit: Like…I’ve been trying to start but I really don’t know what I’m doing. I know it’s important to do thumbnail sketches and plan out a page instead of just going straight at it, but there’s still a lot composition wise and such that I am just…not good at. After finals week I’m gonna… I think what ChrC described is relatively standard for comic writers, yeah.  If not that exact...
May 5th
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Reminder to all, I’ll be streaming Higurashi today at 4:30 PM EST.  We’re moving onto the first of the answer arcs today! http://www.livestream.com/idran
May 5th
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intothecontinuum replied to your post: Proving Hamiltonian Path NP-c is much more… I once thought i had constructed an polynomial time algorithm for this problem to be implemented on a quantum computer, but i was mistaken. Finally got it solved, after some help with a couple other students in class.  But I was working on that one for the better part of a day.  (And now I’m on to...
May 5th
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Proving Hamiltonian Path NP-c is much more difficult than I expected at first thought. (No reblogs with answers or hints, please; it’s for a homework assignment)
May 4th
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May 3rd
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citygrifting replied to your post: Haha, wow.  Maybe it’s silly, but this actually… did you make this wiki? Yes!  It’s the wiki for my online Planescape forum game.
May 1st
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Stream in about 10 minutes! http://www.livestream.com/idran
May 1st
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Haha, wow.  Maybe it’s silly, but this actually feels really awesome. :D
May 1st
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Don’t forget, streaming Higurashi/EMH in about one hour! http://www.livestream.com/idran
May 1st
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Triangles?
Just a quick post here.  I mentioned in an earlier post that in spherical geometry, one could have triangles with total interior angles summing to more than 180 degrees.  How does this work? In spherical geometry, we work on the surface of a sphere rather than on a flat plane.  Remember that a line is always the shortest distance between two points.  While this is pretty simple on a plane, on a...
May 1st
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Don’t forget, all, because not many people could make Friday, I’m going to be re-streaming the next two arcs of Higurashi and the next few episodes of EMH at 4:30 PM EST today, at http://www.livestream.com/idran.  See you there!
May 1st