I'm getting really hype for my summer research gig. Still waiting on actual project info, but they finally got back to me regarding transportation and housing.
Also found out who the 9 other admitted students are, and am feeling intimidated.... they're from Berkeley, Rice, Brown, etc.
question for you guys: Of the games you've played, which has had the best modding priority system?
Like, in Skyrim, its absolutely terrible: its based off of the order the player puts the mods
In Factorio, it's definitely better: you can define your dependencies, dependencies are ordered, and then 3 files are called: data.lua, then data-updates.lua, then data-final-fixes.lua. That said, the purpose of the last two files is to update data from mods that you didn't define a dependency on, which means that its basically a priority system, so everybody puts their stuff in data-final-fixes, which makes data-updates basically useless
@NathanMerrill Bukkit's decent since every hook has a set priority, and there's set conventions for what priority to use for the most common situations
But it's more a programmer thing and less a user thing. I would like a system that let the user control that maybe
10 ^ x - 1 = x * 9! for a sequence of all 9s. I think this gives x= 6.36... which corresponds to 999999 being a lower bound and 9999999 being an upper bound.
To be more mathematically rigorous, once we find the cutoff such that f(n) < n, this doesn't entirely give the cutoff value for the sequence, since there might be an m<n such that f(m) = n. Meaning that there's still ways for a cycle to include numbers above the cutoff if they manage to jump up there... but you would have already found those cycles by searching the numbers below the cutoff.
The main point is that no cycle exists which only uses numbers above the cutoff.
@trichoplax Composite means that you have more than one prime factor (including multiplicities), you could already say that 2^n are all composite for n>1. But this was actually not really a serious proof, it was just about the punchline "don't add one":)
I actually do not have the impression that people from "top" universities are any better in their subject than others (well I can only speak for math) but it is rather the financial means an linked with that the reputation that distinguishes the universities.