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George Smyridis

12:07 AM

Hey, got a question. If we integrate both parts of an acceleration equation ( a = bcosθ) then do we get a formula that gives us the speed of the body? ie (a = bsinθ)

That doesn't seem right to me

**ie (v=bsinθ) **

@GeorgeSmyridis Integrate with respect to what? Replace theta by time and things go better (or make theta a function of time).

12:43 AM

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You know a game is old when the recommended specs for maxing the game out includes 4GB RAM...

@KyleKanos I'm going through a list of 50 or so patches that I can apply to Morrowind that will make it less "broken" as you put it.

I think they did patch the major glitch that lets you get to the end of the game

1:00 AM

lol, this includes a nudity mod

I'd have to see the quality first...

Or just not do it.

It's pixels on a screen man

NSFW

Yeah, that's Morrowind

Morrowind was successfully modded. Maybe. Time to run it and see if my PC blows up.

mfw not even 60fps in Morrowind now

all hope is lost

Apparently I get 40.

@ACuriousMind Curiously, the text is now readable because it is full HD.

Still tiny, but readable.

And alt+tab killed modded Morrowind.

1:16 AM

@0celo7 Do you have it?

@obe No, I got an automated error message.

How the hell would I have it?

How would I order a book at 7, 2 hours after they close, and somehow immediately have it?

I didn't read the chat where you said that.

AA is turned on! No wonder I have bad fps!

This chat has become really boring since everyone started talking about video games and computers.

I started playing starcraft II though.

@0celo7 AA?

1:18 AM

LOL, the mod installer requires UAC to be off, but Windows requires UAC to be on for PDFs to run!

@KyleKanos anti-aliasing

Ah

For the life of me, the only thing I notice that setting doing is killing my fps

If anyone plays starcraft II, my user id is obe [#1729].

@0celo7 Try starcraft II.

How about no

I need to figure out Morrowind

I just broke it

What FPS is it running at?

1:21 AM

40

It was like 300

Then I modded the fuck out of it

Now it's 40

I'll halve the AA, see what happens.

Meh, 40's liveable

@KyleKanos I am fine with 30 even.

Hell, I play most games on 30 so I can go high or ultra.

But this mod is not very well optimized, because, well, it's a mod.

I would like to get 60, and by fooling with the settings I should be able to do that.

I could letterbox to 1080p and increase fps.

The problem with letterboxing is that it only works with some games -- others just stretch the input and stuff looks funny.

50 fps

Getting there?

@KyleKanos Morrowind

Way nicer looking than I recall

Note the tiny fps counter in the top left.

It shows I only have minor tweaks left hopefully!

@KyleKanos Also not 4:3 anymore.

Glorious 8:5

Point of clarification: when you accept an answer, it should be the one that best answered the question not necessarily the one you found most helpful.

One guy answered a different question I had and cared more about.

But it doesnt answer the question on that particular thread I posted.

1:39 AM

lol, 180fps in menus

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> The bottom line is that you should accept the answer that you found to be the most helpful to you, personally.

I finally answered a question 3 days ago, though I only got 1 upvote.

That quote is even bolded

@obe I should downvote it

Using angle brackets for vectors...

Also wtf, the del operator is not a vector

Shame on you

Dude that guy didn't know vector calculus.

1:41 AM

So stop misteaching him!

I first learned that del was a vector.

It's not

It's a map from shit to shit

Though he wouldn't understand it.

Basically I answered it at his level.

You worry about your AP scores

Why?

1:42 AM

you're not going to get them

and alt+tab killed Morrowind again

There will be a delay, though who cares?

@obe you should

Your parents should

uh... why?

That was a really not-well-thought-out question

So your father knows if he has to hurt you or not

They don't care.

Though I got all 5's.

I'm sure.

1:46 AM

I may or may not be deleting my text files in Morrowind

This is exciting!

Why would they hurt me for taking an exam for a course I haven't taken yet? (Although that's irrelevant since I was more than prepared for it a year before)

And I paid for it with my own money.

Because your father is disappointed

Why would he be disappointed?

Lol Morrowind won't even run anymore

aw fuck I really broke it this time

@KyleKanos sorry back. So helpful > relevant is that the take away?

1:52 AM

@StanShunpike That's how I've always understood it

@0celo7 Should I do the proofs in ch1 of shankar, I only did half of them before.

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I am literally a genius.

No German tech support necessary.

@obe yes

2:08 AM

dammit.

2:49 AM

@skillpatrol: Sorry for the Raider Nation loss: Ken Stabler

2 hours later…

Waffle's Crazy Peanut

4:26 AM

@KyleKanos How hard is mesh generation for 2D objects?

We have a CFD course this semester and our first topic is "grid generation"

And, our prof has asked us to research the topic by ourselves

Anyways, are there any interesting algorithms on that?

@KyleKanos thank you for your condolences :'(

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7:06 AM

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Q: Where should I ask a question about abstract physics/economics/information theory that I invented?

I wrote this: http://www.lind-i.com/Docs/EconomicCircuitry.pdf and a couple other related papers and I'd like to discuss, where should I go?

discussion non-mainstream-physics

8:04 AM

Mathematics: Why the brain sees maths as beauty from this study.

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9:22 AM

@skillpatrol I believe appreciation of mathematical formulae is a direct appreciation of logic, and in turn, a direct appreciation of philosophy, since mathematics itself a neat method of expressing logic in the form of symbols which helps us conceive more complex logic than possible without it.

Jul 3 at 8:30, by skill patrol

If math is the poetry of logical ideas, then physics is the poetry of physically possible logical ideas.

:D

@skillpatrol Nah, literal minded folk like me might not get how math can be poetry, for example. How is yours, then, more universal than mine?

Are you asking how my math is more universal than yours?

If so, the question is ill defined, right?

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LOL

@KyleKanos I love how at 1800p the polygons are so sharp but the textures look like they were made for 1/4th the resolution!

@skillpatrol Therefore, I can safely claim copyright to the great work of lazy thought.

@skillpatrol I'm saying my 'definition' is more universal than yours.

9:38 AM

Define: definition?

I just realized...lol is a recursive acronym for "lol out loud"

@0celo7 Never give half answers. Show us the whole recursive infinite series.

10:24 AM

@0celo7 The best recursive acronym I know is Benoit B. Mandelbrot

you can easily guess for what B stands

10:40 AM

@0celo7 Proud of you ;)

Do you guys/gals know what happened to d20?

there is no user 357 any more?!

@gonenc It's obe now

@ACuriousMind has he change his/her username again?

He apparently took 0celo7's pretending to have blocked him a bit too serious and made a new account

@ACuriousMind that seems... funny :D @obe

10:45 AM

@gonenc Thanks for your considered response in one of your previous comments addressing me. I agree that one cannot characterise the whole Muslim community worldwide on the basis of the actions of a few. But for a non-Muslim not living in a Muslim country like me, a bad image about Islam is conveyed when the proclaimed protectors of Muslim faith, the Saudi government conducts regular beheading sessions.

@Gaurav I can totally see that and I should add if I were living in another country I'd probably think the same

...why the hell looks the SE font so different on a linux system? Is there no SE font? Has only one of the OS's installed it be default?

but I'm an atheist, who defends muslims right now, which is kinda weird :D

@ACuriousMind how does it look like? I have linux and it looks just fine?

Moment, maybe I just have Firefox configured wrong

@ACuriousMind wait till you see it on OSX

10:47 AM

@ACuriousMind take a ss if you want

ss as in screen shot not as in other things :D

@ACuriousMind ...you're on Linux now?

@0celo7 Have to program stuff in C, and compiling/testing C code is a pain on Windows

@gonenc lol

I need to find this damn "allow websites to use their own font" setting first, I know it's somewhere

@ACuriousMind post a screenshot of what it looks like

@ACuriousMind I think it is by default like that

@0celo7 Give him a sec @ACuriousMind needs to close the tabs that -18 shouldn't see :D

@gonenc in jeans now

10:51 AM

No, I need to find out how I take a screenshot :D

@0celo7 Welcome to the 3rd world countries

Lol

@gonenc I have a fycked collared shirt though

Lol that should be tucked

@0celo7 I'm in my pyjamas yet again

@ACuriousMind you press the button, which says PrintScr on it :)

@0celo7 why r you up so early anyways?

Work

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10:54 AM

Commute to work, rather

We both wake up simultaneously (not to be confused w/ einstein simultaneity) I guess

@ACuriousMind equations pls

The font usually looks different

@ACuriousMind try chromium/chrome

@gonenc Sense of identity for every person, religious or aetheistic, is in most cases linked with the culture of his/her upbringing. Culture, in turn is heavily influenced by religion, and therefore it is pretty natural that the person will end up defending the religion of his upbringing in order to defend his/her sense of identity, irrespective of whether the person is religious or not.

10:55 AM

lol, license plate "Karlito"

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^this is my view

@gonenc Looks the same

Same here

Yeah, my font is...too narrow?

Why only one star on my genius comment...

10:56 AM

Dunno, it looks a bit different

@ACuriousMind maybe this is the correct narrowness for your screen resolution

Hmm...but my screen resolution hasn't changed

@0celo7 Perhaps it was not so ingenious?

@Gaurav wrong

@Gaurav I don't think it is about identity or whatnot, I think I'd do the same for Christianity if I knew more about it

10:59 AM

@0celo7 Perhaps, but it's an exception.

@ACuriousMind Maybe windows pretended that it was lower cause it likes doing such stuff w/o telling you a priori

@gonenc possible...what is your resolution?

@Gaurav in fact I'd delete my history here if I could.

1366x768

Crazy numbers

@ACuriousMind ^this was intended for you forgot to ping

try clicking this little guy

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then settings

type in font to the search bar

11:03 AM

@gonenc Yep. Okay, I'm at 1680, mine is higher

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@gonenc Found the font setting already

@ACuriousMind (Y)

sh*t that doesn't look like, what it supposed to look like

@gonenc But the difference is that one does not see the Pope publicly advocating beheading for exceptional deviation from Christian morality like the Saudi mullahs do. (What the Pope thinks privately is a decidedly different matter )

Everything seems to be in order, though

11:05 AM

@ACuriousMind Everything is always in order in a linux computer except when it is not

@Gaurav screw the so-called "muslims" who behead people, they are already so fcuked up

Sigh...I guess I'll just ignore the font

It's not less readable, after all, just...unusual

👍

Okay, not everything is in order, that unicode is not displayed :D

@ACuriousMind have you installed the restricted extras package, if not do it regardless of whether it'll solve the problem

@gonenc Is it because you've written a politically insensitive comment earlier ? Then I need to encourage you to continue doing the same when necessary without fear of offending someone.

11:10 AM

@ACuriousMind 1680?

@Gaurav hä?

@gonenc Oh, then good to know that you're an alternate voice

@Gaurav I'm not following?

@gonenc :D Perhaps you're not following the linking feature in chat.

@Gaurav I am but hä (equivalent to wat in english :D) was intended to the insensitive comment thing. I didn't understand what you mean by that

what is because I've written an insensitive comment?

11:14 AM

@gonenc Good hint, thanks! Installing Truetype fonts has at least solved the font issue

@ACuriousMind for future reference, install the restricted extras package before everything, even before moving your mouse :D

well for that you have to update first but that is another issue :)

@gonenc I managed to do that on my own

@gonenc I meant that you need not always be politically correct whenever you are making any statement. Of course, such statements must be made only whenever necessary.

What is 1680?!

@0celo7 the goddamn resolution

11:18 AM

1080 typo?

I've never heard of 1680

@0celo7 1680 x 1050

@0celo7 1680x1050

@ACuriousMind smooth :D

Who says the first number?

<---

Evidently ;)

11:20 AM

8:5 master race I see

My monitors are shaped like that, but it's not on purpose

Not on purpose?

You didn't get 8:5 on purpose?

No, it just...happened :D

I imagine there's some Danu-type story behind that...

@Gaurav the thing is I feel sorta obliged to correct some misunderstandings about muslim world. as I've said above I'd feel the same way if I knew more about Christianity

11:22 AM

@0celo7 No love affair involved

@0celo7 what is the danu-type story?

Way to ruin the next chapter in the h Bar fanfic

I just have a friend who had some monitors he didn't need anymore, and I took them off his hands

@0celo7 oi!

@0celo7 "Danu-type" definition for dummies please

11:23 AM

"Friend" (with benefits)

@0celo7 Yes, very material benefits

@0celo7 I think there is a movie called like that

Chapter is back on

@ACuriousMind "Material benefits" like getting to know which reference book is best for what ?

@0celo7 the chapter is closed for good with that comment :D

11:28 AM

@ACuriousMind Gonna go to that room today and pick up my books :D

Maybe MTW will explain why the force is redshifted

@ACuriousMind do you remember when you get your "zulassung" (=acceptance letter)

@gonenc Somewhen around end of July, I think, but I'm not sure

How do German school manage to get everything done so last minute

@0celo7 last minute?

the uni starts in october

Wat

11:31 AM

@gonenc Okay, but I'm saying you need not 'delete' the comment. If someone finds some old comment of yours offensive, it's their fault, not yours, since you've already modified your line of thought.

I start in a month

@Gaurav I didn't delete no comment? what are you talking about? :D

@0celo7 well germans don't :D

@gonenc you said you "wished" you could chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/22686957#22686957

@Gaurav oh I was talking about my past in turkey :D

@gonenc Oh, why would that be ?

11:35 AM

@Gaurav here=turkey history=my past

@Gaurav i utterly don't like it here for personal reasons

Oh, okay.

@Gaurav which is why I'm fleeing in October :D

@Gaurav see eg en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_brutality#Turkey

which is only 20% of story for me not liking turkey

additional story, which has happened very recently: reuters.com/article/2015/06/28/…

@gonenc Interesting

@Waffle'sCrazyPeanut For FVM/FDM, it's pretty straight-forward. For FEM, it's a little more tricky due to triangularization/hexagonalization of the domain

@gonenc Is it that you've been involved in protest ?

11:49 AM

@Gaurav I didn't involve in protest too much directly, because I knew that it would go so brutal

but I could smell the tear gas from my dorm, which like 1km far a way from taksim

well it is apparently 4km far away but if you take the distance as the crow flies it would probably be 2.5-3km

@gonenc Pity they don't have an India section in that wiki page.

@Gaurav you english is good enough to read it in english ;)

@Gaurav in any case photos are enough to understand the situation

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@gonenc He means that there should be a section about police brutality in India, not that it should be in another language

@ACuriousMind sh*t :D sorry for misunderstanding @Gaurav

@gonenc They lathicharge here. Not sure I'd smell anything from far away, but at best I'd hear fervent screams of protesters being beaten with large sticks.

:D Oh, it's okay

I'm preparing tea, i'll be right back.

12:05 PM

@Gaurav that is horrible, if I were you I'd find a way to flee

@Gaurav this is goddamn inhuman!

12:27 PM

I have my laptop and charger with me...I could play games in the Senate

Morrowind - Senate Edition

@0celo7 Don't you have illegible signatures to decipher? ;P

@ACuriousMind I actually do need German tech support later today. MGSO has a list of 50 bug and gameplay patches...I need advice on which are necessary

Signatures are done. Democracy at work.

@0celo7 If they're bug patches, install them all

I installed all of the bug fixes

If they alter gameplay, don't install them until you've played the game and decided whether or not you want that part of the gameplay altered

12:32 PM

@gonenc So where do you plan to flee ?

You're not getting off that easy ;)

I need help with the graphics mods, some of them are not totally lore friendly

alright, I'm a vampire today anyway ;)

I'll be taking the early train today

So I should be home at 7 = 1AM in fake time

@ACuriousMind Also, I need to practice German.

@0celo7 Is that because trains are cheaper than travelling by flight?

@Gaurav you crashed chrome

12:39 PM

@Gaurav Usually not the case here in America :/

@Gaurav I'm not going to fly 30mi

@ChrisWhite I'm going to the Library of Congress to look for a solution to the force redshift problem!

I can't get over how cool that is!!

@ACuriousMind How do you say "covariant derivative" in German?

@0celo7 kovariante Ableitung

Ableitung?

Where have I heard that before...

Highway exit?

Ableitung means derivative

@KyleKanos Despite the fact that cheap rail services are what made America what it's today

12:43 PM

@0celo7 Highway exit is Abfahrt

@ACuriousMind That much I gathered

AH

Detour

The covariant detour

Detour is Umweg or Umleitung, not Ableitung

@Gaurav ? I thought it was the Boston Tea Party & the resulting War ;)

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My humor of the day:

Aluminium ring = a torus made of element of atomic # 13. — Kyle Kanos 1 min ago

Ableitung (Verkehr)

Eine Ableitung des Verkehrs erfolgt, wenn eine Vollsperrung eines Straßentunnels oder einer Richtungsfahrbahn angeordnet wird und keine alternative Verkehrsführung auf dem gleichen Verkehrsweg möglich ist. Grund für eine solche Vollsperrung kann beispielsweise ein Gefahrgutunfall oder eine Massenkarambolage sein. Die Ausführung einer Verkehrsableitung wird (oft im Auftrag der Verkehrsbehörde) von der Polizei vorgenommen. == Merkmale == Mit Hilfe von Absperreinrichtungen (Absperrbaken und Absperrtafeln) wird der Verkehr schrittweise auf einen Fahrstreifen zusammengeführt und anschließend auf den…

I don't know those words :/

Maßnahme zur Umleitung von Fahrzeugen bei einer Autobahn-Sperrung

Lol, that's Beamtendeutsch

No one calls "closing a road" Ableitung

12:48 PM

How do you say integrate function wrt. x?

eine Funktion über x integrieren

No, that's integrate over x.

I need wrt. ;)

Like take the derivative wrt. x

mit Respekt zu sounds wrong

Goddammit, why is there no complete description of the Kennedy-Pendleton heatbath algorithm anywhere...do I really have to obtain the original paper?

@0celo7 That's wrong

@ACuriousMind as I said

@ACuriousMind Maybe...I bet the LoC has it :D

@0celo7 Ah. bezüglich

f bezüglich x über [0,1] integrieren

12:52 PM

@ACuriousMind Do you translate take directly?

@0celo7 It was in Phys.Rev.Letters, it should indeed have it

@ACuriousMind Oh, then you should be able to get it

@0celo7 No, "take the derivative w.r.t. x" is nach x ableiten

I thought it was some antiquated resource.

@0celo7 Yes, I am able to get that on my own

I would have preferred to get it without physically visiting our library, though

12:56 PM

@ACuriousMind For sake of argument, what is the resource? I want to see if I can find it.

journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.026801

How do you "test" a mathematical theorem?

@0celo7 they test its physical meaning, not the theorem itself, strictly speaking

@0celo7: Did you get Franklin's book?

@0celo7 Sorry, wasn't review letters, but letters B: sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0370269385916326

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