The h Bar

12:30 AM

@0celo7 I don't know if there is a policy on that, but I suspect that repeated post that kind of material would be frowned on.

This is a public space and is associated with Stack Exchange. I doubt they want a reputation for adult content.

On the other hand, I personally figure that adult conversation sometimes includes adult topics. Sophisticated people can manage that gracefully.

0celo7

@dmckee I chose not to post it.

It was...a failed mod that resulted in a hilarious NSFW.

Kyle Kanos

@danu: The ending to this game might make you cringe :/

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Q: How do you answer "Oh, you're a professor? What do you teach?"

I suspect anybody who's a professor knows this story: you meet someone new in a social setting and it comes up that you're a professor. The inevitable next question is, "oh, what do you teach?" It's a perfectly reasonable question, and one simple answer is: well, tell them what you teach! But ...

Writing grants is one of your passions? — Stephan Kolassa 14 hours ago

^made me laugh

Kyle Kanos

1:40 AM

0celo7

2:08 AM

@ACuriousMind Are you alive?

@ACuriousMind Realize that I will have a roommate in a few weeks who might not fancy chickens, jugs and donkeys flying over my screen.

ACuriousMind

@0celo7 By some definitions.

Kyle Kanos

I think only the important definitions matter

0celo7

Who here is really good at modding female armor meshes in Skyrim?

ACuriousMind

@KyleKanos Ah, but how do I tell the important ones from the unimportant ones?

0celo7

how the heck am I supposed to do this

Kyle Kanos

2:22 AM

@ACuriousMind The definitions by which you are considered alive are probably the important ones

0celo7

get a picture and sit here for hours trying to shape...things?

I'm not an otaku

and the fat people mod is breaking the game, great

ACuriousMind

@KyleKanos Good thinking there

0celo7

@ACuriousMind So is vampirism a poor definition

ACuriousMind

Pfft, it's still dark outside, my schedule isn't completely wrecked yet.

0celo7

@ACuriousMind Are you at least playing PoE

Kyle Kanos

2:40 AM

I'm pretty sure I've asked before, but is PoE Path of Exile?

DanielSank

Hey guys, does this question have an answer?

ACuriousMind

@KyleKanos I also play Pillars of Eternity, but in this case it is Path of Exile

DanielSank

Is there such a thing as a generic formula for decay widths?

ACuriousMind

Never saw one, but then again, never saw much about decay widths at all

Kyle Kanos

@ACuriousMind That's what I thought. TY

0celo7

2:54 AM

@ACuriousMind wth is a .nif file

ACuriousMind

@0celo7 Uh...something that has to do with the models of the objects, but I'm not sure.

0celo7

I need to edit the .nif for the body mod to show under clothes...but I can't find the .nif for anything

ACuriousMind

Ah, they're probably trapped in the .bsa files :D

0celo7

say what

the Bethesda files?

ACuriousMind

The .bsa files are archives like .zip. You probably can't find a .nif because the .nifs are all inside .bsas

0celo7

2:58 AM

so how the hell do I do this then

:/

I'm gonna break Skyrim

for real this time

ACuriousMind

I faintly recall there being "bsa unpackers" or something like that

Kyle Kanos

3:12 AM

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Q: How to help a postgraduate student to write a book

What is the best way to help a weak student who has already completed her post-graduation but has also secured a result much worser than her expected result during the completion of graduation … ,to write a good quality book which shall be recommended to higher secondary level students after it g...

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Writing tips request. Not sure that I've seen one of those before

And we may have sunk to a new low

I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is about dolphin anatomy & physiology and not physics. — Kyle Kanos 16 secs ago

ACuriousMind

@KyleKanos I've read that question thrice now...and I'm still not sure what it is asking for.

Kyle Kanos

I don't know what create 3-D sound structures means

But it's definitely asking if dolphins can do whatever that is

Which means it's not about physics

ACuriousMind

3:28 AM

No love for dolphins in physics :(

Kyle Kanos

Actually, I enjoy dolphins

Partly because my son enjoys them

dmckee

@KyleKanos He's probably noodling around the idea of spoofing returns that would come from arbitrary targets. Which you ought to be able to do with a phased array.

But that just makes it an engineering question. A really cool engineering question.

Kyle Kanos

@dmckee I think he actually means seeing the 3D waveform of the sound wave

ACuriousMind

@DanielSank: I know you like octopi and goats. How do you feel about dolphins?

dmckee

@KyleKanos Well, that acoustic holography. For which you need a phased array.

Kyle Kanos

3:30 AM

Hmm. Well it's still about whether dolphins can do that or not

dmckee

The things are just stupid versatile and useful, in principle.

ACuriousMind

Oh, look, the sun is rising. There goes my sleep schedule.

dmckee

In any case, I'm not defending it the question because it seems really poorly researched and very pop-sci to me.

ACuriousMind

@KyleKanos This isn't a new low, by the way. Have you forgotten this?

Or this?

DanielSank

@ACuriousMind They're cool.

Kyle Kanos

3:35 AM

@ACuriousMind I'm discounting them because it fits my immediate needs

ACuriousMind

@KyleKanos How unscientific

Kyle Kanos

No, that's very scientific. That's how we got Crania Americana

Another Danu?

ACuriousMind

It's just a Dutch first name, so not that surprising

Kyle Kanos

I'm 'Murrican. I don't see no ferner's names often

Danu

5:51 AM

@ACuriousMind @KyleKanos No, it really is surprising. I'm fairly certain that there are fewer than 5 Danu's in the country.

@KyleKanos hahaha that chess game... great :P

I'd find it more believable that this is just someone copying my name :P

I've only seen one other "Danu" in my life (online). It was a Dutch girl ^^

Danu

6:49 AM

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A: What was Feynman's "much better way of presenting the electrodynamics" -- which did **not** appear in the Feynman lectures?

I spent a long time researching this question for Carver Mead (mentioned by Art Brown) in 2008, because we were both curious what Feynman meant. Carver thought Feynman's "better way of presenting electrodynamics" would be something along the lines of his own "Collective Electrodynamics," but that...

This is so friggin' awesome

Slereah

is it

Now I have to decypher Feynman's handwriting!

Slereah

7:56 AM

And at work

You know what that means

I have to answer that post on the TARDIS spacetime instead of Duffield

Physics Meta

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Q: Has any new physics problem been solved as a result of discussion on Physics StackExchange?

Every now and then, there are very interesting science questions being posted on the Physics StackExchange. Some of these questions concern very up-to-date research. Does anyone know if any publication has resulted from a post on Physics StackExchange?

discussion

John Duffield

8:18 AM

@dmckee : I want to complain about serial downvoting. We've got a naysayer trolls here orchestrating it, see the conversation at 8:40pm last night chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/23073022#23073022 and check my recent rep. Also see this answer physics.stackexchange.com/questions/195297/… where I received 6 downvotres despite the solid references to Einstein, Shapiro, Baez, Wright, Magueijo & Moffat.

Slereah

Those scoundrels!

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