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0celo7

1:13 PM

@Danu Hell if I know.

Kyle Kanos

Danu

@KyleKanos imgur?

Kyle Kanos

SO was on screen SGDQ

@Danu You don't know imgur?

Danu

But what does it have to do with it

Your SO is a speedrunner?

Kyle Kanos

@Danu Oh, people post Louis CK quotes on imgur all the time and people in the comments section discuss about how he's changed their opinion on life & how he's always right and dumb stuff like that

@Danu No, SO = Stack Overflow

Danu

1:17 PM

@KyleKanos Hahaha, nice

0celo7

@Danu How does the scenario in that article not violate the non-splitting theorem? That theorem has nothing to do with thermodynamics.

Danu

@KyleKanos oh...

That he offends you kind of makes me sigh though

@0celo7 Check yo' assumptions?

(I haven't read either in detail so I wouldn't know)

ACuriousMind

Well, this exam was an exercise in "I'll throw out some words and hope it looks as if I know what I'm talking about" :D

0celo7

You shouldn't take a person who says "white people are the worst" seriously.

@ACuriousMind What was asked?

Danu

@ACuriousMind QFT/10

@0celo7 ...but he's right ;)

Slereah

1:21 PM

the answer was QFT

ACuriousMind

@0celo7 everything from Crank-Nicholson schemes, Metropolis algorithms, lattice gauge theory, fermion doubling to Monte-Carlo autocorrelations, real-time scalar fields and the Ising model

0celo7

@ACuriousMind I recognize some of those words...

ACuriousMind

And only vague questions like "Discuss this" or "Scetch possible solutions"

I wrote pages without a single actual formula, I feel dirty.

0celo7

pages

I can't write pages

Danu

Stupid question: What does this mean: "The element $\alpha=x+(h)\in K[x]/(h)$ is clearly a root of $h$ in $K[x]/(h)$"? (here $h$ is the principal ideal generated by the irreducible ponynomial $h$ of degree $n$)

0celo7

1:25 PM

You people write too much

@Danu Putting "stupid question" on there is just mean to those of us who haven't heard of...any of that

Danu

You are so dumb. You are really dumb, for real!

►

0celo7

@ACuriousMind something to cheer you up i.imgur.com/OwuRI8Y.jpg

ACuriousMind

@Danu it means that h(x) is zero...which is tautological since dividing h out precisely means setting h(x) to zero identically.

@0celo7 D'awww :)

0celo7

@Danu What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target.

I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot.

Danu

@ACuriousMind Confusingly tautological (not unlike tautological bundles over Grassman manifolds)

0celo7

1:29 PM

The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit.

If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

Geez that's long...

@Danu wow

Danu

@0celo7 next time pliz just post "What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know [etc]" lol

ACuriousMind

@Danu yes, but it's the way you get roots when you have none. I take it you're reading about field extensions?

Danu

...or "[insert gorilla warfare copypasta]"

@ACuriousMind Yeah

0celo7

@Danu that doesn't have the same effect

Danu

@0celo7 The second option is better because it preserves the essential LOL moment in the thing.

0celo7

1:32 PM

@ACuriousMind So that Oblivion Gate took forever.

@Danu I think the punch line is the last sentence.

But the chat post limit kinda ruins it.

Danu

@0celo7 Naw, it's just a repeat of what he says before :P

0celo7

@Danu ctrl + F shows "kiddo" only once...

Danu

@0celo7 Yeah, duh.

But the same message is repeated about 5 times :P

ACuriousMind

@Danu I found field extensions...Not all that interesting, although the results about solvable polynomials are nice

0celo7

@Danu I think "kiddo" is the punchline.

ACuriousMind

1:35 PM

I think you have a weird idea of what a punchline is :P

0celo7

yo momma a punch line

Danu

@0celo7 Imma punch yo momma's line

0celo7

@Danu What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know [etc]

Danu

@ACuriousMind Yeah, I really like these abstract setups of things like quotienting out prime principal ideals and stuff but then when it comes to concretizing I'm kinda meh... The most beautiful result in the entire book is the (numerous incarnations of) the Homomorphism Theorem, IMO.

Also, I don't care about polynomials :P

0celo7

I have a ferocious lion who can rek you

although I did clip his claws the other day...give him a week to return to fighting condition

ACuriousMind

1:39 PM

@Danu Then you would like category theory ;)

0celo7

@ACuriousMind So now you have time to do whatever?

Danu

@ACuriousMind exactly, which is why I'm working towards that goal over the coming 2 years

ACuriousMind

@0celo7 No :/ There's a bug in my Polyakov loop, I have to go bug hunting over the weekend

0celo7

still?

maybe you should read Straumann, maybe he has something on QCD loops

Danu

I do like this a lot

ACuriousMind

1:42 PM

It seems the zeroes I get are not the correct result

Danu

I would hope one can do the same thing with quartic roots to get $\mathbb{H}$... maybe? Although the noncommutative structure is something you probably [read: definitely] won't get haha

ACuriousMind

So I have to revisit the Monte-Carlo sweep, and see if it does what it should

@Danu C is algebraically closed, you can't non-transcendentally extend it further

Danu

@ACuriousMind Right...

0celo7

@ACuriousMind I just checked and I have 15GB worth of mods in Skyrim.

Slereah

Hm

Is it reasonable to have a field solution that only depends on time

0celo7

1:46 PM

No wonder it has a hard time launching :D

Slereah

phi(x) = f(t)

Seems weird

Field value varies in time but not space

ACuriousMind

@Slereah that's kinda bad if your space is not compact, I think

Danu

Inflaton, guys? lol

Slereah

Yeah, I guess it gives it infinite energy

Well it is a solution of the quartic interaction

$\partial^2 \phi+\phi^3= 0$

Danu

@Slereah please use mathjax in chat

Slereah

1:48 PM

$\partial^2 \phi + \lambda \phi^3 = 0$

Danu

Right

Slereah

I got a solution that just kinda oscillate as a giant block

Can I use it or is it somewhat pathological

Danu

@Slereah $\nabla \phi=0$ is a standard requirement when solving the eqn of motion for the inflaton

I don't see a big problem with it, as long as you're interested in energy densities and stuff mainly

Slereah

Yeah

Good to know

I will still try to find a more reasonable solution, but it's good to know I can still use it

Danu

We kind of expect dark energy to be of this type anyways, and nobody really cares about finite total energy

ACuriousMind

1:54 PM

::mumbles something about square-integrability and well-tempered distributions::

Slereah

It's not a quantum field

Danu

:: farts ::

Slereah

It's just a classical field

ACuriousMind

Alright, then it's okay ;)

@Danu u wot m8

gonenc

@Danu that smell... gosh! :D

Danu

1:59 PM

It's an acquired taste @gonenc

ACuriousMind

Good that my phone doesn't have olfactoric capacities yet

Slereah

That is a problem with field things

gonenc

@Danu I don't think so :D :P

Slereah

Sometimes whether a paper is QFT or CFT is a bit ambiguous when it starts

gonenc

@Danu why did you feel the urge to write that? :D

Danu

2:02 PM

@gonenc The truth must be heard.

@Slereah Lol

Slereah

you think it's CFT, then suddenly

"And this is the propagator"

Oh okay

gonenc

@Danu lol if you say so :D

ACuriousMind

2:25 PM

I wonder if there is any relationship between the amount of water in my bathtub and the temperature of my coffee. Generally, most people say these have nothing to do with each other. But if I define the variable Y to be the product of the amount of water in my bathtub with the temperature of my coffee, then I have $Y=QT$, where $Q$ is the amount of water in my bathtub and $T$ is the temperature of my coffee. So judging from this formula, I think that the temperature of my coffee should be inversely proportional to the amount of water in my bathtub. — WillO Jul 16 at 13:05

uber-duplicate should be a thing.

gonenc

3:01 PM

@alarge and @DanielSank do you know any video players for linux with good bookmark support?

vlc has some bookmark support but they vanish upon closing the video file

banshee's bookmarks don't vanish but it takes a lot of effort with mouse to set them -no hotkeys for bookmarks-

Kyle Kanos

What do you mean bookmark support?

Like saving a particular point in the video?

If that is the case, then SMPlayer has that feature

gonenc

@KyleKanos ok I have a full opera file and just want to mark the arias etc. without the intermediate conversation

@KyleKanos exactly

@KyleKanos I forgot you were using linux too :D

Dominic Michaelis

hello

gonenc

@DominicMichaelis hi

@KyleKanos I'll check it

Kyle Kanos

Actually I'm wrong, SMPlayer doesn't have it (cf. this forum posting)

But the top suggests that KMPlayer does have that feature

gonenc

3:11 PM

@KyleKanos which is a windows software?

Kyle Kanos

Should be available on PC & Linux: kmplayer.com

And apparently mobile as well

gonenc

@KyleKanos checking that now

Dominic Michaelis

I got some confusion with Plancks law (that for radiation) because of in the german wikipedia version, there is a \frac{1}{c^3} term in it and in the english one a \frac{1}{c^2} term. In our lecture (as the script says at least) we had a \frac{1}{c^3} term too, but in the solutions somehow he multplies with the speed of light

gonenc

@KyleKanos this is some bugged up player

Kyle Kanos

Actually maybe it is Windows only :/

The DL page has only a setup.exe file

gonenc

3:15 PM

@KyleKanos I tried simply sudo apt-get install kmplayer

which not so surprisingly worked

Kyle Kanos

Yeah, it's either something different or an older version

gonenc

but it is not to be used at its current state

@KyleKanos there is a workaround in vlc

which is to save it as playlist and play it

but it is a not-so-pretty workaround

Kyle Kanos

@DominicMichaelis Seems that B (on the EN page) isn't U (on the DE page)

The boxed equations at the bottom of the DE page give the same relation as top of the EN page

0celo7

@KyleKanos do you have the link to that bow mod?

gonenc

@DominicMichaelis btw you can use $\LaTeX$ in the chat room upon installing the chatjax extension

Kyle Kanos

3:19 PM

@0celo7 nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/14630?

Aforementioned ChatJax extension can be found here: meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/1088/…

0celo7

Is that mod OP?

Kyle Kanos

I didn't think so

It just levels out the damage dealt by arrows so that they're more useful

Dominic Michaelis

@KyleKanos oh thanks, I hope this explains my confusion.

Kyle Kanos

@DominicMichaelis Looking back at the EN page, it says that U=4pi*B/c, which would give you the difference between the two: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

@0celo7 Though it could be OP if you get 100 Agility, 100 Sneak & 100 Marksman

dmckee

@0celo7 Er ... I know you two are just messing around, but if we let this kind of language go unremarked we risk having it used as a president by users who are either malicious or insensitive to the distinction.

0celo7

3:34 PM

ok

Kyle Kanos

*precedent

gonenc

@dmckee is it ok to censor them like f*ck?

^that was a hell of a typo :D

Kyle Kanos

IMO: there's about 10 different words to use instead of each of the canonical 7 dirty words

gonenc

@KyleKanos tits really?

Kyle Kanos

That one caught your eye and not piss?

0celo7

3:37 PM

^^

gonenc

@KyleKanos piss too I didn't read the list just barely scrolled down to see what is on the list

but piss shouldn't be on the list either imho

Kyle Kanos

My point remains though: you don't have to use the "dirty words" when you have many other words that mean the same thing

Dominic Michaelis

mh why exactly is the energy emitted the product of energy density and the speed of light?

gonenc

@KyleKanos I only use them to emphasize something eg I #insert dirty word# hate calculating riemann tensor by hand

0celo7

@KyleKanos I have over 4,000 gold. Can I buy a house with that?

gonenc

3:41 PM

what else could I use for emphasis except for italic or bold or both?

Kyle Kanos

@0celo7 Yes

uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Houses

Of course, just joining the Dark Brotherhood would allow you access to their secret hideout and a free bed

0celo7

that's a damn shack

I have a bed from the mage guild

Dominic Michaelis

I only played Skyrim

0celo7

I need a chest

I could just start experimenting with alchemy...

there are also DLC houses

Kyle Kanos

You can get a house + chest for 2400 in the Imperial City

0celo7

3:43 PM

cool beans

Kyle Kanos

House for 2k and House Storage Area for 400

0celo7

I'll check that out as soon as I finish looting Kvatch

Kyle Kanos

Internet says after joining the guild, raid the house of everything and sell it

Most notably the books

And do the Arena sidequest

0celo7

the house?

Kyle Kanos

Yes, the Mages Guild house, for example

0celo7

3:49 PM

why would I do that

Kyle Kanos

For money

0celo7

unless that stuff respawns I won't do it

Kyle Kanos

Well you can do item duplication: uesp.net/wiki/…

Dominic Michaelis

@KyleKanos if you play on the computer you always can use the console ...

0celo7

or I could console in money

Kyle Kanos

3:51 PM

One way is cheating, the other is abusing game mechanics

0celo7

stream is up

Kyle Kanos

sigh: physics.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/91315

Dominic Michaelis

exploiting is cheating isn't it ?

Kyle Kanos

No, exploiting isn't cheating

dmckee

@KyleKanos Yeah. That. Spelling is my third biggest weakness. Right after coffee and chocolate.

Kyle Kanos

3:55 PM

@DominicMichaelis Though I could possibly agree with the statement in context of online gaming (i.e., pvp)

0celo7

@KyleKanos where on ~~earth~~ Nirn is this house

Kyle Kanos

What house?

The Mages' Guild house?

Dominic Michaelis

@KyleKanos I used the console in skyrim i think after my first 300 hours gaming :D

0celo7

@KyleKanos the shack in the imperial city

Kyle Kanos

@0celo7 Waterfront district

0celo7

3:56 PM

ty

Kyle Kanos

@DominicMichaelis Never used the console for any of the TES games (which is really just 3 & 4 for me)

dmckee

@gonenc I'm not even saying never use those words.

Some grownups spar at each other a lot and that's fine.

Dominic Michaelis

@Kyle well I hoped it would help agains Karstaag, because he wasn't onehit (I played daggers with 30 * bonus damage from hidden) and everything which isn't onehit is nearly impossible to kill :D

dmckee

Just don't let it overwhelm the feeling that this place is safe for outsiders and inhabitted by professionals and those that will be.

Dominic Michaelis

thought i could make a poison for him but he was immune to it :D

Kyle Kanos

3:58 PM

I'd argue that your tactics would need improving.

0celo7

christ the imperial city is huge

@KyleKanos Karstaag on Legendary difficulty is crazy insanely hard.

One hit kill even if you've hit the armor cap.

Dominic Michaelis

@0celo7 yes i didn't manage him, i need to change difficulty

dmckee

Seriously, hang out in the hotel bar during a APS conference and you'll hear lots of shop talk and the occasional rassing of buddies from grad school.

You're also at risk of paying US$16 for a shot of decent single malt if they hold it in the #(*&%$# downtown Hilton like they did this April.

What's up with that?

US$250 a night for rooms and they don't even have free WiFi!

0celo7

@KyleKanos I found the house, how the heck do I buy it?

Dominic Michaelis

@0celo7 and my char was level 90 +

Kyle Kanos

4:02 PM

Again, one-hit-kill strategies are not good ones

0celo7

@DominicMichaelis the only way I could beat him was to use the fortify restoration potion chain glitch

@KyleKanos I mean he will OHKO you

Kyle Kanos

@0celo7 Office of Imperial Commerce

0celo7

wtf this place is huge

which district?

Dominic Michaelis

on the second hardest difficulty he was onehit ...

Kyle Kanos

Market District

0celo7

4:03 PM

thanks

Dominic Michaelis

I really should install Skyrim again :D

0celo7

you should

it's pretty great

Dominic Michaelis

yeah steam says i played it for 516 hours ... :D

but mages really suck in the endgame

0celo7

did you get SkyRe?

Dominic Michaelis

SkyRe?

0celo7

4:10 PM

nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/9286?

@KyleKanos "I don't trust you enough to talk about that"

wtf I can't buy the house

Kyle Kanos

You probably just need to make her happy

0celo7

yeah I had to bribe her

Dominic Michaelis

@0celo7 nope not yet

ACuriousMind

@Danu I get thoughts like these at most questions of that user. He's getting this stuff from actual papers and the like, though, so not his fault. I tried to "translate" some of the questions into proper group theory (so I could answer them), but I almost always hit something I can't really understand because the terminology is alien to me or I can't make mathematical sense of it. :/

Dominic Michaelis

sneaking was kind of exploit at all ^^

0celo7

4:19 PM

cool have the house and the storage

how the heck does alchemy work in this game...

Kyle Kanos

Mortar & pestle

0celo7

what do the other things do

retort, alembic, calcinator

Kyle Kanos

Nothing really

Well, they can improve the quality of the items made, but not significantly enough for purposes of selling the items

0celo7

does that happen automatically?

I can't find a way to use them explicitly

Kyle Kanos

IDK, I'm reading now

> [Retort & Alembic] don't work any different that any other alchemical items. You only need to have them in your inventory to get the effects they offer. The resort will improve positive effects, the alembic reduces negative effects, and the calcinator increases all effects. Note, the alembic has no effect when poisons so there is no need to drop it every time you want to make a poison.

0celo7

4:32 PM

> Tom and Maddie stick to beers as promised. At some point, Tom sees her quietly slip into a room with several other people. Worried, he follows her and sees several people cutting lines of coke.

Kyle Kanos

So if you've got them in your inventory whilst your alchemizing, it'll work. But the M&P are the only things you really need

0celo7

please just kill me

@KyleKanos I have all of them

Kyle Kanos

Suggestions to making money are finding items that have Restore Fatigue as first effect & make Quick Restore potions

You can even go to an innkeeper, buy their food that does that, make it in front of them, then sell it to them

For profit

0celo7

quick restore?

> Q: It's safe to mix drugs as long as you control the amount you take.