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- Mon Jan 11, 2016 9:48 pm UTC
- Forum: Mathematics
- Topic: Favorite math jokes
- Replies: 1452
- Views: 474622
Re: Favorite math jokes
What has a binary operation, an identity element, the inverse property, but only has associativity during the full moon?
- Sun Nov 22, 2015 7:22 pm UTC
- Forum: Logic Puzzles
- Topic: Escape the Frictionless Circle
- Replies: 156
- Views: 56151
Re: Escape the Frictionless Circle
Question: what happens if you fall over? You've lost gravitational potential energy, so where does it go? Heat. If you had some way to eject heat (as black body infrared realisation) in a particular direction, you could use that, but that may be forbidden by the "you can't eject anything"...
- Sat Nov 14, 2015 5:38 pm UTC
- Forum: Gaming
- Topic: Steam (etc.) trading thread.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5530
Re: Steam (etc.) trading thread.
Who wants to play Don't Starve Together with me? I'll trade you a copy in exchange for...just that. Offer only available this weekend.
- Sat Nov 14, 2015 5:37 pm UTC
- Forum: Gaming
- Topic: Great Steam Deals (And other Online Distribution Systems)
- Replies: 2636
- Views: 511510
Re: Great Steam Deals (And other Online Distribution Systems
Klei Entertainment 85% off this weekend. I'll buy a copy of Don't Starve Together for anyone who'll promise to play with me 

- Wed Oct 21, 2015 4:00 am UTC
- Forum: Gaming
- Topic: Kickstarter Thread. Everything Goes Here.
- Replies: 426
- Views: 178337
Re: Kickstarter Thread. Everything Goes Here.
You have 2 days left to back the port of the great SpaceTeam mobile game to .... cards! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ma ... paceteam-0
- Tue Oct 06, 2015 3:32 am UTC
- Forum: Logic Puzzles
- Topic: Kirkman's Schoolgirls
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3734
Kirkman's Schoolgirls
Given this puzzle dates from 1850, I assumed it had been posted here before, but I wouldn't know what to search for, and nothing I tried found it. If someone knows it is here and can link it, please lock this thread. Fifteen young ladies in a school walk out three abreast for seven days in successio...
- Tue Oct 06, 2015 3:07 am UTC
- Forum: Computer Science
- Topic: Short spanning closed walk on an unweighted undirected Graph
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4670
Re: Short spanning closed walk on an unweighted undirected G
The wikipedia article mentions a random algorithm that runs in 1.657^n: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamiltonian_path_problem
Pretty sure that's somewhat faster than the algorithm you sketch (which, in the form of the Held-Karp algorithm, is also mentioned in the same article).
Pretty sure that's somewhat faster than the algorithm you sketch (which, in the form of the Held-Karp algorithm, is also mentioned in the same article).
- Mon Sep 28, 2015 1:03 am UTC
- Forum: Gaming
- Topic: Games you can't remember the title of.
- Replies: 1924
- Views: 518217
Re: Games you can't remember the title of.
thanks that's the one.
- Sun Sep 27, 2015 9:43 pm UTC
- Forum: Gaming
- Topic: Games you can't remember the title of.
- Replies: 1924
- Views: 518217
Re: Games you can't remember the title of.
Looking for a board game. Competitive. Goal is to colonize mars, which is divided into regions named after Sci-Fi authors. It's a dice work-replacement game, where the dice are your ships. Can't seem to Google it.
- Mon Sep 21, 2015 6:16 am UTC
- Forum: Logic Puzzles
- Topic: The castle
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3073
Re: The castle
Yep, Cauchy nailed it. I forgot to consider inferences one could make based on the "can't repeat, so remaining rooms are contiguous" condition.
- Sun Sep 20, 2015 9:18 pm UTC
- Forum: Logic Puzzles
- Topic: Anti-Gambler's Fallacy
- Replies: 162
- Views: 25018
Re: Anti-Gambler's Fallacy
(1) I would not play the game at all, because gambling is immoral. "Well, here in the future, we've perfected the art of machines that print food from raw organic materials. Unfortunately, due to war and sanctions on our country, in addition to our burgeoning population, we don't have enough r...
- Thu Sep 17, 2015 3:50 am UTC
- Forum: Gaming
- Topic: Great Steam Deals (And other Online Distribution Systems)
- Replies: 2636
- Views: 511510
Re: Great Steam Deals (And other Online Distribution Systems
I should have waited to buy life is strange I guess. I bought it a week before it went on sale!
- Sun Sep 13, 2015 2:15 pm UTC
- Forum: Logic Puzzles
- Topic: The castle
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3073
Re: The castle
That 31 moves is a lower bound is obvious, or in the nxn case, that (n-1)*n+1 is a lower bound. Basically, visiting every position on five of the rows before ever setting foot in the sixth row makes it impossible to determine what row he is on until that last move. I'm fairly confident ...
- Sat Sep 12, 2015 9:46 pm UTC
- Forum: Logic Puzzles
- Topic: Anti-Gambler's Fallacy
- Replies: 162
- Views: 25018
Re: Anti-Gambler's Fallacy
I definitively wouldn't be confident enough for that. I wouldn't be either. Yes, I meant to say "likely." In which case, I disagree. From what I've seen, people are more likely to overestimate small probabilities than underestimate large ones. People who play the lottery for instance. The...
- Sat Sep 12, 2015 9:21 pm UTC
- Forum: Logic Puzzles
- Topic: Anti-Gambler's Fallacy
- Replies: 162
- Views: 25018
Re: Anti-Gambler's Fallacy
I disagree. In blue eyes, if the Guru says they see someone with blue eyes, and you don't see anybody else with blue eyes, you should be absolutely certain that your eyes are blue and that it's the reason the Guru said that, to know your eyes are blue. Otherwise, you just scratch your head, and thi...
- Sat Sep 12, 2015 4:58 pm UTC
- Forum: Logic Puzzles
- Topic: Anti-Gambler's Fallacy
- Replies: 162
- Views: 25018
Re: Anti-Gambler's Fallacy
They're absolutely certain that the Guru is telling the truth and that if there was a single person with blue eyes, they're absolutely certain that it would leave the island the first day. Absolute certainty is not a prerequisite for blue eyes. In fact, at no point does it refer to absolute certain...
- Sat Sep 12, 2015 4:00 pm UTC
- Forum: Logic Puzzles
- Topic: Anti-Gambler's Fallacy
- Replies: 162
- Views: 25018
Re: Anti-Gambler's Fallacy
In the puzzle's world, no outcome from the coin should affect your certainty, because if it did then you weren't certain to begin with. People reject "You know for certain that the coin is biased in your favor: 70 to 30" from the puzzle, and go "no, I don't know for certain". Ex...
- Sat Sep 12, 2015 7:15 am UTC
- Forum: Logic Puzzles
- Topic: Anti-Gambler's Fallacy
- Replies: 162
- Views: 25018
Re: Anti-Gambler's Fallacy
It's not the number of losses in a row that I can't comprehend. That the coin comes up tails that many times is easy to imagine. No harder than omniscient gods that always tell the truth anyway. What is literally incomprehensible is the idea of knowing something with absolute certainty. It is litera...
- Sat Sep 12, 2015 4:55 am UTC
- Forum: Logic Puzzles
- Topic: Anti-Gambler's Fallacy
- Replies: 162
- Views: 25018
Re: Anti-Gambler's Fallacy
It's more than just having to accept an implausible/impossible hypothetical. It's having to accept a hypothetical that is not even possible to imagine because it makes no sense. . It's like trying to imagine a hill of beans with infinitely many beans in it, and then being asked what one would do wit...
- Fri Sep 11, 2015 6:26 pm UTC
- Forum: Logic Puzzles
- Topic: Anti-Gambler's Fallacy
- Replies: 162
- Views: 25018
Re: Anti-Gambler's Fallacy
I reject the hypothetical. I refuse to be absolutely certain about anything. How would I even come to absolute certainty? Certainly not empirically. Could someone just tell me and I would believe them? No, because I would I ever come to absolute trust in them? Certainly not empirically. Being absolu...
- Thu Aug 27, 2015 6:31 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1568: "Synonym Movies 2"
- Replies: 50
- Views: 21030
Re: 1568: "Synonym Movies 2"
Wandboy is infinitely less funny than 'Ceramic Harold'. Personally, I've always called him "Woolly Tinker". His best friend is Donald Ferrety. And they were friends with Mercurina McMaster-Carr. Interesting. My sister dates a McMaster-Carr employee, but this is the first I'd heard of thei...
- Tue Aug 25, 2015 1:36 pm UTC
- Forum: Gaming
- Topic: Steam (etc.) trading thread.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5530
Re: Steam (etc.) trading thread.
Ah. So you are. I suppose I would trade it for defense grid.
- Sun Aug 23, 2015 4:18 am UTC
- Forum: Gaming
- Topic: Steam (etc.) trading thread.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5530
Re: Steam (etc.) trading thread.
My wishlist is very short at the moment: http://steamcommunity.com/id/quintopia/wishlist
Tell me what you have and I'll tell you if any of it interests me.
Tell me what you have and I'll tell you if any of it interests me.
- Sat Aug 22, 2015 5:44 am UTC
- Forum: Gaming
- Topic: Steam (etc.) trading thread.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5530
Re: Steam (etc.) trading thread.
In my inventory: SpaceBase DF-9 Spacechem Spacechem 63 Corvi Half-Life 2 Half-Life 2: Episode One Unclaimed steam keys: Shelter Hammerwatch VVVVVV The Novelist Eufloria HD Gunpoint Frozen Synapse Ittle Dew (SOME OF THE ABOVE MAY NOT WORK. I converted some of them into gifts on humblebundle, but I di...
- Sat Aug 22, 2015 5:39 am UTC
- Forum: Movies and TV Shows
- Topic: Disney Film with Aggregate Best Original Music
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5132
Re: Disney Film with Aggregate Best Original Music
In contrast, "When Will My Life Begin?" , "Mother Knows Best", and "I see the light" from Tangled all are similar musically and unify into a single theme. Donna Murphy and Mandy Moore may not have the same legendary status as Julie Andrews, but they carry the movie qui...
- Sun Aug 09, 2015 9:51 pm UTC
- Forum: Forum Games
- Topic: Thread Necromancy SlowMode
- Replies: 358
- Views: 178120
Re: Thread Necromancy SlowMode
8 points
- Sat Aug 08, 2015 6:37 am UTC
- Forum: Forum Games
- Topic: fora fore fare fame game
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4903
Re: fora fore fare fame game
I updated the web app with a much larger dictionary (which still isn't perfect as it now contains a lot of nonwords...still looking for the perfect dictionary) and a faster search algorithm. The new algorithm gave the following massive chain in under a second: fellate to stellar in 26 steps: fellate...
Threes
Now that the wild 2048 craze has passed and only the original remains complex and deep enough to hold anyone's attention, let's talk about Threes. Does anyone here play? What are your high scores? What are some strategies I could use to get higher than the 768 vampire?
- Thu Aug 06, 2015 2:06 pm UTC
- Forum: Forum Games
- Topic: Fun Fact Trivia Time
- Replies: 76
- Views: 5660
Re: Fun Fact Trivia Time
... free perkeles. "Perkele with the rest of the world!" Also, delicious mämmi laxatives.
Although there is no such thing as a sugar high in non-diabetics, consuming high sugar foods...
Although there is no such thing as a sugar high in non-diabetics, consuming high sugar foods...
- Wed Aug 05, 2015 3:58 am UTC
- Forum: XKCD Meetups
- Topic: [US] Atlanta Area
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6507
Re: [US] Atlanta Area
i'm game depending on when and where and what. i wonder what mega is up to these days.
- Wed Aug 05, 2015 2:14 am UTC
- Forum: Forum Games
- Topic: Mornington Crescent
- Replies: 2654
- Views: 251961
Re: Mornington Crescent
Nice try. But you have to go deeper to get out!
- Wed Aug 05, 2015 2:13 am UTC
- Forum: Forum Games
- Topic: Corrupt-a-wish
- Replies: 25935
- Views: 2258199
Re: Corrupt-a-wish
Granted. State education lotteries go completely unfunded, and schools are forced to shed special education and arts programs to stay afloat. Which is fine since children are no longer fooled into believing their educations are useful or meaningful. Dad jokes become impossible. I wish the next poste...
- Wed Aug 05, 2015 2:08 am UTC
- Forum: Forum Games
- Topic: Mornington Crescent
- Replies: 2654
- Views: 251961
Re: Mornington Crescent
All 6 of your legs and both of your feelers are intact. There is not a single mark on your carapace. Thank goodness it was only a dream!
- Wed Aug 05, 2015 12:06 am UTC
- Forum: Forum Games
- Topic: Mornington Crescent
- Replies: 2654
- Views: 251961
Re: Mornington Crescent
Chop Vytron's Legs Into Tiny Bits with a Staph-Laced Knife
Now you're sick from a loss of gam bits as well.
Now you're sick from a loss of gam bits as well.
- Tue Aug 04, 2015 2:35 pm UTC
- Forum: Forum Games
- Topic: Text Adventure
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1846
Re: Text Adventure
You try to get a grip on the necktie, but as soon as you start pulling in it, the brass bar it hangs from flexes slightly. The east wall rotates to reveal a staircase up to the second floor!
> xyzzy
> xyzzy
- Tue Aug 04, 2015 2:26 pm UTC
- Forum: Mafia
- Topic: The Gojoe Memorial Mafia Discussion Thread
- Replies: 32419
- Views: 2334086
Re: The Gojoe Memorial Mafia Discussion Thread
@Dr Ug
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- Tue Aug 04, 2015 3:31 am UTC
- Forum: Mafia
- Topic: The Gojoe Memorial Mafia Discussion Thread
- Replies: 32419
- Views: 2334086
Re: The Gojoe Memorial Mafia Discussion Thread
Hangafia (i'm so glad I got killed. I had stopped enjoying the game, and these spoilers are massive fun to read! Shout-outs to all you other dead folks! So apparently, I got handed Van's role when night fell. I wonder if it was my trying to use my ability that triggered it or Van trying to use t...
- Mon Aug 03, 2015 2:15 pm UTC
- Forum: Forum Games
- Topic: Mornington Crescent
- Replies: 2654
- Views: 251961
Re: Mornington Crescent
Granted. You can buy laser pointers at any Maplin. There's one near...
Chancery Lane
Chancery Lane
- Mon Aug 03, 2015 2:11 pm UTC
- Forum: Forum Games
- Topic: Fun Fact Trivia Time
- Replies: 76
- Views: 5660
Re: Fun Fact Trivia Time
...Mars. The attack vehicles they sent to invade Earth were only a tiny portion of their number, with the larger part of their population cheering them on from home.
Malaysia said on Sunday that debris that washed up on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion has been identified as...
Malaysia said on Sunday that debris that washed up on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion has been identified as...
- Sun Aug 02, 2015 10:15 pm UTC
- Forum: Science
- Topic: Salty Brine State Beach explosion
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2007
Re: Salty Brine State Beach explosion
WRT (a): Copper is not normally corroded in most environmental conditions, but wet sand is perfect for corroding it. See http://www.copper.org/resources/properties/protection/underground.html esp. the section on Concentration Cell Corrosion (b): Sand can't hold that many cations relatively speaking,...