
1190: "Time"
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Kieryn wrote:tman2nd wrote:Kieryn wrote:OK, so I had some free time today...
Basically I just re-parsed the entire thread (up to page 370 ish) using an XML parser (this site uses xhtml, so that helps) and also a natural language processing library (OpenNLP).
I also excluded any blockquotes from the post content, so it's all just original text, nothing duplicated.
As an example use of the data, I was able to distill the top nouns unique to this thread.
- newpix 734
- sandcastle 253
- castles 159
- coma 150
- flags 110
- sandcastles 103
- poles 94
- hash 71
- newpages 69
- buffygirl 60
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I'm surprised buffygirl beat Blitzgirl.
Yeah, you are right. Apparently I only got 6 instances where she was tagged as a noun. The NLP must not be that great. I need to recheck this -- thanks for pointing it out. Back later
Aha. Bug in my code meant I was only looking at lower case instances of nouns. No mixed case. I will recalculate and report shortly.
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Time won't auto-update for me anymore.
Does anyone have an idea why?

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Kieryn wrote:tman2nd wrote:I'm surprised buffygirl beat Blitzgirl.
Yeah, you are right. Apparently I only got 6 instances where she was tagged as a noun. The NLP must not be that great. I need to recheck this -- thanks for pointing it out. Back later
Does it treat proper nouns differently? If so, it probably assumes BlitzGirl is a proper noun since it begins with a capital letter. That would also explain the lack of Megan and Cueball in both lists.
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Angelastic wrote:Kieryn wrote:tman2nd wrote:I'm surprised buffygirl beat Blitzgirl.
Yeah, you are right. Apparently I only got 6 instances where she was tagged as a noun. The NLP must not be that great. I need to recheck this -- thanks for pointing it out. Back later
Does it treat proper nouns differently? If so, it probably assumes BlitzGirl is a proper noun since it begins with a capital letter. That would also explain the lack of Megan and Cueball in both lists.
Megan and Cueball are on this list, so they don't count.
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Kieryn wrote:OK, so I had some free time today...
Basically I just re-parsed the entire thread (up to page 370 ish) using an XML parser (this site uses xhtml, so that helps) and also a natural language processing library (OpenNLP).
I also excluded any blockquotes from the post content, so it's all just original text, nothing duplicated.
As an example use of the data, I was able to distill the top nouns unique to this thread.
- newpix 734
- sandcastle 253
- castles 159
- coma 150
- flags 110
- sandcastles 103
- poles 94
- hash 71
- newpages 69
- buffygirl 60
Spoiler:
Shocked to not see "trebuchet" in the top five.
Valarya wrote:patzer wrote:I made a new feature- multiple people on one graph.
When looking at it this way, I can see why some people would think cmyk would be Helper! Suspicious
Drakeesh wrote:Valarya wrote:patzer wrote:I made a new feature- multiple people on one graph.
When looking at it this way, I can see why some people would think cmyk would be Helper! Suspicious
I agree, Very suspicious. Perhaps cmyk should be advanced as the new Pope Permanent Past Prior Present Punctual for Perpetuity (until Blitzgirl reaches the end/present/future(?) of time of course) and see if he goes MIA as well.
Angelastic wrote:tman2nd wrote:Well, according to this graph, cmyk and Helper's posting habits don't line up, so I don't think they're the same.
According to that graph, cmyk never comas.cmyk is the robot that Helper's consciousness was transferred into.
Of course, Helper isn't as nearly as handsome as me, either.
Pope of Perpetuity sounds about right, as I was on a work bender for the last couple weeks*, pulling 24 to 36 hrs between (painfully short) comas. Of course this thread helped with productivity.
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ETA: also, as seriously fun and cool as that graph is, it kinda makes me sad. A sleepy cmyk is a cranky cmyk!
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Re: 1190: "Time"
tman2nd wrote:Angelastic wrote:Kieryn wrote:tman2nd wrote:I'm surprised buffygirl beat Blitzgirl.
Yeah, you are right. Apparently I only got 6 instances where she was tagged as a noun. The NLP must not be that great. I need to recheck this -- thanks for pointing it out. Back later
Does it treat proper nouns differently? If so, it probably assumes BlitzGirl is a proper noun since it begins with a capital letter. That would also explain the lack of Megan and Cueball in both lists.
Megan and Cueball are on this list, so they don't count.
Proper nouns are tagged separately yes... though I included all nouns.
Anyway, bug fixed -- here is the corrected list:
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cueball 683
frames 478
blitzgirl 324
sandcastle 294
temporal 185
castles 182
coma 167
timewaiters 136
sandcastles 116
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Re: 1190: "Time"
tman2nd wrote:Megan and Cueball are on this list, so they don't count.
Where? I did search for them there as well, but either they're not there or my text search is somehow broken.
Ah well, looks like Kieryn found the bug.

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Kieryn wrote:Anyway, bug fixed -- here is the corrected list:
http://kieryn.com/xkcd-time/data/top5000timeNouns.txt
…
longpix 53
scaffolding 51
newpic 52
reckoning 51
outsiders 50
semen 51
…
Did you use a half-hearted merge sort?
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Kieryn wrote:Spoiler:Spoiler:
Ooooh! I'm unique to this thread!!! manvandmaan, you are added to my hat queue. Which I fulfill in no particular order.
EDIT1: Hmmmm, shortlived uniqueness...
EDIT2: spoilered list
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RobIrr wrote:HAL9000 wrote:
She designs some very unique...
whatever those things are. They're not really all hats, some of them are closer to masks. I'd be a little scared to meet that person.
I'm with HAL on this ... that's not a hat; I have no idea what it is, but certainly won't keep the rain off, which is, I would have thought, one of the primary attributes required of a hat.
I think it's more a fascinater than a hat. (At first I thought it was a pair of partially eaten waffles.)
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htom wrote:RobIrr wrote:HAL9000 wrote:
She designs some very unique...
whatever those things are. They're not really all hats, some of them are closer to masks. I'd be a little scared to meet that person.
I'm with HAL on this ... that's not a hat; I have no idea what it is, but certainly won't keep the rain off, which is, I would have thought, one of the primary attributes required of a hat.
I think it's more a fascinater than a hat. (At first I thought it was a pair of partially eaten waffles.)
Right. It's been replaced. I had feared it might be too detailed. I wanted to use it cuz it sorta looked like a fancy sandcastle.
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Angelastic wrote:Kieryn wrote:Anyway, bug fixed -- here is the corrected list:
http://kieryn.com/xkcd-time/data/top5000timeNouns.txt…
longpix 53
scaffolding 51
newpic 52
reckoning 51
outsiders 50
semen 51
…
Did you use a half-hearted merge sort?
Ha

Kind of -- I actually added a bump up for longer words:
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.OrderByDescending(c=>c.count*4 + Math.Min(c.noun.Length, 20))
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manvandmaan wrote:Firstly, I would like to request one of those nifty graphs...
Your wish is my command and all that (do you not have Excel though? The tool is dead easy to use!)
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Wow, there has been a lot of actuall analysis in this thread since my coma, I rather enjoy it 

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SUPERSTRONG...


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Re: 1190: "Time"
cmyk wrote:Pope of Perpetutuity sounds about right, as I was on a work bender for the last couple weeks*, pulling 24 to 36 hrs between (painfully short) comas. Of course this thread helped with productivity.
*any CG/VFX/Game Devs and Artists... Can I get a holla?!
ETA: also, as seriously fun and cool as that graph is, it kinda makes me sad. A sleepy cmyk is a cranky cmyk!
Holla, Holla! I was wondering what your gig was - you sure have the tools and you know how to use them.
I winced when the request was made for more blur, and wowed by your speedy turnaround. How'd you do that?
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mscha wrote:SUPERSTRONG...-- posted by newpixbot
I'm beginning to wonder if it's a scale model, she's drafting with sand, as a template for what they will eventually build at 1:1 for the structure they've semi-framed out. Perhaps using materials stronger than sand — or IKEA particle boards, even.

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Okay playing with highcharts... http://jsfiddle.net/fgxda/20/embedded/result/
Gonna go do some required 'outside' stuff for a bit. Hopefully soon I can create a dynamic /searchable version of this, kind of like this baby names thing:
http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager
Gonna go do some required 'outside' stuff for a bit. Hopefully soon I can create a dynamic /searchable version of this, kind of like this baby names thing:
http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager
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ggh wrote:cmyk wrote:Pope of Perpetutuity sounds about right, as I was on a work bender for the last couple weeks*, pulling 24 to 36 hrs between (painfully short) comas. Of course this thread helped with productivity.
*any CG/VFX/Game Devs and Artists... Can I get a holla?!
ETA: also, as seriously fun and cool as that graph is, it kinda makes me sad. A sleepy cmyk is a cranky cmyk!
Holla, Holla! I was wondering what your gig was - you sure have the tools and you know how to use them.
I winced when the request was made for more blur, and wowed by your speedy turnaround. How'd you do that?
(holla!)
Actually, at the moment, I couldn't find an easy way to download all the frames from any particular source and import it into After Effects as an image sequence. The one source I did find, the file names were all semi-hash tags, and the dates were all the same, so there was no way to easily sort them (that I could see) as an ordered sequence of frames. So, I took the lazy route and screen recorded the sequence from one of the scripted player websites.
After I captured that, I had to mess with the fps/playback rates a bit, then just applied motion blur using a post-process plugin called Reel Smart Motion Blur. Handy tool for faking such an effect.

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Re: 1190: "Time"
mscha wrote:SUPERSTRONG...-- posted by newpixbot
This is really starting to look like the castle from Disney logo. The bridge is even at the right position. I know, it's not perfect. But it's the closest one so far.
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cmyk wrote:ggh wrote:cmyk wrote:Pope of Perpetutuity sounds about right, as I was on a work bender for the last couple weeks*, pulling 24 to 36 hrs between (painfully short) comas. Of course this thread helped with productivity.
*any CG/VFX/Game Devs and Artists... Can I get a holla?!
ETA: also, as seriously fun and cool as that graph is, it kinda makes me sad. A sleepy cmyk is a cranky cmyk!
Holla, Holla! I was wondering what your gig was - you sure have the tools and you know how to use them.
I winced when the request was made for more blur, and wowed by your speedy turnaround. How'd you do that?
(holla!)
Actually, at the moment, I couldn't find an easy way to download all the frames from any particular source and import it into After Effects as an image sequence. The one source I did find, the file names were all semi-hash tags, and the dates were all the same, so there was no way to easily sort them (that I could see) as an ordered sequence of frames. So, I took the lazy route and screen recorded the sequence from one of the scripted player websites.
After I captured that, I had to mess with the fps/playback rates a bit, then just applied motion blur using a post-process plugin called Reel Smart Motion Blur. Handy tool for faking such an effect.
Here's the way I get the frames:
1) Using chrome, go to http://geekwagon.net/projects/xkcd1190/.
2) In the JS console type:
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$(images).each(function(){console.log(this.toString());});
This outputs all the URLs to the console
3) Copy and paste/save the URLs then I wrote a program that loops through them and saves each image numbered 1..n
If you use C# the code is as simple as:
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var client = new System.Net.WebClient();
var i = 0;
foreach (var url in File.ReadAllLines(@"C:\imgUrls.txt")) {
client.DownloadFile(url, @"C:\frames\" + i + ".png");
i++;
}
Re: 1190: "Time"
cmyk wrote:ggh wrote:cmyk wrote:Pope of Perpetutuity sounds about right, as I was on a work bender for the last couple weeks*, pulling 24 to 36 hrs between (painfully short) comas. Of course this thread helped with productivity.
*any CG/VFX/Game Devs and Artists... Can I get a holla?!
ETA: also, as seriously fun and cool as that graph is, it kinda makes me sad. A sleepy cmyk is a cranky cmyk!
Holla, Holla! I was wondering what your gig was - you sure have the tools and you know how to use them.
I winced when the request was made for more blur, and wowed by your speedy turnaround. How'd you do that?
(holla!)
Actually, at the moment, I couldn't find an easy way to download all the frames from any particular source and import it into After Effects as an image sequence. The one source I did find, the file names were all semi-hash tags, and the dates were all the same, so there was no way to easily sort them (that I could see) as an ordered sequence of frames. So, I took the lazy route and screen recorded the sequence from one of the scripted player websites.
After I captured that, I had to mess with the fps/playback rates a bit, then just applied motion blur using a post-process plugin called Reel Smart Motion Blur. Handy tool for faking such an effect.
Wow, I remember hearing of that tool, but never used it. It does a real nice job, or rather, you did a real nice job using it.
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I did some further image analysis to begin to rule out out possible correlations with other meaningful mathematic or scientific representations.
Here's the famous Mandelbrot fractal:

and here's Oprah Winfrey:

...my inductive research continues...
Here's the famous Mandelbrot fractal:

and here's Oprah Winfrey:

...my inductive research continues...

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ggh wrote:cmyk wrote:ggh wrote:cmyk wrote:Pope of Perpetutuity sounds about right, as I was on a work bender for the last couple weeks*, pulling 24 to 36 hrs between (painfully short) comas. Of course this thread helped with productivity.
*any CG/VFX/Game Devs and Artists... Can I get a holla?!
ETA: also, as seriously fun and cool as that graph is, it kinda makes me sad. A sleepy cmyk is a cranky cmyk!
Holla, Holla! I was wondering what your gig was - you sure have the tools and you know how to use them.
I winced when the request was made for more blur, and wowed by your speedy turnaround. How'd you do that?
(holla!)
Actually, at the moment, I couldn't find an easy way to download all the frames from any particular source and import it into After Effects as an image sequence. The one source I did find, the file names were all semi-hash tags, and the dates were all the same, so there was no way to easily sort them (that I could see) as an ordered sequence of frames. So, I took the lazy route and screen recorded the sequence from one of the scripted player websites.
After I captured that, I had to mess with the fps/playback rates a bit, then just applied motion blur using a post-process plugin called Reel Smart Motion Blur. Handy tool for faking such an effect.
Wow, I remember hearing of that tool, but never used it. It does a real nice job, or rather, you did a real nice job using it.
Yep, it's a great tool. The default setting works pretty great 90% of the time (though for post-MB in CG, it can use motion vector data from your scene, which helps it determine proper vectors for the blurring). I just doubled the the strength for this, and turned it off or down on the dialog(ue) frames. Easy peasy.

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cmyk wrote:and here's Oprah Winfrey:
Made my day.
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NoMouse wrote:mscha wrote:SUPERSTRONG...-- posted by newpixbot
This is really starting to look like the castle from Disney logo. The bridge is even at the right position. I know, it's not perfect. But it's the closest one so far.
Yeah, or maybe Neuschwanstein? Or Hogwarts?
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Kieryn wrote:Okay playing with highcharts... http://jsfiddle.net/fgxda/20/embedded/result/
Gonna go do some required 'outside' stuff for a bit. Hopefully soon I can create a dynamic /searchable version of this, kind of like this baby names thing:
http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager
I am loving all this
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TRIPHTHONG...


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HAL9000 wrote:cmyk wrote:and here's Oprah Winfrey:
Made my day.
She is a light unto us all...

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histrion wrote:Spoiler:
Yeah, or maybe Neuschwanstein? Or Hogwarts?
I dunno... sorta looking like Megatron.
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Kieryn wrote:Anyway, bug fixed -- here is the corrected list:newpix 990
cueball 683
frames 478
blitzgirl 324
sandcastle 294
temporal 185
castles 182
coma 167
timewaiters 136
sandcastles 116
Thaaaaat's more like it!
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Made my day.
I had to stop scrolling I was laughing so hard.
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Anyone else think rot13 sort of looks like Cthulhu's native R'lyehian language? Kinda freakin' me out a bit.

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cmyk wrote:Anyone else think rot13 sort of looks like Cthulhu's native R'lyehian language? Kinda freakin' me out a bit.
It may have crossed my mind.
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Well, BlitzGirl is experiencing a bit of a title wave.
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Well, BlitzGirl is experiencing a bit of a title wave.
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KarMann wrote:cmyk wrote:Anyone else think rot13 sort of looks like Cthulhu's native R'lyehian language? Kinda freakin' me out a bit.
It may have crossed my mind.
See? That's what I get for skimming.
*shame*

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cmyk wrote:histrion wrote:Spoiler:
Yeah, or maybe Neuschwanstein? Or Hogwarts?
I dunno... sorta looking like Megatron.
Which Megatron? There's actually been rather a few iterations, all of them rather different.
This is what the original Megatron toy transformed into:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/Megatron-g1toy.jpg
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Today, on the outside I tamed the savage beasts1, beat back the encroaching jungle2, did battle with a powerful foe3, and went on a mighty quest4. Then I hurried back to wait for it.
1 Took my Newfoundlands to obedience class.
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4 Took a nice walk around the park.
1 Took my Newfoundlands to obedience class.
2 Mowed the lawn.
3 Called my satellite provider to get a new receiver, to replace the one that has failed.
4 Took a nice walk around the park.
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The only Megatron is the original Megatron that somehow defied known material physics and transformed into a gun a fraction of his Decepticon-mode size and mass.

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cmyk wrote:The only Megatron is the original Megatron that somehow defied known material physics and transformed into a gun a fraction of his Decepticon-mode size and mass.
Maybe he was made out of some kind of foam that compressed? A foam that looked and behaved almost exactly like metal... I'll just call it astro-foam and be done with it.
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