Video: Nature By Numbers
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Today’s sanity break is a beautiful exploration of mathematics, geometry, and nature by Cristóbal Vila. You’ve never seen the Fibonacci sequence visualized like this.
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sattv4u2 Wed, Mar 31, 2010 12:30:14pm |
a beautiful exploration of mathematics, geometry
Nobody told me there was going to be math
The dog ate my homework!
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Kragar Wed, Mar 31, 2010 12:33:08pm |
And then we have the Mandelbrot set:
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The Sanity Inspector Wed, Mar 31, 2010 12:34:37pm |
Ooh. Swirly! Wish math class had a soundtrack when I was in school...
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sattv4u2 Wed, Mar 31, 2010 12:35:43pm |
re: #7 The Sanity Inspector
Ooh. Swirly! Wish math class had a soundtrack when I was in school...
Mine did
oh , wait ,, that was in my own head ,,,, lunch break buzz!!
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Kragar Wed, Mar 31, 2010 12:36:16pm |
re: #7 The Sanity Inspector
Ooh. Swirly! Wish math class had a soundtrack when I was in school...
My chemistry class did. I passed my Chem final because I put all the theorems I needed to Motorhead songs and sang them to myself during the lab.
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Four More Tears Wed, Mar 31, 2010 12:37:25pm |
re: #9 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
My chemistry class did. I passed my Chem final because I put all the theorems I needed to Motorhead songs and sang them to myself during the lab.
Lemmy was your copilot?
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Cato the Elder Wed, Mar 31, 2010 12:38:55pm |
I'm going to have to find a good Mandelbrot zoom to go with this lovely video.
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Kragar Wed, Mar 31, 2010 12:39:56pm |
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sattv4u2 Wed, Mar 31, 2010 12:41:04pm |
re: #11 Cato the Elder
I'm going to have to find a good Mandelbrot zoom to go with this lovely video.
How about a mediocre bag o' weed!?!
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Four More Tears Wed, Mar 31, 2010 12:41:41pm |
re: #12 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
[Video]
This was the song which got me my B
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avanti Wed, Mar 31, 2010 12:42:06pm |
re: #9 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
My chemistry class did. I passed my Chem final because I put all the theorems I needed to Motorhead songs and sang them to myself during the lab.
"Oscar Has A Heap Of Apples" and "Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls, But Violet Gives Willingly." did I get those right, it's been 40 years ?
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Kragar Wed, Mar 31, 2010 12:43:28pm |
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MrSilverDragon Wed, Mar 31, 2010 12:45:51pm |
That was a well put together video.
And for a useless trivia bit, pickled herrings were invented in 1375...
...proof that tried and tested doesn't always mean good.
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Dark_Falcon Wed, Mar 31, 2010 12:46:04pm |
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sattv4u2 Wed, Mar 31, 2010 12:47:13pm |
re: #17 MrSilverDragon
That was a well put together video.
And for a useless trivia bit, pickled herrings were invented in 1375...
...proof that tried and tested doesn't always mean good.
at the express disdain of the herrings!
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Kragar Wed, Mar 31, 2010 12:47:26pm |
re: #18 Dark_Falcon
Well, if he is, then Kragar can explain why my Zionist Check was late this month.
/
Your sloppy work on some passports come to mind.
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Kragar Wed, Mar 31, 2010 12:50:09pm |
Now where did that Imperial Guard player from yesterday get to?
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sattv4u2 Wed, Mar 31, 2010 12:50:40pm |
re: #21 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Your sloppy work on some passports come to mind.
Yeah ,, you can't just pencil in a smiley face and expect it to work!
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Kragar Wed, Mar 31, 2010 12:53:15pm |
re: #23 sattv4u2
Yeah ,, you can't just pencil in a smiley face and expect it to work!
Get yourself some psychic paper like Doctor Who has.
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Dark_Falcon Wed, Mar 31, 2010 12:58:04pm |
re: #22 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Now where did that Imperial Guard player from yesterday get to?
The Chaos Space Marines landed and he's off fighting them.
/Warhammer 40K
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Kragar Wed, Mar 31, 2010 12:58:38pm |
re: #25 Dark_Falcon
The Chaos Space Marines landed and he's off fighting them.
/Warhammer 40K
Poor bastard.
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Obdicut Wed, Mar 31, 2010 1:09:36pm |
re: #25 Dark_Falcon
I play Necron. I don't play that often.
But I use a resurrection orb with a destroyer-body lord, a monolith, and pariahs to deal with any close-combat and power weapon guys.
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_remembertonyc Wed, Mar 31, 2010 1:19:50pm |
Don't delete this just because it looks weird. Believe it or not, you can read it.
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at
Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the first and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it wouthit a porbelm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?
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Kragar Wed, Mar 31, 2010 1:22:05pm |
re: #27 Obdicut
I play Necron. I don't play that often.
But I use a resurrection orb with a destroyer-body lord, a monolith, and pariahs to deal with any close-combat and power weapon guys.
Sustained bolter/lasgun fire for pariahs, and anti-tank for the monoliths/Lord.
Currently focusing on my Space Wolves mostly. Wolf Priest leading bloodclaws pack in a LR, 2 packs of Grey Hunters in Rhinos, 2 packs of Long Fangs in Razorbacks (2 HB, 1 ML, 2 LC), 1 Dread with LC and DCCW.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Wed, Mar 31, 2010 1:26:39pm |
Great video. Strange, I don't even speak spanish, and yet I understood the dedication at the end far better than any of the equations throughout.
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Obdicut Wed, Mar 31, 2010 1:27:34pm |
re: #28 _remembertonyc
It's actually only partially true. It does very much matter what order the words are in-- the ones there were chosen in a particular pattern because it is readable. For example:
I cunodlt bievele that I colud alucalaty urtesnnadd what I was rieandg. The ponhanmael power of the huamn mind.
That's a much harder sentence-- though a lot is still understandable. Even harder:
Etlacxy: cleitopmxy metarts.
Exactly: complexity matters.
You have to avoid some patterns when rearranging like that, and any long word has to retain a great deal of its form to be understandable.
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Obdicut Wed, Mar 31, 2010 1:29:36pm |
re: #29 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Well, I also have the immortals teleporting around like assholes. And destroyers, too.
Sometimes I used two lords, to make that easier.
It depends on who I'm playing against. Anyone who's not detail-oriented is going to get totally fucked by the WBB rule.
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Kragar Wed, Mar 31, 2010 1:41:19pm |
re: #32 Obdicut
Well, I also have the immortals teleporting around like assholes. And destroyers, too.
Sometimes I used two lords, to make that easier.
It depends on who I'm playing against. Anyone who's not detail-oriented is going to get totally fucked by the WBB rule.
Thats why I use plasma guns, Meltas and Powerfists. Plus I tend to focus on one unit until its exterminated before moving on to the next. For IG, I've found the volley fire rule is actually pretty good for taking out Necron squads, especially when using the combined squad rule for IG so you have a 20 man squad doing the shooting.
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Obdicut Wed, Mar 31, 2010 1:47:33pm |
re: #33 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
If i'm going against IG I generally use wraiths so I can tie up the units in close and hopefully take out the commissar or whatever other special units. But I've never really played against very many serious players, and the one time I played a very good guy his Eldar just carved me into little pieces.
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Kragar Wed, Mar 31, 2010 1:52:23pm |
re: #34 Obdicut
If i'm going against IG I generally use wraiths so I can tie up the units in close and hopefully take out the commissar or whatever other special units. But I've never really played against very many serious players, and the one time I played a very good guy his Eldar just carved me into little pieces.
Not a bad idea. The trick to dealing with those special units is just to pound them hard and early and make the guy just roll so many saving throws, he is bound to some of them.
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Obdicut Wed, Mar 31, 2010 1:56:45pm |
re: #35 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
And gauss weapons are really good for that.
I got to go up against Tau often, and Tau are great at long-range but it means that far fewer Necron troops are 'really' getting destroyed, since the Tau have great non-special fire.
I've never used a C'Tan, either, but that's an option that could be interesting if I ever got back into it.
But my fiancee doesn't know I've ever wargamed and I may keep it that way.
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Kragar Wed, Mar 31, 2010 2:04:20pm |
re: #36 Obdicut
And gauss weapons are really good for that.
I got to go up against Tau often, and Tau are great at long-range but it means that far fewer Necron troops are 'really' getting destroyed, since the Tau have great non-special fire.
I've never used a C'Tan, either, but that's an option that could be interesting if I ever got back into it.
But my fiancee doesn't know I've ever wargamed and I may keep it that way.
C'Tan work best when you can cover their advance. City fights, heavy terrain, etc. Otherwise, they become sniper and heavy weapon bait on the open field. I've only fought Necrons once in the last year or so, and that was using my IG. I stuck to cover, used barrage weapons to pin them down, then moved up plasma gun squads and teams with demolition packs to finish them off. I focused on his troops and forced him into phaseout, even though his Lord, Immortals and Monolith were still up
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Obdicut Wed, Mar 31, 2010 2:19:00pm |
re: #37 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Yeah, any Necron player who doesn't use teleportation frequently to save warriors and avoid the phaseout is an idiot. Any Necron player who doesn't use destroyers as a screen for the warriors is silly, too.
I often lead with my monolith towards any main enemy force, with destroyers behind it ready to whip out and take out heavy weapons teams, with another force out flanking.
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Kragar Wed, Mar 31, 2010 2:23:41pm |
re: #38 Obdicut
Yeah, any Necron player who doesn't use teleportation frequently to save warriors and avoid the phaseout is an idiot. Any Necron player who doesn't use destroyers as a screen for the warriors is silly, too.
I often lead with my monolith towards any main enemy force, with destroyers behind it ready to whip out and take out heavy weapons teams, with another force out flanking.
Oh, he had destroyers, for the first turn anyways. Anti-tank squads and massed multi-laser fire took care of them. He tried to deep strike his monolith and it didn't even come into play until turn 4, but by then it was already pretty obvious the way the game was trending.
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Obdicut Wed, Mar 31, 2010 2:28:27pm |
re: #39 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Well, I doubt I'd last long against you. I do wish that there was just a straight, turn-based online adaptation so I could play without geeking out in models and painting and all that.
Have you ever played Blood Bowl? It's great. And buggy. And has an annoying UI. And great.
[Link: www.bloodbowl-game.com...]
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Kragar Wed, Mar 31, 2010 2:40:07pm |
re: #40 Obdicut
Well, I doubt I'd last long against you. I do wish that there was just a straight, turn-based online adaptation so I could play without geeking out in models and painting and all that.
Have you ever played Blood Bowl? It's great. And buggy. And has an annoying UI. And great.
[Link: www.bloodbowl-game.com...]
Yeah, got the PC one. Didn't care much for it. Prefer the board game still.
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Obdicut Wed, Mar 31, 2010 2:49:22pm |
re: #42 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
It seems like it should be so simple to do just straight conversations to computer from boardgame, but everyone fucks up the UI.
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Kragar Wed, Mar 31, 2010 2:51:00pm |
re: #43 Obdicut
It seems like it should be so simple to do just straight conversations to computer from boardgame, but everyone fucks up the UI.
Yup, and I didn't like the "whole 1 guy screws up, your turn is over" part
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Obdicut Wed, Mar 31, 2010 3:04:49pm |
re: #44 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Yeah, that annoyed the RPS guys when they reviewed it.
Anyhoo, I'm leaving the thread. Turn out the lights, will ya?
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Ilan Toren Wed, Mar 31, 2010 9:57:11pm |
Math and physics: the rest is commentary.
One of several classic papers on sea shells: If you can tolerate the math it is worthwhile or if you really dig the math visit my friend's site: the Bard
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Melissa in NorCal Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:48:25pm |
As a geek kid growing up, this is how I saw the world. I loved math, thought the order in the world and how things went together was amazing, lovely, and perfect. Learned that the only truly universal language (of God) is mathematics. Among the dialects of mathematics, music is my favorite.
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