Today is both Pi Day and Day Light Savings.
There wasn't much activity here this week during the weekdays, but a lot of stuff happened this weekend.
Last Sunday, I started a new topic in an attempt to improve the Interguild's attempts to get more members. I even made some interguild user bars on Tuesday, but they haven't received much attention so far.
Also last Sunday, Orcasaur posted his Sup_mus Marathon. It's a funny video walkthrough of several of sup_mus' levels, and it has some nice music too.
On Monday, jell started a Skyscraper Comp, which will end next Sunday. There seems to be a general consensus that this is a cool theme. On Friday, the results for the Walkthrough-level comp were released.
On Wednesday, Teo_pl posted his video: Uries_Neo The Marathon!, but CSD blocked it because its music had bad words in it. CSD said he would put the video back on if Teo_pl did an Audio Swap, which he did on Saturday (or late Friday night, Interguild time). The video itself is pretty good.
On Friday, I started a topic for Collaborative Caves, and in that topic we ended up discussing the idea of holding a collaborative cave comp soon.
While playing several levels this week, I was shocked to see that many popular caves did not have a single comment on them. However, Harumbai pointed out that there were separate forum topics for these levels. What had happened was that when the level database was first made, it didn't have automatic commenting for levels. So when people created new levels, they had to go to the forum and make a new topic if they wanted to get feedback.
So to fix this problem, on Friday I began to merge all of those topics with their respective level database entries. This is actually a very tedious process because I have to go through every non-level-database topic individually. For some levels, I had to create new level database entries entirely, which means that the forums will tell you that you have an unread post somewhere deep within the pages of the HATPC board. If this annoys you, you can always click on the "Mark all Topics Read" button on the top-right of every forum board page.
Also on Friday, a mysterious new member joined called Orcassaur (not to be confused with current member Orcasaur). Apparently he showed up because I kept writing Orcasaur's name as "Orcassaur". Speaking of Orca, he seems to really miss Captain Obvious and is saddened by his lack of appearance lately. To fill the void, he launched a campaign in an attempt to become his sidekick or something. Jazz responded with his very own counter-campaign.
On Saturday, I got tired of how long the new layout was taking to complete, so I tried to start rushing to get it done so that I could put more focus on Aeon. However, this was a futile effort because I was stopped by this annoying CSS glitch that I just couldn't figure out. I could just start working on Aeon again, but I don't like the idea of putting so much energy into two big projects at the same time.
Also on Saturday, Isa posted his The Metal Movement video walkthrough. When I heard he was trying to get his video uploaded, (and partly because I was frustrated with my lack of progress on the new layout) I began playing The Metal Movement again. I spent hours playing that freakishly huge cave until I beat it, and I gave it a final rating of 10/10. That cave was ridiculously awesome. User Comments (20) | Quirvy |
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No comments thus far. This further backs up my theory that, other than Hannah Banana, nobody actually cares about pi day.
spooky secret | | Orcasaur |
Rawr~~
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Our school does. We had a comp during lunch where the person that recited the most digits in pi got to throw a pie at each of his teachers. He missed. All of them. And one of them hit a girl. Pitiful.
Apparently people have been saying: "Don't throw a pie at *insert specific teacher's name here*, because she'll just eat it. >_>
Random things go inside this box. | | Harumbai |
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How many digits did the person reach?
Upcoming HatPC level: Sanctuary, coming soon to an internet browser near you... | | Orcasaur |
Rawr~~
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I have no idea. I got bored and started daydreaming after the 30 second mark.
Random things go inside this box. | | Isa |
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Whoa. There's two guys in my class that spend their time counting Pi digits, trying to learn a new one every day, and so far succeeding. I know 3.1415926, which is good enough for me. | | Ckjr |
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I borrowed a book which had a million Pi Digits and damn, it was thick. | | shos |
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one of my classmates brought an apple pie to school and we ate it during English class. that was...nice, since i wasn't there. i only saw him in the morning, and then i went to the university lol XD
the person who knows the most digits of Pi is some chinese guy who knows more than 40000 digits.
| | Harumbai |
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I know 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105 of by heart (50 digits), but I used to know 110 digits.... man I wish I had a life....
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I know 3.14159265358979323846264 and memorizing more day by day
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In primary school we just learned it as 3 1/7 to make calculations easier for circles...
We could have had it allllllllllllllllll~ TROLLING IN THE DEEEEEERRRPPPPP~
| | jellsprout |
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Remember that it was Pi day only in the US. The rest of the world uses the dd/mm/yyyy format.
| | shos |
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'ThedeglitcherXD' said: In primary school we just learned it as 3 1/7 to make calculations easier for circles... we're always told to use it as 3.14. but now, we just use the sign of pi, so for example, a final answer could be something like cis(2pi/13).
| | Isa |
No. I'm an octopus.
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Wait, did you just use Pi to calculate...Pi? | | shos |
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no, lol. what i mean is, that if your answer has Pi in it, we don't write it as a specific value, we write, 2pi, not 6.2831..
exp(iPi)+1=0, and not exp(3.1415*i)+1=0.
| | Isa |
No. I'm an octopus.
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Ah. Well, that's standard procedure by now for me and everyone in my class, although it became only quite recently. | | jellsprout |
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It is standard in Physics to work with symbols for as long as possible. And Pi is a symbol. So I always leave it as Pi until I finally have to calculate the answer, by which time I simply use the Pi button on my calculator.
| | shos |
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'jellsprout' said: It is standard in Physics to work with symbols for as long as possible. And Pi is a symbol. So I always leave it as Pi until I finally have to calculate the answer, by which time I simply use the Pi button on my calculator. yup =]
say jell, did you study thermodynamics and statistical mechanics? i may need some help somewhere hehe..
| | jellsprout |
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I am doing Thermo now, but I won't get statistic mechanics till the second or third year. I assume this is about enthropy?
S=int(Q/T*dT)
| | shos |
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nope; in israel it's together in one course. Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics; we're dealing with defusion(sp?) of stuff in liquids - brown motion, random particls motion, and stuff. we just started, but i missed 4 lectures :S:S so i officially suck inthis course, already.
| | jellsprout |
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Diffusion, heat transport, it is all entropy.
Half of thermo is entropy and pretty much all of statistical mechanics is entropy.
Also, I have already had Brown motion and diffusion in Biophysics. Not that I can help you, as it is hard to focus on anything biology related.
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