I just discovered that Steam will inform you what proportion of players have completed any given achievement.  I have apparently done three of the hardest, each of which has been completed by fewer than 3% of players: Win with <= 5 cards in deck, win with only common cards, and win with only 1 relic.

On the other hand, 19.8 percent of players have played 25 cards in a turn, which I haven’t gotten done.*  And 11.5% have beaten a boss on the first turn!?  I’ve never managed less than 3 or 4.

*My eventual plan to do this is not a clever combo, but Necronomicurse + the candle, which would allow playing as many cards per turn as you have block+HP.

i see you’ve never been privy to the wonders of corruption dead branch (that’s how I got both FTK and 25 cards in a turn, body slam + charon’s ashes block ironclad is a hell of a drug) shockingly, this run did not do well against the time eater

Ah fuck let’s go there again.

Many people think that Pi’s irrationality means it contains every possible digit substring known to man. Irrationality does not imply this. We have a few counterexamples of this.

Here’s a counterexample I just came up with:

The decimal number which encodes whether or not the nth Turing machine halts using 8 and 7 to denote halting and running forever respectively in the nth digit position is both irrational and clearly does not contain every possible digit substring. (3 doesn’t show up even once!)

It’s irrational, because if it were rational, then to compute whether a given Turing machine halts, you’d only have to perform a bounded number of steps of long division of two constants.

I’m not sure how much complicated math stuff you’d have to do to prove that this is a number, but I think that should be clear at least on an intuitive level. @the-real-numbers

I would have no idea. @sdhs-rationalist ?

(but also I mean avoiding number theory with turing machines is out of the frying pan and into another frying pan.)

There’s also the other transcendental number I talked about earlier:

\sum_{k=1}^{\infty} 10^{-(k!)}

It’s 0.1100010000…

Yup, that’s right–and actually a pretty clever proof

Similarly, I think the decimal point followed by every BB number should work too

Ah fuck let’s go there again.

Many people think that Pi’s irrationality means it contains every possible digit substring known to man. Irrationality does not imply this. We have a few counterexamples of this.

Here’s a counterexample I just came up with:

The decimal number which encodes whether or not the nth Turing machine halts using 8 and 7 to denote halting and running forever respectively in the nth digit position is both irrational and clearly does not contain every possible digit substring. (3 doesn’t show up even once!)

It’s irrational, because if it were rational, then to compute whether a given Turing machine halts, you’d only have to perform a bounded number of steps of long division of two constants.

I’m not sure how much complicated math stuff you’d have to do to prove that this is a number, but I think that should be clear at least on an intuitive level. @the-real-numbers

I would have no idea. @sdhs-rationalist ?

(but also I mean avoiding number theory with turing machines is out of the frying pan and into another frying pan.)

There’s also the other transcendental number I talked about earlier:

\sum_{k=1}^{\infty} 10^{-(k!)}

It’s 0.1100010000…

Yup, that's right--and actually a pretty clever proof

@sdhs-rationalist hi

can you remotely delet someone elses post

Gemarah: pi is three

Mathematicians: I doubt that

Gemarah: remember that time I told god to suck it and won

Look u know what It's not r eliezer's fault that, as the last prophet, he was doomed to the same fate as every other Later Prophet, namely getting totally rejected by his society (yes, r eliezer was a prophet, it's subtle but definitely there)

a) god, that was _great_, at some point we need to get together so u can either return the favor for more graph theoryish stuff or so I can do that again but for information theory

b) i will note that this is the _second_ most excited i have seen eli in his entire life, closely following the time we spent 3 hours on a bus together during a flood and he tried to either murder or make out with me about 9 times and I couldn’t tell because I was too busy making math puns at him and giggling like a madman,  Followers of @the-real-numbers, take note.

Eli replies ‘lies, i was just trying to get closer to you so i could throw myself out a window’

that is lies. this fucker was sitting in a window seat.  I was in the aisle seat, as I always was whenever we sat with each other on the bus.  qed

this post has officially become a callout post for @the-real-numbers

No, no, the other window, obviously 😉

‘a window’

‘the other window’

your lies catch up to u

a) god, that was _great_, at some point we need to get together so u can either return the favor for more graph theoryish stuff or so I can do that again but for information theory

b) i will note that this is the _second_ most excited i have seen eli in his entire life, closely following the time we spent 3 hours on a bus together during a flood and he tried to either murder or make out with me about 9 times and I couldn’t tell because I was too busy making math puns at him and giggling like a madman,  Followers of @the-real-numbers, take note.

Eli replies ‘lies, i was just trying to get closer to you so i could throw myself out a window’

that is lies. this fucker was sitting in a window seat.  I was in the aisle seat, as I always was whenever we sat with each other on the bus.  qed

this post has officially become a callout post for @the-real-numbers

a) god, that was _great_, at some point we need to get together so u can either return the favor for more graph theoryish stuff or so I can do that again but for information theory

b) i will note that this is the _second_ most excited i have seen eli in his entire life, closely following the time we spent 3 hours on a bus together during a flood and he tried to either murder or make out with me about 9 times and I couldn’t tell because I was too busy making math puns at him and giggling like a madman,  Followers of @the-real-numbers, take note.

things i’ve learned during my freshman year

right so I was supposed to write up a summary of my year in college I guess?

it is, however, 8 am, and I am not super-awake, so enjoy this vaguely unfiltered mess instead

1) prereqs are _lies_.  I’ve learned a crazy amount this year, basically bootstrapped myself into graduate level cryptographic knowledge, original research, and being a well-regarded person on a few relevant telegrams/public facing groups by sheer dint of seeing courses I was unprepared for and saying ‘fuck it’, then teaching myself all the relevant math on my own time basically just to solve psets.

2) college might have a higher set point, but the issues with professors are the same – relatedly, anybody who’s going to harvard and is debating taking CS51, anticipate literally the worst governed class I’ve ever taken, and my high school taught the fucking hydroplate theory about the noahide flood to a graduating class of 47.

3) executive function is way more a matter of producing effective routines than any other technique–get yourself into a flow state of assignments/how much time you spend on them daily, and the rest should come naturally.  this does have downsides of being stressed about assignments with 3 days of downtime before they need to get done bc you missed a day of routined work

4) fucking eat and sleep regularly.  i should not have had to tell myself this, but i did.  multiple times.  i thought I was sick like 5 times this year and it turned out to be because i hadnt consumed nourishing calories in like 18 hours. also drink water, and go into the sun.  college doesnt obviate the need for the necessary elements of survival.

5) having multiple consistent social groups is good, even if only to practice going in and out of different personal modalities of interaction

6) i probably should have more stuff here but I can’t think of any

I was looking to take Lin Alg, which required a Calc III prereq, which I figured I could just teach myself, but I hadn’t realized how big a deal vectors would be, which I’d only seen presented geometrically in my physics classes, which is not great, because I have fuckall for visualization. So, I took Calc III, and it ended up being very useful for that. On the other hand, Lin Alg also recommended a “Nature of Proof” prereq, but having a decent logical background + taking some oddballish classes before (two classes, one on Aristotle + Euclid + Descartes, another on Lobachevskii + Godel, essentially), that prereq wasn’t really necessary.

EDIT: Student jobs are also a lot more accommodating, so I’ve been let off the hook for more than I probably should have, with regard to lateness, while I was forced to quit another job because I was told, an hour after I was scheduled to stop working, that if I didn’t keep going for another hour after, I’d be fired.

Also, mental health can easily be bullshit. I was having difficulties with a professor and a classmate saw me on an off-day, reported me through the campus mental health system, and I was required to meet with the residence hall advisor for fear of escalation (which I had been told could lead at worst to some form of forced intake at the local hospital) and when I informed him during my second meeting that the first had made it difficult to sleep, he just shrugged it off as “merely unfortunate”. Find people who understand you and you can trust.

quality additions here, though I can’t speak to yes or no campus job having not had one

startups are cool tho

if you find one you’re interested in that can, like actually give you things in return for work ‘s prob a good way to get relevant industry experience

small brain: live-action Worm adaptation

exploding galaxy brain: Studio Trigger anime Worm adaptation

Omniverse Brain: Worm as a Marvel or DC comic book.

Cosmic buddha brain: Worm as a visual novel.

Transcendent apotheosis brain:  Worm as a serial webfic

Every time twitter deletes accounts for joke theft or tumblr deletes “Russian psyop” blogs it’s just another reminder that they absolutely could be deleting the Nazis but won’t.

eh, the russian psyop thing was based on IP farming, not content analysis, imo

יש בארץ שתי עונות: קיץ, וקיץ חם פחות.

As someone who lived on Maale Gilboa for a year

this post is a lie

a beautiful, evil, cruelly hopeful lie

(unless you only live in the south or the valleys)