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| Topic | Starting Final Fantasy 6 play through. |
| tiornys 08/28/17 1:47:30 AM #10 | Lost_All_Senses posted... I played through the game at least twice and started many more times but I have no memory of getting these Well, there's a likely reason for that. How often did you |
| Topic | Starting Final Fantasy 6 play through. |
| tiornys 08/28/17 1:20:33 AM #8 | YourAlt posted...
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| Topic | How is the Way of Kings so good? |
| tiornys 08/21/17 2:19:42 AM #3 | Oathbringer releases 11/14. |
| Topic | Do difficulty levels in RPGs do anything besides increase grinding? |
| tiornys 08/21/17 2:19:02 AM #6 | Any turn-based RPG system that has access to some form of reasonably reliable action delay, denial, or cancellation can easily push more strategic decisions through higher difficulty. That's especially true if grinding is impractical or impossible through various mechanisms. |
| Topic | Why do female gingers have so much more sexual value than men(socially) |
| tiornys 08/02/17 9:52:48 PM #5 | I'd guess it's because several sterotypical ginger traits code feminine, which society values in women and ridicules in men. |
| Topic | What's the best ass cheap whisky? |
| tiornys 07/29/17 1:02:12 AM #27 | yemmy posted... I don't know a better way to describe it. It is more harsh to me, kinda 'burnt'. I've drank a few different scotches, just enough to know I don't like it, and the last stuff I had wasn't cheap I know that. If I got offered some really rare s*** for free I'd probably try it but I'm not into liquor enough to go buy a $50 dollar of liquor, let alone some age rare scotch. Scotches have different flavor profiles depending on a number of factors. Smokey/peaty flavors are common in scotch from some areas (like Islay) but are less common or near absent in others (like Speyside). Not saying you'd for sure like any scotches, but you almost certainly haven't tried enough to know that you dislike all of them. |
| Topic | Retail Workers: What little things do customers do that just annoys you? |
| tiornys 07/23/17 11:27:05 PM #132 | CrimsonAngeI posted... Is there anything that doesn't annoy retail workers? All I ever do is seem them complain. Sure. The 80% or so of reasonable customers are just fine, sometimes great. But when you interact with literally hundreds of people in a day, ~20% of your interactions being shit is a shitload of crappy interactions. I've haven't been in a service job for over 15 years, but I can easily relate to most of these complaints. |
| Topic | Which was the first Final Fantasy game you played? |
| tiornys 07/13/17 8:12:54 PM #34 | NeoShadowhen posted... Final Fantasy. This one. On NES. |
| Topic | I'm playing DnD for the first time with some friends, help pls. |
| tiornys 07/13/17 8:10:13 PM #2 | Which edition? 5th? |
| Topic | teen abortions surge in texas after defunding Planned parenthood |
| tiornys 07/12/17 5:41:06 PM #66 | HogRiderreturns posted... Samurontai posted...HogRiderreturns posted...Yeah, and my state has the lowest rate of teen pregnancy. So, a state with multiple Planned Parenthood locations and a history of required comprehensive sex education has a low rate of teen pregnancy? Shocker! Of course, with Republicans in power and already taking action to undo these things, expect to see this change over the coming years.... |
| Topic | teen abortions surge in texas after defunding Planned parenthood |
| tiornys 07/12/17 4:50:30 PM #33 | UnfairRepresent posted... What people don't understand is that a lot of people who claim to be pro-life and anti-abortion don't actually believe the morals they claim to and are quite happy for teens to have abortions. ColdOne666 posted... The government isnt forcing girls to sleep around. Mmmhmm. |
| Topic | Suppose a couple has 3 kids and at least one is a girl... |
| tiornys 07/11/17 11:14:25 PM #57 | Howl posted... No, not all those outcomes are possible as will be determined by the very first coin flip. 3 of the possibilities are eliminated instantly and therefore should not be calculated at all. There's never going to be an instance where all 7 possibilities are possible therefore they should not all be calculated in that way. Again, you're assuming that one specific child is the girl. In this case, the first child. I actually covered this scenario and the related 25% probability in my post. |
| Topic | Suppose a couple has 3 kids and at least one is a girl... |
| tiornys 07/11/17 10:59:53 PM #51 | Howl posted... I did read it, and it's incorrect What makes it incorrect? |
| Topic | Suppose a couple has 3 kids and at least one is a girl... |
| tiornys 07/11/17 10:57:09 PM #47 | Howl posted... It's irrelevant one of the coins only has a heads side so you don't have to factor the probability that any particular coin has that. The only 4 possible outcomes are always going to be Yes, this is true if you replace a coin. But replacing a coin is not properly analogous to the problem. As noted in my edit, when you replace a coin you're selecting a specific child to be a girl, and that creates a greater constraint on the probabilities than is justified by the information given. |
| Topic | Suppose a couple has 3 kids and at least one is a girl... |
| tiornys 07/11/17 10:52:17 PM #43 | Howl posted...
Which one? To be clear, if you're drawing an analogy to coin flipping, then swapping out a coin is the same as choosing a specific child to be a girl. |
| Topic | Suppose a couple has 3 kids and at least one is a girl... |
| tiornys 07/11/17 10:50:29 PM #41 | Howl posted... This is incorrect. You aren't determining the probability that all the children are girls because one of them is guaranteed to be a girl. It's like flipping three coins but one of those coins only has heads. No, to get that scenario you'd have to know which child was a girl. You don't know that--you only know that one of them is a girl. |
| Topic | Suppose a couple has 3 kids and at least one is a girl... |
| tiornys 07/11/17 10:43:03 PM #36 | ConfessPlease posted... Are these jokes to confuse people? The answer is obviously 25%. What's your reasoning? |
| Topic | Suppose a couple has 3 kids and at least one is a girl... |
| tiornys 07/11/17 10:34:45 PM #31 | Howl posted... This is stupid. Boy girl is the same as girl boy and shouldn't be calculated separately That's fine as long as you take into account that Boy-Girl is twice as likely as Boy-Boy (and similarly, twice as likely as Girl-Girl). |
| Topic | Suppose a couple has 3 kids and at least one is a girl... |
| tiornys 07/11/17 9:58:06 PM #27 | Talks posted... 1. why are there so many different answers to this question Because calculating probabilities can rapidly become very tricky. 2. what is the explanation for the 1/7 answer If we know nothing except there are three children, and we assume that boys and girls are equally likely to occur, then there are 8 total cases with equal probability. Note that we take into account the order in which the children were born. BBB BBG BGB GBB BGG GBG GGB GGG In this case, we can readily see that the odds of three girls are 1/8. However, we know more than that. We know that there are three children, and that one of those children is a girl. Therefore the first case--BBB--can't have occurred. All of the other cases are still equally likely. That leaves 7 possibilities, 1 of which is GGG, so the odds are 1/7. Note that if we knew that first child was a girl, then the odds would be rather different. In this cases, the odds of GGG would be 1/4. The same is true if we know that the second child is a girl, or if we know the third child is a girl (in each case, the specific information rules out four of the eight possibilities). 3. In Laserion's solution, how are boy/girl and girl/boy both counted as separate outcomes Because it's a convenient way to list outcomes with equal probability. We could instead count only three cases: BB, BG, GG, but if we did that then we would also have to note that BG was twice as likely to occur as BB or GG. |
| Topic | What are the ideal ways to play each numbered Final Fantasy game? |
| tiornys 07/09/17 9:20:10 PM #5 | Too many of these come down to specific questions about what you like to do in gaming. For example, if you like all the quirks of old school RPGs, then you should nab PS1's FF Origins compilation for FF1 and FF2, but if you're ok with losing challenge level but gaining modern gaming conventions and bonus content then you're better off with the Dawn of Souls compilation. As another example, if you're interested in speedrunning any given FF game, then you should investigate which version of that game is best for speedrunning. |
| Topic | Do you recognize at least 6 musicians from this list? |
| tiornys 07/09/17 6:31:17 AM #28 | I'm not surprised that almost no one is recognizing the name, but I'd bet a lot of you have heard Alan Walker's most famous song:  I recognized six, although I had to double-check Milky Chance to be sure I wasn't fooling myself. |
| Topic | Name something in a game that never gets old to you |
| tiornys 07/09/17 12:58:09 AM #56 | stone posted... Haven't played those games. But unless I'm wrong I'll just assume you just meant games where the final boss was either a stupid cut scene or some QTE event Nah, talking about any game where a boss has multiple stages/forms, and you can skip some of the later/more dangerous forms through some method (often by dealing a lot of damage a lot faster than the game expected you to be dealing it). |
| Topic | Name something in a game that never gets old to you |
| tiornys 07/08/17 10:20:16 PM #52 | |
| Topic | Name something in a game that never gets old to you |
| tiornys 07/08/17 10:12:46 PM #50 | stone posted... ....? Which game(s) might that be? I'm failing to remember details from several examples I've seen in various speedruns, but I can cite numerous examples from FFXII and FFXIII. Here's one of my favorites from the latter (obvious spoilers):  |
| Topic | Name something in a game that never gets old to you |
| tiornys 07/08/17 9:58:37 PM #45 | Skipping the second half/final stage of a boss fight. |
| Topic | Goddamn, there's more animation in 30 seconds of Castlevania than in |
| tiornys 07/08/17 3:34:15 PM #23 | stone posted... Still a step up from Symphony of the Night. That... might not be a good thing. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SoBadItsGood/VideoGames |
| Topic | How bad would the punishment be for running over a jaywalker? |
| tiornys 07/07/17 5:01:48 PM #13 | Cocytus posted... Clear example, if you ran across a freeway and got hit and killed, you would be one hundred percent at fault. There is no way a driver obeying the law could avoid hitting someone in that scenario. It's important to note that this doesn't necessarily absolve the driver of fault. It's quite possible for both the pedestrian and the driver to be at fault in this scenario, if the driver actively tried to hit the pedestrian (successfully). |
| Topic | I went to Stadium Azteca in CDMX for the US vs Mexico game. Ask me anything |
| tiornys 07/07/17 4:52:10 PM #10 | How did the stadium compare to stadiums here in the U.S.? |
| Topic | Is it safe to say that all willing pornstars are nymphos? |
| tiornys 07/07/17 4:50:44 PM #5 | voldothegr8 posted... TheFireRises posted...Absolutely not. 1: people take jobs doing stuff they don't love all the time. They just have to tolerate the work and think the compensation is worthwhile. Why would porn be different? 2: loving sex =\= being a nympho Do you even logic, bro? |
| Topic | Is hair in your take out order really that bad? |
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| Topic | math friends of the CE; can anyone explain the log likelihood criterion |
| tiornys 06/28/17 7:45:09 PM #2 | You might be looking more for "stats friends" than math friends. I have a basic handle on log likelihood functions after a quick look at wikipedia, but I don't have the stats background/google-fu needed to figure out how it applies to 2-step cluster analysis. --- |
| Topic | Gawd I wish teleportation was the real |
| tiornys 06/28/17 12:42:41 AM #17 | |
| Topic | How many numbers have matheticians found so far? |
| tiornys 06/26/17 10:17:29 PM #13 | Here, let me give you an algorithm to find out. Think of the biggest number you can think of. Now make it bigger. Then make it bigger again. Keep making it bigger, over and over, without ever stopping, and you can eventually die knowing that you were making progress on getting to the number of numbers out there. --- |
| Topic | McEnroe: "Serena Williams would be '700 in the world' on men's tour" |
| tiornys 06/26/17 9:44:42 PM #52 | CableZL posted... Being the most dominant doesn't necessarily mean you're the best. No male tennis player has dominated like Serena Williams has, so they aren't as dominant. That doesn't mean Serena Williams would beat said male tennis players. It just means she was more dominant. Because as you agreed, no one has dominated like she has. I see your point, but I think there's an inherent problem with this line of argument. If we're going to define dominance as relative to the competition, then we need to consider all tiers of organized competition (restricting to "organized" to rule out the "I beat my nephew" scenarios). Since we don't have easy access to data on all the tiers of organized competition, we can't actually claim to know whether or not some tennis player might have been even more dominant at their tier of competition (possibly because they didn't move up a tier) than Serena was on the women's pro circuit. --- |
| Topic | McEnroe: "Serena Williams would be '700 in the world' on men's tour" |
| tiornys 06/26/17 9:16:54 PM #37 | WhinyZach posted... Some people just don't understand that men dominate in athletics, and the top tier of female athletes couldn't even play semi pro mens leagues. Eh, this varies with the sport, depending on how relevant strength/mass is and how much the sport's equipment helps to compensate. Target shooting, for example, can actually favor women (a bit of googling suggests women are more accurate but men can shoot faster). For a sport where there's definitely a bias towards males but where it's small enough to let the top females be competitive with the pros, look at bowling. Three women have made TV appearances on the PBA and one has actually won a PBA title. It's also fairly common to see the top females cashing in PBA events. --- |
| Topic | Started up Alloy of Law today. (On Going Spoilers for this and Mistborn) |
| tiornys 06/26/17 8:33:19 PM #62 | Bad_Mojo posted... Who the hell are these people now? Over half way done with the book and they just threw me to a brand new POV, lol If you're talking about what I think you're talking about, you've definitely met them. --- |
| Topic | What is the oldest (still running) console that you own still? |
| tiornys 06/19/17 10:56:35 PM #19 | I expected NES's. It would take Ataris or Coleco Visions (or older) to surprise me. --- |
| Topic | Why don't they just define x/0 |
| tiornys 06/10/17 7:45:45 PM #3 | Those math systems exist, actually. If they find widespread applications for them--like the ones that exist for complex numbers--then they'll probably start teaching then more widely. --- |
| Topic | Kaizo Trap animation (2015). It's new to me and it's amazing. |
| tiornys 06/07/17 10:33:11 AM #6 | ChromaticAngel posted... apparently there is more than one alternate ending and the last time I checked the creator said nobody found the secret ending yet. Last I checked --- |
| Topic | Kaizo Trap animation (2015). It's new to me and it's amazing. |
| tiornys 06/07/17 10:25:07 AM #3 | |
| Topic | Why do liberals hate pi? |
| tiornys 06/06/17 6:42:53 PM #7 | Eh, if there was no prior convention then I think tau would be the better choice to become the convention. However, I doubt that it's worth trying to buck convention and replace pi with tau. It might be worthwhile to teach both of them though. --- |
| Topic | How would you write the mathematical expression "five groups of three" |
| tiornys 06/06/17 6:11:32 PM #23 | kewldude475 posted... Geiki Ganger posted...This is Common Core mathematics in the USA. Probably both of them. The Admiral is definitely correct: there's no universal convention for this across math scholars. And while I can't personally verify, I have no reason to doubt that Common Core has defined some sort of protocol for this--and that sort of extra baggage is exactly what I would expect from what I have seen of Common Core. --- |
| Topic | Proof that 0.999...=1 |
| tiornys 06/05/17 3:45:53 PM #86 | |
| Topic | Proof that 0.999...=1 |
| tiornys 05/30/17 3:49:04 PM #40 | Hey posted... I never got how both this and asymptotes exist at the same time. They both get infinitely close but are never actually at the "real" value. Asymptotes are a different kind of object. They occur when you look at the relationship between a continuous set of values and certain computations on that continuous set of values. With 0.999... you're not "getting close" to anything. You simply are at the value 1, and you're writing it in an unusual way. Now, if you want, you could look at the set {0.9, 0.99, 0.999, 0.9999, 0.99999, etc.}, and in that case you do have a series of numbers that eventually gets "infinitely" close to 1 but never reaches 1. However, that set of numbers doesn't actually contain the number 0.999..., because every number in that set eventually stops having 9's and 0.999... does not. --- |
| Topic | Proof that 0.999...=1 |
| tiornys 05/30/17 3:32:28 PM #36 | ChromaticAngel posted... nah. the 0.999... = 1 having any kind of complexity behind it is nothing but smoke and mirrors that are a consequence of a base 10 number system. So you either have the sophisticated mathematics that go into understanding numerical bases and base changes, or the the sophisticated mathematics that go into understanding infinity and infinite sums. Either way, we've moved beyond the scope of everyday life. --- |
| Topic | Proof that 0.999...=1 |
| tiornys 05/30/17 3:12:48 PM #32 | Virus731 posted... If I couldn't be bothered to understand those images does it make me stupid at math? I've literally never had to use algebra since high school and I dropped out a year early. That makes you ignorant at math. It says nothing about how stupid or smart you might be at it. --- |
| Topic | Proof that 0.999...=1 |
| tiornys 05/30/17 3:12:16 PM #31 | Turtlebread posted... yes it's obviously 0.999....8 What makes it have an 8 at the end? What makes it end in the first place? --- |
| Topic | Proof that 0.999...=1 |
| tiornys 05/30/17 3:09:06 PM #25 | Turtlebread posted... actually if you multiply 0.9999... by 0.9999... you'll get a number smaller than 0.9999... hence 0.9999.. does not equal 1 Would you like to explicitly define the result of 0.9999... times 0.9999...? --- |
| Topic | Proof that 0.999...=1 |
| tiornys 05/30/17 2:56:43 PM #20 | I think maybe a better way of explaining the topic scenario is this: Saying that 1 = 0.999... is similar to saying 1 = sin(pi/2) or 1 = the integral of (x*dx/1122) evaluated from -16 to 50. It's an unnecessarily complex way of writing "1" that draws on mathematical concepts outside the scope of everyday life. It's just that 0.999... looks less complex than it actually is. --- |
| Topic | Proof that 0.999...=1 |
| tiornys 05/30/17 2:45:52 PM #14 | ChromaticAngel posted... As has been explained multiple times over the years, there is a number that is infinitely close to 1 but isn't 1, however that number is not 0.999... Good point; I was oversimplifying things. --- |
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