2012-09-29T00:02:15 *** antimatroidl has quit IRC (Quit: Leaving.) 2012-09-29T00:16:53 *** amstan has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T00:16:53 *** ChanServ sets mode: +o amstan 2012-09-29T00:17:11 *** amstan has quit IRC (Client Quit) 2012-09-29T00:18:43 *** grc has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T00:45:44 *** grc has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 248 seconds) 2012-09-29T00:47:20 *** Cyndre__ has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 265 seconds) 2012-09-29T00:53:44 *** Cyndre has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T01:24:20 *** coud4 has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T01:43:02 *** Simas_J has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T02:13:27 *** pairofdice has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T02:34:44 *** Accoun has quit IRC (Read error: Connection reset by peer) 2012-09-29T02:34:56 *** Accoun has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T02:37:04 *** Simas_J has quit IRC (Read error: Operation timed out) 2012-09-29T04:31:45 *** mceier has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T04:32:20 *** foRei has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T06:16:19 *** contestbot has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T06:16:19 *** ChanServ sets mode: +o contestbot 2012-09-29T06:41:33 *** coeus has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T06:59:02 *** thestinger has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T06:59:08 *** Kingpin13 has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T07:08:11 *** antimatroidl has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T07:25:31 *** antimatroidl has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 246 seconds) 2012-09-29T07:29:17 *** Scooper has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T07:42:03 *** antimatroidl has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T08:14:03 *** mcstar has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T08:37:28 *** coeus has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 246 seconds) 2012-09-29T08:51:40 *** rofer has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 272 seconds) 2012-09-29T08:59:42 *** rofer has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T09:53:20 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2pj-obvPO8 2012-09-29T09:57:54 *** Anilm3 has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T10:05:54 the fog is not a problem , as i can see it, most players are black 2012-09-29T10:55:05 sigh: Does a change in the rotation of earth not alter the length of a year? 2012-09-29T10:55:13 cough: hello :P 2012-09-29T10:55:29 Eh? 2012-09-29T10:55:31 antimatroidl: why would it? 2012-09-29T10:55:36 Yeah, Why would it? 2012-09-29T10:55:39 i dunno, i am not good with that stuff 2012-09-29T10:55:46 why add a leap second then? 2012-09-29T10:55:55 year is the length of time it takes for the earth to orbit the sun 2012-09-29T10:56:00 Because things change 2012-09-29T10:56:14 leap seconds are so that the sun in the same place at noon :P 2012-09-29T10:56:16 ah, so day length increases as rotation slows? 2012-09-29T10:56:27 but the velocity around hte sun remains constant? 2012-09-29T10:56:27 ...yes 2012-09-29T10:56:29 yeah, it varies 2012-09-29T10:56:58 it sounds like it's only slowed since 1975? 2012-09-29T10:57:09 someone said there's only been positive leap seconds 2012-09-29T10:57:24 yeah, that's true 2012-09-29T10:57:53 random seeing your username like that :P 2012-09-29T10:58:27 haha 2012-09-29T10:58:33 I don't comment that frequently :P 2012-09-29T10:58:58 fairly frequently by the looks of it :P 2012-09-29T10:59:01 not as bad as i 2012-09-29T10:59:22 DebateReligion aha :P 2012-09-29T10:59:26 :P 2012-09-29T10:59:39 i accidentally hit karma gold with a jesus comment before 2012-09-29T10:59:49 currently on like 1100 points and rising aha 2012-09-29T11:00:44 ah wow... yeah, some comments just explode in karma 2012-09-29T11:01:15 i think i'm going to move to a new reddit account soon anyway 2012-09-29T11:01:24 i keep leaving too much personal info in comments 2012-09-29T11:01:42 how's work anyway? 2012-09-29T11:02:00 i got 10k in my progress saver account as of yesterday thanks to tutes :D 2012-09-29T11:02:10 i've 2012-09-29T11:02:49 mcstar: that's a little too close to being racist :P 2012-09-29T11:02:54 works going well... went over to Switzerland earlier last month 2012-09-29T11:02:59 bastard :OP 2012-09-29T11:03:17 it was fun... the plane flights, not so much -_- 2012-09-29T11:03:22 my friend left for cambridge a week ago 2012-09-29T11:03:26 everything is so far from australia 2012-09-29T11:03:43 yeah, i am not looking forward to that part when i do eventually venture overseas 2012-09-29T11:04:28 are you still doing honours? or phd? 2012-09-29T11:05:08 phd 2012-09-29T11:05:13 started in jan 2012-09-29T11:05:31 ah cool... still doing game theory? 2012-09-29T11:05:57 nah, nobody actually does game theory here 2012-09-29T11:06:23 i have been given a semigroup to find the structure of (like a presentation and stuff leading up to that) 2012-09-29T11:06:45 ah, i see 2012-09-29T11:06:45 basically i have diagrams, a product on diagrams and generators that generate a semigroup 2012-09-29T11:07:08 it's pretty fun, still no idea what the applications are going to be 2012-09-29T11:07:13 oh my what happened here 2012-09-29T11:07:17 apparently there should be some with physics somehow 2012-09-29T11:07:35 mcstar: i ran across sigh on reddit so prodded him here 2012-09-29T11:07:45 ah yeah physics is full of group theory applications 2012-09-29T11:07:58 yeah one of my advisors is a physicist 2012-09-29T11:08:01 a day is not 24 hours 2012-09-29T11:08:02 he even has a wiki page aha 2012-09-29T11:08:16 :) 2012-09-29T11:08:36 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_D._Jarvis 2012-09-29T11:09:07 a year is not an exact multiple of the earth's rotation time 2012-09-29T11:09:21 my other advisor has an erdos number of 3 :P 2012-09-29T11:09:33 mcstar: agree 2012-09-29T11:10:30 antimatroidl: "supersymmetry in the genetic code"? 2012-09-29T11:11:33 no idea aha 2012-09-29T11:11:41 they do stuff with phylogenetic trees 2012-09-29T11:11:48 probably something to do with that 2012-09-29T11:12:10 they use lie theory, but i get lost pretty quickly when i go to talks on that stuff 2012-09-29T11:12:37 lie theory and character theory are on the to learn list for phd stuff 2012-09-29T11:12:55 I've never heard of supersymmetry outside of particle physics 2012-09-29T11:13:16 it has applications in statistical physics too 2012-09-29T11:13:35 *** coud4 has left #aichallenge 2012-09-29T11:13:36 granted I don't know much about it in the first place 2012-09-29T11:13:58 * antimatroidl is completely lost when it comes to physics 2012-09-29T11:14:27 i like how maths pages have a formal definition part 2012-09-29T11:14:42 no such section for the supersymmetry page :( 2012-09-29T11:14:47 haha 2012-09-29T11:15:25 did you watch the gf? 2012-09-29T11:15:42 bloody swans, though that beard was magnificent 2012-09-29T11:16:15 don't really follow it :P 2012-09-29T11:16:32 i watch gf and that's about it each year aha 2012-09-29T11:16:53 haha 2012-09-29T11:17:10 *** Kingpin13 has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) 2012-09-29T11:23:01 i need high res point cloud data with color :( 2012-09-29T11:23:50 data of what? 2012-09-29T11:24:15 whatever 2012-09-29T11:24:16 mcstar: so you want confetti? 2012-09-29T11:24:28 do i? 2012-09-29T11:24:41 is that a technical term? 2012-09-29T11:24:54 @lucky confetti 2012-09-29T11:24:55 thestinger: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confetti 2012-09-29T11:25:07 sigh: i just want to experiment with something, but i cant if i dont have input data :( 2012-09-29T11:25:31 thestinger: thanks, that was helpful 2012-09-29T11:25:35 (no, it was not) 2012-09-29T11:26:01 i know what confetti is, thought you might refer to a PC data standard or something 2012-09-29T11:26:08 it would make sense to call it Confetti 2012-09-29T11:26:59 @convert 2 parsec to shoesizewomens 2012-09-29T11:26:59 thestinger: 7289002160551180288 2012-09-29T11:27:04 i'm going to sleep, night 2012-09-29T11:27:13 night 2012-09-29T11:27:16 antimatroidl: \o 2012-09-29T11:28:20 old habits die hard 2012-09-29T11:28:52 @convert 1 lightyear to seconds 2012-09-29T11:28:52 mcstar: Error: unit categories did not match 2012-09-29T11:29:57 .__. 2012-09-29T11:30:02 disappointing that it doesn't know how to convert length to time 2012-09-29T11:30:14 i hope everyone gets my joke 2012-09-29T11:30:29 !rpn 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 8 + 2012-09-29T11:30:38 oh, @ 2012-09-29T11:30:43 @rpn 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 8 + 2012-09-29T11:30:43 thestinger: Stack: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1, 2, 11] 2012-09-29T11:30:47 how useful 2012-09-29T11:31:05 mcstar: you should just have contestbot do you work for you 2012-09-29T11:31:13 mcstar: asteroids game needs more lasers 2012-09-29T11:31:44 lasers? 2012-09-29T11:31:45 why? 2012-09-29T11:31:54 thats not good 2012-09-29T11:31:55 and by lasers, I mean those sci-fi style slow motion beams 2012-09-29T11:32:01 ah 2012-09-29T11:32:03 not real lasers :P 2012-09-29T11:32:11 yeah, it needs time to travel 2012-09-29T11:32:16 cant be too fast 2012-09-29T11:32:39 it needs more things than just sci-fi lasers though 2012-09-29T11:33:09 background, proper navigation, sprites for the ship, fragmentation effect 2012-09-29T11:33:15 better thrust effect 2012-09-29T11:33:32 a useful HUD 2012-09-29T11:34:09 gravity and time dilation 2012-09-29T11:34:10 thestinger: were you playing with it? XD 2012-09-29T11:34:24 well it's here, so I looked at it again :P 2012-09-29T11:34:41 yeah, it needs gravity too 2012-09-29T11:35:06 apparently, the original did have a sort of attraction 2012-09-29T11:35:28 and multiplayer 2012-09-29T11:36:06 i dont see how that would be interesting 2012-09-29T11:36:16 but theres a kde game that is 2 player 2012-09-29T11:36:20 and sort of like asteroids 2012-09-29T11:36:34 but theres a big gravitating object in the middle of the screen 2012-09-29T11:36:42 and the 2 players are orbiting it 2012-09-29T11:38:16 KSpaceDuel 2012-09-29T11:43:20 *** asdasdsad has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T11:43:40 any news on the new challenge? 2012-09-29T11:44:01 *** asdasdsad has quit IRC (Client Quit) 2012-09-29T11:44:12 we were just about to announce it 2012-09-29T11:44:41 he must have been really enthusiastic about it 2012-09-29T11:44:47 stayed for a full 20 seconds 2012-09-29T11:53:49 *** Cyndre has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 246 seconds) 2012-09-29T11:56:10 *** Kingpin13 has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T11:58:17 *** sigh has quit IRC (Remote host closed the connection) 2012-09-29T12:05:28 *** Eibwen has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 252 seconds) 2012-09-29T12:23:38 *** thestinger has quit IRC (Quit: WeeChat 0.3.9-rc2) 2012-09-29T13:29:23 *** antimatroidl has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 246 seconds) 2012-09-29T13:36:36 *** antimatroidl has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T13:54:51 *** mcstar has quit IRC (Quit: mcstar) 2012-09-29T14:59:28 *** Accoun has quit IRC () 2012-09-29T15:38:48 *** Accoun has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T15:59:03 *** _flag <_flag!~flag@69-165-173-172.dsl.teksavvy.com> has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T16:22:18 *** Eibwen has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T17:01:58 *** Areks|2 has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T17:05:03 *** Areks has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 272 seconds) 2012-09-29T17:15:42 *** mceier_ has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T17:15:52 *** mceier has quit IRC (Disconnected by services) 2012-09-29T17:16:04 *** mceier_ is now known as mceier 2012-09-29T17:21:08 *** pairofdice has quit IRC (Quit: In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni.) 2012-09-29T17:21:34 *** Eibwen has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 245 seconds) 2012-09-29T18:13:23 *** foRei has quit IRC (Read error: Connection reset by peer) 2012-09-29T18:17:20 *** hathawbg has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T18:18:26 *** hathawbg has left #aichallenge ("Konversation terminated!") 2012-09-29T18:49:12 *** mceier has quit IRC (Quit: leaving) 2012-09-29T20:05:54 *** sigh has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T20:12:58 is there really a new challenge about to be announced? 2012-09-29T20:52:39 *** Scooper has quit IRC (Quit: Leaving) 2012-09-29T21:07:27 *** mawif_ has quit IRC (Quit: leaving) 2012-09-29T21:38:20 *** Kingpin13 has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 246 seconds) 2012-09-29T21:38:21 *** rofer has quit IRC (*.net *.split) 2012-09-29T21:38:21 *** alehorst has quit IRC (*.net *.split) 2012-09-29T21:38:22 *** sevikkk has quit IRC (*.net *.split) 2012-09-29T21:38:33 *** Eibwen has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T21:39:30 *** heinrich5991 has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 256 seconds) 2012-09-29T21:40:43 cyphase: no that was sarcasm sorry 2012-09-29T21:42:56 *** rofer has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T21:42:56 *** sevikkk has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T21:45:18 *** alehorst has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T21:49:53 *** heinrich5991 has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T21:51:09 antimatroidl, i figured :( 2012-09-29T21:51:18 any news about that? 2012-09-29T21:53:32 *** alehorst has quit IRC (*.net *.split) 2012-09-29T21:53:32 *** rofer has quit IRC (*.net *.split) 2012-09-29T21:53:33 *** sevikkk has quit IRC (*.net *.split) 2012-09-29T21:58:40 *** alehorst has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T21:58:40 *** rofer has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T21:58:40 *** sevikkk has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T22:12:27 *** alehorst has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 246 seconds) 2012-09-29T22:53:18 *** sigh has quit IRC (Remote host closed the connection) 2012-09-29T22:53:22 *** alehorst has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T23:06:59 *** sigh has joined #aichallenge 2012-09-29T23:20:11 *** smiley1983 has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 260 seconds) 2012-09-29T23:23:08 *** antimatroidl has quit IRC (Quit: Leaving.)