|I wish that the future will turn out in such a way that I do not regret making this wish
… wish granted. the genie just removed the capacity for regret from your mind. MWAHAHAH!
|I wish that the future will turn out in such a way that I do not regret making this wish
… wish granted. the genie just removed the capacity for regret from your mind. MWAHAHAH!
Our PLANET is mind-numbingly big. If you don’t believe me go to the grand canyon and look down. Did I say go to the grand canyon? Make that HIKE to the grand canyon from yellowstone national park. Still not convinced? ROW across the ocean to china. Bonus points if you can hit Japan without a gps.
So in a twisted sort of sense, the milky-way galaxy is less mind-bogglingly big, because our [or at least my] built-in distance-comprehension hardware shorts out so quickly when attempting to deal with the milky way galaxy we don’t really even notice it and so we switch to rigorous numbers which do not have this short-circuiting problem.
crude but hopefully-easy alternative: add a “i just want to see the results” option to all polls automatically.
I think nominul does understand it, and at one level higher than you do. he understands the principle so well he goes and makes a tradeoff in terms of memory used vs execution time.
Take a symetric matrix with a conveniently zero’d out diagonal… you could go and memorize every element on the matrix....(no understanding, pure rote memorization).… you could go and memorize every element AND noticing it happens to be symmetric...(understanding, what you seem to be thinking of...) Or noticing it happens to be symmetric and then only memorizing half the entries in the first place(nominull’s approach).
I go with nominull’s approach myself...I’m just a lot sloppier about selecting what info to rote memorize.
ok. so: assuming Harry’s memory of the night his parents died is correct, what if the crucial difference is that, instead of shrugging Lilly off, Voldemort accepted her bargain...making it a two-person ritual rather than just a one-person ritual...which meant that not only was Harry protected against Voldemort, now the latter had to actively guard Harry’s life.
Second part: And as he looked into harry’s eyes...he had his equivalent of an “oh crap”, and then made harry a horcrux because he figured he may as well. Which THEN sparked a nasty resonance that blasted his body to bits and didn’t take like a normal horcrux (is anyone other than Eliezer ~90% sure how they’re supposed to work in MoR?) because he’d already used lilly’s life in a ritual.
back to the original quote for a bit...Dresden actually complains quite a bit. But after dealing with flaming monkey poo (literally), a white court vampire as a friend, using a cleaning spell to deal with some giant scorpions, and who knows how many dead bodies (some of which were animated)....drinks seem really, really shallow to him. Not to mention he’s trying hard not to think too much about how, if he lets his magic the least bit off the leash, it will crash the plane. (something about complicated technology seems to override the rule “cannot accomplish what you don’t believe in accomplishing”)
Moving back to real life, someone is willing to complain about the drinks while someone else is being mugged.
Furthermore, If the person’s REAL complaint is about the unpleasant security measures, cramped seats, and air pressure changes, complaining about the drinks, even if the complaint gets the drinks to improve, will not really optimize much.
it opens at 9. he can go back as early as 3Pm.
He’d already thought “action.run: twins get eaten”. so...yeah.
He gets it NOW. without having to run a risky feedback scheme between gringots and the muggle economy with only 100 galleons of seed money.
The other thing is, quirrel...is passed out. remember the azkaban fight? it decreased a bit when quirrel passed out.
it is, at best, rather weak evidence for a truly fundamental change in Quirrelmort’s view. enough to tip the scale over the 50% mark? maybe.
He has.
Eleizer has: changed the fundamental mechanism for the patronus, made dementors killable with patronus 2.0, edited the magic interactions between Harry and Voldemort to be dangerous to Harry as well as Voldemort, changed how the elder wand works (It’s...maybe a +5 wand under normal use, and is only an “infinity+/-1” wand when fed blood sacrifices), and made Harry’s invisibility cloak work against dementors-Cannon!Dumbledore (or...someone) warns Harry explicitly that invisibility cloaks do not work against dementors.
My own strategy-if i’d felt like joining-would have started by checking the opponent against defectbot; anybody who cooperates with even one of the 5 or so defect-varaints is clearly insane and not to be trusted; defect immediately. OR maybe take a detour and check if they’re actually a mimicbot that got unlucky.
well...I might have played Hawkbot instead; Hawkbot spends 9.999 seconds dithering before finally defecting, so it does insanely well against any opponent that tries to run it.
in-cannon? some do suspect him. however, there MIGHT be something in the curse on the profession. Either way, whoever IS behind the attack has got to be laughing at their brilliance.
:shrugs:
dumbledore walks through other people’s wards like they’re water. Quirrel pretends that simply sneezing is enough for him to dispell an incomming hex at one point. hacking into the hogwarts wards might be possible if one of these were to take their time and nobody was upgrading the wards.
MoR Azkaban prohibits pheonix-travel OUT, just not in. I think that anti-phoenix wards are probably one of the more difficult ones to cast, and not all wizards think that way even in MoR. but any dark wizard that thinks to have them cast can probably get them cast.
If the culprit is trying to cut harry off of his support structure, then [neville leaves hogwarts] looks much the same as [neville gets killed] from the culprit’s perspective.
Ahem. I took calculus as a freshman. In highschool. I only had to retake the second half because I was so horribly sleep deprived during the final, and so lazy about homework. I then got a 5 on the AP test (score maxes out at a 5).
Now I’m not typical, but I suspect that a school system that cannot teach calculus to the top ~10% or so of its math-inclined students when they’re in high school is failing somewhere along the way.
Trolls already use continuous transformation on themselves; to find a needle in a haystack with a magnent, you first have to suspect there is a needle. Harry’s partial transfiguration attempt(did that happen or...?) is probably more like a needle in a haystack of troll-magic. The only people who I think could spot it without knowing what they’re looking for...already know about partial transfiguration.
Edit: and then Dumbledore finite’s the acid to prevent transfig. sickness. any chance of anyone else figuring it out by looking at the magic involved will be looking for a needle without a magnent.
I had to laugh....calculus is WAY easier and simpler than romance.
chuckles… I wrote a whole bunch about string theory, but I’ve decided to simply mention it. I have a TON of mathematical notation to learn before I can subject that glittery...whatever...to analysis.
As for many worlds… I like the way many of the “”paradoxes” of quantum mechanics don’t even LOOK like paradoxes in many worlds. starting with-you don’t need to specify a special exemption to the no-ftl rule. “information” for “collapse” happens because the little pieces of the waves almost-touch and slip past each other when you perform the comparison operation...at least, that’s how I visualize it.
“become animagus” is a bit more general than “turn into a giant snake”. The original evil-overloard rule is about how turning into a snake lets the hero kill you without losing alignment points, which is why it’s such a bad idea.
that ISN’T what quirrel does. He uses it to slip into harry’s pouch instead and reduce the sense of doom. much smarter than Jafar.
“What does more than one model being correct mean?”
maybe something like string theory? The 5 lesser theories look totally different...and then turn out to tranform into one another when you fiddle with the coupling constant.
Frankly, I find this hilarious.