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Re: Turboslavs
oh, wow
@Vorpy
Well, you're welcome back anytime. Drop by anytime you want. No obligation necessary. That's how we roll.
I feel rusty; I had to antiderivative this in order to figure out what function it was (and thereby get the joke).
it's basic calculus; a common integral
d/dt(Vorpy) means the derivative of Vorpy with respect to time, or the rate at which Vorpy changes over time. The above equation says that Vorpy changes over time according to the rate of negative Vorpy.
in order to take the indefinite integral (a.k.a. antiderivative) we do a little cross-multiplication, which works despite the fact that the "d" is an operator rather than truly multiplication.
d/dt of Vorpy is equal to d Vorpy / dt.
dVorpy/dt = -Vorpy
dVorpy/Vorpy = (1/Vorpy)*dVorpy = -dt
Taking the antiderivative of both sides produces the following:
int((1/Vorpy)*dVorpy) is the integral of 1/Vorpy with respect to Vorpy, and this evaluates to the natural log of the absolute value of Vorpy, or ln|Vorpy|
int(-dt) is the integral of -1 with respect to t, and this evaluates to -t
optionally may add an arbitraty constant on either side (as an arbitrary constant is always added when an antiderivative is performed, since taking the derivative always causes constants to disappear)
so therefore we now have
ln|Vorpy| = -t + C
using both sides as exponents for powers of base e, in order to eliminate the natural log (which is the inverse of the base e exponential function), produces:
|Vorpy| = e^C * e^-t
by the definition of absolute value, this means:
Vorpy = e^C * e^-t or - e^C * e^-t
Either of those is an exponential decay function.
Not around here, I'll probably have to hit the hardware stores.
Now this is nostalgia.
Not simply playing games with pixel graphics. (That doesn't "bring back" anything, because I never stopped playing pixel graphics games anyway.)
Think of it as an object moving through a viscous fluid. Its mass times acceleration (the derivative of velocity with respect to time) is equal to the force of drag in the opposite direction, which is (typically assumed to be) directly proportional to the velocity, thus m dv/dt = -c v. Constants aside, the vorpy equation works the same way, so she'll do the same as the velocity, which is exponential decay, with the constant being the initial vorpy.
It was a cystoscopy at the urologist. It was rather discomforting.
But anyway, at the bottom of that diary post is a video. It's a video of commentary from Neil deGrasse Tyson, talking about NASA and the space race. Well, kinda. It's about how they related to people at the time, and how they relate to us today. And yes, it has a clickbait title - "We Stopped Dreaming".
Well, the clickbait title actually pans out. He makes a surprisingly relevant point, considering that politics today is dominated by an undercurrent of lack of hope. Of people desperate for a sense of hope.
Also kinda relates to myself in a way. When I was younger I had "dreams", unrealistic as some of them were, to do all sorts of things. Now I find myself scrubbing them out on the basis of practicality, or attempting to rekindle their flames years later. And sometimes, it's a frustrating feeling.
Why did we stop dreaming? And what will make us dream again? What will bring us the motivation to move forward without feeling like the best we can hope for is a dull holding pattern?
Inhomogeneous solution SF. Colloidal SF. Non-Newtonian viscosity SF, perhaps. Mhhh-hmmm.
But I digress.
I've been doing a lot better on not wasting time droning away browsing around and getting things done, although besides today I still feel like I'm not making good use of my time.
tempted to follow this but i have no idea what it says
oh gosh not another one https://twitter.com/dopamania113MN
I wonder how should I feel about the fact that I made one library work by downloading/installing it into one of those programs then copy/pasting it into the relevant python folder.
Anyways I was so worried I would procrastinate on making my vanilla sky video that I ended up starting on it the other day (I was planning like a huge scene transition that would have made filming on two separate days easier than starting, resetting the stage and then starting again), only to have my wonderful new Seagate HDD die on me seconds after I'd transferred the raw images from my camera.
So I had to start again today and just did the whole thing in one cut. I think I went overboard with the light (I got the biggest one they had and even I started sweating about an hour in) and that major outfit I made inspired by the one from the PV/promo images basically fell apart like the second I tried to take it off (okay, the net arm came off but it's mostly still usable, for what I have no idea).
Anyways, here it is.
The image from the start is a cool circular rainbow I saw the other day whilst going around town.
Back to Turboslavs, I read a review of one of those books of theirs, and it's even worse than I thought. Wanna an example? The dude says his imaginary "Great Lechia" existed on ancient maps, and as a proof he cites a map labeled (IIRC) "expansion of Rome in 264 BC". Let that sink in.
As for here, thankfully the government hasn't done anything like that to my close ones. The worst so far has been being in Tascón's List (although AFAIK only one was significantly affected), a friend whose father had his business stuff expropriated, and various relatives and friends who've seen no point in staying and left. I guess I should count myself and my surroundings lucky.
I saw a commercial for Strut, which is a show about a transgender modelling agency, and I couldn't stop thinking about it. I mean, transgender people, on TV! And fashion models! Catty fashion models! I've already recorded some of it, and I'm just biding my time until I cave.
Then I saw another ad for an E! show (ie the worst) called So Cosmo and it was like, perfect. Bad, bad people! Working at a magazine! A Fashion Magazine! and I basically couldn't even and I'm pretty sure I'm going to watch all of this show.