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N-hit combo Might and Magic Clash of Heroes is this really great NDS game that's.... really great. It's a puzzle combat game that features really interesting units and sides (though the elves seem a little too good...), makes good use of the DS, and features incredibly charming sprite work. In fact, you should give it a spin and see for yourselves why things like the reviving item is crap for every faction except the elves where it is total BS. This week, the HD version of it is getting released on PSN and XBLA, and it will contain the entire original game with HD'd sprites/UI, online play, rebalancing and new stuff, etc. The problem for me is that the non-HD sprites are terribly terribly charming, and some of the HD sprites just look weak in comparison. HD: http://bulk.destructoid.com/ul/197667-preview-might-magic-clash-of-heroes-hd/MMCH_XBLA_Haven_Battle1-620x.jpg See the dude with the big sword raised? That's the sword master. DS-D: http://www.spriters-resource.com/ds/mightandmagicclashofheroes/units.png The bigass armored knight on the 5th row of the rightmost columns is the sword master on the DS. The 2D work on the menus and everything is excellent, though there are definitely places where it'd be good to be able to get more information (which the HD version fixes). But since it will feature all kinds of new tweaks and things, I may have to play it anyway.

good to hear that you're ok! How many more quakes are projected to happen over this month? It sounds like crazy times over there.

I met the daughter of Krebs at a science fair in 2001. Since she was a judge at the science fair, I asked her straight up, "Are you related to the man who discovered the Krebs Cycle".

Hmmm you do have a point there. It doesn't make sense for the components of the velocities of the velocity field to only make use of a single coordinate. Me "not applying" the product rule was a result of thinking that (for example) whatever u_j is a function of, if it isn't also a function of x, then taking the partial derivative on u_i*u_j would see u_j treated as a constant term. Of course, I'm still not sure how to do d/dx(u_j) in my discrete environment.

So in the continuous case it is as you've described, provided that we have functions describing the components of the u vector. The problem is that in the discrete setting, we have no such functions; we just have an interesting grid that stores the velocities at the grid faces, and the density at the grid center (it's called the MAC grid... look up semi-Lagrangian fluid simulation and you'll find out more about it). So the vector resulting from that multiplication contains terms that look like: d/dx(p*u_1*u_1) + d/dy(p*u_1*u_2) + d/dz(p*u_1*u_3) ... which I don't really know how to compute properly. At a particular cell, I could tell you what the u_1 velocity is, and I could tell you what the derivative of it is (it would be u_1 of the next cell minus u_1 of this cell divided by the cell edge length), but I don't know what the correct answer to the partial derivative of a product of two vector components is in this setting (e.g. evaluating d/dy(p*u_1*u_2)). I have a few guesses that sound kind of plausible, but I don't know if they're correct. The best guess I have is this: Say we're evaluating d/dy(p*u_1*u_2), and due to lousy forum text limitations, that "d/dy" is actually the partial derivative and not the... regular derivative. p is a constant u_1 is an orthogonal component, so we do not take the derivative of it and just take its value in the current cell (i.e. treating it like a constant, as we do in partial derivatives) u_2 is a component in an axis that d/dy actually operates on, so we take the difference of its value at the next grid cell and the current grid cell, divided by the cell edge length West Coast Canada: your forum thread for graduate studies in applied mathematics.

Ok I get how it works in the continuous setting, but the discretized version of it still is not solid in my head. Anyway, Stallman's picture that he requests to be used on posters advertising his presence makes him appear to be clothed in beard when gazed upon from a distance. It's as funny as it is disturbing.

Mathematically inclined ppl (i.e. Stefan): There's a paper I'm implementing that references what seems to be an outer/tensor product of two vectors. That's one thing. But then the divergence of that result is taken, and I have no idea how I'm supposed to do that. (the red underlined stuff) Now, in the case of discretized divergence over a grid, you can simply take the difference of velocities at grid cells to compute divergence. But I have no idea how this works for the matrix result of this tensor operation. Even in a non-discretized setting, how would that work? The vectors are usual (i,j,k) velocity vectors in typical space defined by the XYZ-axes.

The cure for salt is more salt http://healthland.time.com/2011/04/07/why-french-fries-are-good-comfort-food/?hpt=C2

oh shi- STALLMAN will be coming to visit UPenn Sadly, I think trying to find ways to troll him has become an exponentially difficult problem due to the difficulty of finding novel results in the largely exhausted search space

Has the legendary Steve-o showed up at any MvC3 events yet? Or is he still restricted to trolling only BB events. There has got to be a set theory/topology/regime change joke in there.

Was any week 1 team in MvC2 better than Cable/Sentinel/Commando?

I'm in PA, but sadly after checking the map you guys are hella far away from me (like 3.5 hrs by car!).

So I'm looking at this research page for this one guy. His name is Allen Dong, which if you wanted to be funny about it could be converted into "A. Dong". On his research page is also a link to "Personal" It leads to a wiki The wiki has random things like "Book Collection", "Software Collection", "GalGame Collection", "Top Moe" I wish I was so awesome that I could have my research page link to such things. Alternatively, I wish I could be like Ron Fedkiw, who, in addition to being THE BIG SHOW http://physbam.stanford.edu/~fedkiw/photos/bodybuilding_front_small.jpg has a line in his brief bio that reads: "He was awarded an Academy Award from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Science Award for Initiatives in Research, a Packard Foundation Fellowship, a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), a Sloan Research Fellowship, the ACM Siggraph Significant New Researcher Award, an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award (ONR YIP), the Okawa Foundation Research Grant, the Robert Bosch Faculty Scholarship, the Robert N. Noyce Family Faculty Scholarship, two distinguished teaching awards, etc. " That's right, he has won so many awards (and these are like, serious, real awards) that instead of listing them he just puts an "etc", like they're nothing to him. That is beyond ballin out of control; that is ballin so out of control that you've come back from the other side into a zen-state of ballin.

I admit it, I lol'd http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbZjGGWk528

I guess by "minorities" I meant "minority parties", though the image of throngs of people of color clawing at Conservatives is also amusing.

Minorities vs Conservatives 3: Fate of Two Houses

Sean's doing his PhD in computer graphics. Last I heard from him, he was getting his ass kicked by some course in Bayesian inference. This is probably the only fighting game forum in the world where the words "Bayesian inference" have ever appeared. I'd make a probability joke about that but I'm too tired.

Well, before he stopped coming here Sean would've counted as the first... he's already doing PhD at UT. Which is where Clarence is from. PLACE OF THE BEGINNING DECIDE THE DESTINY

Whenever I see the title "Dissidia Duodecim", I think it says "Dissidia DUODENUM", and I chuckle about the game being about Final Fantasy Small Intestine.

Congratulations! Did you get a chance to celebrate, or is the atmosphere still too tense there for partying? Also, now that you're a Master, do you get to be called with the -sensei honorific?

I just hope that Capcom doesn't start pulling what Riot does with League of Legends. They nerfed one hero, to which the public responded "wtf??? He's not even that good...", to which Riot replied that he was "stealth OP"... he was OP and nobody knew, and they pre-emptively nerfed him. Let the players find that out and have some fun with it, jeez. Level 3 XF's bonus seems a little strong, but XF as a whole is pretty cool and I'm glad that there's something to deal with teams losing all integrity the moment they lose one member.

This has got to be one of the biggest nerfs in history. They've chopped off about 30% of his life. Maybe the second stealth patch will reduce his health even further, but all you to have a team of 3 Sentinels. You know, for story reasons.

Well, it's true that iodized salt has iodine and non-radioactive iodine is important for people who might be about to be exposed to harmful amounts of radiation... too bad people aren't aware that iodine tablets have like >100mg of iodine per tablet, and regular iodized salt has like 30mg/kg. You'd have to literally eat multiple bags of salt in order to get as much as one iodine pill, and knowing production standards in China, I'll bet that iodized salt there has way less than 30mg/kg. The ion imbalance (and dehydration!) resulting from eating that much salt would probably kill you outright (maybe in a reverse of what happened to that person who drank a crazy amount of water on a bet to win a wii?) But couldn't any other rumor of sources of iodine taken hold? I'm sure that iodized salt isn't the only common source of the stuff.

I'd totally like to know how some of these rumor stories manage to get so believed. Yes there is the immediacy of this disaster and the general conception of NUCLEAR DISASTER AND RADIATION SCARY but what exactly enabled a rumor about salt to take hold of the populace, even outside of China? The normal ease of availability of salt probably helps (as opposed to "exotic herb X will ward off radiation!"), but there are probably spams about every other household/commonplace item warding off radiation. Maybe it's actually a conspiracy by salt manufacturers...

Fist of Legend has one of the more amazing reality show concepts I've ever heard. They find generally washed-up middle-aged men who were somehow "legendary" back when they were younger, the events that made them "legendary" are dramatized before a studio audience that votes on whether or not they are worthy of being called "legendary", and then if accepted they are later made to fight each other 1v1 in a ring. Since when did Korean comics get so interesting