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cursed number notation. can you figure it out

1 = []

2 = [[]]

3 = [][[]]

4 = [[[]]]

12 = [[[]]][[]]

0 =

-1 = -[]

19 = [][][][][][][][[]]

20 = [[[]]][][[]]

-2 = -[[]]

1/2 = [-[]]

sqrt(2) = [[-[]]]

72^1/6 = [[-[]]][[][-[]]]

5/4 = [-[[]]][][[]]

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woke up this morning, rolled over, and very confidently tried to blow out my alarm clock like a candle. absolutely no precedent for that.

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i love how increasingly abstract the concept of “maid” has gotten

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if a number divided by itself is always equal to 1, surely this holds true for 0/0 as well

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“Bat swinging at wasp nest” post but I cannot be nice about astrology people. No you did not find the one good or cute or quirky way to believe the quality of someone’s character is biologically pre-determined. Just because you found a way to not base it on race or ethnicity or gender does not make judging someone’s character on an innate and uncontrolled attribute suddenly teehee fine.

I’m even more baffled by the people going “it’s just fun!” “It’s just a hobby!!” Sure if it was something harmless. It’s not. We are quite literally talking about how you intend to judge, treat, view, respect, and interact with someone entirely differently based on an inherent trait. How are you not aghast? How are you not embarrassed? Why are you so insistent on needing to operate on a hierarchy of pre-determined character judgement?

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Boyfriend and I are walking home from friend’s place. We pass a group of people walking in the opposite direction.

One of the people in the group stops and says to us “Hey! Did you guys happen to see a guy dressed like a chicken?”

We tell him we have not.

He says “oh, okay” and, with no further context given, continues walking with his group.

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Here's a legal PSA:

If you've committed a crime and a detective gathers everyone involved in the room, especially if he's not actually a detective and is instead a novelist, puzzle-setter, psychic, fake psychic, dog, chess grandmaster, etc. ...

YOU SHOULD NOT CONFESS.

Every year, hundreds of people are put away by non-traditional "detectives" who have either inserted themselves into the case or are working with the police in a dubiously legal capacity as advisor. In 99% of these cases, the murderer gives a full confession even though the evidence against them is circumstantial at best and often requires a long just-so story which can only guess at motive.

If this happens to you, stay quiet, do not attempt to defend yourself or talk your way out of it, only say "I want a lawyer".

Now if you find yourself being investigated by a boy genius, magician's assistant, anthropologist, classics scholar, or philosopher, it's likely that refusing to talk to the police (or investigator with no legal authority) is merely the end of the second act, and by the end of the third act they will have you dead to rights.

YOU SHOULD STILL NOT CONFESS.

Make them take it to court. Force the eccentric detective and his straight-laced police partner to take the stand and explain their methods to a jury of your peers. Have your lawyer look at the chain of custody on the evidence, especially if you believe it to have been handled by someone who has only bumbled into detective work through their natural charm and/or unique set of skills and outsider perspective that come in handy more often than they should.

Know your rights. Don't let eccentric detectives put you away.

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"That's right, Captain Heroname! I have you at my mercy! For after countless hours of research and development, I, Doctor Villainous, have managed to miniaturize the disintegration cannon that destroyed City Hall! And you were foolish enough to come here unarmed, thinking you were safe from my evil genius! Now- don't move, or Jane Loveinterest gets it!"

"...A compact disintegrator?"

"Yes! And with it, I will--"

"Isn't that just a little derivative?"

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You Can Buy A Malaria Net

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This made me laugh. At least he’s honest about how awful he is.

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yo!!! you did a killer SU AMV a while back with Contact Redux but it looks like youtube took it down (rip sorry dude) is there still a version floating around somewhere? thx m8

Just moved all my music videos off the ancient laptop they used to be on, so I finally can actually answer this ask. Also thank you! I'm very proud of it. THEY'RE ALIENS, STEVEN!!! ALIENS WHO INVADED EARTH!!

((The song is Contact (Redux) by Trocadero))

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i hate viruses so fucking much. literally getting attacked by a fucking shape. a concept. consumes no energy. responds to no stimuli. its only existence is to fuck with you. like fuck offf

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Ok first of all, the MTG game state doesn't just need the TPC to be true, it also needs a way to generate arbitrarily large twin primes, which I seriously doubt will ever happen. I'm not sure I understand your objection but Alice can't simply pick a larger prime number than Bob's number: He can respond (once) by reducing her number by 1, making it composite and her card doesn't work if it's composite. She can however, reduce her number by 1 also, making it prime again/the smaller twin prime.

My objection is that in a game, it sounds as if the players need to designate specific numbers. I'm no mathematician, but I don't think finding out whether a specific number is still prime when you do stuff to it proves stuff about all numbers.

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Despite or perhaps because of her best efforts (trying to eat my weaving notebook) I got the warp maths wrong by an order of magnitude in at least two places, but it's fine, it's fine it's fine

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Love this so much