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00:09.20Wormy_hi
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00:15.50Tek0516Wormy_: Oh, so I found something odd in Space Engineers planets. I tried to dig to the center of a moon but after around 1200m down (coincidentally 1/8th the moon's radius) everything except my character vanished. O.o
00:16.38Wormy_You know, that friend that inspired me to get the game said he fell through the planet like that.
00:16.52Wormy_Spatial anomalies
00:17.20Wormy_I'm really amped up to play it now
00:18.02Tek0516My drilling strategy was amusing. Repeated dropping of nuclear warheads into a crater. :P
00:19.07Wormy_jebus
00:19.43Wormy_I'm not going to be able to work out of sheer anticipation
00:23.12Tek0516It's fun. I should continue my old Supercarrier ship
00:23.36dromOooh. Which supercarrier?
00:24.16Tek0516Just a giant impractical ship I was making in Space Engineers
00:25.07Tek0516It's so many updates ago I probably need to overhaul it just to make you not die.
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00:42.52dromThe_Randomness TekDroid AdmiralPanda: http://i.imgur.com/5TZG7n6.webm
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00:43.20TekDroidO.o
00:44.10dromThe_Randomness TekDroid AdmiralPanda Liquid_Ink: http://i.imgur.com/Jy0ganX.gif
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03:54.29TekDroidO.o How did I netsplit from the same server I'm on
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08:53.24AGrayCathmm
08:53.45GhelaeHello.
08:57.33AGrayCathello
09:21.11AGrayCatHello???
09:22.04GhelaeHow many times do you want people to say "hello"?
09:24.51AGrayCatAs many as they would like.
09:24.57AGrayCatAlthough you seem to be the only one talking.
09:26.57GhelaeNot everyone who is currently online is looking at IRC.
09:39.34AGrayCathmmmm
09:41.27GhelaeThis is a particularly quiet time of day, since quite a large number of us on SporeWiki are British, and in the range of teenagers to early-twenties, so most of them are probably asleep now. And on weekdays are often at work/school/uni early in the mornings.
09:51.11dromThankfully is weekend for me
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10:10.22AGrayCatI'm British.
10:10.47GhelaeSo am I.
10:10.54AGrayCatyay
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10:27.45HachimanHi
10:28.28AGrayCathi
10:29.45OluapPlayerHi
10:32.50AGrayCatWhat happens to the moon?
10:34.48HachimanSame as it always is
10:35.24AGrayCatmhmnn
10:58.20AGrayCathi
10:59.40Liquid_InkHi
11:01.02AGrayCatI'm writing up a peace treaty.
11:02.20Liquid_InkThose are always good.
11:06.47AGrayCatuhuh
11:06.54AGrayCatBetween Glistennaens and their old enemies
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11:10.21AGrayCatHullo
11:11.19AGrayCatgoing live...
11:14.17Liquid_InkGoing live?
11:14.24AGrayCatit went up
11:15.28AGrayCatliquid
11:16.52AGrayCatI like some of your fiction.
11:17.39AGrayCathttp://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Fiction:Vermulan_Autonomy
11:17.40AGrayCathmm
11:17.44AGrayCatHow did that happen?
11:19.37Liquid_InkAny specific part of it?
11:21.50AGrayCateh
11:21.53AGrayCatthe outside the galaxy part
11:25.10Liquid_InkOutside the Gigaquadrant?
11:26.12Liquid_InkA lot of fiction originates outside of the Gigaquadrant. The Junction, one of Oluap's fictions, springs to mind.
11:26.13AGrayCatuhuh
11:26.22AGrayCatBut you can't make new galaxies
11:28.14Liquid_InkThey're not from another galaxy
11:28.53AGrayCatwhich one then?
11:30.10Liquid_InkStrictly speaking, they're from the Milky Way, as they're a human offshoot. Their empire however originates in a nebulously defined xenoverse of which I have little intention of exploring in fiction, and is not restricted by the galaxy rule.
11:31.19AGrayCatthat hurts my head
11:31.20AGrayCatanyway
11:31.40AGrayCatThat means I can do my war collaboration in the fiction universe and not in a parallel one!
11:33.04AGrayCatgreat!
11:33.17Liquid_InkWhat is the nature of your war collaboration?
11:33.29AGrayCatGlistennaen-Chostvan War
11:33.43AGrayCatrevolving more around skirmishes and infantry battles with air support
11:34.02AGrayCatand just-above-the-sea battles
11:35.05Liquid_InkWhat part of it needed a parallel universe?
11:37.21AGrayCatthe entire part about the chostvans not exactly being from the gigaquadrant
11:38.01Liquid_InkI see.
11:38.40Liquid_InkNag, there are plenty of fictions that are extragigaquadrantic. The Junction, the Xeranbha, the Shka-Tun, the Xhodocto, et cetera.
11:39.13GhelaeAlthough they were typically introduced before the Annihilation.
11:39.50GhelaeBut in principle, if you don't go into any detail about the extragigaquadrantic territories, you're not violating the spirit of the "no new galaxies" rule.
11:40.13Liquid_InkMaybe you could retroactively use the Annihilation to say they were from a galaxy that was destroyed by the Annihilation.
11:43.15AGrayCatI'm not going into detail.
11:43.33AGrayCatimagine what happens is as follows
11:43.49AGrayCatglistennaen national republic pokes chostvan union with a stick
11:43.56AGrayCatchostvans hit them over the head with a baseball bat
11:44.08AGrayCatglistennaens do the same in response
11:45.23AGrayCatthey come to an agreement
11:47.19AGrayCati was hoping to get the New Cyrannians in, but Cyrannian said they were busy. so eh.
11:48.36Liquid_InkCollaboration can be tricky.
11:49.04dromGhelae Charles_Murray: They know their priorities http://i.imgur.com/JdIqPUP.jpg
11:50.27AGrayCatmhm
11:50.34AGrayCatbut i still want it to be collaborative
11:50.42AGrayCatbecause it is better and much more fun for everyone
11:50.54Ghelaedrom: It'd be even more impressive if it didn't spill even when the gun was fired.
11:51.22dromGhelae: Indeed, although there was this comment too: "What? Do you really want warm beer?"
11:57.44AGrayCathmm
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12:03.38JepardiHi
12:17.48AGrayCathi
12:17.51AGrayCatWho are you?
12:18.05dromSomeone from Finland, doesn't speak so much
12:21.31dromGhelae: How many American members, who has been an user on Sporewiki at least one year and is still active to an extent, do you believe?
12:22.19dromI only know Tybusen, Charles and Random. Something there is a fourth
12:22.42GhelaeThat's all I can think of, and I wasn't sure about Charles.
12:22.45HachimanCharles is American?
12:24.27dromThe IP he is online from is American
12:25.02dromIt also helps that he is mostly active at American time
12:26.07dromAnyway. Movin' on to Canadians: Drodo and Tek are the only two I know, anyone else?
12:27.02dromOh, I know the fourth American now: Knight_Alien
12:30.23dromMovin' on to Australians
12:30.31dromPanda and Liquid
12:30.45Liquid_InkYou
12:30.48Liquid_Ink*yo
12:31.30dromAnyone else? Any kiwis represent?
12:32.52Liquid_InkNo kiwis that I know of. A pity really.
12:35.10dromMore americans: Gorzill and Zilla
12:35.25HachimanGorzilla
12:35.34dromYeah
12:36.16dromIf there is one american more, then I've to move the American flags over the British
12:36.35dromgrives
12:38.51dromGah
12:39.05dromThe British lost the lead to the Americans
12:39.42AGrayCatI'm British.
12:39.50Liquid_InkDon't worry, the Commonwealth as a whole still outweighs the Americans.
12:40.00AGrayCatgreat. just great.
12:40.08GhelaeAGrayCat: drom's currently considering members active for at least one year.
12:40.14AGrayCatmhm
12:40.17AGrayCati read that
12:40.30GhelaeAnd still active, so I suppose that's why Monet doesn't count.
12:40.56AGrayCatSo
12:40.58dromMonet's still around albeit more absent
12:41.26GhelaeOtherwise his count would be: Americans: Tybusen, Charles, Random, Knight, Gorzil, Zilla; Brits: Ghel, Hachi, Jo, Wormy, Xho, Monet. 6 each.
12:41.28dromPlus I impiled "active to an extent"
12:41.48dromGhelae: Glynn Tyrant
12:41.53dromHe is American
12:42.02GhelaeSo that brings it to 7.
12:42.07dromGlynn Tarrant*
12:42.10AGrayCatI had a list of ideas for the future:
12:42.32dromYeah, plus there is two who I couldn't locate: Valader and Ecoraptor
12:42.40dromBig chance that they are as well Americans
12:42.49GhelaeThe fact that Val made one edit today doesn't make him active. :P
12:43.38AGrayCatSo
12:43.48AGrayCatWould anyone be willing to join the minor collaboration idea?
12:44.23dromLet's not forget GD12
12:44.44HachimanValader is Hispanic as far as I know
12:44.54dromAmerican!
12:45.00dromAmuricans: 8
12:45.02HachimanMexico is not part of the US
12:45.03GhelaeThe only clue I can find for Ecoraptor is that the Waptoria Alliance of Species page uses "colonisation" rather than "colonization", so probably not American.
12:45.20Liquid_InkHispanic is not Mexico.
12:45.34GhelaeAGrayCat: So, is this the war you've been describing?
12:45.38AGrayCatuhuhhh
12:46.12dromHispanic does mean spanish-speaking minority in US eh?
12:47.17GhelaeDid Hachi mean Hispanic American or did he mean Mexican?
12:47.33AGrayCatSo, Ghelae, opinion on my project?
12:47.44GhelaeNo opinion so far.
12:48.07AGrayCatI was hoping to have a few nations involved.
12:48.45GhelaeThere's no reason I can see for Apalos to get involved right from the start. You could start writing the war and see if the plot interests anybody.
12:49.39AGrayCateh.
12:50.31dromMoving on to non-anglo nationalities
12:50.50dromCyrannian (Irish), Imperios (Russian), me (Swedish)
12:50.54dromAnyone else?
12:51.08Liquid_InkDino is Dutch
12:51.16dromOluap is Brailian
12:51.19dromBrazilian*
12:51.24dromGood
12:52.17AGrayCatWhat ranking on the Kardashev scale would the Chostvans be?
12:52.22Liquid_InkIsn't one of us Hong Kongese?
12:52.42GhelaeAGrayCat: Type II is typical.
12:52.50dromYeah, but he went offline last year iirc
12:53.13dromLawfulInsane iirc
12:53.14GhelaeType II is anything between being able to harness all the power of a single star to all the power of hundreds of billions of stars.
12:53.31AGrayCatType III?
12:54.09AGrayCatIs anyone Type III?
12:54.10GhelaeType II is being able to harness all the power of hundreds of billions of stars (i.e. entire large galaxies).
12:54.12GhelaeIII*
12:54.19AGrayCatyes, is anyone Type III?
12:54.47GhelaeSome of the largest superpowers and hyperpowers might be, although directly from using dyson spheres but from vast amounts of hypermatter power.
12:55.12GhelaeDCP, CyraEmp, and extragigaquadrantic powers such as the Junction and Xeranbha.
12:55.56AGrayCatChostvans are meant to be a large hyperpower that crushed the Glistennaens centuries ago, gigantic population, however a very minor footprint in the Gigaquadrant.
12:56.02GhelaeIf you look at the infoboxes you'll probably find a lot more labelled Type III just because the person writing that thought it meant "galactic in size" rather than "power output of an entire galaxy".
12:56.39GhelaeSometimes people also think that harnessing the supermassive black hole at the galactic centre is also enough for Type III status. It isn't.
12:59.32AGrayCatmhm
13:00.27AGrayCatso
13:01.16AGrayCatwell?
13:02.11GhelaeI can't decide for you. My suggestion is still a high Type II.
13:03.01AGrayCatHow many star systems colonised?
13:03.49GhelaeAre you asking me to decide how many star systems the Chostvans should own, or how many would be required for Type III?
13:04.19AGrayCatRequired.
13:04.27AGrayCatThey aren't going to be Type III.
13:04.33AGrayCatI'm trying to go below the required limit.
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13:05.52GhelaeWith hypermatter power, which is basically one of SporeWiki's forms of magic, a few million systems could in principle demand and receive a large enough power supply to make Type III.
13:05.55dromHere's all the flags of active users who has been here for at least one year! http://i.imgur.com/Q3k9FpK.png
13:06.33GhelaeWithout hypermatter, and without astroengineering such as dyson spheres, a civilisation could have colonies in every star system in a galaxy and still not be Type III.
13:06.50Ghelae~give Wormy_ a cookie
13:06.50infobotACTION gives Wormy_ a home-baked peanut butter cookie to cheer him up.
13:07.10Wormy_Funnily enough, I just had one.
13:07.10AGrayCatWhat is Type IV?
13:07.27AGrayCathttp://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Fiction:The_Junction
13:07.52GhelaeType IV is a debateably useless concept. It's variously taken to mean "controls the power output of an entire galactic cluster" to "controls the power output of an entire universe".
13:08.06Wormy_Traditionally, Type IV civs had the power output (or power equal to) a galactic supercluster, or a number of quasars.
13:08.12GhelaeThere is a mathematical definition of the Kardashev scale...
13:08.15Ghelaelooks it up
13:08.33dromWhich is lot
13:08.56Wormy_However Ghel is right really, it doesn't really give much definition of tech, its and is vague about scale depending on who is talking about it.
13:09.02Ghelae...which gives Type IV as having the power output of 10 billion Milky Way galaxies.
13:09.21AGrayCatsomeone needs to fix the darn junction up
13:09.36GhelaeIn that case, each Type has 10 billion times as much power as the Type below it.
13:10.10dromWormy_: http://i.imgur.com/KYEVUYn.webm
13:10.23AGrayCatNo offence drom
13:10.27AGrayCatbut if yer sendin em to wormy alone
13:10.30AGrayCatwhy not use PM?
13:10.40GhelaeSo in principle, a civilisation using Type I technology on each of its planets could become Type II just by having 10 billion similar planets.
13:10.52dromAGrayCat: It is no personal thing
13:11.06AGrayCatYou address them to Wormy_ though?
13:11.21Wormy_Well, other people might like it too.
13:11.38dromHachiman: http://i.imgur.com/7dhmtQm.jpg
13:11.52HachimanOh fuck
13:11.56dromHachiman: http://i.imgur.com/lOuNcWa.png
13:12.07Hachimanolol
13:12.15dromThat guys looks like MacGuffin though
13:12.47Wormy_GXS guys might want to see this http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Fiction:Great_Xonexian_Schism/Inheritance
13:13.19dromHachiman: http://i.imgur.com/HWq7n9A.jpg
13:13.34OluapPlayerWormy wrote something, gasp gasp
13:14.44AGrayCatWhat population would a 582,398 planet large empire have?
13:15.15GhelaeDepends on the population of the planets.
13:15.31dromHachiman: http://i.imgur.com/SXwhiJC.jpg
13:15.50GhelaeAverage planetary population ~1 billion gives a total population ~600 trillion.
13:16.36dromHachiman: http://i.imgur.com/Y40lTx4.png
13:17.26Wormy_Voraamach was originally called veramach, then I realised that sounds a bit close to the Wehrmacht
13:18.47AGrayCatindeed
13:19.54Wormy_Probably subconscious.  The DCP is basically is where I pour my fears of authoritarian societies
13:21.01AGrayCatuh
13:21.09AGrayCatis there a max population cap
13:21.49GhelaeNo. But if your population seems unrealistic then people will tell you.
13:21.59AGrayCathmm
13:22.00AGrayCatalso
13:22.07AGrayCatso
13:22.11AGrayCatyou think 600 trillion?
13:22.42AGrayCatThe DCP only has 150.
13:22.55AGrayCatand it has 1,000,000 planets
13:23.04Wormy_100000000000000000000000000000000.1 citizens!11!!11!
13:23.08Ghelae150 trillion over one million planets is an average population of 150 million per planet.
13:23.31AGrayCatIs that a good amount?
13:23.39AGrayCatI have 500,000 planets though
13:23.44AGrayCat582,398 actually
13:23.56Wormy_The DCP population is probably higher.  However most of its people do not live on planets.
13:24.10GhelaeAs I said, if your population seems unrealistic then people will tell you.
13:24.23GhelaeBut the overall population isn't where the realism comes from.
13:24.38GhelaeThe realism is a matter of a) how many planets do you have and b) how many people do you have on each planet.
13:25.01GhelaeThe overall population depends on those two things; there's not an additional factor that might make it unrealistic.
13:25.20dromI think I'm just going to make up a function so I can get a curve that's expotentional to amount of planets and population
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13:26.35Wormy_DCP probably has more systems too.  When I wrote those figures, it was acceptably big but now its a bit small
13:26.45Gheldrom: What you'd want is a function that describes how the population of a civilisation is distributed among its planets. Then integrate that with respect to the number of planets.
13:27.12Ghel[Total number of planets] * [average population per planet] is quicker, though. :P
13:27.29Wormy_Programmers like a challenge
13:27.35dromGhel: Yeah, though I meant that the more planets, there more densily populated planets there will be present
13:28.04GhelYes. So a sort of planetary population density function.
13:28.18dromThen using that to calculate the total population
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13:29.35GhelMy first thought would be a normal distribution, but perhaps something like a chi-squared would be more accurate.
13:30.35dromHm, what do you mean?
13:31.19Wormy_I theorise that planets might only be useful for agriculture, or cultural purposes (and a few select materials like lime)...  Its easier and cheaper to mine and process ores in space.  Its easier to gather energy using mirrors or magnetic containment loops.  Space habitats provide greater engineering and optimisation of cities and populations.  Much of the industry in space = means much of the population is.
13:31.37GhelI'm considering what the basic assumptions would be. An exponential curve would fit an expansion where the highest number of colonies are the least-populated ones.
13:31.54Wormy_Planets are not completely useless for civilisations like the DCP, must pretty specialist
13:32.24GhelBut if these colonies are populated more quickly than they're created, then there'll be a much smaller number of low-population settlements while most planets will have a small but intermediate number of inhabitants.
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13:33.03GhelTo take into account space habitats etc., this is why we should talk about systems rather than planets.
13:33.06GhelHello.
13:33.27HachimanXho
13:33.32Xhowat
13:33.37XhoHello btw
13:33.38dromGhel: Ah yes, that's true
13:33.40HachimanNothing, just saying your name hur
13:33.41HachimanHai
13:33.41dromHello Xho
13:33.50Wormy_Obviously some materials like limestone aren't going to form in space, and is plentiful on some kinds of planets
13:38.48Gheldrom: A chi-squared distribution, giving the probability that a measurement will give "x" given a parameter "k", is exp(-x/2) for k=2. But I don't think it ever quite becomes a normal distribution.
13:39.32Xhohttp://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/spore/images/7/74/Zhuleshxi_2.png/revision/latest?cb=20151117233246 I posted this like 5 years ago, for those who didn't notice
13:39.39GhelBut if you did use that, it's a (relatively) simple case of determining how "x" relates to the population of a system and "k" relates to the colonising-vs.-populating tendencies of the civilisation.
13:42.54Hachimanhttp://news.yahoo.com/frog-gorilla-no-pig-dog-132643448.html;_ylt=A0LEV7ryr1BWUFQAgY0nnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTByaWg0YW05BGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwM4BHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzcg
13:43.45Wormy_seen that deformity
13:44.05Wormy_It doesn't effect their health I don't think
13:44.34dromGhel: I noticed that the formula is "sigma((observed - expected)^2 / expected)
13:44.39HachimanFrom what I know, Pig is as healthy as can be
13:44.42dromequals x^2
13:45.44Wormy_drom: http://imgur.com/gallery/Y1gSN
13:45.54GhelFor a normal distribution? Probability is proportional to ("x" - mean)^2/(2*variance)
13:46.02dromYou gave me that yesterday, Wormy
13:46.21dromGhel: Oh, I meant for the chi-squared
13:46.26Wormy_oh
13:47.00GhelWhere do you get that from?
13:47.12dromGhel: Also, what would "mean" and "variance" be respectively?
13:47.33GhelThe mean is the average value, and the variance describes the width of the distribution.
13:47.38dromGhel: Wikipedia and numerous of math sites after a quick googling about "chi-squared formula"
13:47.44dromI see
13:48.30GhelOh. It sounds like you're describing the chi-squared *test*, not the chi-squared *distribution*.
13:48.50dromoh
13:49.24Wormy_Sure have been a lot of instances of "oh" in the last few minutes.
13:50.18dromOh? Perhaps we should introduce "International day of 'oh'"?
13:50.18GhelLooking at things, you coul use the gamma distribution.
13:50.38GhelThat does converge to the normal distribution, apparently.
13:51.53GhelAnd chi-squared and exponential. So I'd currently recommend gamma.
13:53.39GhelYou actually have all of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_probability_distributions#Supported_on_semi-infinite_intervals.2C_usually_.5B0.2C.E2.88.9E.29 to choose from. I will understand if you don't want to go through all of them.
13:57.35Ghel"Supported on a bounded interval" could be even more accurate, if you want to provide an upper limit to system population.
13:58.20dromGhel: I've already made this http://i.imgur.com/xIZuacj.png
13:58.35GhelOkay.
13:59.00dromBased on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_distribution#Probability_density_function
13:59.49AGrayCatok
13:59.55AGrayCatI've decided on a population
14:01.35Wormy_drom:  dnno if true but hilarious all the same http://imgur.com/gallery/qvaLxAO
14:03.12AGrayCatso
14:03.15AGrayCatanyone got any pop ideas
14:05.14AGrayCatbecause i'm really confused on it
14:05.25GhelWhat's the one you've decided on?
14:05.29AGrayCat<PROTECTED>
14:05.57Wormy_Hachiman: http://i.imgur.com/SzeZYgX.png
14:06.01GhelSo you're saying you have a number of planets but not a total population?
14:07.04AGrayCatuhuh
14:07.08GhelRight. So how many people do you think should live on each planet?
14:07.14AGrayCatdepends
14:07.24AGrayCatIt will vary.
14:07.24GhelSo what do you think the average should be?
14:07.26Wormy_I lolled http://imgur.com/gallery/5vVW0
14:07.39AGrayCatfrontier colonies won't have large populations
14:07.41AGrayCatWormy_
14:07.47AGrayCataccording to my calculations
14:07.59AGrayCatyou have an average of 2 minutes between posting random pictures
14:08.59GhelSo the next simple estimate, rather than just [average pop per planet]*[number of planets], is to divide the planets into some categories.
14:09.05AGrayCatok
14:09.16AGrayCatif we have  582,398 'planets'
14:09.35GhelFor example, you might just say that there are frontier worlds and developed worlds. Then what's the average population of a frontier world, and what's the average population of a developed worl?
14:09.37Ghelworld*
14:09.45AGrayCatlets change that to planets, moons, and asteroids
14:10.34GhelWe could just say systems. A system with just one developed world will have the bulk of its population in that world and other colonies there will make little difference.
14:10.49AGrayCatFor example: Tatooine from Star Wars has around 200,000 pop. Barren, outer planet. Not very major.
14:10.55GhelMeanwhile, a system with only fronteir colonies, even if there are a lot of them, might not have the population of even a single developed world.
14:11.16AGrayCatindeed
14:11.25AGrayCatWhat about Homeworld Systems?
14:11.29GhelOkay. So if you want that as your example, say that frontier systems have an average population of 200,000.
14:12.00GhelThen developed systems... that's less clear. You'd want it to be large compared to the frontier, so a minimum of tens of millions.
14:12.03AGrayCatthat would be tatooine alone.
14:12.07dromHelp, the calculation is too much for GeoGebra
14:12.39GhelEarth currently has >7 billion, so ~10 billion might be acceptable for a near-future interplanetary humanity.
14:13.12GhelSo I suggested ~1 billion as a middle ground.
14:13.16AGrayCatChostvans have been spacefaring for ages.
14:13.25Wormy_Python or C++ is probably a good choice for mathematical formulae
14:13.32AGrayCatPractical hyperpower.
14:13.46dromWormy_: True, except you cannot see the curve since it all is CLI
14:13.54AGrayCatThe Chostvans also run a socialist syndicalist worker's self-management economy though.
14:14.15Wormy_Yeah, you'll need some libraries and a program to run them in
14:14.19GhelSo say 10 billion. Remember, for all of their developed systems to have a population in the billions, the population does need to grow a lot from the original settlers.
14:14.28Wormy_I was going to say Javascript but I know you hate that
14:14.28AGrayCatonly 207 of the planets, asteroids, and moons are in the gigaquadrant however.
14:14.42AGrayCatChostva is the home planet of the Soyuz.
14:14.47dromWormy_: Of course I hate JS, it would also take more of my time
14:14.53AGrayCatliterally every major species evolved in Chostva
14:14.54GhelThen, how many systems are frontier systems and how many are developed?
14:14.56Wormy_Indeed, its so clunky
14:15.05AGrayCatI'd say we have a few Core Systems.
14:15.07AGrayCatA few.
14:15.11Wormy_Not even properly object oriented
14:15.15AGrayCatAround... 50?
14:15.33dromAlthough, I can survive with CLI, all I need is to know the distribution of population on a set number of planets
14:15.54AGrayCatthen lets put something together, eh?
14:15.57GhelIn that case, we have 500 billion from the core and ~100 billion from the frontier.
14:16.12AGrayCat600 billion?
14:16.23GhelSomething around that, yes.
14:16.24AGrayCatGlistennaens have darn 300 billion!
14:16.29AGrayCatAnd Delpha 150 trillion.
14:16.40AGrayCatThe Chostvans would be a galactic joke.
14:17.24GhelThat's what happens when <0.00001% of your systems are developed.
14:17.54AGrayCathmm
14:18.08AGrayCatHow does this sound?
14:18.19AGrayCatAn established core population, and an unknown universal population.
14:19.04GhelSo you're just leaving the population as "unknown"?
14:19.13GhelYou can do that.
14:19.40dromWormy_ Ghel: Do any of both you know the C++ function for the mathematical "e"?
14:19.53GhelNo, but I would have guessed "exp"/
14:19.57Ghel.*
14:20.15dromah yes, it is the exp, gonna try it
14:20.17AGrayCatOkay
14:20.20AGrayCatTwo established populations
14:20.25AGrayCatGigaquadrant and Core
14:21.11GhelIt'll be best to say that only the Gigaquadrant population is known.
14:21.32GhelOtherwise you become close to violating the "no new galaxies" rule by describing an extragigaquadrantic population.
14:21.48AGrayCateh
14:21.53Wormy_I haven't really used C++ beyond scripting in Ue4/UDK
14:21.59AGrayCatexclaiming the population of the Core wouldn't really do much in my opinion.
14:22.00Wormy_mean to though
14:22.05AGrayCatjust add to the bone.
14:23.26GhelYou aren't really describing any numbers now, though.
14:23.57AGrayCatdamn it
14:24.03AGrayCati published too early while experimenting
14:24.21AGrayCatthough that by pressing the enter key i could jump a space and make it like the mou'cyran accords with a space between members
14:24.23AGrayCatBut NO.
14:24.25AGrayCatgreat.
14:24.46AGrayCatwhat code do i use for that?
14:25.13AGrayCatWhat could the gigaquadrantic population be....
14:25.15AGrayCathmm...
14:25.33GhelThe enter key should work for adding line spaces, but you need to make sure the text box is selected.
14:26.01AGrayCati was using the infobox but eh
14:26.08AGrayCatone moment
14:26.23GhelOh. You were using the form. Okay.
14:26.33GhelYeah; use <br /> to add line breaks in an infobox.
14:27.04AGrayCathmm
14:27.17dromGhel: Was it a good idea to use the probability density function of the gamma distribution?
14:27.39dromJust making sure that I'm not trippin in a pitfall
14:27.44GhelIt's what I suggested. That doesn't make it a good idea. :P
14:28.02AGrayCat200 billion in the gigaquadrant
14:28.04AGrayCatdoesn't seem right
14:28.05dromhur
14:28.09AGrayCati'll bump it down to a few billion
14:28.24AGrayCat33 billion for 207 planets
14:28.25AGrayCatseems good
14:28.36dromGhel: But crap, I don't even know what the k and the o stand for
14:29.06GhelThat's what we need to figure out. Looking at how the gamma distribution varies with those two we can make an educated guess.
14:29.18dromThe formula in question: http://i.imgur.com/UuRa0E4.png
14:30.02dromWhen inserted in a visualizer, the curve is very very narrow
14:30.27dromI mean, it starts like at 1, but diminshes away to 0
14:30.38drom(y-value in question)
14:30.50GhelThe distribution becomes exponential for k=1 and gaussian for large k, so k measures settling vs. populating of new systems.
14:32.11GhelSo for k=1, systems are colonised far more quickly than they're populated. Increasing k increases the populating-to-settling ratio.
14:33.17GhelNow if ko is the mean for large k, then o is simply the mean planet population divided by k.
14:33.33Wormy_http://imgur.com/gallery/QJJFFtf
14:33.34GhelSo it basically scales the height of the distribution.
14:33.36Wormy_awww
14:34.59GhelWait; mean = ko always. So that makes it easier.
14:35.11dromHm, I'll be testing x = 1 , k = 1, o = 1
14:35.20GhelNo.
14:35.32GhelYou plot a graph of probability against x.
14:35.48Wormy_http://imgur.com/gallery/pUYvKml
14:36.05GhelSetting the value of x just gives you the height of the function at a given x, when you want the whole distribution.
14:36.43drom"908914488"
14:36.46AGrayCathullo
14:36.53dromThat was the output for 1,1,1
14:37.36GhelThat's because the gamma function diverges for 1.
14:37.52dromWormy_: http://imgur.com/gallery/B7652
14:37.55GhelNo, it doesn't.
14:37.58GhelOr it shouldn't.
14:38.08GhelBut I don't know why you should get such a huge number there.
14:38.33dromprobably because I used the wrong format? printf("%d", gamma_distribution(1,1,1));
14:39.02dromThe formattion list is long and I cannot graps them all
14:39.29GhelYou really need to plot it as a graph to see if it looks how it's supposed to.
14:40.18Wormy_I was about to suggest showing the output to Ghelae
14:40.53dromafter swapping the out %d to %f. I get "0.367879"
14:42.36Wormy_"This is better than 75% of Gotham episodes."
14:42.40GhelThat sounds more realistic. Because that's exp(-1) and what you should get when x=k=o=1.
14:44.01AGrayCatis there an infobox for tech?
14:44.04AGrayCatand military?
14:44.09dromonly military
14:44.17drominfobox troops
14:44.19dromI believe
14:44.36AGrayCatinfobox troops?
14:44.57GhelAGrayCat: http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Infobox_templates
14:45.23dromah yes, the military one is infobox fiction trooper
14:45.51AGrayCatnot gonna help
14:46.53dromGhel: The function's code in question: http://i.imgur.com/NKDWEHO.png
14:47.33GhelThat looks right to me.
14:47.35AGrayCatalso
14:47.51AGrayCatWhy is human unification wanted by so many?
14:48.10dromIn real-life or in Sporewiki?
14:48.31AGrayCatsporewiki.
14:48.34AGrayCatIt seems unrealistic.
14:49.01AGrayCatSo does freaking European politics.
14:49.17GhelSporeWikiverse humans were originally unified, and that meant that - in principle - anybody could use the Human Republic if they wanted to.
14:49.53GhelBut nobody ever really used them, so the "division of humanity" was introduced: humans were retconned to not be unified, and different users were granted ownership of different states.
14:50.05AGrayCathmm
14:50.11dromWell. We want the humanity to be unified because when nationalism is in place, we'd be basically killing each other already
14:50.12GhelAlthough the only one I can think of that really gets used is France.
14:50.22AGrayCatI had a few ideas.
14:50.52AGrayCat- Antarctican Civilization for instance.
14:51.10dromGhel: So I use x = 200'000 and keep k=o=1, I get 0.000000
14:51.23GhelI would expect that.
14:51.53GhelWhen k=o=1, your gamma function is just exp(-x).
14:51.55dromYou said that y is bascially the "k" in terms of tangent/slope
14:52.26dromOr did something go over my head?
14:52.56*** join/#sporewiki ImpyDroid (~yaaic@host-28-152-66-217.spbmts.ru)
14:53.01GhelIn this context, "k" measures how quickly new colonies are settled compared to how quickly new planets are colonised.
14:53.16GhelFor k=1, new colonies are settled more quickly than they can be populated.
14:53.23Ghelcolonies are created*
14:53.41GhelI need to reword that.
14:53.50dromIf k < 1? and what if k > 1?
14:53.55GhelIn this context, "k" measures how quickly new colonies are populated compared to how quickly new colonies are created.
14:54.01AGrayCatI had an idea for a Alpine Republic. Opinions?
14:54.02GhelFor k=1, new colonies are created more quickly than they can be populated.
14:54.49GhelI believe k<1 creates an even more sharply exponential distribution, while as k increases the gamma distribution becomes increasingly Gaussian.
14:55.03Ghelhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gamma_distribution_pdf.svg
14:55.32AGrayCat"I had an idea for a Alpine Republic. Opinions?"
14:55.49GhelAGrayCat: It helps for you to actually tell us your idea before asking for opinions. :P
14:56.12AGrayCatAlpine Republic stretching across Austria, Switzerland, and Slovenia.
14:56.19AGrayCatpreviously that is
14:56.37dromHm. the (k: 1, o: 2) looks really different to (k: 2, o:2) and (k: 3, o:2)
14:56.39GhelHmm. Ask Cyr about that, since most of Europe belonged to his European Star Republic.
14:56.51Gheldrom: It's supposed to, yes.
14:57.15GhelThat's because of the x^(k-1) term.
14:57.20AGrayCatswitzerland is the capital
14:57.21AGrayCathmm
14:57.21dromah yes
14:57.33AGrayCatill change it to hungary, austria, slovenia
14:57.34dromx^0 becomes 1
14:57.36GhelFor k>1 this means that at x=0 the probability is zero.
14:57.42GhelFor k<1 it diverges.
14:57.59dromso it is basically a free playfield for the exp(-x/o)
14:58.19GhelYes. That's why it became exp(-x) when k=o=1.
14:58.38dromThanks for elaborating.
14:59.00GhelNo problem.
14:59.55dromAlthough, how would it look like if we assume that we adapt this distribution factor to a function for.... population relative to amount of colonized systems?
15:00.00AGrayCatstill looking for people to collaborate with
15:00.36GhelTo work out how the gamma distribution can be used to calculate total population, we need to remember how it works.
15:00.36dromfor x < 200'000 (maximal possession of star systems per unique empire)
15:00.39AGrayCatokay
15:00.51AGrayCatwhere should the colonies of the Soyuz be?
15:00.53GhelOne important detail is that it's normalised, so when you integrate it over all x you get 1.
15:00.55AGrayCatin the gigaquadrant
15:01.24GhelAGrayCat: I would assume near the empire that they go to war against. Either in the same galaxy or in a nearby one.
15:01.40AGrayCatNearby galaxies to Borealis?
15:01.51AGrayCatI was planning for them to be doing a training exercise in Borealis.
15:02.22GhelMirus should be near.
15:02.33AdmiralPandaon the subject of finding someone to collaborate with, it really depends on what exactly you intend the fiction to achieve
15:02.46AdmiralPandadifferent people on the wiki are interested in different kinds of stories, even in the context of war
15:02.50Gheldrom: We can associate x with the planetary population if we normalise it to the mean, using o = [mean]/k.
15:03.20AGrayCatWhat should it achieve?
15:03.24AGrayCatLike a checkbox?
15:03.29AGrayCatLike 'what will this achieve'?
15:03.39AGrayCatGive me a list of things it should 'achieve'.
15:03.51Gheldrom: Then... we need to find an interval where we know the total population, or to an approximation a point where we know how many planets have that population.
15:04.07dromGhel: In layman terms o = population per planet/ (something)
15:04.17AGrayCatAdmiralPanda:
15:04.18Ghelyes.
15:04.43dromGhel: In layman terms, what would you call k and o?
15:05.06AdmiralPandawell, do you intend for the fiction to give people insight into your fiction, do you want to focus on character development, are you more interested in the politicking, I can't really answer that question for you
15:05.50GhelThe latter case is simpler, but less rigorous. Say we know that there are N planets with population Y, and at x=Y the height of the curve is Z. Then we need to make the graph N/Z times heigher, and that leads (via the total cumulative probability = 1) to the total population of the civilisation being N/Z.
15:06.09AGrayCatI intend for it to be character development and politics.
15:06.48GhelFor example, say there are 100,000 planets with a population around 1 million, and at x=1 million the curve has a height of 0.002. Then the total population is 50 million.
15:07.21GhelIn reality there's no way the curve is going to be that high when it's stretched over x \in [0, 1 million], but it's an example.
15:07.24dromAh, the "1 million" is the "mean"?
15:07.29GhelNot necessarily.
15:07.47AdmiralPandathen you should try to find people interested in those to collaborate with; stories tend to work out better if you're both interested in the same story aspects
15:07.49GhelThe mean is the total population divided by the total number of planets.
15:08.07dromYes, I need to remember that
15:08.18Wormy_awwww  http://imgur.com/DEmSsQG repost http://imgur.com/DOulF0J 3D Tetris http://imgur.com/UC0kEjt http://imgur.com/D1UGx1e http://imgur.com/j9wc5O0 http://imgur.com/ZTUmkYT http://imgur.com/gallery/JcUy6
15:08.34dromThe maths is more complicated than what I've encountered so far
15:09.01AGrayCatSo
15:09.05GhelTo make the numbers more manageable, I suggest dividing the mean by an appropriate number close to the mean. Say, if the mean is one billion people per planet, then we'll measure it in billions. So o = [mean]/(k billion).
15:09.11AGrayCatWho is interested in character development and politics, eh?
15:10.18dromGhel: o = mean/(k * 10^9)
15:10.24GhelYes.
15:11.03Wormy_http://imgur.com/gallery/P7iQ4
15:11.08AGrayCatAre any characters immortal?
15:11.09GhelThen we say [mean population] = [mean of graph]*10^9, so the mean of the graph becomes a managable number.
15:12.13dromAGrayCat: There are, tons of them. There are biologically and/or spiritually immortal species
15:12.23AGrayCathmm
15:12.56GhelSo in this case a better example would be: there are 100 systems with a population of 2 billion. We find the height of the curve at x=2 and divide 100 by that number.
15:13.10GhelAnd then multiply by one billion to get the total population. I think.
15:13.59dromWe could at least shorten it to "r_final = r * 10^9-2"
15:14.20dromr is the result
15:14.31dromor say, the y-value of the graph
15:14.39GhelWhy the -2?
15:15.04drom"We find the height of the curve at x=2 and divide 100 by that number." And then multiply by one billion to get the total population. I think.
15:15.27Wormy_GrayCat:  For example, Emperor Wormulus in the DCP is spiritually immortal, the rest of his council require technology, and some of it failed making them husks o their former selves
15:15.28dromWhat you are saying is (r/100)*10^9
15:15.31dromfor me
15:16.11dromWhen you can shorten it to r*10^(9-2). Yes, I forgot the parenthetis
15:16.12GhelBasically... but it looks like you said the code will be r*10^7 or (r*10^9)-2 or something like that.
15:16.18AdmiralPandapersonally I'm always interested in a character-driven story, though I tend to find politics fairly boring
15:16.20GhelI'll try to describe it more algorithmically:
15:17.10dromAGrayCat: The very first example of a biolocially immortal race is the Nomatarians of mine
15:17.13GhelWhich means I need to think about it first.
15:17.21AGrayCathmm
15:18.11dromThe very first example of a biologically immortal race that comes to my mind is [...]*
15:18.31Ghel1) There are four user inputs. k and o describe the shape of the curve, with o=[mean]/(k*10^9). Z is the number of planets with a population x*10^9.
15:19.03Ghel2) Call the output of the graph r(x,k,o). The total population is Z*10^9/r(x,k,o)
15:19.21GhelI think that should be it, roughly.
15:19.47dromI'll test and see
15:20.00Wormy_http://i.imgur.com/rVbdR6z.jpg
15:20.25Wormy_http://i.imgur.com/YZDKi6u.jpg
15:20.45GhelMore accurately we'd need to describe Z as the number of planets with a population (x [+-] dx)*10^9, then integrate r between x and dx... so we'll just say that Z is the number of planets with a population *approximately* x*10^9 because this isn't going to be a perfect model anyway.
15:21.16Wormy_http://i.imgur.com/uAUmMkV.jpg
15:23.32GhelAlthough you could just use [total population] = [number of planets]*o*k*10^9.
15:24.16GhelYou can't really make a probability distribution without the mean being either an input or easily found.
15:24.19dromGhel: It returns "inf"
15:24.37GhelFor Z*10^9/r?
15:24.43dromYep
15:24.59GhelThen r=0 for the (x,k,o) you've chosen.
15:25.10GhelThat should only happen for x=0, k<1.
15:25.27dromGhel: http://i.imgur.com/5XxxF0p.png
15:26.27Wormy_I'm jelly of that clean code
15:26.29Wormy_dumb js
15:26.44dromops, I forgot to insert the "pow(10,9)" for the x
15:27.24GhelIt looks like that should provide a finite answer... but you have chosen Z=x=200,000, i.e. there are 200,000 planets with a population of 200 trillion. Just so you know.
15:27.27dromit is no longer inf
15:27.38Wormy_After my website / three.js interface is built, I can't wait to get back into python, MEL etc.
15:27.44GhelWhat is it now?
15:27.55dromGhel: the x is now 200'000/10^9
15:28.01dromSo it gives....
15:28.32GhelSo Z is now the number of planets with a population 2*10^-4?
15:28.32drom108731265275.816986
15:29.07dromBasically ~109 billion
15:29.59dromI've a little grasp of what you are saying Ghel.
15:29.59dromprintf("%f\n", MAX_PLANETS*pow(10,9)/gamma_distribution(MAX_PLANETS/pow(10,9), 1, MEAN/pow(10, 9)));
15:30.04GhelIf the mean is 200,000 and the total number of planets is 200,000, then the total population should be 200,000^2 = 40 billion.
15:31.33GhelI don't think you should have MAX_PLANETS/pow(10,9) there... but the fact that you're using 10^9 when the mean population is ~10^5 is not good. Increase MEAN to something ~10^9.
15:31.57GhelOr decrease pow(10,9) to pow(10,5).
15:32.35GhelBut maybe you should keep MAX_PLANETS/pow(10,9)...
15:32.44drominf
15:33.00GhelWhat output are you getting for r(x,k,o)?
15:33.13dromchanging X's pow(10,9) to pow(10,5) gives me an inf output
15:33.49GhelIf that's 0 you know where the problem lies. I suspect we're getting too far along the tail end of the distribution for the machine precision to distinguish it from zero.
15:35.49GhelYes, keep MAX_PLANETS/pow(10,9) (or pow(10,5)) for x. I made a mistake in thinking you should change that
15:36.36GhelTry k=2 (or higher) instead so our distribution isn't an exponential decay.
15:37.10GhelAnd then it looks like it should be all right. But make sure it displays r(x,k,o) as well as the final result so if it goes wrong, we can see why.
15:37.15dromUsing that gives me 1.000000000e+46
15:37.36AGrayCatuh
15:38.04GhelThat suggests to me that 10^-46 is the lower limits of the machine precision.
15:38.35dromHm, changed the type from double to long double
15:38.49AdmiralPandaany remaining doubt that Ghelae is in fact an AI has now been erased, this quantity of math makes my head hurt just by looking at it
15:39.07GhelThis is far worse than maths. It's statistics.
15:39.14dromYeah
15:39.22dromStatistics is a bitch
15:40.21GhelWhen you've made all those changes, can you show me what the new code looks like?
15:40.40HachimanWhat the fuck is going on here
15:41.13XhoI gave up trying to figure that out hours ago
15:41.17dromGhel: http://i.imgur.com/7LisWcB.png
15:41.26GhelWhat's going on here is a ridiculously contrived way of calculating the total population of a civilisation given the mean population of each system and the number of systems.
15:41.44Wormy_Be grateful, they are making an app for us
15:42.02Wormy_So we can see a curve
15:42.23dromIf you wonder what the %e stands for: see documentation of printf() on cplusplus.com - "Scientific notation (mantissa/exponent), lowercase"
15:42.38AdmiralPandaI heard about statistics once while studying biology, I needed an exorcism afterwards
15:42.39Wormy_xho http://imgur.com/bFl4WuL
15:42.54GhelCan you uncomment the part where the value of the distribution itself is printed, and either change pow(10,9) to pow(10,5) or increase MEAN and MAX_PLANETS to something ~10^9?
15:43.08dromI meants that the output will be an decimal value followed by an integer e+/- used as pow(10,x)
15:43.10XhoWell jesus
15:43.18dromit*
15:43.55dromWill do, Ghel
15:45.20dromGhel: http://i.imgur.com/x07Roan.png
15:45.47dromThe former output is unaffected by the change from double to long double
15:46.17GhelChange the first output to the second output's values of (x,k,o).
15:47.26dromThe first output now reads "0.00000000000"
15:47.35GhelAnd there is the problem.
15:48.11GhelWe need to select a point in the gamma distribution where the value is fairly large.
15:49.08dromHm, I read you
15:49.13GhelIt seems to be saying r(2,2,2)=0. Which shouldn't be the case.
15:50.10dromWell. That's strange, Ghel
15:50.35dromWhen I made a r(2,2,2) as the first output, it reads "0.183940"
15:51.30dromWhich is strange...
15:52.31dromGhel: I think i traced the problem
15:52.40GhelDoes MEAN/k*pow(10,9) mean MEAN/(k*10^9) or (MEAN/k)*10^9?
15:53.12dromThe second (formerly first) has r(2,2,1) because (MEAN/(k*pow(10,9)))
15:54.12dromer nope, that's what you said Ghel
15:55.03dromGhel: The latter >.<
15:55.27GhelSo it was actually finding r(2,2,2E18).
15:56.21dromYeah, now I've corrected it to the MEAN/(k*pow(10,9))
15:56.47dromThe individual output from that is 1.00000
15:56.55dromby that, I mean printf("%f\n", MEAN / (k*pow(10, 9)));
15:57.19GhelThat's going to be the case when k = 2 and MEAN = k*10^9.
15:57.23GhelSo that's a good sign.
15:57.42dromYep. r(2,2,1)
15:58.45dromThe output now reads 7.389056e+18
15:58.55dromSatisfactory for me
15:59.15GhelWhile MEAN * MAX_PLANETS = 4*10^18. Not bad.
16:00.52dromI wonder if infobot can hangle C++
16:00.57drom~pow(10,9)
16:01.05drombleh
16:02.23XhoTechnobliterator Hachiman: https://soundcloud.com/turkeychickensandwich/random-idea blah
16:02.26drom2 billion people distributed among 2 billion planets
16:03.15dromNow I'm gonna test out 200'000, the maximum amount of planets an empire can have simultaneously
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16:06.26HachimanThat's pretty good
16:06.30HachimanYou should expand on that
16:08.21dromGhel: What whould the power expotent be if MEAN is lower than MAX_PLANETS?
16:08.35dromI mean for Z*10^n/r
16:08.39GhelTry keeping it the same for now.
16:09.12dromright
16:10.14AGrayCatWORMY
16:10.19dromFor 2*pow(10,5)*10^9/r(2,2,1) (the division is done with power relative to input's expotent)
16:10.19AGrayCatwormy the worm
16:10.37dromthe output is 7.389056e+14
16:10.47dromsame as 7.389056e+18, except the expotent is smaller
16:11.24GhelSince all you've changed are the exponents, that's expected.
16:11.41GhelHave you made sure all n are the same in all cases of pow(10,n) you've used?
16:11.59dromYeah, except I've now changed the n back to 9
16:12.09dromIt gives me eeerr
16:12.21drom1.221404e+12
16:15.30AGrayCateh
16:15.35AGrayCatwhy are you all chatting about maths
16:15.44GhelDividing MEAN by pow(10,n) is basically cancelled out by the multiplication by pow(10,n) at the start of the expression. So then we need to figure out how to make the pow(10,n) in MAX_PLANETS/pow(10,n) drop out of the end result.
16:16.01GhelAGrayCat: Why not?
16:16.02dromMaths is the key to the secret of life
16:16.08dromsecrets*
16:16.13AGrayCatcause this has turned from sporewiki irc to maths irc
16:16.33Charles_MurrayPeople can talk about what they want? o.O
16:16.36GhelWe can - and usually do - discuss more than SporeWiki here.
16:17.20dromAGrayCat: Don't get me started on the people who automatically turn Sporewiki irc to sexual and porn irc
16:17.21Charles_MurrayRestricting it to just Sporewiki in this channel would really squelch the life of the community.
16:17.26dromglares on Hachiman
16:17.40HachimanI don't *automatically* do it
16:17.44AGrayCatwell
16:17.49AGrayCati'm not that bothered
16:17.56AGrayCatbut you have been talking about it for almost two hours eh
16:18.04AGrayCati'll continue to observe
16:18.06AGrayCat*sits back down*
16:18.12dromHachiman: No offense meant though.
16:18.30Charles_MurrayIf you'd like to join a channel which isn't currently talking about Math, you're free to come on #Katar ?
16:18.33HachimanNone taken
16:19.05dromCharles_Murray: Thanks for suggesting our next target!
16:19.32Charles_MurrayI don't mind. xD There's enough space for everyone.
16:19.39GhelOkay. r(x,k,o) describes the proportion of planets with population x given a gamma distribution given by (k,o). For N planets, that means there are M=N*r planets with population x.
16:20.46dromI feel like that an Integral could've made the job easier hm
16:20.51GhelIf we decide that M should be some fixed value, and int(M dx) = N, while int(r dx) = 1...
16:21.21GhelSomehow that should help. I just don't know how.
16:22.08GhelPerhaps we should consider the cumulative gamma distribution.
16:22.19drommm
16:22.23GhelThat's https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gamma_distribution_cdf.svg
16:22.31dromI've to go and grab myself some dinner first though
16:22.48GhelOr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_distribution#Cumulative_distribution_function
16:22.53GhelOkay.
16:23.04GhelI'll go and have some dinner soon too. I'm tired of this.
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16:26.55GhelBut basically, if the output of that is... let's call it R(x,k,o), then R(x+dx,k,o)-R(x,k,o) gives the proportion of planets with populations between x and x+dx.
16:28.23Charles_MurrayComing soon: http://imgur.com/2mLKWmr
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16:34.36AGrayCathi
16:43.39AGrayCatok
16:43.52AGrayCatI'm going to do a number of sections about the Soyuz every day.
16:50.32dromThat's when Charles_Murray comes the president of America and tries to make it the United States of France
16:51.11dromSpeaking off
16:51.21Charles_MurrayUgh
16:52.10dromCharles_Murray: All the flags of users who has been in Sporewiki for at least one year and is still to present day active to an extent, compiled into a picture: http://i.imgur.com/Q3k9FpK.png
16:53.13Charles_Murray(Mine should be completely French >.<)
16:53.38HachimanI said Charles was French hur
16:53.38dromnon
16:53.43Charles_Murray(Sorry)
16:53.58Charles_MurrayWait why? You didn't put the German flag in?
16:54.06dromYou shall be forever Franco-American!
16:54.18Charles_MurrayNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH
16:54.44dromCharles_Murray: You mean Sporeraptor? I've not heard anything from him for one year
16:54.58Charles_MurrayWell no, don't you live in Germany, drom?
16:55.06dromSweden
16:55.26Charles_MurrayOkay, I must be thinking of something else.
16:55.27Charles_MurrayThough please
16:55.30Charles_MurrayI'm French
16:55.40dromnon
16:55.58dromenjoy the half-french flag :)
16:56.04Charles_Murray...
16:56.12HachimanIf Charles gets a Franco-American flag, you should have Imp's be North Korean-Russian and Tybusen's Chinese-American
16:56.52dromFair enough
16:57.04AGrayCatnorth korean?
16:57.14HachimanImperios has North Korean heritage
16:57.20Charles_MurrayAlso, who is from Brazil?
16:57.20AGrayCathm
16:57.27HachimanCharles_Murray: Oluap
16:57.30AGrayCatOluap
16:57.35Charles_MurrayI see. Apologies.
16:57.52AGrayCateh?
16:58.01AGrayCatwhy apologise? you did nothing wrong.
16:59.06Wormy_awayThere used to be a lot more countries :(
16:59.19dromQuestion Xho, weren't you of Indian heritage?
16:59.21Wormy_away:( as in, they have gone
16:59.34dromI think you talked about something something about that?
16:59.50Charles_Murraypls remove yankee
17:00.46dromnon
17:01.16Wormy_awaydrom:  I think dino is from Belgium
17:01.33HachimanHe's Dutch
17:01.34dromWasn't he Dutch?
17:02.29Wormy_awayI recall users from South Africa, Mexico, India, another Swede, Norway and Finland
17:02.34Wormy_awayThough inactive
17:02.43Wormy_awayOh Portugal
17:03.41Wormy_awayAh yes, I stand corrected
17:04.11Wormy_away2 more came from Ireland
17:05.12drommorgoth is American iirc, Ose's norweigan
17:10.58dromnah, I'm dumping the idea of hertigate
17:12.21Wormy_awayI quite like half flags, just me
17:14.20AGrayCathi
17:14.44Wormy_awayNow that's an old flag https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Grand-Union-Flag.jpg
17:15.02Charles_MurrayBritish East India Trading Company pre-1801
17:15.51AGrayCateh?
17:15.52Charles_Murray(Also used by rebels in the United States for some weird reason)
17:16.02Wormy_awayhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Union_Flag
17:16.22dromsneaks back the American-Franco flag
17:16.52AGrayCatWho is TheDinoHunter?
17:17.42Wormy_awayI find it interesting this flag still bears the Union flag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Hawaii
17:18.13dromhttp://i.imgur.com/0oyBDiJ.webm
17:18.48dromWormy_away: http://i.imgur.com/L4x0vcF.gif
17:19.49Charles_MurrayWormy_away : It wasn't even a British colony. xD
17:20.12Charles_MurrayThe Hawaiian king just decided he wanted the union jack in the corner of his flag.
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17:21.39HachimanHai
17:21.44Wormy_awaydrom:  Like you get drop bears, you also get jump bears
17:21.58OluapPlayerblah
17:23.12dromCharles_Murray: You can even fit in Russia's, France's, Luxemburg, Leichenstein and Netherland's flags on it
17:23.22OluapPlayerXho: stupid spu
17:23.49Charles_Murraydrom: Indonesia's too
17:23.50Xhoim heer go dai
17:23.54Xhodrom: Yes
17:24.21OluapPlayery u so ded lately
17:24.24dromCharles_Murray: Poland, Marcco
17:24.37XhoBeen busy
17:24.40Charles_MurrayCan't do Poland
17:24.44Charles_MurrayIt's upside down
17:25.06OluapPlayerbusi bein ded
17:25.16Xhomuy ded
17:25.25OluapPlayerXho: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hDTP_Cc3Nc / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIv60kRa8kw get allah'd
17:25.33dromCharles_Murray: Correction: Monaco, not Marcco
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17:26.41HachimanALLAHU ACKBAR
17:27.09XhoVery true
17:27.20OluapPlayerAlso Fallout 3 has been a bitch
17:27.29OluapPlayerLast time I played I crashed 4 times in less than an hour
17:27.41XhoJesus
17:28.03XhoI completed Fallout 4's storyline
17:28.08OluapPlayerI want to like this game but it won't let me play it
17:28.20XhoSo now I can give a valued judgement on Fallout 4
17:28.25Xho7/10 not as good as Fallout 3
17:28.36OluapPlayerdat a joke or not
17:28.39XhoNope
17:28.48AGrayCathmm
17:28.49XhoIt's a good game but it will never be as good as Fallout 3
17:28.53HachimanSo the hype was for nothing lol
17:28.55AGrayCathullo
17:29.00HachimanSuckers got punk'd
17:29.02XhoAppears not
17:29.11AGrayCatWho is TheDinoHunter?
17:29.13XhoIt kinda went the way of Skyrim
17:29.14OluapPlayerWell
17:29.19OluapPlayerI'm surprised you see it that way
17:29.21XhoGood graphics, not enough depth
17:29.28OluapPlayer"Found a very cute girl in the wasteland. VATS said I had a 0 percent chance to hit that.  10/10, such realism"
17:29.33Xhodur
17:29.39AGrayCatWho is TheDinoHunter? Could someone answer?
17:30.13dromNone of us
17:30.40AGrayCatmhm
17:30.42AGrayCati guessed
17:31.29OluapPlayer"Notice: Fallout 3 is not optimized for Windows 7 and later."
17:31.31OluapPlayerSo I learned
17:32.09Wormy_awayOluap, it can work with Windows 8, it takes some work
17:32.19Wormy_awayI don't about 10
17:32.23Wormy_away*know
17:32.24OluapPlayerMine works, but I get random crashes
17:32.37OluapPlayerTrying to load the game in full screen made it crash in less than 5 seconds
17:32.47Wormy_awayI will not get Win10 until I've played the main questline at least
17:32.51Wormy_awaywoa
17:33.01Wormy_awayMine runs smoothly in Win 8.1 Pro
17:33.10OluapPlayerHm
17:33.15OluapPlayerMine is just Windows 8
17:33.55Wormy_awayIts really random with Win10, works for some people, is unplayable for others.
17:34.20Wormy_awayI was surprised I just overtook my time spend in Assassin's Creed II
17:34.21OluapPlayerWhat really bothers me is that when it crashes, it freezes my entire computer
17:34.33OluapPlayerI'm forced to restart
17:34.43Tek0516I think my mostly played on Steam recently became Victoria 2
17:36.21OluapPlayer"You killed my family!"       (Speech 100) "Nah."          "Oh, okay then."
17:37.38Xhodur
17:37.59XhoWindows Vista is probably the best for Fallout 3
17:38.58XhoBut I've given a Steam review for Fallout 4
17:39.16drom"I want my money back"
17:39.21OluapPlayerLet's Go Pal Simulator
17:39.48XhoFollowers Are Retarded Simulator
17:39.49Wormy_awayI'm playing Space Engineers after the next deadline
17:40.03OluapPlayermeat dug
17:40.20OluapPlayerNow you need to play New Vegas and not give up hur
17:40.33XhoI've played through New Vegas many times
17:40.40XhoStill don't know what its about
17:40.50OluapPlayerYou told me you gave up 2 hours in
17:40.55XhoOriginally I did
17:41.38OluapPlayerden try payin attenion u dum vault dweller
17:41.47Wormy_awayI gave up with Mass Effect after that witch kept killing me
17:42.02OluapPlayerWitch?
17:42.05Wormy_awayFed up doing through the dialogue and cutscenes over and over
17:42.29Wormy_awayThe lady with powers that murders you on that snowy planet
17:42.33OluapPlayerAh
17:42.35OluapPlayerBenezia
17:42.41Wormy_awayThat's right
17:42.49OluapPlayerShe's not the one killing you. Her asari commandos are
17:42.55OluapPlayerYou gotta get rid of those first
17:43.48Wormy_awayI might give it another go later then
17:44.12OluapPlayerUnless anyone wants me for fiction, I'm gonna try Dummout one more time
17:44.34HachimanI need you for Second Borealis Galactic War
17:44.41Xho^ this guy
17:45.11AGrayCatMe?
17:45.19AGrayCati'm in borealis
17:48.10OluapPlayerI can never hack or open any of these doors
17:48.13OluapPlayerbut y tho
17:48.14OluapPlayerye need a rank of 50
17:48.19AGrayCatoluap olua
17:48.22OluapPlayerIn Skyrim at least I could try
17:52.10Xhono hax 4 u
17:53.08XhoI should really do some fiction
17:53.11AGrayCatthis is freaking annoying
17:53.15Wormy_awayHachiman, Xho:  http://a2.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/63/ec5afa6bb9ab4a45bc986641a14aa70c/l.jpg
17:53.16XhoHaven't done any in Allah-knows-how-long
17:53.24OluapPlayermoov black dragon dong story
17:53.32Hachimanye
17:54.11Xhobiggest dong
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18:00.03OluapPlayer_Top dangit
18:01.01drom"Why is everyone [gopniks] squatting?" --- "Gravity is stronger in Russia"
18:01.07XhoRight well we could do Dragon Dong story if you want
18:01.11XhoI dunno where Imp is though
18:03.45OluapPlayer_But Imp is not in it
18:04.06XhoI forget these things
18:05.11OluapPlayer_While you set that up I'm gonna brb
18:06.23Technobliteratorwait
18:06.31Technobliteratorwe're not doing a Second Borealis War remake, are we?
18:06.40Technobliteratorwe're already remaking War of Ages :|
18:06.40HachimanI was joking
18:06.43Technobliteratorok cool
18:09.20XhoWow Titanpad crashed already
18:18.29dromGhel: So I tried using current world population as MEAN and 1 as MAX_PLANET, I get a value bigger than MEAN
18:19.08GhelYes. Just as we got a value greater than MEAN*MAX_PLANET before.
18:20.30dromHm, the value is at least two times bigger than MEAN
18:20.43dromSo. I wonder what would that mean?
18:20.53GhelIt's a sign of the flaws in our model.
18:21.43GhelAnd it wouldn't surprise me that the further we get from an idealised gamma-distributed civilisation, the worse the deviations get.
18:22.17GhelThe planetary population distribution of a single-planet civilisation is a delta function, not a gamma function.
18:28.31Wormy_awayWhy aren't you using a delta function?  Any reason that you can't?
18:30.16Wormy_semi_hereThe real heroes http://imgur.com/gallery/PhnPdXw
18:32.22GhelWormy_semi_here: If you look at what a delta function you'll see why it applies to one-planet civilisations in particular.
18:33.11dromHm, whatta about combined gamma and delta function?
18:33.12drom:)
18:33.15Wormy_semi_hereBecause it idealised for points?
18:34.48GhelWormy_semi_here: Yes.
18:35.15dromGhel: The only problem I've with the cumulative gamma distribution is C++'s lack of lower gamma function
18:35.28GhelA delta function is "there's 100% probability of it taking one particular value and 0% probability of it being anything else".
18:36.55Gheldrom: That makes it a little problematic. In that case it would be better to numerically integrate the gamma distribution between two points instead.
18:37.37dromGhel: I failed to comprehend the last sentence
18:37.50GhelWhich part?
18:40.26drom"numerically integrate"
18:40.45dromExplain like I'm a c++ programmer
18:40.51AGrayCathi
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18:41.25GhelaeNumerical integration is a way of approximating an integral when analytical methods are not possible.
18:41.30GhelaeComputers can do it.
18:42.28Wormy_semi_hereXho, Hachiman, drom: all new Poochie and Pansie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9_LlmW6WMc
18:42.43HachimanFuck off with that
18:42.57HachimanI still hate you for showing me the first episode of that
18:44.00dromWhat even is this shit?
18:44.31dromGreat, Friefox clogged all up itself
18:45.33AGrayCatfound this: http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Fiction:Unified_Federation_of_Glory
18:45.36AGrayCatWhat the...
18:46.00Wormy_semi_heredrom:  I will warn you of the screamer at the end https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4yrKDNVnJg
18:46.11GhelaeAGrayCat: What about it?
18:46.16AGrayCat"Will attack empires that threaten order"
18:46.20AGrayCatgreat realpolitik.
18:46.32AGrayCatalso its tier 3
18:46.39AGrayCatwhich... is impossible for its size
18:46.50AGrayCatalso spelling mistakes
18:47.33AGrayCat'population: millions'
18:47.43AGrayCatDo you see why I have such opinions?
18:48.06GhelaeI don't see why anybody has opinions. They appear to be a drain on mental resources to me.
18:48.15AGrayCatHm.
18:48.35AGrayCatBut Tier 3 with a population of millions?
18:48.50AGrayCatAnd more importantly, "will attack empires that threaten order"
18:48.57AGrayCatit would get crushed like a bug with a population of millions.
18:49.07Wormy_semi_herePart 3 is alright, not a screamer but still f'd up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NoAxZd3ekM
18:50.04AGrayCatalso
18:50.06AGrayCatOluapPlayer_:
18:50.52OluapPlayer_What
18:51.24AGrayCatAre any Borealis Grox outside of the specified empires left?
18:52.12OluapPlayer_No
18:52.16AGrayCathmm
18:54.01GhelaeI agree that, especially for an empire that enjoys infantry combat as much as the UFG seems to, a population of "millions" - assuming that to be ~1 million - is far too small to be militaristic with.
18:54.19GhelaeTypos are to be expected, although ideally they should be cleared up.
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18:56.44dromGhelae: The cumulative wasn't to much help either
18:56.52dromUsing the same variables, I get 0.03
18:57.05GhelaeHow did you do it?
18:57.53dromhttp://i.imgur.com/VHhzipf.png
18:57.59dromOn GeoGebra
18:58.28GhelaeIs gg(x) the cumulative function?
18:58.40AGrayCatWhy not Oluap?
18:58.48AGrayCatOluapPlayer_:
18:58.55OluapPlayer_What
18:59.23dromGhelae: With the k and o variables inserted, yes
18:59.25AGrayCatWhy are no Grox alive outside of the Legacy?
18:59.46OluapPlayer_Try reading the Legacy page
18:59.58dromGhelae: Plus, point B has the expression (1, gg(1)
19:00.06GhelaeI'm not sure what you've done there... but it should just be that the proportion of systems with populations between x and y is given by gg(y,k,o)-gg(x,k,o), so if the actual number of systems with a population between x and y is Z...
19:00.07drom(1, gg(1))*
19:00.16AGrayCatmhm
19:00.24AGrayCatBut surely rogues would live on?
19:00.25Ghelae...then the total population is given by Z/(gg(y)-gg(x))
19:00.33OluapPlayer_No
19:00.47OluapPlayer_They had no free will and were given it, there are no rogues
19:00.49dromHm, going to try that, Ghelae
19:01.00dromthe y is the vale of gg(x)?
19:01.04AGrayCathmm
19:01.05dromvalue*
19:01.13GhelaeNo. y is the upper limit of the population per planet.
19:01.18dromAh
19:01.24AGrayCatseems unlikely for a few out of a few trillion not to have some sort of autonomy but eh
19:01.27GhelaeYou're finding the proportion of planets with a population between x and y.
19:01.30AGrayCati'll listen to you
19:01.38dromSince it is our world, I've no idea how to find it, hur
19:02.22Ghelae...You find it by doing gg(y,k,o)-gg(x,k,o)
19:02.38dromI mean the value of y for our world
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19:03.03Wormy_semi_hereHi
19:03.06GhelaeJust some number greater than x.
19:03.06The_RandomnessHello
19:03.07GhelaeHello.
19:03.11dromHeyo
19:03.13AGrayCathullo
19:04.26GhelaeSo for another civilisation you might consider that, rather than finding all systems with a population of exactly 1 billion (to infinite decimal places, since this is actually a continuous function), you take the number of systems with a population between, say, 0.9 billion and 1.1 billion.
19:06.15GhelaeFor Earth, you'd just have a peak in g(x) at a little over 7 billion. So if you did the integral between 6 billion and 8 billion, you'd find gg(6e9)=1 and gg(8e9)=1 so gg(y)-gg(x)=1.
19:06.47GhelaeThat is to say, the total proportion of human planets in the 2010s with a population between 6 and 8 billion is 100%.
19:07.27dromSo that explains gg(y)-gg(x)/gg(y)-gg(x)
19:07.34dromIt always returns 1
19:07.53GhelaeOf course anything divided by itself is equal to 1.
19:08.59dromHm
19:09.33dromDoing an integral with 6 and 8 gives me 1.13
19:10.08Ghelaegg(y)-gg(x) for any x, y, and cumulative probability distribution won't give you a number greater than 1.
19:11.11GhelaeBy the definition of cumulative probability, gg(y)-gg(x) is the probability of a sampled element being between x and y.
19:12.14dromYou know that Integrals use primitives of a specified function?
19:12.54dromprimitive as in the opposite to derivates
19:13.28GhelaeI've only heard them called antiderivatives, but yes, that's most of the point of integrals.
19:14.19dromYeah.
19:15.01dromIf I use integral of gg with 1 and 2, it gives 0.06. Opposed to 0.07 from gg(2)-gg(1)
19:15.41GhelaeAre you integrating gg? There's no need for that.
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19:16.05GhelaeHello.
19:16.25dromHeyhey
19:16.38The_RandomnessHello
19:17.50dromGhelae: I think I'm just going to put this aside for good time.
19:17.53GhelaeJust for peace of mind, here's the derivation: Total population = N, proportion of systems with populations between x and y = gg(y)-gg(x), so the total population of those those systems is M=N*(gg(y)-gg(x)).
19:18.41GhelaeIf the total number of systems is Z, then we also have M=Z*x (when x and y are sufficiently close; some other number between x and y can also work).
19:19.09GhelaeSolving for the total population: N = Z*x/(gg(y)-gg(x)). There you go.
19:19.29GD12whats gg?
19:19.39droma function I wrote in GeoGebra
19:19.39GhelaeA cumulative probability distribution.
19:19.50GhelaeHere we've been trying it with the gamma distribution.
19:19.54GhelaeWell, drom has.
19:20.02GD12ahh
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19:21.17ImperiosHi
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19:21.28Wormy_hi
19:21.33The_RandomnessHello
19:21.39AGrayCathu
19:21.49GhelaeHello.
19:22.00Wormy_semi_hereShould be working
19:22.15dromWhat?
19:22.35dromOh
19:22.44Wormy_semi_hereWell, uni work not job work
19:23.46AGrayCatHello guys
19:24.15OluapPlayer_Hi Imp
19:25.12dromGhelae: Z is still gg(y)-gg(x)?
19:25.46GhelaeNo. Z is another input.
19:25.59GhelaeOtherwise we'd trivially get Z=x.
19:26.05GhelaeN=x*
19:26.39HachimanHi Imp
19:27.18dromAh I see, Z is the amount of star systems
19:27.43HachimanXho: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSCiMbMVDLI Turn your volume up
19:28.06XhoI turned my volume down for the exact reason you told me to turn it up
19:28.44HachimanFuck
19:29.05OluapPlayer_u deserved it
19:31.35Ghelaedrom: Oh, that's a point. I haven't included the total number of systems in there, only the total number with a population between x and y.
19:32.10GhelaeIt should still work though.
19:32.20dromGhelae: Got an idea of the purely mathematical equivalent of getting the size of vectors/arrays?
19:32.35dromI mean, I need an automatic way to get 10^n of an integer
19:33.20GhelaeNo, I don't know how to get that.
19:34.04The_RandomnessLike, given an integer n, find 10^n?
19:35.27OluapPlayer_The_Randomness: randum. I should let you know I'm available for tabletop stoof again
19:35.34The_Randomnessnoice
19:35.43The_RandomnessI'll let Panda know that
19:37.01dromYea, I mean that Random
19:37.15dromJust like log10
19:37.35The_RandomnessWhat sort of language or w/e are you working in?
19:37.43dromMath
19:38.25dromSeems like I could use log10 and then ceiling it up
19:38.40dromYep
19:38.53dromceil(log10(integer))
19:39.05XhoTOO MUCH NUMBER AND CODE
19:39.07The_RandomnessOh, so you were trying to find that?
19:39.10dromYeah
19:39.32The_RandomnessI thought you were trying to do exponentiation
19:39.40dromhah, nah
19:40.21The_RandomnessAnd I just realized that I was using the mass of silicon-29 instead of silicon-28 for this astrophysics homework I've been working on -_-
19:40.23The_Randomnessgdi
19:40.41The_RandomnessI could've saved at least an hour of work if I had realized that earlier
19:40.44dromAcutally it is floor(log10()) >.<
19:41.07The_Randomnessyeah
19:42.31AGrayCatHi guys
19:44.26AGrayCatDARN
19:44.28dromThe_Randomness Ghelae: There we go... http://i.imgur.com/h6ddcHa.png
19:44.36AGrayCatMY CODE JUST MESSED UP BIG TIME
19:44.43AGrayCatphew it is safe
19:44.53The_RandomnessWhat's with the gammas in there?
19:45.01AGrayCatHow do I choose certain forms for certain pages?
19:45.15AGrayCatCould someone tell meh?
19:45.27dromThe_Randomness: Cumulative gamma distribution
19:45.45AGrayCatuh
19:45.48The_RandomnessThis is probably some statistics thing that I don't know of
19:45.54AGrayCatCould someone tell me?
19:46.39The_RandomnessWhat do you mean by a certain form for a page?
19:46.48The_RandomnessLike, infoboxes or what?
19:46.51dromThe_Randomness: There is lot of statistics shit waiting to be discovered
19:46.52dromhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_distribution#Cumulative_distribution_function
19:47.17The_RandomnessAlright, what about the big gamma on the bottom?
19:47.19AGrayCatno
19:47.20dromThe_Randomness: And a long list of them distribution functions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_probability_distributions#Supported_on_semi-infinite_intervals.2C_usually_.5B0.2C.E2.88.9E.29
19:47.28AGrayCatthe forms you can select
19:47.28The_Randomnessoh gosh
19:47.31AGrayCatlike fiction gods
19:47.31AGrayCatetc
19:47.34AGrayCatplease tell me
19:47.46The_RandomnessI have no idea what you're talking about
19:49.09GhelaeI don't use forms, and it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of people here don't either.
19:49.24GhelaeAll I can do is point you to http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/SporeWiki:Create_a_page - all forms that exist should be there.
19:49.57dromGhelae The_Randomness: Wasn't it supposed to look like this though? http://i.imgur.com/ySwRG4V.png
19:50.03GhelaeIf you want to make a page that doesn't fall under those classifications, you'll have to make it from scratch rather than using a form.
19:50.45Ghelaedrom: That looks more like it, but why have you used "x+x"? That's not wrong (it's just y=2x), but I'm just wondering.
19:51.23dromGhelae: I'm too lazy to guess a value bigger than x, so I thought that 2x was sufficient enough
19:51.52GhelaeFair enough, but that will ruin the approximation of M=Z*x.
19:52.07GhelaeAGrayCat: All of the forms are listed http://spore.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special%3AAllPages&from=&to=&namespace=306
19:52.09dromMmm
19:52.18dromWho told me that I'm not supposed to experiment?
19:52.50GhelaeYou can experiment with maths if you like.
19:53.12GhelaeBut mathematicians generally explore maths by using maths instead. :P
19:53.19dromhur
19:54.09GhelaeSomething like y=1.1*x should bring you a place where gg(y) is not too different from gg(x), which is what you need for the approximation to hold.
19:55.00dromHm fair enough, it made the y value of N(2) go from negative to a positive value
19:56.24AGrayCatno
19:56.28AGrayCatI found a hidden form, a god form.
19:56.50AGrayCathttp://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Special:FormEdit/Fiction_god/Hullo:
19:58.15dromThe_Randomness Ghelae http://i.imgur.com/KQoDgoz.jpg
19:58.30The_Randomnessrip Peter
20:07.06AGrayCatthank you sir
20:07.15dromThe_Randomness: IT call center life http://i.imgur.com/UaxEl.png
20:07.37The_RandomnessSeems legit
20:08.01The_RandomnessBut that should be coming out of the headset instead of from the IT person :p
20:10.45dromThe_Randomness: Customers are actually denser than computers
20:11.04The_Randomnesslol
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20:24.04dromHachiman: Literally dickface http://i.imgur.com/o8ZYa1o.jpg
20:25.03ImperiosHachiman OluapPlayer: http://i.imgur.com/J4UCeUl.jpg
20:25.24Hachimanhur
20:28.33OluapPlayer_dun get it
20:30.04ImperiosDetails for Warhammer models are usually attached to sprues
20:32.37AGrayCathi
20:33.53dromWormy_semi_here Ghelae: It'd be awesome if I could have one of those flash lights: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/flashlights.png
20:33.58dromflashlights*
20:34.30Ghelae"Flashlight" might not be quite the word for that.
20:34.58dromGhelae: Flashfire
20:35.01AGrayCatWhat species should be in the Soyuz?
20:35.57dromAnyway. Ghelae Wormy_semi_here: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/five_day_forecast.png
20:43.20Wormy_semi_herehur
20:45.49dromWormy_semi_here Ghelae: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiKzrnKR3Ts
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21:03.34dromA tube of cold chocolate sauce is indeed harder than bone
21:04.12GhelaeDid you just break a bone on chocolate?
21:04.20OluapPlayer_Xho: http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/044/593/447.jpg VOULT BOI
21:04.32XhoThere's Ghouls, and there's that
21:04.46OluapPlayer_http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/044/792/a7d.png also this
21:05.14dromGhelae: I sprained my thumb trying to squeeze out some chocolate on my ice cream
21:07.34dromI put all of my force on the tube, only a small droplet came on my ice cream
21:08.23dromWormy_semi_here Ghelae The_Randomness Tek0516: IT IS REAL http://observer.com/2012/04/bottoms-up-the-ballmer-peak-is-real-study-says/
21:08.58The_Randomnesslol
21:10.36Tek0516lol
21:18.09Wormy_semi_heredrom:  I find a beer helps
21:18.19Wormy_semi_herewith any work I'm doing
21:19.24dromMm.. it also seems to help to annoy Oluap
21:19.51Wormy_semi_hereHow?
21:21.37dromI've heard stories of a Wormy who was so drunk that it annoyed Oluap
21:22.19GhelaeThat involves slightly more beer, I believe.
21:22.38AGrayCathi
21:22.43Wormy_semi_hereMore than slightly
21:24.19OluapPlayer_I don't mind people's business outside of the IRC
21:24.23Wormy_semi_hereIt depends on what I've eaten, how hydrated I am etc.  but:  1 pint - feel only subtle changes, boost in creativity.  2 - start becoming more talkative  3 - tipsy, start laughing at silly things that sober perople may not  3/4 - suddenley get philosophical nerdgasms
21:24.25OluapPlayer_What I mind are drunk people rambling here
21:24.48Wormy_semi_here5+ a bit of an idiot
21:24.57Wormy_semi_hereheee
21:24.57Wormy_semi_herehere
21:25.34Wormy_semi_hereAnd if I have spirits on top, I will likely be properly off my face
21:26.26Wormy_semi_hereIf I have more than a couple of glasses of wine I need to sleep
21:26.31Wormy_semi_hereAnd if its cider, I become argumentative
21:27.44Wormy_semi_hereI really try hard not to come on here past 2 or 3 pints or glasses of wine
21:30.40Wormy_semi_hereI realise its not fun or funny for others if they are not drunk
21:30.53OluapPlayer_Xho: http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/043/876/5c3.gif ALLAHU
21:31.15XhoThat was a quick escape
21:31.32OluapPlayer_You came to the wrong container motherfucker
21:31.55Xhohttp://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Fiction:Primordial_Darkness#The_First_Child dragons and shit
21:32.25Xho+40,000 edit
21:32.27Xhotis big
21:32.42OluapPlayer_dat exact number
21:33.04Xhonah
21:33.08Xho+40,309
21:33.10Xhotis bigger
21:33.28OluapPlayer_dat no longer exact number
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21:41.33Wormy_semi_heredrom, Ghelae, OluapPlayer_ Unfortunately I've given the impression I'm an alcie
21:42.15Wormy_semi_hereTruth is a rarely have more than a couple on weekends at best, nd only a few times a year go to get smashed
21:42.38Wormy_semi_hereI have addicted to caffeine though
21:43.12Wormy_semi_hereI mujst have tea or coffee every hour or so in the mornings and afternoons
21:43.18XhoEvery adult is a caffeine addict
21:43.29OluapPlayer_I'm an adult and I hate coffee
21:43.37dromBooooo
21:43.41HachimanI don't like coffee either
21:43.41XhoUR NOT REEL
21:43.44XhoU 2 R NOT REEL
21:43.53dromBoooooo on you Oluap and Hachi, boooooooo!
21:44.04Wormy_semi_hereSometimes 4 cups of tea in succession
21:44.27Wormy_semi_hereIf I don't have enough, I get serious headaches
21:44.39Wormy_semi_hereand grumpiness
21:46.03Wormy_semi_hereI prefer tea to coffee
21:46.42Xhohttps://www.facebook.com/Far2fly/posts/10153113026806269
21:46.43Wormy_semi_hereBut coffee has more caffeine (actually tea leaves have more, but you don't ingest them)
21:46.52XhoWrong link
21:46.59Xhohttps://www.facebook.com/hoodvinesofficial/videos/1021199917947302/ This one
21:47.15Xhohttps://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/12247167_1054328577940283_8601813076070399839_n.jpg?oh=370cf594073b5bbf104604403c564229&oe=56FA32E1
21:47.38OluapPlayer_hur
21:50.10Wormy_semi_hereMy insides are probably dark with tannin.
21:52.03dromfuck you slendermahttp://i.imgur.com/Ft3H3VQ.webmn
21:52.07drom<PROTECTED>
21:52.08dromhttp://i.imgur.com/Ft3H3VQ.webm
21:53.40dromHachiman Xho http://i.imgur.com/GnR9xq1.png
21:54.46Wormy_semi_hereTek0516:  You on your PC?  You might like this animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4CXKPcO09s
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21:56.17Wormy_semi_herenop
21:57.59Wormy_semi_heredrom:  NS or DCP level badassery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbZq2MPYHoY
22:00.10dromaw yiss
22:00.31TekDroidWormy: On my phone currently
22:00.53Wormy_semi_hereTek:  I'll post it to your wiki wall
22:01.35Wormy_semi_heredrom:  Pretty much Tier 4 vs. Tier 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH8WKvyOT38
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22:11.12dromWormy_semi_here Ghelae: http://imgur.com/gallery/a7RC2
22:11.57Wormy_semi_here20,000,000 bananas would probably kill you in so many other ways
22:12.38dromThis weeks of science! http://i.imgur.com/dO8fA4L.jpg
22:12.41dromweek*
22:12.48dromstupid fuckin macbook keyboard
22:12.56dromthis retarded shit oh god why
22:15.19dromhttp://i.imgur.com/AyjtaYw.webm
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22:17.47dromWormy_semi_here: http://i.imgur.com/Xul6Ttw.webm
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22:20.04Wormy_semi_herescience marches on
22:20.42Wormy_semi_hereBlair did that
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22:24.58dromXho: When in Super Armor and a supermutant scores a touchdown http://i.imgur.com/0EWEzNJ.webm
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22:34.55dromCharles_Murray Wormy_semi_here: Something tells me that GXS is related to this: http://i.imgur.com/RluYXjR.gif
22:45.56Wormy_semi_heredrom: I hate having to log, that is write about my scripting for this production report
22:46.25Wormy_semi_hereI understand it in my head but not well enough to articulate very well
22:46.27dromWormy_semi_here: oh?
22:46.48dromOh ah, production logging?
22:46.55Wormy_semi_hereWriting about that problem I had with defining the mesh variable
22:46.58Wormy_semi_hereyeah
22:47.09Wormy_semi_hereand then how it was solved
22:47.32Wormy_semi_hereInto a legiable format an examner who might have no knowledge in scripting at all must read
22:47.57Wormy_semi_hereI hate logging my work in general
22:48.05dromWell. Perhaps you should use a source control
22:48.24dromGit is a good one
22:48.37dromAlthough very difficult to master
22:48.38Wormy_semi_hereHm, thanks.   That is gold
22:49.13Wormy_semi_hereEven mentioning that as a possible tool in the future is good marks I should think
22:49.31Wormy_semi_hereI'll credit you as primary research
22:50.43dromI however forget to make up commits, so I hate making huge commits
22:51.20dromI push commits every day, and at least everytime I manage a new version
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22:52.32The_RandomnessHello
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22:52.54Wormy_semi_herehi
22:53.21dromI'm glad I have been of help for you, Wormy.
22:53.41Liquid_InkIs the Tigris War titanpad even still active?
22:54.06Wormy_semi_heremade a comment last night
22:54.53The_RandomnessI haven't been able to do any work on it
22:55.05Wormy_semi_here" I'd quite like it to remain a DCP-Rambo thing.  Sorry, it just seems like a special moment in history between the two.  And the DCP's first ever offensive!"
22:55.26Wormy_semi_hereI hate to come off selfish but that was a special moment for my fic
22:57.31dromXho Hachiman: https://twitter.com/_FloridaMan/status/643506302069641217
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22:57.49Xhofool
22:57.55HachimanWhat a cock
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22:59.11dromXho Hachiman: https://twitter.com/_FloridaMan/status/631191335253487616
22:59.44Wormy_semi_herefucking selfies
22:59.45HachimanFlorida Man sure gets into a lot of trouble
23:00.01dromHachiman: https://twitter.com/_Flor1daWoman/status/652581100657745920
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23:02.37dromHachiman Xho: https://twitter.com/_FloridaMan/status/655025055689277440
23:03.32dromHachiman: https://twitter.com/_FloridaMan/status/648501450650320896
23:04.01dromHachiman Xho: https://twitter.com/_FloridaMan/status/643617037655363584
23:07.22dromFlordia Woman: 'Three-breasted Woman' arrested for DUI
23:07.59dromif anyone asks wtf is DUI, it is "Driving Under Influence", aka driving drunk or with alcohol in your bloodstream
23:09.30drom~wtf DUI
23:10.03Liquid_InkWell...
23:11.37dromThat's Florida for you
23:12.15dromThe only odd thing I encountered in Florida during my two week vacation was 'kettle popcorn'
23:12.36dromLike, who the fuck eats sweet caramellized popcorn?
23:13.16Wormy_semi_here"My name is Florida... why is my name Florida!"
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23:15.07Wormy_semi_hereEverytime I think of the name "Florida" https://youtu.be/IBUw-irQOLE?t=27s
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23:18.12Liquid_InkI think when we revist Universe 66501 (or whatever we rename it) we need to apply to galaxy culling we did with the primeverse. Except instead of in-story annihilation, just have it retconned.
23:19.23drom> + 40'000 byte edit
23:19.27drom> minor edit
23:19.54dromthe irony makes the end nigh
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23:23.38dromI think it has potentional
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