Dynamer - AMA

[Dynam0]

ask and i shall bestoweth my omnitpotent wisdom upon thee

[Reincarnate]

how nice are your transitions

what is the difference between omnipotent wisdom and omniscience

[Dynam0]

my transitions = nice

omnipotent wisdom is the unlimited power of understanding
omniscience is knowing everything

i'd say omnipotent wisdom is better since you know what to do with that knowledge

[Gundam-Dude]

what motivated or influenced you to pursue a teaching career?

I find it very fascinating that you'll be a teacher in ontario soon

[Dynam0]

Honestly, I'd have to say I chose teaching because it's always been something I thought I would be good at. I like explaining things to people and when they get that "Aha!" moment it makes you feel good knowing that you're the one who showed them how to do something. Aside from obvious perks like summers off, teaching is a lot of work when you're starting out (trust me it's awful and I don't even have my own class yet). That being said, it can be really rewarding when you see the impact on young people's lives and all that warm and fuzzy stuff.

I'll be qualified for teaching at the intermediate/senior level (grades 7-12) which is a really critical point in a person's life. Students will be figuring out who they are as people, struggling with their identity and so forth, so it's an important task to make sure that you guide them in the right direction and steer them away from negative things.

All-in-all, I'm looking forward to having my own class, although it is very intimidating the amount of time I'll be putting in when I get started but I think it will be rewarding in the long run. I wouldn't say that teaching is my 'calling' per se but for someone like me who has never really had a dream job or something they'd REALLY like to do/accomplish, it seems the best choice for me at this stage in my life.

Hope that answered your question GD

[xThai]

Since you're pursuing a career in teaching. If you're teaching in high school, what subject are you planning to teach?

[Dynam0]

My teachable subjects are chemistry and physics, I'm most likely going to add math to that within the next year or two since I think I would enjoy teaching that even more than the sciences.

[NeoMasterPie]

school of stepmania, motherfucker

what's ya favorite pastime

[Dynam0]

Besides SM, I'd probably say reading or golfing.

[Zapmeister]

You're playing poker with a tiger, a hyena, a jaguar, a lobster, a kangaroo, a narwhal, a pig, a non-venomous spider, and a grapefruit. You're holding 6s 7s and the flop is As 10c 6h. You've noticed that for the last few hands, everyone has been looking really bored and not really focused on the game and all bets have been slow and really small. Naturally enough, the tiger, hyena, jaguar, lobster, kangaroo, narwhal, pig and spider all check. The grapefruit bets the minimum. Do you fold, call, raise, or run screaming?

Would you ever consider going for a billion points in a day, and if so, which song(s) would you do it on?

Why must Jordan Normal Form be so frown-inducing, annoying, and mind-boggling?

You're a pancake in a future life and you find yourself stuck to the ceiling. How do you get down? (Ignore what you may have done wrong in a past life.)

[Dynam0]

Depends. If the stakes were high, I would fold; if not, I would call. Even though it's the low pair, I would stick around at least for the turn hoping for another 6 or a flush draw. Besides, it's just a grapefruit betting...

I wouldn't consider doing the billion point challenge...I know I would quit out after an hour or so hahaha

Ugh...linear algebra in general is frown-inducing more like. I remember next to nothing from it when I took it in uni but Jordan Normal Form rings a bell

Since pancakes aren't living organisms I would have to wait for something external like gravity or a hungry man with a step-ladder and an iron stomach to get me down..wait if pancakes aren't alive how the hell am I conscious of being a pancake in the first place?!!?!?!

[Dynam0]

bump for being bored af...someone entertain me with questions

[Zapmeister]

so... you hesitantly make the call. The tiger immediately smoothly calls without hesitation. The hyena folds. The jaguar also calls without showing any emotion or facial expression at all. The lobster seems to be confused as to why everybody is playing so passively but then it also slowly calls with trepidation. The kangaroo, narwhal, pig and spider all fold. The turn card is 7h and suddenly all hell breaks loose. The tiger slams its paws on the table immediately and bets 6.5 times the minimum. The jaguar still doesn't show any emotion or facial expression and casually calls. You think it might be a very loose-passive player. The lobster flexes its claws multiple times with a wide grin on its face and raises to 13x the minimum. The grapefruit stays there motionless for a while, just like a grapefruit, and then folds. Do you fold, call, raise, or run screaming?

On a scale of 0 to 10 where low numbers mean intense dislike and high numbers mean euphoric enjoyment, how would you rate this activity? ... You unscrew the lightbulb in your bathroom and put in a low power red LED and turn it on. You get a fairly loud buzzer that sounds at intervals of a few seconds and hide it in your bathroom. You turn the shower on cold. You step inside the shower fully clothed, screaming, appearing to desperately cover the water streaming out of the shower head, while a camera you've set up in the background is recording all this. The camera is also slightly tilted. The idea behind all this is that you're simulating being on a sinking ship.

How would you arrange these mistakes/inaccuracies in song lyrics in order of how much they inconvenience you, from least inconvenient to most? (click the letters for youtubes)
A. The Flood - Take That: "There was more of them than us" - should clearly be "were".
B. Everytime we touch - Cascada: "Everytime" is not a word, despite it being the song's official title. Should be 2 words.
C. The Wanderer - Freedom Call (diff. 36 on ffr): "I call upon the holy sun / A million miles away from home". The measurement is out by about 100 times.
D. Vertigo - U2: "Uno - dos - tres - catorce". Should be cuatro, as it's obviously counting to four.
E. Firework - Katy Perry: "Boom, boom, boom / Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon". Technically this is correct, but it's not saying much, since the moon's brightness is pathetically small compared to most fireworks.
F. Mandelbrot Set - Jonathan Coulton: "Take a point called z in the complex plane / And z_1 is z^2 plus c / And z_2 is z_1^2 plus c". The initial z is wrong and should either be 0 or c for this to work.

How much will bitcoins be worth in 1.5 years?

[Dynam0]

1) I would fold at this point...two-pair is pretty strong but I'm a cautious player when it comes to money poker. Actually I might just run screaming...a tiger slamming his paw on a table would be a fairly jarring sight to say the least..

2) Obviously 10...that is a brilliant idea!

3) In order of increasing displeasure:

B (never realized the actual spelling of the lyric but this song reminds me of high school so meh hehe)
C
F although shoddy mathematical proofs bother me, I can't relate to this one directly, the logic is silly though and is similar to mistakes found in a lot of bad proofs
A this is pretty obnoxious, yeah
E lmao
D this always bothered me...silly bono is silly

4) No idea since I've never followed it, but I'll guess it will gradually drop off to a more modest value in the future like most commodities

Zapmeister wins for best question asker 2014, hands down btw

[samurai7694]

I'll get to ask you a whole lot of questions in person soon enough, my friend But for now....

What motivated you to passing vibrating-files in Stepmania?

I forgot from where but I think you have mentioned yourself being a piano player. Are there any songs that you told yourself you would learn but haven't yet?

Now I get sleepy drunk and ask a ridiculous question: I know others, including myself, who used to read "Neapolitan Ice Cream" as "Napoleon Ice Cream". Are you one of those people?

the end good night mommy

[Dynam0]

Originally Posted by samurai7694

What motivated you to passing vibrating-files in Stepmania?

It was largely WookE that started it all in late 2007 but this was also the same time that I got my first laptop and it was amazing for vibro stuff. It feels like I didn't play/practice it very often when I look back on it but it was really fun to dick around and not worry about accuracy at all

Originally Posted by samurai7694

I forgot from where but I think you have mentioned yourself being a piano player. Are there any songs that you told yourself you would learn but haven't yet?

My knowledge of the piano is terribly low but I like to mess about on it sometimes and I learned to play a couple songs a while back. I started to learn a bunch of stuff, mostly from here but far too many of the songs were above my level (I took like level 1 lessons for one summer rofl) and it would take me a long time just to learn a couple measures.

Songs I've tried to learn and lost motivation/quit:
-Boss Battle (FFVII)
-Aerith's Theme (FFVII)
-To Zanarkand (FFX)
-Forest Interlude (DKC 1)
-Mushroom Kingdom (Super Mario RPG)

Originally Posted by samurai7694

Now I get sleepy drunk and ask a ridiculous question: I know others, including myself, who used to read "Neapolitan Ice Cream" as "Napoleon Ice Cream". Are you one of those people?

I am not, though it seems like they'd be easily mistaken
I'm also that guy that eats all of the strawberry and vanilla parts and leaves the chocolate behind. *awaits angry mob*

[MixMasterLar]

What do you add to your lasagna?

And while we are at it, top 5 Novels you love that no one has ever read.

[Dynam0]

Originally Posted by MixMasterLar

What do you add to your lasagna?

And while we are at it, top 5 Novels you love that no one has ever read.

Pretty bland as far as lasagna goes, just ground beef and cheese (cottage cheese and mozza) with the tomato sauce and noodles. At uni a bunch of us were brave and made a 7 meat lasagna once (beef, bacon, ham, chicken, pork, deer, moose) but it turned out not that good lmao.


Hmm...okay, though some are definitely not obscure at all (also I was like 8 when I read some of these):

1) Deception Point (Dan Brown)
2) Bunnicula (James Howe)
3) The Fionavar Tapestry (Guy Gavriel Kay)
4) Seven Spiders Spinning (Gregory Maguire)
5) Salamandastron (Brian Jacques)

[MixMasterLar]

That sounds like how my mother always made Lasagna, and it's still bloody awesome

All about the care you take making it, not what you throw in

[choof]

do you still have that venetian snares file you released on odi